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"Hit the little ball before the big ball "

i hear that at least 5 times when i play with my dad's group

5/21/2009 3:57:46 PM

give a hundred and ten percent. 110%

absolutely impossible. we are not nuclear reactors. we are not rated at a specific wattage which can be overrated for a higher output.

the maximum effort one can give (up to the point of death) would be 100%.

coaches should cliche with, give about 95.43 percent.

5/21/2009 4:21:03 PM

"To win the belt you have to beat the champ"

yall know what i mean, that logic is annoying and no fighter should have some sort of default advatnage in the eyes of the judges no matter what

5/21/2009 5:17:44 PM

bonusphere

tres

old-fashioned-three-point-play

5/21/2009 5:42:07 PM

i'm going to disneyland

5/21/2009 10:24:37 PM

"The hard way"

5/21/2009 11:16:41 PM

any jealousy/envy towards the SEC

just face it, they are the best

5/21/2009 11:18:51 PM

"The hardest thing to do in sports is hit a round ball with a round bat and hit it square."

1. "square" as used here has nothing to do with shapes
2. it'd be a hell of a lot harder if the bat was rectangular and the ball was a cube
3. it's not that fucking hard

5/21/2009 11:28:18 PM

Yeah hitting a 100 MPH fastball from Tim Lincecum is easy!

5/22/2009 1:12:36 AM

well its also hard to get it into one of the spaces where theres not 8 defenders

but i guess anything that people consistently do under 28% of the time would be harder... maybe like scoring in hockey, since goalies save like 90+% of shots?

i thought of one today during the game, but i can't remember now. oh well

5/22/2009 1:19:40 AM

hate it when the dbags on sportscenter say "winner winner chicken dinner"

they do it all dramatic, too.

5/22/2009 1:31:53 AM

I personally dislike the home runs by the DH in baseball and the one timers by the 3rd line

5/22/2009 2:28:57 AM

I think it is amusing when one team has already advanced in the playoffs, and they ask them who they want to play, and the coach gives some "Oh both teams are really competitive and we think it'd be a great match-up with either team."

Like last year when the Hawks took the Celtics to 7 games and they asked Lebron James who he thought they'd have a better chance against. I just wish he would have said something to the effect that since the C's finished the season 50 games over .500 and the Hawks backed in 8 games under .500 as the number 8 seed, they would have to be stupid to want to play the Celtics. But alas, he did not.

5/22/2009 5:15:29 AM

the cliché there is the reporter asking that question

5/22/2009 10:43:23 AM

morons who say "baseball is too slow"

yes, very slow. which part? the 95 mph pitch or the 120 mile an hour hit?

or the part where the ball travels 325 feet to the wall in 3 seconds and back to home plate in about 8 more?

Let me summarize. hmmm, the ball has traveled from the bat, to the wall, and back to its point of origin in 11 seconds spanning 650 feet. i didn't major in math, but that's 59 ft/second.

football: no speed comparison
basketball: they would need to take 8 timeouts to compute the math
hockey: puck may travel that fast(er) but not over such a vast distance
jai ali: don't really care

5/22/2009 2:13:23 PM

that "babe ruth was fat"

sure. even if he was, didn't stop him from having better numbers than EVERYBODY ELSE

5/22/2009 3:13:16 PM

baseball is too slow.

5/22/2009 3:26:26 PM

Quote :

"morons who say "baseball is too slow" yes, very slow. which part? the 95 mph pitch or the 120 mile an hour hit? or the part where the ball travels 325 feet to the wall in 3 seconds and back to home plate in about 8 more? Let me summarize. hmmm, the ball has traveled from the bat, to the wall, and back to its point of origin in 11 seconds spanning 650 feet. i didn't major in math, but that's 59 ft/second."

Ha

This is retarded

People say the pace of the game is slow, not the fucking ball itself.

5/22/2009 3:29:02 PM

my guess on the 'baseball is too slow' thing is that there's a lot of time between plays, not the speed of the few seconds during plays

5/22/2009 3:29:37 PM

My thoughts on the subject were summarized in this thread:

message_topic.aspx?topic=511065

5/22/2009 3:30:51 PM

^^^ that was so retarded i felt that it didn't even warrant a response

[Edited on May 22, 2009 at 3:32 PM. Reason : THE BALL FLYS OFF OF THE BAT, OK?]

5/22/2009 3:31:23 PM

With some pitchers (Steve Trachsel, Dice-K, etc), the network could literally show a full length 30 second commercial between every pitch

That's over 100 30 second windows in an average start

Thats 50 minutes of downtime, and thats just 6 innings, and thats just one side of the ball

thats why lots of people hate baseball

5/22/2009 3:32:11 PM

I actually laughed out loud when I read that

Dude was defending baseball by arguing pitch velocity

Laugh

Out

Loud

Online

5/22/2009 3:33:00 PM

LOLO

that's a new one i can't wait to use

5/22/2009 3:33:56 PM

All Japanese pitchers are slow (I'm racist)

You could air half of Gone With the Wind during Nomo's windup

5/22/2009 3:34:17 PM

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"or the part where the ball travels 325 feet to the wall in 3 seconds and back to home plate in about 8 more? "

I don't understand this part at all



Unless Henry Rowengardner is in the stands

5/22/2009 3:36:59 PM

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"That's over 100 30 second windows in an average start"

So basically, that's like a NFL game?

