Awesome: Major League Soccer Players Booed for Taking a Knee For the Anthem

The poor dears said it was "disgraceful" for paying customers to express their views, and said it "pissed [them] off."

We'll see how they feel when their salaries get cut as paying fans abandon them.

FC Dallas defender Reggie Cannon says players had requested for the anthem not be played, but that didn't happen. So players took the knee and the boos started. "You've got fans booing you for people taking a stand in what they believe in when millions of other people support this cause," Cannon said after the match via a Zoom press conference. "We've got fans booing us in our own stadium. How disgraceful is that. Honestly, for a lack of a better word, it pissed me off."

I'm so sorry, Princess, are you a bit heart-broke that not everyone called you a Stunning and Brave Heroine today?

Suck it up, bitch.

Meanwhile, NBA ratings are terrible, especially compared to... FoxNews ratings.

The NBA also lost in viewers aged 18-49 to three Fox News shows on Tuesday night. https://t.co/WCA099bU5a
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 13, 2020

More young people watched Hannity and Tucker. https://t.co/WCA098UiGA
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 13, 2020

Nice try, Sweetie.

Degenerate Twitter Addict Mark Cuban decided to get involved because I guess he's so busy.

Mark, what’s up, bud? Since you’re hanging out in my mentions would you like to Tweet support for Hong Kong democracy protesters, condemn concentration camps in China, & endorse human rights for all Chinese people or do you want to continue to shut up and dribble for Chairman Xi? https://t.co/T3HVIZSsMa
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) August 13, 2020

It's time to transform Get Woke Go Broke from a meme into movement.

It's time to bankrupt these people.

Scott Adams asked his twitter followers, how is your sports viewership now compared to what it had been?

I'd like to hear your answers.

Posted by: Ace at 04:03 PM

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1

US sports are done.
Their funeral.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 13, 2020 04:03 PM (rjE57)

2 Whoa

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2020 04:04 PM (vGjSz)

3 Thanks for the new thread, Ace. The last one was depressing.

Posted by: Rev. FenelonSpoke, not a lesbian. at August 13, 2020 04:04 PM (WkPC9)

4 I can get why soccer shouldn't play the national anthem since that's a tradition reserved for actual sports.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Seeing 2021 From My House at August 13, 2020 04:04 PM (+dsLj)

5 They should be booed for playing fag-football in the first place, knee or no knee.

Posted by: zombie at August 13, 2020 04:05 PM (HEEq1)

6 Haven't watched. Won't watch.

Posted by: Backup Slider at August 13, 2020 04:05 PM (amQo5)

7 I watched Last Dance on Netflix. Jordan was great on the court and shrewd enough to keep his mouth shut off of it.

Posted by: Jmel at August 13, 2020 04:05 PM (bVhJi)

8 I'd like to hear your answers.

Zero US sports and we used to watch ALL sports (including tennis and major golf tournies).

Zero

We buy other channels to watch some abroad.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 13, 2020 04:05 PM (rjE57)

9 fuck those guys in particular

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 13, 2020 04:05 PM (W2Pud)

10 Zero point zero is my standard of sportsball watching.

I only watch old tv reruns, selections from my dvd collection, or read internet sources of news such as Award Winning AOS commenters.

Posted by: whig at August 13, 2020 04:05 PM (OLiBJ)

11 Fans at a *kickball game* (!!!) BOOED idiot athletes disrespecting their betters and the civic culture they don't understand? Kickball players??????

Wow.

"Hope" is excluded, but kind of interesting at least.

But it was TX, right? So doesn't really count.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 13, 2020 04:06 PM (OTzUX)

12 LOL get fucked

Posted by: steevy at August 13, 2020 04:06 PM (HwiWi)

13 My dad played in the NFL in the early 80s and we grew up watching every sport known to man. Now neither my parents nor my family watch any sports at all.

Posted by: MKoepf at August 13, 2020 04:06 PM (XZgjK)

14

This oughta snuff out the US woman's soccer team permanently. Good.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 13, 2020 04:06 PM (rjE57)

15 heh

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at August 13, 2020 04:06 PM (UWqZJ)

16 heard that player on the radio
what a WATB
hope he gets punched in the face

Posted by: vmom 2020 Pinky Raised in Superciliousity at August 13, 2020 04:07 PM (J8nVw)

17 "You've got fans booing you for people taking a stand in what they believe in when millions of other people support this cause," Cannon said after the match via a Zoom press conference. "We've got fans booing us in our own stadium. How disgraceful is that. Honestly, for a lack of a better word, it pissed me off."

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It's like they're stupid people, or something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at August 13, 2020 04:07 PM (UWqZJ)

18 MKoepf, now that is interesting.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 13, 2020 04:07 PM (OTzUX)

19 [i[My dad played in the NFL in the early 80s and we grew up watching every sport known to man. Now neither my parents nor my family watch any sports at all.
Posted by: MKoepf at August 13, 2020 04:06 PM (XZgjK)

I asked someone in my family what they would do - big Clemson fans. He still would have supported them I think. He said Clemson would never take a knee or disrespect the flag or anthem. I hope so.

Moot point though it looks like. Most college fb is toast too this year.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 13, 2020 04:08 PM (rjE57)

20 "what they believe in"

And WTF is that, airhead? Jeebus.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 13, 2020 04:08 PM (OTzUX)

21 I've never followed sports but my brother loves football and baseball.

And he's stopped watching ANY of it.

When the NHL took a knee I thought he was going to cry. He'd thought that at least hockey players had guts.....

Posted by: Biblio at August 13, 2020 04:08 PM (KILk7)

22 I like the occasional bet, and last week I made my first on an NBA game since last year.

I put the game on in the 4Q and stretched across both sides of the court in giant letters was those stupid ass words.

Last time I'll ever bother with them. The league sucks anyway. It's all three pointers, dunks and showboating just for showing up.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2020 04:08 PM (vGjSz)

23 Hooboy. If I had an earpiece there'd be insanity in it...

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 13, 2020 04:08 PM (NWiLs)

24 My sports viewership is pretty low to begin with, since I mostly see it at the bar. However, with many sports not playing I haven't seen much.

BTW - I don't think this is so much a movement as it is akin to the tide. It happens, it is not organized, and if cannot be stopped, it just flows on.

Posted by: Mikey NTH -Boo Hoo? You Do! Pity Party Supplies at The Outrage Outlet! at August 13, 2020 04:08 PM (75OeF)

25 It's like they're stupid people, or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at August 13, 2020 04:07 PM (UWqZJ)

Alternate universe.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 13, 2020 04:08 PM (rjE57)

26 haven't watched NFL in over four years.
haven't watched MLB since the original strike.
Never was a NBA or NHL fan.

NASCAR was an occasional indulgence many years ago..but not for a LONG Time.

I do not miss any of them.

They killed their own golden goose....now they can fuck it's dead corpse.

Posted by: USMC 8541 at August 13, 2020 04:08 PM (77JNZ)

27 the most annoying thing was Cannon saying they'd talked to everyone and had their support in kneeling
EXCEPT THE FANS, YOU DUNDERHEADS

Posted by: vmom 2020 Pinky Raised in Superciliousity at August 13, 2020 04:09 PM (J8nVw)

28 Scott Adams asked his twitter followers, how is your sports viewership now compared to what it had been?

I'd like to hear your answers.

I went from a viewing level of never to not at all.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 13, 2020 04:09 PM (NWiLs)

29 I should add, I won't even watch highlights anymore. As long as they kneel, they are dead to me. One exception, I guess. I could be enticed to watch Astros' hitters continuing to get plunked.

Posted by: Backup Slider at August 13, 2020 04:09 PM (amQo5)

30 I was never a huge sports fanatic. At one time I did enjoy watching the NFL, College Football, and NASCAR.Now, I'll watch NHRA Drag Racing. They haven't (yet) gone all woke.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 13, 2020 04:09 PM (D3cJf)

31 I am down to zero sports viewership now that the NHL pulled that bullshit. I hope the only people watching hockey this year are fucking roaches eating from the decaying snack bar.

Posted by: Marcus T at August 13, 2020 04:10 PM (VpIIl)

32 Our bull now takes a knee before doing my wife.

If it takes every bull in the country to take a knee before social transformation to end systemic racism can happen, then such are the blessings of liberty for which we should give thanks.

Posted by: David French at August 13, 2020 04:10 PM (3B0qi)

33 LOL. "Shut up and dribble for Chairman Xi." I would have went with "bend over for" but tamayto, tohmahto.

I'm done with all professional AND amateur sports, what with U.S. National teams kneeling during the Anthem -- and now the cowardice of college sports ... LOLGF!

Posted by: ShainS at August 13, 2020 04:10 PM (Isg2D)

34 Avid former Southern college football fan.

On the high side--10 percent of previous interest.

Posted by: Beyond Norman Parameters at August 13, 2020 04:11 PM (+GDLv)

35

Went from fairly regular NFL watching 10 years ago to near zero last year. Occasional NBA or NHL games, mostly at the bars. College football, usually one a weekend, after yard work. Now?

More of less nothing. One lacrosse game and two cornhole matches. Oh, and one poker show.

Why bother when there are actual fun/useful things to do? The viewer loses the habit, it's not getting picked back up. Games are long, boring and stuffed with ads, even during the games. Fuck that noise.

Posted by: imp at August 13, 2020 04:11 PM (SFOr6)

36 "We've got fans booing us in our own stadium. How disgraceful is that. Honestly, for a lack of a better word, it pissed me off."

Poor baby. Fuck you. It's not disgraceful at all; it was your behavior that was disgraceful.

Play an American game, not metric kickball.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 13, 2020 04:11 PM (jpBkc)

37 Almost makes me want to get a twatter account so I can tell Cuban and the soccer guy to go to hell.

Almost.

Posted by: Numbuh Two, 2x4 Technology Operative at August 13, 2020 04:11 PM (YWBlw)

38 I was a huge college and pro football watcher. It's been declining due to life circumstances, but now it will be zero. I don't think I'm going to watch sports again unless it's on a tv in a bar. Even then, I don't want to patronize bars or any business for that matter around here.

Posted by: InCali at August 13, 2020 04:11 PM (9AFWN)

39 I have long felt uncomfortable rooting for a bunch of millionaire crybaby pussies who I suspected hate me, and so gave up on my teams. Now they're millionaire crybaby pussies who I *know* hate me so fuck them all.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2020 04:11 PM (vGjSz)

40 mine is at zero. fuck your politics, fuck blm, fuck your couch.

Posted by: x at August 13, 2020 04:11 PM (nFwvY)

41 I used to go to a dozen baseball games a year. My last one was in 2006.

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2020 04:12 PM (vGjSz)

42 >>> I was never a huge sports fanatic. At one time I did enjoy watching the NFL, College Football, and NASCAR.Now, I'll watch NHRA Drag Racing. They haven't (yet) gone all woke.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 13, 2020 04:09 PM (D3cJf)

======

I did try to watch NASCAR while waiting for the other sports to return. Even if they hadn't gone woke, it's still boring as hell.

Posted by: Backup Slider at August 13, 2020 04:12 PM (amQo5)

43 Remember when people thought that Mark Cuban was going to be the Democrats' Trump?

Le sigh...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at August 13, 2020 04:12 PM (UWqZJ)

44 Burn it down.

Posted by: eastofsuez at August 13, 2020 04:12 PM (U2zca)

45 We just had a Meeting of our 10 year old fantasy football league. We agreed to quit. Even the college professor and school teacher have had enough. Someone said the Buffalo Bills are striking until Capron it gets signed. Has anyone heard that?

Posted by: dr kill at August 13, 2020 04:12 PM (mv8AK)

46 cut your cable

otherwise, you're still supporting the bullshit.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 13, 2020 04:13 PM (W2Pud)

47 I'm still down with watching mud wrestling even if they kneel.

Because you kinda expect and want a lot of kneeling in mud wrestling.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Seeing 2021 From My House at August 13, 2020 04:13 PM (+dsLj)

48 I puke at these people

Posted by: CN at August 13, 2020 04:13 PM (ONvIw)

49 And to think all of think started with boobie ribbons.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 13, 2020 04:13 PM (S+F2a)

50 NBA losing viewers actually surprises me, I figured their viewership was all down with the protesters and F the USA.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 13, 2020 04:13 PM (KZzsI)

51 I don't care what a bunch of whiny girls think about the national anthem.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 13, 2020 04:13 PM (SgjGX)

52 They killed their own golden goose....now they can fuck it's dead corpse.
Posted by: USMC 8541 at August 13, 2020 04:08 PM (77JNZ)

Sounds good to me.

Posted by: The Chicken at August 13, 2020 04:13 PM (vGjSz)

53 9 fuck those guys in particular
Posted by: nurse ratched

That's interesting. I only read the headline, and since it was soccer, I assumed the "athletes" were girls.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 13, 2020 04:13 PM (+lVUW)

54

You've got fans booing you for people taking a stand in what they believe in when millions of other people support this cause," Cannon said after the match via a Zoom press conference. "We've got fans booing us in our own stadium. How disgraceful is that. Honestly, for a lack of a better word, it pissed me off."

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It's like they're stupid people, or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts

And they say that the NFL has a lot of CTE. Soccer has to have nearly as much, if not more.

Posted by: imp at August 13, 2020 04:13 PM (SFOr6)

55 Used to watch MLB, NFL, NBA avidly with some NHL (especially live at the stadium), rounded out with some occasional golf. Now it's only golf. Unless they start taking knees and putting BLM signage up.

Posted by: csmats at August 13, 2020 04:13 PM (X5VFN)

56 My sports watching has been on the decline for years; what changed was that I went from not having four hours to commit to watching a game but still a favorable sentiment towards professional sports to a visceral dislike of all professional sports.

I've switched to watching esports btw, which reflects my interests and activities much more closely.

Posted by: TexasDan at August 13, 2020 04:13 PM (yL25O)

57 "We've got fans booing us in our own stadium."

Get your stadium the hell out of my country, dickbag.

Posted by: hogmartin at August 13, 2020 04:13 PM (t+qrx)

58

What is truly sad about this is that sports was a great national pasttime.

You could go to a minor league, or national and have so much fun. Really get away from it all. Work, politics.

They betrayed us all. The hard left took over, like all institutions and wanted to destroy what Americans enjoyed. They have hated the NFL and NASCAR, for examples for a very long time. Now they have done what they wanted to, destroy it.

All sports are dictated out of China now.

I remember when some broke from Hollywood to create studios outside of LA. Redford was one. Sports should do the same. Start over. Break from the universities. Break from the city leagues.

They will come.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 13, 2020 04:13 PM (rjE57)

59 I'm down to the NHL although not much of that either now that the Rangers are on vacation.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 13, 2020 04:14 PM (ZLI7S)

60 I used to enjoy a good game, or just some as background. Started drifting out years ago. Can't stand it at all now.

To hell with every last one of those entitled thugs, on the field, in the booth, or in the front office.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: There is always More Stupid at August 13, 2020 04:14 PM (OUMaO)

61 I haven't watched an NFL game since the kneeling 1st started. So, it's been a few years.

I keep grudges a long time.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 13, 2020 04:14 PM (1ISKN)

62 I'd like to hear your answers.

I went from a viewing level of never to not at all.
Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 13, 2020 04:09 PM (NWiLs)

I never watched the NBA, and stopped watching the NFL after the Kaepernick follies. I used to watch MLB games regularly, but shitcanned MLB.TV after they went BLM. (Because as I told them when I cancelled: WMM - white money matters.)

I watched the Crimson Tide football games, but now ... I dunno. Maybe.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 13, 2020 04:14 PM (jpBkc)

63 My NBA watching habits were already zero

Posted by: UGAdawg at August 13, 2020 04:14 PM (Pcgj6)

64 Cannon said after the match via a Zoom press conference. "We've got fans booing us in our own stadium. How disgraceful is that. Honestly, for a lack of a better word, it pissed me off."

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Geez, Reggie (which is a fag name BTW), you sound like Cookie Milano but at least she has the excuse of being a girl.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 13, 2020 04:14 PM (+y/Ru)

65 I'm still watching F1, but if Hamilton gets his way, I'll be done with that too. He's such a whiny little dick.

Posted by: Mrs. Peel at August 13, 2020 04:14 PM (rWZ8Y)

66 "Shut up and dribble for Chairman Xi."

Now THAT is a good one.

It's one thing for stupid racist athletes to be stupid and racist (and ignorant) - that's kind of expected.

But the NBA really has blazed new territory here.

Being the poodle, spokesmouth, and ally of the country's primary international foe, and a quasi-genocidal totalitarian s***hole, to boot.

Nice!

Posted by: rhomboid at August 13, 2020 04:14 PM (OTzUX)

67 FC Dallas defender Reggie Cannon says players had requested for the anthem not be played, but that didn't happen. So players took the knee and the boos started. "You've got fans booing you for people taking a stand in what they believe in when millions of other people support this cause," Cannon said after the match via a Zoom press conference. "We've got fans booing us in our own stadium. How disgraceful is that. Honestly, for a lack of a better word, it pissed me off."
+++++++++++
Then get those millions of people who agree with your wokeness to come to your games if you're going to grandstand during them instead of showing a modicum of respect before taking to the field to do your job.

Oh, what? You can't? Not enough of them to fill the stadium in your home town? Or they can't be bothered to show up? Unhappy that you ended up getting caught with your pants down and your dick in your hand because you made a bad assumption?

Fuck off. Be pissed off. Be so angry that you come to your senses.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 13, 2020 04:14 PM (hYcqw)

68 That's interesting. I only read the headline, and since it was soccer, I assumed the "athletes" were girls.
Posted by: nerdygirl at August 13, 2020 04:13 PM (+lVUW)

There are no men playing soccer.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 13, 2020 04:14 PM (SgjGX)

69 "We've got fans booing us in our own stadium. How disgraceful is that. Honestly, for a lack of a better word, it pissed me off."

that's the sound of my "Freedom of Speech"
fuck off, asshole

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 13, 2020 04:14 PM (W2Pud)

70 61 I haven't watched an NFL game since the kneeling 1st started. So, it's been a few years.

I keep grudges a long time.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 13, 2020 04:14 PM (1ISKN)

Fist bump.

My man.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 13, 2020 04:14 PM (jpBkc)

71 54
And they say that the NFL has a lot of CTE. Soccer has to have nearly as much, if not more.
Posted by: imp at August 13, 2020 04:13 PM (SFOr6)

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My knee!

*topples over and cries*

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at August 13, 2020 04:15 PM (UWqZJ)

72 This is the first summer of my life (50+ years) that I have not watched a minute of baseball. I thought I'd be sad, but I'm just angry. I won't watch their games or buy their merchandise. Great business model; alienate fans for the sake of 1% of the population on Twitter. NFL is getting the same treatment.

Posted by: Paragon at August 13, 2020 04:15 PM (IrWGb)

73 The VP thing bombed and they're desperate.

It was a big fat Meh anyway. Kamala isn't exciting or interesting, half the pundits predicted it anyway, and it means nothing to the election. Mark Cuban acting like everyone rushed to Fox News to see about the VP pick is I guess understandable (he owns an NBA team) but pathetic and ludicrous.

NBA viewers are not running to Fox News to watch it for anything.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 13, 2020 04:15 PM (KZzsI)

74 Go back to splitting atoms.

Posted by: klaftern at August 13, 2020 04:15 PM (RuIsu)

75 No sports.

I'd like to hear from those still watching. How do you reconcile it. I'll admit I still watch movies, but I buy used dvds and blue rays.

Not paying for the streaming services, but I am still using Amazon Prime. This too may come to an end soon.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 13, 2020 04:15 PM (hku12)

76 Never have watched basketball, college or NBA; I was gone from football for twenty years and just came back to it the last four or five, and was enjoying it. But I am out now. Baseball has always been a passion but the way they have screwed things up I doubt I will be back for a long time. I am done with the SJW businesses to the extent possible. No more Proctor and Gamble, especially Gillette. No more Burger King. All major sports are out, and now college football - some of it is out.

Posted by: GlobalTrvlr at August 13, 2020 04:15 PM (ARe81)

77 Wait. Whoa. There's major league soccer? Why?

Posted by: lorien1973 at August 13, 2020 04:15 PM (SpKeo)

78 We've got fans booing us in our own stadium. How disgraceful is that.

Someone who has never played for a Philadelphia team.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at August 13, 2020 04:15 PM (q2K0j)

79
You've got fans booing you for people taking a stand in what they believe in when millions of other people support this cause," Cannon said after the match via a Zoom press conference. "We've got fans booing us in our own stadium. How disgraceful is that. Honestly, for a lack of a better word, it pissed me off."

Fuck you, snowflake. YOu can piss on my country, I can piss on your protesty feelz

Posted by: CN at August 13, 2020 04:15 PM (ONvIw)

80 We've got fans booing us in our own stadium. How disgraceful is that.

You see, Reggie, here's the thing. The fans aren't there to serve you. You're there to serve the fans.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 13, 2020 04:15 PM (NWiLs)

81 There are no men playing soccer.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 13, 2020 04:14 PM (SgjGX)

Yep. Nobody's watching them flop.

Besides, all the action is in the shower room.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 13, 2020 04:15 PM (jpBkc)

82 Thank you for covering this - classic uneducated liberal - I can protest, but you can't protest my protest because, reasons. The only sad thing was there weren't 3000 fans booing him. Soccer must negate Texas in some bizarre way.

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at August 13, 2020 04:15 PM (nFRLh)

83 We should note that those guys needed to be booed just for being Major League Soccer Players.

Soccer exists for one reason - if you're in a third world shithole and you got a bunch of kids with nothing to do, and you can dig up one old scuffed up ball and dirt field no one's using, your problems are solved. That's why it doesn't matter if anyone scores, the point is to keep the running going on and on and on until all the kids drop from exhaustion, until the next day. And if you're lucky, they'll be so tired that they won't even complain about supper being a half cup of rice with the some chopped up rat mixed into it.

that's what soccer is for.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 13, 2020 04:15 PM (Kpl3J)

84 I'm watching a lot less of pros now. Last year I watched as many Royals games as I could and this year I've watched two Cubs games because my wife is a fan. The rest of the leagues can go fuck themselves.

Posted by: scantily clad scandis at August 13, 2020 04:15 PM (ZYtWH)

85 NBA ratings are terrible, especially compared to... FoxNews ratings.

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Tucker coming up on the outside! He shoots! He scores!!!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 13, 2020 04:15 PM (+y/Ru)

86 I'm actually shocked that Soccer FANS booed the player's kneeling.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 13, 2020 04:15 PM (7ixfo)

87 "You've got fans booing you for people taking a stand in what they believe in when millions of other people support this cause," Cannon said

Fuck you princess.
You can take a stand but the paying customer can't?

Double fuck you.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2020 04:16 PM (yCZVl)

88 I still watch the NHL, and it's the only sport I watch now.

So far, the assholery in the NHL has been limited to one shit-head Canadian, Matt Dumba. I can live with that.

