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No need to be Omniscient to realize that you’re quite the clueless one when it comes to real sports.
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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.
[QUOTE=What Exit?]
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.”
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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.
