Baseball, Football, Hockey, Soccer;
<div class="IPBDescription">out of all sports, which is the best?</div> Note: this topic is not to be taken seriously, but semi-seriously. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
I fear impending flamage.
/Puts on level 99 armor.
Now I am seeing some threads around here-baseball mostly. I understand everybody's enthusiasum for the game that made America...,but is it really all that great? Of course it is, but I have to critique. The playoffs imo are really short, due to the best out of 3 rounds, and the limited teams that play in the playoffs. It is incredibly boring to watch during the regular season, and if you look at the stands in half the stadiums, there are no people sitting or standing. But I have to hand it you baseball fanatics, it sure does get loud.
Anyways, I ain't really argueing anything. But if you look at a great sport like hockey-the canadian sport, there is so much more determination and team effort than your avg baseball team (yet another fruitless opinion by me). In hockey, the playoffs are so much longer, making the effort seem so much more and valuable, when a team wins the holy grail-the beautiful stanley cup; now you got to admit that cup is a beaut. So...,what do you think?
To add some more fruitless statements: in hockey, over 70 games are played each year in the regular season; there are 16 teams in the playoffs; each year there are four rounds in the playoffs, with a maximum of 28 games played in a best out of 7 game format. In hockey, there is constant play; hitting-including fights that occur almost every game; overtimes can last the whole night; blablabla...
This is just for fun, so post away.
I fear impending flamage.
/Puts on level 99 armor.
Now I am seeing some threads around here-baseball mostly. I understand everybody's enthusiasum for the game that made America...,but is it really all that great? Of course it is, but I have to critique. The playoffs imo are really short, due to the best out of 3 rounds, and the limited teams that play in the playoffs. It is incredibly boring to watch during the regular season, and if you look at the stands in half the stadiums, there are no people sitting or standing. But I have to hand it you baseball fanatics, it sure does get loud.
Anyways, I ain't really argueing anything. But if you look at a great sport like hockey-the canadian sport, there is so much more determination and team effort than your avg baseball team (yet another fruitless opinion by me). In hockey, the playoffs are so much longer, making the effort seem so much more and valuable, when a team wins the holy grail-the beautiful stanley cup; now you got to admit that cup is a beaut. So...,what do you think?
To add some more fruitless statements: in hockey, over 70 games are played each year in the regular season; there are 16 teams in the playoffs; each year there are four rounds in the playoffs, with a maximum of 28 games played in a best out of 7 game format. In hockey, there is constant play; hitting-including fights that occur almost every game; overtimes can last the whole night; blablabla...
This is just for fun, so post away.
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I pick Basketball cause I r good at it <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
so its not a choice..
oh btw: ROLL TIDE!
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by Thomas Boswell (1987)
# Reasons Why
1 Bands.
2 Half time with bands.
3 Cheerleaders at half time with bands.
4 Up With People singing "The Impossible Dream" during a Blue Angels flyover at half time with bands.
5 Baseball has fans in Wrigley Field singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" at the seventh-inning stretch.
6 Baseball has Blue Moon, Catfish, Spaceman and The Sugar Bear. Football has Lester the Molester, Too Mean and The Assassin.
7 All XX Super Bowls haven't produced as much drama as the last World Series.
8 All XX Super Bowls haven't produced as many classic games as either pennant playoff did this year.
9 Baseball has a bullpen coach blowing bubble gum with his cap turned around backward while leaning on a fungo bat; football has a defensive coordinator in a satin jacket with a headset and a clipboard.
10 The Redskins have 13 assistant coaches, five equipment managers, three trainers, two assistant GMs but, for 14 games, nobody who could kick an extra point.
11 Football players and coaches don't know how to bait a ref, much less jump up and down and scream in his face. Baseball players know how to argue with umps; baseball managers even kick dirt on them. Earl Weaver steals third base and won't give it back; Tom Landry folds his arms.
12 Vince Lombardi was never ashamed that he said, "Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing."
13 Football coaches talk about character, gut checks, intensity and reckless abandon. Tommy Lasorda said, "Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away."
14 Big league baseball players chew tobacco. Pro football linemen chew on each other.
15 Before a baseball game, there are two hours of batting practice. Before a football game, there's a two-hour traffic jam.
