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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.

oh sure wasn't aimed at you Sund4r just my own controp

The day the Yankees are eliminated is always the year's happiest in New York, among the moral and discerning.

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

― pulled pork state of mind (Noodle Vague), Sunday, October 22, 2017 12:12 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I haven't checked them out because the thread title puts me off so much, like The Smiths are the last good thing that happened to music, fuck that.

The day the Yankees are eliminated is always the year's happiest in New York, among the moral and discerning.

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Sunday, October 22, 2017 7:39 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not that controversial. I still remember high-fiving a total stranger in an LES pizzeria when the Yankees lost the WS to the Diamondbacks.

I like fun, which is why I hate baseball.

― grawlix (unperson)

i guess this explains my soft spot for baseball. i loathe fun.

PACO: It's okay to not specifically teach To Kill a Mockingbird; it's not censorship. The book is still sitting there in every library.

There's like thousands of really good books (and room for plenty more).

American literature is a broader topic than the 10 or 20 things some old person thinks everybody must read. It's not even like there's a shortage of other things that address race and justice - some of them even do it in fresher ways, that can do at least as good a job of educating people.

Making a culture-war dog-whistle out of that particular book is a distraction. We can respond by enlarging the canon, not by calcifying it.

“Baseball is a thinking man’s game.” -my stoner little league coach

baseball rules

whatcha think about Huckleberry Finn then, Puf?