Jolt Country

Nothing better then seeing pretty boy Brady on his back all night long like the gay QB he is.

Time to sell some chunky soup Brady! All week I had to listen to these talking heads speak of how the Broncos would have to show them they were good enough to be on the field with these guys. I guess when you have a champ, you should be the champs.

Bring on Indy!

31days 21hrs 03min 16sec

...until pitchers and catchers report.

Thank christ.

You... don't like football, Bugs?

It's not that I don't like it... It's a fun enough cold-weather diversion, I suppose. However, it is a sport riddled with chaos no matter how much thought goes into a play. Also, the weekly schedule lends itself too well to the average meatheaded office drone attention span. Work, work, work, work, work, FOOTBALL, work, work, work, work, work, FOOTBALL.

I like watching pituitary freaks run into each other at high velocities as much as anyone else. But I also like my sport to require a little bit of thought, and a lengthy enough statistical sampling so that a 4-game losing streak does not mean the end of a season. I also like that baseball is truly a team sport. Manny Ramirez can only bat once every nine hitters. LaDainian Tomlinson gets the ball whenever the Chargers want him to have the ball. I also like that every player in baseball is required to take part in offense and defense, with only one exception.

Baseball has its problems, which I'm sure you'll all be happy to list. But for real suspense and provocation of thought, I'll take baseball over football any day.

i can't take any sport serious that does not have a salary cap. And that any season where the Yankees and Red Sox don't play 47 times is considered a waste. I used to be the biggest baseball fan around but the absence of the element of thought and the arrival of pituitary gland freaks has ruined baseball more than football.

The sport itself is OK. The underlying problem (I think) is that every monday from September
to Feburary all you hear about are people picking over the bones of the now dead games.
"Dude, he shouldn't have thrown the ball into all that traffic!"
Then playoffs happen and the speculation runs rampant. There's no content in speculation unless you are investing in pork bellies and sorghum. Talking about the upcoming games all week long..
And there's the point about having a one game decision.
All the other major sports have a best of seven championship series. Except football. All the other major sports have a schedule of more than 16 games. No other major sport has to have a legal team of referees to scrutinize any questionable play and have replays as a deciding factor.
There's other issues, but I think these are enough...

Has anyone ever taken a stop watch and tried this experiment? even a wristwatch stopwatch will work. From the time the ball is snapped to the time the ref blows the whistle have the stopwatch running. Anything else, stop the watch. See how much REAL playing time there is in a game. last time I tried it I got about sixteen minutes of actual playing time. Try it and see.


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Knuckles the CLown wrote:i can't take any sport serious that does not have a salary cap.

I used to think that, too... But then the Yankees went 5 years, spending approximately a BILLION dollars (for real) on payroll, without winning a World Series, a streak that continues to this day, which makes me think something is right with the universe after all.

yeah but they never miss the playoffs.

NOT UNTIL THIS YEAR!!

HONK-HONK!

Bugs wrote:Baseball has its problems, which I'm sure you'll all be happy to list.

The thing I worry about is that my constant yelling at people has made some people on this BBS think that I can't have a civil conversation.

It beggars my imagination.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:The thing I worry about is that my constant yelling at people has made some people on this BBS think that I can't have a civil conversation.

It beggars my imagination.

Beggar this, you fucking cuntlick.

Then you post something like that and TOTALLY REDEEDM YOURSELF.

I've been thinking about baseball versus football for a couple days now. Here's what I've come up with, at random:


1) Time investment. 162 games times 3 hours equals... ah.. it equals almost ten times as many hours as I need to spend on football in my life. Do you like how I didn't bother to include any possible playoff games in that comparison? Yeah me too.

2) Access. Maybe this is a self-fulfilling prophecy. I can not remember the last time ESPN had the Blue Jays on as the game of the week or whatnot. I've caught the occasional game on a weird-ass network, but then you're listening to the homer announcers. Actually, that requires its own section. But by saying it's self-fulfilling: I get the NFL Ticket, so I get all the Saints games, but I have not made a similar commitment to Extra Innings.

3) Chances my team has at doing something. OK, here's the thing, and this is going to come off as retarded to the average fan of both sports. I honestly think that the Saints have had a greater chance at winning a championship than the Blue Jays since 1994, even though a casual look at the standings indicates a bunch of 3-13 and 6-10 seasons for the Saints. The thing is, due to the sheer amount of teams that get into the playoffs in football and how big-market teams don't dominate, the Saints' season is alive a lot longer than the Jays.

4) Salary cap. I cannot fucking stand seeing the same teams gobble up all the "good" players. It fills me with a rage that has really turned me off to the sport. Sure, I think it's hilarious that a sports team spent, as you said, literally a BILLION dollars in the last few years and do not have a ring to show for it, but they are still, along with Boston, squeezing my team out of a playoff spot. More, there's no apologies and a lot of fans think that things are GOOD as they are now.