I haven't watched the NFL for years. I was a KC Chiefs fan for about 30 years, and named my daughter Delaney after the late Joe Delaney. Had she been a boy, I would have tried to get my wife to go along with first name Christian, middle name Okoye.

I sat there for decades watching one miserable losing season after another; then gave up on the league, not so much for the kneeling (although that really cemented it for me), but mainly because of the inconsistent officiating that seemed based more on players' reputations. It had become pro wrestling.

Then just a few years after I dropped it, the Chiefs (I hear) won the Superbowl. I didn't watch a single minute of it last year. And I don't miss it -- it's a shit game, with 3 seconds of action followed by 3 minutes of argument and replay.

Posted by: Pastafarian at August 13, 2020 04:16 PM (VzVA+)

89 "We've got fans booing us in our own stadium."

Get your stadium the hell out of my country, dickbag.
Posted by: hogmartin at August 13, 2020 04:13 PM (t+qrx)

It's the taxpayers and ticket purchasers stadium.

You're going to see all the seats filled with the Chinese and Hollywood. I'm not being racist. Look at the tennis matches now. One, who can afford it? Two, who has the power and money to grab blocks of seats?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 13, 2020 04:16 PM (rjE57)

90 Never have watched basketball, college or NBA; I was gone from football for twenty years and just came back to it the last four or five, and was enjoying it. But I am out now. Baseball has always been a passion but the way they have screwed things up I doubt I will be back for a long time. I am done with the SJW businesses to the extent possible. No more Proctor and Gamble, especially Gillette. No more Burger King. All major sports are out, and now college football - some of it is out.
Posted by: GlobalTrvlr at August 13, 2020 04:15 PM (ARe81)

Exactly where I am.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 13, 2020 04:16 PM (jpBkc)

91

And to think all of think started with boobie ribbons.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

For me it started with excluding Rush Limbaugh from NFL ownership.

I don't like Rush, generally. His "show" is one fucking nonstop ad, and his "takes" are anodyne and pedestrian. Not my cup of tea.

But when they kept him from buying something that was for sale, just because of his political beliefs, that tore it for me. Fuck them. They want a political sandbox, let them deal with McNeil/Lehrer level ratings.

Posted by: imp at August 13, 2020 04:16 PM (SFOr6)

92 I've been weening off sports for some time now. The NBA has never been a thing for me, I enjoyed bulls in the 90's as I'm a chicagoan but I was never a basketball fan. Basball I used to watch all the time but the past 5 years or so, nope. Football was always my bread and butter, Pro not college. But last couple years been doing more house projects than caring a lick what's going on on TV Sundays.

Posted by: Inogame at August 13, 2020 04:16 PM (+2xjH)

93 Husband dropped NFL Sunday when this crap started. I'm a baseball fan, and took great pleasure in calling and cancelling Extra Innings when I saw the Giants kneeling in pre-season. Repeated it in Spanish, just so the young lady understood perfectly. She answered me in Spanish that they were getting a lot of cancellations for the same reason.

I initially felt like the leagues in general were just playing to their future audiences, but Aubrey Huff claims he was not invited to the Giants' World Series anniversary event because of his support for Trump.

I think the majority of owners overall are all in for this shit.

Look how the NFL owner blocked Rush and Trump from ownership?

Can't believe I didn't notice it earlier.

Posted by: Edina Monsoon at August 13, 2020 04:16 PM (7ucoK)

94 73 The VP thing bombed and they're desperate.

It was a big fat Meh anyway. Kamala isn't exciting or interesting, half the pundits predicted it anyway, and it means nothing to the election. Mark Cuban acting like everyone rushed to Fox News to see about the VP pick is I guess understandable (he owns an NBA team) but pathetic and ludicrous.

NBA viewers are not running to Fox News to watch it for anything.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 13, 2020 04:15 PM (KZzsI)

========

"We're less interesting than a predictable political move."
-Mark Cuban, master strategist

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at August 13, 2020 04:16 PM (UWqZJ)

95 PGA We will watch it when we aren't playing golf ourselves.

My husband watches anything with a ball and a score. Fantasy leagues for every sport. Two months ago he said to me that he was done. Done with what?? Done waiting around for sports to restart. So we joined the country club. We play a few times a week and are traveling now once a month to play gorgeous courses on the California coastline.

It sounds trivial but it is huge in my family of men. They will turn on the Angels to watch baseball and as someone said above the Astros to see who gets hit by a pitch. No extra sports packages on cable. No getting home to get the game on. No betting. No fantasy league.

Posted by: sunny at August 13, 2020 04:16 PM (lFuF3)

96 Watching nothing. Looking forward to SEC football.

Posted by: SkylerKat at August 13, 2020 04:17 PM (SXIn9)

97 I watch golf and hockey. I haven't really watched basketball in years, and baseball has lost me. I'll give my Cowboys a chance, but any NFL viewing is probationary, and with the sound off.

Posted by: JohnFNotKerry at August 13, 2020 04:17 PM (iPbC0)

98 This new generation of "activists" completely misses the point. The reason that taking a stand is courageous is that you are supposed to accept the punishment that is meted out to you with grace and dignity. You know, like spending time in Birmingham jail, getting yelled at by mobs.

It's not a theater piece; it's an act of courage.

Posted by: PJ at August 13, 2020 04:17 PM (qlTN9)

99 What is truly sad about this is that sports was a great national pasttime.

*************

I read elsewhere where a commentator made a good point, that sports actually adversely affected the mental health of the country.

Instead of doing things prior to when sports became mainstream, we now watch other people doing things. Really salient point and this could turn out to be a blessing in disguise by getting people to become more active and find more productive ways to spend their off times.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Seeing 2021 From My House at August 13, 2020 04:17 PM (+dsLj)

100 You see, Reggie, here's the thing. The fans aren't there to serve you. You're there to serve the fans.

Yeah he's got this entire dynamic entirely backward, not surprising for a Futball player. You're there to perform for them like a seal balancing a ball, they aren't there for you. Your job is to make fans happy, not for them to please you, idiot.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 13, 2020 04:17 PM (KZzsI)

101 I'm actually shocked that Soccer FANS booed the player's kneeling.

Posted by: JoeF. at August 13, 2020 04:15 PM (7ixfo)

ISWYDT

Posted by: Boswell at August 13, 2020 04:17 PM (w2LAm)

102 "We've got fans booing us in our own stadium. How disgraceful is that.

"our own stadium", so they paid to build the stadium? Ya know, since they think it theirs. "Their stadium" was either paid for by ticker buyers, by sponsoring businesses, by taxpayers, or a combination of those. Do those head hits that soccer players do affect brain function?

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 13, 2020 04:17 PM (+lVUW)

103 I would assume a soccer crowd in Texas is heavily Latino. Maybe this bodes well for November.

Posted by: Mark1971 at August 13, 2020 04:17 PM (xPl2J)

104 Bander, good one! I had the first same reaction - and of course not limited to Philly, though they kind of have made a thing of it.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 13, 2020 04:17 PM (OTzUX)

105 I cut off all sports pro and college.
Done.

Posted by: Ha at August 13, 2020 04:18 PM (Q3ZwH)

106 I used to watch two games a year. Army Navy and the Superb Owl.

Owl is off the list now.

Posted by: blaster at August 13, 2020 04:18 PM (ZfRYq)

107 I used to watch A LOT of pro sports, but the shutdown taught me that I can live without it. I haven't watched a single game of anything since their attempt at a Woke reboot. No plans to start.

Posted by: Cooper Wesley at August 13, 2020 04:18 PM (vmmxV)

108 It's like they're stupid people, or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts

Where's my tire iron?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 13, 2020 04:18 PM (+y/Ru)

109 my sports viewership has gone from zero to negative 1000.

Posted by: douglas Whiddon at August 13, 2020 04:18 PM (hP9mp)

110 I listen to Uecker because I love Bob Uecker. That's it. Haven't watched the games on TV. Not watching the NBA at all.

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&V at August 13, 2020 04:18 PM (HabA/)

111 Not only do I want these woke-aholics bankrupted. I want citizens to use the power of their portfolios to stop this craziness in its tracks:

Corporations have given the Burn, Loot, Murder domestic terrorists billions. They disregard their fiduciary duty to safeguard our investments, by continuing to locate company assets in markets where those assets are subject to looting and destruction of physical locations, such as burning.

Check your portfolios, including your IRAs, 401ks, trading accounts, etc. If you own shares, show up to the shareholder meetings. DO NOT GIVE AWAY YOUR VOTE BY PROXY. Work to assemble a voting block of shareholders and use it to demand an end to subsidies for terrorists, divestment from markets where company (i.e. investor) assets are likely to be destroyed, and threaten to vote out the executive team if they will not agree. As shareholders, we own corporations. Let's use that ownership to do some good and protect our investments.

Posted by: mr_bill at August 13, 2020 04:18 PM (Q61zr)

112 43
Remember when people thought that Mark Cuban was going to be the Democrats' Trump?

Le sigh...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at August 13, 2020 04:12 PM (UWqZJ)

Lots of people play "Let's Pretend" about politics all of the time.

Posted by: Mikey NTH -Boo Hoo? You Do! Pity Party Supplies at The Outrage Outlet! at August 13, 2020 04:18 PM (75OeF)

113 How about try this in for size:

We've got "fellow Americans" booing us in our own country. Frankly, it pisses me off.

Posted by: InCali at August 13, 2020 04:18 PM (9AFWN)

114 > how is your sports viewership now compared to what it had been?

I watching more because I bought the MLB.TV package so I can watch Dodger games for the first time in years. Other than that, almost no sports.

Posted by: ArthurK at August 13, 2020 04:18 PM (uRdm9)

115 I've been watching hockey and some golf.

I'm done with everything else.
NFL, NBA, MLB, NASCAR ... d-u-n done.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at August 13, 2020 04:18 PM (jWe5r)

116 I haven't watched an NFL game since the kneeling 1st started. So, it's been a few years.

I keep grudges a long time.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 13, 2020 04:14 PM (1ISKN)

Fist bump.

My man.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

I'm still holding one from 1986.

I take it out occasionally & polish it.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2020 04:19 PM (yCZVl)

117 "We've got fans booing us in our own stadium. How disgraceful is that. Honestly, for a lack of a better word, it pissed me off."

To loosely paraphrase Lisa Lampanelli, he's so butthurt, *my* ass hurts...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at August 13, 2020 04:19 PM (ZSK0i)

118 As if you needed another reason to vote for Donald Trump...

Jennifer Epstein
@jeneps
Hillary Clinton didn't rule out serving in Biden's administration if he wins. "I'm ready to help in any way I can because I think this will be a moment where every American ... should want to fix our country," she told
@AmandaBecker
https://t.co/p8g6eos6C9?amp=1

I am sure this tweet gave Bill Kristol an erectio...oh, who am I kidding?!!! #FlaccidEunuchCuckForLife

Posted by: BetaCuck4Life at August 13, 2020 04:19 PM (FBrfY)

119 MLS is real popular in Portland Oregon. I know this will shock and amaze you to find out. The "Timbers" are the team. White people in the stands aping chants and waving banners like they think they're in Manchester or Tokyo. Its cute, sort of.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 13, 2020 04:19 PM (KZzsI)

120 112 Lots of people play "Let's Pretend" about politics all of the time.
Posted by: Mikey NTH -Boo Hoo? You Do! Pity Party Supplies at The Outrage Outlet! at August 13, 2020 04:18 PM (75OeF)

========

Why bring up Stacey Abrams?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at August 13, 2020 04:19 PM (UWqZJ)

121
Fvck SportsBall.

I aint watching none of it.

Posted by: Roland THTG at August 13, 2020 04:19 PM (88+cf)

122 Heh, I posted this in the wrong thread earlier...heh. I gave up Thugball First, then the rest. I don't watch any sports. F them overpaid, punk ass, America hating crybabies. .
I saved a lot of money . No Sports and fake news meant I didn't need
cable, so I cut that and saved more money and am much calmer now. I get
more done and am more productive.

I took that money I saved , and invested it. Cutting out sports is the best thing I've done since giving up cigarettes.Thanks sports athletes for being such assholes. I never could have done it without you! We really are all in this together, heh.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at August 13, 2020 04:19 PM (cCxiu)

123 Mark1971 - interesting!

I think there'll be good news on that front in any case, but this could be a 14-dimensional tea-leaf reading early indicator thereof.

Thought it's very regional.

One of the most heartwarming aspects of recent mass Hispanic immigrant non-assimilation was how at the US-Mexico exhibition matches in LA, the crowd would boo the US anthem. Very nice.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 13, 2020 04:19 PM (OTzUX)

124 Professional Wrestling is the only "sport" free from this BS. Good thing I love Pro Wrestling.

Posted by: Piper at August 13, 2020 04:19 PM (W+IcQ)

125 FUCK 'EM

FUCK "EM ALL

If you watch sports, you're a traitor to our founders

Posted by: REDACTED at August 13, 2020 04:20 PM (O+AcM)

126 I read elsewhere where a commentator made a good point, that sports actually adversely affected the mental health of the country.

Instead of doing things prior to when sports became mainstream, we now watch other people doing things. Really salient point and this could turn out to be a blessing in disguise by getting people to become more active and find more productive ways to spend their off times.
Posted by: Two Weeks From Seeing 2021 From My House at August 13, 2020 04:17 PM (+dsLj)

I disagree. Historically human beings need collective rituals to help unify communities. Sports fill that role, in much the same way the theater did for ancient Greeks. Going to a ball game is a way to be part of the larger community, as well as engage in catharsis. Further more, sports gave us heroes that were generally apolitical, and as such could be unifying figures in our national or regional identity.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 13, 2020 04:20 PM (SgjGX)

127 Lets call him Edgie Reggie, how Brave he is to throw up the Black Power Fist from the 1968 Olympics.

one thing I'm sure is going on, even though they won't dare report it - a lot of these American Soccer teams have got a lot of black players, because this is where runners go if they don't like being pounded by 350 pound monsters every time they run.

But their fans (especially in a place like Dallas) are almost 100% Hispanic. I think that makes the booing much more interesting.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 13, 2020 04:20 PM (Kpl3J)

128 Give hockey a second chance. Watched the Bruins-Canes game yesterday morning and didn't see a single one of the players take a knee, although there was one video screen in the arena that said "We Skate For BLACK LIVES" and it was so lame I got a laugh out of it.

Posted by: sharksauce at August 13, 2020 04:20 PM (DFZnL)

129 I don't watch sports at all anymore. Nothing.

Two to three years ago I watched the NFL every week, as many games as I could get on TV. And very occasionally some college football. It was a rarity for me to watch any other sports.

I won't ever go back. I hate them and want them to fail. All of them.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 13, 2020 04:20 PM (H5knJ)

130 Oh, been watching a LOT of Aussie Rules Football, as well as NRL and Super Rugby.

US sports can eff right off.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at August 13, 2020 04:20 PM (jWe5r)

131 how is your sports viewership now compared to what it had been?

I probably watched 50-60 MLB games a year, more some years (like 2016). I haven't watched a game all year, not spring training, nothing, unless you count old archived games on Youtube.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 13, 2020 04:20 PM (KZzsI)

132 Remember when people thought that Mark Cuban was going to be the Democrats' Trump?

Le sigh...
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at August 13, 2020 04:12 PM (UWqZJ)

Talk about a con man. He talks out of both sides of his mouth.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 13, 2020 04:20 PM (rjE57)

133 To answer your question Ace, I watch some highlights but its hard to care anymore. Mets suck anyway as usual :-(

Im not sure if Ill watch the NFL. I hate to admit it, but i probably will, but im not sure.

Posted by: Keyser at August 13, 2020 04:20 PM (wP+8a)

134 My viewership stopped the day Kapernick kneeled.

Haven't been back since.

I watch college sports only. If they even look in BLM's direction, I'll drop them too.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 13, 2020 04:20 PM (WvQcX)

135 I'm focusing on small mouth bass this football season. If Snyder wants my money he needs to kick Fed Ex in the nuts, repaint the stadium Burgundy and Gold and hang a big fucking Redskin Logo on every fucking side of the stadium. No one roots for a cuck team. No one.

Posted by: Puddin Head at August 13, 2020 04:20 PM (mPAG8)

136 Soccer exists for one reason - if you're in a third world shithole and you got a bunch of kids with nothing to do, and you can dig up one old scuffed up ball and dirt field no one's using, your problems are solved. That's why it doesn't matter if anyone scores, the point is to keep the running going on and on and on until all the kids drop from exhaustion, until the next day. And if you're lucky, they'll be so tired that they won't even complain about supper being a half cup of rice with the some chopped up rat mixed into it.

that's what soccer is for.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 13, 2020 04:15 PM (Kpl3J)

This.

Plus, it takes zero skill to play soccer. Sure, it takes skill to play it WELL, but not just to play it. Six year olds can have a blast running around kicking wildly in a huge scrum.

Contrast basketball, football, baseball or tennis. If you don't have some minimal level of skill, the game is no fun. If you can't shoot, can't throw a spiral accurately, can't hit a pitched ball or throw the ball accurately, can't serve accurately or return service, each of these sports is boring and frustrating.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 13, 2020 04:20 PM (jpBkc)

137 players had requested for the anthem not be played

Posted by: Gilded Age II at August 13, 2020 04:21 PM (BRkq2)

138 that's what soccer is for.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 13, 2020 04:15 PM (Kpl3J)

Football (American soccer) is and has been played in European countries for many years, where for decades the players were predominantly and middle class.

Posted by: Rev. FenelonSpoke, not a lesbian. at August 13, 2020 04:21 PM (WkPC9)

139

My knee!

*topples over and cries*
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts

My favorite is the ear flick. BUt really, the headers on the ball from the corner have to cause some serious holes in the brain.

Posted by: imp at August 13, 2020 04:21 PM (SFOr6)

140 How did Ann Coulter used to say it?
Officially Recognized Liberal Opinion or something like that.

Obstinate people really suck. They demand much and concede nothing. Only their freedom of speech, or thought for that matter nowadays, matters.

Go broke motherfuckers. Have fun in a thankless and brutal customer service job while you pine for having made a living doing something you enjoyed.

Posted by: Denny Crane! at August 13, 2020 04:21 PM (1eJby)

141 I never really watched sports, but when the NBA sycophants are on at the gym I want to change the channel so badly. Bunch of fucking rich assholes pretending they're brave freedom fighters, and how brave they are for holing up in Florida to play to nobody.
Fuck. Off.

Posted by: Gaff at August 13, 2020 04:21 PM (jPS2y)

142 I transitioned from NFL to college to NHL, and that is on thin ice.

People need to start totally disruptng the games. Projectiles, firebombs, BAMN. These princes got out light.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 13, 2020 04:21 PM (lxioR)

143 My earliest sports memory is of Bama football in the early 60's and I'm damned, but I love the Tide. Don't watch anything else and am nervous they'll turn as well.

Posted by: Heart of Darkness at August 13, 2020 04:21 PM (nFRLh)

144 All sports internationally have been affected

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2020 04:21 PM (OjZpE)

145 Sports players and actors should just STFU and do their jobs. No one with two brain cells that rub together cares about what they have to say.

Come think of it, the same goes for owners like Cuban.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 13, 2020 04:21 PM (SaQjD)

146 The NHL was my last holdout, then came the "skate for equality & black lives" signs, I just shut it off. Oh, and players kneeling as well.

Posted by: WeBoned! at August 13, 2020 04:22 PM (8k7U7)

147 Cutting out sports is the best thing I've done since giving up cigarettes.Thanks sports athletes for being such assholes. I never could have done it without you! We really are all in this together, heh.
Posted by: The Walking Dude at August 13, 2020 04:19 PM (cCxiu)

That's what I've done, I don't watch any of it. If there's some College Football on this fall, I might watch a bit, but that would be it. And I'm not even sure of that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 13, 2020 04:22 PM (Kpl3J)

148 Look at it this way: pretty soon, this guy's salary will be the same as the women's soccer players. Hooray for equality!

Posted by: PabloD at August 13, 2020 04:22 PM (F1m5e)

149 Well, the only thing gayer than professional soccer is professional synchronized swimming.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 13, 2020 04:22 PM (+y/Ru)

150 All I can hope for is when Girls Beach Volleyball comes 'round, they remember to bend at the waist, not at the knees.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Never Kneel, Free WA, Buy Ammo at August 13, 2020 04:22 PM (ifmtJ)

151 I got in on saying "fuck it" to these pro sports a long time ago. I watched the Broncos' every game from the time I was a little kid. And then they made a racist stand against people like me, so I stopped.

I missed it for the rest of that season, I guess, but once the next one started (2017) I noticed that I didn't give a shit about these millionaire lowlifes anymore.

I think it's hard to break a lifelong habit like watching football, but if something compels you to, then you realize that you wasted a lot of time/money on something that doesn't matter, and now you have several hours of extra time on the weekend.

For me, it was the racism. But for lots of fans, I think the Coronavirus limitations on attendance and season length, etc. will do the trick.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 13, 2020 04:22 PM (/nZod)

152 "We've got fans booing us in our own stadium. How disgraceful is that. Honestly, for a lack of a better word, it pissed me off."

Ahhh poor widdle baby. They are lucky anyone shows up to be bored with that tedious game

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 13, 2020 04:22 PM (3CR0+)

153 138-meant predominantly white and middle class

Posted by: Rev. FenelonSpoke, not a lesbian. at August 13, 2020 04:22 PM (WkPC9)

154 Mark Cuban
@mcuban
Lol. You do realize that was the day @JoeBiden picked @KamalaHarris ? Nothing makes a Fox News viewer want to get lied to more.
And while we are at it, explain why advertisers pay 3x or more for a prime time @Nba spot over a Fox News Spot? And who has had advertiser boycotts ?

no self awareness

This is about squelching Free Speech and destroying the opposition that is most viewed over the other retarded channels.

It is about intimidating advertisers and corporations that want to advertise there. It is about campaigns from Soros goons against anyone supporting Fox in any way.

What an a-hole Cuban is.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 13, 2020 04:22 PM (rjE57)

155 One of the most heartwarming aspects of recent mass Hispanic immigrant non-assimilation was how at the US-Mexico exhibition matches in LA, the crowd would boo the US anthem. Very nice.
Posted by: rhomboid at August 13, 2020 04:19 PM (OTzUX)

Bottom line: they're just here for the bucks. Period.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 13, 2020 04:22 PM (jpBkc)

156 My only problem with booing shitty scumbag kneelers is it is happening during the National Anthem.

I have a problem with doing almost anything during the Anthem.

Singing is not an issue, talking is.

I'm torn.

Posted by: nip at August 13, 2020 04:22 PM (yoqcZ)

157 >>I disagree. Historically human beings need collective rituals to help unify communities. Sports fill that role, in much the same way the theater did for ancient Greeks. Going to a ball game is a way to be part of the larger community, as well as engage in catharsis. Further more, sports gave us heroes that were generally apolitical, and as such could be unifying figures in our national or regional identity.

I agree. Sports have been part of society forever. Try doing business in India when they have a multi-day cricket match against Pakistan or anywhere in Europe during the World Cup.

