Comments by "Evan" (@MrEvanfriend) on "Baseball: As Unique as America | 5 Minute Video" video.
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kevfoda Homosexualism: Soccer involves men dressed in something very close to Catholic schoolgirl outfits. That's gay. Plus, why is women's soccer a thing, but women's football or women's baseball not? Because soccer is an effeminate sport for Nancy-boys.
The Melodramatic Performances: Pretending to be injured isn't tactics. It's theater (this also goes to the homosexualism point). Watch a football game, you'll see tactics. A soccer game? Not so much.
Score: "Watching people play [soccer] and not just the goals" is just watching men in gay outfits jogging (this also goes back to the homosexualism point). The entire point of team sports is to outscore the opponent. Even then, when other sports are low scoring, it's because of skill, not just because it's a poorly designed game. A low scoring baseball game is masterful pitching. A low scoring football game is an excellent battle of defenses. A low scoring soccer game is just par for the course. Ties are lame.
Worldwide: Americans don't like soccer because we can appreciate the strategy of football, the mechanics and complexity of baseball, and the speed of basketball. Soccer is slow paced, dull, and involves no skill other than running. This is why soccer is popular in shitty third world countries populated by illiterates. You don't need to be able to read a defense or understand different pitches. You just need to jog back and forth. Soccer is a perfect sport for the brain dead.
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kevfoda So much wrong here. Where to begin? Well, we'll start with women's sports. There is no women's football, or baseball. There's softball, a toned down version of baseball played by women (and in bar leagues across America). There is women's basketball, which nobody cares about, and soccer, an effeminate game that's perfect for women's sports.
What tactics are there in soccer? There's no pass or run, no reading the opposing team's plays and adjusting - no plays at all really. Just kicking a ball back and forth. And I don't know where you watch the Super Bowl, but I remember David Tyree's helmet catch after Eli Manning broke like three tackles in 2008, James Harrison's 100yd interception return in 2009, even Tim Krumrie breaking his leg in like 1991 or something. The halftime show is just so wives don't get fed up and make you change the channel.
Baseball doesn't have buzzers. Nice try though. The point of sports is to score more points than the opposing team. You aren't seriously trying to claim that guys jogging around for hours is cerebral, are you?
You may laugh at the idea of masterful pitching, but a pitcher in baseball is the most skilled athlete in any sport. Can you throw a 95mph fastball? Or place a curveball on the outside corner? If you can throw a 95mph fastball, can you slow it down about 10mph to fool a hitter? Of course not. You babble about being too stupid to understand guys jogging around occasionally kicking a ball, and yet you clearly lack the brains to understand a true thinking man's sport. As far as hitting? The best hitters hit about .330. If you can get a hit off major league pitching a third of the time, you're a superstar. It's incredibly hard to do.
As I said, the (third) world likes soccer because it requires nothing to understand, no real skills other than an ability to run, and no equipment besides a ball. Yeah, some African cannibal who thinks that written language is black magic can understand that. So can some Arab who thinks that learning things that aren't the Koran is a sin requiring blood atonement. The infield fly rule or a fake on fourth down are WAY outside their capacity. Soccer? Yeah, they can get that.
And you want to talk about ads? Like the ones all over every soccer jersey on earth?
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kevfoda Hahaha, still no argument. Guys jogging around and sometimes kicking a ball. No score, no action, no skill required other than running, no strategy, just jogging and the occasional theatrical display of effeminate overreaction pretending they're hurt. That's soccer.
Compare this to action, skill, actual finesse (a good curveball requires finesse. Jogging does not), competition...you know, things you see in real sports. Soccer loses hands down. There's a reason why when the yearly football game takes place in London, it always plays to a sold out stadium. Brits who don't even understand the game of football realize it's exciting, far more so than soccer, and they pour in. You can't give away seats at soccer games in America. Americans understand soccer, and we just realize that it's lame. Why would anyone pay money to watch jogging?
Besides the utter banality of soccer and the well established homosexualist tendencies of the game, let's look into the soccer fans. Soccer fans tend to be thugs who show up to games to fight each other and riot. The fact that this nonsense occurs in no other sports is illustrative. Baseball fans go to baseball games because they like baseball. Football fans go to football games because they like football. Soccer fans go to soccer games to riot. Even the fans don't find guys jogging around all that entertaining.
