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Vagabundo posted:As a rugby guy, I did once attempt to watch a handegg game, and honestly, I found it completely unwatchable. In fact, I find most American sports coverage unbearable, because it just feels like the game itself is there to interrupt seemingly endless ad breaks. It's loving poo poo-tier garbage poo poo. Hockey and basketball are the only two teams sports that I'm exposed to in America that actually go at a fast enough pace for me to not be bored. They have the ad break issues but nowhere near as bad.
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BrigadierSensible posted:The best "real" sport is Test Cricket. I've watched cricket my entire life and even I think Test matches are ludicrous. One-day cricket though, now there's a sport! None of the others do it for me. Test matches: no-one under the age of 60 enjoys this. 20/20: for people who aren't really interested in the sport and just want to party. The elusive 10/10 match: Fans of this are basically crackheads. I get that you enjoy cricket but have some dignity.
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Crapple! posted:I've watched cricket my entire life and even I think Test matches are ludicrous. One-day cricket though, now there's a sport! None of the others do it for me. T20s are a good entry-level condensed form of the game, and it gets way more hate than it deserves. Test matches are good background noise to have going on while you're doing something else, and you get great stuff like the India tour of New Zealand in 2013/14, where New Zealand drew the second test match with India, salvaging something out of match that they had seemingly lost on the back of one of the most stubborn batting performances by the NZ batting order in the second innings. Brendon McCullum's 300 and Watling & Neesham's centuries were utterly absorbing viewing.
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ChrisBTY posted:Baseball is by design a game where success is the exception rather than the rule. It's also really hard to watch if you can't invest in the battle of wits and arms between the pitcher and batter. Which is not made easier by the fact that there is WAY TOO MUCH loving BASEBALL! I enjoyed Cross Game and Big Windup, but actual baseball sounds tedious as all hell.
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Basketball is the only team sport I watch, and so should America.
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Football bores me to tears and being from Pittsburgh it's pretty much omnipresent. I always gravitated towards hockey for whatever reason, it just clicked for me. Although, being in my mid 30's it didn't hurt that I started watching right around the time the Penguins were hitting their stride at the beginning of the 90's and winning back to back cups. My hockey fandom is oddly tied into wrestling as well. I was watching overtime during the '96 finals between Colorado and Florida and happened to switch over to the replay of Nitro which was when Nash made his debut. I was already a fan, but never watched much WCW. It was where Ric Flair and Sting were and where Arn Anderson would pop in to be a bad rear end, but that was the extent of my knowledge. That was basically my introduction to the Monday Night Wars.
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Vagabundo posted:T20s are a good entry-level condensed form of the game, and it gets way more hate than it deserves. T20s are a fine sport, but as an old "get orf my lawn" man, it pains me to call it cricket. It's just a completely different skillset to Tests. And you are right about long, stubborn innings being among the best things about Test Cricket. I loved how on the last Indian tour of Australia, (where they finally won after lord knows how many years), that Pujara would just slowly bat and bat and bat and bat until the bowlers were tired in the evening session and then plunder them. But hey, how good are wrestlers on Social Media?
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BrigadierSensible posted:But hey, how good are wrestlers on Social Media? on average, pretty bad
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Playoff baseball is literally the greatest thing ever, second only to playoff hockey.
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Playoff baseball is when poo poo MATTERS. Suddenly the grind stops, the tension amplifies and the din of the crowd becomes electric.
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Waffleopolis posted:I really wonder how many WWE people posting about the XFL are genuine and liking XFL or some kind of mandatory bullshit for what its worth kyle oreilly and roderick strong hung out at my sportsbook yesterday specifically to check out xfl
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Crapple! posted:I've watched cricket my entire life and even I think Test matches are ludicrous. One-day cricket though, now there's a sport! None of the others do it for me. The World Cup Final last year was one of the best things I ever saw and they loving decided the win on some arbitrary stat in the end because the two teams literally couldn't beat each other no matter what mad permutation of extra time scenarios the organizers could come up with. This sounds terrible but holy gently caress it was amazing.
