Sport

Reminds me of the time in college when there was a nasty brawl between a dozen Browns fans and a dozen Steelers fans that spilled into the middle of the street and I just stood there in my Carson Palmer jersey and calmly watched while eating a burrito.

Aaron Donald should be punished in line with what Garrett received for the similar incident. But this is a laughable statement.

COOL!

I'm of the stance that the Hurricanes have never looked good at any point, but at least the original all-red look was different enough from the other red/black teams and also different enough from the Red Wings to be their own thing. Also, the hurricane flag logo is not my favorite. It's too tall. The old flag logo with the one flag was technically a tropical storm warning flag, but who cares, it was a better logo. It's called artistic license. They would really benefit from a third color. If I was them I'd grab dark gray as the jersey base now that Vegas is moving away from it and use red and black as accents and be the dark gray team. It would make sense for the Hurricanes.

The Blue Jackets shirt is black And now I'm worried that we're going to get this uniform with the black and navy parts reversed That's the best uniform the team has ever worn and I don't know how to feel about seeing it disgraced like that.

Just bought tickets to my first Hell is Real match. Very excited. Hopefully I'm not let down.

That’s why I titled it that. I thought it would be fun.

Do we have a thread about sports locker-rooms? If so feel free to shut this down or merge with the other one. Yesterday the Calgary Flames shared a video of Mackenzie Weegar visiting the arena and people started dunking on the Flames shabby looking dressing room. So I went down a rabbit hole of NHL dressing rooms. The Oilers get dressed in the large Hadron Collider The Blue Jackets recently renovated theirs and built a mini jumbotron on the ceiling and wisely removed the logo from the floor, which is always an issue with people stepping on it. Seen here with the Avs having to cordon off the logo. I do enjoy the large ice rink, which you could imagine someone using to go over sequences in the game. Dressing rooms in hockey tend to be smaller whereas in baseball it can literally be a clubhouse, which seems like one of the coolest parts of being a major league baseball player. This is where the Reds get to hang out The Cubs used to get dressed in a closet but things have improved with the renovations Share some of your favorites or least favorites in the sports world.

Language. Great. The definition of "sport" is "an activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment." If there's competition, if there's a physical skill involved, and if there's strategy then it's a sport. Period. The debate here only serves to cut some sports down as less than, which is lame and weird. This need to draw a line in the sand where X is a sport because of Y while Z isn't a sport because of A is silly. Another example is Greg Norman's meltdown in the 96 Masters blowing a six stroke lead to Nick Faldo and losing by five strokes. Doesn't happen if Faldo goes out there and plays par golf. He put the pressure on Norman who folded like laundry. Tiger also big-boyed Phil in a few of their showdowns where he outdrove him with a three wood. You hit your best teeshot and this guy goes a club up and still beats you you start to make some bad choices, take risks where you shouldn't. In pursuit of a birdie you make a mistake and make bogey instead of par. And we're just talking about the mental game here. Strategy wise the pro game is a chess match on a level that a lot of people don't realize (and I'd suggest to a lot of you that if you don't know what you're talking about the best course of action is to just avoid showing your ass.) The strategy - club, wind, swing path, hands, grass, the surface you're on, the terrain of the green, the pin placement, hazards, leaving yourself in an advantageous position to putt, your opponent's move, and the physical execution of all that is a whole other ball of wax. You guys want to know why people watch golf? It's because the pros being able to execute with all of that in mind is close to a super power.

I can't say I disagree, but influencing the outcome with direct competition against your opponent is wide open for interpretation. Nonsense. You can pressure your opponent into mistakes in golf and players do it all the time. It just happened in the British Open where Cameron Smith forced McIlroy to take risks he otherwise wouldn't have, which resulted in pars instead of birdies, longer putts for birdie that he missed to Smith's birdies. Cameron Smith was able to work the course to his liking, to his advantage to stay ahead, McIlroy on the other hand had to play off-strategy to find strokes and it cost him. If you can put a guy in an uncomfortable spot, add more variables to his head, that's when guys make small problems into big problems. In golf you're not physically stopping him, you can't tackle your opponent, but that's not a prerequisite for any definition of the word "sport". If McIlroy was out at St. Andrews by himself he plays a completely different round of golf. Cameron Smith was directly influencing the outcome by forcing his opponents into uncomfortable situations. Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus won 33 majors because they could work their opponents into bad spots better than anyone else. We're not even getting into how two guys in a pairing are playing the same course while they're watching each other, which leads to all sorts of competing strategy and gamesmanship. If you're playing against Dechambeau you're going to play differently than you would if you're playing against Scottie Scheffler, for example. Same way you call a different game against the Chiefs as you would, say, the Jets. I don't see why that matters. Guy A got up every day and trained so he could beat Guy B. Guy B got up every day and trained so he could be beat Guy A. Guy A got out of the block slow on race day, Guy B didn't, Guy B wins. How's that not a sport? Directly competing against your opponent and influencing the outcome by being the faster guy on race day. Lots of holes, I'd say. Nonsense. That isn't even true of the big team sports. Even if that were true, (it's not) it would still be a sport because the players in the game aren't limited to just the drivers. The sport of auto racing is the whole of it. The drivers, the crew chiefs, the team principals, the strategists, the engineers who design the car, the mechanics who build and maintain the car, the pit crew, the finance guys at HQ, the dude who drives the team bus to the next race, everything. You put all that together, you go to a track with your team, and you compete to see which team has the best car by that race's pre-determined rules. Some cars are better, yes, but my quarterback is better than your quarterback. Ferrari has arguably the best car in the field this year in F1 and they're not going to win the championship because their strategists are a bunch of bozos. Cars explode, flat tires, etc? My quarterback's knee exploded. What's the difference? This was my point earlier - why do people feel the need to play Sport Traffic Cop and declare XYZ are sports because of [ARBITRARY REASONING] while LMNOP are merely "athletic games" or whatever dumb :censored:ing made up thing you want to call it instead because of [ARBITRARY REASONING]? It's stupid. If there's competition, if there's a physical skill involved, and if there's strategy then it's a sport. Gymnastics - sport, figure skating - sport, pickle ball - sport. Who cares?

