Sportsball WTF
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In which a rugby game breaks out:
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Those were his first two at bats in college. His career is all downhill from here.
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@boomzilla now that's what I call Backpfeifengesicht!
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@boomzilla said in Sportsball WTF:
I just figured out what golf needs to be
interestingless boring — exploding golf balls. Hmm, maybe 95% chance of basic flash-bang, and 5% chance of lethal shrapnel. I'm still trying to decide on the probability of exploding on impact with the club vs. impact with the ground vs. impact with a bystander. (I know what I'd favor, but it might tend to make the game a lot less popular with players.)
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@HardwareGeek said in Sportsball WTF:
@boomzilla said in Sportsball WTF:
I just figured out what golf needs to be
interestingless boring — exploding golf balls. Hmm, maybe 95% chance of basic flash-bang, and 5% chance of lethal shrapnel. I'm still trying to decide on the probability of exploding on impact with the club vs. impact with the ground vs. impact with a bystander. (I know what I'd favor, but it might tend to make the game a lot less popular with players.)Also, a hole-on-one must generate a spectacular event.
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@dcon said in Sportsball WTF:
@HardwareGeek said in Sportsball WTF:
@boomzilla said in Sportsball WTF:
I just figured out what golf needs to be
interestingless boring — exploding golf balls. Hmm, maybe 95% chance of basic flash-bang, and 5% chance of lethal shrapnel. I'm still trying to decide on the probability of exploding on impact with the club vs. impact with the ground vs. impact with a bystander. (I know what I'd favor, but it might tend to make the game a lot less popular with players.)Also, a hole-on-one must generate a spectacular event.
A fireworks show, with strippers and booze? Eh, hold the fireworks. And the booze.
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@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
@dcon said in Sportsball WTF:
@HardwareGeek said in Sportsball WTF:
@boomzilla said in Sportsball WTF:
I just figured out what golf needs to be
interestingless boring — exploding golf balls. Hmm, maybe 95% chance of basic flash-bang, and 5% chance of lethal shrapnel. I'm still trying to decide on the probability of exploding on impact with the club vs. impact with the ground vs. impact with a bystander. (I know what I'd favor, but it might tend to make the game a lot less popular with players.)Also, a hole-on-one must generate a spectacular event.
A fireworks show, with strippers and booze? Eh, hold the fireworks. And the booze.
Alrighty then. Stripping golf ball it is, you weird fucker.
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Not really a WTF and there's no ball in this sport but this knockout was too good not to share:
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@boomzilla Seemed like a properly fast punch at first, but the more they replay it the slower it looks. Honestly, by the end, you can see he just kinda pushes the guy over. What kind of boxing is this?
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@Gribnit Nigerian?
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@boomzilla said in Sportsball WTF:
@Gribnit Nigerian?
Well, if you need to speed it up to make it look good it can't be that great.
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@Gribnit I can live with that.
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@boomzilla said in Sportsball WTF:
@Gribnit I can live with that.
Can you? For how long? A year? A decade? A century? Sooner or later, you'll crack.
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@boomzilla said in Sportsball WTF:
Not really a WTF and there's no ball in this sport but this knockout was too good not to share:
The result looks like a meme.
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@Zerosquare so do memes. and this result also looks like this result. hold on a second here. memes look like memes, in turn. it's all falling into place.
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The Pittsburgh Pirates baseball club have a beautiful ballpark overlooking their impressive Robber Baron downtown, but they play in a small market, so their ownership, after the optimistic but brief Andrew McCutcheon Era, appears to be content with being the St. Louis Browns of the 2020s. Hence, plays like this in which the entire Pirate team forgets a basic rule of baseball: that with 2 outs, the batter must safely reach first base for any other base runners to advance:
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Hmmm, viewership is falling and teams are averaging 972 strikeouts per game. How can we be more hip?
Maybe start extra innings with a runner on second?
What about a pitch clock?
What if we enforced the foreign substance rules?flies out window
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@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
Hmmm, viewership is falling and teams are averaging 972 strikeouts per game. How can we be more hip?
Maybe start extra innings with a runner on second?
What about a pitch clock?
What if we enforced the foreign substance rules?flies out window
So? They get their speed prescription.
