Soccer could be more popular than baseball when World Cup comes to the U.S. in 2026

[edjr 5,557]

This speaks to your comment about HS and beyond.

 

Hitting a baseball is generally regarded as one of, if not THE hardest thing to do in sports.

 

I've played everything.

 

obviously not pro.

 

I could hit a HS pitch when I was in HS. I would have failed miserably in college.

 

Hitting a golf ball is not easy.

 

If you practice anything enough, you can do it. Obviously not the pro level

[vuduchile 1,941]

 

I've played everything.

 

obviously not pro.

 

I could hit a HS pitch when I was in HS. I would have failed miserably in college.

 

Hitting a golf ball is not easy.

 

If you practice anything enough, you can do it. Obviously not the pro level

I couldn't hit worth a damn in little league. I didn't learn to hit until HS.

 

Interesting study:

 

Best out of 18

 

How many fairways could an avg guy hit from the pro tees?

 

How many base hits could an avg guy get against a major league pitcher?

 

Fairways should be easier, but most guys would sh!t their pants at some of these course set ups where the pros play.

[Kanil 519]

Its hard to be the best at anything. What the fock are you all arguing about?

 

Maybe for you. I focking piss excellence. GOAT at everything.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

Football killed soccer (and rugby) in the US. It's too bad because they are the 2nd and 3rd best games in the world.

[edjr 5,557]

I couldn't hit worth a damn in little league. I didn't learn to hit until HS.

 

Interesting study:

 

Best out of 18

 

How many fairways could an avg guy hit from the pro tees?

 

How many base hits could an avg guy get against a major league pitcher?

 

Fairways should be easier, but most guys would sh!t their pants at some of these course set ups where the pros play.

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0pat-kxSmI

 

Tell me how hard it is to get a hit in MLB.

[TimmySmith 2,782]

80% of guys couldn't touch a ball at 70mph. Maybe 1% could touch a ball at 90, now add movement.

[edjr 5,557]

80% of guys couldn't touch a ball at 70mph. Maybe 1% could touch a ball at 90, now add movement.

 

but a pitcher with 6 hits for his career with no extra basehits can double off the best pitcher in the majors?

 

doesn't compute

[edjr 5,557]

Jon Lester has 2 focking home runs.

 

ever seen him swing a bat?

 

 

 

 

.092 career average. 17 hits.

 

started his career 0 for 57

 

if he can get a hit, anyone that practices can get a hit.

 

you guys are so wrong

 

 

he can't throw to 1st base, but can jack a HR

[vuduchile 1,941]

 

 

 

 

Tell me how hard it is to get a hit in MLB.

Well, the best in the world can only get a hit in 1 out of every 4 at bats.

 

In golf, the best in the world hit 2.5 out of 4 fairways.

[Gladiators 1,904]

Not going to argue which is more difficult, but I think it would be entertaining to see a group of Geeks do the following:

 

1) Take 10 swings against an MLB pitcher

2) Take 10 attempts at trying to save a PK against a professional soccer player

 

I would pay to watch it.

[vuduchile 1,941]

Not going to argue which is more difficult, but I think it would be entertaining to see a group of Geeks do the following:

 

1) Take 10 swings against an MLB pitcher

2) Take 10 attempts at trying to save a PK against a professional soccer player

 

I would pay to watch it.

Well worth the price of admission.

[edjr 5,557]

Not going to argue which is more difficult, but I think it would be entertaining to see a group of Geeks do the following:

 

1) Take 10 swings against an MLB pitcher

2) Take 10 attempts at trying to save a PK against a professional soccer player

 

I would pay to watch it.

 

if you just walk out there without practicing, sure, you'd suck at both.

 

i've said it numerous times. If you had the time to practice, you can do anything

[Kanil 519]

Not going to argue which is more difficult, but I think it would be entertaining to see a group of Geeks do the following:

 

1) Take 10 swings against an MLB pitcher

2) Take 10 attempts at trying to save a PK against a professional soccer player

 

I would pay to watch it.

 

Are the soccer players kicking the PK as hard as they would against a normal goalie? That's a big factor in my success rating.

[iam90sbaby 2,124]

Im with edjr. With enough practice and an able body you can become pretty damn good at anything.

 

The Dan Plan

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/08/the-dan-plan/536592/

[edjr 5,557]

 

Are the soccer players kicking the PK as hard as they would against a normal goalie? That's a big factor in my success rating.

 

A better test would be to shoot 10 PKS on a professional goalie. Not save them

[Gladiators 1,904]

 

if you just walk out there without practicing, sure, you'd suck at both.

 

i've said it numerous times. If you had the time to practice, you can do anything

 

Thanks Ed.

[edjr 5,557]

Im with edjr. With enough practice and an able body you can become pretty damn good at anything.

 

The Dan Plan

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/08/the-dan-plan/536592/

 

About the same amount of hours I have spent posting here

[Gladiators 1,904]

 

A better test would be to shoot 10 PKS on a professional goalie. Not save them

 

I was going for the entertainment factor. A Geek kicking and missing the goal completely would be boring...Or it dribbling up to the goal.

 

There's a chance that a Geek takes a shot to the face/junk. Well worth the price of admission.

[Kanil 519]

 

A better test would be to shoot 10 PKS on a professional goalie. Not save them

 

I disagree. I think the pro goalie save % on PKs is probably pretty close to the pro batter hit %.

[Gladiators 1,904]

 

I disagree. I think the pro goalie save % on PKs is probably pretty close to the pro batter hit %.

