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Author:  IMU [ Fri Oct 21, 2016 10:22 pm ]
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Whoa. Hot take.

Author:  FavreFan [ Fri Oct 21, 2016 11:02 pm ]
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Spaulding wrote:
I really want to punch baseball players in the nads when they talk about how grueling the schedule is and how hard life is. Piss off you little pansy.

This girl gets it.

Author:  Spaulding [ Fri Oct 21, 2016 11:09 pm ]
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They are home way more than my husband is, they get paid way more than my husband does, and their job is way easier than my husband's job. Baseball is boring as fuck about 95%+ of the time.

Author:  FavreFan [ Fri Oct 21, 2016 11:15 pm ]
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Spaulding wrote:
They are home way more than my husband is, they get paid way more than my husband does, and their job is way easier than my husband's job. Baseball is boring as fuck about 95%+ of the time.

You're not wrong

Author:  Spaulding [ Fri Oct 21, 2016 11:17 pm ]
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I'm rarely wrong, but I'm not right most of the time.

Author:  sinicalypse [ Fri Oct 21, 2016 11:17 pm ]
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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
If you want IMU to represent all baseball fans that is on you.


would "planet of the IMUs" be a better episode of star trek or the twilight zone? maybe we can even go with "black mirror" if you wanna be hip/now/looking-into-the-future?

"night of the posting IMU" = coming soon to a theatre near you! no children or adults under 6'1" will be admitted =P

Author:  sinicalypse [ Fri Oct 21, 2016 11:18 pm ]
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Spaulding wrote:
I'm rarely wrong, but I'm not right most of the time.


hahahah well said! i think i'm ready to take the plunge and "level up" to having my first ever spaulding sigquote!

Author:  FavreFan [ Fri Oct 21, 2016 11:32 pm ]
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Spaulding wrote:
I'm rarely wrong, but I'm not right most of the time.

I ain't often right but I've never been wrong.

Author:  Don Tiny [ Fri Oct 21, 2016 11:51 pm ]
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Spaulding wrote:
I'm rarely wrong, but I'm not right most of the time.

Image

Author:  Spaulding [ Sat Oct 22, 2016 12:08 am ]
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Don Tiny wrote:
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I don't look like that. I feel misrepresented.

Author:  sinicalypse [ Sat Oct 22, 2016 12:15 am ]
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Spaulding wrote:
Don Tiny wrote:
Image


I don't look like that. I feel misrepresented.


no doubt if you went "all out" with a 'stache you'd send that dude back to style school =P

Author:  veganfan21 [ Sat Oct 22, 2016 12:26 am ]
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I think playoff baseball is fun as hell but i cant pay attention to the other 162 games. I think in football or even basketball when two heavyweights go at it during the middle of the season you get amped up but it's hard to feel that way (for me again) in like June when it's the cubs and dodgers or whatever. It's like yeah this is cool but we've still got two or three long ass months left. I don't know. Maybe I've got ADD.

Author:  sinicalypse [ Sat Oct 22, 2016 12:37 am ]
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veganfan21 wrote:
I think playoff baseball is fun as hell but i cant pay attention to the other 162 games. I think in football or even basketball when two heavyweights go at it during the middle of the season you get amped up but it's hard to feel that way (for me again) in like June when it's the cubs and dodgers or whatever. It's like yeah this is cool but we've still got two or three long ass months left. I don't know. Maybe I've got ADD.


you know what it is? during the regular season baseball is some kind of a war of attrition; players who fail to get a hit ~70% of the time are still technically .300 hitters and all kinds of !!!, and then if you don't have some kind of a perpetual anchor-of-interest like, say, a fantasy baseball empire to oversee (read: all those day-to-day stats matter to you) then i can see how it's easy to get lose throughout the course of so many disposable games where like, you know, yeah you always try to win but in the end it's like "man we still have 50-100+ games to go so WGAF about today/tonight? we'll get 'em tomorrow!"

but then when the playoffs come around the # of games is suddenly limited to 1/5/7 (altho i still strain to call the newschool WC play-in game "the playoffs" as opposed to my preferred "mandatory game 163") and thus now every at bat becomes that much more !!!/of-paramount-importance, and you find yourself slowing down (along with the pace of the game, especially if it's an OBP-heavy team like the cubs or traditionally like the bosox/yankees) because now all of a sudden disposability is out the window due to the finite nature of the playoffs, and thus every pitch/at-bat/opportunity is that much more !!!!!!!!!!!!! than it was for the last 6+ months of the season.

