john_pavlakis Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Yeah, A-rod is an a-hole, but Pedro likes to bean people. The fans lose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dumpster001 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 it's about getting with the program and rooting for the jerseys :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beau 1664876222 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 <i>"The hyperbole surrounding the sports clubs here is really amusing, lets face it they they are essentially provincial."</i><p>I guess there's still time for us to militarily occupy whatever ungrateful country you're from and get your head on straight with respect to sports.<p>(joking...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beau 1664876222 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 New York feels very depressed today. Not only did the local team pull an unprecedented choke job, they gave up back-to-back home runs to Kris Kristofferson and Barry Gibb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beau 1664876222 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 <i>"The most famous sports club in the world is Real Madrid, then there is Boca Juniors, Juventus, Flamengo, St Etienne, Peñarol, Benfica, and on and on. Names you've probably never heard of but they are known and followed all over the world."</i><p>You're right, I haven't heard of most of those. I guess they're soccer teams? Here in the US we think soccer's a great sport too, and encourage all our daughters to play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt_m__toronto_ Posted October 21, 2004 Author Share Posted October 21, 2004 oh, and i loved it when the riot police were brought out near the end of game 6. ha! c'mon! you guys don't need protection against foreign nation attacks, you need it for your own people. and the clowns throwing bottles and balls etc at the players. how low. *joking as well, but some truth in there* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edmo Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 <i>"I guess there's still time for us to militarily occupy whatever ungrateful country you're from and get your head on straight with respect to sports. (joking...)"</i> <p> Reminds me of an amusing <a href="http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b8484aa31a6.htm"> <u> read </u></a>, but with some truth in it. :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin m. Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Beau, you're being a very ugly - and very funny - American. ;-) Soccer is a wonderful sport. It allows runty types to get some exercise while accomplishing f*ck all, and it gives Britain's hooligans a sense of camaraderie. As this day goes on, I must say that, on top of the joy of advancing to the World Series, I'm taking great pleasure in the misery of Yankee fans. Schadenfreude, Bronx style! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_n1664876959 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 <i>Here in the US we think soccer's a great sport too, and encourage all our daughters to play.</i><br><br> My daughter played too, and I coached a girl's town team for many years. American girls and women are extremely good at the game, far better than U.S. men, who have very poor technique. I much prefer to watch women's football here than men's, women seem to instinctively understand that the game is about technique and skill rather than brute force.<br><br> I assume you're implying that football is a game for girls. The fact is that it's a game for everyone, man or woman, big or small, it doesn't really matter - it's the peoples game. Even "runty types" can play. One of the greatest, many say <i>the</i> greatest player ever to play the game - Diego Maradona - was quite small in stature. This is in stark contrast to some American sports that require particular (i.e. very large) body types for success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beau 1664876222 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Peter N, just goofing around -- when the subject turns to sports, a certain wise-ass jocularity tends to be the order of the day. Anyway, soccer's got nothing our sports for runty dudes -- look up Mugsy Bogues and Spud Webb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_n1664876959 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 I understand, Beau. Where I come from, football is a religion, and I haven't lost my faith... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beau 1664876222 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 <i>"One of the greatest, many say the greatest player ever to play the game - Diego Maradona"</i><p>we Americans admire him too, mainly for his prodigious coke-snuffling capabilities (despite his small size).<p>And don't try to tell me that he was better than a certain American soccer player who played for the NY Cosmos, I think his name was pronounced "Peel" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randy_skopar Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 <<women seem to instinctively understand that the game is about technique and skill rather than brute force>> That's why we have so many more female scientists and technicians and inventors, right? That's why mothers physically abuse their children at three times the rate of fathers. Oh well, I suppose we have to hear from the feminist flunkies occasionally. Truth is, American women are good at soccer because they are highly practiced at kicking below the belt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray . Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 <<< Wow >>> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter_n1664876959 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin m. Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Now the humor's starting to get scary! Just kiddin' about the "runty types," anyway. It seems being a genetic freak of nature stature wise is no real advantage to a soccer player, unlike American football... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vic_. Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Hey Mendenhall, you're 6 foot 6 inches. Do you consider yourself a freak? You could have been the next great white hope in the NBA. Instead of a Leica fondler! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randy_skopar Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 An overtall socialist from New England is not a freak of nature: it's the standard model! :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray . Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 This thread was about baseball.... so go Sox. You're going to have your hands full, especially with the 4 sluggers in the middle of the Cards lineup. It's not over, you still could be waiting another 80 years... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin m. Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 Vic: Height, unfortunately, does not equal talent! :-( Ironically, I became a Red Sox fan because I grew up a Cardinals fan. I was rooting AGAINST the hated Mets in the '86 series (they stole Keith Hernandez from us!) and watched the Bill Buckner debacle live. When I moved to New England later, it was easy to pick up rooting for the Sox. I never understood how anyone who wasn't a native New Yorker could root for the Yankees, anyway. Seems kinda lame, like rooting for gravity. No question who I'm rooting for this year, though. GO SOX! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray . Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 ... from an article by Mike DiGiovanna in today's LA Times:<p> <i>...But the Red Sox would not be playing host to Game 1 of the World Series in Fenway Park against the St. Louis Cardinals on Saturday night if not for Roberts, whose stolen base in Game 4 was the pivotal play of the AL championship series. </i><p> Now look above at my comment earlier and tell me, do I know baseball, or do I know baseball??? I knew too LA shouldn't have got rid of Dave Roberts.....Why I'm not the Dodgers GM is quite a puzzle... ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beau 1664876222 Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 You're exactly right. I read that Roberts was signed by the Sox specifically to be a "Rivera Rattler"... the idea was that allowing just one single in the ninth guaranteed Roberts would be plugged in, steal 2nd, and be in scoring position. Roberts has an insanely high success rate stealing bags, and just knowing he's there to pinch-run distracts a reliever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray . Posted October 22, 2004 Share Posted October 22, 2004 Yes, and the only player with a slightly higher success rate stealing is Carlos Beltran, and guess who wants to sign him? NY can sign all the superstars they want though, it's obvious by now it doesn't guarantee a championship... I'm waiting for Steinbrenner to self-destruct and fire half the team and the GM, that could be another option. I'm laughing that we dumped Kevin Brown on them... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frank.schifano Posted October 23, 2004 Share Posted October 23, 2004 Kent: The Giants were a NY team before they moved to SF. They played at the Polo Grounds up on 155th Street before they left for the coast. The Dodgers, now that's still a sore spot for us Brooklynites. I was 6 years old when the Dodgers moved to LA. I was 10 years old before I realized that Walter O'Malleys middle name was not "that son a bitch". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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