you best not run with Tim Tebow roaming right field

[edjr 6,740]

Spoken like a guy whose main sport was soccer.

 

the WHOLE reason is it's easy, right chief?

 

not because it's cheap and there is little contact.

 

 

Vadouche sounds about right.

[vuduchile 1,945]

 

the WHOLE reason is it's easy, right chief?

 

not because it's cheap and there is little contact.

 

 

Vadouche sounds about right.

At the youth level, it's the easiest sport to learn and play. It doesn't require near as much athleticism as youth basketball, football, or baseball.

 

How can you even argue this point?

[edjr 6,740]

The whole reason youth soccer is popular is because any kid can run around and kick at the ball.

 

 

do you know what whole means?

 

 

adjective

comprising the full quantity, amount, extent, number, etc., without diminution or exception; entire, full, or total:

 

 

there are plenty of other reasons they play

[RaiderHaters Revenge 4,441]

sorry I am late to this party I was setting up for my private workout. Just took some BP with the HS kids down the street. Haven't picked up a bat in like 12 years, in 20 pitches with a wood bat, hit 2 bombs to right center over the 365 sign. Also have a better arm than Tebow, although not as fast on the basepaths any more

[drobeski 3,061]

sorry I am late to this party I was setting up for my private workout. Just took some BP with the HS kids down the street. Haven't picked up a bat in like 12 years, in 20 pitches with a wood bat, hit 2 bombs to right center over the 365 sign. Also have a better arm than Tebow, although not as fast on the basepaths any more

Do you pop wheelies on your 10 speed for the neighborhood kids too ?

[wiffleball 4,793]

Honestly, I think he and his media team Just want to keep his face Out in public.He couldn't honestly think that he has a legitimate shot At a legitimate team. At best, some kind of novelty Act.Has he already done Dancing with the Stars?

[RaiderHaters Revenge 4,441]

Honestly, I think he and his media team Just want to keep his face Out in public.He couldn't honestly think that he has a legitimate shot At a legitimate team. At best, some kind of novelty Act.Has he already done Dancing with the Stars?

 

he is a pretty man, cant blame em much

[RaiderHaters Revenge 4,441]

Do you pop wheelies on your 10 speed for the neighborhood kids too ?

 

lol, its a BMX.

 

I have been throwing BP to these kids for a couple years, and never hit though. But the Tebow thing made me want to swing the stick a bit

[vuduchile 1,945]

 

 

do you know what whole means?

 

 

 

there are plenty of other reasons they play

Fair enough. I amend my original statement to "primary reason they play"

[edjr 6,740]

Fair enough. I amend my original statement to "primary reason they play"

 

It's one of many and yes definitely a reason for it.

 

Especially back in the 70s and 80s, in towns that were big on football, soccer was mostly for kids that parents wouldn't let them, for any myriad of reasons

 

I could never figure out why 2 parents that hated their children (my parents) were worried about their son being hurt from playing football.

[vuduchile 1,945]

 

It's one of many and yes definitely a reason for it.

 

Especially back in the 70s and 80s, in towns that were big on football, soccer was mostly for kids that parents wouldn't let them, for any myriad of reasons

 

I could never figure out why 2 parents that hated their children (my parents) were worried about their son being hurt from playing football.

Football injuries are very real and common beyond a certain level.

 

The ankle biters up through about 4th grade are relatively safe.

[SUXBNME 1,583]

I think soccer is stupid.

 

But to me, soccer is a sad, frustrating game. It’s a struggle that has no real reward–like midget wrestling or watching the Mets.Now, I understand that it’s the world’s most popular sport, that people from Lichtenstein to Latin America treat it like a religion. I respect their viewpoints as much as I respect people who root for the Miami Dolphins, though I may disagree with their life choices.

A smart dude once said, “Soccer is like a war where two countries are fighting each other, yet neither of them has enough ammunition to actually do any damage.” I think that’s the perfect description for it.

Soccer is like a presidential debate, if the candidates couldn’t use vowels. Or a rap battle, if you couldn’t use “Yo Momma” jokes.

Sometimes, you just want to run out on the field, pick up the ball and chuck it into the net. But you can’t.

And do you know why you can’t? The number 1 reason why soccer is stupid:

You can’t use your hands.

There’s something wrong with a sport that doesn’t allow its participants to utilize the two greatest tools that God gave to man. Think about it. Your hands are a huge part of your athleticism–they allow you to grip, catch, throw, shoot–your impact on every other sport in the world depends on your hands. And in soccer, they just throw that out the window.

