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Originally Posted by mo99
Mike, With the risk of you calling me another childish name for not agreeing with you,I will comment further.You are incorrect stating "Your's is not an opinion,but a misconception and myth"as I have first hand experience in which I have the right to formulate my own such opinion of the slow pitch game.I played H.S and College baseball back in the middle and late 1970's.After college,there wasnt a whole lot of opportunities to continue playing baseball at the recreational level,so I took up fastpitch softball.After much convincing by my buddies,I gave in and played tournaments with a Class B slowpitch team in the early 1980's.While a will agree playing defense can be challanging with the ball being put in play with every batter,but hitting the ball became quickly boring.I found no challenge in driving the ball over the fence,years before the high tech bat invasion which ruined todays game.
I umpire H.S, NCAA,and high level ASA fastpitch games presently.I also would umpire some slow pitch softball as well to help out.I just do not enjoy the game.Maybe at the top levels,it is different,but from what I have seen,it is mostly a bunch of guys with beer guts "hitting a ball off a tee"with juiced bats so everyone can hit a "dinger".
So my opinion is indeed my opinion based on actual experiences,which I feel I am more than qualified to voice.If you respond,please do so constructively without the childish name calling because someone doesnt agree with you.
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As I said, you don't know the game. Your associating SP to beer is just as ludicrous as me associating FP players to baseball whinabees.
I've played and umpired FP & SP. When in the Navy, there were nights when I played both the same evening. I found the FP game to be boring and many of the players to be as obnoxious and annoying as a cocky baseball player. After umpiring BB for 22 years, I had enough of the whining as even the biggest ego-challenged SP player wasn't as bad as the BB players even at the LL level. So, under your justification of an "opinion", I should just go around badmouthing all the FP players based on personal experience.
BTW, the challenge of the SP game isn't hitting the ball over the fence regardless of what bat you use. The challenge, which many players have either forgotten or never learned, is hitting the ball where they ain't and being intelligent enough to not screw up while running the bases, especially on a steal.