A sad day :(

[solidfrontaxle]

Sportcenter is more boring than baseball! I love playing sports and I love watching them. But watching people endlessly talk about sports? There is no bigger snore.

 

[Slangy]

Sportcenter is more boring than baseball! I love playing sports and I love watching them. But watching people endlessly talk about sports? There is no bigger snore.

I agree, my brother watches sports center all the time. I have to make fun of him every time. Bunch of talk about sports with an occasional clip. Half the time it is on they are not even talking about a sport that I am interested in anyway. I would be better off getting on the internet and looking up the clips of what I am interested iN rather than listening to those yahoos talk about s*** I could care less about.:-\

 

[Cody]

I just like to see the highlights from basketball games, and to some extent football. I don't care about the analysis.

The reason baseball is so awful on sportcenter is that there are no highlights. There might be a home run or two, but they look like every other home run hit...ever. You could show every amazing catch, pitch, and hit in about 20 seconds per game. Instead, they sit there and fill in the missing action with pointless babble that they honestly believe is esoteric. Even more amazing than that, is that through some crazy, and admittedly crafty, inbreeding program they've managed to create a large enough group of people to support their esoteric rhetoric and perpetuate the myth that it takes a special intellect and understanding of the finer intricacies of the sport…. blah blah blah…. to appreciate baseball. Because, as we all know, one of the merits requisite of a Rhodes Scholar is to be loyal Yankee fan. It makes perfect sense. It’s a philosophers game of strategy handed down through Platonic tradition via an underground group sworn to uphold it’s integrity through generations…like Freemason’s only overweight, lazy, and with a overwhelming appetite for hot dogs and Coors Light.

 

[Milner]

Instead, they sit there and fill in the missing action with pointless babble that they honestly believe is esoteric. Even more amazing than that, is that through some crazy, and admittedly crafty, inbreeding program they've managed to create a large enough group of people to support their esoteric rhetoric and perpetuate the myth that it takes a special intellect and understanding of the finer intricacies of the sport…. blah blah blah…. to appreciate baseball. Because, as we all know, one of the merits requisite of a Rhodes Scholar is to be loyal Yankee fan. It makes perfect sense. It’s a philosophers game of strategy handed down through Platonic tradition via an underground group sworn to uphold it’s integrity through generations…like Freemason’s only overweight, lazy, and with a overwhelming appetite for hot dogs and Coors Light.

You have now completely lost the few baseball fans that were still barely understanding you

 

[Brett]

No wonder Loaf doesn't like talking about baseball near you

 

[Stephen]

I just like to see the highlights from basketball games, and to some extent football. I don't care about the analysis.

The reason baseball is so awful on sportcenter is that there are no highlights. There might be a home run or two, but they look like every other home run hit...ever. You could show every amazing catch, pitch, and hit in about 20 seconds per game. Instead, they sit there and fill in the missing action with pointless babble that they honestly believe is esoteric. Even more amazing than that, is that through some crazy, and admittedly crafty, inbreeding program they've managed to create a large enough group of people to support their esoteric rhetoric and perpetuate the myth that it takes a special intellect and understanding of the finer intricacies of the sport…. blah blah blah…. to appreciate baseball. Because, as we all know, one of the merits requisite of a Rhodes Scholar is to be loyal Yankee fan. It makes perfect sense. It’s a philosophers game of strategy handed down through Platonic tradition via an underground group sworn to uphold it’s integrity through generations…like Freemason’s only overweight, lazy, and with a overwhelming appetite for hot dogs and Coors Light.

F***ing nutjob. Thats what you are!

 

[SICK99TJ]

I beg to differ about the hockey goalie. Maybe that's where they put the chubbers in pee wees or something, but from teenage years on up, they've got to be in just as good of shape as the rest of the players. Have you seen how fast they can move? I guarantee a good hockey goalie could punch you in the face without you seeing his fist. Next time you get a chance, pay attention to the goalie making a glove save. They face 90+ mph slap shots and can get in front of it with a heavy-ass glove. I'd like to see you move that fast and accurate with a bare hand.

i have and still do i was a catcher for a semi pro baseball team a couple of years ago also caught two diffrent kids that i played with in college and high school that threw 90 consistantly.

 

[Cody]

they were throwing fastballs, aiming for your glove, from 60.5 feet away.

