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Hating on sports is so drat weird to me. It's like hating on movies or books - it's entertainment, why the hell do you care so much?
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B-because the jocks were mean to me
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Aug 7, 2020 22:35
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Cocaine Bear posted:There was a scary head/neck injury to Jake Muzzin and he was sprawled out on the ice for a good 10 mins while they got the stretcher ready and gave him the cognitive tests or whatever. Complete and utter silence. It was loving eerie and creepy and bad. (looked like he broke his neck but it looks like it was just a pinched nerve or something, he seems fine atm). I mean, it's always eerily quiet in the arena when someone's on the ice like that. It's not until they give a thumbs up or get back on their feet that the crowd feels it's okay to make noise again.
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Aug 7, 2020 22:36
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i like sports sports fans i'm more conflicted on
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Aug 7, 2020 22:37
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Sports fans are the awful because they empower sports journalists, who are among the least interesting people on earth (with the exception of Jon Bois). The tribal attachments people develop towards 'their' team are also ridiculous. Now playing sports, that's where it's at.
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Aug 7, 2020 22:40
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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Cyrano4747 posted:I've been pretty impressed how much just adding dumb cut-outs to the stands behind home plate has helped baseball games. Giving that little bit of visual clutter just makes it feel way less like watching a college game or something. The computer generated virtual fans have been ..... somewhat less impressive https://twitter.com/cjzer0/status/1288992544467169282
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Aug 7, 2020 22:43
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jonsicoli posted:B-because the jocks were mean to me I mean at some point the competition level drains the fun out of it. Sports are good because they're games and games are fun. Games cease to be fun when in order to play you have to do emormous amounts of not fun work, or worse when the attitude of the adults around kids' sports changes from encouraging to abusive. The process weeds out the non assholes and rewards the rear end in a top hat and creates a whole rear end in a top hat culture. It's not uncoincidentally like capitalism in the cut throat winner takes all mindset. Sports on tv are still entertaining, especially if you played the same sport at a lower level.
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Aug 7, 2020 22:44
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It's also, all things considered, a really cheap pastime to follow a team. God knows I spend way more on my dumb hobbies than my wife does, even with her paying for out of market game packages for the team she follows.
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Aug 7, 2020 22:49
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it's a good idea to know stuff about sports if you haven't given up on success or social advancement like I have
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Aug 7, 2020 22:50
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Proust Malone posted:I mean at some point the competition level drains the fun out of it. Sports are good because they're games and games are fun. Games cease to be fun when in order to play you have to do emormous amounts of not fun work, or worse when the attitude of the adults around kids' sports changes from encouraging to abusive. The process weeds out the non assholes and rewards the rear end in a top hat and creates a whole rear end in a top hat culture. It's not uncoincidentally like capitalism in the cut throat winner takes all mindset. I had a very Calvin and Hobbes experience with youth sports. I had to play baseball, but nobody told me how to play baseball, or even that the single sentence of instructions I was given, "Go stand in that field," were involved in the actual business of playing baseball. I got yelled at for reading my book; how was I supposed to know that standing in the field was a key position with responsibilities?
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Aug 7, 2020 22:51
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Cyrano4747 posted:It's also, all things considered, a really cheap pastime to follow a team. Yeah this. My wife calls it my soap opera which isn't totally inaccurate in the case of baseball. Same cast, same setting. You know generally whats going to happen but not how its going to unfold. John Lee posted:I had a very Calvin and Hobbes experience with youth sports. I had to play baseball, but nobody told me how to play baseball, or even that the single sentence of instructions I was given, "Go stand in that field," were involved in the actual business of playing baseball. I got yelled at for reading my book; how was I supposed to know that standing in the field was a key position with responsibilities? Yeah this sucks. I coached little league for years and the one thing that I could point to as a way to succeed was for the parents to be involved. I could teach a kid to throw and catch, but I couldnt do the reps with them. It's a great way to spend time with your kids though.
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Aug 7, 2020 22:56
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Having a spouse or partner who likes the same sports that you do is really super awesome
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Aug 7, 2020 23:04
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Sports bore me to tears but I don't hate them anymore than I hate stamp collecting or bird watching or any other hobby. Except for model trains. Anyone who is into model trains is lower than pondscum and should be keelhauled and that includes Rod Stewart. Rod if you're reading this I hope you choke on a tiny lovingly crafted signpost.
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Aug 7, 2020 23:07
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And you can dress up your pets! And! You don't actually have to watch them, you can just look at spread sheets all day and tell the olds why they're wrong about everything with charts! Plus live hockey is about the best sports thing you can do. Well, when they're are fans, at least 
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Aug 7, 2020 23:09
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jonsicoli posted:B-because the jocks were mean to me This but unironically. High school sticks with us forever, even with therapy.