Look–that’s fine–maybe a sport like that should exist–but don’t tell me a game that values the head as an athletic appendage more so than the hands deserves to be hailed on the same ground as football, basketball, baseball and hockey.

The lack of hand usage leads to all kinds of undesirable nonsense.

You want to tell me that Luis Suarez would have bitten that Italian dude like an angry Rottweiler if he wasn’t so accustomed to not using his hands? In basketball, that guy would’ve gotten punched. And everyone would have been mildly outraged. But it wouldn’t have caused Bob Ley to act like Bill O’Reilly on live television.

In soccer, the best players in the world sometimes miss the net by 12 feet. 12 FEET. That’d be like LeBron James chucking the ball over the top of the backboard. And do you know why this occurs? It’s because kicking is an inexact science. Your foot is like a foreign object. You don’t know exactly where the ball is going to go when you kick it–you just follow through and hope for the best.

Nah, give me a sport that allows you to use the things that separate us from the animals.

Reason No. 2 why soccer is stupid:

They don’t stop the freaking clock.

Seriously, how hard is it to have a guy sitting in a chair on the sidelines, flipping the timer up and down when the ball goes out of bounds? In what world does it make more sense to have the refs just estimate how much time has gone by, and then just add it to the end of the half?

They’re like parents who came to pick up their kids at a sleepover: “Yeah, five more minutes, what the hell!”

The fact that the sport operates this way is just asinine to me. It’s like basketball back in the 1800’s, when they didn’t think to cut a hole in the bottom of the peach basket. They just had guys standing on ladders on each side, throwing the ball back out when it went in.

Good Lord.

Just pay somebody $5 to sit there and hit the timer when play stops or someone acts like they just got shot after being tripped up.

Which brings us to reason No. 3:

This is the most un-American part of soccer, GNKDLASM’FSMK’ F,MFNKL;ASND M.A,WEF . Sorry. I just flopped onto my keyboard.The Flopping.

In American sports, we fight and scratch and claw for every inch we get. We don’t cut corners, we don’t look for bailouts from the refs, and we don’t complain and make excuses. Flopping is like cheating on your taxes–it’s just wrong, and you don’t do it.

In soccer though, flopping is an art form. It’s so ingrained in their heads that they actually do itmid-air, sans collision, like some kind of stunt body double in a Bruce Willis movie.

This needs to be fixed.

Reason No. 4:

The lack of scoring.

This is the big one. Who wants to spend 2 hours watching a sporting event, when the only meaningful thing that happens occurs once or twice a game?

Can you imagine re-watching a soccer game on ESPN Classic? “Ohhh—I remember that kick! That was awesome! No one scores for another 45 minutes, but dude–the way that guy kicked the ball 17 feet past the net—he almost had that one!”

A soccer goal is such a rare occurrence that announcers

.

I mean, are you kidding me? Is he just trying to fill time until the next one is scored?

If it were up to me, I’d shrink the field, take some players off, and make it a little bit easier for these guys to put the freaking thing in the net.

A lack of scoring also minimizes the impact that the game’s great players can have–in basketball, you get to watch LeBron James or Kevin Durant impact the game on every possession. You know going in that you’re going to see the ball in their hands, and they’re going to make plays for their teams. In soccer, the great players have to navigate 12 other guys on a giant field–and most of the time, they don’t even get a shot off.

At least in hockey, there are constant scoring chances–constant shots on goal. In soccer, you almost have a heart attack every time someone actually has a modicum of a chance of scoring.

Reason No. 5:

The “No Substitutions” Rule.

They’re running around like Kenyans at the Boston Marathon out there, and you’re telling me we can’t sub anybody in and out? Why??

The lack of subs just makes for even more desperate and frustrating moments, like when a coach makes the decision to take somebody out because they cramped up like LeBron, and then the entire nation criticizes them because they wimped out.

For what?

What is the upside here?

It makes no sense to me.

Reason No. 6:

Man, what an atrocious idea.So, let’s take some penalty kicks!

It’s like deciding the NBA Finals with a free throw shooting contest, or ending an extra inning game in the World Series with a home run derby. It’s like a Mario Party mini-game.

If your sport is so fundamentally flawed that you need to do this just to finally end the game, I’m sorry….something’s wrong.

