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The Layonara Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Lalaith Va'lash on October 07, 2005, 04:07:00 PM
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// EEeeep!!?! Boston is down 3-4 in the 8th... if they don't win this they will be out of the post season!!
*coughs* oh.. um. Sorry to those at the Leilon Arms for Kali's card readings... she will be a bit late tonight.. But will be there soon...
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//My first round AL picks were the Sox and the Angles... have the Braves and Cards to take the NL... I'm thinking the Sox and the Braves will make it to the big one though, and my money's on the Braves to take it all... *coughs* as you were!//
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People still play baseball?
Vyris prepares for sunday, when REAL sports are on.
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Vyris - 10/7/2005 9:34 PM
People still play baseball?
Vyris prepares for sunday, when REAL sports are on.
Amen to that!
*thumbs nose at Lalaith and her baseball*
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Sports? What's sports? :)
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ZeroVega - 10/7/2005 6:37 PM
//My first round AL picks were the Sox and the Angles... have the Braves and Cards to take the NL... I'm thinking the Sox and the Braves will make it to the big one though, and my money's on the Braves to take it all... *coughs* as you were!//
I'm guessing you mean the white sox. Bosox are sadly, out of the picture now.
Oh, and...
Baseball's got tradition man. Football's only got fat guys that run into each other really hard... kinda like a frat party but with fake turf and referees :P
-TV
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*crys* my poor Red Sox..
Edit: *thumbs nose back at Regnus* Oh.. and Owen better be careful now!
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Talan Va'lash - 10/7/2005 11:40 PM ZeroVega - 10/7/2005 6:37 PM //My first round AL picks were the Sox and the Angles... have the Braves and Cards to take the NL... I'm thinking the Sox and the Braves will make it to the big one though, and my money's on the Braves to take it all... *coughs* as you were!//
I'm guessing you mean the white sox. Bosox are sadly, out of the picture now. Oh, and... Baseball's got tradition man. Football's only got fat guys that run into each other really hard... kinda like a frat party but with fake turf and referees :P -TV
Sadly, baseball's also got 'roids now too, so we have unnaturally big guys who throw objects at each other really hard....and run around in a circle while spitting and scratching.
*coughs* Go Cardinals!!! *coughs*
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Talan Va'lash - 10/7/2005 10:40 PM
Oh, and...
Baseball's got tradition man. Football's only got fat guys that run into each other really hard... kinda like a frat party but with fake turf and referees :P
-TV
All tradition in baseball died with player strikes, salary caps, steriod fueled home-run contests and Pay-Rod.
As far as football players go, being fat frat boys... You must be concentrating on the offensive line :)
I am of the opinion that it takes more skill to catch a football while running full speed knowing full well some 200+ lbs. linebacker is about two steps away from slamming into you, fully intending to do you bodily harm.
Or to throw said ball reliably and accurately to a person running as fast as they can, intending to throw it to a place where that said running man is the only one who will be able to get it, while 7+ 200+ lbs. men are running at you, fully intending to do you bodily harm while all you have to defend you is a bunch of fat frat boys who can't use thier hands to grab on and hold them back.
Or to kick a ball 40+ yards to an area about 15' wide, 12' off the ground, while 12 200+ lbs men run at you, fully intending to do you bodily harm, again, you're defense being those fat frat boys.
Baseball, you get three tries to swing a stick at a ball. Theres a reason Baseball has a seven inning stretch, it's called tedium.
Vyris
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*reads Vyris's response to Talan*
Yeah! What Vyris said.
*reads Lal's post*
Pbbbbtt!! Owen's always careful around you. Especially since you torment him to no end :)
I could commit the ultimate sin and say Go Ya... oh I better not do that. Owen would come to an untimely end.
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Yeah, football, particulary the NFL, blows away any other sport. And even though I'm a Green Bay fan (they're 0-4), I'll still be watching them every Sunday.
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Vyris - 10/8/2005 12:20 AM
Baseball, you get three tries to swing a stick at a ball.
Keep in mind that that ball is going faster than you are legally allowed to drive your automobile.
But, yeah... the 90's were a bad decade for baseball.
-TV
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College football > NFL anyday. :)
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Dorganath - 10/8/2005 8:46 AM
College football > NFL anyday. :)
Want to catch those fat frat boys before they go pro huh Dorganath?
I like college football to, everything except the bowl games, which seem to have no bearing on who is actually better, more likely it seems to be whatever two teams will fill a stadium and attract a television audience for the Tostitos fiesta bowl, or the AIG insurance bowl or whatever silly corperate sponsor they have bowl.
