 This is a fast mirror exercise. What direction do you think I'm covering? I've hidden. Hey, what? Where's ha? Horsley. Neve Seth. That's a four. Hey! Hollywood! Anyways, today we're doing a video. This is called baseball versus cricket. Which sport is better? You don't want to do this. No, I'm telling you. I know that's not what this is. This is, that's, the title's just for clicks. I'm pretty sure. So like, in terms of like, I'm going to get, I'm going to make a lot of you really angry. Whatever, but this actually goes over the common misconceptions like what a cricket player has about baseball and vice versa. Great. So I think that's more of what the video is, because obviously you can't say one sport's better than another. It's all based off your preference. You can think, you can think currently, which is a great sport, is the best sport. No, there's not one sport that's better than another. It's just like saying this art is better than that art. Yeah, or somebody who's, yeah, I like, well, you like Pepsi. I like Coke, which one's better. Well, that's Pepsi. Yeah. But anyway, so I'm pretty sure that's what this is. Not really a, we're going to get a definitive answer. But I will say something that'll piss some of you off at the end. I promise you it's going to piss a lot of you off, but it's, it's just, it's fact. So here we go. Versus crickets. For some reason, I get a lot of people making adverse comments on my videos on baseball and cricket. Most of them aren't just trolling, which is pretty sad. Agreed. But quite a lot of them seem to be misinformed, and I'm here to put that to bed once and for all. This video will destroy the myths that each set of fans has in regards to the unsports, and show you why it's a largely pointless argument to compare the two. Corp. Before I get started, you know what to do. Subscribe and hit the bell. And let's start by destroying myths held by cricket fans about baseball. Cricket fans will always argue that it's harder to hit a cricket ball, but this is not true. Correct. A show by ESPN Sports Science completely disgrouped this myth. For the contact surface area of a baseball bat, it's significantly smaller than a cricket bat, which means putting the ball in play requires more accuracy with a baseball bat. This was demonstrated where a pro-cricketer tried to hit with baseball bats with relatively poor results, and a pro baseball player tries to hit with a cricket bat with significantly better results. The form is going to be wrong, but you can hit it. The reaction time has to be quicker in baseball too. Correct. The distance between the wickets in cricket is roughly 20 meters. The distance between the pitch in rubber and football is 18 meters. Therefore, you have less time to think and react in baseball. This is not a myth. This is a scientifically proven fact. It is physically harder to hit a baseball with a baseball bat. A smaller bat, a smaller ball. Critics fans will argue that cricket ball is more suitable faster than baseball pitchers. Again, this is not true. Different. The average speed of a cricket ball at the top level is 88 miles an hour. There'll be 97 miles an hour. The average speed of a baseball pitch is 92 miles an hour. Upwards of a hundred a lot of times. The fastest of a cricket ball, Shoei Vakta, 100.2 miles an hour. 104 baseball. The fastest ever baseball pitch. Oh, 105. For all this Chapman, 105.1 miles an hour. Yankee. Baseball wins. Right there. Critics fans argue that cricket is played by more people, but why? This is an annoying statistic. As cricket is played by fewer countries, where the populations are massive. If you just could, you had to chime out. This is over-exaggerated popularity. And therefore superiority. That one doesn't... Unless you include all Indians. Baseball is played in more countries, where the populations are significantly less. Baseball fans use this statistic to over-exaggerate popularity, and therefore superiority. And even then, using populations of one number of countries is not an accurate measure of how many people actually play the sport in these countries. Right. To me, this does not dictate how popular a sport actually is. Absolutely. Cricket fans deem baseball inferior, because baseball players use a glove to catch the ball. Making fun of a sport because they use the equipment for safety reasons is incredibly shallow. Baseball players use a glove to catch the ball. This speed of a ball up is bad as being much faster than the ball up above. Not because the glove is capable of catching the ball. It's still crazy that cricketers can catch it. And any cricket fans who disagree with that, what's this then? What's that? What's that thing that they're working here on? Oh yeah, it's gloves. This argument is largely critical. I awful play safety, and I contend those who make fun of things that make a sport safe to play, especially if it's safety for kids. You literally are a disgusting scumbag. On the other side of the coin, baseball fans will argue that the cricket ball is easy to hit, and therefore it's easier to score runs. But that's not necessarily true. Yes, we've scientifically proven that it is harder to physically hit a baseball, but it's certainly not easier to score runs because of it. Funny, the Indians holding it like a... Jen, cricket bats review that you can beat out. And baseball players will hold a cricket out like a baseball bat. In