Sports will come back when they finally remember their proper role and it isn't politics. In fact, it's the opposite of politics.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 13, 2020 04:22 PM (ZLI7S)

158 Fishing, boating and hunting are my sports. Haven't had any trouble with people kneeling for the anthem while participating in them.

Those other ones? Screw 'em.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at August 13, 2020 04:23 PM (FTlwv)

159 The DNC is doing to their base what the GOP has done to us for years. Ha ha ha.

Posted by: freaked at August 13, 2020 04:23 PM (Tnijr)

160 Part of me could give a shit less about professional sports, but what really pisses me off is that the left doesn't give a shit about sports either. It is another thing the flyover people do which they don't understand, therefore they don't approve and it is a waste of time and money which could be spent on their pet cause. So they invade it, and kill it from within. Once professional sports is dead the locusts will move on. What is next to make woke and destroy? Hunting, fishing, drinking beer, hobby carpentry?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 13, 2020 04:23 PM (o+zc9)

161 I'll look elsewhere for my bread and circuses.

Posted by: Regular joe at August 13, 2020 04:23 PM (L9P9s)

162 Scott Adams asked his twitter followers, how is your sports viewership now compared to what it had been?

I'd like to hear your answers.

Never really viewed anything but the Red Sox, and then only sporadically, but here's an observation:

In my local paper last week, the jack-sniffer scribbler wrote a column saying we should "thank" pro athletes for being on the field to play and entertain us, even during this time of health crisis and when there are no people in the stands.

I blasted him back in response, calling him out for supporting knee-dropping thugs, and apparently I am not the only one. He has been getting torched in letters and call-in comments.

The sooner professional thugball dies, the better off.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 13, 2020 04:23 PM (2JVJo)

163

Scott Adams asked his twitter followers, how is your sports viewership now compared to what it had been?

I'd like to hear your answers.
I'm watching way more horse races than before.

Posted by: Alec Leamas at August 13, 2020 04:23 PM (ssz2a)

164 some wag should hack an NFL scoreboard an blast the Soviet anthem

Posted by: Gilded Age II at August 13, 2020 04:23 PM (BRkq2)

165 I'm actually shocked that Soccer FANS booed the player's kneeling.

Posted by: JoeF.

Soccer is the only sport where the fans are a bigger threat than the players.

Posted by: Brother Tim sez: There is always More Stupid at August 13, 2020 04:23 PM (OUMaO)

166 A professional soccer game in Dallas was probably attended by mostly Mexican nationals:

Who have no great love for the USA, but know cowardice when they see it.

Posted by: Oschisms at August 13, 2020 04:23 PM (BD0Jm)

167 Mark Cuban is an excellent example of why so many people see very wealthy people and do not understand why they too cannot get a position in life which pays million$ - they look at those idiots and know they are not smarter than the average crack head in the hood.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at August 13, 2020 04:23 PM (1g7ch)

168
I haven't watched an NFL game since the kneeling 1st started. So, it's been a few years.

I keep grudges a long time.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 13, 2020 04:14 PM

Fist bump.

My man.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

I'm still holding one from 1986.

I take it out occasionally & polish it.

Posted by: rickb223 at August 13, 2020 04:19 PM

1996, when Butt Adams destroyed the scoreboard in the Astrodome so he could have "luxury sky-boxes", then moved the Oilers to Memphis anyway

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 13, 2020 04:23 PM (JrAR2)

169 Historically human beings need collective rituals to help unify communities. Sports fill that role, in much the same way the theater did for ancient Greeks.

I agree. Sports was a force of unification across all class, ethnic, and regional backgrounds for all Americans. Even bitter rivals like Sox/Yankees were both baseball fans and had a lot in common with that experience.

That's why the left is trying to destroy them. Infiltrate, corrupt, and destroy from within. Because it was something that was very American and something very constructive and unifying.

Until about 6 years ago, sports were super patriotic, rah-rah traditional American, too. One of the last bastions in the country you could reliably go to and get unabashed, unironic love of your home.

That has to go, in order for them to maintain control. They need us at each others' throats, divided and angry at each other, rather than them.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 13, 2020 04:23 PM (KZzsI)

170 Remember when people thought that Mark Cuban was going to be the Democrats' Trump?
- - - - - - -

So was Michael "Memory Hole" Avenatti

Posted by: ... at August 13, 2020 04:23 PM (vGjSz)

171 I loved baseball. I would sit during the summer and watch as many games as I could. I haven't watched a single game this summer. I haven't watched any NFL for three years and I'd watch five games a week. I haven't watched an NBA game for about 5.

Posted by: Old Blue at August 13, 2020 04:23 PM (VNmG1)

172 we have always enjoyed having the Astros on when they played and we were looking forward to them starting up baseball again. That opening night with the BLM banner behind the pitcher so it had to be seen with every pitch broke our enthusiasm.

Didn't watch much more of that game and haven't seen any more since.

Posted by: DanMan at August 13, 2020 04:23 PM (XTiHL)

173 Posted by: JackStraw at August 13, 2020 04:22 PM (ZLI7S)

I'm not a sports fan, but I agree with you and the other poster.

Posted by: Rev. FenelonSpoke, not a lesbian. at August 13, 2020 04:24 PM (WkPC9)

174 It wasn't uncommon for my Sunday afternoons and evenings to disappear into watching football.

That was a lifelong thing, as I was born into the era of the Steel Curtain. Slowly then suddenly that all stopped.

I can't even think of the last time that I went to SI or ESPN.com. They're completely irrelevant to me now.

Posted by: Harlock at August 13, 2020 04:24 PM (TFfqx)

175 I don't see what's so hard for them about just staying in the locker room.

Nobody watches MLS anyway, so it's not like they're missing extra time to virtue signal for the cameras.

Posted by: Allie at August 13, 2020 04:24 PM (vmRc0)

176 I've never been a huge sports fan, but always liked going to a game in person (especially minor league hockey and baseball, college football, and pro and college basketball). I'm done with all of it unless a league goes hard-line apolitical. I don't want to be pandered to with my beliefs either, this shit is supposed to be escape. This goes for shows, movies, etc. Yeah, there's going to be low level rah rah lib shit, but anything woke can fuck off if it wants me money.

Posted by: The Pudding at August 13, 2020 04:24 PM (UPp47)

177 The NHL was my last holdout, then came the "skate for equality & black lives" signs, I just shut it off. Oh, and players kneeling as well.
Posted by: WeBoned! at August 13, 2020 04:22 PM (8k7U7)

Same here, i would rather watch sanford and son re-runs

Posted by: Hatari Somewhere on Ventura Highway at August 13, 2020 04:24 PM (M+Lyo)

178 Whose stadium is that bitch boy. people can boo in their fucking stadium all they want. You can take your homoball and build your own fucking stadium.

Posted by: Starbanker at August 13, 2020 04:24 PM (kf3l1)

179 I really never got in to sports much. Played softball in high school, watched some baseball or hockey if there wasn't anything else on, and maybe the occasional NFL game. But now.... Yeh, I don't bother with any of it.

I related this little story a few days ago.... My local Mexican restaurant has two dining s and a t.v. In each that's tuned to one of the many ESPN channels. Last weekend one was showing a corn hole tournament and the one nearest out table had a marble racing tournament. After that ended they went to the pool to cover the belly flop competition. It was kind of surreal actually. But marble racing can be quite competitive.

Posted by: Madamemayhem (uppity wench) at August 13, 2020 04:24 PM (Vxu+H)

180 "
I am down to zero sports viewership now that the NHL pulled that bullshit."

The NHL knelt? I thought it was only one player. Some dude from Minnesota.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at August 13, 2020 04:24 PM (jWe5r)

181 150 All I can hope for is when Girls Beach Volleyball comes 'round, they remember to bend at the waist, not at the knees.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Never Kneel, Free WA, Buy Ammo at August 13, 2020 04:22 PM (ifmtJ)

*fistbump*
Word.

Sent you email, too.

Posted by: Insomniac - Ex Cineribus Resurgo at August 13, 2020 04:24 PM (NWiLs)

182 Our side is the counter culture.

I think that attracts folks.

It's growing.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 13, 2020 04:24 PM (WvQcX)

183 Any entertainment that explicitly markets itself as and enforces a lack of politics is very, very likely to get my money right now.

Posted by: The Pudding at August 13, 2020 04:25 PM (UPp47)

184 162
Never really viewed anything but the Red Sox, and then only sporadically, but here's an observation:

In my local paper last week, the jack-sniffer scribbler wrote a
column saying we should "thank" pro athletes for being on the field to
play and entertain us

----

Was it Dan Shaughnessy in the Boston Globe? Oh please tell me it was.

Posted by: sharksauce at August 13, 2020 04:25 PM (DFZnL)

185 first of all...FUCK THE NFL. They killed my redskins. So fuck it. I have no team.

second, huge MLB fan, haven't watched a game. And I'm probably not gonna. Even more so with the NBA...only I'm not even a fan.

I'm now just watching golf, poker, and some hockey.

but i'm watching tucker every night...that's fo sho. even if his recent topics have gotten boring.

Posted by: guest myspace user at August 13, 2020 04:25 PM (rnk6i)

186 When do they make Bill Dance take a knee on his boat?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 13, 2020 04:25 PM (o+zc9)

187 For me, it was the racism.

I never liked basketball at all, just the sport, but especially the NBA. A little too ghetto for me.

I cooled a lot on the NFL when they went through that phase of taking trash and doing the love dance from Zulu whenever they scored. I cannot abide shitty sportsmanship, it's too ghetto for me as well. I didn't like the thug component of the NFL, half of which seemed to be felons.

But the kneeling thing finally tore it entirely.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 13, 2020 04:25 PM (jpBkc)

188 In soccer, you're not allowed to use your hands or your brain.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Tyrannosaur Wrangler at August 13, 2020 04:25 PM (+y/Ru)

189 Remember when people thought that Mark Cuban was going to be the Democrats' Trump?

Cuban has the charisma of an awkward teenager.

At least what I saw of him lo these many year ago.

Posted by: eleven at August 13, 2020 04:25 PM (XTyi0)

190

Fck you Mark Cuban and the whole NBA. Hopefully ratings get worse as the season goes on

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 13, 2020 04:25 PM (3CR0+)

191 >>I'm not a sports fan, but I agree with you and the other poster.

Well thank you, Fenelon.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 13, 2020 04:25 PM (ZLI7S)

192 I think Reggie is stupid to be surprised that some fans booed.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2020 04:26 PM (WkPC9)

193 I was a hardcore football fan. I watched maybe 20+ hours a week between NFL and college.

Eventually I got so pissed off about bullshit politics spreading across everything on TV (about 7-8 years ago) that I cut the cable and had no way to watch TV at all.

Took 3 weeks to stop missing it. After that, I couldn't believe how fast I no longer cared at all. After watching something like 40 superbowls in a row starting with Hank Stram's Chiefs beating the Vikings, I didn't care about superbowls either.

I'll never be back. The 20+ hours I regained in my life by dropping them was more than worth it just by itself. It is even better knowing that I am no longer supporting people that hate me.

As far as I am concerned the entire media/sports empire should eat its own feces and die.

Posted by: jc at August 13, 2020 04:26 PM (PuMKG)

194 I found this story encouraging it is good to know that there are still some Americans willing to express their displeasure at spoiled athletes who are showing disrespect to the country. The only sport I am watching now is hockey. The NBA can go F itself. Go Trump, drain the swamp, MAGA!

Posted by: Kenny The G from AZ at August 13, 2020 04:26 PM (tSosf)

195 Soviet anthem (same music as the Russian anthem, some words have been changed) is kinda heavy and oppressive and powerful - so, a perfect anthem for Russia.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 13, 2020 04:26 PM (OTzUX)

196 I am pretty much done with big money TV reality TV shows masquerading as sports. I love college football, but its just gotten out of hand. So, I am done with that.

I will still tune in to a great boxing match, but that is about it. At least those guys do not (or cannot) hide the fact that they are jerks.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 13, 2020 04:26 PM (svbBD)

197 Level of sports viewership?

Mine is now zilch. I used to subscribe to mlb.tv, and last year had just started watching a teeny bit more nfl after several years of not.

No longer. They've screwed the pooch as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by: Harlan at August 13, 2020 04:26 PM (suaaH)

198 I disagree. Historically human beings need collective rituals to help unify communities. Sports fill that role, in much the same way the theater did for ancient Greeks. Going to a ball game is a way to be part of the larger community, as well as engage in catharsis. Further more, sports gave us heroes that were generally apolitical, and as such could be unifying figures in our national or regional identity.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 13, 2020 04:20 PM (SgjGX)
++++++++
The problem with sports isn't sports. There are two problems that I see, and neither is unique to sports.

1) Obsession. I have noticed an uptick in sports-related obsession. That isn't the sport's fault. Maybe the league or the network or the fantasy platforms, but not the sport.
2) Politicization and cultural rot. This is endemic. It has destroyed sports and TV and movies and the theater. The culture is rotten to its core. Sports are in the culture, and so the sports are rotten, too.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 13, 2020 04:26 PM (hYcqw)

199 You know, while we are waiting for the bass to bite, let's take a moment to talk about white privilege.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 13, 2020 04:26 PM (o+zc9)

200 I agree. Sports have been part of society forever. Try doing business in India when they have a multi-day cricket match against Pakistan or anywhere in Europe during the World Cup.

Sports will come back when they finally remember their proper role and it isn't politics. In fact, it's the opposite of politics.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 13, 2020 04:22 PM (ZLI7S)

The Armored Jousting League's time has come!

Ultimately the problem isn't sports, but the disease infecting all of our culture. It merely made its way to sports.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 13, 2020 04:26 PM (SgjGX)

201 I quit watching American sports (NFL/NBA) just about 10 years ago. No team/city loyalty when it comes to players. Any don't even get me started about how sports have come to take precedence over academics in secondary and post-secondary education; sickening.

The wife still loves her Atlanta Braves. But even she is growing weary of the SJW influence creeping into MLB. And make sure to point it out every chance I get.

Last game I paid money to go see was Tokyo Giants. At least there, the game is played for the fans and it shows.

Posted by: Shinjinrui at August 13, 2020 04:26 PM (Gb130)

202 In my local paper last week, the jack-sniffer scribbler wrote a column saying we should "thank" pro athletes for being on the field to play and entertain us

They're doing this gratis? That damned decent of them.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 13, 2020 04:27 PM (jpBkc)

203 Baseball on the radio (because Tom Hamilton calling the Indians is as good as anyone's ever been). That's about it (and approximately the way it's been for a couple of years now). My university canceled fall sports so no D2 college football streaming or radio or in the stadium.

Posted by: Mostly Peaceful Zap Rowsdower at August 13, 2020 04:27 PM (cUpB1)

204 I am surprised that the butthurt sissies didn't flop and twitch right there upon hearing the boos.

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at August 13, 2020 04:27 PM (KnJdm)

205 ha fucking ha ha
lol bitches

Posted by: TwentytwoLR at August 13, 2020 04:27 PM (X2Olq)

206 The NHL was my last holdout, then came the "skate for equality & black lives" signs, I just shut it off. Oh, and players kneeling as well.

Yeah, the NHL had a real shot to become the premium sport and they blew it.

Just like Baseball could have if they'd just not shut down. Instead they kneeled and ruined themselves. Idiots.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at August 13, 2020 04:27 PM (KZzsI)

207 Joel Pollak confronted Joe Biden about his Charlottsville "very fine people on both sides" lie.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y5j9xunq

As always, when someone confronts Biden, Biden became aggressive.

Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2020 04:27 PM (YYlyE)

208 I've always thought being a sports junkie was pathetic, even before they got so political.

I would occasionally do a little college football and that was about it.

FWIW, I have a friend that hates Trump but he said he was done with pro sports because of all the woke bullshit.

Posted by: Blago at August 13, 2020 04:27 PM (gkdnV)

209 Mark Cuban needs a fatwa placed on him.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 13, 2020 04:27 PM (lxioR)

210 I find myself doing a lot more iRacing now - with a Ruger scheme I did myself.

I'll pay them a fiver a month rather than Nascar. And tie a noose whenever I want.

Posted by: Read Your Book at August 13, 2020 04:28 PM (dmJhE)

211 Zero sports. None. Will not watch. And if my fucking Vikings take a knee this fall I will burn every fucking jersey and shirt. I will officially be done with the NFL. I'd rather be at the gun range anyway.

Posted by: Fred Garvin at August 13, 2020 04:28 PM (e5/N+)

212 Ultimately the problem isn't sports, but the disease infecting all of our culture. It merely made its way to sports.
Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 13, 2020 04:26 PM (SgjGX)

I worry about seeing the first signs of that rot infecting STEM subjects and researchers.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 13, 2020 04:28 PM (jpBkc)

213 College football was my thing, but after all the demands the players put on my alma mater... I won't be watching. Disgusting, disrespectful and disgraceful.

Why would I want to cheer for overpaid players that take a knee to our National Anthem and stand for other countries anthems?

Why would I want to watch a bunch of spoiled brats virtue signal to me about how oppressed they think they are?

Posted by: redridinghood at August 13, 2020 04:28 PM (wiXsO)

214 Let's see: I can't watch tennis because there's no tennis to watch (I don't watch women's tennis outside the big events anyway)

I stopped watching NBA several years ago so I cannot watch it less than that.

I don't watch NHL anyway.

I do watch/listen to my Indians games every night because listening to Hammy call a game is one of the few simple pleasures in my life. Note also that MLB has more or less stopped the woke stuff, at least from what I've seen.

College football is a clusterfuck of what may and may not be played.

I haven't decided on the NFL though the NFL seems to be doing its level best to tell me I'm not wanted.

I am less than pleased that I lost the everything is political war. But since I have, hey, little pretty princess soccer player bint? When you make things political? People get to be political back at you.

You pathetic child.

Posted by: alexthechick - Boobs and hysteria at August 13, 2020 04:28 PM (GbPPJ)

215 I've found golf to be a really exciting game/sarc. But, that's the only sport left that I currently watch. I'm a big Michigan fan but the Big 10 just announced they cancelled the upcoming season.

Posted by: Bill R. at August 13, 2020 04:28 PM (wzzJf)

216
how is your sports viewership now compared to what it had been?

Same as before. Zero.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2020 04:28 PM (aKsyK)

217 I have cut all sports watching out of my life and it's been a fantastic decision. I'm not giving money, attention, or my limited time (a very finite resource) to people who hate me and are trying to destroy what I hold dear. Fuck all of these pampered princess millionaires and their billionaire pimp daddies.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 13, 2020 04:28 PM (L106N)

218 My sports viewership hasn't changed. I,ve never been bored enough to watch other people grabass.

Posted by: drerbrerard at August 13, 2020 04:28 PM (iq2/S)

219 Haven't watched an NBA game in years, stopped watching NFL in 2013. I was down to MLB but have not watched since the capitulation to blm. My wife and I always attend up to half a dozen games or so at at&t Park and bought giants merch but won't spend another dime on the bastards.

Posted by: Pine Barrens at August 13, 2020 04:28 PM (oh+79)

220 >>> The only sad thing was there weren't 3000 fans booing him. Soccer must negate Texas in some bizarre way.
Posted by: Heart of Darkness at August 13, 2020 04:15 PM (nFRLh)

======

When I was ten my cousins from Texas got me a soccer ball for my birthday, even though they knew I was big into baseball. The Jarts that we weren't supposed to play with got 10 times more use than that soccer ball.

Posted by: Backup Slider at August 13, 2020 04:28 PM (amQo5)

221 Oh, what an unlucky leave! The dreaded 7-10 split. Let's see if he can pick this up.

But before we do, let's talk about your disgusting white privilege.

Jon, should bowling pins be changed?

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 13, 2020 04:29 PM (WvQcX)

222 Kind of relevant. As of this week, 291 Americans under age 24 had died of C19 - well, a portion of that number - since it's the infamous, disastrously unreliable combo of "with" and "from".

In a country of 330M+.

Just to add some factual, Planet Earth perspective to the idiotic hysteria about sports and schools. In that same time period, I think the total death #s are around 15K.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 13, 2020 04:29 PM (OTzUX)

223 What is truly sad about this is that sports was a great national pasttime.

*************

I read elsewhere where a commentator made a good point, that sports actually adversely affected the mental health of the country.

Instead of doing things prior to when sports became mainstream, we now watch other people doing things. Really salient point and this could turn out to be a blessing in disguise by getting people to become more active and find more productive ways to spend their off times.
Posted by: Two Weeks From Seeing 2021 From My House at August 13, 2020 04:17 PM (+dsLj)

I don't see it that way. It's another form of entertainment where entire families and friends could go and have fun together.

I played most sports growing up. I loved it. I was always on some team or another.

Not everyone is up to or wants to play sports. Watching can be so much more meaningful if you have actually played the sport.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 13, 2020 04:29 PM (rjE57)

224 I catch a 49er's or Golden State game once or twice a year.

Posted by: Dansgirls at August 13, 2020 04:29 PM (V25ON)

225 Haven't watched any pro sports since the Redskins (who I had watched regularly for decades to that point) started coming out of the locker room doing the "hands up, don't shoot" bullshit after Ferguson.

If they want to turn their football games into faux-virtue signalling pantomimes of their idiotic political views, that's their choice. But I'm not going to waste my time watching a bunch of ignoramuses posturing about a case they clearly know nothing about, other than the bullshit they've been fed by the corrupt media (including so-called social media).

And it's become significantly worse since then, on all types of teams, at all levels. None of them are worth watching now. It's non-stop America-bashing, racist bullshit by a bunch of ignorant, over-paid, over-privileged assholes, none of whom seem to be capable of any independent thought. And when one of them does decline to go along with the leftist mob, there is inevitably a retraction or groveling apology by that individual within 24 hours. It's sickening to see what cowards most of them are. I'll never watch any of them ever again.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at August 13, 2020 04:29 PM (k4dH2)

226 1) Obsession. I have noticed an uptick in sports-related obsession. That isn't the sport's fault. Maybe the league or the network or the fantasy platforms, but not the sport.
2) Politicization and cultural rot. This is endemic. It has destroyed sports and TV and movies and the theater. The culture is rotten to its core. Sports are in the culture, and so the sports are rotten, too.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 13, 2020 04:26 PM (hYcqw)

I agree, and I think that the two are related. Sports have become a replacement for the community and larger identity that people used to have. Some pencil-necked geek or some slovenly pudge obsessing over football, soccer, baseball, etc. is compensating for the lack of fulfillment in their life elsewhere.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 13, 2020 04:29 PM (SgjGX)

227 /lurk
For me, there were two seasons: Baseball and Winter. Opening day was my personal holiday, and was the one day every year that I made sure I went to the ballpark to catch the game. This was the first year in over two decades that I wasn't able to attend.

...and with their bended knees, it will not be the last. Not one more minute, not one more penny.

lurk

Posted by: goozer at August 13, 2020 04:29 PM (PwwcI)

228 Funny, he says they've got millions of supporters behind the BLM movement. How many bought tickets for the game?

Posted by: Robert17 at August 13, 2020 04:29 PM (JGDv/)

229 The only getaway from politics and life to watch contests between individuals or teams is now just a reminder how much of a racist you are so try and stop it will you?