It is getting suspicious. Feels like they're always on the wrong side and there's no consistency game to game. They didn't even look at the goal Atlanta scored last week when it was close enough to warrant a review. Soccer refs feel like the most overtly vindictive in of all sports, almost like an open secret that they'll twist the calls to a preferred side so I wonder if Noonan calling that one guy unprofessional against NYCFC* has all the refs out to get them. *It was more than warranted.

Calf tattoo, no ring, Watson jersey, the pride with which he's holding that sign with his kid. That's the most divorced man I've ever seen. Browns fans need to tell this guy that's not cool behavior.

Better. Not enough.

I can't believe those uniforms debuted in 2005 and not 2002. They were out of style the moment from the first snap of the first preseason game. I can't believe they're still wearing them. Related: the Cardinals have my least favorite helmets in the league, but the all black alternates are not the answer. They look like the Falcons.

Post I definitely won't edit in 6 months to look like a genius: Bengals over Buccaneers

Oh look it's the semi-annual dumb and annoying gatekeeping of the word "sport" thread. And right on time here's the part where we get reductive about certain sports while not getting reductive about others. Classic. Let me know when we've declared that auto racing isn't a sport because "the car does all the work" and then we'll have played all the dumb guy hits. F***ing simples.

I can't make myself care about UFC or boxing. The NBA is the league I care about least, although, I'll watch pretty much any documentary on basketball history. It's just I find the actual games so tedious and repetitive - I think I watched one full NBA game this season and it was Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals. Also I get less excited about the Olympics with every passing Olympiad. Same. I watched all the streaming shows on Premier League and now I'm one of those annoying Sunday morning guys who watch soccer. I watched the first season of Drive to Survive on Netflix 4 years ago and I've been hooked on F1 since. Also I've gone full speed into MLS ever since we got a team and I watch basically every FC Cincinnati game. 16 year old me was so diametrically opposed to the very concept of soccer he'd kick my ass if he time-traveled to the present.

I used to be pretty hardline about playoffs and baseball, but the old system is how the Cleveland baseball team went 4 decades without a postseason appearance. That's bad for the sport when 75% of the league has no shot before a single spring training game is played. I'll never see another Big Red Machine in my lifetime. The structure of the sport won't let it happen in this market. My only hope for seeing another Reds World Series is recreate the 2015 Royals or sneak in as a wildcard and get hot like the 2019 Nationals. Even if they've lessened the importance of the regular season and caused a few other unintended negative consequences, on the whole expanded playoffs are a net positive.

The chaps at Cincy Shirts move fast https://cincyshirts.com/collections/cincinnati_football_apparel/products/payjoe-stadium?variant=42308971102362&handle=PayJoe&

Whatever. It could've been worse. I like the rendering of the stadium better than this

I'll disagree. I was cleaning my basement last night while I listened to the game on TV. It's essentially the same experience as radio, but if something happens I can look up from what I'm doing and actually see what happened. When I was a kid I fell asleep in my bed listening to baseball games on the radio, but I have very little romance for that*. I would've much rather just stayed up and watched the game. And now I can because I don't live in Seattle anymore. *didn't help that Marty Brennaman was a crank and Joe Nuxhall was the oldest man who'd ever lived.

Always wanted to see what a batting helmet would look like if they tried to match the pinstripes of the hats. Good effort, but not quite right. One reason I've never liked pinstriped hats is the stripes are printed on the panels and then the panels are cut into their triangular shapes and sewn together, which results in the pinstripes forming the triangular shapes on the front, sides, and back. The batting helmet is painted and doesn't have panels, but I think I would've preferred trying to paint it to more closely resemble how a pinstriped hat looks than just having all the stripes roll around the top of the helmet and back to the other side. Edit: OR just take every pinstripe up to the top of the helmet and end at the same point where the squatchee would be if it were a hat. Does that make sense? The funny thing is that third picture where you can see the side view better kind of in a way resembles the Bengals new white helmets. I give them points for trying. When they did their throwback bonanza for the 150th a few years ago they were pretty lazy and/or cheap about matching the batting helmets to the hats when the throwback hat called for a helmet color other than red (was quite dissapointed when they didn't do the 99 team justice) so I'm glad to see them making an effort.

Yeah in the time I lived out there the lengths I had to go to watch the home team were incredibly frustrating. I paid the sub fees to MLB.tv watch the Reds, but M's games were blacked out. My cable package didn't have ROOT. The 30ish games I attended were the only 30ish times I watched a Mariners game, save for the few I caught in a bar. I cannot believe that's still happening there.

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How can you not be romantic about baseball?