Posted on 06/17/2014 5:36:33 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
Yeah. But the cat’s eyes look like the Brazilian flag in honor of the World Cup. So that’s cool. (Or - yet ANOTHER part of the evil plan. Did ya ever notice how cats have slits in their eyes and they hiss. Just like snakes.)
Soccer fans in Europe are anything but elitists.
Of course you would.
Baseball is in deep trouble, it’s become a regional sport. Like hockey, it will continue to draw good crowds but TV ratings are sinking.
It’s just too slow, games 50 years ago took an hour less. Players preen and adjust after every pitch now.
Well, the League is trying to control that out-of-the-batter’s-box stuff. We’ll see.
“Oh, and do you know where God mentions baseball first in the Bible?”
Genesis 1:1
In the big inning...
Ouch!
Champions are the best team. That’s the definition. I don’t give a damn about potential, bad calls., tough breaks etc. The playoffs are the process for finding out who wants it and can get it. That’s the best team.
But other than that...
Someone told me that there’s only fifteen minutes of actual play time.
Robert Green knows. ;)
Does anyone really think the George Mason team that went to the Final Four was one of the four best teams in the country? No one would support that statement.
This has nothing to do with bad calls or tough breaks. The best team does not always win the championship.
We differ. The champion is the best team; all other opinions are whining.
My first guess is that it can be played by kids anywhere and is free. All they need is an old beat up soccer ball
On one of my trips to Honduras I watched a group of kids who were the children of the campusinos (field workers) playing soccer barefooted out in the boonies on a beat up field overgrown with weeds and stones..........That was the only playtime available for them.
Here in the states you seldom see kids gathered together playing pick up soccer or pick up baseball by themselves. Everything has to be organized......
I'm retired and play lots of senior softball (age 55+). Mon and Wed mornings are league days and Fri and Sundays are pickup days where anywhere from 20 to 35 guys show up and we pick up sides and play.
And we all reminince about growing up as kids and spending all day every day of the summer at the playground playing pickup ball. Maybe 4 kids, maybe more, it didn't matter, we always had a way to improvise a game with our bats balls and gloves........
You never see that anymore with today's kids. They're all on organized teams with organized practices, and all vying to get picked up by a "travel" team separate from the little league team.......
The managers of these "travel" teams are all crazy, they expect to get into tournaments every weekend and they expect the parents of these kids to cooperate. The monetary outlay on these kids by their parents is astronomical when you consider the traveling, the gas, the food, and in many cases lodging..........
With all the above going on, I can't really call baseball a "kids" game anymore.....
Virtually every team had full uniforms and every kid had a matching gear bag. The gear bags have rollers and cost in the neighborhood of $100 - $125..........
When we played little league the manager gave us a cotton t-shirt that we had to give back at the end of the season......LOL!
It is not about whining or anything else. Baltimore Ravens? Congratulations on a great run to the Super Bowl, but again, were the Ravens the best team in the league, of course not. FWIW, I like the Ravens, so no whining here.
If I was whining, I would tell you which team I thought was the best team and I didn't do that. In fact, I don't even recall which team that would be. But I do know the Ravens barely made it to the playoffs as a wild card team and played superbly for a few weeks and won the Super Bowl. Overall best team in the league.....ahh, no.
As I said we differ. No working definition of “the best” is superior to the answer to the question, “who won?”.
No, championship tournaments are specifically NOT designed to find the best team, which would require tons of time, many many games, and waiting out all injuries so each team can play complete. They’re designed to make a winner, the champion, who hopefully aren’t just a bad team team that got lucky at the right time.
It’s like this. I’m right, you’re wrong. That’s how this ends no matter what you have to say. This is my last response. Enjoy yourself.
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