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Cricket is the most complicated and difficult to understand sport that exists and I have no idea how people understand it, at least I can't think of anything more complicated. That is my sports opinion that might get some of the peoples mad.
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Soccer can be exciting with the right commentator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7OxXKn70GM
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Jan 2, 2022 05:16
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Twelve by Pies posted:Cricket is the most complicated and difficult to understand sport that exists and I have no idea how people understand it, at least I can't think of anything more complicated. I went to watch an India-Pakistan match in Queens over the course of three days back in the early-00's and it was the most I ever drank and yelled at a tv in my life.
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Jan 2, 2022 05:35
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Zeroisanumber posted:I went to watch an India-Pakistan match in Queens over the course of three days back in the early-00's and it was the most I ever drank and yelled at a tv in my life. Yeah thats how you watch cricket
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Jan 2, 2022 06:42
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I think it's terrible how British people call sports "sport"
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Jan 2, 2022 15:31
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And americans call maths "math"
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Jan 2, 2022 15:33
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Sports? Sports! Sports! Sports! Sports! Sports! Sports!
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Jan 2, 2022 15:47
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Xiahou Dun posted:Neither of those is true though????? It really is, and if you ever watch the sports that are essentially soccer on a smaller field, even indoor soccer, the pace is much better and it's far easier to watch. Jay Rust posted:the most popular sport in the world is boring It's the most popular sport in the world because it requires no equipment beyond "ball" and "Space"
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Jan 2, 2022 16:06
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HootTheOwl posted:It really is, and if you ever watch the sports that are essentially soccer on a smaller field, even indoor soccer, the pace is much better and it's far easier to watch. Cool insights. Maybe next you can riff on how what they call 'football' in america should really be called 'handegg' 
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Jan 2, 2022 18:58
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I think American football is even more complicated than cricket. I tried to explain the rules of American football to a really awesome Turkish exchange student at a restaurant once, and I had to give up after like 10 minutes. This person was a very good English speaker and extremely intelligent, but at some point we both just started laughing and that was that. Such a dumb sport.
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Jan 2, 2022 22:14
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American football is incredibly simple though. The team holding the ball has four attempts to move the ball forward at least 10 yards, with the ultimate goal being to cross the other team's goal line, scoring a touchdown. If they fail to do so, they can attempt to kick a field goal for less points, or punt the ball to the other team. That's pretty simple, not as simple as soccer or baseball, but not too bad. There's some incredibly dumb and complicated rules in football to be sure, but the main goal of the game isn't complex. Cricket on the other hand is incomprehensible as far as I'm concerned.
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Jan 2, 2022 22:17
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Twelve by Pies posted:American football is incredibly simple though. The team holding the ball has four attempts to move the ball forward at least 10 yards, with the ultimate goal being to cross the other team's goal line, scoring a touchdown. If they fail to do so, they can attempt to kick a field goal for less points, or punt the ball to the other team. That's pretty simple, not as simple as soccer or baseball, but not too bad. What you just wrote is wrong. You don't get to kick a field goal after your four attempts. Like your exact post trying to explain how simple the rules of American football are failed to get the rules right.
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Jan 2, 2022 23:26
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Speaking of Freep and Football: Teen’s suit says coaches made him eat pizza despite religion Surely Freep would be horrified at forcing a jewish person to eat pepperoni pizza as a punishment... quote:To: nickcarraway quote:To: nickcarraway quote:To: nickcarraway Yes, how could a coach force a player to do something?  quote:To: nickcarraway quote:To: nickcarraway ok quote:To: nickcarraway quote:To: PghBaldy quote:To: Rebelbase quote:To: nickcarraway Jesus loving Christ, Freep!  quote:To: nickcarraway quote:To: PghBaldy Smollet!  quote:To: House Atreides quote:To: Rocko Jack
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pseudanonymous posted:What you just wrote is wrong. You don't get to kick a field goal after your four attempts. Like your exact post trying to explain how simple the rules of American football are failed to get the rules right. Okay yes I should have said that on the fourth attempt they may instead choose to punt or kick a field goal. It's still pretty simple to understand despite my loving up the explanation.
