Your least appealing event in baseball.

[Wheelhouse]

Mine: watching Corky Miller run out a ground ball.

[Larry Schuler]

The two week stretch every season where the Reds are two and three hit by every starter they face, regardless of who it is.

[tomnuetten]

9pm or later starts (=> west coast games)... hard to get out of bed at 3am or 4am to watch a game, even harder to stay awake the whole night...

and during losing streaks it´s hard to motivate yourself to another long night (and tired working day)

[NebraskaRed]

Making it to the playoffs and then not making it past the first round.

[oneupper]

Losing

[UPRedsFan]

Losing

Reds LOB

[Kingspoint]

All-Star Game/Break

[George Anderson]

Anything Pete Rose related from 1989 to present.

[_Sir_Charles_]

Anything Nyjer Morgan has ever done on a diamond.

[Roy Tucker]

The last day of the baseball season.

[Bob Borkowski]

The Cardinals vs. the Yankees in the World Series

[bigredmechanism]

The first losing streak. I get nervous and think it will never end.

[CaiGuy]

First-pitch swinging out

[LexRedsFan]

Honestly, April baseball. Cincinnati just isn't quite warm enough on a lot of those April nights... I love warm summer evenings and it doesn't start being that way until May.

[Trajinous]

Spring Training. It's boring to watch/follow and it's just an anxious month of hoping for no injuries. And the games don't matter so besides the last 2 spots on bench/bullpen. I also find March Madness boring, thank god for Opening Day in 14 days!

[WVRedsFan]

Got here late, but Kingsport hit it on the head. The AS break and the game has never been of interest to me. LexRedsFan also has a point. I've been to Opening Day a few times and have frozen to death. In 1971, I wore a down coat and a ski cap (we call them cobogans here). Plus Opening Day was ruined for me when ESPN started the season early and made Cincy's just another game.

[Johnny Footstool]

Braves and all things Brave-related.

[Red in Chicago]

Bad bunting

[Wonderful Monds]

This.
http://deadspin.com/brandon-phillips-line-drive-absolutely-rips-ump-in-the-1545968686

[757690]

And now pinch hitting for Josh Hamilton in the bottom of the 9th with two outs... Juan Castro

[M2]

Popups, the most futile and dispiriting of all the outs. You're out even before the out is officially recorded.

[dougdirt]

Watching players get injured. Absolutely hate it.

[AtomicDumpling]

The intentional walk for two reasons. A. They should be able to just hold up four fingers and have the runner take the base. B. Intentional walks are stupid strategy 95% of the time they are issued.

[RedTeamGo!]

A hyped prospect I have followed for years being a total bust.

[RollyInRaleigh]

I hate the "off day" after Opening Day. It makes no sense.

[klw]

Ladies and Gentlemen your 2014 World Series Champion Chicago Cubs! ( or many other teams for that matter)

[cumberlandreds]

No games the day before and now for two days after the All Star game. I find myself with nothing to watch in the middle of summer.

[wheels]

This is it right now. The horrible, two week stretch when I just want the season to start. It's made exponentially worse by the people I'm around every day, and their "The NCAA basketball tournament is the greatest event in the history of sports" palaver.

I like games that are played outside, not in a crummy gym with a bunch of grunting and squeaking. I want my Baseball, dad gummit.

[swaisuc]

This is it right now. The horrible, two week stretch when I just want the season to start. It's made exponentially worse by the people I'm around every day, and their "The NCAA basketball tournament is the greatest event in the history of sports" palaver.

I like games that are played outside, not in a crummy gym with a bunch of grunting and squeaking. I want my Baseball, dad gummit.

Sorry, didn't realize this was YOUR lawn ;)

Anyway, my vote is pitching changes. The closest thing baseball has to momentum is a stringing a few hits together and getting guys on base, but for at least half the game any time that occurs, it's followed by a 5 minute delay for a new pitcher to stroll out there and warm up (who BTW has spent the last 10 minutes presumably warming up). By the time they throw the 1st live pitch, most people have forgotten what the last hitter did or how many outs there are. If it were up to me, you can change pitchers, but he has X amount of seconds to get out there and then we start. He should have warmed up in the bullpen. I don't know if it's always been that slow or it's just a blantant attempt at sneaking in more commercial time, but how about fitting in more commercials during the natural breaks if you need more. Slowing the game down during it's intense moments is annoying.