[Edited on May 22, 2009 at 3:44 PM. Reason : oh, ernie's thread covered this]

5/22/2009 3:43:35 PM

yeah but if I'm playing football I can't just sit there and scratch my nuts for those 30 seconds

5/22/2009 3:44:49 PM

n00bage

i LOLOed when i saw Ernie had only been registered since

7/21/2003 (2132.0 days ago)

doesn't even have 3000 days.

n00bage

5/22/2009 3:51:34 PM

When at first you don't suceed, fail, fail again.

5/22/2009 4:02:13 PM

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"All Japanese pitchers are slow (I'm racist)"

So I read that before reading the rest of the context of the discussion.

I was thinking that a lot of them looked pretty athletic to me, and why does it matter that they can't run fast?


Also, don't compare the down time of football to baseball. here is the difference : In baseball, there is downtime but the action following that downtime doesn't always result in excitement. Waiting 30 seconds to see a curve ball into the dirt is much different then waiting 24 seconds to see the next play in football, which will generally deliver something of merit toward the outcome of the game. Just my thoughts on it.

5/22/2009 6:08:59 PM

shut yo mouf

nah, baseball's boring, that's why i love it. you don't even have to watch it. you can sit there and drink and eat, talk, whatever...you'll know when something happens. or if you don't who cares, they'll show a replay before the next 2 pitches are thrown. football there's like 8 TVs on at once and you're tryin to follow all of them at the same time, not nearly enough time to drink your beer.

[Edited on May 22, 2009 at 6:17 PM. Reason : lol jeter sucks]

5/22/2009 6:16:14 PM

see, there is the problem. that curveball in the dirt DOES serve a purpose towards the outcome of the game. thrown to a worthless piece of shit, say, big floppy, david ortiz, that curve ball likely will be a strike to set up the batter later in the count or is an out pitch.

if the pitcher misses with it, say to a world class champion such as derek jeter, the count changes, the fastball is now likely and the fielders will have to adjust, the batter must adjust and the pitcher must hit his spot. every pitch affects the outcome of the game. you just have to be tuned into the nuiances of the game to notice.

football: me mongo, me run fast into other player. duherrrrrrrrrrr
hockey fan: me likey frenchie. he have no teef and mullet like mine. hit the guy, uh, what are the rules, me like hockey

5/22/2009 6:16:35 PM

You seriously want to start a "baseball is more sophisticated" argument? See that right there proves the point. When you have to start with the "you just don't get it" stuff.

How about that cliche, that certain sports fans are more sophisticated then others. Any sport can be as simple or as complicated as you want to make it. The fact that you just went with "football big dumb animal run at each other" makes me discredit anything you have to say anyway. Anyone would agree that football is extremely complex for a variety of reasons that don't need to be all listed.

Get real, all sports can be analyzed to death. Fucking nuances of baseball. If you want to sit in front of the tv and everyone 30 seconds analyze how that last pitch that slipped out of the pitchers hand then that is fine, you enjoy that. The thing I agree with is baseball is great to go sit in the stands, eat peanuts, and yell at people.

5/22/2009 6:24:22 PM

don't bust a blood vessle in your noodle. obviously all sports have some semblance of "planning" and things that lead up to others. i just happen to feel that it is most amplified in baseball. and BECAUSE of the downtime, the anticipation makes it attractive to a lot of people

5/22/2009 6:27:42 PM

get back on topic!

almost anytime that a basketball player makes a bank shot on a Sat. or Sun., we get to hear "it looks like the bank is open on weekends!"

5/22/2009 8:59:29 PM

I am going to have a TWW sports talk Memorial day (sunday) party, free food, booze, and Braves... who's in?

5/22/2009 9:06:33 PM

any time a player mentions God in an interview

5/23/2009 12:54:25 AM

BYOL


Bring ya own laptop for poasting!

5/23/2009 1:36:39 AM

^^^ in the ATL???

my roommates and i are thinking about driving down there to check out the aquarium sometime this summer

5/23/2009 2:17:22 AM

let me know when

5/23/2009 2:23:08 AM

will do

it will more than likely be before the end of june

5/23/2009 2:29:34 AM

pretty much any time an announcer mentions the phrases "old school", "old style", or anything roughly equivalent to "the way they used to do it"

5/23/2009 3:43:10 AM

"nobody believed in us"
"they didn't give us any respect"
"they're not even supposed to be here"
"barry melrose says we have a great arena:" lolzing @ the former ESA

5/24/2009 2:47:51 AM

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"He takes an NBA three!"

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"They have to stop the big plays"

Quote :

"WOULD-BE TACKLERS"

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"It's a #-possession game"

Also one of the most annoyingly hilarious pieces of commentary was when Oregon State beat #1 USC last year and one of the announcers called their tailback "slippery" like a dozen times after each run

5/24/2009 3:31:02 AM

"This kid is playing at SUCH a high level"

"The iron unkind"

"outside the bubble"

5/24/2009 12:25:36 PM

"cam ward says no"

more like, cam ward says "sure fucking thing"
lolzing

5/24/2009 12:31:39 PM

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"football there's like 8 TVs on at once and you're tryin to follow all of them at the same time, not nearly enough time to drink your beer."

What are you saying here? Honestly, I don't understand. Are you saying that only football has games being played at the same time?

5/24/2009 12:34:25 PM

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""The iron unkind""

5/24/2009 3:49:31 PM

in reference to offensive lineman, many of which run sub 5.0 40's at over 300 lbs

"he runs fast for a big man"

no shit sherlock, these dudes are studs who will break your announcing pencil neck

5/24/2009 5:43:08 PM