my favorite hobby is playing recreational baseball.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Baseball is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of nine players each who take turns batting and fielding. The batting team attempts to score runs by hitting a ball (that is thrown by the opposing team's pitcher) with a bat swung by the batter, and then running counter-clockwise around a series of four bases: first, second, third, and home plate. A run is scored when a player advances around the bases and touches home plate. Players on the batting team take turns hitting against the pitcher of the fielding team, which tries to prevent runs by getting hitters out in any of several ways. A player on the batting team who reaches a base safely can later attempt to advance to subsequent bases during teammates' turns batting, such as on a hit or by other means. The teams switch between batting and fielding whenever the fielding team records three outs. One turn batting for both teams, beginning with the visiting team, constitutes an inning. A game is composed of nine innings, and the team with the greater number of runs at the end of the game wins. If scores are tied at the end of nine innings, extra innings are usually played. Baseball has no game clock, although most games end in the ninth inning.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I love baseball, who is your favorite team?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "My favorite team is the Chicago Cubs, an american baseball team based in chicago illinois. They are definitely professionals!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "How long have the Cubs been a team?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The cubs have been a team since the 1870's! Also little fact baseball does not have a game clock, but most games typically end in the ninth inning."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow, I didn't know that. So what happens if there is a tie after 9 innings?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "That is called extra innings where the innings keep on going in order to break a tie. This is also true for softball games."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Cool, so softball and baseball are pretty similar I assume?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Good question, yes. softball is basically a variant of baseball. In softball the ball is larger but the field is smaller. In 1926 in softball the ball used to actually be soft hence its name!"}]