16 A crowd of 30,000 in a stadium built for 55,501 has a lot more fun than a crowd of 55,501 in the same stadium.
17 No one has ever actually reached the end of the restroom line at an NFL game.
18 Nine innings means 18 chances at the hot dog line. Two halves means B.Y.O. or go hungry.
19 Pro football players have breasts. Many NFLers are so freakishly overdeveloped, due to steroids, that they look like circus geeks. Baseball players seem like normal fit folks. Fans should be thankful they don't have to look at NFL teams in bathing suits.
20 Eighty degrees, a cold beer and a short-sleeve shirt is better than 30 degrees, a hip flask and six layers of clothes under a lap blanket. Take your pick: suntan or frostbite.
21 Having 162 games a year is 10.125 times as good as having 16.
22 If you miss your favorite NFL team's game, you have to wait a week. In baseball, you wait a day.
23 Everything George Carlin said in his famous monologue is right on. In football you blitz, bomb, spear, shiver, march and score. In baseball, you wait for a walk, take your stretch, toe the rubber, tap your spikes, play ball and run home.
24 Marianne Moore loved Christy Mathewson. No woman of quality has ever preferred football to baseball.
25 More good baseball books appear in a single year than have been written about football in the past 50 years. The best football writers, like Dan Jenkins, have the good sense to write about something else most of the time.
26 The best football announcer ever was Howard Cosell.
27 The worst baseball announcer ever was Howard Cosell.
28 All gridirons are identical; football coaches never have to meet to go over the ground rules. But the best baseball parks are unique.
29 Every outdoor park ever built primarily for baseball has been pretty. Every stadium built with pro football in mind has been ugly (except Arrowhead).
30 The coin flip at the beginning of football games is idiotic. Home teams should always kick off and pick a goal to defend. In baseball, the visitor bats first (courtesy), while the host bats last (for drama). The football visitor should get the first chance to score, while the home team should have the dramatic advantage of receiving the second-half kickoff.
31 Baseball is harder. In the last 25 years, only one player, Vince Coleman, has been cut from the NFL and then become a success in the majors. From Tom Brown in 1963 (Senators to Packers) to Jay Schroeder (Jays to Redskins), baseball flops have become NFL standouts.
32 Face masks. Right away we've got a clue something might be wrong. A guy can go 80 mph on a Harley without a helmet, much less a face mask.
33 Faces are better than helmets. Think of all the players in the NFL (excluding Redskins) whom you'd recognize on the street. Now eliminate the quarterbacks. Not many left, are there? Now think of all the baseball players whose faces you know, just from the last Series.
34 The NFL has — how can we say this? — a few borderline godfathers. Baseball has almost no mobsters or suspicious types among its owners. Pete Rozelle isn't as picky as Bowie Kuhn, who for 15 years considered "integrity of the game" to be one of his key functions and who gave the cold shoulder to the shady money guys.
35 Football has Tank and Mean Joe. Baseball has The Human Rain Delay and Charlie Hustle.
36 In football, it's team first, individual second — if at all. A Rich Milot and a Curtis Jordan can play 10 years — but when would we ever have time to study them alone for just one game? Could we mimic their gestures, their tics, their habits? A baseball player is an individual first, then part of a team second. You can study him at length and at leisure in the batter's box or on the mound. On defense, when the batted ball seeks him, so do our eyes.
37 Baseball statistics open a world to us. Football statistics are virtually useless or, worse, misleading. For instance, the NFL quarterback-ranking system is a joke. Nobody understands it or can justify it. The old average-gain-per- attempt rankings were just as good.
38 What kind of dim-bulb sport would rank pass receivers by number of catches instead of by number of yards? Only in football would a runner with 1,100 yards on 300 carries be rated ahead of a back with 1,000 yards on 200 carries. Does baseball give its silver bat to the player with the most hits or with the highest average?
39 If you use NFL team statistics as a betting tool, you go broke. Only wins and losses, points and points against and turnovers are worth a damn.
40 Baseball has one designated hitter. In football, everybody is a designated something. No one plays the whole game anymore. Football worships the specialists. Baseball worships the generalists.