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@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
Hmmm, viewership is falling and teams are averaging 972 strikeouts per game. How can we be more hip?
Maybe start extra innings with a runner on second?
What about a pitch clock?
What if we enforced the foreign substance rules?flies out window
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Could have gone in the fake coins thread as well ...
still wearing too much clothes for a streaker for my taste ...
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@Luhmann
the uk bottom feeder 'news' site kindly reminded me about cola-gate ...tl;ds: Ronaldo (one of the world wide best payed soccer players) moves the displayed (because it's a sponsor) coca-cola bottles away and advises everybody to drink water during a press conference
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@Luhmann And that in turn reminds me of the Allianz Arena rainbowgate. I don't have a proper news link since I don't read news in English so have an UEFA statement instead.
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could go in the thread ... or something too ...
or in the corporate whores one ...
we don't have that? why not?
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@izzion all the potential of a baseball joke - but with politics? Stunning!
And doesn't discuss that they have Adderal prescriptions at the nerd vs the jock rate in MLB? Oh well.
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In all fairness it had gotten a little out of hand:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8UjLR5nvx0
That was ruled as "wedged".
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Apparently I did have enough talent to be paid to play baseball after all...
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A streaker showing pussy on the field
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@izzion remote viewing shows this to involve a cat. too lazy to verify.
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French fans camp out at the airport in droves after they heard that one of the world's best soccer players is allegedly landing in Paris that day:
Meanwhile the paparazzi are out and about:
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The story itself makes me sad. I wasn't going to watch (PPV is too damn expensive) but was excited to see who would win. But I was amused by this bit:
“The Senator is very disappointed about Errol Spence’s injury but is happy he still gets to compete,” Gibbons said. “He has been looking extraordinarily sharp in training and would have given a great performance against Spence.
Because, of course, Manny Pacquiao is a member of the Philippine Senate. Though he's apparently on the outs with his party:
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@boomzilla said in Sportsball WTF:
The story itself makes me sad. I wasn't going to watch (PPV is too damn expensive) but was excited to see who would win. But I was amused by this bit:
“The Senator is very disappointed about Errol Spence’s injury but is happy he still gets to compete,” Gibbons said. “He has been looking extraordinarily sharp in training and would have given a great performance against Spence.
Because, of course, Manny Pacquiao is a member of the Philippine Senate. Though he's apparently on the outs with his party:
Phillipine politics must be like Texas Texas
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Kind of really a non-WTF, but my free thread quota hasn't recharged yet
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@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
Somehow missed that post before. Anyway, reading through the article, this part caught my attention:
in soccer you can’t simply run ahead of everyone else to get a clear shot at goal. Instead, you have to wait until Carl wipes the mustard off his mouth and gets back in position somewhere in front of his goal, then don’t run past him. You can kick it past him. Just don’t get behind him.
I know it's satire but even then I'm not sure the author is aware the exact opposite is true (it's always legal to run past the opponent, but kicking the ball past him usually isn't.)
Also, isn't not embarrassing the opponents a handegg thing? I remember a discussion somewhere on this forum where people claimed the pinnacle of sportsmanship is to stop playing the game and blatantly running the clock if the other team can't keep up with you.
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@Gąska said in Sportsball WTF:
it's always legal to run past the opponent, but
kickingpassing the ball past him usually isn't when he's the rearmost defender (excluding the goalkeeper)FTFY. Just kicking it past someone isn't a problem at all.
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See that word "usually"? That implies sometimes it's a legal move, doesn't it? Pray tell, when exactly is passing the ball past the rearmost defender legal in football?
better.
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@Gąska said in Sportsball WTF:
Pray tell, when exactly is passing the ball past the rearmost defender legal in football?
When the rearmost defender (and the person to whom you are passing the ball) are both on your team's half of the field.
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@izzion said in Sportsball WTF:
@Gąska said in Sportsball WTF:
Pray tell, when exactly is passing the ball past the rearmost defender legal in football?
When the rearmost defender (and the person to whom you are passing the ball) are both on your team's half of the field.
Also, also, the rule is actually based on being past the second-rearmost defender (regardless of position played). No distinction is made based on any given defender being the goalkeeper.