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2020 04:29 PM (OjZpE)

230 Oppsie

@JakeBGibson

DOJ informs Yale University of its conclusion that the university illegally discriminates against Asian American and White applicants during the admissions process. The DOJ adds the findings are result of a two year investigation.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 13, 2020 04:29 PM (ZLI7S)

231 10 years ago, I listened to ESPN radio as my default in both vehicles. I watched ESPN on TV more than probably any other channel. I subscribed to NFL Sunday ticket and the NFL Channel. I watched college football on Saturdays and at least 3 NFL games on Sundays. I watched nearly every Monday and Thursday Night NFL games.

Now? I couldn't tell you where ESPN Radio can be found on my radio dial. I can't recall the last time I watched a single minute of ESPN TV. I no longer subscribe to Sunday Ticket or the NFL Channel. I actively avoid all sports where the participants kneel for the same flag that we cover our war dead with.

Posted by: Muad'dib at August 13, 2020 04:29 PM (sjdRT)

232 The NHL knelt? I thought it was only one player. Some dude from Minnesota.
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at August 13, 2020 04:24 PM (jWe5r)

2 Vegas players Reaves, Lehner & 2 Stars Seguin, Dickinson.

Posted by: WeBoned! at August 13, 2020 04:30 PM (8k7U7)

233 Sports? Sure shooting sports on YouTube. Sports ball nascar anything else? Nada nothing ziltch. Fuck the nfl nba mlb hockey soccer nascar all th woke shit. Oh and fishing again on YouTube. Nope i will not return to it either.

my kids are the same.

No interest.

Sports is dead.

Posted by: USNtakim at August 13, 2020 04:30 PM (0OmEj)

234 I cooled a lot on the NFL when they went through that phase of taking trash and doing the love dance from Zulu whenever they scored. I cannot abide shitty sportsmanship, it's too ghetto for me as well. I didn't like the thug component of the NFL, half of which seemed to be felons.

But the kneeling thing finally tore it entirely.

All of the above. Plus insufferable commercial breaks (more frequent, longer). By the time I quit, they were actually prioritizing the commercials over the game, so that you'd come back from commercial break and see that you'd missed plays. Making the Super Bowl into a gay party-event with for non-fans. On and on.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 13, 2020 04:30 PM (H5knJ)

235 I have to thank the NBA, NFL, MLB, etc for opening my eyes to the fact that life without live sports is actually pretty good. In fact, a lot less stressful.

In fact, if they wouldn't be such assholes I'd actually feel a bit sorry for them. But, nah.

I don't miss you, and I'm sure you won't miss me. Buh, bye!

Posted by: Pete Seria at August 13, 2020 04:30 PM (7ZQe3)

236 I worry about seeing the first signs of that rot infecting STEM subjects and researchers.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 13, 2020 04:28 PM (jpBkc)

It is in medicine. All the young doctors are hardcore leftists.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 13, 2020 04:30 PM (o+zc9)

237 I read elsewhere where a commentator made a good point, that sports actually adversely affected the mental health of the country.

Instead of doing things prior to when sports became mainstream, we now watch other people doing things. Really salient point and this could turn out to be a blessing in disguise by getting people to become more active and find more productive ways to spend their off times.
Posted by: Two Weeks From Seeing 2021 From My House at August 13, 2020 04:17 PM (+dsLj)

I can remember being able to, on a whim, go down to the stadium, pay... what was it, $3? Go sit in the bleachers, have a couple beers or hot dog, and walk out later having spent less than $20.

Now you can't even park for less than $20. I ticket and basic refreshments gets you over $100.

Somewhere along the line, the benefits of being a rooter for your team, switched over to being an ATM machine for super rich owners and players.

No thanks.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 13, 2020 04:30 PM (hku12)

238 193 I think Reggie is stupid to be surprised that some fans booed.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 13, 2020 04:26 PM (WkPC9)

It shows how out of touch he is. Just shut up and play the game, OK?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 13, 2020 04:30 PM (jpBkc)

239 If Bat Flu kills anything I hope its major league sports. F'k these millionaire clowns sideways. Theyve never been needed and now theyre not wanted.

Posted by: AWO at August 13, 2020 04:31 PM (r3rPV)

240 Let me see if I have this correctly.

Sports viewers choose news over sports when the choice for Veep is made. Or--in the great tradition of lefty nitwits everywhere who think insulting people brings them to your side--Fox News viewers leave the NBA to be "lied to." Note: LeBron James and Anthony Davis both landed on the Lakers by pure strategic though on the part of team management. (The sarc tag for this could be seen from Pluto.)

Who says Mark Cuban hasn't had an original thought in over three decades?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 13, 2020 04:31 PM (XrCyE)

241 Sports will come back when they finally remember their proper role and it isn't politics. In fact, it's the opposite of politics.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 13, 2020 04:22 PM (ZLI7S)

on the topic of the Ancient Greeks - I'm reminded that the ancient Olympiad lasted from 776 BC to 393 AD, an incredible run.

when it finally all fell apart, it took 1500 years to come back.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 13, 2020 04:31 PM (Kpl3J)

242 Cardinals fan for lo these 60 years. Haven't watched, haven't even checked a score. They went #Woke, they can suck my dick.

Posted by: Jeffersonian at August 13, 2020 04:31 PM (yX3gx)

243 oh right...I was also getting into NASCAR until they told me I was a bad person for ... not sure. But something about some driver who doesn't know what a rope is.

so...no mo0re NASCAR for me.

Srs, does any leftist BLM bully even know what BLM stands for?

Posted by: guest myspace user at August 13, 2020 04:31 PM (rnk6i)

244 231 Oppsie

@JakeBGibson

DOJ informs Yale University of its conclusion that the university illegally discriminates against Asian American and White applicants during the admissions process. The DOJ adds the findings are result of a two year investigation.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 13, 2020 04:29 PM (ZLI7S)

=========

Elite progressive institutions...racist?

How could this be?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at August 13, 2020 04:31 PM (UWqZJ)

245 football for me is throwing an actual football to my three kids in the backyard.

Real life. Spending time where it matters.

Posted by: Secret Squirrel at August 13, 2020 04:31 PM (1+Jvs)

246 I would rather watch coverage of a local golf league that these conceited prima donnas.

Man, beach volleyball would be nice. Or lingerie football. Bikini golf?

T and A for the win.

Posted by: Denny Crane! at August 13, 2020 04:31 PM (1eJby)

247
Sports viewing has never been a thing of interest for me. I watched some PGA golf when we visited my in-laws two weekends ago, but that was because my FiL had it on the television.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 13, 2020 04:31 PM (pNxlR)

248 Confucius say --> "Man who finger's Kumala's Jimbo get stinky finger with Infection............

Posted by: Confucius at August 13, 2020 04:31 PM (qM84C)

249 I've never watched NBA. To tell you the truth,I don't even know any basketball rules or terms. Gave up on the NFL a few years ago. I watched 2/3 of an inning of MLB this "season" and called it quits. When I was a kid in Ohio, they used to have pro bowling on a lot, usually out of Firestone Lanes in Akron. I would sooner watch that. Or curling. Or roller derby.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at August 13, 2020 04:31 PM (C1Lsn)

250 I stopped watching any pro sports years ago. The growing number of self-entitled, mostly monosyllabic, athletes just took away any enjoyment.

Wow! LOOK AT ME!! I can catch/throw/carry a ball.

Give me Ray Nitschke, or give me death!

Posted by: MaDuece at August 13, 2020 04:32 PM (0dmP2)

251 "Excuse me sir, could you put your mask on?"

https://tinyurl.com/y3p9cgtz

Posted by: redridinghood at August 13, 2020 04:32 PM (wiXsO)

252 The clouds are really cheap

The way I seen 'em thru the ports

Of which there is a half-a-dozen

On the base of my resorz

You wouldn't think I'd have too many

Since I never cared for sports

But I'm never really lonely

In my Excentrifugal Forz

Posted by: guy who relates everthing to a Zappa song at August 13, 2020 04:32 PM (Tnijr)

253 About the only thing i ever watch is college football.
Season tickets but likely watching on tv this year.
If it happens this year.
So far we are still on track to play.
Boomer

Posted by: RJD at August 13, 2020 04:32 PM (2cfUo)

254 I watched a few minutes of women's golf while at the barber shop last week. It will be the longest amount of time I'll spend on spent on sports this year.

Posted by: Bite The Big Apple, Don't Mind The Maggots at August 13, 2020 04:32 PM (+v+zN)

255 Sports will come back when they finally remember their proper role and it isn't politics. In fact, it's the opposite of politics.

********************

Reminds me of reading about the history of riots, with the worst one being the roman riot that led to thousands of deaths and literally half of Rome being destroyed.

Because the roman emperor at that time tried to cancel chariot races. Whoops.

Posted by: Two Weeks From Seeing 2021 From My House at August 13, 2020 04:32 PM (+dsLj)

256 Jay, see the jaw-dropping NASA statement about some idiotic racist Gleichschaltung thing, recently. Worse, see the truly unbelievable racist struggle session idiocy at *Sandia National Lab* (yes) which has been noted and documented online.

And I even have bad news about CalTech (well, sort of, as I recall it, and it was from the very top and the very inside).

Everybody loves ignorant or facile and or offensively stupid Nazi Germany references and comparisons - but those who actually know some of the history I think have a special horror at seeing these obscene and unthinkable things happening in what was once the US.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 13, 2020 04:33 PM (OTzUX)

257 Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 13, 2020 04:29 PM (rjE57)

How important are sports ?

Well - where I work, and we still work - "I made so many tackles at XYZ".

"So what ? Carry that form. Read the frigging tape measure. No - there's no varsity jacket out here. Purdue made you an offer ? How about you take it."

I will not miss sports.

Posted by: Read Your Book at August 13, 2020 04:33 PM (dmJhE)

258 Jesus Christ, I know that you Yanks hold footballers (not soccer players, I just won't) in low esteem, and to be honest, it's getting harder to argue against that.
This just makes it worse.
If this wilting orchid gets upset about being booed, then he'd better thank his lucky stars he never played in the Glasgow 'Old Firm' game (Rangers Vs C*ltic - fuck C*ltic) in the 70s or 80s or the Buenos Aires 'Superclassico'game (Boca Juniors Vs River Plate) today.

The hate that pours down off the stands....whew!

Also FIFA, for all its myriads of faults and evils, are very strict and down about political statements being made on the pitch by football players and the disrespecting of anthems by teams. They do not fuck about on this score.
It would be a great pity if someone narked to FIFA about these political stunts by the players (wink, wink).

Posted by: Sir Ian Botham at August 13, 2020 04:33 PM (5Hd9d)

259
@JakeBGibson

DOJ informs Yale University of its conclusion that the university illegally discriminates against Asian American and White applicants during the admissions process. The DOJ adds the findings are result of a two year investigation.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 13, 2020 04:29 PM (ZLI7S)

I await the consent decree under which Yale is forced to rename its sports teams the Yale Slavers.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at August 13, 2020 04:33 PM (pNxlR)

260 I really missed baseball and was glad to see it come back.....until they started up with the kneeling and the BLM logos on the pitcher's mound. That dampened my enthusiasm quite a bit. Hockey was the last bastion of neutral sports for a while, but now they are acting up now too.
In short, I hardly watch any sports and I don't miss it anymore.

Posted by: Agent Cooper at August 13, 2020 04:33 PM (Dc5Qe)

261

I'm done with all of it.

Well, I will watch games that Big Ben plays in, might be his last year, and he is a joy to watch, same thing with Brady.

The rest of it, it can fuck right the hell off. Haven't watched an F1 race in years, used to be a big fan, and now that Lewis the Douche is kneeling for George, fuck that shit. I'll watch old races.

Even NASCAR, how could they fuck that up.

So basically we have NHRA drag racing and golf.

Posted by: Rev. Dr. E Buzz Miller, Lesbian at August 13, 2020 04:33 PM (lg/F7)

262
I worry about seeing the first signs of that rot infecting STEM subjects and researchers.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

2+2=5

Woken bridge is falling down, falling down
Woken bridge is falling down, falling down
My fat lady

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2020 04:33 PM (aKsyK)

263 The NHL knelt? I thought it was only one player. Some dude from Minnesota.
Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at August 13, 2020 04:24 PM (jWe5r)

Yay Minnesota! I swear there's something in the water supply there.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 13, 2020 04:33 PM (jpBkc)

264 Only ever watched football. Since the kneeling episode I watch NO sports whatever--in fact watch no tv at all either.

Posted by: irongrampa at August 13, 2020 04:33 PM (KATBx)

265 "can't have the inmates running the prison."
_Bob McNair, owner, Houston Texans

he was forced to apologize October 17, 2017

Posted by: Braenyard at August 13, 2020 04:33 PM (d4edd)

266 So, the NFL:

1. killed the redskins team.
2. puts PINK on everything for a whole month
3. donates millions to insane lefty causes
4. hates republicans
5. has openly racist players who act like they;re victims

Posted by: guest myspace user at August 13, 2020 04:34 PM (rnk6i)

267 Posted by: Two Weeks From Seeing 2021 From My House at August 13, 2020 04:17 PM (+dsLj)

I don't see it that way. It's another form of entertainment where entire families and friends could go and have fun together.

I played most sports growing up. I loved it. I was always on some team or another.

Not everyone is up to or wants to play sports. Watching can be so much more meaningful if you have actually played the sport.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 13, 2020 04:29 PM (rjE57)

You're talking past tense. Try taking a family to a major league sporting event now.

How many times a year can you spend several hundred dollars for a few hours of "entertainment?"

Posted by: BurtTC at August 13, 2020 04:34 PM (hku12)

268 Our side is the counter culture.

I think that attracts folks.

It's growing.
Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 13, 2020 04:24 PM (WvQcX)

Yep. And we're figuring out how to be the counterculture faster than the Left is making the transition from counterculture to mainstream. They're spinning their wheels because counterculture tactics (always keep punching) don't win admirers anymore when you're punching down.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 13, 2020 04:34 PM (odoK1)

269 to be honest tho...does baseball or NBA expect to beat fox news in ratings? How does this comparison work?

Posted by: guest myspace user at August 13, 2020 04:34 PM (rnk6i)

270 MUMR has been playing a different woodwind these past few days.

I don't trust it.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 13, 2020 04:34 PM (WvQcX)

271 I really missed baseball and was glad to see it come back.....until they started up with the kneeling and the BLM logos on the pitcher's mound. That dampened my enthusiasm quite a bit.
Posted by: Agent Cooper at August 13, 2020 04:33 PM (Dc5Qe)

I was really looking forward to it baseball season, too. But then I saw the BLM logos on the mound, the black ribbon, the kneeling, Kershaw running his yap, and I said, "Fuggit."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 13, 2020 04:35 PM (jpBkc)

272 I can remember being able to, on a whim, go down to the stadium, pay... what was it, $3? Go sit in the bleachers, have a couple beers or hot dog, and walk out later having spent less than $20.

When was this? 1974?

Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2020 04:35 PM (YYlyE)

273 If you watch sports, you're a traitor to our founders
Posted by: REDACTED at August 13, 2020 04:20 PM (O+AcM)

That's how you do it, folks.
When it's time to show what a rock-ribbed, staunch conservative you are, this is the gold standard.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at August 13, 2020 04:35 PM (z79tQ)

274 Yale could lose its tax-exempt status, I think. That would be...awesome.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at August 13, 2020 04:36 PM (lxioR)

275 I will say i did take my family last year to a minor league baseball game. Tickets were 10 bucks and they got free ice cream. It was a lot of fun and seeing those young players really hustle and try because they are hoping a scout is in the stands made the game a hell of a lot more fun than watching MLB.

But, alas, no minor league this year cause...Rona. Not to worry though, if kameltoe and the finger sniffer win, the Rona will disappear overnight- as you all are already aware.

Posted by: Secret Squirrel at August 13, 2020 04:36 PM (1+Jvs)

276 Zero. None. I will not visit any sports website, I will not eat at a restaurant during game time, I will not scroll a sports post in social media. I am targeting to not know who plays in the Super Bowl should that season get that far. Sports are dead to me in every way.

Posted by: Innagaddadavida at August 13, 2020 04:36 PM (hpbeA)

277 Posted by: USMC 8541 at August 13, 2020 04:08 PM (77JNZ)

USMC 8541 is wise. Unusual for a Marine.

Posted by: Laughing in Texas at August 13, 2020 04:36 PM (ExV1e)

278 What a second. WHAT fans? What league is letting fans into the stadium right now?

Posted by: Agent Cooper at August 13, 2020 04:36 PM (Dc5Qe)

279 Jennifer Epstein
@jeneps
Hillary Clinton didn't rule out serving in Biden's administration if he wins. "I'm ready to help in any way I can because I think this will be a moment where every American ... should want to fix our country," she told
@AmandaBecker
https://t.co/p8g6eos6C9?amp=1

I am sure this tweet gave Bill Kristol an erectio...oh, who am I kidding?!!! #FlaccidEunuchCuckForLife
Posted by: BetaCuck4Life

Oh, great. That vodka sucking bitch is never going leave us the hell alone.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 13, 2020 04:36 PM (+lVUW)

280 I can remember being able to, on a whim, go down to the stadium, pay... what was it, $3? Go sit in the bleachers, have a couple beers or hot dog, and walk out later having spent less than $20.

Now you can't even park for less than $20. I ticket and basic refreshments gets you over $100.

Somewhere along the line, the benefits of being a rooter for your team, switched over to being an ATM machine for super rich owners and players.

No thanks.
Posted by: BurtTC
____________

I really don't understand where anyone middle class gets the money to go to just about any modern sporting event.

It's easily $500+ to go to just about anything involving pro sports with the exception of baseball.

My Pac 12 college team, two "okay" tickets are around $600 now. 15 years ago it was like $40 a ticket.

Posted by: Blago at August 13, 2020 04:36 PM (gkdnV)

281 Yale could lose its tax-exempt status, I think. That would be...awesome.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat

Why TF is Yale tax exempt?

Posted by: eleven at August 13, 2020 04:36 PM (XTyi0)

282 270 to be honest tho...does baseball or NBA expect to beat fox news in ratings? How does this comparison work?

Posted by: guest myspace user at August 13, 2020 04:34 PM (rnk6i)

No idea if this is true, but I'd suspect that entertainment would generally beat out political talk shows in evening time slots.

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 13, 2020 04:37 PM (xfb67)

283 I haven't watched a professional or college sport since the Astros won the Series.

Posted by: Jimmy From Texas at August 13, 2020 04:37 PM (BBCdX)

284 Yeah, I'd watch minor league ball if the Rona didn't kill it already.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 13, 2020 04:37 PM (WvQcX)

285 I can remember being able to, on a whim, go down to the stadium, pay... what was it, $3? Go sit in the bleachers, have a couple beers or hot dog, and walk out later having spent less than $20.

Now you can't even park for less than $20. I ticket and basic refreshments gets you over $100.

Somewhere along the line, the benefits of being a rooter for your team, switched over to being an ATM machine for super rich owners and players.

No thanks.
Posted by: BurtTC at August 13, 2020 04:30 PM (hku12)

yeah, when I was a kid in Phoenix, we would go down to the MLB spring training facilities when they were there, and we could watch big name teams and players from across the country for a buck or two. It was great. Some boy scout promotions would give us free tickets to Phoenix Suns games, before the NBA got real big, and although they weren't any good at the time, it was great when teams like the Lakers and Wilt the Stilt came into town.

during our lives, everything has been corporatized, and monetized, and ruined. It's a damn shame.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 13, 2020 04:37 PM (Kpl3J)

286 There's basketball on? I really had no idea.

Posted by: Brian Dennehy in Hunt of Red Octobrr at August 13, 2020 04:37 PM (ufJfM)

287 All I can hope for is when Girls Beach Volleyball comes 'round, they remember to bend at the waist, not at the knees.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Never Kneel, Free WA, Buy Ammo at August 13, 2020 04:22 PM (ifmtJ)

good luck
Manhattan Beach is one of the places they used to practice, and up and down that area of coastline. I used to go out and watch the men, and sometimes the women practice.

And that is where that creepy girl attacked those two men for not wearing masks.

I am sure the place is infested with the left now and it will put pressure on the vb players.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 13, 2020 04:37 PM (rjE57)

288 wait until ACE reads Chritopher Rufo's reporting on the anti-white lecture nuclear power workers at the National Nuclear Lab were forced to attend.

Posted by: guest myspace user at August 13, 2020 04:37 PM (rnk6i)

289 I still watch golf. There are signs that wokeness is going to come to the PGA within ten years.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 13, 2020 04:37 PM (svbBD)

290 Cardinals fan for lo these 60 years. Haven't watched, haven't even checked a score. They went #Woke, they can suck my dick.
Posted by: Jeffersonian at August 13, 2020 04:31 PM (yX3gx)

Well they all got the creepin' China crud now, so....

In a 60 game schedule, they should have played... what, maybe 20 of those games by now? And they've played less than 10?

Yeah, that's gonna work.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 13, 2020 04:37 PM (hku12)

291 My sports viewership is down 100%.

Posted by: JewishOdysseus at August 13, 2020 04:37 PM (bvp+i)

292 the left doesn't even like sportsball.

but we did. and it was a community binding celebration of hard work, drinking beer and yelling at a bunch of grown men playing a game. it was about sportsmanship and entertainment.

that started changing about ten years ago. or more.
three years ago, the SJWs put sportsball in the center of their target of things that must not be enjoyed.

when sports die, they will move on to something else.

notice, they already took away our right to go to church and sing.

and our right to go to a party on the beach. or a concert.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 13, 2020 04:37 PM (W2Pud)

293 I really don't understand where anyone middle class gets the money to go to just about any modern sporting event.

It's easily $500+ to go to just about anything involving pro sports with the exception of baseball.

My Pac 12 college team, two "okay" tickets are around $600 now. 15 years ago it was like $40 a ticket.
Posted by: Blago at August 13, 2020 04:36 PM (gkdnV)

Credit cards.

Posted by: Colorado Alex In Exile at August 13, 2020 04:37 PM (SgjGX)

294 How about if conservatives announced we'd take a knee in humble gratitude for the awesome country in which we live. Do that a bunch and the kneeling would be forbidden.

Posted by: Hall Dall MD at August 13, 2020 04:38 PM (9QLus)

295 Just once when the players kneel, I'd love the fans to start chanting:

Kneel before Zod!

KNEEL before Zod!

KNEEL BEFORE Zod!

KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!

It would be glorious..

Posted by: I'm the Honey Badger, BITCH! at August 13, 2020 04:38 PM (DV/hr)

296 Today was supposed to be MLB game between Cubs and White Sox here at the Field of Dreams. MLB postponed it to 2021. Due to covid, you know. Not because they now won't be able to charge a high premium for those 8000 tickets.

