Soccer is for wimps
At 2 pm today I sat down to watch two sporting events - The final match of the World Cup on TV and the Boston Red Sox vs. the Chicago White Sox on MLB.TV.
My baseball game is tied and they just keep on playing. Six hours later we’re in the 19th inning and still going. The teams are out of pitchers, but they keep playing.
The World Cup game ended after 3 hours of tie game with a penalty kick. Lame! Because one guy kicked a ball into the goal with basically nothing there to stop it another didn’t, that makes one team a the World champions??
Imagine if they did this in baseball - if a game ran more than 11 innings, they’d have a home run derby to determine who wins. That’s just stupid. Tough it up and keep playing.
It seems to me that if soccer has such a problem with games ending up in a stalemate, they should change the game to make it easier to score, not just end the game with some arbitrary kicks. Perhaps after every 10 minutes of overtime, each team has to take another player off the field. Eventually it’ll be just two guys dueling it out with nobody in the goals. Now that would be exciting, unlike the 100 minutes of pointless dribbling I watched today.
Between dribbling, the players practiced their drama skills by wailing on the grass, trying to convince the referee that they were tripped. You don’t have to act like you’re hurt when a baseball hits you in the head at 95 mph. It hurts.
Soccer is for wimps.
July 10th, 2006 at 8:06 am
That was a really funny post!
July 10th, 2006 at 8:14 am
Your points are all valid. The PKs are annoying, but they do involve an incredible amount of skill. Making a PK, or stopping one, is not as easy as the players make it look (France hit the crossbar on one of theirs yesterday, which led to their loss). Anyway, baseball players barely have to run, at least not much more than 90 feet at a time. Running and sprinting while dribbling, passing, defending and shooting, on the length and width of a soccer field for 120 minutes is very hard to do. I’d like to see David Ortiz try it.
July 11th, 2006 at 11:29 am
Amen!
July 22nd, 2006 at 2:46 pm
100% agreed with Jeff. Yeah it involves physical endurance, but the game itself is lame. I was here watching the penalty kicks in Munnich and couldn’t believe that they didn’t at least put the ball like 100 yards away. Now that would be a fair challenge.
No one really stops the balls intentionally.. the goalie just guesses and often are wrong and they look stupid..
soccer rules are lame.
February 19th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
UHM
so not true
i’d like to see you on that field
you wimp
baseball,uh sucks.
who cares about baseball.all you do is hit the ball and catch.woopie doo?
soccer is rank the number one sport in the world.
baseball
is BORING
May 20th, 2007 at 8:47 am
Baseball is boring?
1. Try hitting a ball coming at you over 90mph when the ball could be diving away OR sailing towards your eyes. Even if you guess correctly what type of pitch is coming and make good contact with it, do you have the strength to drive it over 400 feet?
2. Try throwing over 100 pitches in a game. Try to decide if you should throw a fastball, curveball, slider, or change-up. What will be your next pitch if a batter just hit your previous pitch (your best)almost 500 feet? Try ducking out of the way of a line drive coming out to you at the same speed you hurled it in.
3. Try squatting behind the plate catching high speed fastballs or blocking nasty forkballs in the dirt - with a runner on third. Try not getting bowled over by a 6′5″, 225 lb runner whose only intention is to score - no matter what.
4. Try sliding head-first on your belly to beat a throw and risk the injuries that such a play implies.
5. Try crashing against the outfield wall at full running speed to haul in a deep drive - you must do it if you are to prevent a couple of runs from scoring.
6. As the manager, try making a decision as to whether to hit-and-run and risk having your runner caught in a double play.
Need I go on? You still think all there is to baseball is to hit and catch?
Soccer might be more popular but it can NEVER outclass baseball - no way!
January 20th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Soccer is the greatest sport in the world. This fact is proven because it is the most popular spectator sport in the world.
If baseball was better than soccer it would be more popular than soccer. But it isn’t. That which is superior is more loved and more popular.
June 10th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Kenny G is the number one selling jazz musician of all time. I wouldnt say hes better than Coltrane
June 23rd, 2008 at 8:25 pm
BLOODY HELL GET OVER YOURSELVES. this is a waste of time. everyone thinks different.
June 30th, 2008 at 4:32 am
but, i think that baseball and soccer are both really bad sports!
July 14th, 2008 at 7:00 am
BASEBALL = BORING! LAME!
SOCCER = NON-STOP ACTION! SUPERIOR TO ALL LESS WATCHED SPORTS (Ie. superior to all other sports)