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Top Ten Reasons Baseball Has Nine Innings

10. Stadiums are rented out to Broadway shows after the games. (dogleg)

9. Can only boo the Cubs so long without getting hoarse. (vipercat)

8. Players must go home and abuse their wives and children. (dogleg)

7. Most professional baseball players can't count to 2 digits.(Praxite)

6. Having a nice round ten innings wouldn't be American. (DCBlank)

5. You know you're team's going to lose by the 3rd inning, they just have to prove they will. (caitlin)

4. After eating hot dogs and peanuts for nine innings, what would you want to do? (badelf)

3. Unreasonable to ask a player earning 5 million a season to play ten innings. (vipercat)

2. 'Cuz you can sing "Take me out to the Ballgame" just so many times before your brain fries. (Berly)

Take me out to the ballgame, take me out of this game because it gets really boring at the old ball-game, especially spam40@juno.com's ball-game...

1. Nine innings? I always thought there were two: the get bored inning and the go home inning.

Originally published: 09/20/1997

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