Anyone watching?!!??!! 😀
Nope, what ballgame?
Ball Game - ALCS
Rangers VS. Yanks!! What a game tonight!!! The underdogs are WINNING!! :hi5:
Ball Game - ALCS
Oh, yay!
Ball Game - ALCS - Roadhand??
I'm surprised Roadhand hasn't piped in yet!! He's probably on the edge of his seat watching, though. 😉
Ball Game - ALCS - Roadhand??
Who cares? Two corporations with their employees "playing" a contrived "game" that involves wooden sticks, a small hard ball and running around in circles.
And what's with the X-team Nation stuff I see. Now some corporation with physical outlier-type guys is a Nation? I don't get that.
Organized American Sports makes no sense to me; why would anyone care about a little ball and where it goes.
Now downhill skiing makes sense. See who can get from point A to point B the fastest. I can kind of get that; getting somewhere fast could actually be useful. Plus it isn't as boring as watching the grass grow.
Dave
I was just joshing Angel. I was rooting for the Giants last night like the fair-weather fan that I am and I'll be watching the game tomorrow hoping that they go to the World Series for some reason.
Now downhill skiing would be an interesting competition if it wasn't decided by like millionths of seconds. If they had to go from Desolation Wilderness to Placerville in the dead of winter, there might be a little separation in the times but it seems a little arbitrary who wins among the skiers that actually finish the run without falling down or hitting a flag thingy.
Hey Steve
sometimes there's like 500 millionths of a second between the Gold and 50th place so quit beating up my favorite sport.
The jumpers are the guys with cojones; I'd like to see Mike Jordon do that. Big deal he stuffed a big orange beach ball through a steel hoop. Now flying through the air is a real sport!
Hey Dave
Oh, I agree it's neat to watch as long as you don't make me watch the figure skating too, but at that level it just seems like the split second between the starting signal and their pushoff shouldn't be the difference between victory and defeat. Maybe you don't care about the winning and losing thing but that's what the coverage makes it seem like it's all about and I'm sure that is what it's all about to the participants.
A baseball game on TV, plodding as it might be, has a lot of drama to it. You see the pitchers' and batters' faces close up as they are doing what they have trained all their lives to do: throw the little ball and hit the little ball. Both tasks are absolutely impossible to do perfectly.
Skiiers
I like watching those skiing guys, actually. Especially the ones that do the flips and tricks!! And those ones that do that thing where they ski down that longgggggggggg ass hill with no poles and "fly" through the air for a bit. Just amazing at how they can do that and not kill themselves!!!
As for baseball, well.... My story is too long to type here but the short of it is when I got left out of going to a Dodger baseball game because I was a "girl", I vowed to ALWAYS root for the opposing team that the Dodgers were playing (and those guys in my family went to see that day) in 1980. I really didn't like baseball but I turned on the TV to find out what team it was and got hooked; the team I was watching was actually fun to watch!! And it just so happened it was the Cardinals and I've been a fan since, whether they've been champs or in a slump. And damn proud of it!!! 🙂
Skiiers
American professional sports seems all contrived and artificial to me. But I never was much of a fan. I admit to liking football a little bit because it's kind of like a modern version of gladiators, a war so to speak.
Steve
Franz Klamer bombing the downhill course in 1976; that was exciting.
Skiiers
> American professional sports seems all contrived and artificial to me. But I never was much of a fan. I admit to liking football a little bit because it's kind of like a modern version of gladiators, a war so to speak.
One thing is for sure...all of them are WAY overpaid!! :-O
Skiiers
The average football player is really not overpaid given their average career is less than five years and they usually finish their career with terrible debilitating injuries. We hear about the big stars like Favre but most of them are just lowly troopers (linemen).
If football did not exist today and someone invented this new high school sport that involves kids running into each other at full speed causing life long damage to their joints and soft tissues of course we would say that someone is nuts! No way we can have such a "sport" in our schools. But since it's traditional and been around a long time then it's not only OK but considered essential.
and I'm tolerant...
my employee hates all sports with a passion.
If a sports story comes on the truck radio he turns it off.
I'm just not wired for two big things I guess, religion and sports. I am an advanced downhill skier and I like to hike and ride my bicycle but most traditional team sports baffle me.
and I'm tolerant...
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and I'm tolerant...
hehehehe nice video there, Roadie. 🙂
and I'm tolerant...
:good:
Why Doesn't MIT Have a Football Team?
I don't know, but there has got to be a joke there some where;-)
The point is, the guys that
> are running into each other at full speed causing life long damage to their joints and soft tissues
Are going to do that, or something similar, whether we like it or not and they are more physically capable than the average MIT student, so what is wrong with having a structured venue for them to develop and excel at what they like to do?
Why Doesn't MIT Have a Football Team?
So it is your contention that without football, high school and college men would just randomly run into each other as hard as possible anyway?
That doesn't seem very likely to me but it could be I guess.
I just think if Football didn't exist and the athletic department was having a brainstorming session on how to make more money through ticket sales it is unlikely that a sport designed like Football would be given serious consideration in this day and age.
