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Beckham tiff with a Deac.

jaybone said:
I was shocked how many people were watching Euro 2012 in the gym. I think there is a lot of interest. I don't like how players are bought and loaned though. One, it's like cattle. Two, with nothing resembling a salary cap, the top teams with the deepest pocketed owners are in the top 5 every fucking year. It is hard for this American to understand. Barcelona, with their development blahbadee blah is the closest thing to an organization with a minor league system that feeds the big club.

The one thing I do like is how bad teams fall back to a lower conference and are replaced by the winners of the lower conference. That shit is real.

But I doubt I will ever follow Premier league because the top teams have benches more talented than 50% of the teams.

That said, I follow college football. Go figure.
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Promotion/Relegation is so awesome.
RE: Loaning players out. It is mainly used to get younger players experience at lower levels before their parent club throw them into a bigger fire. It's a good system, but I could understand some arguments that it gets abused from time to time.

Montpellier just won Ligue 1 in France last season. Their first ever French Title. So smaller clubs do still jump up and make some noise; Newcastle did amazingly well last season in the PL for instance..

bojanglefunk said:
That's ESPN- you just cited a higher number above- how is this the full number?
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The numbers you quoted were all the games for the tournament. The previous number (and the higher one) was just the Final itself between Spain and Italy.
 
94Deac said:
Population's growing and/or getting older. Plus, lots of immigrants to the US skew that number. And older people look for things on tv which can put them to sleep.
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Which is why they all watch baseball.
 
I am impressed that beckham kicked it so accurately.
 
siff said:
American football. A game played only in America. I love it, but it's lower on the world totem pole than cricket. That tells you something.
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It's the Fourth of July, goddamnit!!! You goddamned communist heathen. You had best sound off that you love the virgin Mary or I'm gonna stomp your guts out.
 
94Deac said:
It's the Fourth of July, goddamnit!!! You goddamned communist heathen. You had best sound off that you love the virgin Mary or I'm gonna stomp your guts out.
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Ha ha...you're right. I love 'Murica, and I love 'Murican football. Damn you.
 
I think it's difficult to "coach" a sport that you find boring. Invariably, that dislike comes across to kids. If you don't like a sport, don't coach it - just enjoy watching your kids play for someone else.
 
Baseball is boring. Soccer is non-stop SOMETHING going on, at least. I still like Hockey, Shooty-hoops and Football more, but its up there.

Oh, and fuck Beckham.
 
Demonbeck said:
Nope, I used to play baseball, and it was boring then too - unless you were pitching or batting.
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just because you used to play baseball doesn't mean that you understand it. especially at the major league level. not that thats necessarily true in your case, but i mean the vast majority of people who played even in HS don't really understand the complexities of the game
 
CaptainAwesome said:
just because you used to play baseball doesn't mean that you understand it. especially at the major league level. not that thats necessarily true in your case, but i mean the vast majority of people who played even in HS don't really understand the complexities of the game
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Same can easily be said for footy as well.

I like baseball a lot, for the record, and I stopped playing it when I was 12 or so.
 
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