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kevfoda Hahaha now you're so angry you've lost the ability to type coherently. Americans understand soccer. We just don't like it. In America, soccer is a sport for children, because it's non contact, there's no real need to understand any complex rules or plays, and there's usually no scoring. This is also why it's popular in "most of the world", namely shitty third world countries with abysmal literacy rates. Yes, soccer is popular in West Africa, where cannibalism is also popular. Soccer is the game of choice in the Islamic State, a place known for its enlightenment on everything. Why is this? Because these savages couldn't begin to understand baseball or football. No, they need a sport for simpletons. Soccer fits the bill perfectly. In America, we play baseball and football. Japan and South Korea, baseball reigns supreme. Australia, it's rugby and AFL (a game I don't understand). Latin America is divided between soccer and baseball. The east and west Indies both like cricket. But soccer is surely the game of choice in Africa and the Middle East, the assholes of the world.
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kevfoda Yeah, soccer is lame. The reason that NFL football requires players to be three years out of high school is that football is a man's sport. It's rough. People get hurt. 18-year-old kids tend to be smaller than 22-year-olds, the NFL wants to make sure it's only employing grown men to reduce injury risk.
I really don't care how soccer is organized, the game itself is still incredibly lame. However the leagues work, the game itself is still 99% jogging, 1% ball kicking, and usually no scoring. You can organize leagues however much you want for whatever silly reasons, it still doesn't make soccer an interesting or exciting sport.
I think there are two old baseball stadiums left in the US, Wrigley Field in Chicago and Fenway Park in Boston. These are both supposedly wonderful ballparks, though I've never been to either. The old, famous Yankee stadium was a dump though, and needed to be replaced, historic or not. I'm sure the same can be said of most stadiums that get replaced. As long as the teams don't use taxpayer money to build their new stadiums, I'm fine with it. The fact is, the new baseball stadiums are much nicer than the old ones are. The seating is generally better, with more seats that allow the fans a better view of the game. This is important in baseball. Since soccer fans generally show up to games to fight and riot, and the game itself is relatively unimportant, I can imagine most soccer fans aren't really interested in the quality of the stadium.
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kevfoda They do like real sports in Australia. They have rugby, which is fun as hell to play, even if I don't know all the rules, AFL, which is incomprehensible to me but I had an Australian explain to me once, and football, which they call gridiron. I don't know what "studies" you've read/made up about soccer becoming popular in the US, but it isn't. I know, I live here. Nobody cares about soccer, because we have real sports to care about. And why would anyone watch jogging when a football game was on? Soccer works in the third world, and in Europe where real sports haven't made it yet, but in America, we just find it boring and gay. We have sports here, no need for soccer.
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kevfoda Hahahaha the Huffington Post is a known nutjob website. Good try, but I'd suggest looking into your sources before grabbing the first thing you can find that backs your nonsense up. Soccer has gotten a slight surge in popularity in the US due to third world immigration. Americans still don't care. And I don't understand AFL not due to stupidity, but simply because I've never seen it played. I only know of its existence because some Australian soldiers told me about it 11 years ago when they came to the base I was stationed at. The fact that you think soccer is actually interesting proves a number of things: first, your simple-mindedness. Babies, animals, and other unintelligent beings are intrigued by very simple things like peek-a-boo or a thrown stick. Soccer is much like that. There's no strategy to understand, no complicated plays, just guys in gay outfits jogging back and forth, and occasionally kicking a ball around. For an adult to find that interesting speaks very poorly of that adult's intellect. This is part of the reason why soccer is so popular in countries largely populated by illiterates. There's no infield fly rule to understand, no slant routes, no signalling or calling audibles or what have you. You just run around and kick the ball a couple times, and if someone on the other team comes within a couple yards of you, you fall down and do a big theatrical production pretending to be hurt. This is not an interesting game. It's certainly worse than every other sport with the possible exception of curling, and there's really no reason that it should ever be played by grown men.
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