re: What is your definition of a sport?

I agree because the "athlete" has to respond to extenuating circumstances.

Yes. Drive 80 for three hours straight on the Interstate in Houston in an un-air-conditioned car with the windows up and tell me how you feel.

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Drive 80 for three hours straight on the Interstate in Houston in an un-air-conditioned car with the windows up and tell me how you feel.

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Auto racing has a tinsey little bit more to it than that

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KosmoCramer

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Can we be reasonable people here?

A small step of the front foot does not agility make.



Tennis players do that when they serve. A tennis serve requires no agility. John Isner is both the least agile player in the game and the best server.

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See above. Try to play the reasonable people game here.

When you argue that batting requires agility, you just lose credibility. What you're saying is objective nonsense.

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It does not have to mean a foot movement,

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Great point. Typing speed is actually a fantastic metric for agility. Forget cone drills. Put them in front of keyboard.

I'm consistently 55 WPM. I'm agile and worth your while.

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Try to play the reasonable people game here.

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Says the guy that just said that batting requires no movement.

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When you argue that batting requires agility, you just lose credibility.

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Agility or nimbleness is the ability to change the body's position efficiently, and requires the integration of isolated movement skills using a combination of balance, coordination, speed, reflexes, strength, and endurance. Agility is the ability to change the direction of the body in an efficient and effective manner and to achieve this requires a combination of

balance – the ability to maintain equilibrium when stationary or moving (i.e. not to fall over) through the coordinated actions of our sensory functions (eyes, ears and the proprioceptive organs in our joints);
static balance – the ability to retain the centre of mass above the base of support in a stationary position;
dynamic balance – the ability to maintain balance with body movement; speed - the ability to move all or part of the body quickly; strength - the ability of a muscle or muscle group to overcome a resistance; and lastly,
co-ordination – the ability to control the movement of the body in co-operation with the body's sensory functions (e.g., in catching a ball [ball, hand and eye co-ordination]).

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Batting takes a shite ton of balance and coordination, also speed, reflexes, and strength. Maybe not the endurance part, unless we're talking a home run derby. So yeah, I think batting successfully requires a lot of agility.

Unless you want to redefine agility.

Or just look at the main line. "Agility is the ability to change the direction of the body in an efficient and effective manner" Adjusting to a pitch and changing your swing to hit it in an efficient and effective manner is pretty much the name of the game.

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Stated differently: yes it does.

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says you



Anyway, MLB batters are still more agile of foot than 95% of all humans. You can't get deep in a stance and move out of the way of a 97 MPH fastball without being very agile (with your feet)

Definition of Sport:

Whatever criteria you can randomly come up with that mentally minimizes the necessary skill/athleticism of the sports you don't find interesting.



But seriously, since when has the definition of a sport had anything to do with whether or not the winner is decided objectively?

OED 1st Edition - "sport is a form of pastime carried on in the open air and involving some amount of bodily exercise."

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