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Jerusalem posted:The World Cup Final last year was one of the best things I ever saw and they loving decided the win on some arbitrary stat in the end because the two teams literally couldn't beat each other no matter what mad permutation of extra time scenarios the organizers could come up with. This sounds terrible but holy gently caress it was amazing. sounds a hell of a lot better than a league final that was decided a couple years back on penalties; despite the winning team not even having a single shot on frame the entire match AND through overtime
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Jerusalem posted:The World Cup Final last year was one of the best things I ever saw and they loving decided the win on some arbitrary stat in the end because the two teams literally couldn't beat each other no matter what mad permutation of extra time scenarios the organizers could come up with. This sounds terrible but holy gently caress it was amazing. There's a comedian I really like called Andy Zaltzman (does The Bugle, former comedy partner of John Oliver) who is obsessed with two things: politics and cricket. His reporting on the cricket world cup, and specifically the final, was so filled with pure excitement that it nearly made me give a poo poo about the silly game. The final score in the game was 241 runs each after 50 overs, so it went to a Super Over, where each side scored 15 runs, meaning they were tied again. It was finally decided on the "Boundary count back rule", in other words the number of times the ball was hit to the boundaries by each side. To put this in baseball terms, imagine a world series being decided on the number of home runs one side got. Lamuella fucked around with this message at 10:26 on Feb 10, 2020 |
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Jerusalem posted:The World Cup Final last year was one of the best things I ever saw and they loving decided the win on some arbitrary stat in the end because the two teams literally couldn't beat each other no matter what mad permutation of extra time scenarios the organizers could come up with. This sounds terrible but holy gently caress it was amazing. Don't even get me started on that. It was incredible in the sense that it was such an unlikely thing to happen but I was in the foulest mood for like the next 2 days. I couldn't work out why they didn't just do 5 overs each way, highest score wins.
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Lamuella posted:To put this in baseball terms, imagine a world series being decided on the number of home runs one side got. Also imagine if in baseball a batter ran the bases but still had his bat in hand and as they threw the ball to the guy on homebase it bounced OFF the bat and counted as an extra home run. It was a magical game we're unlikely to ever see the likes off again because SO MUCH had to go SO WRONG (or right) for it to happen.
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Imagine how much better it would have been if it had been played with the old AFL grand final rules. 'Oh, it ended in a draw? gently caress you, play the full match again next week' e: also I think the FA cup used to do this, with hilarious results
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SG Bamboo posted:Imagine how much better it would have been if it had been played with the old AFL grand final rules. 'Oh, it ended in a draw? gently caress you, play the full match again next week' Yup, replays were standard in a lot of cup soccer. Actually still is in the early rounds of the Scottish Cup and I'm assuming the FA Cup. But not the final anymore
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forkboy84 posted:Yup, replays were standard in a lot of cup soccer. Actually still is in the early rounds of the Scottish Cup and I'm assuming the FA Cup. But not the final anymore https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2009/nov/21/oxford-city-alvechurch-longest-fa-cup  A 1971 FA cup match was replayed six times in three weeks until a winner was crowned. More sports need this level of madness.
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https://twitter.com/WillOspreay/status/1226826073389719553 https://twitter.com/GentlemansOOC/status/1226698248246583297 Give Chuck Taylor the mic you cowards
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History Comes Inside! posted:Man Ospreay is way taller than he looks, I've seen him up close a couple of times and he's always seemed very average in height. Yeah, he and Kento Miyahara are both guys who are much bigger than you'd think when you meet them in person.
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I was surprised by how huge Toru Yano is irl. He's not like fantastically tall or anything but tall nonetheless, and especially so for a Japanese man, plus he's just... wide.
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https://twitter.com/t346fire/status/1226824204504334336?s=19 "A pro wrestler should be a monster in the ring but be a gentleman out of the ring" Given the timing he's clearly putting the boots in on Cody Hall on his way out of the company
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History Comes Inside! posted:Man Ospreay is way taller than he looks, I've seen him up close a couple of times and he's always seemed very average in height. lookit this dude
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Chris James 2 posted:The evil has been defeated, Cody Hall's been kicked out of DDT for his tweet Cody Hall is such a dumb gently caress god drat. Learn to be humble in public for five seconds and you'll get a WWE contract for life and he can't even manage that.
