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Danger_dave
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 05:01 am: |
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Play of the day on Sportcenter is a barehanded catch in the outfield - dude dropped his glove then caught a high fly ball. Have you ever seen a game of Cricket? You don't need no steenken glove. Next you'll need helmets to play football. Spurs in five. ;-P (Message edited by danger_dave on June 08, 2007) |
Slaughter
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 08:26 am: |
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I think Dave has captured American baseball and football pretty well. Sunny defined football in America pretty well: "A bunch of men in tights, bending over for each other every few minutes... and people pay WHAT to watch it??" (Message edited by slaughter on June 08, 2007) |
Danger_dave
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 08:35 am: |
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Oh, not fair - I do enjoy them a lot. I was just takin' the mickey. FWIW - the number of quite sickening head clashes in the rugby league this season has been pretty bad. |
Ceejay
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 08:40 am: |
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Slaughter-Don't you chase (or get chased by) a bunch of little men around a closed course in tight leathers? Basketball sux! Watch hockey... |
Spiderman
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 08:59 am: |
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Amen CeeeJaaay! Baseball, cricket are wuss sports! Play a real sport like hockey or rugby! |
Slaughter
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 09:22 am: |
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Slaughter-Don't you chase (or get chased by) a bunch of little men around a closed course in tight leathers? (ouch! - kinda defenseless on that one) Though you've never raced against Brienne Thompson or Jane Schwartzkopf. (Message edited by slaughter on June 08, 2007) |
Ft_bstrd
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 10:15 am: |
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Soccer, Hockey, Football, or Rugby. All else is lame. I guess riders wearing helmets are wussies as well. |
Spiderman
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 10:23 am: |
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Football (American) NFL overpaid wusses who take too many breaks inbetween plays. College good casue they are doing it cause they love to. Soccer is only fun if you are there in England with the real hooligans cause more violence is going on in the stands than all of Northern Ireland |
Danger_dave
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 10:30 am: |
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>>I guess riders wearing helmets are wussies as well. << I be soft then. I added an Arai Tour X to the range today. Boy am I liking it. 'I can justify every one of them, dear.' |
Slaughter
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 10:36 am: |
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I have a bunch of helmets. Problem is the only one that is wearable is the newest one. I keep replacing them every time I crash. In football, people get tackled by 250 pound men at a running speed. In racing, you get tackled by 400 pound machines at over 100 MPH - and are doing it just for fun! Football?? Paaah! |
Danger_dave
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 10:49 am: |
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The only one of those I have crashed in is the X900 - far end - parked a Street Rod test bike in a ditch wearing it. Did a Bar Fly into a sandstone wall. Funny as. Rider and career unscathed if not mildly bruised. Exhausts a bit shabby. |
Barker
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 11:18 am: |
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Rugby is for real men who like wearing short shorts. My wife would say, "Do you want me to wash your daisy dukes for rugby practice? Support your local Hooker, Play Rugby! This is me posing before I get muddy and bloody.