 

That too.

[Kanil 519]

I'd also save and hit 1000.

[edjr 5,557]

 

I disagree. I think the pro goalie save % on PKs is probably pretty close to the pro batter hit %.

 

You might be right.

 

I personally played goalie once, for about 20 minutes. Screaming at my coach to put someone in net that knows what the fock to do (15 years old probably)

[Gladiators 1,904]

 

You might be right.

 

I personally played goalie once, for about 20 minutes. Screaming at my coach to put someone in net that knows what the fock to do (15 years old probably)

 

You could have done it with more practice ed.

[Kanil 519]

I never played soccer because I wasn't a poosay.

 

 

I like to watch it though because I'm a poosay now.

[edjr 5,557]

I never played soccer because I wasn't a poosay.

 

 

I like to watch it though because I'm a poosay now.

 

I didn't want to play soccer. My father forced me to.

 

I used to say I didn't want to play. My father would tell me to walk home from school if I didn't play

[cyclone24 1,814]

Okay look soccer is getting our 4th and 5th best athletes. What else do you need to know about how tough it is?

 

I put it in the same category as wrestlers. They weren't coordinated enough to play basketball and not big enough to play football but they were still athletic so they play soccer.

[edjr 5,557]

Okay look soccer is getting our 4th and 5th best athletes. What else do you need to know about how tough it is?

 

 

 

this is why we will never dominate at the world level, correct.

 

Now what this thread is about though

[iam90sbaby 2,124]

 

this is why we will never dominate at the world level, correct.

Soccer only needs to become the #1 sport in one major state for us to compete. And that will happen in Florida or California. Soccer is HUGE out here because the hispanic population. Florida has a population of 27 million I believe and thats more than a lot of European countries.

[edjr 5,557]

Soccer only needs to become the #1 sport in one major state for us to compete. And that will happen in Florida or California. Soccer is HUGE out here because the hispanic population. Florida has a population of 27 million I believe and thats more than a lot of European countries.

 

Croatia has 4.2 million people. Insanity

 

USA has 26 states with more than that

[GhostofTEK 71]

 

About the same amount of hours I have spent posting here

When are you going pro?

[cyclone24 1,814]

 

this is why we will never dominate at the world level, correct.

 

Now what this thread is about though

Id actually argue that's exactly what this thread is about. Because baseball is so much more popular it gets the better athletes.

I don't mind soccer and I don't even mind that we're not very good at it. Would actually be fun to watch us grow into being a sportspower in something. Feels like we pretty much clean house in everything else.

 

Problem is we will never have a league here that matches anything over in Europe. And until Europe gets an American star player we just are not going to care.

[drobeski 3,061]

Stop. Just stop. I have been hearing the same old bullcrap song and dance for 20 years now. Soccer is NEVER going to replace ANY of the big 4. EVER. For a very simple reason. American male athletes play soccer in youth leagues. Once they start to get older and bigger they realize that soccer is for girls and for kids who have peanut allergies. You are left with the cream of the crop of pansies. Which are still pansies.

winner

[supermike80 1,285]

As immigrants continue to come here...and white couples keep having less kids, it's just inevitable.

 

Simple numbers

[edjr 5,557]

Atlanta United (American soccer league)

 

Avg attendance -

 

2017 - 48,200 - 113.4% capacity

2018 - 52,409

 

 

 

Atlanta Braves

 

Avg attendance -

 

2017 - 30,000 - 75.3% capacity

2018 - 32,078 - 78.1% capacity

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

Atlanta United (American soccer league)

 

Avg attendance -

 

2017 - 48,200 - 113.4% capacity

2018 - 52,409

 

 

 

Atlanta Braves

 

Avg attendance -

 

2017 - 30,000 - 75.3% capacity

2018 - 32,078 - 78.1% capacity

Well to be fair, Atlanta United has what, ten home games a year? The braves have 81? Many of which are in the middle of a workday.

[edjr 5,557]

Well to be fair, Atlanta United has what, ten home games a year? The braves have 81? Many of which are in the middle of a workday.

 

They're not the cubs. and even they don't have that many day games anymore.

 

Stop making excuses

 

MLB is dying No under 35 cares about it

[titans&bucs&bearsohmy! 2,745]

 

They're not the cubs. and even they don't have that many day games anymore.

 

Stop making excuses

 

MLB is dying No under 35 cares about it

Oh I dont disagree with that.

[vuduchile 1,941]

 

MLB is dying No under 35 cares about it

Our town has a population of around 1900 year round residents.

 

178 of them are kids who played in the youth baseball program this year.

 

Roughly 2/3 of these kids and their parents are really into the game. They all have favorite players and teams.

 

To say nobody under 35 cares about it is just silly.

[edjr 5,557]

Our town has a population of around 1900 year round residents.

 

178 of them are kids who played in the youth baseball program this year.

 

Roughly 2/3 of these kids and their parents are really into the game. They all have favorite players and teams.

 

To say nobody under 35 cares about it is just silly.

 

Obvious hyperbole.

 

Kids still play baseball, they always will.

 

they don't go to stadiums and few sit and watch a PRO game

[vuduchile 1,941]

 

Obvious hyperbole.

 

Kids still play baseball, they always will.

 

they don't go to stadiums and few sit and watch a PRO game

Its too expensive to go see live.

 

The games (especially playoffs and WS) are televised too late for many to stay up.

 

I hate that my kids hardly ever get to watch.