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Like he was explicitly tied to the Bullet Club and the Elite like a weird hanger on and nobody in WWE or AEW has even been asked about bringing him in or even suggested it. How much of an obnoxious oval office do you have to be that Luke Gallows isn't calling you a good boy?
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Gonzo McFee posted:Like he was explicitly tied to the Bullet Club and the Elite like a weird hanger on and nobody in WWE or AEW has even been asked about bringing him in or even suggested it. How much of an obnoxious oval office do you have to be that Luke Gallows isn't calling you a good boy? Probably insulted the Hot Asian Wife of one of the Good Brothers.
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Crapple! posted:As a non-American I find football the easiest to watch. Baseball is just baffling to me. It seems like a sport designed so that nothing fun ever happens. Firstly, the bat is round so almost nobody can hit the loving ball and on the off chance that someone does manage to get one out into the field, all the fielders have giant gloves on so it's pretty much guaranteed anything remotely close to them will be caught easily. Taking the gloves away would improve the sport immensely. As someone who played baseball (badly) in school, the stuff you're talking about is a result of it being played by people who are insanely good at it and it having remained largely the same for a century or more. At this point every major league pitcher can chuck a fastball 85-95mph, or 135-145kph. If they throw much below that a good player with good eyesight can watch the ball as it comes in and nail it reliably unless it comes right in at an awkward spot to reach. When I was playing in school, the pitchers were doing probably 60mph tops, I got on base the majority of the time because even with my terrible eyesight, at that point it's a matter of aiming at the ball rather than predicting where it's going to be from the motion of the pitcher like it is in the major leagues. Being able to catch the ball is really nothing compared to being able to tell where the ball is going to be coming down and getting there immediately. Removing the gloves would lead to a whole lot of broken hands and fingers. The ball has some elasticity, IIRC it's basically string wrapped around a dense rubber core, wrapped in leather, but with the speeds it's going coming off a bat or being passed to teammates it might as well be a rock. Outfielders will throw the ball in drat near a straight line for 100 feet/30 meters, catching that can sting even with a glove. Then there's the elephant in the room of steroids, or just people in general learning that being strong doesn't make you slow. Even back in the '50s and '60s it was believed that people with big muscles couldn't be fast, we know better now. That's led to a lot of what I've been talking about, pitchers that are stronger pitch faster, stronger batters can knock the ball into the outfield better, I watched an old maybe '30s-era world series game and most of the hits only went a little ways into the outfield, there was a lot of bunting, because at that point the goal is put the ball somewhere that will take the fielders a long time to get to it rather than just hit it as hard as you can. Basically the problem with baseball is that, as with a lot of sports, once you get to the top level, nobody makes mistakes and everyone is so good nothing interesting happens. Anyway, I'll have a large baconator combo.
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22 Eargesplitten posted:As someone who played baseball (badly) in school, the stuff you're talking about is a result of it being played by people who are insanely good at it and it having remained largely the same for a century or more. At this point every major league pitcher can chuck a fastball 85-95mph, or 135-145kph. If they throw much below that a good player with good eyesight can watch the ball as it comes in and nail it reliably unless it comes right in at an awkward spot to reach. When I was playing in school, the pitchers were doing probably 60mph tops, I got on base the majority of the time because even with my terrible eyesight, at that point it's a matter of aiming at the ball rather than predicting where it's going to be from the motion of the pitcher like it is in the major leagues. This is a really interesting read and it ends with turning the Wendy’s joke around. A+
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Britt stop it, you've already killed him https://twitter.com/RealBrittBaker/status/1226936564812582914
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MrBling posted:Are they wrestling in a mall? Running a search only the visible markers puts it in a mall in E: oops turns out the jewelry brand is a national thing. here's the event the dive came from(via ESPN): https://www.wildkatsports.com/event/wildkat-wrestling-february-9th/ coconono fucked around with this message at 20:56 on Feb 10, 2020 |
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