Is it me, or do baseball threads on here...

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TennNC

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...seem to be more civil, more intelligent, and more productive than some other sports-related ones?

Even when people disagree on here, they bring facts and sound arguments, which seems to work.
 
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wbarron said:
...seem to be more civil, more intelligent, and more productive than some other sports-related ones?

Even when people disagree on here, they bring facts and sound arguments, which seems to work.
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You are absolutely wrong and are obviously a schmuck. :)
 
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wbarron said:
...seem to be more civil, more intelligent, and more productive than some other sports-related ones?

Even when people disagree on here, they bring facts and sound arguments, which seems to work.
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Yea talking about the Braves getting swept by the reds is about as heated as it has ever really gotten.


Not really just felt like rubbing it in a little more.
 
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vols kick balls said:
Yea talking about the Braves getting swept by the reds is about as heated as it has ever really gotten.


Not really just felt like rubbing it in a little more.
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Suck it in and hold it, b/c you don't know when events will turn your way like that again. But hell, best of luck to you the rest of the way. You can't hurt us anymore, right?
 
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wbarron said:
...seem to be more civil, more intelligent, and more productive than some other sports-related ones?

Even when people disagree on here, they bring facts and sound arguments, which seems to work.
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It's because most dumb people don't have the patience to watch baseball and turn to Wheel of Fortune after about 5 pitches to see the blinking lights.
 
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They play 162 games per season. A team that wins 60% of its games is a very good team, and a team that wins 65% is practically legendary. This means each individual game is pretty much a crapshoot, and even if your team is really good, you're going to watch them lose as many times in one season as a good college football team will in about two decades. This amount of ambient, universal failure does not exactly lend itself to game-by-game trash-talking. (Unless of course you're a Yankees, Mets, or Red Sox fan, of course, in which case it seems to just ride with the territory.)

GAVol said:
It's because most dumb people don't have the patience to watch baseball and turn to Wheel of Fortune after about 5 pitches to see the blinking lights.
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I like this better than the way I put it.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
They play 162 games per season. A team that wins 60% of its games is a very good team, and a team that wins 65% is practically legendary. This means each individual game is pretty much a crapshoot, and even if your team is really good, you're going to watch them lose as many times in one season as a good college football team will in about two decades. This amount of ambient, universal failure does not exactly lend itself to game-by-game trash-talking. (Unless of course you're a Yankees, Mets, or Red Sox fan, of course, in which case it seems to just ride with the territory.)
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When fans of 31 teams are collectively ganging up on us, we have to lash out once in awhile.
 
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UTLCA said:
When fans of 31 teams are collectively ganging up on us, we have to lash out once in awhile.
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It's not all of you. It's just that the only baseball fans I've ever seen in bars yelling WOO WOO WOO and pointing at the TV screen like they just slammed a dunk in someone's face -- in April or May! -- have inevitably been sporting one of three hats: NYY, NYM, BOS.

I understand that you yourself may not behave like an idiot. Not all Alabama fans are jackasses, either. But you can see how a certain generalization can be drawn.
 
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Oh no I know. I was saying it more in jest.

I see a lot more Sox fans than anything else down here and I absolutely hate them. So, I'm sure when you see NYY fans the same feelings are drummed up. No big deal.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
It's not all of you. It's just that the only baseball fans I've ever seen in bars yelling WOO WOO WOO and pointing at the TV screen like they just slammed a dunk in someone's face -- in April or May! -- have inevitably been sporting one of three hats: NYY, NYM, BOS.
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You can add Cub fans to that list. Of course, they have to yell before September.
 
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hatvol96 said:
You can add Cub fans to that list. Of course, they have to yell before September.
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I absolutely should have included them, since I did specify April and May. It's like their ineptitude instills in them a god-given right to yell LOUDER or something.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
This amount of ambient, universal failure does not exactly lend itself to game-by-game trash-talking. (Unless of course you're a Yankees, Mets, or Red Sox fan, of course, in which case it seems to just ride with the territory.)
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Without a doubt. I haven't noticed any Mets or Red Sox fans in the MLB forum here, but it's certainly true for the Yankees. Also, before I started posting here, I would've added the Atlanta fans to that list. Of course, the ones that I had always been around were kids in school that jumped on the 31 times in a row division champions bandwagon.
UTLCA said:
When fans of 31 teams are collectively ganging up on us, we have to lash out once in awhile.
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Who are the fans of those 2 extra teams?
 
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GAVol said:
It's because most dumb people don't have the patience to watch baseball and turn to Wheel of Fortune after about 5 pitches to see the blinking lights.
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Well put.

It's also a more accurate metaphor for life. Honestly, if 1/3 of everything you do in your job, or on the golf course, or the stock market, or rearing children, or whatever it is you do is successful, that's pretty damn good. And you appreciate the hits, b/c you don't get them that often.

On second thought, I still like GAVol's explanation better.
 
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Who knows maybe it's because baseball isn't physical in nature so people don't get as fired up. It also seems to be more of a rational game until you start talking about home runs records.
 
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