Sportsball WTF
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@Gustav said in Sportsball WTF:
@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
A sport so boring that even the players themselves have trouble telling whether their own match is still going on or not.
Reminds me of this classic:
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@boomzilla something similar happened in F1 recently. The staff didn't anticipate that doofus in last place, almost a full lap behind, is going to do the mandatory pit in his very last lap.
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@Gustav abbr’d in Sportsball WTF:
not LAST last but I don't know the English term for someone near but not quite last place
Penultimate.
Fake edit: wait, that’s Latin
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@kazitor alas, he wasn't second-to-last, but fourth-to-last (so antepenultimate doesn't work either), and even that only if you don't count the numerous DNFs. I was looking for a generic term for the last few places in the race, without specifying which one in particular (as specifying it would break the flow of the sentence).
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@Gustav said in Sportsball WTF:
@boomzilla ...is going to do the mandatory pit in his very last lap.
I remember watching this live back in 2002:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muTGte63Wak
The Winston (now called the All-Star Race) was/is NASCAR's mid-season special event. The format has varied, but in 2002 it was three mini-races with the last place drivers eliminated each time. In most formats one of the races requires the drivers to come in and make a four tire pit stop under green; in 2002 it was the first one.
Two other rules to know: the race teams get to pick where their pit stall will be on pit road (based on some criteria like owner's points) and the Start/Finish line extends onto pit road.
Jeff Burton's race team picked a pit stall before the Start/Finish line (at Charlotte it's halfway down the pit lane), then pitted on the very last lap of the first race. Because they stayed out the entire time they had a large lead when they did go into the pits; after pitting they only had to go a few car lengths before crossing the Start/Finish line which cut off half of the time they'd normally go at the pit road speed limit. They ended up in second place. Unfortunately, the car had a clutch problem and they didn't advance out of the second segment.
NASCAR changed the rules the next year so you had to do your pit stop before the last 5 laps of the first race segment.
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Ah, tennis. The bastion of honor and good sportsmanship.
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@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
Ah, tennis. The bastion of honor and good sportsmanship.
Baseball deals with this sort of thing differently:
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It seems unlikely Ozuna’s teammates will be celebrating his latest feat, but you never know.
Oh, I assure you that they will "celebrate" it plenty around him.
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Believing he had mashed Gallen’s offering into the seats, Ozuna stood at home plate and admired his handiwork before the ball hit an overhang just below the line that marks a home run at Chase Field in Phoenix.
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@DogsB watching the video, I can't blame the guard. As tackles go, it was fairly smooth, too.
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@boomzilla Without watching the video, I wouldn't blame the guard either.
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Game winning run or horrible miscall? You decide!
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@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
Game winning run or horrible miscall? You decide!
My vote is for horrible miscall.
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I hope when the rule gets implemented full time, it gets called the Lebron Rule
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@izzion European football players reading this new rule:
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I sincerely doubt that European football players read articles about the NBA. Heck, I'm not convinced they know how to read in the first place.
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The nice part about manly man sports like the other football is you can admit when your feefees get hurt
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Dude got a single then stole 2nd, 3rd and home.
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@boomzilla The comment is correct, though, that it was largely due to mistakes by Milwaukee. Stealing second was totally legit. He was able to steal third easily (he might or might not have been successful otherwise) because the 3rd baseman wasn't in position to do anything. And he stole home because the pitcher wasn't paying attention between pitches.
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They didn't even make it to half time!
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FCS hired cupcakes have nothing on German futbol preseason friendlies:
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@DogsB said in Sportsball WTF:
At least in the old days, the streakers didn't damage the environment. And some were even easyish on the eyes.
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Members of the public are urged not to speculate
Yeah, good luck with that.
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Yeesh.
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@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
Gotta admire her spunk...
In her qualifying race, Nasra Abukar was immediately left behind by the other runners and finished about 10 seconds after the winner. Despite being dead last, she did a little skip in the air as she crossed the finish line.
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Didn't know the race was an athletic discipline.
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@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
Related:
tl;dr:
In 1976, the dictator of Haiti, Baby Doc Duvalier, forgot to organize an Olympic team, so at the last second he picked a team consisting of runners and boxers from his friends and his Tonton Macoute goon squad to the Montreal Games.
They were memorably bad.
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Because ESPN’s new video player belongs in one of our sidebar WTF threads, I can’t share just the clip. But the highlight for “Blue Jays beat Red Sox on colossal base running mistake” is the most TOOTBLAN play I’ve ever seen.
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@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
ESPN’s new video player belongs in one of our sidebar WTF threads, I can’t share just the clip.
And it won't play at all for me.
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@HardwareGeek said in Sportsball WTF:
@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
ESPN’s new video player belongs in one of our sidebar WTF threads, I can’t share just the clip.
And it won't play at all for me.
It took a very long while to load. Trust me, the hilarity is worth it.
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@izzion I've given it about a half-hour or so. I don't think it's gonna load.
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@HardwareGeek said in Sportsball WTF:
@izzion I've given it about a half-hour or so. I don't think it's gonna load.
unfortunate. I guess their anti-Adblock must be a bit wonky or something.
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@HardwareGeek said in Sportsball WTF:
@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
ESPN’s new video player belongs in one of our sidebar WTF threads, I can’t share just the clip.
And it won't play at all for me.
Consider that a win and move on
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@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
Because ESPN’s new video player belongs in one of our sidebar WTF threads, I can’t share just the clip. But the highlight for “Blue Jays beat Red Sox on colossal base running mistake” is the most TOOTBLAN play I’ve ever seen.
LOLDumbass.
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DOWN GOES ANDERSON!
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@boomzilla said in Sportsball WTF:
In 1976, the dictator of Haiti, Baby Doc Duvalier, forgot to organize an Olympic team, so at the last second he picked a team consisting of runners and boxers from his friends and his Tonton Macoute goon squad to the Montreal Games.
They were memorably bad.
"Dieudonne Lamothe finished an embarrassing last in the 1984 Olympic marathon...After running 2:52 and last in the 1984 Olympic marathon"
2:52, while maybe embarrassing for the Olympic Marathon, is not a horrible time at all for an ordinary marathoner. You have to be a pretty serious long-distance runner in his prime to run a 2:52. I'm not sure if it's still fast enough to qualify for the Boston Marathon for a man in his '20's, but it was for many decades.
"Dieudonné LaMothe finished the 1988 Olympic marathon at Seoul, remarkably, in 20th place, in a time of 2:16"
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England is so cursed that not even the women can bring it home snicker
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Ouch.
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