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The case for BABE RUTH as greatest ever sportsperformer
The case for BABE RUTH as greatest ever sportsperformer
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and it's a choice between mikael and acquiesce as who's the most angriest poster
phack off cant, I'm NOT angry I am honest baseball though is not a phucking sport agreed, it's a glorified game of phucking rounders, why don't most Europeans, most south americans most of asia and most of Africa give a flying phuck about it, it's cos it's a sh1t game, not a sport a phucking game bores the pants of me and last for a phucking eternity like test cricket only easily pleased pr1cks with a low stimuli threshold think it's a sport  babe ruth FFS, deserves a good phucking laugh just for the phucking stupid name. have you even seen the size of the bloater FFS, that's not a sportsman it's an overweight yank swinging a bat. golf is pompous sport. htf can anyone sit through that dribble even it requires actual talent. BABE RUTH FFS |
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I would
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Mikael, TMM and G2D do not understand why golf is so difficult.
Let me explan it to them. Mikael mentions somewhere about a flat surface hitting a stationary ball. But of course this is wrong, this is what really happens in the golf swing. The golf club is not flat, it is angled. and different clubs have different degrees of angle and clubs have different lengths of shaft. Then again what people don`t realise about the golf club is that the head of the club is not directly in line with the bottom of the shaft, as in for example a baseball bat, or a tennis bat, or a cricket bat, or a snooker cue etc. No it sits out from the bottom of the shaft, at an angle. this is very important. Then again the head of the golf club is not flat , but angled, and quite small. But the size of the sweet spot is even smaller. Perhaps less than the size of the golf ball itself. Now the golfer has to stand sideways to where he intends to hit the ball. This is in itself difficult, made moreso because if the golfer turns his body at address even slightly to where he wants to hit the ball then he is at risk of slicing the ball, etc So the ball is at the golfers feet(by the way the high flight of the ball in baseball means the baseball swing is more natural and so easier but i digress) The golfer then has to swing the club back and in so doing the face of the club, which he has aligned with the ball, has to turn away and up from the ball. Now by about half way back the clubface will have turned 90* away from the ball and the club continues to the top. At the same time the golfers body has to turn and his back will turn from sideways on to facing the target. From this position the golfer has to return the face of the golfclub, with its very small sweet spot, at over 100 miles an hour to a small ball sitting on the ground at his feet. Any slight deviation as his body turns, and as the club swings at 100 miles an hour will result in a mishit shot. It is the combination of the shape of the club, the fact that the clubface is not directly at the bottom of the shaft but at an angle, the different types of club, the shape of the swing necessary to hit a ball on the ground, the speed of the swing, the turning of the clubface away from the ball..in a different and more difficult way to other sports, the necessity for the body to be aligned and yet turn away etc etc There are other reasons also that make golf uniquely difficult, but that may give you some small idea of the difficulty |
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A lot of words to admit you have no idea about hitting a baseball.
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And while a golf club may be angled, it's still fkn flat. A baseball bat is round.
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Baseball lasts about 3 hrs, btw aquiesce. How long does a cricket test match last iyo?
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And I'd rather be an easily pleased prick with low stimuli than someone who clearly has little knowledge of a game which is far too nuanced for them to understand.
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Whether you agree with acquiesce or not, his posts are entertaining and straight to the point
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More drugs in baseball.
If they are so skillful why do they need help? |
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Is it because it is a power game, not a skill game? You have to hit hard, and throw hard.
You say a pitcher can throw a ball into a catcher's mitt. But the target (the mitt) can and does move to catch the ball. |
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Drugs are rife in all sports. I don't think there is a drug available than can help you with your technical ability but certainly ones that can make one stronger and faster.
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The catchers glove will only move behind home plate if the pitcher has a bad throw and misses his spot.
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Baseball is a complex game and to fully understand and enjoy it one has first got to know the Rules. American Football is another great game that gets mauled in this country simply because people don't know or want to know the Rules. Stick 500 on a baseball match and believe me one learns the Rules fast
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I don't think American football is a great game.
The pitch (or field) is very narrow. The actions stops for TV ads. Teams have 45 players. They call if football but how many can kick a ball? |
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One, the kicker.
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... sorry, 2
Also the punter |
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I hate Cricket but if I actually understood the game and the Rules, I probably wouldn't.
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The pitch is wider than minimum width of a soccer pitch
Tv ads are only shown when game stops. Teams only have 11 players on pitch |
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I wouldn't watch any sport if there was no betting
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stopped watching boxing after Hagler got the bad decision. I was a leonard fan but saw that as a draw. Haglar retired after that fight. so did i.
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.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEcHZAXSBzc
But it's ok, we don't understand the nuances of the game  |
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^^^^^^^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p6IAFotSDo&t=4m06s
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People like different things Scandi. I absolutely loathe American Football, possibly because I don't understand it. I would never tell people that the players have no skill, technique or dynamism, though, since I don't know what I'm talking about.
You continually display that you barely have a clue about the game of baseball. You think it's primarily about how hard you can hit the ball when I've shown you that it is far from being about that. The all-time 'hit king' Pete Rose managed a home run just 160 times out of the 15,890 plate appearances he made, during a 20+ year career. That's less than 1% of the time. |
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The strange thing about golf is that it becomes more difficult the better you are at it.
How can this be? Well all of us who love the game can bumble our way around the course and at the end of it find, after 2 or 3 long putts have gone in or a chip in from off the green that we have got a reasonable score, perhaps 80? or even less. But in those 80 shots not one will have been played right, or struck right and almost nothing will have been correct or beautiful about our game. And that will go on for ever and still we will love golf. However the very best players are playing almost literally a different game. A pro. is able at his very best to hit his shots long and true and pure and with great power and finesse. And this is what he has to try and do on all shots every time he plays. And it is only when you have the ability to do this that the game becomes very very difficult. They play a game with which we are not familiar. |
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I know enough, and it just compared to skilled sports
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themightymac
(1) The pitch is wider than minimum width of a soccer pitch (2) TV ads are only shown when game stops. (1) Soccer pitch width is from 45-90 meters (49-100 yards) American football pitch width is 160 feet or 53 1/3 yards. Or in plain English, an American football pitch is fractionally wider than the minimum soccer/football pitch. (2) Your post should probably read "TV ads are only shown when the game stops for TV ads" |
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The two points are 100% accurate as was the third.
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