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To: laweeks

So... baseball isn’t a sport, because an umpire has to call balls and strikes? Basketball doesn’t count because the referee decides what is and isn’t a foul? Football/hockey the same with penalties?

Pretty much leaves only things that can be explicitly done by computer (archery, shooting, race timing — except swimming, which has stroke and turn judging — etc.)


36 posted on 07/30/2012 9:18:49 AM PDT by kevkrom (Those in a rush to trample the Constitution seem to forget that it is the source of their authority.)
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To: kevkrom

This is starting to turn into a George Carlin routine.


37 posted on 07/30/2012 9:20:23 AM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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To: kevkrom
So... baseball isn’t a sport, because an umpire has to call balls and strikes?

Sorry, but very poor example. The outcome of the game is decided on things that players have done. There can be occasional disputes over balls and strikes, but you're either out or your not.

Ballet, figure skating, and floor routines are truly a fine art, but not a sport. If you think not, then tell me why ballet is not a sport.

And if ballet is not a sport, then tell me the real difference between the two: Lots of hard work, routines to be memorized, then done over and over again . . . to music on top of it all. Can't find a difference.

42 posted on 07/30/2012 9:26:16 AM PDT by laweeks
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