Reason No. 7:

The World Cup’s Knockout Stage.

Given soccer’s lack of scoring, and its flawed way of breaking ties, I don’t think a world tournament should ever be decided in one-and-done situation. Brazil advanced past Chile in the Round of 16 because–and this is the only reason–its goalie just happened to “guess” which way Chile’s kicker was going to kick the ball more often than Chile’s goalie did.

Soccer is like baseball–it’s about the body of work. You find out which teams are the best over a long period of time. No one play should ever decide a soccer team’s fate, just like no one pitch should ever decide a baseball team’s. There aren’t enough scoring plays to make up for bad calls from referees–or dumb decisions that eventuate in a goal.

So no more single elimination.

In fact, here’s how I would set up the World Cup:

1. Stick with 32 teams, but change it so that only one team advances from each Group stage.

2. The remaining 8 teams are placed into two more groups of 4, and one team advances again in each.

3. Those two teams meet in a best-of-three series for the title. If there’s a tie, it becomes a best of two. If they split the next two games, they play again. If it comes down to a final game, they play overtime UNTIL SOMEONE FREAKING WINS. No penalty kicks, no goalies guessing which way to dive, no Mario Party mini-games deciding world championships.

So there you have it. That’s why I don’t like soccer, and that’s what I’d do to fix it. Feel free to holler at me in the comments section below.

Oh, and GO USA!

http://sportzedge.com/2014/07/01/7-reasons-why-soccer-kind-of-sucks

[RaiderHaters Revenge 4,441]

nice post I agree with it all

[parrot 789]

 

This is the most un-American part of soccer, GNKDLASM’FSMK’ F,MFNKL;ASND M.A,WEF . Sorry. I just flopped onto my keyboard.The Flopping.

In American sports, we fight and scratch and claw for every inch we get. We don’t cut corners, we don’t look for bailouts from the refs, and we don’t complain and make excuses. Flopping is like cheating on your taxes–it’s just wrong, and you don’t do it.

In soccer though, flopping is an art form. It’s so ingrained in their heads that they actually do itmid-air, sans collision, like some kind of stunt body double in a Bruce Willis movie.

This needs to be fixed.

 

Someone hasn't watched an NBA or NFL game in a while.

[edjr 6,740]

 

Someone hasn't watched an NBA or NFL game in a while.

 

 

 

Notice how many Canadiens. Pathetic.

 

 

Any time you have Euros invade your sport this is bound to happen.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,736]

Tom Brady flops more than George Lopez

[RaiderHaters Revenge 4,441]

 

 

 

Notice how many Canadiens. Pathetic.

 

 

Any time you have Euros invade your sport this is bound to happen.

 

half those aren't even flops, but anyways it took probably 20 years of games to make that video, while it takes 1 game to make a soccer video 5 mins long of flops

[vuduchile 1,945]

This is spot on:

 

Theres something wrong with a sport that doesnt allow its participants to utilize the two greatest tools that God gave to man. Think about it. Your hands are a huge part of your athleticismthey allow you to grip, catch, throw, shootyour impact on every other sport in the world depends on your hands. And in soccer, they just throw that out the window.

[edjr 6,740]

This is spot on:

 

Theres something wrong with a sport that doesnt allow its participants to utilize the two greatest tools that God gave to man. Think about it. Your hands are a huge part of your athleticismthey allow you to grip, catch, throw, shootyour impact on every other sport in the world depends on your hands. And in soccer, they just throw that out the window.

 

cack and brain

[vuduchile 1,945]

 

cack and brain

How many goals did you score for the JV team with those tools?

[Sho Nuff 720]

Not stopping the clock is a great thing.

What is one complaint people have with baseball and sometimes football. Games last too damn long.

 

Soccer is simple...a EPL game...you know right off the bat that it takes about 2 hours. Thats it. A little over 45 minutes for each half, and half time. Its simple.

I prefer soccer on TV to baseball and basketball any day of the week (at least with good teams...unlike football, I won't just watch any two teams play)

But give me top level soccer and its an easy watch.

[vuduchile 1,945]

Not stopping the clock is a great thing.

What is one complaint people have with baseball and sometimes football. Games last too damn long.

 

Soccer is simple...a EPL game...you know right off the bat that it takes about 2 hours. Thats it. A little over 45 minutes for each half, and half time. Its simple.

I prefer soccer on TV to baseball and basketball any day of the week (at least with good teams...unlike football, I won't just watch any two teams play)

But give me top level soccer and its an easy watch.

