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re: I don't like baseball
Posted on 6/15/10 at 5:20 pm to TN Bhoy
Posted on 6/15/10 at 5:20 pm to TN Bhoy
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We just dislike the people who dislike it and want to make a point of it (Rex, Zach).
I've made my position clear over many decades. If you like soccer, bowling or tiddly winks, knock yourself out. But people who like bowling don't try try to foist it off on the American public for 50 years as the 'coming thing.'
It's not.
Soccer sucks. It was true in the US in 1960 and it's true a half century later. I lived all through the propaganda.
Now, will the US embrace soccer in 3060? Absolutely. Due to illegal immigration.
But then we'll be more interested in finding food and water.
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Posted on 6/15/10 at 5:21 pm to AUTigLN11
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Compared to being a kicker I'm sure there's not.
But this guy would punt and then run down the field and knock the shite out of somebody. His ability to kick is what got him into the NFL, not his ability to knock the crap out of someone. That skill is just an added bonus. I can't recall his name.
Posted on 6/15/10 at 5:21 pm to Louie T
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Saying baseball doesn't take athleticism is dumber than saying soccer is boring.
You're right Cecil Fielder, Prince Fielder, John Kruk, Fernando Valenzuela, C.C. Sabathia etc... are all top notch, well conditioned athletes. Some baseball players are great athletes, but you can definitely excel at baseball when you would be a fat waste of space in any other sport.
Posted on 6/15/10 at 5:22 pm to AUTigLN11
well WHAT ABOUT RUGBY???
Posted on 6/15/10 at 5:23 pm to AUTigLN11
i miss the XFL
Posted on 6/15/10 at 5:23 pm to AUTigLN11
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Some baseball players are great athletes, but you can definitely excel at baseball when you would be a fat waste of space in any other sport.
You could probably make the US Soccer world cup roster without having the talent to play 90% of other sports professionally.
Posted on 6/15/10 at 5:24 pm to Zach
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It's not.
Have you paid any attention at all? Soccer has made HUGE strides in this country in the last 20 years. We now have a professional league, have hosted a World Cup, have a team that consistently qualifies for World Cups, every single game of World Cups and now European Champions are on major networks, there are channels devoted only to soccer, ESPN has brand new deals with the English Premier League and La Liga and shows games weekly, soccer specifice stadiums are popping up across the country, the Champions League Final was just on network television for the first time ever and got very good ratings, it's by far the most popular youth sport etc... But yea, soccer is never going anywhere in America.
Posted on 6/15/10 at 5:24 pm to AUTigLN11
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but you can definitely excel at baseball when you would be a fat waste of space in any other sport.
Yep, you're ignorant.
Posted on 6/15/10 at 5:24 pm to Zach
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Zach
Please respond to me in the other thread.
Posted on 6/15/10 at 5:25 pm to Lester Earl
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well WHAT ABOUT RUGBY???
To me Rugby guys are like hockey guys. Same thinking, badasses. Wont come out of a game, showing pain is looked at as weakness unlike the NBA and even the NFL.
Posted on 6/15/10 at 5:25 pm to Louie T
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Yep, you're ignorant.
I just gave you several concrete examples.
Posted on 6/15/10 at 5:25 pm to Louie T
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Yep, you're ignorant.
John Kruk.
Posted on 6/15/10 at 5:26 pm to AUTigLN11
Fernando as a short fat mexican had more skill than probably the U.S. soccer roster all combined
Posted on 6/15/10 at 5:26 pm to AUTigLN11
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You're right Cecil Fielder, Prince Fielder, John Kruk, Fernando Valenzuela, C.C. Sabathia etc... are all top notch, well conditioned athletes. Some baseball players are great athletes, but you can definitely excel at baseball when you would be a fat waste of space in any other sport.
But there are different kinds of athletic competition. Everyone should agree that a gold medal winning shotputter is a great athlete but that doesn't mean that he could go run a marathon.
Just because someone can run great distances doesn't make them any greater of an athlete than someone else it just means that they are better at running great distances.
Hitting a baseball coming at nearly 100 mph is a skill that few possess. A skill that is more rare than even being able to run 26.2 miles. John Kruk could train to run a marathon and do it. Would he win or be world class? Probably not. But a cross-country runner probably couldn't hit a an 80+ mph curveball with all the training and coaching in the world.
Posted on 6/15/10 at 5:26 pm to AUTigLN11
Cause everyone on the US soccer team could play baseball/basketball/football?
Just because they can't run up and down the soccer field all day doesn't mean they're not athletic.
Just because they can't run up and down the soccer field all day doesn't mean they're not athletic.
Posted on 6/15/10 at 5:28 pm to Maximus
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You could probably make the US Soccer world cup roster without having the talent to play 90% of other sports professionally.
Its hard to play other sports when your hands and arms are useless. Tyrannosaurus Rex-like.
Posted on 6/15/10 at 5:28 pm to Louie T
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Just because they can't run up and down the soccer field all day doesn't mean they're not athletic.
They couldn't run up and down any field is the thing. They couldn't even finish a game, probably would be doing well to finish a half.
Posted on 6/15/10 at 5:32 pm to AUTigLN11
quote:A soccer player doesn't have the athleticism to even begin to think about hitting a baseball; much less make it through half a game.
They couldn't even finish a game, probably would be doing well to finish a half.
Posted on 6/15/10 at 5:32 pm to AUTigLN11
Anyhow, like I said the whole point is that pretty much all sports have their faults etc... Soccer is no different but what's the point of constantly patting yourself on the back because you think soccer is for figs, or communists, or all about eating oranges, and whatever other stupid things people say?
Posted on 6/15/10 at 5:33 pm to Louie T
So now we've established baseball players couldn't play soccer and soccer players couldn't play baseball. I thought that was fairly self-evident.
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