Vyris
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Vyris - 10/8/2005 9:55 AM Dorganath - 10/8/2005 8:46 AM College football > NFL anyday. :)
Want to catch those fat frat boys before they go pro huh Dorganath? I like college football to, everything except the bowl games, which seem to have no bearing on who is actually better, more likely it seems to be whatever two teams will fill a stadium and attract a television audience for the Tostitos fiesta bowl, or the AIG insurance bowl or whatever silly corperate sponsor they have bowl. Vyris
*glares at Vyris a moment*
Meh...I could care less about the frat boys. I just find it to be more interesting. The guys in the NFL are all so friggin' huge that they seem to use pure force over real strategy more often than not. That holds no appeal to me. College teems don't seem to have as many walls-with-legs playing, so they have to make up for it in other ways...you know, like strategy and stuff. That's just my half-baked opinion of course....I'd rather not get into a instance-by-instance debate on how the NFL has strategies that rival D-Day....because honestly, I just don't care that much.
In college, I had student tickets to every home game and sat in the card cheering section. What a hoot that was! I even came back early once over Thanksgiving break to go sit outside on a metal bench in a half-emply stadium on a cloudy day with near freezing temperatures, spitting snow and um...yeah...It was cold. But still great fun.
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Yeah, roids did ruin baseball and the strike sucked big time but I dunno, there's just something about a 100+ year old sport that makes it exciting.
Fast balls that scream 90-100mph. Sliders that break up to two feet... curve balls that break a lot... knuckleballs that do who knows what... and you ONLY have three tries to hit it with a stick...
I agree, football's great. TO's got skill however much I don't like his personality. The Mannings and Farve are awsome... you know they've got more skill than most of the other QBs in all the NFL, and I'm sure tackling someone as a 200-300lb guy does take some skill too, both sports however aren't ones that can be picked up at any time. They're lifetime commitments...
Why do you think Michael Jordan sucked so much at baseball? Cause he hadn't played since he was in highschool maybe? It's my opinion that football's got more action, baseball takes more talent to play, football takes more practice to play, football's faster, but baseball's got the history. The Pro's and Con's are big on both sides but it doesn't change the fact that Baseball is the greatest sport in America!
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Dorganath - 10/8/2005 9:09 AM
*glares at Vyris a moment*
Meh...I could care less about the frat boys. I just find it to be more interesting. The guys in the NFL are all so friggin' huge that they seem to use pure force over real strategy more often than not. That holds no appeal to me. College teems don't seem to have as many walls-with-legs playing, so they have to make up for it in other ways...you know, like strategy and stuff. That's just my half-baked opinion of course....I'd rather not get into a instance-by-instance debate on how the NFL has strategies that rival D-Day....because honestly, I just don't care that much.
In college, I had student tickets to every home game and sat in the card cheering section. What a hoot that was! I even came back early once over Thanksgiving break to go sit outside on a metal bench in a half-emply stadium on a cloudy day with near freezing temperatures, spitting snow and um...yeah...It was cold. But still great fun.
I have to say I agree on that level, when you are there, cheering, its 10 degrees, your hotdog freezes if you don't eat it on the way back to your seat, and you cheer for your team, not a player. Which I think is the problem with a lot of pro sports, the attention is on the individual performance of a very few, rather than the TEAM. Anyway, I'm not going to go into NFL strategy either, any more than to say theres a reason offensive and defensive coordinators make good money :) Vyris
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ZeroVega - 10/8/2005 10:08 AM Yeah, roids did ruin baseball and the strike sucked big time but I dunno, there's just something about a 100+ year old sport that makes it exciting.
Fast balls that scream 90-100mph. Sliders that break up to two feet... curve balls that break a lot... knuckleballs that do who knows what... and you ONLY have three tries to hit it with a stick...
I agree, football's great. TO's got skill however much I don't like his personality. The Mannings and Farve are awsome... you know they've got more skill than most of the other QBs in all the NFL, and I'm sure tackling someone as a 200-300lb guy does take some skill too, both sports however aren't ones that can be picked up at any time. They're lifetime commitments...
Why do you think Michael Jordan sucked so much at baseball? Cause he hadn't played since he was in highschool maybe? It's my opinion that football's got more action, baseball takes more talent to play, football takes more practice to play, football's faster, but baseball's got the history. The Pro's and Con's are big on both sides but it doesn't change the fact that Baseball is the greatest sport in America!
I agree with almost everything you said. And you're entitled to your opinion :) I say we all start watching lacrosse, it's fast paced, can be hard-hitting and involves balls and sticks, what more could you want? Vyris
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Sorry, but I think Hockey deserves first priority. I think most of the Canadians here will agree, it deserves a few more fans. Besides, a rubber puck flying at 120mph a golie (close to a catcher) mucho slaming, wooden sticks, and fist fights... what more could you want?! (Plus the ice is like, right there if you get a black eye or whacked with a puck)
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regnus - 10/8/2005 3:36 AM *reads Vyris's response to Talan* Yeah! What Vyris said.