TLDR = playoff baseball and regular season baseball are two differently animals because the "marathon" of 162 games = there's so much innate disposability with all of these little moves and ideas when you know that you've got a metric shit-ton of games left, however come playoff time all those little moves and ideas = HUGELY IMPORTANT AND THEREFORE SLOWED DOWN TO A PRESSURE-PACKED MOMENT (that joe buck is in the process of moutning like a sexual conquest because he's on a mission from god to end up with a legendary call akin to his dad's "GO CRAZY FOLKS! GO CRAZY!" =) --- so yeah basically playoff baseball = the shit if you're into the gradual buildup of some kind of enormous pressure that will instantly be allievated or doubled/tripled/quadrupled with each and every pitch

Author:  Brick [ Sat Oct 22, 2016 6:23 am ]
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Spaulding wrote:
They are home way more than my husband is, they get paid way more than my husband does, and their job is way easier than my husband's job. Baseball is boring as fuck about 95%+ of the time.

This girl gets it.

Baseball is a nice day on the park in person.

Author:  Joe Orr Road Rod [ Sat Oct 22, 2016 8:04 am ]
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leashyourkids wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
FavreFan wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Boilermaker Rick wrote:

People are clearly emotionally attached to the Bears.


When was the last time you had a post deleted for your negativity against their quarterback?

Anecdotal evidence is the best evidence.


Compile enough anecdotes and it's data. Hank Scorpio is nervous. jimmypasta is anxious. Do they even know the Bears played last night?


I'm not sure if you're serious, but the popularity of football doesn't need compiled anecdotes. It has actual data to support its reign as most popular.



All it has is television ratings. And there are many reasons for that outside of popularity.

People masturbate more than they have sex. Do you also think jerking off reigns in popularity over fucking?

Author:  Joe Orr Road Rod [ Sat Oct 22, 2016 8:09 am ]
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veganfan21 wrote:
I think playoff baseball is fun as hell but i cant pay attention to the other 162 games. I think in football or even basketball when two heavyweights go at it during the middle of the season you get amped up but it's hard to feel that way (for me again) in like June when it's the cubs and dodgers or whatever. It's like yeah this is cool but we've still got two or three long ass months left. I don't know. Maybe I've got ADD.


The fact that football only existed on Sunday and for a limited number of games made it seem "popular". You see now that they have games on other nights, it's taken the shine off of it. It's not EVENT SUNDAY, Spaulding make the chili, FavreFan is bringing a sixer of Spotted Cow, and leash is firing up the smoker anymore. It's just a game that I can watch many days of the week. Just like baseball. Except it gets a boost because people like to be outside doing many different things during baseball season.

Author:  Brick [ Sat Oct 22, 2016 8:10 am ]
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It has more than tv ratings.

Author:  Joe Orr Road Rod [ Sat Oct 22, 2016 8:14 am ]
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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
It has more than tv ratings.



Like what? Less people go to the games. Of course, you'll say that's because there are less games, which is exactly why football has bigger TV ratings.

Author:  GoldenJet [ Sat Oct 22, 2016 8:15 am ]
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Football became a ratings hog because of gambling...plain and simple.

Author:  Brick [ Sat Oct 22, 2016 8:16 am ]
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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Boilermaker Rick wrote:
It has more than tv ratings.



Like what? Less people go to the games. Of course, you'll say that's because there are less games, which is exactly why football has bigger TV ratings.
Average capacity filled.

Author:  Curious Hair [ Sat Oct 22, 2016 8:16 am ]
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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
The fact that football only existed on Sunday and for a limited number of games made it seem "popular". You see now that they have games on other nights, it's taken the shine off of it. It's not EVENT SUNDAY, Spaulding make the chili, FavreFan is bringing a sixer of Spotted Cow, and leash is firing up the smoker anymore. It's just a game that I can watch many days of the week. Just like baseball. Except it gets a boost because people like to be outside doing many different things during baseball season.