41 The tense closing seconds of crucial baseball games are decided by distinctive relief pitchers like Bruce Sutter, Rollie Fingers or Goose Gossage. Vital NFL games are decided by helmeted gentlemen who come on for 10 seconds, kick sideways, spend the rest of the game keeping their precious foot warm on the sidelines and aren't aware of the subtleties of the game. Half of them, in Alex Karras' words, run off the field chirping, "I kick a touchdown."
42 Football gave us The Hammer. Baseball gave us The Fudge Hammer.
43 How can you respect a game that uses only the point after touchdown and completely ignores the option of a two-point conversion, which would make the end of football games much more exciting.
44 Wild cards. If baseball can stick with four divisional champs out of 26 teams, why does the NFL need to invite 10 of its 28 to the prom? Could it be that football isn't terribly interesting unless your team can still "win it all"?
45 The entire NFL playoff system is a fraud. Go on, explain with a straight face why the Chiefs (10-6) were in the playoffs but the Seahawks (10-6) were not. There is no real reason. Seattle was simply left out for convenience. When baseball tried the comparably bogus split-season fiasco with half-season champions in 1981, fans almost rioted.
46 Parity scheduling. How can the NFL defend the fairness of deliberately giving easier schedules to weaker teams and harder schedules to better teams? Just to generate artificially improved competition? When a weak team with a patsy schedule goes 10-6, while a strong defending division champ misses the playoffs at 9-7, nobody says boo. Baseball would have open revolt at such a nauseatingly cynical system.
47 Baseball has no penalty for pass interference. (This in itself is almost enough to declare baseball the better game.) In football, offsides is five yards, holding is 10 yards, a personal foul is 15 yards. But interference: maybe 50 yards.
48 Nobody on earth really knows what pass interference is. Part judgment, part acting, mostly accident.
49 Baseball has no penalties at all. A home run is a home run. You cheer. In football, on a score, you look for flags. If there's one, who's it on? When can we cheer? Football acts can all be repealed. Baseball acts stand forever.
50 Instant replays. Just when we thought there couldn't be anything worse than penalties, we get instant replays of penalties. Talk about a bad joke. Now any play, even one with no flags, can be called back. Even a flag itself can, after five minutes of boring delay, be nullified. NFL time has entered the Twilight Zone. Nothing is real; everything is hypothetical.
51 Football has Hacksaw. Baseball has Steady Eddie and The Candy Man.
52 The NFL's style of play has been stagnant for decades, predictable. Turn on any NFL game and that's just what it could be -- any NFL game. Teams seem interchangeable. Even the wishbone is too radical. Baseball teams' styles are often determined by their personnel and even their parks.
53 Football fans tailgate before the big game. No baseball fan would have a picnic in a parking lot.
54 At a football game, you almost never leave saying, "I never saw a play like that before." At a baseball game, there's almost always some new wrinkle.
55 Beneath the NFL's infinite sameness lies infinite variety. But we aren't privy to it. So what if football is totally explicable and fascinating to Dan Marino as he tries to decide whether to audible to a quick trap? From the stands, we don't know one-thousandth of what's required to grasp a pro football game. If an NFL coach has to say, "I won't know until I see the films," then how out-in-the-cold does that leave the fan?
56 While football is the most closed of games, baseball is the most open. A fan with a score card, a modest knowledge of the teams and a knack for paying attention has all he needs to watch a game with sophistication.
57 NFL refs are weekend warriors, pulled from other jobs to moonlight; as a group, they're barely competent. That's really why the NFL turned to instant replays. Now, old fogies upstairs can't even get the make-over calls right. Baseball umps work 10 years in the minors and know what they are doing. Replays show how good they are. If Don Denkinger screws up in a split second of Series tension, it's instant lore.
58 Too many of the best NFL teams represent unpalatable values. The Bears are head-thumping braggarts. The Raiders have long been scofflaw pirates. The Cowboys glorify the heartless corporate approach to football.
59 Football has the Refrigerator. Baseball has Puff the Magic Dragon, The Wizard of Oz, Tom Terrific, Big Doggy, Kitty Kaat and Oil Can.
