Sportsball WTF
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@accalia said in Sportsball WTF:
@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
Can't wait for
the arguments over whether a game was influenced by the ad rotation at a critical momentthe court to get hacked to display porn.oh, i bet it won't get hacked. i bet it'll be @Tsaukpaetra coming in for some maintenance and plugging their laptop into what they think is an external montior while they work and it auto plays some absolute degenerate furry hentai porn.
... wait... no.. that would be what it'd do if i plugged my laptop in. oopsies. :D
Man, I feel bad for @Tsaukpaetra catching strays... not even in a sort-of-normal thread like something about bronies... but the all out degeneracy of sportsball!
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@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
@accalia said in Sportsball WTF:
@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
Can't wait for
the arguments over whether a game was influenced by the ad rotation at a critical momentthe court to get hacked to display porn.oh, i bet it won't get hacked. i bet it'll be @Tsaukpaetra coming in for some maintenance and plugging their laptop into what they think is an external montior while they work and it auto plays some absolute degenerate furry hentai porn.
... wait... no.. that would be what it'd do if i plugged my laptop in. oopsies. :D
Man, I feel bad for @Tsaukpaetra catching strays... not even in a sort-of-normal thread like something about bronies... but the all out degeneracy of sportsball!
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@accalia said in Sportsball WTF:
@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
Can't wait for
the arguments over whether a game was influenced by the ad rotation at a critical momentthe court to get hacked to display porn.oh, i bet it won't get hacked. i bet it'll be @Tsaukpaetra coming in for some maintenance and plugging their laptop into what they think is an external montior while they work and it auto plays some absolute degenerate furry hentai porn.
... wait... no.. that would be what it'd do if i plugged my laptop in. oopsies. :D
Worse, it'll play ponies!
@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
Man, I feel bad for @Tsaukpaetra catching strays... not even in a sort-of-normal thread like something about bronies... but the all out degeneracy of sportsball!
Catching strays? :tilted_question:
When was there a brony thread anyways?
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Sportsball WTF:
Catching strays? :tilted_question:
Kinda like getting hit by stray bullets as an innocent bystander to a drive-by shooting.
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@izzion Ah. I have no issues being summoned for comment. Whether said commentary is useful for any given purpose is up for debate...
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Sportsball WTF:
useful
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@izzion That should be fun when they start dripping sweat on it. Nothing like wet glass so you can go slip sliding away...
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Are you ready for a DOWNTOWN wedgie?
Edit: since the embed title author is less imaginative than the front page guy:
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An actual trade from this year's NBA trade deadline, per ESPN.com:
3:09 p.m. ET: The Oklahoma City Thunder acquired a 2028 pick swap from the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for a 2024 first-round draft pick. The 2024 pick will be sent to the Washington Wizards in the Daniel Gafford deal, sources told ESPN's Tim MacMahon. The draft pick is the second-least favorable of the Houston Rockets 2024 draft pick (top-four protected), the LA Clippers 2024 draft pick, the Utah Jazz 2024 draft pick (top-10 protected) or Oklahoma City's own 2024 draft pick.
You know, maybe there is such a thing as too convoluted of a trade.
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TIL that Phoenix is in Ireland
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@dcon Assuming that's not shopped, and looking at the presumed trajectory, he's about to miss her about as bad as any of Mac Jones' pass attempts.
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@The_Quiet_One said in Sportsball WTF:
the presumed trajectory
My presumption is that he threw her up to do a twist and they're moving together.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyOj6RS18pU
Filed Under: Ruining the joke with knowledge
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Well of course they’re not smart. They’re fans of women’s soccer
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@boomzilla said in Sportsball WTF:
I don't even know how professional golfers screw this up. Golf scorecards are so easy, all you have to do is keep writing down Fore!
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It's almost like watching toddlers play flag football mixed with football in slow motion.
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Given the big brass balls it takes to dog sled across Alaska, I deem this worthy of this thread
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@izzion it's even better than that:
The very first day of the event, mushers Jesse Holmes and Dallas Seavey met a moose face-to-face. First, Holmes ran into the beast as he closed in on the Finger Lakes checkpoint. He said he punched the moose in the face when it got close.
Yes, you read that right. Holmes punched the moose right in the nose.
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Even a moose rethinks his plans when he gets punched in the face.
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@boomzilla said in Sportsball WTF:
My personal favorite has always been shortstop Ron Hansen, probably because I was following baseball at the time and saw it happen.