*reads Lal's post* Pbbbbtt!! Owen's always careful around you. Especially since you torment him to no end :) I could commit the ultimate sin and say Go Ya... oh I better not do that. Owen would come to an untimely end.
Yankees? YANKEES? Really now Regnus.. *smirks* You remeber that one time.. when Lalaith Accidentally killed Owen, when he got a bit close to her trap?
*smiles* Next time he is getting pushed! *winks*
Oh, and to the football fans.. I like football too. *smiles* Never quite understood the game..
But when back in high school our marching band got to play the half time show at the Buffalo Bills game, and the players let me and the other dancers stand with them by this big salamader heater thing they had, (since it was freeeeezing while we were waiting to go on..) I decided it wasn't such a bad game. *hehe*
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Yeah I lived in Buffalo for three years, went to a few Bills games in my time there. The Fans and Players (as I know them) are good people. Hehe, at this one game, we got there two hours early to have a look around... well there were all these Bills fans tail gating and we got invited over to join almost every one. Just nice people... very strange and uncharacteristic of NY.
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When I was seven-ish My father took me back to Massechusets to visit his family, He lived in a little town named Millis, Mass. which is a reletively short drive to Boston, etc.
Anyway, while there My father took me to an exhibition game between the patriots and the steelers, back when the Pats played on what seemed to be an old highschool football field with more bleachers :) Anyway, my Dad is a HUGE pats fan, so naturally I had to cheer for the steelers.
One of my fathers highschool buddies worked on the staff for the patriots (thats how we got tickets) And seeing us out there he asked and got us locker room passes, after the game I went to the steelers locker room, and have a picture on my computer desk of little me, sitting on "Mean" Joe Green's knee, holding a football that he signed for me. That was such a blast, and probably the reason I am such a football fan.
Vyris
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Vyris - 10/8/2005 1:20 PM
When I was seven-ish My father took me back to Massechusets to visit his family, He lived in a little town named Millis, Mass. which is a reletively short drive to Boston, etc.
Anyway, while there My father took me to an exhibition game between the patriots and the steelers, back when the Pats played on what seemed to be an old highschool football field with more bleachers :) Anyway, my Dad is a HUGE pats fan, so naturally I had to cheer for the steelers.
One of my fathers highschool buddies worked on the staff for the patriots (thats how we got tickets) And seeing us out there he asked and got us locker room passes, after the game I went to the steelers locker room, and have a picture on my computer desk of little me, sitting on "Mean" Joe Green's knee, holding a football that he signed for me. That was such a blast, and probably the reason I am such a football fan.
Vyris
*is super jealous of Vyris*
A bunch of Steelers players came here to good old Ohio for some charity basketball game this summer. I was so mad because I had to work and couldnt make it. I am going to Pittsburgh in a month or so though so who knows who I may run into.
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*shrugs to it all*. Yup red sox lost, not that I have time to even watch TV now a days. Last year was insane in Boston anyhow. My neighbors are still looking for whoever flipped their car over. Anywho, for those who sit around and watch sports all day, whatever your preference is....get out and exercise! There's a reason America's so fat ya know :P
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Shadowblade225 - 10/9/2005 7:13 PM
There's a reason America's so fat ya know :P
That reason has more to do with supersized 2000 calorie fast food, sloth in general and people being too busy working to have a family or recreation, than it does with watching sports.
Trust me, I burn 3x as many calories cursing and yelling at the TV as I do raking leaves.
Vyris
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Shadowblade225 - 10/9/2005 9:13 PM *shrugs to it all*. Yup red sox lost, not that I have time to even watch TV now a days. Last year was insane in Boston anyhow. My neighbors are still looking for whoever flipped their car over. Anywho, for those who sit around and watch sports all day, whatever your preference is....get out and exercise! There's a reason America's so fat ya know :P
Yup, Last year was pretty awesome... well except for the car flipping ;-).. But, it was my birthday the day the Sox one the world series.. and boy did we celebrate... Went up on the roof of our apartment, that over looked Fenway Park.. only too bad it wasn't a home game...
Vyris - Trust me, I burn 3x as many calories cursing and yelling at the TV as I do raking leaves.
hehe... I'm with you.
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Vyris - 10/9/2005 10:16 PM Shadowblade225 - 10/9/2005 7:13 PM There's a reason America's so fat ya know :P
That reason has more to do with supersized 2000 calorie fast food, sloth in general and people being too busy working to have a family or recreation, than it does with watching sports. Trust me, I burn 3x as many calories cursing and yelling at the TV as I do raking leaves. Vyris
duh! ;)
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