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Let me, an out of shape kid in school, tell you how easy it was to play competitive baseball compared to other (real) sports
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Jul 25, 2022 01:43
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Wendigee posted:that sounds like a loving job.... how did they gently caress up so hard in the professional sports arena? Probably the stress and physical exertion of preparing for and playing in 162+ games a year. Or other people hosed up and you're too far in the hole to give a poo poo. Why risk injury for a game you're going to lose anyway
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Jul 25, 2022 01:45
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Wendigee posted:that sounds like a loving job.... how did they gently caress up so hard in the professional sports arena? That's how they get paid (more or less)
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Jul 25, 2022 01:47
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Wendigee posted:that sounds like a loving job.... how did they gently caress up so hard in the professional sports arena? Someone pointed it out in some thread a while ago, but it's been in my mind and seems true when I tune into a game: MLB players seem like the only top-tier athletes who actually recognize they're being paid exorbitant amounts of money to play a game. Say all you want about the differences in athleticism of different sports and "standing around all day," these guys legitimately look like they're having a fun day in the park most of the time - compared to the machismo and aggression in loads of other sports, these guys just slap each others' asses and eat sunflower seeds when they aren't making plays. It's hilarious.
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Jul 25, 2022 01:54
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I was being serious kind of. They make money sure, but they seem to work a hell of a lot harder than other professional sports. Granted, it isn't as intense, but it really does seem like a job with that many games!
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Jul 25, 2022 01:59
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Each baseball team plays 162 games a year, not counting spring training and the post-season. I wonder how many people would notice if one out of 10 games they just aired an older game. Like the sports guy at the abc affiliate would know, so he’d have to be on it. Wait is this already happening!?
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Jul 25, 2022 02:08
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Nuts and Gum posted:I wonder how many people would notice if one out of 10 games they just aired an older game. Like the sports guy at the abc affiliate would know, so he’d have to be on it. I think you underestimate the stat nerds out there.
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Jul 25, 2022 02:20
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Hard core fans would definitely notice that but it would be hilarious if they tried it. Just memory hole down a few games a season and have a party lol
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Jul 25, 2022 02:21
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https://twitter.com/MyKreal/status/1551350904607186945
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Jul 25, 2022 02:22
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Platystemon posted:***STATEMENT FROM CHESSROBOT*** Ah man, haven't seen the Tigran copypasta in a while. 100% the guy would break a kids finger during a match if he could.
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Jul 25, 2022 02:30
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They did him real dirty with that mask. At least pair it with a super floofy wig or something!
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Jul 25, 2022 02:35
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Wendigee posted:I was being serious kind of. They make money sure, but they seem to work a hell of a lot harder than other professional sports. Granted, it isn't as intense, but it really does seem like a job with that many games! Only if you classify work only as playing regulation games. The NFL plays like 17 games a year but those weeks are still pretty packed.
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Jul 25, 2022 03:12
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Nuts and Gum posted:I wonder how many people would notice if one out of 10 games they just aired an older game. Like the sports guy at the abc affiliate would know, so he’d have to be on it. What do you think they do during rain delays?
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Jul 25, 2022 03:22
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Jul 25, 2022 04:05
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HungryMedusa posted:They did him real dirty with that mask. At least pair it with a super floofy wig or something! lol he looks like those parodies of anonymous where the mom comes in an turns on the light because she baked cookies and anonymous is revealed to be grotesquely fat
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Jul 25, 2022 04:29
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Mad Doctor Cthulhu posted:Suddenly 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' takes on a very unique spin. Yikes. John Ford didn't actually want Wayne for The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. The studio wanted him. And Ford made Wayne suffer for it. At one point he asked Jimmy Stewart about how many bombing missions he went on while Wayne was safe at home. That got followed up with Ford asking Wayne how much money he made while Stewart was risking his life. Wayne took out his anger on Woody Strode. Ford was always a diffcult director to work with. On the set of Fort Apache, he made Shirley Temple cry. He was rough on actors but by all accounts he stepped it up for Wayne on the Liberty Valance set.
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Jul 25, 2022 04:52
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https://twitter.com/eliistender10/status/1551132084890132482?t=GUR_44-KECYcp_e6PR6Vog&s=19
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Jul 25, 2022 05:04
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The Red Sox should play against the Cleveland Browns, at
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Jul 25, 2022 05:19
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This seems like a straight to DVD slasher. Underground Night Worker. He comes to cleanse the car.
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Jul 25, 2022 05:57
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Push El Burrito posted:I think you underestimate the stat nerds out there. I feel like the stat nerds wouldn't recognize it by the match itself, but rather would remember writing all this stuff down before and then going back through their notes.
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Jul 25, 2022 06:20
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Wendigee posted:that sounds like a loving job.... how did they gently caress up so hard in the professional sports arena? Half those games are going to be away games you've gotta travel for. And your contract can get picked up at almost anytime by some other team and now you gotta move out there for at least the rest of the season, which is insanely long to fit 162 games in. Ken Griffey Jr. basically had a breakdown because he got stuck out in Seattle for so long. anyway here's jon bois talking about the sheer volume of baseball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qKWMgs4HG4&t=1162s it should start at 19:22, but the whole video is pretty good schad.