Posted by: Backup Slider at August 13, 2020 04:38 PM (amQo5)

297 119 MLS is real popular in Portland Oregon. I know this will shock and amaze you to find out. The "Timbers" are the team. White people in the stands aping chants and waving banners like they think they're in Manchester or Tokyo. Its cute, sort of.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Next you'll be telling us it's popular in San Francisco.

Posted by: nerdygirl at August 13, 2020 04:38 PM (+lVUW)

298 I wouldn't watch sports right now unless it was video of their wives and girlfriends getting banged by other men.

They can all go die in a giant fire.

Posted by: Nom de Blog at August 13, 2020 04:38 PM (hYUjK)

299 I watch a bit of golf. Highlights of Braves games. Otherwise, nada.

Posted by: iandeal at August 13, 2020 04:38 PM (vgGyZ)

300
It gets a little sadder. Reggie Cannon's Twitter profile:

|| Christian || God First || UCLA||All about Family||

Another deluded religious person.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2020 04:38 PM (G51Gf)

301 I traded sports for ridiculousness and impractical jokers. Love Joe Gatto. Dude is pretty damned funny.

I just started Turn. It is the show about spying during the Revolutionary War. I heard it is excellent tv. I like it so far. Those Americans had some real fuckin balls, unlike Reggie Jizzlane and the Virtue Signallers.

Posted by: Denny Crane! at August 13, 2020 04:38 PM (1eJby)

302 fuck sports.

I got tired of listening to beer-swilling fatfucks grunting "why you not watching sports, you queer or sumptin?"

Meanwhile I'm reeling in trout, 4 wheeling, hiking, or getting shit done on weekends while they perfect their diabeetus.

I only give a shit about sports if I'm out doing it. Otherwise pound your ra-ra horseshit up your ass.

Posted by: George Will's Punchable Face at August 13, 2020 04:38 PM (6MoD2)

303 Mark Cuban? What position does he play?

Posted by: klaftern at August 13, 2020 04:38 PM (RuIsu)

304 Jay, see the jaw-dropping NASA statement about some idiotic racist Gleichschaltung thing, recently. Worse, see the truly unbelievable racist struggle session idiocy at *Sandia National Lab* (yes) which has been noted and documented online.

And I even have bad news about CalTech (well, sort of, as I recall it, and it was from the very top and the very inside).

Yeah, I've seen that. I know a number of the principals at Science magazine, and was dismayed that they are going in for the woke crap too.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 13, 2020 04:39 PM (jpBkc)

305 They announced 25% capacity at Oklahoma.
a little over 21,000
I will likely stay home and watch on TV

Posted by: RJD at August 13, 2020 04:39 PM (2cfUo)

306 Our side is the counter culture. I think that attracts folks. It's growing.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 13, 2020 04:24 PM (WvQcX)

I think you are right.

Be whatever you want to be - as long as you respect my property and I respect yours. Got a gun ? Outstanding.

But it rubs some wrong. Not everybody is looking up for a cop to save them. Some are serious about saving themselves.

Posted by: Read Your Book at August 13, 2020 04:39 PM (dmJhE)

307 Was it Dan Shaughnessy in the Boston Globe? Oh please tell me it was.
Posted by: sharksauce at August 13, 2020 04:25 PM (DFZnL)

Bill Burt, Lawrence Eagle-Tribune.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 13, 2020 04:39 PM (2JVJo)

308 1984 Prophecy: "Print is dead."

2020 Prophecy: "SportzBall is dead."

Posted by: Egon the Prophet at August 13, 2020 04:39 PM (+nWCH)

309 O/T: former president of the Boston Police Patrolmen's Association Pat Rose has been arrested on charges connected to child rape allegations.
Posted by: Praying Medic

Something tells me he won't do too well in prison.

Posted by: eleven at August 13, 2020 04:39 PM (XTyi0)

310 I haven't watched a professional or college sport since the Astros won* the Series.
Posted by: Jimmy From Texas at August 13, 2020 04:37 PM (BBCdX)

*For certain values of "won."

Posted by: BurtTC at August 13, 2020 04:39 PM (hku12)

311 305 Mark Cuban? What position does he play?
Posted by: klaftern at August 13, 2020 04:38 PM (RuIsu)

Center for China. He's always bent over.

Posted by: Secret Squirrel at August 13, 2020 04:39 PM (1+Jvs)

312 294
I really don't understand where anyone middle class gets the money to go to just about any modern sporting event.

It's easily $500+ to go to just about anything involving pro sports with the exception of baseball.

My Pac 12 college team, two "okay" tickets are around $600 now. 15 years ago it was like $40 a ticket.

Posted by: Blago at August 13, 2020 04:36 PM (gkdnV)

You need a 2nd mortgage to go see the Red Sox.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 13, 2020 04:39 PM (D3cJf)

313 Mark Cuban? What position does he play?

Posted by: klaftern at August 13, 2020 04:38 PM (RuIsu)

On all fours

Posted by: TheQuietMan at August 13, 2020 04:39 PM (E3jXy)

314

I despise paid sports of any kind, fuck them, fuck their privilege and fuck all my tax dollars pissed away on them.

FUCK SPORTS

FUCK 'ATHLETES'

Countless special ops guys and gals can kick all of their asses, with grace and panache, like the quiet professionals they are - the REAL paid athletes.

FUCK SPORTS

Posted by: Pendulous Richard at August 13, 2020 04:40 PM (d6DSt)

315 272 I really missed baseball and was glad to see it come back.....until they started up with the kneeling and the BLM logos on the pitcher's mound. That dampened my enthusiasm quite a bit.
Posted by: Agent Cooper at August 13, 2020 04:33 PM (Dc5Qe)

I was really looking forward to it baseball season, too. But then I saw the BLM logos on the mound, the black ribbon, the kneeling, Kershaw running his yap, and I said, "Fuggit."
Posted by: Deplorable Ja

================

I would suggest folks go look up ESPN+opinion+"Fan Advisors" surveys...and see if you can share you opinions on these subjects.

there were a few that I did about MLB's opening day and such...I let them know what I thought about BLM=MLB

Posted by: guest myspace user at August 13, 2020 04:40 PM (rnk6i)

316 Le Tour!

Posted by: LeTour at August 13, 2020 04:40 PM (fa1mM)

317 I was an avid fan of multiple sports. Now, my viewing is NIL. I was all set this season to shell out the big bucks for an authentic NFL jersey and other gear as I had renewed interest in the sport, then the SJW propaganda train started rolling Kaepernick was made a hero. My message to Commissioner Goodell "Drop Dead!"

Posted by: Locke Common at August 13, 2020 04:40 PM (NcLrs)

318 Mark Cuban? What position does he play?
Posted by: klaftern at August 13, 2020 04:38 PM (RuIsu)

Tight end/receiver, I believe.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 13, 2020 04:40 PM (hku12)

319 Not watching any of these bitches.

Posted by: Jak Sucio at August 13, 2020 04:40 PM (jvt6t)

320 Mark Cuban? What position does he play?
Posted by: klaftern

Catcher.

Posted by: eleven at August 13, 2020 04:40 PM (XTyi0)

321 We've got fans booing us in our own stadium. How disgraceful is that.

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Not nearly as disgraceful as kneeling for the National Anthem.

Posted by: SH at August 13, 2020 04:40 PM (sX1BW)

322 I cut football out years ago, would still occasionally watch hockey. Not now after the knee-taking going on in the NHL, go broke bitches. NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, ESPN, I hope they all go under, waste of time anyhow. Soccer? LOLGF under any circumstances.

Posted by: Wicklow at August 13, 2020 04:40 PM (uH65w)

323 jokes on us though. I'm sure the NFL's pink uniforms have brought in enough girl fans to take our place ... and then some!

Posted by: guest myspace user at August 13, 2020 04:41 PM (rnk6i)

324 >MLS is real popular in Portland Oregon. I know this will shock and amaze you to find out. The "Timbers" are the team. White people in the stands aping chants and waving banners like they think they're in Manchester or Tokyo. Its cute, sort of.

It's to the point where if you ever seen one of those "RCTID" bumper stickers on a car, you just about 100% know what kind of person is going to be driving it. Portland, the city that ripped off Austin's motto and also tries to be tres European. How about developing your own fucking culture for once, other than gutter trash?

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 13, 2020 04:41 PM (L106N)

325 I've tried watching a few Royals games on TV but fake crowd noise and cardboard cutouts of fans just aren't cutting it for me. I don't know if any player has knelt during the anthem and I haven't seen the BLM logo anywhere in the stadium.

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 13, 2020 04:41 PM (dUJdY)

326 They can all go suck syphllitic goat taint.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2020 04:41 PM (fIHXk)

327 Haven't watched any sports so far, don't really plan on it. It used to be that if I couldn't catch my baseball team on TV, I'd tune them in on the radio, because the hometown announcers are great and fun to listen to. But I don't even do that now.

It pains me to say it, but:

I. Just. Don't. Care.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 13, 2020 04:42 PM (wUHYj)

328 323 We've got fans booing us in our own stadium. How disgraceful is that.

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Not nearly as disgraceful as kneeling for the National Anthem.
Posted by: SH at Augus

================

this is why soccer players are poor. At least when an NFL player says something dumb like "you fans are poorz who suck at having a dick" or something like that, there's a backlash...or at least there was. Who knows what corpiorate sports radio talk is forcing their DJ's to say now

Posted by: guest myspace user at August 13, 2020 04:42 PM (rnk6i)

329 I only give a shit about sports if I'm out doing it. Otherwise pound your ra-ra horseshit up your ass.
Posted by: George Will's Punchable Face at August 13, 2020 04:38 PM (6MoD2)

I've always liked playing sports, and played everything. Watching them, not so much. I kind of enjoyed watching MLB, but didn't particularly follow any given team. I enjoyed studying the players' biomechanics: how do they run, how do they swing, how do they throw? But then, I enjoy watching the Little League World Series for the same reason. In fact, the latter is more instructive because the kids evince more flaws, which underscores the difference between perfect and not so perfect biomechanics.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 13, 2020 04:42 PM (jpBkc)

330 I don't watch any sports on TV anymore after BLM took over-zero. And I don't click the links to the sports section if I browse the local newspaper on line. And I don't click to the sports section of the local TV stations on-line. Zero. From someone who has watched every super bowl to not watching a single down of pro football-make your own conclusions. College football is next-I think they are seeing what happened to the NBA and ML though. Houston, Texas

Posted by: DP Dave at August 13, 2020 04:42 PM (97FWC)

331 287
There's basketball on? I really had no idea.

Posted by: Brian Dennehy in Hunt of Red Octobrr at August 13, 2020 04:37 PM (ufJfM)

I can't even get through one of their 30 second commercials. My wife who does not care for sports a all saw a commercial and said "Why are they doing that to sports?"

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at August 13, 2020 04:43 PM (fa1mM)

332 Other than a little bit of pro golf, my sports watching is at zero.

Though it was pretty much the same prior to the kneeling crap.

All the strikes by the players in the 80s-90s-00s killed off this former fan.

Posted by: GnuBreed at August 13, 2020 04:43 PM (Z4rgH)

333 My wife, who follows more than me, has given up on it. She used to like watching ESPN, but since it's all politics, soybois, and women, she's done. I'm not watching any of it now.

Posted by: WOPR - Clown World Timeline Thinks This Timeline is Insane at August 13, 2020 04:43 PM (J70i0)

334 I wish some reporter would ask some "man on the street" what he thinks of the local sportsball team's prospects and the guy would go off, "F'k those whiny, kneeling bitches! If they can't figure out how to not get shot by police, then they're no getting anymore of my time or money."

Posted by: sniffybigtoe at August 13, 2020 04:43 PM (xfb67)

335

Posted by: ziggggyeeee at August 13, 2020 04:43 PM (AsMdZ)

336 OT: Can anyone tell me anything about the credibility of the Clover Chronicle?

Posted by: Catherine at August 13, 2020 04:43 PM (vlgnN)

337 #Learn2Code_FC

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2020 04:43 PM (Tbqz4)

338
"We've got fans booing us in our own stadium. How disgraceful is that. Honestly, for a lack of a better word, it pissed me off."

__________

They paid to watch you play soccer, not make a political statement.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2020 04:44 PM (mht8P)

339 Major League Sports scam has run its course.

Before their collaboration with city government on stadium funding and adjusting rights of way it was a symbiotic relationship with the fans and the teams and players.

When Big Sports got in bed with government and corporate institutions it got out of bed with the fans.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 13, 2020 04:44 PM (d4edd)

340 Arachno-tyranny? Yikes!

Posted by: klaftern at August 13, 2020 04:44 PM (RuIsu)

341 303 I traded sports for ridiculousness and impractical jokers. Love Joe Gatto. Dude is pretty damned funny.

If you like Impractical Jokers, you might also try The Carbonaro Effect. Same network.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at August 13, 2020 04:44 PM (H5knJ)

342 Oh, I watch UFC when it is free. The big headline fights once in a while if I can get people to chip in. Shit is expensive!

Posted by: Denny Crane! at August 13, 2020 04:44 PM (1eJby)

343 Don't do TV sportsball. Didn't really watch much other than a little football during the winter and haven't done that in 4-5 years.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 13, 2020 04:44 PM (3H9h1)

344 Zero. From someone who has watched every super bowl to not watching a single down of pro football-make your own conclusions. College football is next-I think they are seeing what happened to the NBA and ML though. Houston, Texas
Posted by: DP Dave

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yup.

zero.

if you hate us, sportsball people...and if Gilette thinks we're all whyte rayciss rapists.

then fuck you. You're a diversion. I love baseball but I don't need it.

Posted by: guest myspace user at August 13, 2020 04:44 PM (rnk6i)

345
DOJ informs Yale University of its conclusion that the university illegally discriminates against Asian American and White applicants during the admissions process. The DOJ adds the findings are result of a two year investigation.
Posted by: JackStraw

=========

This is potentially earth-shaking. Headed for SCOTUS? Massive.

California is about to overturn the colorblind university admissions process it added to its state constitution back in -- whenever, the 80s -- so things could get spicy.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2020 04:45 PM (G51Gf)

346 I LOL that they booed him, and I wish there were video of it I could watch.

Posted by: Kensington at August 13, 2020 04:45 PM (IRDr0)

347 I remember watching Lou Gehrig play on TV.

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 13, 2020 04:45 PM (aKsyK)

348 Kneeling to me is the same as burning the flag.
If you don't like this country and all the opportunities it has to offer, please leave.

Posted by: redridinghood at August 13, 2020 04:45 PM (wiXsO)

349
It's time to transform Get Woke Go Broke from a meme into movement.

It's time to bankrupt these people.
I've been trying to convince a lot of my close friends to make this a reality. I think this is possibly the best way middle America - or any real Americans, not these commie fakers - revolt or riot. Let's do sports first, then the leftist media next.

Also, I didn't watch sports before (any, maybe a hockey game once a year), but I plan on not watching twice as much from now on.

Posted by: jerake75 at August 13, 2020 04:45 PM (4pFkX)

350 >>> I've tried watching a few Royals games on TV but fake crowd noise and cardboard cutouts of fans just aren't cutting it for me. I don't know if any player has knelt during the anthem and I haven't seen the BLM logo anywhere in the stadium.
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 13, 2020 04:41 PM (dUJdY)

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First MLB game I took my wife to was a Royals game. Bo Jackson hit a homerun (after striking out previous three AB), and same night Nolan Ryan recorded his 5000 strikeout (they announced it on the big board during the game) It was a good night.

Posted by: Backup Slider at August 13, 2020 04:45 PM (amQo5)

351 I still watch some baseball, but not as much as before. (you could argue they have been the "quietest" towards BLM of any sport)
I still watch as much basketball and soccer as ever, none!

Posted by: ziggggyeeee at August 13, 2020 04:45 PM (AsMdZ)

352 HBO's NFL Hard Knocks also had absolutely terrible ratings.

Posted by: wallsareclosingin at August 13, 2020 04:46 PM (w17ZX)

353 Yeah, I've seen that. I know a number of the principals at Science magazine, and was dismayed that they are going in for the woke crap too.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 13, 2020 04:39 PM (jpBkc)

I'll admit to being surprised when I saw Sandia pulling the woke crap. I really expected Argonne to be first...

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at August 13, 2020 04:46 PM (ZSK0i)

354 Okay, on a video call at work. Someone has a poster up in their office. Far away, hard to read, not eye-catching at all. But I am bored to tears and so am making an examination. The poster is just text, and it reads:
Make
War
Not
War

WTF does that mean? Is it pro-war? Does it want to make war less warlike? Is it nonsensical, like English expressions on Asian tee shirts? Place your bets!

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at August 13, 2020 04:46 PM (hYcqw)

355 I haven't watched 5 minutes to sports since the league's started up again... and I'm normally a sports addict.
Props to Clay Travis. He's got a good conservative twitter game, and has been very vocal about sharing the real truth re; Covid-19 #'s.

Posted by: Forheremenaremen at August 13, 2020 04:46 PM (pmRSz)

356 ""We've got fans booing us in our own stadium. How disgraceful is that. --"our own stadium", so they paid to build the stadium?" nerdygirl

yeah, that is what struck me .. "our own stadium" ... the little prissy prima donnas expect only admiration from the fans ...

I'ma thinkin .. were gladiators this pretentious? They had to face real threats at least ... send the soccer boy darlings off to war to fight for our freedoms, when half of them come back alive, I might respect their taking a knee ... if it is because their country has turned commie after they fought for liberty. but these butt boy commies know nothing but the leftist agitprop, and think patriotic Americans owe them ?? allegiance?

Posted by: illiniwek at August 13, 2020 04:46 PM (Cus5s)

357 I didn't watch sports before this, and I don't watch it now. What HAS changed, though, is that I used to wish I were into sports because it seemed like a fun pasttime I was missing out on.

I no longer wish for interest.

Posted by: Kensington at August 13, 2020 04:46 PM (IRDr0)

358 Additional tipoff that you are an idiot:

Zoom press conference

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 13, 2020 04:46 PM (XrCyE)

359 289 I still watch golf. There are signs that wokeness is going to come to the PGA within ten years.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 13, 2020 04:37 PM (svbBD)

The pga tour paused at 8:46am in the 1st tournament after Floyd killed himself.

Posted by: WeBoned! at August 13, 2020 04:46 PM (8k7U7)

360 And I miss my Royals and Chiefs. Our city really is better when they are good and behaving well. I love that the Chiefs traded Marcus Peters when he acted up during the anthem, and that the Royals still have Faith and Family day. But hey, my girl plays volleyball, so here's hoping COVID allows me to watch that.

Posted by: Catherine at August 13, 2020 04:46 PM (vlgnN)

361 Fuck Off and Die List

Reggie Cannon

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 13, 2020 04:46 PM (JFO2v)

362 If we started throwing them to lions again I might be interested.

Posted by: Kensington at August 13, 2020 04:47 PM (IRDr0)

363 Cuban can eat my asshole. I'm done with the Mavericks, have been since it became completely obvious that the NBA is rigged (2006 Finals). I loved Dirk. He is just a good dude and a great player. Unfortunately, the NBA would rather promote the shitbags of the league because Black Lives Matter or something. Done with the Dallas Stars...and their kneeling asshats. Done with the NFL. The only thing I make a point to watch these days is Leo Messi, and that's because we'll likely never see another one of his caliber ever again. As far as FC Dallas is concerned...I've been to a few games and this guy really shouldn't piss off the few fans that actually show up. Usually the biggest crowds are when Portland and Seattle show up. The quality is pretty shit anyway, but if they think this is going to usher in soccer to the US, good luck with that, dickskin.

Posted by: Resist_we_Much at August 13, 2020 04:47 PM (BkYvb)

364 Props to Clay Travis.

No one hates Clay Travis more than Matt Jones - if you get the reference.

Posted by: Read Your Book at August 13, 2020 04:47 PM (dmJhE)

365 Mark Cuban? What position does he play?
Posted by: klaftern at August 13, 2020 04:38 PM (RuIsu)

Fluffer.

Posted by: Burnt Toast at August 13, 2020 04:47 PM (1g7ch)

366 HBO's NFL Hard Knocks also had absolutely terrible ratings.
Posted by: wallsareclosingin

It's a pretty lousy show anyway on a good year. Nobody wants to watch a bunch of jocks wearing masks for an hour.

Posted by: eleven at August 13, 2020 04:47 PM (XTyi0)

367 "We've got fans booing us in our own stadium"

No, sweetie pie, fans got primadonna asslickers disrespecting *them* in their own stadium.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 13, 2020 04:47 PM (6FeV1)

368 My couch loves the sportsball!

STAR TREK!

*fart*

Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at August 13, 2020 04:48 PM (IRDr0)

369 Heh. There was a short series a few years ago about the rock bottom of pro sports, Pecos League Baseball. Recruiting fans to put up players for the night. Players chipping in for lunch fixings. Players getting traded to another team for a bucket of balls. Scraping up gas money. Crap shoot if you're even going to get paid the pittance agreed to.

Posted by: bill in arkansas at August 13, 2020 04:48 PM (C1Lsn)

370 It pains me to say it, but:

I. Just. Don't. Care.
Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 13, 2020 04:42 PM (wUHYj)

And I'm sure you've found, that once you give up caring for something like that, it doesn't come back. It's like that song, now you're just somebody that I used to know.

btw, this is a parody version of that song, which made me laugh:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwPHy17Iu6E

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 13, 2020 04:48 PM (Kpl3J)

371 >"You've got fans booing you for people taking a stand in what they believe in

does he not get that the boo-ers were doing the same?

Posted by: DB- just DB. I'm this many at August 13, 2020 04:48 PM (iTXRQ)

372 Leaving politics out of it, it's amazing how much having actual fans adds to the entertainment factor when watching. I've tried a watching some Bucks and Brewers but there is no excitement to these games, no urgency. It's boring and unwatchable. Football will be even worse.

Posted by: lowandslow at August 13, 2020 04:48 PM (4thlk)

373 352 HBO's NFL Hard Knocks also had absolutely terrible ratings.
Posted by: wallsareclosingin at

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if the NFL is dead then so is watching their preseason bullshit reality show.

Posted by: guest myspace user at August 13, 2020 04:48 PM (rnk6i)

374 Idea: Hispanics dislike of American blacks will make them more patriotic in opposition to BLM.

Posted by: Max Power at August 13, 2020 04:49 PM (Hucnr)

375 the Kapernick thing is what made me give up on the NFL. Since the kneeling cancer has spread, I've given up on even reading about sports; I've absolutely stopped caring. I saw the benefit when I dropped the NFL and started getting more done with my hobbies, now I spend my time making things that make me happy instead of rotting in front of a TV, watching millionaires play kids' games. It's even spread to watching movies, streaming shows, or using the internet, things I used to do constantly. Disconnecting from the entertainment/propaganda matrix has been supremely beneficial, and I regret not doing it earlier. All I do is browse this site and a few others, and comment rarely because, really, who gives a shit what I think? I have better things to do. Speaking of which, I have to send some emails and go make some money so...bye.

