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Nothing Happening Is The Best Part of Baseball

The Wall Street Journal yesterday reported an astonishing finding: 90 percent of baseball is apparently spent waiting around doing nothing. “Huge chunks of inaction … dwarf everything else that goes on in the game,” said the nation’s largest circulating paper, in an announcement that surprised exactly no one.

But to disparage the inactivity of doing nothing in baseball, the seemingly interminable spaces between action, misses what makes the sport beautiful in the first place. What other sport is not paying attention such a part of the game? The exciting moments would not be so exciting without the preparatory tedium of doing nothing.

On another point just think, baseball is the only sport without a clock, and ends not with a buzzer but when all that can be done is done—both a reminder of and denier of our own mortal march.

Don Kona Woods wrote:...baseball is the only sport without a clock, and ends not with a buzzer but when all that can be done is done—both a reminder of and denier of our own mortal march.

What about cricket?
Cricket ends when all the batsmen are out, or when the team in the final innings reaches the total runs of their opponents. Games can, and often do, go on for days. There's no time limit.
There are several other games, too, with no time limit.

What about cricket?

In my post, I failed to realize that I was speaking to an international audience rather than just to an American audience.

Shame on me!

I found nothing on Ebay, with free shipping!

www.ebay.com/itm/NOTHING-Free-shipping-/261269566548

After 10 are sold, there will still be nothing

Last Sat. I stopped at a gas station and got $4.00 in gas (I drive a Dodge Ram fuel squeezer). I gave the lady a check. Yesterday she called and said the bank had returned the check. I asked her why and she said they told her there was nothing there.

They're giving away nothing for free.

Nothing is free.

But if you get nothing for free, you still get nothing.

Nothing lost, nothing gained.

We could just go on about nothing.

I think I'll do nothing and take a nap in the recliner.

(Ooops, that means I will be doing something...)

Nothing is free ??

Does this mean there' something for NOTHING.

"Something for nothing"?
The concept explains the Big Bang. Out of nothing came the universe.

"Beam me up Scotty ! There is NOTHING here !

I've spent so much time reading all 123 pages of "NOTHING"
I just got older and now I can't even remember what I was
reading about. Now I don't know NOTHING about NOTHING.

Well page 123 didn't have NOTHING on it so let's see what 124 has...

Apparently that won't work so I tried to think some more but NOTHING keeps popping up in my head and I already knew there wasn't anything up there...ie:

NOTHING !!

Nada

Thinga !

Unfortunately, this discussion is now so long that new participants are unaware of all the mathematical and logical discussions which have already been aired, and so we're at a stage where we're constantly in repetition.

We've said "nothing" in about 40 languages, we've discussed the grammar of "nothing" and "no thing", we've discussed the mathematics of zero, multiplying by it, dividing by it, adding and subtracting it, and even taking its logarithm. We've discussed the concept of the lack of anything and the presence of nothing. We've looked at the etymological origin of the word, how it is used in grammar, how it compares to the use of the concept of nothing in the grammar of other languages. We've looked at its relationship to zero, and how the numeral 0 did not exist in the mediaeval and premediaeval eras.

There's NOTHING new which can be brought up which hasn't already.

There's a movie.

From the description that movie sounds very much like an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation where one of the characters gets caught in an every-diminishing universe.

Can one avoid the void or is NOTHING inevitable ?

Yes and no.

Is that like saying the EYES have it ?