60 Football is impossible to watch. Admit it: The human head is at least two eyes shy for watching the forward pass. Do you watch the five eligible receivers? Or the quarterback and the pass rush? If you keep your eye on the ball, you never know who got open or how. If you watch the receivers . . . well, nobody watches the receivers. On TV, you don't even know how many receivers have gone out for a pass.
61 The NFL keeps changing the most basic rules. Most blocking now would have been illegal use of the hands in Jim Parker's time. How do we compare eras when the sport never stays the same? Pretty soon, intentional grounding will be legalized to protect quarterbacks.
62 In the NFL, you can't tell the players without an Intensive Care Unit report. Players get broken apart so fast we have no time to build up allegiances to stars. Three-quarters of the NFL's starting quarterbacks are in their first four years in the league. Is it because the new breed is better? Or because the old breed is already lame? A top baseball player lasts 15 to 20 years. We know him like an old friend.
63 The baseball Hall of Fame is in Cooperstown, N.Y., beside James Fenimore Cooper's Lake Glimmerglass; the football Hall of Fame is in Canton, Ohio, beside the freeway.
64 Baseball means Spring's Here. Football means Winter's Coming.
65 Best book for a lifetime on a desert island: The Baseball Encyclopedia.
66 Baseball's record on race relations is poor. But football's is much worse. Is it possible that the NFL still has NEVER had a black head coach? And why is a black quarterback still as rare as a bilingual woodpecker?
67 Baseball has a drug problem comparable to society's. Pro football has a range of substance-abuse problems comparable only to itself. And, perhaps, The Hells Angels'.
68 Baseball enriches language and imagination at almost every point of contact. As John Lardner put it, "Babe Herman did not triple into a triple play, but he did double into a double play, which is the next best thing."
69 Who's on First?
70 Without baseball, there'd have been no Fenway Park. Without football, there'd have been no artificial turf.
71 A typical baseball game has nine runs, more than 250 pitches and about 80 completed plays — hits, walks, outs — in 2½ hours. A typical football game has about five touchdowns, a couple of field goals and fewer than 150 plays spread over three hours. Of those plays, perhaps 20 or 25 result in a gain or loss of more than 10 yards. Baseball has more scoring plays, more serious scoring threats and more meaningful action plays.
72 Baseball has no clock. Yes, you were waiting for that. The comeback, from three or more scores behind, is far more common in baseball than football.
73 The majority of players on a football field in any game are lost and unaccountable in the middle of pileups. Confusion hides a multitude of sins. Every baseball player's performance and contribution are measured and recorded in every game.
74 Some San Francisco linemen now wear dark plexiglass visors inside their face masks -- even at night. "And in the third round, out of Empire U., the 49ers would like to pick Darth Vader."
75 Someday, just once, could we have a punt without a penalty?
76 End-zone spikes. Sack dances. Or, in Dexter Manley's case, "holding flag" dances.
77 Unbelievably stupid rules. For example, if the two-minute warning passes, any play that begins even a split second thereafter is nullified. Even, as happened in this season's Washington-San Francisco game, when it's the decisive play of the entire game. And even when, as also happened in that game, not one of the 22 players on the field is aware that the two-minute mark has passed. The Skins stopped the 49ers on fourth down to save that game. They exulted; the 49ers started off the field. Then the refs said, "Play the down continued on page 47 over." Absolutely unbelievable.
78 In baseball, fans catch foul balls. In football, they raise a net so you can't even catch an extra point.
79 Nothing in baseball is as boring as the four hours of ABC's "Monday Night Football."
80 Blowhard coach Buddy Ryan, who gave himself a grade of A+ for his handling of the Eagles. "I didn't make any mistakes," he explained. His 5-10-1 team was 7-9 the year before he came.
81 Football players, somewhere back in their phylogenic development, learned how to talk like football coaches. ("Our goals this week were to contain Dickerson and control the line of scrimmage.") Baseball players say things like, "This pitcher's so bad that when he comes in, the grounds crew drags the warning track."
82 Football coaches walk across the field after the game and pretend to congratulate the opposing coach. Baseball managers head right for the beer.
83 The best ever in each sport - Babe Ruth and Jim Brown -- each represents egocentric excess. But Ruth never threw a woman out a window.
