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Old 06-25-2009, 10:35 AM
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The best way I can compare baseball to soccer is:


Baseball = NASCAR (not much going on)

Soccer = F1 (constant changes at full force and exertion)
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First touch, no angle, far post, around the keeper curl.

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Tennis ranks up there with "skillful" sports.
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Um, how is hitting a baseball, no matter what what fashion, more difficult then what the guy in the original video is doing? What he's doing takes so much skill that there's only a very small number of people that can duplicate what he's doing...
Well firstly...the ball isn't moving. Secondly, it's A LOT bigger. Thirdly it's one thing to kick something and put spin/motion on it than it is to hit something with a wooden stick and do the same.

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Hitting a baseball might be tough, but so is being really good at bowling... The competition bowlers are friggin crazy good and it takes MAD skill to do the things that they do, but I still don't consider bowling as a sport, and you have to exert more physical energy in bowling then you do in baseball, of course minus the pitcher and catcher...
A sport is any kind of physical pastime. Doesn't have to be a marathon on your body. Also - catchers are usually the biggest people on the team - more mass = more stopping power. The shortstop is by far the most athletic, then center fielder - they have to cover HUGE distances to field a ball.

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In baseball you can stand around for 89% of the time and not do a damn thing, then you come up to bat and strike out, and then do more of nothing, then go stand in the outfield and do more nothing... I just can't consider the players as true athletes... It's more of a game then anything.
How is a physical game not a sport?

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sport

And if you strike out 89% of the time and don't make a single play - you aren't playing baseball, sorry. You get benched and kicked off the team. I don't care WHAT league you are in.

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If you can be fat and compete in a sport, then you're probably not competing in a real sport. lol
I dare you to tell that to any member of the NFL, MLB, TNBA, or JSA.
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Chess today is a recognized sport of the International Olympic Committee.

An estimated 605 million people worldwide know how to play chess, and 7.5 million are members of national chess federations, which exist in 160 countries worldwide. This makes chess one of the most popular sports worldwide.
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If it has a TV spot on ESPN - it's a sport to me.
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makes me wanna play some baseketball
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Baseball is a sport but it doesn't take as much skill as say tennis, soccer, or chess.

woo go giants.
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Originally Posted by R-Dub
If it has a TV spot on ESPN - it's a sport to me.
ok well soccer comes on ESPN
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Originally Posted by LOL Vtec
ok well soccer comes on ESPN
Not as much as it should =(
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Originally Posted by LOL Vtec
ok well soccer comes on ESPN
Sure, ESPN Desportes. So it's a sport too....any kind of physical pastime is really. Even curling. CURLING.
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Old 06-25-2009, 11:12 AM
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how about e-sport? stacraft ftw
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Originally Posted by LOL Vtec
ok well soccer comes on ESPN
So does chess http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1142
It is even on their arcade website http://arcade.espn.go.com/online-chess.htm
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how about e-sport? stacraft ftw
Hell yes! http://www.wcg.com/6th/main.asp
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Originally Posted by brucelee
The best way I can compare baseball to soccer is:


Baseball = NASCAR (not much going on)

Soccer = F1 (constant changes at full force and exertion)

LMAO I didn't even see this one.

No comment - but obviously you didn't play real baseball if you think 'not much is going on'.
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