A Simple Explanation of Baseball

[Rodgera]

This is a game played by two teams, one out the other in. The one
that's in, sends players out one at a time, to see if they can get in
before they get out. If they get out before they get in, they come
in, but it doesn't count. If they get in before they get out it does count.

When the ones out get three outs from the ones in before they get in
without being out, the team that's out comes in and the team in goes
out to get those going in out before they get in without being out.

When both teams have been in and out nine times the game is over. The
team with the most in without being out before coming in wins unless
the ones in are equal. In which case, the last ones in go out to get
the ones in out before they get in without being out.

The game will end when each team has the same number of ins out but
one team has more in without being out before coming in

[switt775]

Laugh all you want, but al least they play until there is a winner.

Unlike that other game which Robin Williams refers to as "baseball on valium"

[Rodgera]

What - AFL !!!

[Koala-Man]

What - AFL !!!

Nah, that's cross-country basketball.

[Barry Hicks]

There is another old one, but much more complicated,
describing the game of cricket.

[wheelinround]

Come on Barry don't keep us in suspenders

[petersemple]

"You have two sides, one out in the field and one in.
Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when
he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's
out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in
and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get
those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in
and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who
are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes
in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two
men called umpires who stay all out the time and they
decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides
have been in and all the men have been given out, and
both sides have been out twice after all the men have
been in, including those who are not out, that is the
end of the game!"

Peter

[Barry Hicks]

Thank you Peter. You saved me having to explain
that I had read it so long ago that I'd forgotten
where.

I suspect the baseball version came after that one.

[wheelinround]

Thanks to both so long since I heard it also