World Cup 2006

[SunMo]

You're ignorant, plain and simple.

i know you're trying to get a rise out of me, but i know it's only because i've hit a nerve.  i forgive you.

[SunMo]

what's a lie?  the ball gets kicked to a midfielder, he heads it down, either passes it off or sends it back down the field, then MAYBE he runs up a couple feet.  really brutal.

[Diomedes]

i know you're trying to get a rise out of me, but i know it's only because i've hit a nerve. i forgive you.

Wrong on both counts.  You don't rise much, and you missed the nerves.  You just said something very dumb, that's all.

Baseball is alright, but athletic it's not.  Compared to posting on yeah, it's athletic.  Compared to soccer, it's equivalent to posting on .

Fact, jack.

[rjs246]

why the need to bash baseball?

Because everyone defends its lack of action/athletes by saying that it's a 'thinking man's sport'. Truth is that every team sport requires intricate strategy to be successful, not every sport includes standing around and getting fat. Only baseball.

[ice grillin you]

soccer is not tough and brutal...people act like that because the players play the whole game.  but guys stand around more than baseball players do half the time

soccer is almost the opposite of tough and brutal (not that baseball is)...plus ive never seen players fake more injuries or go down for extended periods of time with borderline injuries than in soccer

if youve ever met a soccer player youd know that they are anything but tough

[Phanatic]

what's a lie?  the ball gets kicked to a midfielder, he heads it down, either passes it off or sends it back down the field, then MAYBE he runs up a couple feet.  really brutal.

Brutal for some positions on the futbol field. Like playing half back and having to play up to support the offense and run back to support the d. I played half back one year and basically ran up and down the field all game. We sucked though...

I'm not saying soccer is a bad sport or anything. Just that it doesn't really translate on TV that well.

[SunMo]

Because everyone defends its lack of action/athletes by saying that it's a 'thinking man's sport'.

well i've never said that, and you keep referring me to "fat" players.  name someone in the Phillies starting 8 that is fat.  baseball players are atheletes, like it or not.  just because they play a game that is fundamentally differenet from just about any other sport doesn't have to make it bad, just different.  kinda like indians (feathers, not dots)

[rjs246]

The phillies almost won the World Series with lots of fat players. And since they slimmed down they haven't even sniffed the playoffs.

Beat that impenetrable logic.

[SunMo]

i can't...

and if you excuse me, i have a Bud Dwyer special waiting for me

[phattymatty]

soccer is not tough and brutal...people act like that because the players play the whole game.  but guys stand around more than baseball players do half the time

i'm in no way saying they are tough guys, in fact i think they're pansies who flop on the ground too much, but they definitely are not standing around most of the time.  they're running non-stop, they have to.

[Wingspan]

The phillies almost won the World Series with lots of fat players. And since they slimmed down they haven't even sniffed the playoffs.

Beat that impenetrable logic.

unless you're counting kruk as lots....thats not true.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

I can play baseball/softball.  I get winded playing soccer.

It's that simple.

[ice grillin you]

I know you love your urban roots, IGY and lacrosse is an easy target since it has traditionally been a prep sport, but you are obviously not a sports fan if you can't appreciate lacrosse as a sport


it has nothing to do with being a prep sport...baseball is hardly 'urban'

i was merely pointing out that the people who like soccer are the same people who will swear by lacrosse...and that explains your viewpoint...at first i didnt understand where you were coming from that made it crystal clear

[stalker]

The phillies almost won the World Series with lots of fat players. And since they slimmed down they haven\'t even sniffed the playoffs.

Beat that impenetrable logic.

But the acknowledged leader of that team carried a doctors bag on road trips.

[SunMo]

just because soccer requires better conditioning it doesn't make it more exciting