84 Quarterbacks have to ask the crowd to quiet down. Pitchers never do.
85 Baseball nicknames go on forever - because we feel we know so many players intimately. Football monikers run out fast. We just don't know that many of them as people.
86 Baseball measures a gift for dailiness.
87 Football has two weeks of hype before the Super Bowl. Baseball takes about two days off before the World Series.
88 Football, because of its self-importance, minimizes a sense of humor. Baseball cultivates one. Knowing you'll lose at least 60 games every season makes self-deprecation a survival tool. As Casey Stengel said to his barber, "Don't cut my throat. I may want to do that myself later."
89 Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and control; too much of either is fatal.
90 Football's real problem is not that it glorifies violence, though it does, but that it offers no successful alternative to violence. In baseball, there is a choice of methods: the change-up or the knuckleball, the bunt or the hit-and-run.
91 Baseball is vastly better in person than on TV. Only when you're in the ballpark can the eye grasp and interconnect the game's great distances. Will the wind blow that long fly just over the fence? Will the relay throw nail the runner trying to score from second on a double in the alley? Who's warming up in the bullpen? Where is the defense shading this hitter? Did the base stealer get a good jump? The eye flicks back and forth and captures everything that is necessary. As for replays, most parks have them. Football is better on TV. At least, you don't need binoculars. And you've got your replays.
92 Turning the car radio dial on a summer night.
93 George Steinbrenner learned his baseball methods as a football coach.
94 You'll never see a woman in a fur coat at a baseball game.
95 You'll never see a man in a fur coat at a baseball game.
96 A six-month pennant race. Football has nothing like it.
97 In football, nobody says, "Let's play two!"
98 When a baseball player gets knocked out, he goes to the showers. When a football player gets knocked out, he goes to get X-rayed.
99 Most of all, baseball is better than football because spring training is less than a month away
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AS you could probably guess, I had to go to the bar last saturday to drown my sorrows........ <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
(and yes, that is where I go to college)
And, if anybody asks about my NFL preference (please don't laugh)
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Anyway, I stopped liking baseball after the strike all those years ago, and I never really got into basketball(I hate basketball to be honest), and soccer I used to play but could never get into watching....
Basketball is boring in my opinion, almost as boring as (dare I say it?)...
NASCAR!!
That said, that's my favorite sport, because I was raised on it.
Baseball I must admit I find boring (but hey, most Yanks would be bored to death with cricket I would imagine), Gridiron I plain don't understand (despite having being told how it works), basketball has no real appeal for me (again, I find it boring) and soccer, well it has it's moments I will admit, but I prefer the style of union. Cricket is for when I want to sit back and be lazy <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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Lol <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Anyway, hockey wins hands down. I'm sure all of these four games are great if you just get in but ice hockey just does it for me.
out of the three, I would say football, but soccer is much more popular overall in the world
The reason I like football is because it is a true team game. Every player has his own importance, but even if one player is insanely good, it doesn't make a mote of difference without his teammates. I like that. As opposed to baseball or basketball (or hockey for that matter) where a single good player can carry his team to victory.
Soccer isn't quite the same thing, it's very easy to lose the ball without teamwork, etc. I just like soccer a lot.
theres a big tournament on TV over here every year (marchish) which is too cool...
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->And for those of you that find baseball boring... go drink your sunny D. Not everything has to be 22 hyperactive midgets chasing a small inflated skin around a field and scoring once a game. Nor 10 guys that are in their sport because they are very tall scoring every 10 seconds with pathetically easy slam dunks. Nor 22 guys that are in their sport because they are very fat and are moving the ball for an average of 3 yards and scoring maybe 1 touchdown and endless retarded free kicks. Nor guys chasing a black piece of plastic around a frozen pond and scoring maybe 2 times a game and mostly just punching each other while trying to keep from falling over and looking like a retarded clowns. Nor 2 chicks hitting a ball back and forth and back and forth and back and forth in an endless repetition that gives normal people a seisure just to look at it.
Not that I am bitter.
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Try swinging a round bat at a round ball which is curving 3 feet and going 98 miles an hour from only 65 feet away. That's why you're considered a very successful baseball player when you fail 2/3rds of the time. Then do it in front of 65,000 fans and 50,000,000 viewers and see how your mental pressure feels.