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Twelve by Pies posted:American football is incredibly simple though. The team holding the ball has four attempts to move the ball forward at least 10 yards, with the ultimate goal being to cross the other team's goal line, scoring a touchdown. If they fail to do so, they can attempt to kick a field goal for less points, or punt the ball to the other team. That's pretty simple, not as simple as soccer or baseball, but not too bad. Cricket is definitely no more complex than baseball (get any two random baseball fans to explain the infield double rule, or what a balk is, and compare just how different their answers will be). The only thing that makes it feel baffling is that all of that strategy has its own jargon that, because it's a creole made up over centuries by people from across the Commonwealth, is completely impenetrable to an outsider.
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Jagged Jim posted:Speaking of Freep and Football: Teen’s suit says coaches made him eat pizza despite religion Yeah, 5.5 million people have died of Covid, what we're in the middle of is a woke epidemic.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:the infield double rule
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Another Bill posted:Cool insights. Maybe next you can riff on how what they call 'football' in america should really be called 'handegg' No, it should be called tedious.
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I refuse to believe anyone in America actually knows what constitutes a balk in baseball. Including the umpires. Last I checked, there are fourteen ways a pitcher can balk. I knew about four of them.
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Presto posted:You mean the infield fly rule? That's easy. If you want something hard, try the batting-out-of-order rule. I did, yeah. (See, that's how confusing baseball is, it makes people make up rules in their own heads!)
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I only have heard about balks from peanuts. 
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Just look at this bullshit - ---------------- According to the rules of baseball, a balk is "an illegal act by the pitcher with a runner or runners on base, entitling all runners to advance one base." The purpose of the balk rule is to preserve a balance between runners attempts to steal bases and the defense's attempts to retire them. Lax enforcement of the balk rule in the 1930s through the 1950s contributed to a sharp decline in base stealing attempts. Stricter enforcement in 1988 led to that season being known as the "Year of the Balk". The balk rule (8.05 of the rules of Major League Baseball) is complex and technical, with 13 different actions that constitute a balk. Most balks can only be seen from a specific angle, meaning that a large percentage of the spectators at a game will not have seen the violation which caused a balk to be called. A pitcher may be charged with a balk if he: Starts his pitching motion without completing the pitch; Fakes a throw to first base; While standing on the rubber, throws to a base without stepping directly toward that base; While standing on the rubber, throws or fakes a throw to an unoccupied base, unless a runner is running toward that base; Makes an illegal pitch, including a quick pitch; Pitches while not facing the batter; Makes any part of his pitching motion while not touching the pitching rubber; Unnecessarily delays the game; Stands on or astride the pitching rubber without the ball; After assuming the windup or set position, removes one hand from the ball except in the course of making a pitch or throw to a base; Drops the ball while standing on the pitching rubber; Pitches while the catcher is not in the catcher's box; Pitches from the set position without coming to a complete stop. It should be noted that if a ball is put in play on a pitch that is otherwise a balk, the balk call will only stand if, as a result of the batted ball, the batter and baserunners do not all advance at least one base. If that is the case, the balk call is negated and the results of the play allowed to stand. This is the case even if one or more of the offensive players is put out after advancing the required base. For example, with a runner on first base, the pitcher commits a balk, but the batter hits the ball safely; the runner rounds second but is thrown out at third base. In this case, the balk is negated, because both the batter and runner advanced at least one base; the runner being thrown out later in the play is irrelevant. However, if the batter put the ball in play and the runner was forced out at second base, the play would be erased and the balk call would be allowed to stand, with the runner now on second base and the batter still at bat, with neither a ball nor a strike having been added to the count. A balk committed with no runner on base results in a ball being called, even if no pitch is made.
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And if you want - go watch a compilation of balks to get yourself to where you think that you can tell what one is. Then note that Carter Capps' delivery was legal. 
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Tony Phillips posted:Then note that Carter Capps' delivery was legal. Captain Log posted:Makes any part of his pitching motion while not touching the pitching rubber; ??????????
