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For those lost and confused, or maybe a bit shellshocked, below are a few threads about other American Professional Sports leagues for help ease your pain or whatever. I don't care, honestly. You can all take the offseason to reflect on a wet fart of a MLB post-season. There has literally been American football (on two levels) for over 2 months now. NFL (Literally America's Pastime):http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3676748 NBA (A regular season almost as boring as the MLB but with good playoffs):http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3643694 NHL (Not sleep inducing and fast as hell also suck a DICK Canada):http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3668993 Seasons greetings.
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I remembered that baseball existed in time to catch the 7th game of the world series
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Oct 30, 2014 06:23
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I thought this was going to be about accepting that there is no god and magic isn't real after all.
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Oct 30, 2014 06:26
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:I thought this was going to be about accepting that there is no god and magic isn't real after all. I didn't explicitly put that in the OP because that is already implied. (It's Sports)
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Oct 30, 2014 06:28
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Baseball is the best, but during the offseason you should watch hockey. It's more exciting and has fewer breaks than the NFL. And it also doesn't have higher-ups protecting women-abusers.
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Oct 30, 2014 06:37
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Kevlar v2.0 posted:Baseball is the best, but during the offseason you should watch hockey. It's more exciting and has fewer breaks than the NFL. And it also doesn't have higher-ups protecting women-abusers. I concur with this entirely. Hockey is super awesome, fast-paced (and thus a good counterbalance to the molasses pace of baseball, as much as I love it), full of angry Canucks, Swedes and Russians and a game is over in half the time so you should all watch it instead of football during the offseason.
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Ask me what it's like to live in a city capable of supporting an tadashi fucked around with this message at 14:25 on Oct 30, 2014 |
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Oct 30, 2014 14:22
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This postseason owned and anyone who thinks the NHL is fast must literally be a sloth.
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Oct 30, 2014 14:33
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Football is really bad. So is basketball, actually. Hockey is fairly cool though.
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Oct 30, 2014 14:35
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Shouldn't this be the post-post-season guide?
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Oct 30, 2014 14:36
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I agree that the post-season was bad though. The novelty of two wild-card teams making it was neat, but the World Series wasn't really well-played, Bumgartner aside. I'd rather have a sweep of four good games, than a 7-game series with one decent one. Washington and Baltimore, that would have been a hell of a show IMO.
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Oct 30, 2014 14:38
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Chinatown posted:For those lost and confused, or maybe a bit shellshocked, below are a few threads about other American Professional Sports leagues for help ease your pain or whatever. I don't care, honestly. gently caress you and watch Hot Stove with Harold Reynolds and Matt Vasgersian
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Oct 30, 2014 14:39
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If you don't like all sports (except soccer, gently caress that), you just aren't a good poster
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Oct 30, 2014 14:41
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IcePhoenix posted:anyone who thinks the NHL is fast must literally be a sloth. You're going to have to explain this, because, what?
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Oct 30, 2014 14:44
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angrygodofjebus posted:You're going to have to explain this, because, what? The ice is too small so there's not enough spacing and every attack is just a bunch of passing around the perimiter trying to create space for a shot but you can't because of the previously mentioned size of the ice. Also too many teams have these big slow idiots who offer nothing to the game because their only job is to hurt someone or stage a fight that looks less real than WWE. Olympic hockey owns though. Overtime is fun too because with 4 on 4 there's actually space.
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Oct 30, 2014 15:09
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IcePhoenix posted:The ice is too small so there's not enough spacing and every attack is just a bunch of passing around the perimiter trying to create space for a shot but you can't because of the previously mentioned size of the ice. Also too many teams have these big slow idiots who offer nothing to the game because their only job is to hurt someone or stage a fight that looks less real than WWE. Have you watched hockey since 2004
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AsInHowe posted:Have you watched hockey since 2004 A few games a year, yeah.
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Oct 30, 2014 15:58
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If this is going to be a thread for everyone ragging on each others' favorite sports then please just close it
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Thank gently caress for Hockey
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getting hard body into kronum and kegels
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Oct 30, 2014 16:43
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SpiderHyphenMan posted:I thought this was going to be about accepting that there is no god and magic isn't real after all. Counterpoint: the Giants were pretty clearly using black magic granted by an evil god.
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Oct 30, 2014 17:36
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Say I wanna get into basketball while living in Western Canada. There's the option of picking Toronto, but the closest teams to me are the Timberwolves, Bucks, and Trailblazers. Which of the four do I go with?
