Stupid Sports

[fuzzyoctopus]

Right, but baseball?  that game takes forever.  I could never sit in a hard seat in the sun in a stadium for 5 hours watching men run around.

[Spriggan]

I thought that was the only reason women watched sports Fuzzy?

[Maxwell]

thats why night games are better, no sun.
actually I prefer to watch hurling, or my brother at kung fu(hasntt done it since  he got is black belt)

[fuzzyoctopus]

I thought that was the only reason women watched sports Fuzzy?

Men in tight pants?  That's what ballet is for.  In baseball they're much much too far away for it to do any good.

[Spriggan]

and here I thought that women liked ballet for the "Culture".

[Maxwell]

hehe...

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

"Get a load of the culture on that guy."

playing sports is not pointless

that society has arranged it so that a guy who throws a ball earns 8 figures while a teach can barely scrape by... that's pointless. Especially when the fans who are the cause of this bizarre salary scale complain that it's "selling out" to advertise on the bases. *rolls eyes*

[JP Dogberry]

Cultures and Tight pants is something I don't want to think about together, given the medical meaning.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

/me adds a tongue depressor into the list of factors and sends JamPaladin to his "happy place"

[Spriggan]

*Spriggan thinks "Get a load of the culture on that guy." would be a great quote for a shirt, if haveing been said by one of the females on the board and not SE.*

[Entsuropi]

Heh, fuzzy, try Cricket. It is famous that a spectator can fall asleep, have a nap, and then wake up... and nothing has changed in the game.

[Spriggan]

That reminds me on how the Brittish goverment, during colonial times, use to, whats a good way to phrase this, made other countrys feel less threatened by the Brittish goverment and it's military.  They'd send there Cricket team to other countries for "good will" games, and the team was under the implicit orders to allwayse loose.  And it actualy worked, heck they lost to the US team of the time (from new york).  There would be times that a goverment would be wary, upset with Brittian over something then they're team would beat the Brittish team and all was forgiven.

[fuzzyoctopus]

Heh, fuzzy, try Cricket. It is famous that a spectator can fall asleep, have a nap, and then wake up... and nothing has changed in the game.

You know, though, we learned to play cricket in my high school one year and I thought it seemed a lot more fun than many other sports.  I can't figure out why it hasn't caught on in America.

[Entsuropi]

It has. In new york there is a growing cricket league.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

uhm.. you do realize that upstate New York hardly represents all of America?

And I'm sorry, I've resisted as long as I can:
"Cricket? CRICKET? Nobody unnerstands cricket! You gotta know what a crumpet is to unnerstand cricket!"