World Cup 2006

[SunMo]

I will be watching.

you complain about baseball being boring?

[MURP]

merged

[phattymatty]

you complain about baseball being boring?

baseball is 10x more boring than soccer.  granted, the scores are not high, but it's constant up and down the field action.  soccer player gets more exercise in the first 3 minutes than most baseball players for an entire 3 hour game.

[SunMo]

more exercise yes, more exciting?  hell no.  and if you call kicking the ball back and forth over the middle 3rd of the field "up and down field action" then, yeah, it has that.

[ice grillin you]

it can be argued that there isnt a sport on earth with less action than soccer

and action does not necessarily mean goals...but soccer barely ever even has  scoring chances

soccer breaks down like this....

70% fiddling with the ball in the middle third of the field
5% kicking the ball out of bounds
5% throwing it back in
10% kicking it back to the goalie so he can kick the ball to the middle of the field so everyone can fiddle with it some more
5% corner kicks
4% scoring chances
1% goals


im guessing matty likes it because he can get lambasted at summers during games

[phattymatty]

ha, you know of that place? 

i've actually never been but heard it's a good time during the world cup.

and my argument is yes, there is one sport less exciting than soccer.

baseball.

if i wanted to watch a fat dude swing a wooden bat i'd go to the batting cage with a mirror.

[reese125]

IGY, please change your percentages to:

20% kicking out of bounds
20% throw back in
50% fiddling in the middle

Thank you

Soccer is cute

[phattymatty]

im guessing matty likes it because he can get lambasted at summers during games

i think you got blasted and wasted mixed up. 

unless you meant to say i like to get yelled at or scolded.  which i guess is also kind of true.

[ice grillin you]

ha, you know of that place? 

i've actually never been but heard it's a good time during the world cup.

yeah its super popular

it was #3 in gq magazines top ten best soccer bars in the country

i think the fervor over the world cup is cool and i respect the event....but damn is soccer as a sport unwatchable

[rjs246]

Soccer is constant action.
Baseball is fat men adjusting themselves and occasionally jogging.

[phattymatty]

that joint is about 7 or 8 blocks from my house and i've never been there. 

i think it's a 'soccer type' crowd all year long.

[rjs246]

Every country in the world (outside of the US) obsesses over soccer. There are about 3 countries outside of the US that give one shtein about baseball.

Soccer is superior in absolutely every way.

[reese125]

why should we care about any country outside of the US for sports. Superior for them, but not  us

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Soccer is better than baseball and basketball combined.

[rjs246]

why should we care about any country outside of the US for sports. Superior for them, but not us

OK. That's the kind of thinking that doesn't really make any sense to me, but if that's the way you justify liking the most boring sport on earth, knock yourself out.