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Aug 7, 2020 23:15
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There is also how the sports "stars" in Jr High and High school get special treatment. Plus, they tend to be wealthy. I think most people have a story of " Parent buys child a new mustang. They wreck it. Parents buy another for them" type thing. Also, a TON of time and money goes into sports, when just about everything else gets it's budget slashed. But hey, hows that Trump presidency working for ya? You reap what you sow.
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Aug 8, 2020 00:20
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Sports are homophobic
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xtal posted:Sports are homophobic And also gay
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Proust Malone posted:. Games cease to be fun when in order to play you have to do emormous amounts of not fun work, or worse when the attitude of the adults around kids' sports changes from encouraging to abusive. There's a documentary by Chris Bell about these sort of abusive parents living out their own sports fantasies vicariously through their kids. It pops into my head every now and then but I csn never figure out where to watch it. Really want to though, his first big movie Bigger, Stronger, Faster was a riot. I used to be one of those 'sportsball lol' guys. Never raised on sports, in fact I had similar 'Calvin & Hobbes' experiences to others ITT. It was only in highschool that I took a passing interest in Motorsports, and the in college I started really enjoying hockey because my roommates' enthusiasm was infectious. Now I'm torn because I still do enjoy both of those things but in terms of prohibitively expensive activities kids are often born into, they're up there near the top of that list. And the politics, or should I say the silence, of the hockey scene is just appalling. The uproar at the Leafs wearing BLM shirts recently was massive. But on the other hand, man shoot puck and throw down gloves to fight. xtal posted:Sports are homophobic Like... Inherently?
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Aug 8, 2020 00:38
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May I suggest esports for the less athletically inclined but more intellectually inclined?
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Aug 8, 2020 00:46
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I’m neither
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Jeeez, we were just getting past the sports detail.
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Aug 8, 2020 01:41
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oldpainless posted:May I suggest esports for the less athletically inclined but more intellectually inclined? I play videogames on my couch so I can remain physically inclined.
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Lobok posted:I play videogames on my couch so I can remain physically reclined. Ftfy
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Cocaine Bear posted:Jeeez, we were just getting past the sports detail. He's just trying to toss the ol' pigskin around.
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John Lee posted:I had a very Calvin and Hobbes experience with youth sports. I had to play baseball, but nobody told me how to play baseball, or even that the single sentence of instructions I was given, "Go stand in that field," were involved in the actual business of playing baseball. I got yelled at for reading my book; how was I supposed to know that standing in the field was a key position with responsibilities? I had the same experience, and I think it's not uncommon. People don't even try to give you an getting-on point or explain the rules to you at all, they just tell you the most vague and obligatory instruction and spend the entire game ignoring you or getting mad at you for things you don't know and they can't be arsed to tell you. Apparently you're supposed to pick them up from osmosis. I didn't learn the rules of any sport we played in school until I looked them up on the internet years later.
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Proust Malone posted:I mean at some point the competition level drains the fun out of it. Sports are good because they're games and games are fun. Games cease to be fun when in order to play you have to do emormous amounts of not fun work, or worse when the attitude of the adults around kids' sports changes from encouraging to abusive. The process weeds out the non assholes and rewards the rear end in a top hat and creates a whole rear end in a top hat culture. It's not uncoincidentally like capitalism in the cut throat winner takes all mindset. you're not wrong about the potentially abusive aspect but this is an extremely dumb take, like what the gently caress? pushing yourself beyond your own preconceived limits is literally what everyone does when they go to the gym. competition doesn't change or distort that. not going to touch the kids sports aspects cause that's on a different level, but implying that people are problematically socialized because games and poo poo are competitive and make the exercise not fun is just asinine. edit: god drat just forgot who I was replying to.
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I'm not really into sports, but I certainly don't hate them. I know enough about most major U.S. sports that I can enjoy watching them with family and friends who are enthusiastic about it. Except golf. gently caress golf. A goddamn waste of urban green space. 
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Aug 8, 2020 03:29
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Yeah golf can eat an entire bag of dicks. Not even nice ones, like Harvey Weinstein-esque dicks.
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Aug 8, 2020 03:33
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Mario golf is fun tho
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Aug 8, 2020 03:33
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A casserole reduced to it's platonic ideal
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Aug 8, 2020 03:38
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Not even real ghee.
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Aug 8, 2020 03:54
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Stealing fast food industry R&D is corporate espionage and you're going to jail
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Aug 8, 2020 03:58
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Golf is fun, sports are fun and competition is the best part of them.
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Aug 8, 2020 04:25
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SPORTS!
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Aug 8, 2020 04:39
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I don't like baseball bc I was forced to play it. The only position I enjoyed was catching bc it constantly gave my adhd brain something to do. Batting was fun, too. The problem was, I was actually much better at baseball than the sport I actually enjoyed, basketball. Or so I was told. 
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i was only ever good at decathlon
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