5) The lack of overdone statistical analysis. I wrote this on Caltrops, but it bears repeating. I really get tired of website that try to convince you that Andre Dawson wasn't that good because he didn't walk very often or that Josh Phelps is going to be a breakout player based on which minor league player he's most likely to emulate. There are some sites trying to do it for football, but here's my thing with football - it goes back to the short season. In 2001 the Saints were coming off their first playoff victory. They were 7-5 and well placed to make a playoff run. At that point, depending on who you ask, Joe Horn, Joe Johnson and/or Jim Haslett had sex with Willie Roaf's ex-stripper wife. The team goes into complete disarray and finished 7-9, losing each of the last four games by an average of 40-10. You find me a stat and some alphabet soup acronym to demonstrate how likely a team is to free fall when your star DE fucks your star LT's wife. Anyway, the constant statting of things bugs me. Baseball Prospectus even projects stats at a, what, 50%, 75% and 100% projection. If you make more than one guess it's not a projection! It really gets old seeing them pat themselves on the back choosing the appropriate projection that most makes their articles look good. I hate all of it.

6) Announcers. OK, before I forget - they are terrible in football, but they are even worse in baseball. The fact that the "PUT IT ON THE BOARD!!!!" guys for the White Sox got to see a championship in their lifetime... that just puts a damper on the sport as a whole, eh?

7) Player departments. Just a personal thing. I like that an enormously overweight pig, a track star, a diminutive piece of Eurotrash and a balding kid from middle America that can read defenses can all combine together to form the basis of a winning football team. No matter your background, you always have a place in football, unless you're hispanic.


8) Video games. There is no baseball game 1/1,000,000th as good as Front Page Sports: Football 98. Shit, there is no baseball game as good as NHL '98, either. (Nothing magical about 1998, I only just realized that.) I hate to say it, but I am bound to be more interested in a sport if I am playing fake version of it and merging it with my inane love of computer games at the same time.

Ah, shit that's all I got. That being said, we could be a few months away from post-season Toronto baseball, and I can't fucking wait.

http://www.insidedenver.com/drmn/nfl/ar ... 85,00.html

haha! God I'm glad the fucking Broncos lost. Jake Plummer sums up everything I hated about Colorado. Nice beard you hippe fag! He doesn't want to win a Super Bowl, just merely wake up every morning and sip his coffee, eat his organic ham and stare at those ugly mounds of dirt errrr MOUNTAINS! Maybe rat face can go out and get some more Browns to get over the hump.

So it all came up Sherwin! The team Ben pretends to like (Redskins) got stomped, the Broncos are done and the Seahawks are headed to Super Bowl XL! I LOVE IT!!

Make sure to read voice of the Broncos-Bernie Stinkcum-column above.

AND apparently two radio guys in Denver were yuking it up pregame mispronouncing all the names of the national writers who had the audacity (common sense) to pick the Steelers to crush the Broncos. Don Banks of SI takes a nice shot at them in his post game column on cnnsi.com. I guess being the only populated area in a 2,000 mile radius causes this smugness.

AS IT SHOULD BE!!

Link comes up as empty sheet.

AS IT SHOULD HAVE!

Kobe Bryant is the greatest basketball player in the history of sports.

Of ALL sports. Not just basketball. He is also the greatest basketball player in the history of cricket.

pinback wrote:Kobe Bryant is the greatest basketball player in the history of sports.

Of ALL sports. Not just basketball. He is also the greatest basketball player in the history of cricket.

Waitasec. A guy scored 100 once. Isn't he better?

I think the only thing you can say is that Kobe Bryant has the worst teammates in the history of sports. Of ALL sports. Not just basketball.

Kobe Bryant has the worst teammates in the history of cricket.

That is a safe statement.

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Waitasec. A guy scored 100 once. Isn't he better?

No, because:

1. His percentage of the total points scored by his team was lower.

2. The final score of the game (not even a full 48 minutes) was 169-147. Find me a player on either team who DIDN'T score 100 that night.

3. Wilt was 9 feet tall and 400 pounds, and everyone else playing was smaller than my mother (who once guarded Cal Ripken in a teachers vs. Orioles basketball game, but that's another story.)

4. Kobe Bryant has the worst teammates in the history of cricket.

I'd like to hear the story about how your mother guarded Cal Ripken.

There was a guy in Rochester who was obsessed with Cal Ripken. Cal Ripken Jr. we called him, back then. The guy ran a sports collectable card store. He loved Cal.

The guy went out of business.

Something happened where the Orioles went over to her school, and they had a teachers vs. Orioles basketball game, to raise money, or for the Guns-4-Kids program or whatever it was, and someone came out, so the coach uttered those four famous words which you will never ever stop being told about if you hang around with my mother long enough:

"PAT! You guard Cal!"

Bam. Mother-guarding-Cal-Ripken story.