crickets, there's ten, and not only do you have to defend your weakest side. And then once you're out, you're gone. You have to defend yourself. Because in baseball, if you're hit by a pitch, you get to cry about it a little, and then put it in the basket of space. In crickets, if you're hit by a ball, that's when they hurt from it, it's perfectly illegal, and if it's trash your leg in front of the wicket, you're out. Throwing out the batsman is not only perfectly fine, a ball that could bounce the ball at your head with every ball, and be perfectly acceptable. Can you score runs efficiently if they're going for your face? Debatable. Baseball fans will argue that it's easy to put the ball in play. It... No way! No way! It's not enough to just make contact with the ball. It's putting the ball in play without being out. In baseball, you hit the ball between the foul lines, which forms this 90-degree area. You hit the ball outside the foul lines, you're not out unless you're caught in fouls. Exactly. No, I would say it's harder. But a cricket batsman has to be a cricket without questions around. Yes, they have to be adept at hitting the ball behind them, as well as putting the ball down at their sides. That aspect of it is insane. They can still be caught or run out, as opposed to being left off with just a foul ball. That's the first thing that blew our minds when we were learning about it. Yes, there are bigger gaps in the field because the fielding team has to cover more ground. But there's a lot more to think about than just hitting the ball with all your might. Exactly. In way more nuances they have to deal with. Exactly. Because once you're out, you don't get another chance at the batsman. Exactly. You are done. Much more pressure. The bats will argue the cricket ballers have no skill whatsoever. What? I don't know who said that. But if you argue that they have more... They don't know what they're talking about. In baseball, a pitcher stands in one place, throws the ball in the air directly to a batsman, who is standing in one place. But a baller in cricket can deliver the ball anywhere along the crease on either side of the wickets. They can throw the ball on the floor. Yeah, like in baseball, where he doesn't hit the ground. Or they can pass the ball from the floor. They can fastball it, spin it, puck it, roll it, either at the wickets and the catch around the wickets or at the player themselves. Whilst we've proven that they don't throw us fast, they use infinitely more tricks to try and get... Yeah, they don't agree. That's one of the only tricks in baseball. I've got the myths. I would say baseball players, pitchers probably have seven or eight things. And they've got 25. Yeah. Not exactly boring themselves with glory of history. Agreed, it's notoriously boring sometimes. Due to their formats, they can take anywhere up to five days to play it. Whilst that's down to... Look at baseball. It's just like watching a series of newy-few teams. Those are for days. Where some of the games are shorter than major league baseball games. It all depends on which format you're watching. Right. And, as for the boring part, that's a little subjective in you, rather than an up-match. That's an opinion of a lot of American football. It's why the ratings are down compared to other sports. This video has largely been a waste of time, because they're two different sports. Yep. It's kind of like comparing an apple to a lemon. Lemon fanboys will argue that lemons are better because they're more yellow. Yep. And apple fanboys will argue that apples are better because they begin with the latter eight. You could adopt any metric to support or disprove any argument between these two, but it's not a fair comparison. The only reason they get compared is because of the bat and the ball. In my lips. But they are two different sports. They're very different sports. And hundreds of both sets of fans say things like, cricket is an inferior copy of baseball. No. Or baseball is an American derivative of cricket. Neither one goes through. It's not true. Because they always were and always have been two completely separate sports. Yep. They were invented around about the same time. Correct. With no common heritage or origin. I thought that it hurt. I thought baseball came from cricket. I thought baseball originated in England. And I was wrong. There is no sport that is objectively better, as the objectives are completely different for each one. Yes, both sports are played with a bat and a ball, but that's when the similarity can end. The real question is, which sport do you prefer? Yeah. That is up to you. If you've enjoyed this video, please be sure to like, share, and subscribe. I'll leave your thoughts in the comments section below. Yeah, a great video. Yeah? Fantastic video. And it's exactly what I thought it was going to be. It wasn't, obviously, you can't, outside of, you know, curling, curling. That's the greatest sport of all time. I think we can all agree on that. My favorite Olympic sport. I could watch more curling. I'd love to watch curling. Any other Olympic sport. No, I won't go that far because there are other sports. Any other Olympic sport, I will watch curling above. I love it. Not me. I won't call it pucky broom. But I do love curling. Anyway, it's fun to watch. But yeah, that's exactly what I thought it was going to be, because we hear it all