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re: MLB or NBA more grueling?
Posted on 6/22/17 at 3:27 pm to ReauxlTide222
Posted on 6/22/17 at 3:27 pm to ReauxlTide222
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But what's that mean as far as grueling goes?
Well that's another problem. There is really no good way to quantify it. It's really just more of an opinion I believe.
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Posted on 6/22/17 at 3:30 pm to TheXman
quote:Well that's no fun
There is really no good way to quantify it. It's really just more of an opinion I believe.
Posted on 6/22/17 at 3:31 pm to ReauxlTide222
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Which or has more injuries?
Because, that one.
This was my initial thought, but baseball players aren't in near the shape that basketball players are. Go ask baseball and basketball players to play 40 games of flag football, and there's zero doubt that more MLB guys would get hurt.
Though pitching is just fricking rough on arms these days. I'll give baseball that. If you've been throwing curveballs since you were 12, you're pretty much guaranteed a surgery down the line it feels like.
Forgot to answer. NBA.
This post was edited on 6/22/17 at 3:34 pm
Posted on 6/22/17 at 3:32 pm to mizslu314
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NBA is more grueling on the body, MLB is beyond grueling on the mental side
this is right on the nose.
Playing 162 games can really wear on the mind.
Posted on 6/22/17 at 3:33 pm to TheXman
NFL wins here, but a dark horse is golf. It shreads a lower back and knees.
Posted on 6/22/17 at 3:41 pm to Bench McElroy
quote:That's true but but in baseball they play a series so you have a few days at least in each city. With the NBA on a road trip you are constantly flying around every day. From one city to the next to he next to the next each day all in a row. And basketball players don't usually have nights off like baseball players.
100% right. Imagine having to go to work 15+ days in a row while flying in and out of a bunch of different cities. And before people say baseball players only have to work three hours, that's completely not true. They have to get to the ballpark at least four or five hours before the game starts so they're always working 8+ hours a day. Their schedules are absolutely brutal.
Baseball players are routinely given nights off. Much of the game involves standing around or sitting. Pitching is tough, but starters only go maybe once a week, and relievers only pitch an inning or two. Baseball is a much more easy-going game compared to basketball.
The baseball season is long but I don't think there is any question that the NBA season is more grueling.
Think about it this way... if you played 2 to 3 hours of basketball for a workout, that would be a pretty intense exercise session. If you played 3 hours of baseball, I'm not even sure you would qualify that as exercise.
This post was edited on 6/22/17 at 3:46 pm
Posted on 6/22/17 at 3:44 pm to TheXman
Whichever one that Bartolo Colon can not get a contract in.
Posted on 6/22/17 at 3:54 pm to PrimeTime Money
NBA plays about 3 games a week and MLB is about 6 games a week. MLB takes away your social life and is pretty much an everyday job. NBA is worse on the body but isn't near as life consuming as the MLB. I would rather have to do the NBA lifestyle than the MLB lifestyle.
Posted on 6/22/17 at 6:11 pm to rebel of fortune
I'm 33 and my feet kill me after my weekly pick up game. Basketball is just so hard on your feet and knees. An 82 game season must be grueling.
Baseball seems like a death by a thousand cuts.
Baseball seems like a death by a thousand cuts.
Posted on 6/23/17 at 9:46 am to TheXman
Others have nailed it.
physically - NBA
mentally - MLB
physically - NBA
mentally - MLB
Posted on 6/23/17 at 9:56 am to TheXman
Baseball is more mentally grueling just because it's more mundane imo. Lot more back to back games and the adrenaline rush isn't always there to help you through a long 160+ game season. Seems that because basketball is more directly competitive, the season wouldn't seem as long.
Not to mention there are the occasional night time extra inning games that are followed up by early afternoon games. Those have to suck.
Not to mention there are the occasional night time extra inning games that are followed up by early afternoon games. Those have to suck.
Posted on 6/23/17 at 10:01 am to PrimeTime Money
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Think about it this way... if you played 2 to 3 hours of basketball for a workout, that would be a pretty intense exercise session
Yeah but in the NBA you have a ton of stoppage of play between media time outs, free throws, ect. The NBA season is also like 9 months long to play 100 games if you win it all and baseball is like 6-7 months to play 200 to win it all. Baseball is so gruelling because there is no time to recover.
I really think they are pretty even. In baseball you are never really "tired" as in like spring tired, but you're body just aches. Basketball after a game you are going to be more time, but by the next game you'll be somewhat recovered.
I also think hockey gets a little too much credit. It's tough, no, doubt, but they play like 45 seconds at a time. They are just tough as hell and play if they are hurt.
Posted on 6/23/17 at 10:50 am to SlowFlowPro
Nba.
Nfl is only grueling because people hit and maim each other.
Nba requires the most fitness of the biggest percentage of players.
Baseball has more travel.
Hockey is #1b.
Nba #1a.
Mlb 3
Nfl last.
Nfl is only grueling because people hit and maim each other.
Nba requires the most fitness of the biggest percentage of players.
Baseball has more travel.
Hockey is #1b.
Nba #1a.
Mlb 3
Nfl last.
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