To each their own. I'd rather watch an entire season of WNBA teams vs. the Washington Generals than sit through a single minute of a soccer game.

[drobeski 3,061]

Not stopping the clock is a great thing.

What is one complaint people have with baseball and sometimes football. Games last too damn long.

 

Soccer is simple...a EPL game...you know right off the bat that it takes about 2 hours. Thats it. A little over 45 minutes for each half, and half time. Its simple.

I prefer soccer on TV to baseball and basketball any day of the week (at least with good teams...unlike football, I won't just watch any two teams play)

But give me top level soccer and its an easy watch.

you're as boring as a bag of potatoes, so it's not surprising you're into soccer.

[parrot 789]

Not stopping the clock is a great thing.

What is one complaint people have with baseball and sometimes football. Games last too damn long.

 

Soccer is simple...a EPL game...you know right off the bat that it takes about 2 hours. Thats it. A little over 45 minutes for each half, and half time.

 

This is true. It is nice to know that if you're going to watch a sport where nothing ever happens, you only have to do it for 2 hours.

[vuduchile 1,945]

 

This is true. It is nice to know that if you're going to watch a sport where nothing ever happens, you only have to do it for 2 hours.

Awesomeful.

[edjr 6,740]

 

This is true. It is nice to know that if you're going to watch a sport where nothing ever happens, you only have to do it for 2 hours.

 

Good call Drobosty

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sYYPgkvee8

[vuduchile 1,945]

Wait. Is Tebow trying out for a soccer team too?

[edjr 6,740]

Wait. Is Tebow trying out for a soccer team too?

 

Perfect for a guy that can't throw

[vuduchile 1,945]

 

Perfect for a guy that can't throw

You should really get ahold of his agent. You're onto something big here.

[edjr 6,740]

What a bunch of stiffs

 

 

[Sho Nuff 720]

you're as boring as a bag of potatoes, so it's not surprising you're into soccer.

Such an exciting and intelligent commentary you provide.

[parrot 789]

 

Good call Drobosty

 

Okay, you got me. Things very, VERY occasionally happen in soccer.

[edjr 6,740]

Okay, you got me. Things very, VERY occasionally happen in soccer.

 

and just think, there is 11 minutes of actual football in a 3.5 hour game. so that's awesome. . the commercials are so new and fun to watch

[Hardcore troubadour 15,736]

you're as boring as a bag of potatoes, so it's not surprising you're into soccer.

Nailed it

[parrot 789]

 

and just think, there is 11 minutes of actual football in a 3.5 hour game. so that's awesome. . the commercials are so new and fun to watch

 

And now imagine if they spent those 11 minutes going five yards over the 50 yard line, then fumbling the ball back to the other team, only to have them go five yards over in the other direction and fumble the ball back. That's soccer in a nutshell.

[edjr 6,740]

 

And now imagine if they spent those 11 minutes going five yards over the 50 yard line, then fumbling the ball back to the other team, only to have them go five yards over in the other direction and fumble the ball back. That's soccer in a nutshell.

 

want to tell me how you know, if you don't watch?

[parrot 789]

 

want to tell me how you know, if you don't watch?

 

Olympics, World Cup... I've tried watching... briefly. The one thing about soccer that is kind of interesting is that you go so FOCKING long without anything happening, is that when it looks like something might happen you get this weird anticipation/excitement.

 

Of course then they kick the ball 12 feet over the net "aaaaaaaand we're back".

[edjr 6,740]

 

Olympics, World Cup... I've tried watching... briefly. The one thing about soccer that is kind of interesting is that you go so FOCKING long without anything happening, is that when it looks like something might happen you get this weird anticipation/excitement.

 

Of course then they kick the ball 12 feet over the net "aaaaaaaand we're back".

 

DVR is your friend. same way I watch NFL

[posty 2,781]

you're as boring as a bag of potatoes, so it's not surprising you're into soccer.

And another thread won by drobeski...

[Mike Honcho 5,348]

Tim Tebow signs with New York Mets

 

 

Scout Grade

 

Now/Future This is on a 20 to 80 scale.

Power - 70/70

Run - 50/50

Throw 40/40

Field 35/45

 

 

Not bad, some team will give him a look.

 

 

Maybe in the independent league to sell some jerseys, but no legit MLB team

 

 

Thank you.

 

 

;highfive;