No. 8983Anonymous 15th October 2020 Thursday 11:08 pm8983What sports do we like then?
I'm a big fan of Hull City, I'm a big fan of Hull KR, I enjoy watching ODI and Test Cricket,T20 and the IPL can get to absolute fuck as far as I'm concerned.
The thing about ODI cricket is that there's enough time in the 50/50 for the pitch to deteriorate, the ball to get knackered, and fellas stood out in the sunny weather to get knackered. Swing of the ball changed by a minute etc.. It's a perfect blend for watchability. I'd happily give up 5 days to get tickets for all days of a Test match against any team really capable of the form. I'd happily give up 2 days for a ODI against a team capable of the form (hangover).
What sports do you nerds actually like? Let's get things going in here. I've not seen a Nawf Lahndan Dawbee scrap in a while.
>>8983 >T20 and the IPL can get to absolute fuck as far as I'm concerned
I just don't get either. I watched a few minutes of the IPL recently and simply couldn't understand what was going on or why they were doing it. WEIRD.
I only make time to watch one sport, and it's not really a sport, more a technical demonstration with added budget. I love Lewis though, he's great.
>>8984 Yeah bus Lewis, being black, spoke out about the problems in society of being black therefore he's anti-English. I'm paraphrasing racist cunts here, cuz all lyves mata
Aye, the problem with T/20 is that it's just a slogfest that either materialises or just ends in an embarrassing village cricket score for a team of professionals. ODI is the best middle ground, the best to get pissed to, the best to get involved in the rules of the game with. It's an intimate experience for everybody involved, we know the run of the wicket, the condition of the outfield, what lengths the bowler can reliably deliver, if they spin, if the batsman is capable of taking a short delivery past slip or knocking it out of the park. It's a superb sport.
Other than the sheer amount of money/marketing put into it, I cannot understand why most people like F1. As you say, it's basically half Top Trumps and half strategy board game, so I get why it appeals to the likes of us (though even I think it's desperately boring at the minute and cannot wait for the new changes), but normal, non shed dwellers are really into it too - even the lass at work who has a fucking Etsy store making scented candles will sit there and talk about tyre strategy. It makes no sense.
>>8986 It's because it makes no sense, like that race 3 weeks ago in Italy with only 12 runners in it by the end from unfamiliarity with the course, arguably the course not being kept properly. That made for an interesting race.
I don't find it boring at all - I've enjoyed this season - and my memory is that every "era" has one or two teams that dominate, win everything and all the others say its boring. Because of the weirdness with tracks this year, I don't remember a season with so many crashes. And that Silverstone race with all the tyres failing and Lewis driving that last lap limping home!
The whole thing makes no sense, it's not a sport like any of the others, and the Lance Stroll aspect of some drivers only being there because of their very very rich dad has annoyed me intensely this year - I don't know any other sport where that could happen - but I enjoy it very much.
Baseball is the ultimate nerd spectator sport. It's basically a competitive spreadsheet or Dungeons and Dragons with a ball. Football Manager turns football into a spreadsheet, but baseball is a spreadsheet to begin with. Also the anecdotes from the 70s and 80s are completely fucking insane, because most of the players at the time were drugfucked maniacs.
Also it inspired the greatest surrealist non-game game ever.
>>9010 Strength v Dexterity. I'd watch it with an Ultimate Surrender twist where most of the time the athletic woman turns the bloke into her sextoy but occasionally he wins and humiliates her like it's Jabba's Palace.