[texasdave]

The "Woooo".

[traderumor]

I hate the "off day" after Opening Day. It makes no sense.rain out, or this year, snowed out

[traderumor]

All Star break, All Star game, Home Run Derby, Chris Berman announcing Home Run Derby.

The Yankees on MLB Network, ESPN, ESPN2, FOX1, MLB Free game of the day...

[traderumor]

Yankees vs. Red Sox hype

[traderumor]

Prospect hype

[dfs]

The third throw over to first in the same at bat.

[traderumor]

Bases loaded walks

Making the pitcher throw four balls on intentional walks.

[traderumor]

American League games

[RedlegJake]

watching as a player is injured on the field

[tomnuetten]

losing in a very long (multi extra inning) game.. those are hard

[Always Red]

The Cubs. I hate the Cubs and their fans.

And they're starting to get better, which means the fans will be more obnoxious and just as ignorant of the game as ever.

[smith288]

Rally killing Solo homeruns. :D

[Rando]

Whoever is retiring.

I never want to hear about #42 or Mariano Rivera again. Jeter will be next

[RollyInRaleigh]

The third throw over to first in the same at bat. You better get used to this one. ;)

[westofyou]

Excessive celebration and the art of chest pounding

[Rojo]

Bases-juiced GIDP on the first pitch.

[RichRed]

Batters stepping out of the box after every pitch to adjust...well, everything.

[Hollcat]

Two words, Base Clogging!!!

[Hap]

Still seeing Deion Sanders Reds (circa 2001) shirts being worn at a Reds game.

[joshua]

Cardinal fans celebrating anything.

[PepperJack]

Off days are the worst from a fan perspective.

[15fan]

"Now batting, the designated hitter..."

[westofyou]

The cost of food (or what passes for food) at the ballpark

Example 1. - the $25 Corn Dog

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/10626853/arizona-diamondbacks-sell-25-d-bat-corn-dog

[villain612]

Too much time in between pitches.

Both the batters and pitchers are to blame for this. Its getting pretty ridiculous these days.

[Red in Chicago]

The trough at Wrigley Field

[dabvu2498]

The trough at Wrigley Field

That's a good (bad?) one. I'll go with something else that happens often at Wrigley: 'meaningless" September games.

[westofyou]

The trough at Wrigley Field

The trough at Tiger Stadium still haunts me now, 40 plus years.

[GADawg]

there are too many as it turns out but my top 3.....

runner on third, 1 out....strike out....strike out

the loogy coming in and throwing across his body 4 straight times low and away to the lefty he is paid to retire

having to sit through multiple rounds of playoff baseball without my guys involved

[George Anderson]

In response to Randy not liking the off day after OD.

It reminds me of the day after Christmas.

[bengalsown]

Too much time in between pitches.

Both the batters and pitchers are to blame for this. Its getting pretty ridiculous these days.

That's why I refuse to watch baseball live. I DVR every game, start watching it a couple of hours after it starts, and can fly through it without really missing anything. Just have to avoid social media and sports news every night during the baseball season, and hope I don't get a text from a buddy talking about something that happened in the game.

[vaticanplum]

Imbecile commentators demeaning, dumbing down, and personalizing my beautiful game.

My feelings on the flip side of this are just as extreme, though. I would listen to Vin Scully call breakfast.

[traderumor]

Team wide celebration rituals when any good thing happens.

Various contrived versions of the high five in the dugout

[WildcatFan]

I'll second the day off after Opening Day and add interminable West Coast road trips.

[Hoosier Red]

Off days are the worst from a fan perspective.

Especially off days after a loss. Especially off days after a day game loss with a night game the following day.
The 48 hours between out #27 and pitch #1 just leave way too much time to stew.

[westofyou]

I'll second the day off after Opening Day and add interminable West Coast road trips.

Love the west coast trips myself, nice to see a whole game