Thursday Night Football is especially bleak when you put it this way. Never mind that the games suck, but where's Spaulding's chili?

Author:  leashyourkids [ Sat Oct 22, 2016 8:49 am ]
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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
All it has is television ratings. And there are many reasons for that outside of popularity.

People masturbate more than they have sex. Do you also think jerking off reigns in popularity over fucking?


What reasons? And the reasons can't just be you making up your own definition of popularity.

To your second point, I don't even know if it's true, but if it is, it'd be because many people literally don't have the option to have sex (mostly married people). That's a poor comparison.

Author:  Don Tiny [ Sat Oct 22, 2016 8:50 am ]
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GoldenJet wrote:
Football became a ratings hog because of gambling...plain and simple.

This girl gets it.

Author:  leashyourkids [ Sat Oct 22, 2016 8:51 am ]
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GoldenJet wrote:
Football became a ratings hog because of gambling...plain and simple.


Perhaps... but that doesn't make it any less popular. If it weren't for gambling, sports like horse racing wouldn't even exist.

Author:  leashyourkids [ Sat Oct 22, 2016 8:51 am ]
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Don Tiny wrote:
GoldenJet wrote:
Football became a ratings hog because of gambling...plain and simple.

This girl gets it.


I fail to see how that makes it "unpopular."

Author:  Brick [ Sat Oct 22, 2016 8:53 am ]
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leashyourkids wrote:
GoldenJet wrote:
Football became a ratings hog because of gambling...plain and simple.


Perhaps... but that doesn't make it any less popular. If it weren't for gambling, sports like horse racing wouldn't even exist.
If only you could gamble on baseball maybe it would be more popular. Baseball should start having fantasy leagues.

Author:  Joe Orr Road Rod [ Sat Oct 22, 2016 9:32 am ]
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leashyourkids wrote:
GoldenJet wrote:
Football became a ratings hog because of gambling...plain and simple.


Perhaps... but that doesn't make it any less popular. If it weren't for gambling, sports like horse racing wouldn't even exist.


That's not true either. I would think a guy from Central Illinois would know that almost every county has a fair with non-betting races.

Author:  Joe Orr Road Rod [ Sat Oct 22, 2016 9:34 am ]
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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
leashyourkids wrote:
GoldenJet wrote:
Football became a ratings hog because of gambling...plain and simple.


Perhaps... but that doesn't make it any less popular. If it weren't for gambling, sports like horse racing wouldn't even exist.
If only you could gamble on baseball maybe it would be more popular. Baseball should start having fantasy leagues.


Fantasy leagues were invented in baseball. They were too complex for football fans.

Author:  Brick [ Sat Oct 22, 2016 9:43 am ]
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Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Boilermaker Rick wrote:
leashyourkids wrote:
GoldenJet wrote:
Football became a ratings hog because of gambling...plain and simple.


Perhaps... but that doesn't make it any less popular. If it weren't for gambling, sports like horse racing wouldn't even exist.
If only you could gamble on baseball maybe it would be more popular. Baseball should start having fantasy leagues.


Fantasy leagues were invented in baseball. They were too complex for football fans.
So people were gambling on baseball before football?

Also what do you think about the fact that nfl stadiums are filled at much higher capacities and by capacity percentage?

I'd say filling stadiums like that makes a good case they are more popular. Lots of empty seats in baseball.

Author:  Joe Orr Road Rod [ Sat Oct 22, 2016 9:46 am ]
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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
Joe Orr Road Rod wrote:
Boilermaker Rick wrote:
leashyourkids wrote:
GoldenJet wrote:
Football became a ratings hog because of gambling...plain and simple.


Perhaps... but that doesn't make it any less popular. If it weren't for gambling, sports like horse racing wouldn't even exist.
If only you could gamble on baseball maybe it would be more popular. Baseball should start having fantasy leagues.


Fantasy leagues were invented in baseball. They were too complex for football fans.
So people were gambling on baseball before football?

Also what do you think about the fact that nfl stadiums are filled at much higher capacities and by capacity percentage?

I'd say filling stadiums like that makes a good case they are more popular. Lots of empty seats in baseball.



There are only eight NFL games per season.

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