As for true disciplines:
<li> Kumite (duelling) involves acting and simultaneously reacting to an effectively unlimited amount of possible attack or defense moves, ground control (trying to stay within the ring), improvising tactics and embedding it those into the pre-planned strategy <i>at any given second of the fight</i>.
<li> Kata, the display of learned combinations of moves, often with multiple participants, requires concentration, memory, timing, and complete control over ones body to achieve the necessary excellence in the techniques.
Now sorry, but no matter how difficult hitting a bit of leather going at high speed may be, it's by far not as complex <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
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Oh and for agressive sports: cat fight in mud aka mud wrestling.
<li> Kata, the display of learned combinations of moves, often with multiple participants, requires concentration, memory, timing, and complete control over ones body to achieve the necessary excellence in the techniques.
Now sorry, but no matter how difficult hitting a bit of leather going at high speed may be, it's by far not as complex <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
1. Sounds like all forms of sword fighting, including the ultimate in nancy boy wussiness, fencing. You lose.
2. Sounds like professional wrestling with tag teams or perhaps a steel cage match. You lose.
3. Dread, you described cricket, not baseball. You lose.
MonsE: 1
You: negative 50
Yeah, well, to me, Baseball sounds like Criquet, so might I referr you to your own point three? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
Also, as for sword fighting, comparing arts like Kendo to fencing should earn you a Wakizashi in the liver.
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This comparision, I can't refute completely. It's true, Kata performances are like pro-wrestling, only without the stupid 'stars', the ridiculous costumes, the stuntmen, the faked pain, and the corrupt business around it, but with style, style, style, and, of course, style. Martial arts choreographing as we know it from the movies developed out of Kata displays, and having seen a few of the true pros in action, it shows.
[edit: But, if I had to choose one of them I'd choose hockey. After going to several base ball games, several foot ball games, and being in several soccer games, I'd much rather go to Yost and watch the Wolverines beat up some other team while the students scream for blood.]
Cricket:
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Baseball:
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See? They are similiar in a way; they are both full of retards and it hurts to watch both. However the difference apparently is that cricket-retards wear yellow uniforms.
Now that we've gotten that out of the way, hockey still owns all the other sports(excluding mud wrestling). Intense game with enough goals to keep it interesting and yet rewarding. Variety of tactics and celebration of individuality among the team effort. Kind of like NS <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Excellent, so you admit that your favorite sport is basically pro wrestling. We stand in awe of your sport. Snicker. As for your sword fighting, it's silly and dumb and no one cares. Non-team sports (Tennis, Golf, pretending to stab people with blunt swords, etc.) are strictly for over-rich wankers and do not enter into the region of true sports godliness. Neener.
Baseball sounds like cricket the same way sex with an otter sounds like sex with Liz Hurley. Only the most passing resemblance. Nevermind that Cricket, not Soccer, is the most popular sport in the world. Welcome to 1+ billion Indians who play nothing but.
Baseball > all. If you actually knew anything about it, you would agree. But you are too busy waving a big placard saying 'THE UNDERTAKER WILL PUT HULK HOGAN IN HIS GRAVE!!!' and painting your face to match the underpants of a big sweaty man.
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Hockey allows you to have tie games. That automatically makes it less than baseball. The fact that it's mostly skating back and forth and nothing actually happening just sweetens the pot of making it like all Winter Olympics sports - nothing but a big list of reasons not to visit scandanavia. After you invented the 2-man Luge, it was all down hill from there (rimshot).
Hockey allows you to have tie games. That automatically makes it less than baseball. The fact that it's mostly skating back and forth and nothing actually happening just sweetens the pot of making it like all Winter Olympics sports - nothing but a big list of reasons not to visit scandanavia. After you invented the 2-man Luge, it was all down hill from there (rimshot). <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
There actually happens a lot while they skate back and forth. The interesting part is that you never know what next is going to happen. We might see games with 1 or 10 goals. There's the magic. Also while tie games might be sometimes annoying, that doesn't happen too often. In major games at least. And don't say baseball doesn't have it's annoying parts...like losing, or why are you so wroked up now? <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
Also spelling Scandinavia right might help you next time you're planning a trip in Europe. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
*writes down skateboarding on the long list of sports