All a goalie has to do in hockey, is catch a puck that is being shot at them using the mechanical advantage of a long stick, from a guy 1-40 feet away, through a mess of big dudes that are all moving. Ohh, and you do that with ice skates strapped to your tootsies. Ya, no problem right?

thats tough, even a confused baseball fanatic has to admit that.

 

[Cody]

haha. Bill James from Freakonomics

"Most successful sports tend to trim and snip their rules to keep the game interesting. Baseball people like to think their game is perfect, so we drag our flaws forward from generation to generation."

 

[Skylinerider]

Did you get cut from the high school team Cody? Or are you just mad you can't make into our secret society?

 

[Cody]

Nope, never got cut and don't care to be part of the secret society. I'm a member of the secret society for people who like to measure how fast grass grows. That's enough excitement for me.

 

[Skylinerider]

I'm a member of the secret society for people who like to measure how fast grass grows.

I have a sweet ruler here at work, can I be a member?

 

[Cody]

No, you wouldn't be able to comprehend the subtle nuances associated with our sport. It's too complex and detailed for you to understand.

 

[Skylinerider]

You're probably right. I've heard it takes a lifetime to fully understand, and I'd be 28 years behind.

 

[Cody]

you could probably get into our sister organization, PDWAOA (pronounced Pud-woah!). It's the Paint dry watchers association of america and most people can pick it up pretty easily...although if you spend a lot of time watching baseball you may not have enough income left over from the cheezy pops, mountain dew, and queso dip to really fully invest in the required Pud-woah! equipment.

 

[SICK99TJ]

they were throwing fastballs, aiming for your glove, from 60.5 feet away.

All a goalie has to do in hockey, is catch a puck that is being shot at them using the mechanical advantage of a long stick, from a guy 1-40 feet away, through a mess of big dudes that are all moving. Ohh, and you do that with ice skates strapped to your tootsies. Ya, no problem right?

thats tough, even a confused baseball fanatic has to admit that.

I did not say that it was not hard. he said try to catch something coming at you at 90mph and i have. there are obstacles that you encounter being in that position as well what about the batter. and the ump that is wanting to get his thumb up my ass so he can see. if you are going to make comment about what i have done and what they do atleast have some experience to back up what you are saying. maybe you do and thats ok too, i am the farthest thing from a fanatic. i agree with you watching baseball on tv sucks even if you do understand the game and all the other things that are going on inside of the game. i love to play it, not watch it.

 

[Tacoma]

Holy crap, you are ALL up on MLB's tip, homie.


PS. I played baseball until I rearranged my neighbor's face with a line drive to the teeth, so I can appreciate the.. skill it takes to play.

Then again, it's really hard to fart Yankee Doodle through a keyhole, too. *shrug*

I did not say that it was not hard. he said try to catch something coming at you at 90mph and i have. there are obstacles that you encounter being in that position as well what about the batter. and the ump that is wanting to get his thumb up my ass so he can see. if you are going to make comment about what i have done and what they do atleast have some experience to back up what you are saying. maybe you do and thats ok too, i am the farthest thing from a fanatic. i agree with you watching baseball on tv sucks even if you do understand the game and all the other things that are going on inside of the game. i love to play it, not watch it.

 

[DevinB]

"Most successful sports tend to trim and snip their rules to keep the game interesting. Baseball people like to think their game is perfect, so we drag our flaws forward from generation to generation."

That's one good thing about the NHL, every year it seems they've tweaked the rules a bit to make it faster and higher scoring. No more in-the-crease violations, no more two-line-pass violations, shortened up the time between goals and face-offs...

 

[gijohn40]

like one of my old mentors use to tell me...

I WOULD RATHER BE BEATEN WITH A BAT THEN HAVE TO WATCH A FULL GAME OF BASEBALL!!!!!

I'm done...

 

[solidfrontaxle]

That's one good thing about the NHL, every year it seems they've tweaked the rules a bit to make it faster and higher scoring. No more in-the-crease violations, no more two-line-pass violations, shortened up the time between goals and face-offs...

I totally disagree. I used to be a HUGE hockey fan. Now I can't stand to watch it. The rule changes totally ruined the game. Its goal after goal after goal. Are they trying to make it basketball? SNORE...