Why can't americans drive?
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Making fun is allowed.But I like to make fun of Germany, bro.
Being condescending pricks is something else.
Its all-time everything, if you want, I can pull out winter and summer separately.
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If you wanted to joke, fine, I got that wrong.
In my mind you are a dude that is very much 'merica, fuck yeah, and who berates anyone who is having a different stance. So I didn't take it as a joke. If that is an unfair representation of you, I apologize, my bad.
1) Baseball isn't inexpensive to play when you're talking about on a competitive level. It's kind of laughable that you think a stick and small ball are all that's required.
2) I haven't shit on a country. I don't really care what sports countries are, or aren't good at, or into.
3) I haven't shit on a sport. I don't really care what sports people do or don't like.
4) I'm not American.
5) Yes, I'm very sure it's only the runaway, #1 sport in a handful of countries. It only has that beloved, God like status in about 2/3 of Europe, 2/3 of South America. Most of Africa and the Middle East love it, but their economic situation kind of speaks for itself. They also aren't good at it, but I digress. The rest of the world plays it, but it isn't the form of sports entertainment people live and die by. And where soccer isn't really gaining traction in the countries that don't care for it, Rugby and Basketball on the other hand are growing at a good rate in the sports where soccer once stood undisputed.
Canada is also a small country that funnels its top tier athletic prospects into the 4 North American major sports (Hockey, Football, Baseball, Basketball) so by the time you get to sports like bobsled and luge, the talent pool is already pretty shallow.
More like 6.
I can't see why baseball would be so much more expensive on a competitive level than football. Some more bats and gloves?
And you did shit on other countries and their sportsmen - and women, lol. "suck at everything else" much?
I know you are not American, doesn't matter to me. The American thing came up with NDNH.
"More like the rest of the world's game." Sounds kinda condescending in that context, when you chuckled before and said that its only due to them sucking or being poor. Maybe you didn't mean it that way though.
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Will some body tell me what sports UK is good at these days? I want to know, out of curiosity.
And motorsports are as much a sport as riding a horse is.
And motorsports are as much a sport as riding a horse is.
You're playing area needs to be of specific minimum dimensions. Gloves and helmets also get expensive quick.
My statements weren't really intended to be condescending, simply a non sugar coated observation. It's the same as saying Americans suck at soccer. It isn't condescending, they are. Conversely, most of the countries who play soccer, suck at it too. If you look at World Cup results, it's a rotation of the same 10 or so teams in the finals every go round.
"Everything else" may have been poor phrasing by me. I was referring to other large universally played sports. Something with actual parity in it. Canada excels at timbersports, but I wouldn't use that as a example of Canada being good athletically because there are only a handful of competitors in those sports.
It did sound a bit like "they have to play football out of despair" either for economic or athletic reasons. Of course I took offence to that. Because imho the causality is the other way around, and it would be a bad sport to pick anyhow, given the vastness of the talent-pool.
And in team-sports? What does have a good claim?
The only sport besides football I can see you could make an argument about might be basketball. But even there its hard, you basically exclude a lot of Asia and other parts of the world with that. And while we are not world elite at it, we don't suck either, we can hang with good European teams on a good day, and good European teams can hang with the American team sometimes.
Naturally the talent pool for BB here gets sucked dry by other sports. And not only football. Basketball on a popularity scale here is only at place 22! The second most popular team-sport is actually handball, which I dislike as a sport. But it takes directly out of the pool of people who are good with their hands on a ball running around on a court.
And the causality is not that we chose other sports because we suck at basketball, its we are not good at basketball because we chose other sports. At least mainly, there is a little bit of both in there always. If you see someone or a team being great at one thing, it has the potential to inspire others to pick up that sport.
I think Nowitzki did that a little bit, but its too early to say. And Schröder now might have the potential to do it. We will see.
Making a real football field and having proper goals/nets and the proper gear takes some cash as well. Helmets are an issue tho I suppose.
What has more parity than the Olympic Games? Over a long time? With a lot of data? I think it has a good claim on showing the sports-prowess of a country, and their interest in pursuing it.
And in team-sports? What does have a good claim?
The only sport besides football I can see you could make an argument about might be basketball. But even there its hard, you basically exclude a lot of Asia and other parts of the world with that. And while we are not world elite at it, we don't suck either, we can hang with good European teams on a good day, and good European teams can hang with the American team sometimes.
Naturally the talent pool for BB here gets sucked dry by other sports. And not only football. Basketball on a popularity scale here is only at place 22! The second most popular team-sport is actually handball, which I dislike as a sport. But it takes directly out of the pool of people who are good with their hands on a ball running around on a court.
And the causality is not that we chose other sports because we suck at basketball, its we are not good at basketball because we chose other sports. At least mainly, there is a little bit of both in there always. If you see someone or a team being great at one thing, it has the potential to inspire others to pick up that sport.
I think Nowitzki did that a little bit, but its too early to say. And Schröder now might have the potential to do it. We will see.
This thread makes me want to watch Cannonball Run.
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Holy derping ignorance. Bats, gloves, cleats, helmets, attire (uniforms, hats, cups, socks, sweat bands), etc.
The precision and hand-eye coordination that are required for a sport like baseball make it one of the most difficult sports in the world to be good at.
It's a lot harder than kicking a ball between two posts and flopping like a ballerina to draw a penalty.
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The cost of a high-quality wooden Or aluminum baseball bat could buy 100 soccer balls and feed a 3rd-world soccer team for a week.
I said so much more. It's not like football gets played naked on the street. How much more expensive can it be? Show me some numbers.
And don't pick the special super equipment. This stems from the question of poor countries ability to chose a sport. Just what you would need on the most basic level. You are fine with one, maybe two bats, same as you don't need 10 balls. How many gloves do you need? A couple of helmets. Shit just can't be that problematic. It's not like you need to build an icehockey-field in the middle of Africa.
Does it? How come that the roided up players were so much better then? Cause roids improve you hand-eye-coordination? Sounds plausible.
I think you are talking out of your ass more than anything here. Unless you have actual sources. Do you?
You are bad at making jokes.
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This should be the only chart that matters.
Of the top 5 sports leagues in terms of revenue, 4 of them are US-based.
American athletes dominant in 3/5 sports and are a close #2 in NHL, behind Canadian athletes.
You might get all of South America to love soccer or all of India to love cricket, but when the majority of a sport's fans are dirt poor, that sport matters very little.
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We also have 6/10 highest paid athletes in the world