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Baseball has way more convoluted rules than cricket, it's just that as someone else pointed out, cricket has it's own lingo (and is a better game)
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That's why you should only watch lean and intuitive games like poker or magic the gathering. But gently caress majong.
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cant cook creole bream posted:That's why you should only watch lean and intuitive games like poker or magic the gathering. Lookit at this n00b who doesn’t play 麻將. Probably got kicked out for scrub-tier chicken hands and is bitter. 可憐的！
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Mirage posted:?????????? Show that to twenty umpires and you'll get twenty different answers. Umpiring in baseball is proven to be very bad, and it's not really their fault. We have the ability to take the guesswork out with replay and robo-strike calls. Some stat website was able to figure out strike and ball calls are accurate about 90% of the time. Which is pretty God damned major, not to mention people like Ohtani picking up something like over forty balls-called-strikes on the outside of the plate alone. Big guys, like him and Aaron Judge, get constantly screwballed. But the spirit of the game! : flaps jowls :
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Ambitious Spider posted:I only have heard about balks from peanuts. I appreciate that he still gave Snoopy a thought bubble to the borglike uni-rant
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Captain Log posted:But the spirit of the game! : flaps jowls : Yeah I know a few guys who are into baseball and all of them are incredibly mad about replay and want it banned from the sport, for basically this reason.
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The balk rule boils down to: the pitcher can't try to fake out the other team.
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Jay Rust posted:We need freep divers Here's a new freep dive Israel Jews good. George Soros Jews bad and want to steal Israel
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also: Ultimately all Jews bad unless they convert
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Twelve by Pies posted:Yeah I know a few guys who are into baseball and all of them are incredibly mad about replay and want it banned from the sport, for basically this reason. The younger fans like myself, a thirty-seven year old man, despise these old idiots. Bring on replay, robo-umping, and everything else. It sucks seeing something like Ohtani get beat out by a handful of home runs, then seeing irrefutable evidence of him getting 40 extra balls-called-strikes. Jay Rust posted:We need freep divers I've considered it. But I think my head would catch fire. Just blowing Fox message boards has probably taken a decade off my life.
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Captain Log posted:The younger fans like myself, a thirty-seven year old man, despise these old idiots. Has it now?! I have had the opportunity to talk at length with a Minor League Baseball umpire. Life-long fan of the game, played in highschool and college, coached his son through international travel baseball, Mr. Baseball. Umpiring ruined a lot of his enjoyment of the game. It turned out to be a lot more of a pain in the rear end than he envisioned. Too much bullshit, too many "personalities" to deal with, too much favoritism and nepotism. "I wouldn't trade it for the world, but I'm not doing it again."
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Take your terrible sports elsewhere and go make out.
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I would no poo poo love to see Ted Cruz respond to a freeper accusing him of treason. Ted Cruz Betrays America, Sides With Democrats Over January 6 — Here’s Why quote:To: datura quote:To: datura quote:To: datura quote:To: datura quote:To: datura quote:To: datura quote:To: hawkaw quote:To: datura quote:To: datura quote:To: datura quote:To: Ge0ffrey
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quote:"Stick a fork in Ted. He’s toast." What kind of a monster would put a fork on toast. Are these fucks so messed up they can't even operate hot bread.
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quote:RE-litigate? Sorry, I missed the first litigation. When did that happen? Can't believe this Freeper completely forgot about THE KRAKEN and Lin Wood and the multiple lawsuits attempting to overturn the election. quote:I will again hold my nose voting for him 3 years from now, if he’s on the November ballot, because I’m able to understand what the Democrats have in store for me and the country (even though he’ll likely lose then). At least this Freeper is completely honest. quote:Personally, I will never forgive and forget. I won't ever hold my nose again to vote for any Republican that the GOP floats in front of me. Unlike this one, who will vote for anyone with an R behind their name until they die. Even though I know they will vote for him no matter what, it is kind of nice to see Freepers hating on Cruz again.
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