Hansen was playing for the Chicago White Sox and was traded to Washington for infielder Tim Cullen. While playing a 3 game series against Cleveland:
Game 1 - Hansen made an unassisted triple play, the first time this had been done in 40 years
Game 2 - He hit a grand slam home run
Game 3 - He was traded back to Chicago, for infielder Tim Cullen, the first time in MLB history where two players were traded for each other twice in the same season
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If those sport fans could read, they'd be very angry.
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@boomzilla
This one time, at band camp,I once visited an ostrich farm and at the end of the tour they had set up a small racing track. Half a dozen of us (me included) got plunked on top of an ostrich each (legs astride the wings, holding with hands at the base of the wings), and then they were released.I wouldn't really call it "racing" as there wasn't
muchany control and the ostriches mostly ran because there were guides scaring them from behind. And no one cared about picking a winner, it was mostly about hanging on as far as we could.It only lasted... maybe 20s, tops? Still, pretty funny overall. There probably is a picture of that somewhere, if I could find it.
ETA: found it! Either my memory was bad and there wasn't a race, or (I think) this was the "practice run."
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@Carnage said in Sportsball WTF:
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By that standard, snooker should be the manliest of sports
Then again, both players have to play with the same balls, but that's the case for most sports (golf and bowling are the exceptions I can think of -- and all variants of boules though each player has their own balls, but they might hit other players'...).
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Of course, the
main questionconspiracy theory is was it Ohtani's gambling and the interpreter is taking the bullet to save the new face of the game from getting Rosed.
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Whoopsie daisy
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Reading the headlines thread crossover event!
Oh boy, the boring brand of basketball endemic to recent all star games has come for late season showdowns. Time to burn it all down and popularize
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@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
Celtics, Bucks combine for record-low 2 FTAs
I watch a lot of courtroom videos, so I read that as 2 Failures To Appear. I wouldn't object if all the teams failed to appear.
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If you don't watch the game, does it
make a soundeven matter if the teams are there or not?
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Terrible:
Beautiful:
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Basketball joins the Pete Rose club
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So nice of the WADA to accept the verdict of the completely non-interested party Chinese anti-doping agency that those positives were just contamination.
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The 23-inning slugfest that took place over 25 and a half hours set a record for the longest game in Texas high school sports history, but somehow fell two innings shy of the American high school record for the longest game of all time
Nothing about 7 runs in 23 innings says, "slugfest."
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@boomzilla said in Sportsball WTF:
The 23-inning slugfest that took place over 25 and a half hours set a record for the longest game in Texas high school sports history, but somehow fell two innings shy of the American high school record for the longest game of all time
Nothing about 7 runs in 23 innings says, "slugfest."
Maybe the author is a Chicago White Sox fan who dreams of 2 runs in 23 innings
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Ah yes, the flawless "I don't even know where to get steroids" defense
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@izzion reminds me of a quip that entered pop culture in . There was a satirical TV show with puppets mocking the news, so when a cyclist tested positive and defended himself with some poorly phrased half-baked excuse, they mocked him by having his puppet saying that it happened "hidden from his free will" or something similar (the French original was "à l'insu de mon plein gré" which is about 100% idiomatic...).
That show coined quite a few other expressions and memes, a few of them still alive 20 or 30 years later, and I'm sure many people aren't even aware they came from there.
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Some people aren't even aware that this phrasing was a joke, and use it seriously.
@remi said in Sportsball WTF:
"hidden from his free will"
It's hard to translate, since it's both idiomatic and self-contradicting, but it'd be something like "[it happened] despite my full agreement" (i.e., a self-incriminating Freudian slip).
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Legend
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Slightly OT: Sport, but not involving balls (at least the sport is not played with balls; no speculation with the competitors).
The cheapest item on the F1 menu: $120. Something to get @Polygeekery riled up: $560 for a bottle of Jack.
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@HardwareGeek said in Sportsball WTF:
Slightly OT: Sport, but not involving balls (at least the sport is not played with balls; no speculation with the competitors).
The cheapest item on the F1 menu: $120. Something to get @Polygeekery riled up: $560 for a bottle of Jack.
On one hand, those prices are stupid. On the other hand, the Hard Rock Beach Club is listed as a "Premium Experience" on the F1 event's website. While I wouldn't expect a NASCAR VIP suite's menu to have prices that sky-high, I wouldn't expect them to have $2 beers either. (I also doubt very many NASCAR tracks have a nightclub with pool and whatnot.)
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2/3 of lightning-caused fatalities are for soccer players and golfers? I never realized thunderstorms are so beneficial for humanity.