Baseball

Baseball is the second most-popular sport on Waiting for a Train, behind hockey. Its popularity has not spawned any off-topic threads, but usually derails the CBox, and focuses heavily on the San Francisco Giants. The main perpetrator of this is Hal, and her poison has spread to Adri and Matt. Occasionally, other people ask pertinent questions, like, 'why can't pitchers actually hit the ball when they're at bat?' or 'why is this three hours long?' Hockey is in direct competition with the other main sport of WFAT, baseball; thankfully, the two sports seem to play at different times, probably due to the use of ice in one and the need for sun in the other.

Gregory Allen's play-by, Tim Lincecum, is a baseball player, making him one of three athlete PBs on the site. It also gives him the dubious distinction of being one of the most image-linked people on the site, because Adri and Hal are fangirling morons. He is commonly regarded as having muscular arms, also known as AAAAAAARMS, but Brian Wilson is regarded as being the favorite player of WFAT.

Baseball in the CBox
When baseball talk happens in the CBox, people tend to nod politely and not know how to respond, since baseball, unlike hockey, has many arcane rules and rituals that are not immediately apparent to others. Talk usually degenerates to how hot certain players are, or asking questions about how the sport is played.

As mentioned above, talk usually focuses on the San Francisco Giants, because this is the team Hal follows, and Adri finds the players hot. Hal is clearly stalking Tim Lincecum, but research to solidify the manner has proven inconclusive. Most of WFAT does hold Giants closing pitcher Brian Wilson to be a ninja and a man worthy of high respect, and all of WFAT agrees that Madison Bumgarner has an unfortunate name.

Multiple conversations will involve GIFs of Giants players, in particular Lincecum, with snarky comments attached. This has lessened as of late, since Hal's computer crashed and all her GIFs were lost, probably due to the infinite gigs of Giants pictures she had stored on it.