the time, obviously. Obviously, Americans know nothing about cricket. Absolutely zero. Zero. Indians don't really know much about baseball either. Right. Which is why you hear stuff, baseball is cricket without brains, which means you know nothing about baseball. Yeah. Because there's a lot of technicalities that go into it. There's so much going on in baseball, but if you don't know the game, you won't notice it's going on. Just like if you don't know anything about cricket. Exactly. You won't know what's going on, and you'll just be like, what the hell, you could just hit, there's no rules here. Yeah, like literally, if a person who knows baseball can be watching a game, and you can have the same situation in the second inning, fifth inning, and seventh inning, where you have two runners on, on second and third, with one out, and a left-handed pitcher throwing to a right-handed batter. And you know what the right-handed batter should be doing in that situation with two outs. They should be hitting the ball to the right side of the field to get a base hit to score those two runners in. That's because you know the game. There's a gazillion things about cricket I would never even think of because I don't know the nuances. But the thing I was going to say, he said right at the outset that I thought would piss a lot of people off. And it's true, there is a fact that studies were done not just on that one, but sports illustrated for years. Like every decade for the past 40 years has done what's the hardest thing to do in any sport. All sports around the world, Olympic sports, everything. And they always come back to taking a round ball and a round bat and hitting it squarely. It doesn't make the sport any better. It just says that that aspect of it is extraordinarily difficult. Really small ball. Yeah. And the bat is not that thick. No, it's a round surface. Especially compared to a cricket bat. And it's why if you're a successful, really successful batter in baseball, you're going to be out 70% of the time. And you're still going to be, wow, that guy is awesome. And you fail seven out of 10 times at the plate. And you're considered, whoa, he's on fire. Yeah. Because it's so hard. But yeah, whether it's better or not is a stupid conversation. Obviously, yeah. But he said it right at the outset. It's basically if you grew up with it, you're going to think that one's better. Yeah. And you can have an objective opinion that you like that sport more, which is fine. My favorite sport to watch is NFL American football. Then it would be soccer. Then it, well, baseball and soccer are basically pretty even for me. But in terms of, I'll watch, until it gets to the playoffs, I'll watch more soccer than I will regular season. But there's just too many games. Yeah. And that's, there's a lot of problems Major League Baseball has. And that's why they're trying to figure out and get their ratings at like, they did a great thing with, even though they didn't change the game at all, but the, the, the coster thing. Yeah. The field of dreams. Field of dreams. That was great. Game, because they're trying, because we have a problem here of nobody, nobody's watching baseball. Comparatively. Comparison to the other NBA, NFL. Those are the two big ones. But that's actually not a problem with the game. That's a problem with people. That's true. It really is. But they're, I'm, my bet is they're going to do something similar in the next few years to what cricket did with the T20 games. Well, they have been doing things where they've made some changes in the rules. You now have, they don't talk about it, but pitchers have a timeframe in which they have to deliver the ball now. Oh, really? They have a specific, they did this about two, three years ago where the umpire is keeping track of how long you take in between pitches. And your team, you can get called for a balk and other, other things can happen, a delay of game problems can happen for you if you're taking too long in between pitches to try and speed the game up without changing the, the nature of the game itself. And like my, my favorite sport to watch is, I love baseball, but obviously I'm very particular to Yankee's baseball. I don't, I won't watch any other game unless it's the playoffs in the World Series. Then I don't, I don't care who's playing. I'll watch playoffs in World Series. Yeah. Um, and then after that, it's combat sports, MMA, UFC, kickboxing, boxing is my least favorite of combat sports and then football. Yeah. And I love basketball too, but I don't, I don't watch it hardly at all anymore. Yeah, I don't think that's cool. No, I don't watch it hardly at all anymore. But yeah, no. My favorite sport to play is soccer. My favorite sport to play is baseball without football. Baseball is my favorite, will always be my favorite sport. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, great video. I thought the video, uh, it was very informative about each side and their argument. I don't know. I've never heard, what was the thing you said about baseball players think like there's no skill in, Like it requires no skill to play cricket. I've never heard that. You're just a moron. Yeah, incredibly stupid if you think that. Yeah, you're just a complete buffoon. And you have no idea what we're talking about. Exactly. Anyways, but yeah, great video. 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