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Oct 30, 2014 17:53
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Oct 30, 2014 17:55
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Rene Bork posted:Say I wanna get into basketball while living in Western Canada. There's the option of picking Toronto, but the closest teams to me are the Timberwolves, Bucks, and Trailblazers. Which of the four do I go with?
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Oct 30, 2014 17:57
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Rene Bork posted:Say I wanna get into basketball while living in Western Canada. There's the option of picking Toronto, but the closest teams to me are the Timberwolves, Bucks, and Trailblazers. Which of the four do I go with? The Wolves will probably be bad this year but have the #1 pick from the last draft (Wiggins) and a chance to get better through a high pick. The Bucks are in a similar position to the Wolves but their most famous "player" is their coach. Personally, I would go with the Blazers as your gateway for now.
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Oct 30, 2014 18:02
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straight up brolic posted:if you love the bork, youll love the bucks I live in Milwaukee and I wouldn't wish the Bucks on my worst enemy.
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Oct 30, 2014 18:03
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tadashi posted:The Blazers are probably the best team and are returning their starting 5 from last year. The Blazers are going to win games and they have Lillard who is real good. The Wolves are going to be fun but frustrating because they have a lot of youth. The Bucks are the worst of both worlds between the other two.
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Oct 30, 2014 18:05
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There's also an NBA Meet the Team thread going on and, if you ask, someone will usually write-up a team that hasn't been covered voluntarily. http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3673758&perpage=40&pagenumber=2#post436963952
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Oct 30, 2014 18:05
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there are no sports again until March, and even then it's only kind of sports for a month. then there are sports again.
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Oct 30, 2014 18:12
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Xenophon posted:there are no sports again until March, and even then it's only kind of sports for a month. then there are sports again. This is correct
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Oct 30, 2014 18:23
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If you really must have your baseball fix during the winter, you can always follow the Australian Baseball League. Seasons just starting up here and the level of play is decent enough for what it is, livestreamed too but I don't know if it's watchable outside Australia without a proxy. Plenty of archived games floating around online if you want to get a feel for it. Screaden made a great post about the ABL in the NPB thread:screaden posted:So I know this isn't as high profile as Japanese baseball, but the Australian Baseball League starts in a couple of days. It's kind of an important year this year, as MLB being the majority owners of the league, had originally invested a bunch of money in the hope that the league could break even by it's fifth year of play, which is about to begin, although I don't know if that is likely to eventuate, the level of competition is still of a decent standard and I hope it continues to gain support. Baseball has had a surprisingly long history in Australia and it'd be great to see it become more than a niche sport. If you're Aussie or even here on a holiday, go and see a game if you can. I'll be attending as many Sydney Blue Sox games as possible this summer.
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Oct 30, 2014 19:10
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Rules of sports 1) All sports are good 2) Arguing over which sport is "better" is stupid 3) Watch a new sport and you might learn something/have fun 4) Go Sports
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Oct 30, 2014 19:17
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zakharov posted:Rules of sports
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straight up brolic posted:Sports have become a soulless vehicle to spread corporate ideology to the masses I half-agree. I hope people actually rebel against stuff like ads on jersey but I know better.
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Oct 30, 2014 19:21
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Xenophon posted:there are no sports again until March, and even then it's only kind of sports for a month. then there are sports again. Yes.
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Oct 30, 2014 19:26
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Okay, fess up, which one of you goons decided that none of the Royals should shave their neckbeards? That poo poo was gross.
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ChrisHansen posted:Okay, fess up, which one of you goons decided that none of the Royals should shave their neckbeards? That poo poo was gross. The playoff beard a hockey thing that has recently spread to other sports because it is cool and people like to imitate cool things.
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Oct 30, 2014 20:19
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Rene Bork posted:Say I wanna get into basketball while living in Western Canada. There's the option of picking Toronto, but the closest teams to me are the Timberwolves, Bucks, and Trailblazers. Which of the four do I go with? The Raptors are great for no-pressure enthusiasm and you don't have to worry about expectations because there is no possible world where they are better than Cleveland. zakharov posted:Rules of sports He's right, I think.
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Rene Bork posted:Say I wanna get into basketball while living in Western Canada. There's the option of picking Toronto, but the closest teams to me are the Timberwolves, Bucks, and Trailblazers. Which of the four do I go with? The Warriors of course. The Warriors are always the answer if you like fun. Plus everyone in SF secretly wishes he was Canadian.
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zakharov posted:Rules of sports I agree except you also need rule 1b) All sports are bad.
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