Posted by: Howdy Y'all at August 13, 2020 04:49 PM (MO30/)

376 Mark Cuban is a silly little tart.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 13, 2020 04:49 PM (6FeV1)

377 371. But...HE has never been booed in his own stadium before. Dont you understand? You cannot boo your betters.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 13, 2020 04:49 PM (svbBD)

378 the SJWs put sportsball in the center of their target of things that must not be enjoyed.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 13, 2020 04:37 PM (W2Pud)

Bingo. I remember years ago going to the espn website to find the score and stats for a game. The website was inundated with michael sam's sexual preference, some asshole on the dolphins whining about being bullied, and a write up of a bob costas rant on guns. I stopped caring right then and there.

Posted by: Pine Barrens at August 13, 2020 04:49 PM (oh+79)

379 California is about to overturn the colorblind university admissions process it added to its state constitution back in -- whenever, the 80s -- so things could get spicy.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2020 04:45 PM (G51Gf)

They can't overturn federal law. All the Trump administration has to do is enforce the law as written.

Posted by: Ace's liver at August 13, 2020 04:49 PM (wGeit)

380 Tucker's average veiwership is 4+ million/night. I still watch sports with the sound off. The NFL ruined the game with replay and commercials. I did not watch mlb open day because of the burn loot murder logo on the hill. Sports and peanut butter are my last vices.

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at August 13, 2020 04:49 PM (4vNgL)

381 Posted by: Backup Slider at August 13, 2020 04:45 PM (amQo5)

Wow, how exciting! I would have loved to see Nolan Ryan pitch!!

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 13, 2020 04:49 PM (dUJdY)

382 Whats this sportsball you deplorables been yammering about?

Posted by: Astro is Asshoe at August 13, 2020 04:50 PM (a48q1)

383 "We've got fans booing us in our own stadium. How disgraceful is that. Honestly, for a lack of a better word, it pissed me off." - Reggie Cannon

Trade this twat to Philly. They booed Santa Claus.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at August 13, 2020 04:50 PM (wUHYj)

384 California is about to overturn the colorblind university admissions process it added to its state constitution back in -- whenever, the 80s -- so things could get spicy.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2020 04:45 PM (G51Gf)

They want that good good Chinese foreign student tuition money, so they can offer free tuition to Miguel and Lupe, Tyrone and Lakeisha.

They actively avoid admitting the children of white California taxpayers, because there's no upside for them: they're not minorities - so no virtue gets signaled - and they're paying top dollar, because they get in-state tuition.

Now if Trump just kicks Chinese student admissions in the balls - Donald, I hope you read this - then UC is in some very deep financial kimchee.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 13, 2020 04:50 PM (jpBkc)

385 It begins...

SC allows Rhode Island Mail In voting

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 13, 2020 04:50 PM (WvQcX)

386 I prefer videogames to sports, but only the non-woke videogames, so you know the field is getting ever more narrow every year.

Posted by: Kensington at August 13, 2020 04:50 PM (IRDr0)

387 the funny thing to me is...this is fucking soccer. You don't have any casusal soccer fans who actually go to a soccer game on purpose.

and those people...who knowingly went to a soccer game are actially booing these asshole athletes. These are your fans, man, and you've pissed them off.

Posted by: guest myspace user at August 13, 2020 04:50 PM (rnk6i)

388 377 371. But...HE has never been booed in his own stadium before. Dont you understand? You cannot boo your betters.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 13, 2020 04:49 PM (svbBD)

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I was saying Boo-urns.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at August 13, 2020 04:50 PM (UWqZJ)

389 (late to the thread)

OT but you know that thing where ZIPPO says they'll fix any lighter free?
it works
they fixed the hinge, replaced the guts and sent it back UPS
free

Posted by: DB- just DB. at August 13, 2020 04:50 PM (iTXRQ)

390 All the strikes by the players in the 80s-90s-00s killed off this former fan.
Posted by: GnuBreed at August 13, 2020 04:43 PM (Z4rgH)

Same. Spoiled babies making millions demanding even more millions is just obscene.

I lost all interest in baseball first - used to live, eat, and breathe it. The rest followed shortly after.

New sports leagues, and perhaps even new sports will emerge to fill the same unmet demand for athletic and spectacle entertainment.

This is good and healthy, the free market works to deliver a product that consumers want.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 13, 2020 04:50 PM (odoK1)

391 Shocking that a FEMALE judge reverses an order to force a father to pay 5k a month to the mother for his 8 year old transition into a girl.

https://www.revolver.news/ 2020/08/james-georgulas-transition-new-ruling/

Posted by: And It Begins Again at August 13, 2020 04:50 PM (lbIJl)

392 "Fox News is lying to you!"

... how?

They're belching out the exact same nonsense leftist kaleidoscope of propaganda that every other infotainment channel is.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 13, 2020 04:50 PM (6FeV1)

393
How many of these guys are doing it on their own volition and how many are doing it because they're "encouraged" by the front office?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2020 04:51 PM (mht8P)

394 Don't watch sports at all any more. Can't claim it is a boycott since I stopped watching close to twenty years ago. I used to listen to games on long drives up to about ten years ago but now I just listen audio books.

Posted by: Big V Caffeinated at August 13, 2020 04:51 PM (IAtY2)

395 I was saying Boo-urns.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at August 13, 2020 04:50 PM (UWqZJ)

Ha!

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 13, 2020 04:51 PM (6FeV1)

396 Sports viewing joins the list of things that I don't do anyway, so I can't actually say I'm boycotting it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Iranian Navy target dummy at August 13, 2020 04:52 PM (UAMe5)

397 Wow, how exciting! I would have loved to see Nolan Ryan pitch!!
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 13, 2020 04:49 PM (dUJdY)

One of my teammates was up very briefly in MLB, and in of his dozen or so ABs got a hit off Nolan Ryan.

He's very modest and unassuming, and so has never mentioned it, but we all know about it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 13, 2020 04:52 PM (jpBkc)

398
They can't overturn federal law. All the Trump administration has to do is enforce the law as written.
Posted by: Ace's liver

========

I believe Sandra Day O'Connor's decision still stands. Racial discrimination in college admissions is okay as long as it targets the proper race.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2020 04:52 PM (G51Gf)

399 I wish I could watch less professional sports as a protest, but haven't figured out how to watch less than none. Went to a MLB game 3 years ago, that's the last time I've watched (live or on the boob toob). Really don't miss it at all.

Posted by: Tex at August 13, 2020 04:52 PM (xRq2F)

400 Tip on watching sports nowadays: dvr the game, avoid hearing what the result was, and then sit down and watch it in about 1/5th the normal time. Great way to avoid all the commercials and dead time.

Posted by: Forheremenaremen at August 13, 2020 04:52 PM (pmRSz)

401 When these sports teams collapse, the cities that had given them such sweetheart deals for stadiums are really going to get it in the jugular.

As if these cities aren't already bleeding out.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2020 04:52 PM (Tbqz4)

402

Look at my nic, I took a while to come up with it a few years ago when I first read AoS and dared to comment.

Hmm.

AoS is a national blog, based in NY. I'm in the Seattle area. The Left Coast. Heh. Nailed the geography.

Now, what about me?

Hmm.

As a man of graying hair, what there is left of it, what do I like, and has been consistent all my life? Anything outdoors in WA state and the PacNW, hiking, fishing, hunting, boating, camping, swimming. All would be appropriate.

LeftCoast boater? LeftCoast hunter? Nah, nothing worked. But one thing stayed in my mind.

University of Washington football. Listening to it on radio as a 11 year old, being with Dad on Saturday afternoons while he did chores and errands in the Fall. And then, attending the Montlake campus. And where most of my best friends, to this day, were met.

LeftCoast Dawg! That's perfect! That's ME!

I believe that their old coach, Chris Peterson, was a great leader of men, but got burned out. The new coach, Jimmy Lake, is a great teacher of not only football but to show young impressionable teens to become responsible citizens. But I will no longer be following the team. Or being a rabid fan of any sport. Especially pro sports.

Why? Simple.

I don't need to be lectured by a bunch of 20 somethings who have been pampered like no other group of unrelated people in civilized history, that I am an evil racist person. I won't be lectured by idiots who do not know history AT ALL. They focus on a few facts and a lot of falsehoods to quote anti-American writers and false data they use for their specious arguments.

I don't need to pay $100++ an afternoon, plus that much again or more on food and transportation, to be lectured to about anything. Especially things that are NOT true. ABOUT ME and the people I associate with.

I have greatly enjoyed watching organized sports as a temporary diversion to forget about all the BS in my life.

Yours is probably worse, mine includes the Fail on that big test, the mundane 50 hour entry-level jobs, finding out your girlfriend is cheating, finding out that noise under the hood will cost thousands to fix, and all that kind of nonsense.

No longer. And it wasn't me, it was those pampered tools and their servants like Mr. $50 million a year Roger Goodell that insisted to take my few hours of diversion away from me.

I was willing to continue to pay really good money to enjoy the diversions. No more.

For me, there is always hiking, fishing, hunting, boating, camping, swimming. And cribbage and poker, if I can find others who want to join me. And now, commenting on AoS.

If I feel this way, others do to. Organized sports on any level is bankrupted. Those that brought it on are yet to figure that out.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 13, 2020 04:52 PM (sy5kK)

403 during our lives, everything has been corporatized, and monetized, and ruined. It's a damn shame.

---

I blame TV

Posted by: Pete Seria at August 13, 2020 04:53 PM (7ZQe3)

404 Additional tipoff that you are an idiot:

Zoom press conference
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at August 13, 2020 04:46 PM (XrCyE)

Easiest way for the Chi Nah communist party to keep up with what's going on with them.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 13, 2020 04:53 PM (hku12)

405 Give Cuban credit for asking the right question. Why are NBA ad revenues 3X Fox News? Somebody at Neilsen is probably creating the data right now that will correct that imbalance.

Posted by: DeCogan at August 13, 2020 04:53 PM (i0nsz)

406 WTF does that mean? Is it pro-war? Does it want to make war less warlike? Is it nonsensical, like English expressions on Asian tee shirts? Place your bets!

Are you sure it doesn't say:

Make
GWAR
Not
War!

Maybe they're big GWAR fans?

Posted by: bonhomme at August 13, 2020 04:53 PM (YYlyE)

407 I'm fearful the Supreme Court decision will open the floodgates for mail in voting.

Posted by: AlaBAMA at August 13, 2020 04:53 PM (WvQcX)

408 All I do is browse this site and a few others, and comment rarely because, really, who gives a shit what I think?

Never stopped me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at August 13, 2020 04:53 PM (2JVJo)

409 I stopped watching all sports Super Bowl XXXVIII when the "Wardrobe Malfunction" happened. It was evident then that the NFL and other sports were being co-opted by leftists. That was 2004 and I was in my young 20's then.
Plus with the possibility of dying in War, while in the service, it was a better choice to live my life to its fullest with those I loved than to sit in front of a TV.

Posted by: Spiff the Spaceman at August 13, 2020 04:53 PM (+tUWj)

410 I prefer videogames to sports, but only the non-woke videogames, so you know the field is getting ever more narrow every year.
Posted by: Kensington at August 13, 2020 04:50 PM (IRDr0)

Most of the companies haven't gone woke yet. There's a few that have, but ex-fans tend to punish them when they do.

Posted by: Cato, Collectivism Delenda Est at August 13, 2020 04:53 PM (odoK1)

411 391 Shocking that a FEMALE judge reverses an order to force a father to pay 5k a month to the mother for his 8 year old transition into a girl.

https://www.revolver.news/ 2020/08/james-georgulas-transition-new-ruling/
Posted by: And It Begins Again at August 13, 2020 04:50 PM (lbIJl)

I know what that father needs to do for the good of his son, but I can't say it openly.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 13, 2020 04:54 PM (Kpl3J)

412 Big Phillies, Sixers, Eagles fan for decades. When I'm home the game was always on in the background.

This year since the startup I've seen bits and pieces of maybe three Phillies games and maybe one quarter of a Sixers game. I follow the fan blogs some but not near as much as previous years.

Totally disgusted by the kneeling and associated c*ap and cant seem to get it out of the back of my mind as I watch.

I hate Kaepernick with the hate of a thousand suns. He started this all off and I think if he had not done so, it might have been far more limited and less in your face. One guy ruined it. One guy.

Still watching golf on TV though.

Posted by: RM at August 13, 2020 04:54 PM (U3LtS)

413 Not watching NFL or MLB. Never watched NBA anyway. Only watching tennis and golf now.

Posted by: Browncoat formerly known as Mike at August 13, 2020 04:54 PM (o38N1)

414 I suppose I would watch UFC fights.
And women's jello wrestling.

Probably T-ball.

Posted by: Nom de Blog at August 13, 2020 04:54 PM (hYUjK)

415

And then, the entire team was eaten by a Grue.

Posted by: Pendulous Richard at August 13, 2020 04:54 PM (d6DSt)

416 We were die-hard NASCAR fans, watched some NFL and my Beloved Crimson Tide football team.

No more NOOSECAR or No Fun League. I will not give them any more of my support nor will they get another penny from me until they stop with their hate of America, the very nation that allows them to become multi-millionaires.
They should try doing what they do for a living in some other country if the US is that bad that they feel they have to put on a public display of their disdain. Fuck 'em.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at August 13, 2020 04:54 PM (HaL55)

417 411 391 Shocking that a FEMALE judge reverses an order to force a father to pay 5k a month to the mother for his 8 year old transition into a girl.

Posted by: And It Begins Again at August 13, 2020 04:50 PM (lbIJl)

I know what that father needs to do for the good of his son, but I can't say it openly.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 13, 2020 04:54 PM (Kpl3J)

========

*nods sagaciously*

Sex the judge.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at August 13, 2020 04:54 PM (UWqZJ)

418 Never gave a shit about sports once I got out of high school. I guess I'm waaay ahead of my time.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 13, 2020 04:54 PM (9Om/r)

419 Hey they let this nekomimi comment. so blather away! Nyah!

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2020 04:54 PM (Tbqz4)

420 Done with sports. Won't be tuning in again until after Civil War 2 is finished I guess.

Posted by: DiesIrae at August 13, 2020 04:55 PM (Ocq2S)

421 >>Make
GWAR
Not
War!

>>Maybe they're big GWAR fans?

Really. Who isn't!?

Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2020 04:55 PM (O3zcS)

422 Jesus Christ, I know that you Yanks hold footballers (not soccer players, I just won't) in low esteem, and to be honest, it's getting harder to argue against that.
This just makes it worse.
If this wilting orchid gets upset about being booed, then he'd better thank his lucky stars he never played in the Glasgow 'Old Firm' game (Rangers Vs C*ltic - fuck C*ltic) in the 70s or 80s or the Buenos Aires 'Superclassico'game (Boca Juniors Vs River Plate) today.

The hate that pours down off the stands....whew!

Also FIFA, for all its myriads of faults and evils, are very strict and down about political statements being made on the pitch by football players and the disrespecting of anthems by teams. They do not fuck about on this score.
It would be a great pity if someone narked to FIFA about these political stunts by the players (wink, wink).
Posted by: Sir Ian Botham at August 13, 2020 04:33 PM (5Hd9d)

Lots of problems with futbol - like bent refs, but I haven't given up.

Tomorrow, UEFA Champions League.

Barcelona v Bayern
Quarter final
3PM

This weekend, ManU v Sevilla. Europa League semi

Hubby and I will jump on the couch and enjoy our Friday afternoon with a homemade pizza and some beer.

Sunday, same deal. Have fun together.

Not everyone hates soccer. It doesn't matter what others say.
I'll be wearing my #10 jersey

and laughing and screaming at the screen. The soundtracks are hysterical without the real crowds there.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 13, 2020 04:55 PM (rjE57)

423 Well said, LCD.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at August 13, 2020 04:55 PM (fIHXk)

424 And then, the entire team was eaten by a Grue.

And many in the Slor would watch that.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2020 04:55 PM (Tbqz4)

425 The only sports I have watched since March has been Premier League soccer and PBA. Not an inning of baseball, not a minute of NBA. My wife is a huge NFL fan, so if there's a season it'll be on TV at my house. But no life is perfect.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 13, 2020 04:55 PM (HmZuC)

426 I'm a diehard Houston sports fan. NFL used to be my life, followed by MLB. I now wish for them to feel pain and panic as their game checks shrink and they are reduced to ordinary schlubs who have to worry about paying their bills. If you cannot appreciate the greatest economic system and liberty in human history, you deserve none of its rewards.

Posted by: Brisco_County_Sr at August 13, 2020 04:55 PM (DBPIP)

427 Wow, I watched the little candy ass MLS player. All but whined "How dare the Peasants! How dare they have thoughts different than what we've planned for them to have!" F**k these little bags of crap.

The George Floyd event was four non-black police officers being present during a career crminal's drug-induced psychotic breakdown and subsequent death. It's all a grotesque lie.

Posted by: ErikInTexas at August 13, 2020 04:55 PM (ool+L)

428 I believe Sandra Day O'Connor's decision still stands. Racial discrimination in college admissions is okay as long as it targets the proper race.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2020 04:52 PM (G51Gf)

Here's an idea: instead of reporting SAT scores, report 1600 minus the applicants' SAT scores. Diversity problem solved!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 13, 2020 04:55 PM (jpBkc)

429 All I do is browse this site and a few others, and comment rarely because, really, who gives a shit what I think?

Well geez, if we ALL felt that way...

Posted by: Jewells45 at August 13, 2020 04:56 PM (dUJdY)

430 We hold these truths to be self evident:
1. Metric Football Sucks.
2. If you express views contrary to your paying customers, don't be a little bitch when your paying customers throws their views back in your little prissy faces.
3. Metric Football Sucks.

Posted by: Archer at August 13, 2020 04:56 PM (gmo/4)

431 someone said Burn Loot Murder...well, jesus, look at the story about Cannon Hinnant. I'm sure the 25 year old black guy who just shot a 5 year old white child on a bike has nothing to do with BLM.

BLM is a hate group

Posted by: guest myspace user at August 13, 2020 04:56 PM (rnk6i)

432 Does this dumbass soccer player get that the people in the stands are their actual fans and no one else gives a shit about soccer?

Also, dumbass, fans booing is giving their support to their side of the cause.

Lastly, dumbass, it's not your stadium.

Posted by: Seems Legit at August 13, 2020 04:56 PM (jUVms)

433 When these sports teams collapse, the cities that had given them such sweetheart deals for stadiums are really going to get it in the jugular.

As if these cities aren't already bleeding out.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2020 04:52 PM (Tbqz4)

How much money did the NFL (a non-profit, operates with a deficit every year) give Stan Kronky to finish his monstrosity out there in Lost Anglish.

A cathedral, a shrine to the god of greed... They should call it Ozymandias Stadium.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 13, 2020 04:56 PM (hku12)

434 Amen, LCD

preach, brother.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 13, 2020 04:56 PM (W2Pud)

435 "Reggie Cannon" is a gay porn actor name if there ever was one.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2020 04:56 PM (unn44)

436 I was with Abner Doubleday when he invented soccer moms.

Posted by: Joe Biden at August 13, 2020 04:56 PM (mNhhD)

437 All the kneeling bastards can go fuck themselves. And their advertisers. Cuban thinks he's hot shit. All hat, no cattle.

Posted by: Dave G at August 13, 2020 04:57 PM (Rjpc7)

438 So Harris today is as When can I get my vaccine Trump?

PMSNBC is saying this is the greatest line eva!

I wish PDT would just say:

Senator Harris, the FDA is always looking for volunteers for drugs and vaccine trials. I would ask you to look into volunteering in a trial like I ask all great Americans.

Posted by: rhennigantx at August 13, 2020 04:57 PM (JFO2v)

439 Give Cuban credit for asking the right question. Why are NBA ad revenues 3X Fox News? Somebody at Neilsen is probably creating the data right now that will correct that imbalance.
Posted by: DeCogan at August 13, 2020 04:53 PM (i0nsz)

he's whistling past the graveyard. he knows that ad revenues is a lagging indicator. Time will not be kind to him.

Posted by: DR.WTF at August 13, 2020 04:57 PM (AiZBA)

440 No more NOOSECAR or No Fun League. I will not give
them any more of my support nor will they get another penny from me
until they stop with their hate of America, the very nation that allows
them to become multi-millionaires.
They should try doing what they do
for a living in some other country if the US is that bad that they feel
they have to put on a public display of their disdain. Fuck 'em.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy - Mask Rebel at August 13, 2020 04:54 PM (HaL55)

Thats the rub. There are people out there seriously struggling to get by and these spoiled overpaid motherfuckers got the balls to roll on their millions and point fingers at the country. They need to be nut punched with a fire hydrant.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 13, 2020 04:57 PM (9Om/r)

441
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 13, 2020 04:50 PM (jpBkc)

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This is one of those razor's edge things that always has me a little puzzled -- but I think the Asians that Harvard, Yale, Berkeley etc don't want are second-generation. Asian Americans. Kids of hard-working immigrants. No foreign tuition to benefit from and they steal affirmative action slots. Those are the Asians nobody wants.

And yes, it'd be bloody hilarious if Trump ended the Chinese student visas. Not sure if the elites could make it up with recruitments from other foreign countries. I've heard that American universities are getting so bad and Chinese universitities have so much stolen IP at this point that more wealthy Chinese parents are having their kids educated in China. Just something I read on the internet, dunno.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2020 04:57 PM (G51Gf)

442 Reggie Cannon" is a gay porn actor name if there ever was one.
=====

Mmmmm...Reggie

Posted by: Barry O'Fuckstick at August 13, 2020 04:57 PM (iydjf)

443 AlaBAMA you stole the And So It Begins guy's thunder

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2020 04:57 PM (OjZpE)

444 "You've got fans booing you for people taking a stand in what they believe in when millions of other people support this cause," Cannon said after the match via a Zoom press conference.

Wow, is that a strong argument, or what? What a dope.

Millions of people believe players should NOT kneel during the National Anthem. Why doesn't he support that cause, the cause for respecting the Flag and the Country it is a symbol of???

Posted by: Gref at August 13, 2020 04:57 PM (AMIL/)

445 >>"We've got fans booing us in our own stadium"

Apparently they aren't fans of your behavior.

Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2020 04:57 PM (O3zcS)

446 I was planning on watching baseball, the major non-BLM sport. Not now. Then hockey. What is left? Their corporate ownership have embraced these Communists.

Posted by: waelse1 at August 13, 2020 04:57 PM (/mA21)

447 428. There has to be a penumbra in there somewhere to require Harvard to allow every American to attend online classes.

Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 13, 2020 04:58 PM (svbBD)

448 I don't watch any of it but can't help but hear about it on the radio.

Sounds like Jerry Jones is going to succumb to the stupid and kill the loser cowboys off.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 13, 2020 04:58 PM (39yhn)

449 Just my opinion, but if you are able, do things on weekends and weeknights instead of watching other people do things.

Posted by: Seems Legit at August 13, 2020 04:58 PM (jUVms)

450 All I do is browse this site and a few others, and comment rarely because, really, who gives a shit what I think?

Well geez, if we ALL felt that way...
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 13, 2020 04:56 PM (dUJdY)

Anyone who cares about my opinion isn't good enough for me.

