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NFL Off-Season Thread 4 - The Bears Still Suck
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Goro Majima
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Soccer.
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I havent had my coffee yet and the humidity is 78% while the temp is 81 at 10:30 am. Do not like
Alligatorjandro
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Are baseball players even allowed to have fun
The_Darkest_Red
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The constant diving is without a doubt the worst part of soccer. There is no defense for it whatsoever, it's just an embarrassment.
Only if you assume that something happening = scoring. In which scenario the amount of time there is nothing happening in baseball is absolutely off the charts.
Baseball is the only sport I know where they actually have to do stuff like trivia and launching hot dogs from guns so that people actually have something to do at the game.
The old whites dont want it that way.
Soccer.
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IT Crowd is a great show. I liked when they had that website which told them what to say to discuss football yesterday.
You should watch a Red Sox game sometime, David Ortiz makes it abundantly clear that he still hasn't seen a valid called strike in his MLB career.
The "baseball rules" bullshit of puffing your chest without throwing punches is about 10% as cringeworthy.
Yeah but it feels like it is reaching critical mass right now. Players are starting to speak out against it and Latin players are essentially going full scale fuck you to it.
Of course, we see very different things. The Brewers have embraced fun for a decade while the Braves punch your wife if you smile. Though maybe they stopped that when Cox was sent to the retirement village.
Average goals in last 7 world cup games: 2
Average runs in last 7 baseball game: 7
But if you think baseball is like insanely boring, why are you using it as a bar? That's like bragging about your kid for not raping homeless midgets. Way to go, you raised a winner!
Of course, we see very different things. The Brewers have embraced fun for a decade while the Braves punch your wife if you smile. Though maybe they stopped that when Cox was sent to the retirement village.
Average goals in last 7 world cup games: 2
Average runs in last 7 baseball game: 7
But if you think baseball is like insanely boring, why are you using it as a bar? That's like bragging about your kid for not raping homeless midgets. Way to go, you raised a winner!
It's not always scoring. A good portion of hockey is setting up scoring plays. Soccer does this as well, they just fail more frequently, reducing all interest from potential viewers.
Himynameischris
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Anyone down for a game of soccer golf?
Goro Majima
Kitty Genovese Member
At least baseball crowds respond with the appropriate amount of enthusiasm. They know it's slow paced and that's fine because going to a ball game is about spending an afternoon drinking some $12 beers, sitting in 100 degree heat, and killing about three or four hours of your day.
Meanwhile, soccer fans go nuts the whole game even though the same amount of exciting stuff is happening.
Meanwhile, soccer fans go nuts the whole game even though the same amount of exciting stuff is happening.
I just think it's odd to see fans of a boring sport hate on another sport because they say its boring.
Depends on the soccer fans.
I've only been to one game. The stadium was filled to about 9% capacity, food/drinks were just as overpriced, and nobody cared about anything. All you heard was a ball being kicked.
I think it's odd of fans of the most boring sport grasp at straws to desperately reach an audience.
My new favorite thing is reading this thread during games and trying to guess the score. As a rational human you'll guess 4-0 but you know in your heart that it is 0-0.
Alligatorjandro
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You people can have baseball
I'm not trying to convince anyone that baseball isn't boring though.
You can have the Everglades.
I guess you haven't checked out the ratings showing these matches doing better than world series games, I don't know how desperate they are to reach anyone.
Alligatorjandro
Banned
Still more exciting than a baseball game
How do they do against the Olympics? That seems like a much more fair comparison.
Really doesn't do any favors to compare a once every four years worldwide event to the third most popular television sport in the United States.
I'm not sure, I'd have to look into that.
And now you're hating on you Olympics too, I just don't get having such a hateful attitude. It can't be good for you.
How do you figure that I hate the Olympics?
Well it's supposedly a sport that nobody cares about in America...
Less than a million people watched the MLS Final.
That's College Softball numbers, breh.
Goro Majima
Kitty Genovese Member
I'm already anticipating the day when the roof buckles under the weight of 6 feet of snow in about 30 years.
Some of those chicks are decent looking though.
Sure but the MLS is shit compared to the WC. How many people watched the AAA baseball world series or whatever they have?
AC Milan and Manchester City are selling out Heinz Field in a couple weeks here in Pittsburgh.
Anyway I'm done with this argument. It has no end point.
That's probably not fair. How does the Premier League do? That seems to be the thing every twitter hipster is pointing to as proof of soccers impending American dominance.
MLS is considered the primary soccer format in the United States.
AAA is a development league for MLB, who is the primary baseball format in the United States.
The World Cup is held every four years...like another popular sporting event (HINT: It's the fucking Olympics).
I have no idea what an AC Milan and Manchester CIty are.
Lol, compare Ice Hockey in the Olympics compared to the Stanley Cup Finals.
Seems like if you want to discuss something seriously, you should probably figure that out.
Man City is also playing Liverpool in Charlotte next year.
The MLS is also getting better in terms of quality of the teams.
I'd wager more soccer fans are watching EPL because the quality of play is so much higher. You can make the comparison because soccer is a world sport and thus the MLS is more like AAA baseball teams and EPL and even moreso Champions Leauge are like MLB, it doesn't matter if they're US teams.
omg 3 amigos of doucheness. brb writing a script and going to get them cast those 3. im pretty sure im sitting on a billion dollar idea here. between all of the mayweather fans, little girls for beaver and manziel followers. 100 million opening locked.
They aren't national teams, why should that factor into the discussion?
I know who Liverpool is, so if they play in the same league nobody really cares. We have them on NESN because John Henry hates the Red Sox.
You can't defend the argument against the sport being popular in the United States and then revert to "No, It's a WORLD SPORT!"
If regional interest doesn't grow, soccer is going to remain in the basement.
Because MLS is the NFL Europe of Soccer. Most NFL fans in Europe would pay attention to it in passing but would rather watch the real deal in the NFL. MLS is getting better but it's still nowhere close.
Sure I can. The sport being popular doesn't mean that MLS teams have to be popular. And that alone makes it uncomparble to the major US sports because there are no other countries with higher quality teams to follow.
Goro Majima
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The biggest thing I'm taking away from this is that Manziel looks 40.
...but the United States doesn't have teams in Europe.
It actually is a pretty big reason the sport isn't that popular. It's growing though.
These extreme US soccer fans that are under the delusion that sport has somehow already arrived make it really hard to be a soccer fan.
I mean, child please, I've been watching since Cantona flew into the stands, and I like the sport. But it's not even remotely close to baseball levels domestically and won't be for a while.
I mean, child please, I've been watching since Cantona flew into the stands, and I like the sport. But it's not even remotely close to baseball levels domestically and won't be for a while.