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Jul 25, 2022 07:31
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I feel so bad for these millionaires 
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Jul 25, 2022 07:33
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Thomamelas posted:John Ford didn't actually want Wayne for The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. The studio wanted him. And Ford made Wayne suffer for it. At one point he asked Jimmy Stewart about how many bombing missions he went on while Wayne was safe at home. That got followed up with Ford asking Wayne how much money he made while Stewart was risking his life. Wayne took out his anger on Woody Strode. Ford was always a diffcult director to work with. On the set of Fort Apache, he made Shirley Temple cry. He was rough on actors but by all accounts he stepped it up for Wayne on the Liberty Valance set. Of loving course he did.
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Jul 25, 2022 08:03
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droll posted:I feel so bad for these millionaires The vast majority of pro-athletes are not millionaires. The top athletes make a lot of money, but the majority just make league minimums. When A-Rod was on the Yankees and they'd play the Brewers, most of the time when he was at bat he was making more money than all nine players on the field combined. Starting salary if you aren't a top draft pick for the NFL is about $250,000 dollars, average career in the NFL is 4 years. So that's a million dollars exactly if you ignore taxes and cost of living and whatever they paid their agent, and they've spent the last four years destroying body. If you want to get righteous about the amount of money in sports get mad at the owners, the top level executives, the coaches, and literally everyone involved in the NCAA that isn't a player.
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Jul 25, 2022 08:14
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Baseball plays 162 games partially because of the insane variance in the sport
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Jul 25, 2022 08:15
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If you intermixed clips with the Show’22 and real baseball I’d probably never notice a difference. Let’s just make it all fantasy and the real players can get fat with the rest of us.
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Jul 25, 2022 08:24
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ilmucche posted:Baseball plays 162 games partially because of the insane variance in the sport Baseball plays 162 games because every game makes the owners money and baseball is the only sport where it's physically possible to play that many games without dying.
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Jul 25, 2022 08:35
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Skwirl posted:The vast majority of pro-athletes are not millionaires. The top athletes make a lot of money, but the majority just make league minimums. When A-Rod was on the Yankees and they'd play the Brewers, most of the time when he was at bat he was making more money than all nine players on the field combined. Starting salary if you aren't a top draft pick for the NFL is about $250,000 dollars, average career in the NFL is 4 years. So that's a million dollars exactly if you ignore taxes and cost of living and whatever they paid their agent, and they've spent the last four years destroying body. Also the Patriots owner Bob Kraft went to court for getting his dilz cranked off in an illegal brothel named "Orchids of Asia" and somehow he was lucky enough that a Judge ruled the evidence inadmissible and another judge ordered all the evidence destroyed including the evidence of all other patrons of "Orchids of Asia" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kraft#Personal_life
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Jul 25, 2022 08:41
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BasicLich posted:an illegal brothel named "Orchids of Asia" “Orchid” comes from the Latin for “testicle” LOL.
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Jul 25, 2022 09:01
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Platystemon posted:“Orchid” comes from the Latin for “testicle” LOL. Which is weird, because "testicle" is not the part of the genitalia I think of when I look at orchids. 
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Jul 25, 2022 09:05
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Skwirl posted:Which is weird, because "testicle" is not the part of the genitalia I think of when I look at orchids. you're not seeing the bigger picture 
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Jul 25, 2022 09:22
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I lost track of baseball talk when everyone stopped talking about how juicy some guy's arse was.
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Jul 25, 2022 09:49
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BasicLich posted:you're not seeing the bigger picture s-so you're telling me this is a plant with a vulva and a balls?? oh geez
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Jul 25, 2022 10:15
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Ninety‐four percent of plant species have both male and female sex organs.
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Jul 25, 2022 10:17
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Inspector Gesicht posted:I lost track of baseball talk when everyone stopped talking about how juicy some guy's arse was. Should talk about the sport, not how attractive the players are
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Jul 25, 2022 10:39
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Aramoro posted:Shad is on us, the British public. There's a survey going out from the government about reintroducing pure imperial measurements. Don't worry, the survey is not biased. What you have to understand about Britain's boomers is that they absolutely love to condescend to the young and have a huge superiority complex but because of this and certain views about certain groups of people in this world and because of all of these things they are incredibly lonely. Switching to imperial would give them the opportunity to hang around in grocers ready to step in and oldsplain to young people who don't know how many hogsheads of bok choi or whatever the gently caress they need and is as such very popular.
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Jul 25, 2022 10:46
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ReelBigLizard posted:What you have to understand about Britain's boomers is that they absolutely love to condescend to the young and have a huge superiority complex but because of this and certain views about certain groups of people in this world and because of all of these things they are incredibly lonely. Switching to imperial would give them the opportunity to hang around in grocers ready to step in and oldsplain to young people who don't know how many hogsheads of bok choi or whatever the gently caress they need and is as such very popular. Yeah, but they're gonna be wrong about it. Americans don't understand it and it's the only system we've ever had. No one knows off hand how big a gallon is compared to a pint, and while I don't think Brits are much dumber than Americans, they've spent the last decade or so trying really hard to prove they aren't smarter.
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Jul 25, 2022 11:27
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Skwirl posted:No one knows off hand how big a gallon is compared to a pint Wait, are we talking Statute of Queen Anne gallons, Statute of William III gallons or Imperial gallons? E: you better not be one of those Corn Gallon fuckers
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Jul 25, 2022 12:00
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Corn Gallon fuckers I’ll stop loving my corn gallon when you pry it from my dying hands 
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Jul 25, 2022 12:08
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