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and the world will live as one

then the waves crash against the rocks, the ships are smashed to bits, the sailors drown, the waves go back, and nothing's changed except more working people are dead

you people not watching this ballgame are stuelpnagels

I live my black ops baseball fandom vicariously through the firm of you, earlnash, mookie & partners

baseball is dumb

not a joke or a challop but my earnest belief

I just intentionally watched some baseball bcz I cannot ignore an explicit dare from that son of, and it might be dumb, but that tiny slice of melodrama reminded me that the point of sports is not intellectual and never will be

Simon, i am gonna hafta rassle you just for that, comrade.

Chess is dumb. Life is dumb

Obviously some of you are unfamiliar with the "baseball and democracy" monologue from Richard Greenberg's play Take Me Out.

https://tonycaselli.com/2006/10/16/a-monologue/

I think you guys missed the best inning by the time you turned on the channel. Baseball does have a unique intensity in big and well played games compared to other team sports.

^ I think that's true, especially in "post-season" games. Tonight's game for example was tense as hell until the 7th inning

Which I guess is what you meant by "big" games

Baseball is not some fucking dopamine mainline

there should be a different Daylight Savings Time each month or quarter but we set it so that it always gets dark around 7 pm

Actually it should just be set so happy hour always happens 2h before sunset. But maybe we’re just saying the same thing with different words.

why on earth is there baseball in late october

its nice af outside would be a good day to chill w a beer w some friends catch a game. lol do you people hate fun?

ILHF

I like fun, which is why I hate baseball.

my controversial opinion is that not really being into sports is fine, but not really being into sports but liking football is lame

which in part probably reflects my general distaste for dilettantism

I like fun, which is why I hate baseball watching sports.

I like hockey and Formula 1 racing. I hate baseball, basketball and (American) football. I don't care about soccer at all.

Formula 1?!?!?

Who actually likes that ffs?

I hate driving.

Not a knock on unperson, but a controversial opinion, maybe, for a man.

Not on ilx probably.

You can recreate the "famous" F1 atmosphere by pulling up a deck chair next to any motorway.

I like hockey and Formula 1 racing. I hate baseball, basketball and (American) football. I don't care about soccer at all.

― grawlix (unperson), Saturday, 21 October 2017 22:06 (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

An awful selection, awful

Do you guys know that I’ve been hit by a car twice and once pulled out of the way from a bus at the last possible moment?

The Olympics are cool, though, probably because a lot of the events generally take about 10 minutes instead of three hours. xps

I'm into darts and nout else sports

Darts is great, of course.

I did not know that, treeship. Were you older or younger when it happened?

F1 is perfect for sitting down after a big Sunday lunch, watching the start, napping through the whole race and waking up for the finish, not having missed anything important

The Modern Pentathlon is the best Olympic sport because you can watch people who can't ride horses very well try to do showjumping

Actually Ted Hankey looks enough like a controversial opinion to make his picture worth posting to this thread:

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/onesport/cps/624/cpsprodpb/B9A8/production/_87482574_tedhankey.jpg

Phil Taylor is the greatest sportsman since Don Bradman <--- controversial opinion

He's more what you'd call a spartsman

Phil Taylor does have his own very particular intensity, yeah. Find him a lot more captivating than footballers ppl have shown me as an example of what it's all about.

I mean:

http://cdn.images.dailystar.co.uk/dynamic/1/photos/993000/Phil-The-Power-Taylor-retirement-interview-824993.jpg

(Sorry about that, Treesh.)

Darts a game not a sport

my general distaste for dilettantism

there is nothing wrong with dilettantism; no one can be an expert in everything and superficial interests are fine

Otm. People should explore whatever they are interested in and not feel pressured to pretend to be an expert in whatever they’re into.

I got no problem with people not liking sport but they should keep quiet about it like the guiltiest secret

also this

You can recreate the "famous" F1 atmosphere by pulling up a deck chair next to any motorway.

― calzino, Saturday, 21 October 2017 23:15 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

made me IRL lol

feel like starting a "Fuck off, The Clientele" thread even tho I've never knowingly heard them

appreciate that this is probably not v controvers

I got no problem with people not liking sport but they should keep quiet about it like the guiltiest secret

I usually do. This is a thread for confessing controversial opinions.