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Yes there are a handful of dorks on FR that feel the need to jump onto sports threads and tell everyone about how they're too good for sports, just because you have followers doesn't make you right.

And every time there's a thread on golf, some twit has to jump in and state that golf isn't a sport.

Then there's the "intra sport rivalries", almost as bad as the "I hate sports" people. Don't know why so many of us attack our own. Wish I understood what it was about sports that make people feel such a need to lodge their formal protests against them, if I could figure that out I could figure out a way to make money on it, and if I could get a nickle for every time people felt the need to tell everybody they don't like sport X I'd be obscenely rich.

And every time there's a thread on golf, some twit has to jump in and state that golf isn't a sport.

The only athletic ability I have is at table tennis. I don't play any more, but I was fairly good at it. People who haven't watched real table tennis with inverted-rubber rackets and a quality table, have no idea how insanely difficult it can be. There are as many types of spin and styles of play as there are in baseball pitching. And I've had nights where I sweated so much I literally wrung out my shirt. So don't anyone tell me it's not a sport or doesn't require athleticism. Thankfully we haven't had any live table tennis threads for everyone to make fun of, because the sport is all but defunct in this country. I think China has 10 million registered players. The U.S. has under 20,000. Actually, it was under 10,000 when I stopped playing four or five years ago. That's pretty pathetic.