If soccer (football) were truly nihilistic on the basis of there being ties (draws), you wouldn't get 3 points for a win and 1 point for a draw - you'd get no points for anything and fuck the panalty shootout. Next week: why paintings in galleries in the US will from now on be required to have a numerical rating (known as the Mona Lisa Scale) attached when displayed in public so that people can quantify how good or bad they are and really get the most from their art viewing experience. "Hey, Hank, how was the gallery today?" "You know what, Brenda? It was swell, and what's more, whereas in the past I'd have had to think about how to describe it to you, thanks to the new Mona Lisa Scale, which rates each painting compared to the painting of that Italian lady done by Tom Hanks, now I can just tell you that today was an 84." "Oh my - an 84! - sounds like a great day, honey." "It was, Brenda, but there's no need for us to talk about it now that we have established its value. Now... any chance of a 69?" The glory of football is that it reflects life as it is (largely boring, but occasionally magnificent), unlike baseball (or any number of other sports) which seeks to be better than life, fairer than life, more certain than life.
The glory of football is that it reflects life as it is (largely boring, but occasionally magnificent), unlike baseball (or any number of other sports) which seeks to be better than life, fairer than life, more certain than life. Well put. The problem with most American sports fans is they don't want a sport with its occasional doldrums and more frequent failures. They want the best case scenario every time, "reality" and certainty: SportsCenter, the Apprentice, American Idol, Survivor, and sudden death overtime. It still boggles my mind the people can call soccer dull and still sit through the middle innings of a baseball game, or really anything other than the last two minutes (20 minutes in real time) of an NBA game.
Hey, yerfatma, who are the "you two " you're referring to? Sorry: jakeamo15 and xeddie.
Nihilists! Fuck me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos.
see this is what i'm talking about. all you psuedo intellectuals, including Yerfatma, still talking about soccer as more than just a boring game. excuse me if my argument did not present an ethos for bloody sake. we are talking about a GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! not the the origin of the universe!!!!!!!! get a life this is a sports blog! you can take your aristotle logic and shove it! and by the way baseball is a great game and there are no ties and it is not timed! and you obvious do not understand the game! if you want to get into an intellectual battle about baseball just try me.
see this is what i'm talking about. all you psuedo intellectuals, including Yerfatma, still talking about soccer as more than just a boring game. excuse me if my argument did not present an ethos for bloody sake. we are talking about a GAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! not the the origin of the universe!!!!!!!! get a life this is a sports blog! you can take your aristotle logic and shove it! ... Shut the fuck up, Donnie. You're out of your element.
and by the way baseball is a great game and there are no ties and it is not timed! and you obvious do not understand the game! if you want to get into an intellectual battle about baseball just try me. Based on your two comments, I will make the following conclusions about you: you can't capitalize your almost-sentences; you can't be bothered to check your spelling; you can't use punctuation except as a weapon. Why would anybody want to engage in an intellectual "battle" with you?
I was wondering when the Lebowski quotes would start! What is football anyway?
A sport where the players actually enjoy getting hit in the head by a ball.
Why would anybody want to engage in an intellectual "battle" with you? It's brave of him to offer to fight unarmed.
... unless, he was doing an improvised interpretation of how the Kevin Kline character from "A Fish Called Wanda" would comment on this post. In which case, I applaud you sir, I applaud you.
"I am not an ape. Apes don't read philiosophy!" "Sure they do Otto, they just don't understand it.... The central message of Buddhism is not 'every man for himself'."
Nihilism is not the belief that scoreless ties do not exist. Ethos is not a layer of the Earth's atmosphere. These are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up. On edit: Doggonit, Weedy. Stole my thunder. Er, rumble? One hand clapping?
I was wondering when the Lebowski quotes would start! Dude!
I love that name... Weedy McSmokey
Hi all, I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in. And it turns out it's a swiss fuckin' watch.
I've had a had a rough night, and I hate the fucking Eagles, man.
if you want to get into an intellectual battle about baseball just try me. LEHRER: Good evening distinguished panelists. As determined by a coin toss, the first question goes to you, jakeamo15. You have two minutes. A green light will come on when 30 seconds remain in any given answer, yellow at 15, red at five seconds, and then flashing red means time's up. There is also a backup buzzer system if needed. Is George Steinbrenner bad for baseball? Go.
godamnit BullpenPro, haven't we seen enough !!!!!!, the mark of a true genius, for one thread?