Posted by: Brother Northernlurker just another guy at August 13, 2020 04:58 PM (Tu05m)

451 You're talking past tense. Try taking a family to a major league sporting event now.

How many times a year can you spend several hundred dollars for a few hours of "entertainment?"
Posted by: BurtTC at August 13, 2020 04:34 PM (hku12)

it's still feasible to go see the farm teams

my entire softball team would go together, not that long ago. Very fun. Beer and ball. Even the Durham Bulls!

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 13, 2020 04:58 PM (rjE57)

452 >>> 397 Wow, how exciting! I would have loved to see Nolan Ryan pitch!!
Posted by: Jewells45 at August 13, 2020 04:49 PM (dUJdY)

One of my teammates was up very briefly in MLB, and in of his dozen or so ABs got a hit off Nolan Ryan.

He's very modest and unassuming, and so has never mentioned it, but we all know about it.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 13, 2020 04:52 PM (jpBkc)

======

My son was discussing Nolan Ryan with me. He said that Nolan's final pitch of his career at age 46 was 98 mph.

Also said that some science show analyzed video from his younger days, and they figured his fastest pitch was 108 mph. He was a beast.

Posted by: Backup Slider at August 13, 2020 04:59 PM (amQo5)

453 My wife is a team physician for an NBA team.

I'm refusing to watch any sports with the exception of the NHL since they don't seem to want to shove politics down my throat at every opportunity.

Posted by: Defenestratus at August 13, 2020 04:59 PM (9V81o)

454
So Harris today is as When can I get my vaccine Trump?

PMSNBC is saying this is the greatest line eva!

I wish PDT would just say:

Senator Harris, the FDA is always looking for volunteers for drugs and vaccine trials. I would ask you to look into volunteering in a trial like I ask all great Americans.
Posted by: rhennigantx

=======

Better still, Russia has released a vaccine. Putin claims his daughter has received it. Are you racist? Go get the Russian vaccine, bitch. And yes, "Russian" is a race.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2020 04:59 PM (G51Gf)

455 Jewells, we even let a guy who likes Prometheus post articles.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2020 04:59 PM (Tbqz4)

456 I gave up on any sports other than football years ago.

Posted by: Great Reagan's Deplorable Ghost at August 13, 2020 04:59 PM (y5oH4)

457 >>>he's whistling past the graveyard. he knows that ad revenues is a lagging indicator. Time will not be kind to him.

Truth. Let's see what happens when the current TV deals run out and it's renegotiation time.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 13, 2020 04:59 PM (HmZuC)

458 >> who gives a shit what I think?

You are assuming that anyone is reading your comments.

Don't assume shit, man.

Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2020 04:59 PM (O3zcS)

459 So Harris today is as When can I get my vaccine Trump?

PMSNBC is saying this is the greatest line eva!
====

I am so fucking sick of this notion that elected officials can cure illness, prevent illness, treat illness, etc.

Does Kamala go see a politician when she's sick or does she go to a doctor? Not only her, but any of theses other assholes who believe this ridiculousness.

Posted by: Bicentennialguy at August 13, 2020 04:59 PM (iydjf)

460 Make
GWAR
Not
War!

>>Maybe they're big GWAR fans?

Really. Who isn't!?

Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2020 04:55 PM (O3zcS)

Nobody would have any clue who GWAR is, if it wasn't for Beavis and Butthead.

Not even GWAR.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 13, 2020 04:59 PM (hku12)

461 Trump can just say to Harris: "we found a cure, and you dickheads convinced everyone it was poison. Go sit on it and rotate, Rocky Dennis."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 13, 2020 04:59 PM (6FeV1)

462 I love sports, pro and college, not soccer tho that is BORING

actually I think basketball is pretty boring until the 4th

love watching golf which I mean...that's from my Dad

plus he took me to ballgames so I have this deep attachment to the Phils

and the kids play baseball and lacrosse. I used to sort of even follow the Wings here but not anymore but very much an avid Philly sports fan here, and PSU/U Penn sports.

Now? Nothing but I am still following the Flyers watching games online. we cut the cord and haven't looked back, haven't been tempted to get any sports packages.

After the Eagles refused to go to the WH I cut them off, went to my "second team" - which is ha ha, the 49ers. but I will try to boycott the NFL this year, I will try.

I'll watch whatever games the SEC and ACC and Big 12 end up playing, to support them in this insane situation.

I'm gonna try. I've said here, they're going to come back to us, begging us to forgive them.

Don't.

I'm talking to myself when I say that!

Posted by: BlackOrchid_j9HX3 at August 13, 2020 04:59 PM (j9HX3)

463 Reggie, sweetie, if you and your fellow buttercups are going to make a political statement, expect people to express their disagreement with you.

Posted by: butch at August 13, 2020 04:59 PM (hXu8T)

464
Jesus Christ, I know that you Yanks hold footballers (not soccer players, I just won't) in low esteem, and to be honest, it's getting harder to argue against that.

__________

Anything done at a high level is harder than you think. What amuses me is the get-touched-and-roll-on-the-pitch act. Hockey players get their legs broken blocking slap shots and finish their shift.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 13, 2020 05:00 PM (mht8P)

465 These lying totalitarian scum want a national mask mandate. They didn't say it, but they want it permanently too.

Witnessed my first mask dust-up today at Walmart. Some beefy mask-wearing guy (scarf wearing is more like it) picking on this redneck lady and she was having none of it. Lots of shouting. So evil what they've done to this country.

Posted by: Ordinary American at August 13, 2020 05:00 PM (H8QX8)

466 >>My wife is a team physician for an NBA team.

'Turn your head to the left and Cough.'

Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2020 05:00 PM (O3zcS)

467 nood

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to random thoughts at August 13, 2020 05:00 PM (UWqZJ)

468 What a total douche. We understand what they're doing and why, we just don't buy it.

Why should it be disgraceful for a fan who just paid to watch a grown man play a kid's game to boo behavior they don't appreciate?

If they turned to the stands and flipped us off or said fuck you I'd have every right to respond by jeering him. Well, that's what these fans think you're saying when you disrespect the symbols of this great nation.

Posted by: Blacksheep at August 13, 2020 05:00 PM (8/DeP)

469
If I'm using my time or especially, if I'm paying to watch a game and be entertained,

shut the fuck up and play.

Be a fucking professional and throw your little tantrums on your own time.

Bu-u-u-ut, that won't happen. So, I'm out.

At least, until the players can act like professionals and adults.

So, @

#DumpSoccer

#DumpFootball

#DumpBasketball

#DumpBaseball

#DumpHockey

We don't need them, but they sure as hell need us.

Cut your viewership to zero, and watch them scramble to salute the flag.

Spoiled prima donna a-holes.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 13, 2020 05:01 PM (EERbD)

470 "All I do is browse this site and a few others, and comment rarely because, really, who gives a shit what I think?"

I comment for ME, not for you!

Posted by: guy who relates everthing to a Zappa song at August 13, 2020 05:01 PM (Tnijr)

471 When Joey Bidet and his VP step up to be first to test this Wuhan Flu vaccine, then I might give them a smidgen of respect.

Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2020 05:01 PM (Tbqz4)

472
My son was discussing Nolan Ryan with me. He said that Nolan's final pitch of his career at age 46 was 98 mph.

Also said that some science show analyzed video from his younger days, and they figured his fastest pitch was 108 mph. He was a beast.
Posted by: Backup Slider

=========

He pitched into a few batters' ribs. fuck him, I'm sorry.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at August 13, 2020 05:01 PM (G51Gf)

473 These criminally retarded "athletes" think it's disgraceful to get booed because "millions" of people are down with their cause. But the people that paid for them to actually show up - they're not allowed to want to see what they paid for instead of getting a lecture. Again.

I've been putting up with you guys shitting all over my beliefs for decades. There's not millions, but billions that are down with my cause.

And now, every time I walk into a store, open my browser or turn on the TV, there you are. Preaching. Wagging your fingers. Telling me what I need to be doing. And even if I do it, it won't be enough.

You're 100 times more obnoxious than the crazy screaming guy on the corner wearing a sandwich board, or dancing Hari Krishnas trying to get my to buy some incense. Because I can leave them there, they're not going to follow me into my house like you do.

At least the guys that ring my doorbell on Saturday are trying to save my soul. They're not there to tell me what a piece of shit I am if I don't take their flyer and bow down. Really, what are you offering? That's right, jack shit. You're worshiping a huge, rotting, fly covered pile of nothing.

So you know what? It's about time I pinch a loaf on your religion. Screw you and your beliefs. Hard. At the end of the day, you're nothing.

Please, please, please, let some blm dude wearing aviators whisk you all off to a tent city somewhere in Central America. Because that's what you all need. I'll even pitch in on some Igloo coolers. Fuck you all.

Posted by: clutch cargo at August 13, 2020 05:01 PM (8B6Ng)

474 My sports viewership has been waning for a few years now. Various reasons. I still watch lots of golf. Some racing.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at August 13, 2020 05:02 PM (MVR7y)

475 OAN - CDC advises all Americans to get the flu shot

Of course it would be safer to just quarantine ourselves from October through February.

Posted by: Skip at August 13, 2020 05:02 PM (OjZpE)

476 I am happy that I got to see the likes of Michael Jordan, Dale Earnhardt Sr., Jerry Rice & Lawrence Taylor, & Wayne Gretzky in their primes.

Posted by: WeBoned! at August 13, 2020 05:02 PM (8k7U7)

477 >>Nobody would have any clue who GWAR is, if it wasn't for Beavis and Butthead.

Not even GWAR.

Never had MTV Didn't know who Beavis and Butthead were before their movie came out.

Huge GWAR fan. Great shows.
Always had a ton of fun.

Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2020 05:02 PM (kCFGJ)

478 So Harris today is as When can I get my vaccine Trump?

PMSNBC is saying this is the greatest line eva!

I wish PDT would just say:

Senator Harris, the FDA is always looking for volunteers for drugs and vaccine trials. I would ask you to look into volunteering in a trial like I ask all great Americans.
Posted by: rhennigantx at August 13, 2020 04:57 PM (JFO2v)

UN-Linked Biotech Expert Claims COVID-19 Is Man-Made Bioweapon From Chinese Military Lab

WORLD ACADEMY OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES PRESIDENT AND RENOWNED BIOTECH EXPERT GIUSEPPE TRITTO HAS ALLEGED THAT COVID-19 WAS MAN-MADE, HAILING FROM A CHINESE MILITARY-LED EXPERIMENT, AND THAT IT'S "EXTREMELY UNLIKELY" THAT A SUCCESSFUL VACCINE WILL BE INVENTED.

The explosive charges come from Tritto's new book, China COVID 19: The Chimera That Changed The World.

The National Pulse dot com

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at August 13, 2020 05:02 PM (rjE57)

479 Give Cuban credit for asking the right question. Why are NBA ad revenues 3X Fox News?
Posted by: DeCogan at August 13, 2020 04:53 PM (i0nsz)

Young males. Advertisers will pay a premium for live sports because it's still the best, most efficient way to reach a bunch of young males.

Posted by: Short Shorts at August 13, 2020 05:02 PM (O6DoG)

480 I quit watching any televised sports years ago, after each of the leagues performed their third strike. Attended a baseball game (Rangers) when a friend invited me as he'd scored free tickets and parking. I bought the first round of beers for us and our spouses = $40. I had trouble imagining a family of four attending a game and buying a round of munchies and drinks very often.

I've found I get a lot of other tasks completed and enjoy family time and friends even more as we creatively spend time, other than sporting events, together.

Posted by: Robert17 at August 13, 2020 05:02 PM (qnZTK)

481 There was some chick beach volleyball on a few weeks ago, I watched a little bit... when my wife went to the store.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at August 13, 2020 05:02 PM (r+sAi)

482 Arsenal saved their season beating Chelsea. Gene Chizik won a BCS title.Tigers and Tide on now

Posted by: Jamaica NYC at August 13, 2020 05:02 PM (4vNgL)

483 My view on sports? Wasn't much into watching them to begin with, but now? Go die in a fire, IDGAF. You want to be heard, but, not to hear? Hear this: you're a bunch of arrogantly prideful rich bastards who think that, because you have a larger and louder platform, it's ok to talk down to people and that your opinions matter more than ours. Be glad you weren't born to your neighbor. You might be a broke ass cripple. But now? Now you think that because you got a lucky roll of the cosmic dice you get to tell us how to live, what to believe, and more? If it weren't a crime, I know a lot of people who'd be perfectly fine dragging your ass down a coal mine and making you spend a day digging that shit out of the ground, then beating you senseless both because you deserve it, and so you understand what it's like to do that every day. I'd take a coal miner over you any day. You're functionally worthless outside your ability to play a game. You're a vicarious success story and nothing more than a modern day gladiator. The moment our time is better spent doing something else is the moment you'd better learn to code.

That is, if you have enough brain cells left.

You contribute nothing more than a palliative and an escape from the frustrations and weariness of everyday life. And, you don't seem to understand that. So you've decided, now, to become part of our everyday frustrations and weariness and you bitch about not being heard or allowed to excess your opinions? No, dipshit, we do hear you. You are getting to express your opinions. But, we believe you're wrong. Some of us both know it, and, can prove it.

You haven't earned that respect. You've earned nothing but our envy as we watch you do what we wish we could. Now you've stepped out of bounds, and this is your penalty. You've made your bed, now lie in it and know that, as your world burns around you, you set the fire. Not us. You were warned and refused to listen. Now reap your reward.

Posted by: Knndlb at August 13, 2020 05:02 PM (49nYE)

484 Reggie Cannon....

Who? I read about this on another website this morning. Sad, he has the sadz. Maybe after scissoring with his teammates in the locker room, he'll feel better.

Yeah, major league soccer. Woo-hoo.

And yes, Mark Cuban .. ...HAS AN OPINION! SO LISTEN UP!

Yeah, that pompous ass. He should take a shower with all his piss-boy players on the Mavericks, then I hope they all gang-bang his scrawny white ass in the shower.

Fuck that mouthy little lesbian douche.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....living on the prison planet at August 13, 2020 05:02 PM (vcOmj)

485 Latest WaPo hot take:

Cummalot is a "small-c conservative".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 13, 2020 05:03 PM (unn44)

486 471 When Joey Bidet and his VP step up to be first to test this Wuhan Flu vaccine, then I might give them a smidgen of respect.
Posted by: Anna Puma at August 13, 2020 05:01 PM (Tbqz4)

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So you haven't seen the video of either the New Zealand or Australian politician saying I didn't feel a thing and the camera catches the needle still covered with the sterile plastic cap?

Posted by: Seems Legit at August 13, 2020 05:03 PM (jUVms)

487 "I'd like to hear your answers."

Glad you asked.

I am lifelong Boston Celtics fan. Grew up in LA during the Bird era and inherited the passion from my Dad.

My kids are Celtics fans because I am.

This year's season was kind of exciting for us before um you know.

I should have been waiting in high anticipation for the resumption of the season.

It's actually shocking to me to how I feel about the Celtics. They disgust me.

I cannot root for a human being who wears BLM on the back of his jersey. It's not a matter of principle me, it's visceral: I can't take any joy in that person's success.

I no longer relate to the team or anyone on it and, let's face it, without the emotional intimacy a fan feels for his team, that intimacy that leads him to speak of it with second person plural pronouns, then the enterprise reduces to a trivial game.

I want to still care, even if just a bit, if nothing but to be able to discuss it intelligently with my father, but I just can't. I more than don't care. I hold them in contempt.

NBA is more than dead to me.

Posted by: hevel varik at August 13, 2020 05:03 PM (quVbM)

488 My son was discussing Nolan Ryan with me. He said that Nolan's final pitch of his career at age 46 was 98 mph.

Also said that some science show analyzed video from his younger days, and they figured his fastest pitch was 108 mph. He was a beast.
Posted by: Backup Slider at August 13, 2020 04:59 PM (amQo5)

A documentary called "Fastball."

Ryan was the first guy recorded on a radar gun to top 100 MPH.

The conclusion they came to, based on various types of analysis, is that Bob Feller was the fastest ever. With Walter Johnson right on his heels.

Probably hard to know for sure.

What we do know though, the modern guns are recording TOP speed after it leaves the pitcher's hand, so when they show everyone in the upper 90s, and some guys hitting 100 or more regularly, they're really not throwing harder than guys in the past.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 13, 2020 05:03 PM (hku12)

489 "You've got fans booing you for people taking a stand in what they believe in when millions of other people support this cause,"

But those millions aren't there; they aren't paying your salaries or spending their money on your over-priced, China-made gear. The ones that "piss you off" are. You know, your CUSTOMERS, you stupid bastard.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at August 13, 2020 05:03 PM (HmZuC)

490 Yesterday? Last presser Trump was wearing sharp looking lavender tie. Today at the Israel/UAE signing he was wearing a different lavender tie.

He usually wears either red, blue, or black.

Secret signals.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 13, 2020 05:03 PM (d4edd)

491 It begins...

SC allows Rhode Island Mail In voting

Posted by: AlaBAMA

If this goes nation-wide, then Biden and Kamala Knee-pads will win. The Democrats will stop at nothing to cheat, steal and lie their way to victory.

Posted by: Bozo Conservative....living on the prison planet at August 13, 2020 05:04 PM (vcOmj)

492 I used to enjoy watching my beloved Badgers and even the Packers. The last few years has destroyed any remaining interest I had in the NFL, and it looks like Im gonna get the chance to see how I can enjoy more productive activitues on Saturdays as well. Their job was to entertain us...you know...do the song and dance thing. But NOOOOO. Gotta get all preachy and crap, shoving their sjw crap down my throat. Thay can all eat a bag of dicks. Lolgf

Posted by: THE Lonebadger at August 13, 2020 05:04 PM (z6NGr)

493 >All I do is browse this site and a few others, and comment rarely because, really, who gives a shit what I think?

I'm just here for the nekkid pictures

Posted by: DB- just DB. at August 13, 2020 05:05 PM (iTXRQ)

494 So AG Barr is gonna be on Hannity tonight, guess it wasn't scheduled.

Posted by: WeBoned! at August 13, 2020 05:05 PM (8k7U7)

495 I'll admit to being surprised when I saw Sandia pulling the woke crap. I really expected Argonne to be first...
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at August 13, 2020 04:46 PM

Does a two hour "Implicit Bias Workshop" in July count?

Posted by: name redacted at August 13, 2020 05:05 PM (d/5jB)

496 447 428. There has to be a penumbra in there somewhere to require Harvard to allow every American to attend online classes.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at August 13, 2020 04:58 PM (svbBD)

I was thinking about this. I think the future of education is to separate instruction from assessment. Instruction should be like SAT or bar review course, i.e., preparation for the assessment phase, which takes place separately, somewhere else. They're just there to get you ready for the Big Day. No reason that that can't be online.

Some other outfit (such as ETS does with the SAT) administers the exams, grades them, and provides certification for those who passed.

Something like this. I'm still thinking it through.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 13, 2020 05:06 PM (jpBkc)

497
Hey Mark Cuban, the viewers ran to FOX news, because the other news outlets have proven to be lying sacks of sh*t and undependable to deliver relevant facts.

And even FOX News is getting pretty bad, save for the 3 nightly talking heads, and some of the weekenders like Gutfeld and Watters.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 13, 2020 05:06 PM (sy5kK)

498 Nobody would have any clue who GWAR is, if it wasn't for Beavis and Butthead.

Not even GWAR.

------------------
Never had MTV Didn't know who Beavis and Butthead were before their movie came out.

Huge GWAR fan. Great shows.
Always had a ton of fun.
Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2020 05:02 PM (kCFGJ)

And gosh, I NEVER would have guessed you'd be the exception to the rule.

Nope, didn't occur to me at all.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 13, 2020 05:06 PM (hku12)

499 >SC allows Rhode Island Mail In voting

why
did they say, or is one of those 'so let it be written' things

Posted by: DB- just DB. at August 13, 2020 05:06 PM (iTXRQ)

500 Nobody's going to mention the new post. Which isn't that new anymore.

Thanks.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 13, 2020 05:08 PM (hku12)

501 Fans that attend games aren't truly customers they are background for the big money advertisements.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 13, 2020 05:08 PM (d4edd)

502 Does a two hour "Implicit Bias Workshop" in July count?

Posted by: name redacted at August 13, 2020 05:05 PM (d/5jB)

Did ANL really do that? Then yes, they get the trophy.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM guy at August 13, 2020 05:08 PM (ZSK0i)

503 Here's the inexplicable thing: have the sportsball leagues ever given a thought to the demographics of where they make their money?

Is it in the BLM demographic? I doubt it. I doubt it very much.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 13, 2020 05:08 PM (jpBkc)

504 I watch college football (and it does look like the better leagues are going to play, which makes it interesting: for example Iowa won't play but Iowa State will play)
I'm trying to watch golf, since they are being good. But golf is about as boring as soccer.

Posted by: artemis at August 13, 2020 05:09 PM (AwPyG)

505 >Maybe they're big GWAR fans?

They're just looking for that heat-seeking moisture missile.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 13, 2020 05:10 PM (L106N)

506 Anyone who continues to fund the left wing controlled corporate stooges deserves what they get but don't force it on us.

You can stop watching other people be active. Get out and participate in life and only watch sports from the other teams bench.

TV has been the death of this country. It has weakened us. Smeared us and the country. Taken our money while claiming we're vile and hateful. Spit on our flag and our religions.

They do not deserve one dime or minute of our time.

Posted by: jakee308 at August 13, 2020 05:11 PM (LyEz9)

507
Senator Harris, the FDA is always looking for volunteers for drugs and vaccine trials. I would ask you to look into volunteering in a trial like I ask all great Americans.
Posted by: rhennigantx

She wants to be Firestarter.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 13, 2020 05:12 PM (aKsyK)

508 The vote was not announced, but Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Neil M. Gorsuch noted that they would have granted the stay requested by the Republican National Committee and the state Republican Party.

Robber R O B E R T S

Posted by: Braenyard at August 13, 2020 05:12 PM (d4edd)

509 441

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at August 13, 2020 04:50 PM (jpBkc)

========

And yes, it'd be bloody hilarious if Trump ended the Chinese student
visas. Not sure if the elites could make it up with recruitments from
other foreign countries. I've heard that American universities are
getting so bad and Chinese universitities have so much stolen IP at this
point that more wealthy Chinese parents are having their kids educated
in China. Just something I read on the internet, dunno.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia

The PC shop owner's (He is a Chinese born naturalized US citizen) son was sent to China to get his education because his father saw the US system going to hell. He say's his kid also has to work there too but the bottom line is his kid is getting an education AND experience with no liberal bullshit indoctrination.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at August 13, 2020 05:13 PM (qZdIZ)

510 So they invade it, and kill it from within. Once professional sports is dead the locusts will move on. What is next to make woke and destroy? Hunting, fishing, drinking beer, hobby carpentry?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at August 13, 2020 04:23 PM (o+zc9)

CAT nails what is going on. The Left doesn't care about sports, only spreading misery to as many Americans as possible.

Now ask yourself, why would people do this? And where does it lead?