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M2statz
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 11:48 am: |
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Give me a sport where you can legally carry a stick, hit other people carrying sticks, and shoot a frozen piece of rubber at a guy who can't skate because he is wearing too much padding!! Hockey... the only sport where skinny guys have a chance!! |
Blake
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 11:50 am: |
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I played rugby once. Scored a touch and drank lots of ... HEY! Just a darn minute here! Someone insulting Basketball on BadWeB?! Go Spurs! If "Cricket" were called "Whackaball" or "SmackStick" something more on those lines, it might have become more popular here. Do Cricket players chew tobacco? |
Ft_bstrd
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 12:08 pm: |
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Yes Blake. Basketball sucks. March is the darkest period of every year for sports. Why do you think March Badness is so well attended? |
Ceejay
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 12:50 pm: |
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I was working in SLC when the Jazz were still in the playoffs, I couldn't find a bar anywhere that would put the Wings on. Almost got in a fight with one bartender, seems he don't like being called a lorent candya-- bball fan...course he called me Canadian Slaughter-a football scholarship put me through school, thus the reason I make fun of your football jokes...While you may be wrestling with a 400 pound bike at 100 mph it was mostly transverse forces, take two folks cracking heads, both weighing in excess of 200lbs running at 20 mph each-I'm terrible at math but I'm a thinking running into a brick wall at 40 mph would hurt more than sliding across the kitty litter at 100, course I've only done one, and after seeing some of your post accident photos of your bike, I'd prefer to keep it that way. No offense intended. Hockey IMO by far requires the most skill and talent of any sport, and it seems odd that the pros are getting paid the least... Back to the title at hand, baseball sux too as they are some overpaid wussies... |
Old_man
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 01:05 pm: |
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Hurling, now that's a brave man's sport.--A bunch of Irishmen swinging sticks at head level. |
Spiderman
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 01:09 pm: |
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It's Scottish men/women and they are telephone poles, not sticks, thank you very much |
Old_man
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 01:37 pm: |
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Spiderman, that is not Hurling where they throw the poles in Scotlant - That's called Tossing the caber. |
Spiderman
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 01:52 pm: |
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ohhh yeah, My bad |
Sooner
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 02:03 pm: |
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Yeah Spidy, come on... hurling is when you crouch down in the bathroom,hang on to the john, and call "Europe" about a dozen times while expelling the contents of your stomach. I used to love that sport. |
Oldog
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 02:07 pm: |
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Spiderman, that is not Hurling where they throw the poles in Scotlant - That's called Tossing the caber. yeah but the guys are running around in pladd miniskirts, playing strange wind instruments? I dug MX as a kid,} dirty and violent. sorta like soccer / rugby / hocky. |
Spiderman
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 02:09 pm: |
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hurling is when you crouch down in the bathroom,hang on to the john, and call "Europe" about a dozen times while expelling the contents of your stomach. No it's what I do when I hear yet another Loud pipes suck thread |
Greenlantern
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 03:07 pm: |
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No it's what I do when I hear yet another Loud pipes suck thread
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Davegess
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 03:29 pm: |
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Hurling and Irish football (sorta like Australian football without the rough edges taken off) those are real sports |
Elf
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 04:11 pm: |
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IMO, Lacrosse should get a mention here. Gets pretty rough. Lots of dislocated joints, cuts, blood, etc...Similar to Hockey, really. Historically, if someone lost the ball during play, they continued the game using the person who lost it's severed head !! And the one game where you DON'T want to get hit by the ball: Jai-Alai. Saw a game when I was in Florida. That damned ball MOVES! I have no idea how the players can even see it! Hey Dave! You an All Blacks fan? (dumb question?) I love the Haka! Intimidating as hell!! (Message edited by elf on June 08, 2007) |
Etennuly
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 04:11 pm: |
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Them ball and stick sports are for sick individuals. Ya have to hurt yourself preparing your body just to find out if you are good enough to play. The cramps, strains, sprains, bruises and concussions. And that is just in practice! Give me motorsports, where I can lounge around and "think" about what needs to be done and how to do it. No pain, well maybe a little from turning wrenches and such. The only physical pain is from body parts that couldn't stand the strain of the wreck. No big deal, you lay around and heal like the ball and stick guys. Not that I'm lazy, it's just that with a vehicle of whatever type you have more real resources to adjust your speed and handling abilities without spending years in the making. Oh crap. You guys are talking about just watching sports. I'd rather watch paint dry, at least I make money doing that. |
Essthreetee
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 04:50 pm: |
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Things I'd rather do than watch MLB/NFL/NBA.: Watch Paint Dry Watch Water Evaporate Watch Grass Grow Watch a spider build a web You get the idea...All (MOST) are overpaid whiners...bad examples of what to do with athletic ability...NBA used to be fun to watch before Michael Jordan turned it into the one man game...then everyone had to be like Mike... |
Buellinachinashop
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 06:38 pm: |
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...but you never see soccer guys taking dives and flopping around like fish out of water. |
Danger_dave
| Posted on Friday, June 08, 2007 - 06:54 pm: |
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>>Hey Dave! You an All Blacks fan? (dumb question?) I love the Haka! Intimidating as hell!! << Nah mate - I'm an Aussie - I just live in NZ. But I do enjoy a good haka - this one gives me goose bumps. NZ v Tonga http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJuoP_4Ubp8 |