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How passionate do you get about sports?
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I remember this like it was yesterday. This was 1992, when the Braves' success was a new, fragile thing, not something to be banked on every year. They still had something to prove and the fans were still deleriously excited about it all. I must have been in 8th grade.
Well, this is the famous play where slow ass Sid Bream beat a throw in to the plate and sent Atlanta to the World Series for the 2nd straight year, stunning the Pittsburgh Pirates and beginning a dynasty. Here's a pic of the jubilation:
Well, this is the famous play where slow ass Sid Bream beat a throw in to the plate and sent Atlanta to the World Series for the 2nd straight year, stunning the Pittsburgh Pirates and beginning a dynasty. Here's a pic of the jubilation:
bjork said:PS- Jordan love transcends sports.
So true. This guy lives a fairy tale. A guy's fairy tale anyway. We've all dreamed all our lives to do what he does and some don't even have the imagination to think up some of what he did. He follows the tiniest bit of failure meanwhile with the greatest heights of success. Hitting every big shot, performing whatever the unthinkable was. He was dominant physically and mentally. Damn right he transcends sport passion. He's human inspiration. I love you MJ!
edit: PS- And he's a pimp!
It's fun to play, no doubt, but it's almost damn near impossible to round up 18 people for 3 hours at a time and start up a baseball game. 12 is enough for a backyard football type game. 4 WR, 1 RB/Blocker, 1 blocker, and a QB.
Sure, it's fun to play, but it's for the most part, unless you're in a league of some sort, impossible to accomplish.
Sports are damn fun to watch and follow. You, obviously don't share the same opinion
Sure, it's fun to play, but it's for the most part, unless you're in a league of some sort, impossible to accomplish.
Sports are damn fun to watch and follow. You, obviously don't share the same opinion
If you love the game, just playing it should be enough. You know those stories of Bo Jackson running with a tire dragging behind him or or various people practicing for hours? That's how your athletes got to be where they are, by practicing, and probably alone at some point.
Going "I can't play baseball unless I get 700 players to make a league" is a lazy excuse imo.
Going "I can't play baseball unless I get 700 players to make a league" is a lazy excuse imo.
taking shots by yourself isn't "playing basketball"
going to the batting cages is not "playing baseball"
playing catch with a football isn't "playing football"
Competition makes sports. 2 on 2 "football" is just catch.
1 on 1 basketball though, that is a sport. Since basketball can be a one man show anyway. Baseball, well, you need the full 18 players to make 2 teams. There's pretty much no way around it if you want a real baseball game.
going to the batting cages is not "playing baseball"
playing catch with a football isn't "playing football"
Competition makes sports. 2 on 2 "football" is just catch.
1 on 1 basketball though, that is a sport. Since basketball can be a one man show anyway. Baseball, well, you need the full 18 players to make 2 teams. There's pretty much no way around it if you want a real baseball game.
I don't know. If I want to play basketball, I can go bounce a ball around, maybe play another person, or just work on my free throw or whatever, and be happy.
I guess if you want to make it out to be all epic and requiring all these rules and "official" stuff in order to play it and retain manhood or whatever, you can. I'd rather just enjoy the game in my own way, just like you do. Is either way wrong?
PS: there's still no "we."
I guess if you want to make it out to be all epic and requiring all these rules and "official" stuff in order to play it and retain manhood or whatever, you can. I'd rather just enjoy the game in my own way, just like you do. Is either way wrong?
PS: there's still no "we."
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i can't even describe the feelings i was feeling during the end of the rams-carolina double OT game last january. excited, happy, then i was so depressed until the rams came back and forced OT. I was biting my nails all through OT, especially when both teams missed FGs. when steve smith finally ended my season i couldnt even talk for hours. i was really depressed, kept tryin to tell myself "its just a game" but it didnt help. on the other hand, when we won the SB, i was the happiest person on earth for about the next week.
i can't even describe the feelings i was feeling during the end of the rams-carolina double OT game last january. excited, happy, then i was so depressed until the rams came back and forced OT. I was biting my nails all through OT, especially when both teams missed FGs. when steve smith finally ended my season i couldnt even talk for hours. i was really depressed, kept tryin to tell myself "its just a game" but it didnt help. on the other hand, when we won the SB, i was the happiest person on earth for about the next week.
since sleeping wasn't working for me, i guess i'll elaborate on why sports isn't all that for me anymore. first of all, my favorite teams:
redskins(born here)
sonics(gary payton)
seminoles(over half my family attended school)
tar heels(lived 20 miles away for 5 years)
reds(again, proximity infatuation. sorry, jason lee.)
anyway, i will always love and follow these teams until the end. my schedule was worked around their games, and i would get visibly upset when either of these teams lost; even if it was just plain regular season game that really meant nothing in the long run.
if the sports page in the morning had already been read, my day was crushed. like miguel, when my team was losing, especially to a shitty team, the urge to break something would overcome me. my parents even told me that i wasn't allowed to watch a spurs game with my brother in the same room because of all the arguments and shittalking that ensued(he's a spurs zealot).
nowadays, though, like i said earlier, just a simple check of the standings and scores does it for me. i don't remember exactly when the change from fanatic to apathetic happened, but no doubt it was a gradual trek. hell, i'm sure even some of it has to do with the recent suckage of the redskins, sonics, reds, and to an extent, the seminoles and tar heels.
who knows. maybe if those teams fortunes turnaround, i'll turn into that fanataic again.
redskins(born here)
sonics(gary payton)
seminoles(over half my family attended school)
tar heels(lived 20 miles away for 5 years)
reds(again, proximity infatuation. sorry, jason lee.)
anyway, i will always love and follow these teams until the end. my schedule was worked around their games, and i would get visibly upset when either of these teams lost; even if it was just plain regular season game that really meant nothing in the long run.
if the sports page in the morning had already been read, my day was crushed. like miguel, when my team was losing, especially to a shitty team, the urge to break something would overcome me. my parents even told me that i wasn't allowed to watch a spurs game with my brother in the same room because of all the arguments and shittalking that ensued(he's a spurs zealot).
nowadays, though, like i said earlier, just a simple check of the standings and scores does it for me. i don't remember exactly when the change from fanatic to apathetic happened, but no doubt it was a gradual trek. hell, i'm sure even some of it has to do with the recent suckage of the redskins, sonics, reds, and to an extent, the seminoles and tar heels.
who knows. maybe if those teams fortunes turnaround, i'll turn into that fanataic again.
worldrunover
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HalfPastNoon said:
Well if you live in the DC area you may get to start rooting for the Expos soon!!
Well uhh... maybe they'll get better...
bjork said:
I was originally annoyed by the bandwagon Angels fans, but it's lessened now. I always thought the Rally Monkey was stupid. Everyone always saying the Rally Monkey was what helped the Angels in the late innings for comebacks when it was simply due to how well the players were doing. Sad to see such a lack of faith for the Angels from the "fans."
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