I agree with you and I don’t think anyone should stay away from the thread nor has anyone suggested such. RickJay has strong opinions and posts them presumably because he wants discussion on them, it seems that contrary opinions that aren’t properly deferential are not welcome.
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Was my calling his argument “pig headed” really an insult?QUOTE]
I have nothing more to contribute to this thread other than o answer this question,
Yes, it is an insult to call his argument pig headed. No doubt, no question in my mind. It goes behind the opinion and attacks the author.
For what it is worth, when I read it last night, I thought it was hostile. It was not directed at me and actually agreed with me. I am not saying you did anything to violate board policy, I am just saying you lowered the tone of the thread like I did earlier in the thread or maybe the April thread on the Baltimore fans.
I would never have pitted you over it but I do think it lowered the tone. To me no big deal, but then it was not directed towards me.
Jim
Seems pretty thin-skinned to me. Don’t forget your purse. 
Hey dude! We’ve been through this b4 like a zillion times?
First off, it’s football, as the game clearly demonstrates you inbred American With Nipples. And secondly, here’s what a real sport looks like as played by one the best.
Damn it, 'luc, am I going to have to fly all the way up there to teach all about the world’s best and most popular sport? Best I can tell you it’s that you better have some damn good homegrown if that’s the case.
¡Hala Madrid! 31 leagues, 9 Cls and counting*.
*Google it, grasshopper.
“Football” is a sport played by big guys in helmets and pads who hired ringers to write their college exams.
The sport that involves kicking a ball around, pretending to be hurt and not scoring very many goals is called “soccer” in Canada (and, incidentally, the USA and Australia) and therefore “soccer” is the correct term.
Both games are hopelessly inferior to baseball.
No need to be Omniscient to realize that you’re quite the clueless one when it comes to real sports.
Seriously, would that you’d get out more…and take 'luc with you. Preferable to a match at The Theater of Dreams, The Kop or Nou Camp…or better yet, The Mother of All Football Cathedrals, The Santiago Bernabeu.
:::sigh:::
Natives.
RickJay, it is my turn to correct you in an authoritarian way. You made a horrible mistake of omission. You should not have written, “Both games are hopelessly inferior to baseball.” You should have written, “All games are hopelessly inferior to baseball, the one true sport, the great game.”
Since “baseball” is a member of the set “games”, its patently impossible for…hey, let go!..stop that!..who are you shoving, you goddam…
Some of those batters look pretty pissed when a fastball goes by their head real close.
FWIW, I think just the opposite. And let me ask: if he had used the word “stubborn” rather than “pig-headed,” would you feel the same? Because to me, the words have a more or less identical meaning, though “pig-headed” is a bit more picturesque as a term.
In any case, I hardly think the discussion was derailed.
At least he didn’t call him a goat felcher.
Yes, yes, great stuff, fun to watch, if you happen to be at the one game every decade where they actually score a goal!
Soccer’s not even a sport. It’s a form of organized crime.
A sport is a contest of physical skill, played for its own sake, with agreed-upon rules and criteria for determining a winner. Soccer is nothing of the sort. Soccer games usually have no winner, and usually have no goals at all, and the end of the game isn’t even set by a determined time (like in basketball) or by some criteria of completion (such as baseball, or any sport that takes turns, like shot put or ski jumping.) The referee simply decides the performance is over whenever he feels the crowd is sufficiently enraged to begin rioting.
That, of course, is the point of soccer; physical destruction, crime, and chaos. The purpose of an exhibition of soccer has nothing to do with the actors on the field; it’s all about whipping the crowd into a frenzy so they can wreck the city. They do so by presenting the crowd with an unbearably boring sports spectable; 22 men running around, “playing” a “sport” that is designed to prevent anyone from scoring a goal, and regularly pretending to be injured in the most cowardly, unsportsmanlike manner possible. The reason there’s no specific time limit to soccer is to allow the referee to ensure that if the crowd isn’t ready to riot at the end of 90 minutes, he can get them riled up a little more. That’s why they call it “injury time.” It’s not to account for injuries on the field - you can’t get injured in soccer, as evidence by the fact that every pansy who falls down jumps right back up two minutes later - it refers to the fact that it’s meant to ensure innocent people are injured AFTERWARDS.
The true “Game” begins when the soccer “Game” concludes; the Europeans spill into the streets and begin to riot. The real competition is to see who can commit the most vandalism, assault and public disorder, as measured in both quantity and quality. That is why decent, law-abiding people do not attend soccer “games,” or if they do, are stabbed or beaten to death by regular attendees.
Simply put, soccer is a blight on the human race.
You are of course correct. In stating simply that football and soccer are inferior to baseball, I implied the outrageous possibility that there might be other sports that are the equal of baseball. That is, of course, ludicrous. Baseball is the greatest game ever invented. It is sport lifted to its highest possible apex of joy, genius, and athletic magnificence. While football is a boring regionalism and soccer a menace to civilization, baseball is a gift, one of the great achievements of human endeavour. It is a privilege to participate in, or watch, baseball.
Bink.
Bink.
'Tis an abomination.
Nah. It’s okay when it’s kids playing. Kids playing baseball’s a great sound, whether its “bink!” or “thwap!” and for most families and Little League teams, cheap aluminum bats are a much more economical choice than wood.
…or a Cubs fan. 
I agree, but by High School and definitely college, the bats should be wooden.
Hey now, none of that.
There’s no point in getting all riled up about a game
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unless it’s about football - and I mean football as **RedFury ** means it. There can be no doubt whatsoever as to what is the ‘correct term’. Here’s another fine sample.