I will now self-censor.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 13, 2020 05:13 PM (sy5kK)

511 One missing football highlight:

Standing woman wearing the big fur coat.

Posted by: Braenyard at August 13, 2020 05:14 PM (d4edd)

512 222 Kind of relevant. As of this week, 291 Americans under age 24 had died of C19 - well, a portion of that number - since it's the infamous, disastrously unreliable combo of "with" and "from".

In a country of 330M+.

Just to add some factual, Planet Earth perspective to the idiotic hysteria about sports and schools. In that same time period, I think the total death #s are around 15K.

Posted by: rhomboid at August 13, 2020 04:29 PM (OTzUX)

rhomboid, once again, you nail the most salient point of all in this madness.

Please keep it going! Thanks!

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 13, 2020 05:15 PM (sy5kK)

513 "Scott Adams asked his twitter followers, how is your sports viewership now compared to what it had been?

I'd like to hear your answers."

Occassional foootball fan and rabid baseball fan. Now, I don't really care anymore.

Posted by: GossamerElf at August 13, 2020 05:16 PM (FZxI4)

514 'Turn your head to the left and Cough.'
Posted by: garrett at August 13, 2020 05:00 PM (O3zcS)

Yep. She spends a lot of time dealing with STD related treatments.

When she was the team physician for an AHL hockey team it was worse though. The NBA players wrap it up more than the hockey players it seems.

Posted by: Defenestratus at August 13, 2020 05:16 PM (9V81o)

515 >Huge GWAR fan. Great shows.
Always had a ton of fun.

GWAR shows in the 90s were a ridiculously enjoyable time. Getting in the pit and then getting sprayed with every fake bodily fluid imaginable, and then stopping by the Denny's after the show at 2 AM for a meal, looking like you just slaughtered Smurf village. Ah, youth.

Posted by: Dworkin Barimen - anarcho-tyranny? you're soaking in it! at August 13, 2020 05:18 PM (L106N)

516 You just got aced asshole.

Posted by: demoncrat at August 13, 2020 05:19 PM (V8PWO)

517 Also, I quit watching the No Fans Left games a long time ago, others like baseball were a maybe if I had any interest (Braves still suck) and NASCAR went yuppie in the 90's so it got shit canned.
I've decided those overpaid thugball assholes can get fucked because I have no interest in having political bullshit shoved in my face. I wanted entertainment, not indoctrination.

Posted by: Gmac - WTF did you think was going to happen? at August 13, 2020 05:20 PM (qZdIZ)

518 I'm a big Michigan fan but the Big 10 just announced they cancelled the upcoming season.
Posted by: Bill R. at August 13, 2020 04:28 PM (wzzJf)

I had the Wolverines visit to Montlake, which would have happened next month, circled on the calendar for over a year now. I had a boat ride already lined up and a couple of spots open for the best friends. Taking a powerboat to a Husky game is a fantastic, 10 to 16 hour experience. And not cheap.

UW - Michigan is a great rivalry. Since the 1978 Rose Bowl. Or for me anyway, was a great rivalry.

I'm not angry, rather sad.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at August 13, 2020 05:26 PM (sy5kK)

519 I lost interest in football when half of the players were kneeling, and the owners and the league expressed their support.

At the time, it wasn't that long ago that they'd all tut-tutted about Tim Tebow taking a knee in prayer, and forbidden the Cowboys from putting a little sticker on their helmets in honor of some murdered Dallas police officers because, "That's, like, a divisive political message and stuff, and we're not about that sort of thing..."

Well! How things change when said "divisive" message is coming from the other side.

And now that this has basically spread to every athlete in every team sport, screw them all.

There's been a holdout or two recently, like Drew Brees or that guy from the Orlando Magic, but they either "accidentally" suffer season-ending injuries once the game starts or find themselves "cancelled" on social media (resulting in much grovelling and wailing and gnashing of teeth).

It especially irks me to see this bullshit in hockey, where they play two national anthems before every game, so you get to see the players kneel for America's anthem and then stand respectfully for Canada's.

Every last one of them can eat a balls.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at August 13, 2020 05:27 PM (H3MF8)

520 I used to watch a fair amount of sports. I won't watch any now. I don't even bother to find out the scores or the standings. It helps that all of the schedules are screwed up. I would have like to see the Milwaukee Bucks win this year with Giannis, but I don't even know if they're in the playoffs now.

Posted by: Dave at August 13, 2020 05:28 PM (mXUCw)

521 I watch UFC (Mixed Martial Arts) and Forumula One racing. Neither has any overt politics.

Posted by: Cosmacelf at August 13, 2020 05:30 PM (ilEwW)

522 "UW - Michigan is a great rivalry. Since the 1978 Rose Bowl. Or for me anyway, was a great rivalry."

Yep.

Posted by: Bea Arthur's Dick at August 13, 2020 05:33 PM (jWe5r)

523 I have been a rabid professional Chicago sports fan since I was 7 years old.

'83 Winnin' Ugly White Sox were my introduction to professional sports by my uncle. He also taught me to play baseball (my first love) and I joined Little League that next summer at age 8.

'84 was the year the Cubs were supposed to go to the World Series. Mom and grandma were die-hard Cubs fans and made me a fan. First sports idol was Ryne Sandberg. Wanted to be him, as I played 2B in Little League. Then the heartbreak of the blown 2-0 NLCS series lead to the Padres. 1 win away from the World Series. Fucking Steve Garvey...

'85 (age 9) is a year no native Chicagoan will ever forget. '85 Bears. The start of my die-hard Bears fandom.

'86-'87 (age 10-11) was the return of Michael Jordan after losing his previous season to an ankle injury. The beginning of the legend and the beginning of my die-hard Bulls fandom.

'91-'93 (ages 15-17) the years of the first Bulls Three-Peat.

'94-'99 (ages 18-23) attend Purdue University and immediately become immersed in college football and basketball. Basketball are perennial contenders under Gene Keady, football team sucks until hiring Joe Tiller who immediately turns program around in first season in 1997. Drew Brees arrives on scene in 1998.

'96-'98 (ages 20-22) the years of the second Bulls Three-Peat.

'99 (age 23) move to Detroit for first job out of college. Introduced to professional hockey for the first time as everyone I know is a rabid Red Wings fan. It would take me another 4 years, however, before I would embrace and fall in love with the game of hockey.

2002 (age 26) first discover and start my rabid obsession with fantasy sports. Fantasy baseball and fantasy football. Over the next 18 years, I would play in at least 5 leagues every season in every possible fantasy sport. Obsessed with sports and the strategy and stats of all of it.

2003 (age 27) saw my first hockey game live after seeing plenty on TV, since Detroit airs Red Wings games (Chicago owner had blacked out the games in Chicago for decades to force people to buy tickets to see team play. So I had never gotten into NHL). Immediately fell in love with the game.

2005 (age 29) Ozzie Guillen-led White Sox win World Series.

2006 (age 30) Bears go to Super Bowl again.

2010 (age 34) spend $400 on ticket and road trip it to Philly with brother and cousin to watch Blackhawks win The Cup.

2013 (age 37) spend $800 on ticket and road trip it to Boston with brother and mom to watch Blackhawks win The Cup.

2015 (age 39) Blackhawks win third Cup in 6 seasons. I see my first Blackhawks regular season home game at United Center with family and experience the Jim Cornelison national anthem. Amazing.

2016 (age 40) The Cubs break the curse and win the World Series. Can't describe the feeling of being able to share that experience with my family and all of us immediately thinking of my grandma, who passed away a few years earlier and missed out on seeing it finally happen. But we knew she must be partying in heaven.

And that's just the Chicago- and college-related sports stuff for me. I could go on and on about how my entire life prior to 2020 revolved around sports. Watching it, die-hard fan of Chicago teams, playing it (baseball, softball, walleyball, volleyball, rollerblading, bowling).

NFL Network, NFL RedZone, MLB Network, NHL Network, ESPN channels before they went full-SJW. Saturdays full of college football, Sundays full of NFL Football.

All of that is now ruined.

I'm done.

When each sports league, every athlete, every coach, bent the knee to Marxist Black Lives Matter... that was it for me.

I gave up the NBA somewhere between 10-15 years ago after they went full thug hip-hop culture and quality of play went to shit (no defense, all one-on-one hot-dogging). And I gave up ESPN sometime during the Obama years when they went full-SJW.

But everything else, I was still following religiously.

No longer. The disgusting display of pushing the "stay home" and "mask up!" narratives and then the unforgiveable bending the knee to Marxist Black Lives Matter. That was it.

I have not watched anything related to sports since March. Maybe I have just finally grown out of it. I dunno.

But it has been a shock to my system to go from my entire life revolving around sports to now... nothing.

But that Black Lives Matter shit was a punch to the gut. Basically like finding out your significant other is cheating on you. Or finding out your best friend has betrayed you. Trust is completely destroyed. I can never look at any of those athletes or coaches or sports journalists the same.

This was not just a difference of political opinion. This was outright celebration and promotion of anti-American domestic terrorist organization.

There's no coming back from that in my eyes.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at August 13, 2020 05:33 PM (Do5/p)

524 Ny Yankee fan since 1964. Despite how good they are, they are dead to me. I do miss baseball on the radio.

Ny Jint fan since 1966. Watched every game every week every year til Karpernik. Haven't watched since, except to say goodbye to Eli. Won't be back this year.

I'll miss my college's hockey season, but its a top 20 liberal arts school, so they'll go out of their way to fuck up the experience.

Posted by: Tonyp at August 13, 2020 05:34 PM (Ps6Xq)

525 Even soccer fans cant stand this Maoist crybullying.

Soccer fans.

40 states minimum for Trump 3 months from now.

Posted by: Deepelemblues at August 13, 2020 05:41 PM (fuJH0)

526 "We've got fans booing us in our own stadium. How disgraceful is that. Honestly, for a lack of a better word, it pissed me off."

The disgraceful part is doing something so disrespectful that "fans" would boo you. The thing about fans is that they admire something about you. The reason people with fans should keep their opinions to themselves (besides that their opinions are ill informed) is if the things your fans dislike about you exceed the things they like, they're not going to be fans anymore and will chear when you fall.

Posted by: DaveM at August 13, 2020 05:43 PM (WWC3Y)

527 The Broncos gave me the finger earlier this summer. So, oh well. Thanks for the memories.

I am a huge fan of my hometown Spurs, and even in spite of Pop walking around with his Beto cap. (Mr. Popovich is a coward. He WANTS to stick a gun in my face and force me to SHUT UP and KNOW MY PLACE as he is a good Statist/Socialist. But he's too scared to do that, so he'll vote for Beto who will have police officers do that dirty work for him.

Mr. Popovich therefore is a VERY evil man, and his team? Well, they decided that I, the paying customer, doesn't matter because the ONLY lives that matter are those with certain skin pigmentation.

So there goes the NFL and NBA.

As for MLB? I haven't watched since the Lastros joined the Fake Baseball League in 2013. They were dead to me before this.

When sports go back to being an enjoyable way to kill some time, call me.

Posted by: Catch Thirty-Thr33 at August 13, 2020 05:44 PM (ejsiI)

528 The NHL is regarded as the weak sister of the four major sports, however it was also the only one that had just 1 player kneel for the anthem, all the rest stood. Their ratings for the round robin were in the 1.3 to 1.5 million range...out performing an NBA playoff game. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/08/03/nbc-draws-average-one-million-total-viewers-nhl-restart.html

Posted by: boballab at August 13, 2020 05:45 PM (Inr4U)

529 Stopped watching completely, even highlightes

Posted by: Greg at August 13, 2020 05:49 PM (ann3x)

530 Late to the thread but I'll weigh in:

Long time (1950s) NFL fan getting ready for fourth season boycott.

Until Covidiot-666 was a huge NBA fan; keep sucking that ChiCom cock, Lebron. Idiots.

Really enjoyed the Nats beating the cheaters and celebrating with DJT. Might be my last sports memory unless things change a *lot*.

Fuck kollidge everything unless football regains sanity.

Posted by: Captain Hate at August 13, 2020 05:52 PM (y7DUB)

531 @Deplorable Jay, you're onto something. Same at the K-12 level. It's already modular (semesters divided into units). There is no earthly reason why it all has to be done in the same classroom by the same teacher, especially if some of it is going to be online. Break it up into a combination of online (which can be taught by anyone from anywhere) and in-classroom units, with regular assessment.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 13, 2020 05:53 PM (jK8Z7)

532 488
My son was discussing Nolan Ryan with me. He said that Nolan's final pitch of his career at age 46 was 98 mph.

Also said that some science show analyzed video from his younger
days, and they figured his fastest pitch was 108 mph. He was a beast.

Posted by: Backup Slider at August 13, 2020 04:59 PM (amQo5)

A documentary called "Fastball."

Ryan was the first guy recorded on a radar gun to top 100 MPH.

The conclusion they came to, based on various types of analysis, is
that Bob Feller was the fastest ever. With Walter Johnson right on his
heels.

Probably hard to know for sure.

What we do know though, the modern guns are recording TOP speed
after it leaves the pitcher's hand, so when they show everyone in the
upper 90s, and some guys hitting 100 or more regularly, they're really
not throwing harder than guys in the past.

Paging Steve Dalkowski to the Moron Courtesy Phone...Steve Dalkowski to the Moron Courtesy Phone.

Posted by: goozer at August 13, 2020 05:55 PM (PwwcI)

533 So AG Barr is gonna be on Hannity tonight, guess it wasn't scheduled.

Posted by: WeBoned! at August 13, 2020 05:05 PM (8k7U7)

He's not announcing anything on this venue...

Posted by: Boswell at August 13, 2020 05:55 PM (w2LAm)

534 It seems to me that many people in the sports business forgot that they are in the entertainment business.

Posted by: Caesar North of the Rubicon at August 13, 2020 05:55 PM (jK8Z7)

535 You must agree with my protest or I will cry!!BWAAAHAHAHA.

Posted by: unmitigated at August 13, 2020 05:59 PM (IIEz7)

536 I don't watch sports but I don't watch anything else on television either. I haven't turned on the babble-box since 1998 (had to watch Clinton 'fess up to schtupping Monica).

Posted by: aelfheld at August 13, 2020 06:04 PM (IxDhF)

537 Yeah, slaves kneel. And the more they kneel, the more they prove they are slaves. They will kneel and kneel until they are the only ones there. Then they will whine and grovel, that free men look down on them, because they are slaves who volunteered to put on their collars and be slaves.

Honestly, any 'professional' athlete at this point is someone I consider a criminal and drug user until proven otherwise. I'm still waiting to be proven wrong.

Posted by: Silentbrick at August 13, 2020 06:04 PM (9cnAW)

538 I watched the NFL until Caperdick knelt and they let him.

I watched the NHL until they bent the knee for the commies in Blacktifa.

My sports viewing now consists of fishing videos on youtube.

Posted by: Unclefacts at August 13, 2020 06:07 PM (ihUzW)

539 Major-league sportball teams/leagues have been wildly successful over the past several decades for one reason...

The fans get to feel like they're a part of something big when their teams win. When your feetball team wins the Sooper Bowl, you get to say, "Yeah! We won! We're the champions!"

What the big sportball leagues have done by so thoroughly embracing BLM is, they've told those fans, "If you love this country, you are not a part of this. You're not a part of us. We are not together in this."

When you basically tell a majority of your fanbase to go suck a fat one, yeah, you're gonna take a bit of a financial hit. You're gonna lose a big chunk of that fanbase.

Posted by: Prothonotary Warbler at August 13, 2020 06:08 PM (H3MF8)

540 From lifetime fan of college and hometown teams, season ticket holder in 2 sports off and on over the years, paying thousands for playoff and world series games, hosting company outings and customer entertainment at stadium luxury boxes, watching something wear a number and sweat most weekends...to literally zero. And I won't be back.

Posted by: Nadlers Sexy Gunt at August 13, 2020 06:17 PM (eD3Jy)

541 Mark Cuban. What a tool. One of those guys who stumbles into prosperity and pretends for the rest of his life it was ll his doing. Wanker.

"[E]xplain why advertisers pay 3x or more for a prime time @Nba spot."

Well, I would assume it's because they're hitting a target demographic, not just going for sheer numbers? Not a whole lot of Tucker watchers are going to pay $300 for the opportunity to wear flashy neon Nike hi-tops that some Malaysian kid made for $2. Nor is there a big thirst for Gatorade after watching a segment dismantling Antifa and Droolin'-Joe-Biden.

Posted by: red speck at August 13, 2020 06:21 PM (gS3OW)

542 My sports viewership is WAY UP!

Before y'all start going crazy, it's because I've been watching AFL Aussie Footy -- and they've been playing one game a day for the last two weeks.

Physical game with lots of action, but no idiots purposefully using their head-armor to concuss their opponents? Teams average kicking eight-to-eleven goals a game? No connections with Marxism, Chinese Communists, or American political parties? Sound interesting? You should give it a try!

Posted by: tgunther at August 13, 2020 06:21 PM (W2mel)

543 I guess the fact they were in Texas ha something to do with it. Otherwise, I am shocked soccer fans booed kneeling.

Posted by: Baldy at August 13, 2020 06:21 PM (OLCH5)

544 When Kaepernick started his taking-a-knee schtique, I knew it was just a matter of time before those who didn't take a knee would be denounced as racist. And so it has come to pass.

I'm was a huge Cubs fan. But I went cold turkey in March, thanks to "Rona", and I won't be back. There are better ways to spend my time and money.

Posted by: Brown Line at August 13, 2020 06:21 PM (S6ArX)

545 The NHL seems to be backpedalling as much as they can without admitting they're backpedalling. The dramatic reopening night announcement that they would be profiling various commie thugs at the start of games has been memory holed. They've been gradually reducing the amount and visibility of BLM graffiti in the stadiums (stadia?) but they don't have the balls to get rid of it entirely. Someone needs to tell them it only takes one turd to spoil an entire punchbowl.

Posted by: schizoid at August 13, 2020 06:29 PM (El4pO)

546 Watching sports on TV is for lazy fat asses. I never watched them. I play sports, not watch overpaid children do them.

ESPN has always been a shithole network run by idiot loudmouths.

It's been very gratifying seeing everyone come around to opinions I've had for decades.

Posted by: Richard Fine at August 13, 2020 06:37 PM (n2C+J)

547 Used to watch the occasional MLB game. Never was into the NBA. Looking forward to college football every year.
NOW: No MLB, and the MOMENT any NCAAF athlete or coach takes a knee I'm OUT.
Also, I cut the cord in January. Saved $80 a month. So... Yeah. I'm not going to pay an industry that disrepects the values I believe in. Let. It. Die.

Posted by: Joseph Dickerson at August 13, 2020 06:41 PM (KTq2u)

548 I hope every Major league sport in the US goes down the fuckin' fucking drain. I want to see the black athletes beg for people to come back so they can get their gagnormous paychecks. I hope their wives fucking freak out at the loss of wealth. I WANT TO SEE IT HAPPEN! AND THEN I WANT THE AMERICAN SPORTS FAN SAY ala FUCK YOU ALL!!!!
Eat shit and get a real job and see how that goes for ya.

I have been a passionate sports fan going to games since I was 10, I'm now 65. I will watch golf and tennis. If anyone takes a knee in either of those sports I'll stop watching them as well. Fuck 'em, all of them.

Posted by: JD at August 13, 2020 07:29 PM (NLEnr)

549 I never really watched the NFL or NBA to begin with, at least not since i was 10. One is 95% dead air where there is 3 seconds of action for 42 seconds of standing around. The other is a game where defense no longer exists and its jyst an ego stroker to see which whiney bitch can score the most points to the detriment of his team.

I use to watch hockey, but my team has been crap the last decade, so after the first 2 weeks of the season i give up.

This year i didn't watch baseball during the time they bowed to the mob and plastered hate speech on the field and bases. Recently I've watched it a little.

The only sport i tend to watch consistently, when it's on, is MMA. They've pretty much stayed out of this bs, they were the first to push to end these extreme lockdowns and in general the sport lacks the sandy vaginas that have become so prominent.

Posted by: Rbastid at August 13, 2020 07:37 PM (GcljU)

550 my sports viewership has been in steady decline for years.

It started with the NFL scandals. Players beating wives, raping. Then the NFL started having ads saying this was NOT okay. I kept thinking "wait a minute, why are you lecturing ME? I'm not the scumbag who beat his wife, you are." It just seemed bizarre.

Anyway, it was all downhill from there. the more sports players talk about speaking out, the more I noticed that was all they ever did, speak out to lecture me on their bad behavior.

Posted by: Inspector Kemp at August 13, 2020 07:38 PM (8Xxh3)

551 I used to always watch the NHL playoffs. I might watch some games, assuming I remember.
I haven't watched an NBA game in about five years. I used to go to one or two per year until I became too noise- sensitive.
I used to watch the NFL religiously until Kaepernick started this sickening trend. No longer.
Don't watch MLB.

Posted by: Darwin Akbar at August 13, 2020 08:50 PM (JFCvK)

552 I was looking forward to the Reds playing ball, but players took a knee during the first game and the owner backed them.

Haven't watched or listened to a Reds game or any MLB game so far and have no intention to for the rest of the year.

Posted by: Ihatecommies at August 13, 2020 09:06 PM (E2Vzz)

553 Before: Virtually none
After: Still none, but now even sports isn't a relatively un-obnoxious channel for a public television to be playing.

"Fortunately" I'm not allowed to actually dine in virtually any of my favorite restaurants so...

Posted by: FlamethrowerInTheDark at August 13, 2020 09:14 PM (m9zD2)

554 Good

Die faster

Posted by: BlackToothGrin at August 13, 2020 10:20 PM (aR6C/)

555 None
Zero
Nada
Zilch

Posted by: Balrog of Morgoth at August 13, 2020 10:37 PM (lE0xw)

556 Professional sports have major structural problems that are going to prevent a lot of people from coming back once the BLM furor has passed. First off, they have become a tedious extension of social media. The NFL is the absolute worst when it comes to this. Part of what made the great players of yesteryear almost mythical is that we didn't know about their every bowel movement or petty feud. Second, these sports are fucking themselves with the analytics. Basketball is a total joke and Baseball is not far behind. Bob Gibson and Nolan Ryan would now be limited to 6 inning starts in today's MLB. And don't get me started on what a fucking disaster bullpen games have been.

Posted by: Ernie McCracken at August 13, 2020 10:48 PM (0CMdT)

557 I used to watch an NFL game 8+ weeks a year. I stopped watching when the NFL let Kaep be a dick. I haven't watched a game since then.
With this BLM BS, I'm done with all pro sports,
I stopped watching all college sports when the NCAA bullied NC about the "Bathroom Bill". Before that I assiduously followed college sports

Posted by: Greg The Class Traitor at August 13, 2020 11:51 PM (bRgVe)

558 I was never much of a sportsball fan. Even as a kid, I recognized that it was dominated by hostile genetic aliens. I started watching Premiership Rugby when the Negro Felons League started kneeling.

Posted by: Chicolini at August 14, 2020 05:56 AM (sIkrh)

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