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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2014 19:17:41 GMT -5
Suarez has proven himself to be a piece of crap, I hope he is banned from the rest of the World Cup with that bite.
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Post by Crimebuster on Jun 24, 2014 19:49:58 GMT -5
Suarez has proven himself to be a piece of crap, I hope he is banned from the rest of the World Cup with that bite. Agreed. Since Uruguay will probably lose without him, I think they should suspend him for the next 10 international matches, starting with the next one, so that the punishment carries over to post-World Cup action. |
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Post by Action Ace on Jun 24, 2014 23:01:31 GMT -5
Where will LeBron take his talents next?
The Cavaliers?
Back to the Heat?
The Clippers?
as a tight end for the Browns???
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Post by berkley on Jun 24, 2014 23:22:07 GMT -5
Suarez has proven himself to be a piece of crap, I hope he is banned from the rest of the World Cup with that bite. I was saying earlier today to a friend of mine who's a Liverpool fan that Suraez's repeated biting incidents are so bizarre that it almost seems a case for psychiatric assessment. It's just not something that anyone does. Except for Mike Tyson - and that was only that one time! I had to laugh when he was holding his teeth afterwards - he probably thinks the Italian player should be suspended for hurting his teeth when he tried to bite him. |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 24, 2014 23:24:36 GMT -5
How does one who claims soccer is "too slow" account for baseball's popularity? A lot of the people who criticize soccer say all kinds of stupid s#it. I think it's allegedly "too slow" for Americans because of the low scoring. Allegedly.
I'm not sure why they can't just say they don't really get it and they don't like it. I have never been able to get interested in hockey, and I'm just fine with saying that I don't like it instead of, I dunno, rationalizing that it's stupid to have a sport where they skate and it's more like ice ballet than a sport? That's pretty dumb, but that's the same type of argument that many soccer detractors think is so clever.
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Post by Jasoomian on Jun 25, 2014 0:17:20 GMT -5
Any pitch in baseball could be a home run, so at least there's the constant illusion that something *could* happen at any moment. But soccer is apt to have long stretches of the ball stuck in midfield, often with no danger of any scoring happening for several minutes.
(Ice hockey is just a faster-paced skating soccer with sticks.)
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Post by berkley on Jun 25, 2014 0:28:23 GMT -5
Any pitch in baseball could be a home run, so at least there's the constant illusion that something *could* happen at any moment. But soccer is apt to have long stretches of the ball stuck in midfield, often with no danger of any scoring happening for several minutes. (Ice hockey is just a faster-paced skating soccer with sticks.) I know i asked this same question a while ago but I can't remember if you said anything - as a baseball fan, what do you think of cricket? |
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Post by Jasoomian on Jun 25, 2014 0:39:44 GMT -5
Well, I wouldn't even consider myself a huge baseball fan. I was trying to explain the relative appeal vs soccer. I do agree baseball can be kind of boring. Not that going to a baseball game can't be a pleasant way to spend an afternoon. I don't really have any thoughts on cricket, though.
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Post by berkley on Jun 25, 2014 0:59:22 GMT -5
i have a tiny bit of nostalgia for baseball because first when we had a tv, I remember seeing baseball on it sometimes - we only had 2 channels back then in the late 60s & early-mid 70s, but there was very little Canadian programming apart from the news and current affairs shows and Hockey Night in Canada, so the rest of the airtime was filled up with British and American shows. Actually, it isn't much different now, come to think of it.
Johnny Bench and the Cincinnati Reds were the big team in baseball in the early 70s, as far as I can remember.
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Post by Jasoomian on Jun 25, 2014 4:02:05 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2014 4:14:02 GMT -5
Ask Bryan Stow how well behaved baseball fans are.... -M |
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Post by ironchimp on Jun 25, 2014 7:44:40 GMT -5
I know next to nothing about baseball so everyone must forgive my ignorance but i was under the impression the game itself was run under apartheid until after world war 2. Just like Nazism, old ideologies die hard.A peaceful pitch invasion no matter how pitiful and disgusting isnt hooliganism - the 2012 Giants world series "celebrations" would count as hooliganism though |
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Post by Hoosier X on Jun 25, 2014 10:04:30 GMT -5
This doesn't quite answer your question, but I was at a Dodgers game one time, about 2003-2004, sitting in the pavilion (that's what they call the cheap seats in the back field). The pavilion is known for rowdy, inappropriate behavior, and you can't take your beer to your seat if you sit in the pavilion.
The opposing team had an outfielder with a name that might look Jewish to a certain type of person, and somebody in the pavilion was shouting anti-Semitic remarks and stuff about the Holocaust and "Hitler was right!" sporadically throughout the first half of the game. It was disturbing. I've seen a lot of bad behavior in the pavilion but that was right over the line.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2014 10:22:51 GMT -5
i have a tiny bit of nostalgia for baseball because first when we had a tv, I remember seeing baseball on it sometimes - we only had 2 channels back then in the late 60s & early-mid 70s, but there was very little Canadian programming apart from the news and current affairs shows and Hockey Night in Canada, so the rest of the airtime was filled up with British and American shows. Actually, it isn't much different now, come to think of it. Johnny Bench and the Cincinnati Reds were the big team in baseball in the early 70s, as far as I can remember. Mid-'70s, actually, succeeding the Oakland A's, who won the World Series in '72, '73 & '74 & in turn succeeded the Baltimore Orioles (who were also in three straight series, though they lost in '69 & '71) as the preeminent team. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 25, 2014 10:27:32 GMT -5
Any pitch in baseball could be a home run, so at least there's the constant illusion that something *could* happen at any moment. But soccer is apt to have long stretches of the ball stuck in midfield, often with no danger of any scoring happening for several minutes. (Ice hockey is just a faster-paced skating soccer with sticks.) This, I suppose, though in general I'm in the "don't understand/couldn't care less" camp, sort of like I am with lacrosse, jai alai, water polo, dressage & any number of other odd things people occupy their time doing. I think the most distasteful thing about soccer to me is the flopping (I guess it's called), where players pretend to be injured on the slightest pretext. No idea how prevalent a practice that is, but it certainly gets a lot of coverage, or has in the past. That sort of pathetic crap happens in basketball, too, & is just as objectionable. It's one of many reasons I don't take that sport seriously, either. |
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