Karma bites US Women’s soccer team

NiftyNiblick said:
I coached a 13-15 year old baseball team once.

Almost half my team wound up in prison when they grew up.

Not my son, though.

Sometimes things actually work out.
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Well that's kind of unfortunate....but you can't save them all...Did you have fun at the time at least? ;)
I'm sure team sports/sporting programs ( basketball, golf, tennis, boxing, etc.) help more kids than they lose, though....so, yes, often it does work out....and is totally worth it...
I wish communities would bring back programs they've abandoned....
 
NiftyNiblick said:
As a former professional athlete at the level where it got me gas and beer money as a college student but God forbid if I had to live on it,
I watch these kids making $30,000,000 a year and cry just a little bit inside.

Extreme jealously isn't enough to keep me away from baseball, though.

When bleacher tickets were $1 and subway tokens 20 cents [although I often walked], I'd go to maybe thirty games a year.

Now I have cable and a 70" flat screen instead.
Fenway seats were made at a width for 1912-sized asses, and that's not me anymore.

I'm guessing that you never go to Detroit for a game, right? You have other things to amuse you, though. We're not all into the same stuff.
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No, Detroit is quite a haul for us, an 8-hour drive (at least). Milwaukee is about the same.

When I was a kid we went to Cardinals baseball games often. Like you said it was a lot cheaper then. Plus the team gave away "Straight A" tickets so between my sister and I we got those as well. She wasn't much into it; it was my mom's and my thing. We took the kids when they were little a couple of times. The only other professional sports thing I've attended as an adult was a couple of Blues hockey games. Booooring.
 
ThatOwlWoman said:
No, Detroit is quite a haul for us, an 8-hour drive (at least). Milwaukee is about the same.

When I was a kid we went to Cardinals baseball games often. Like you said it was a lot cheaper then. Plus the team gave away "Straight A" tickets so between my sister and I we got those as well. She wasn't much into it; it was my mom's and my thing. We took the kids when they were little a couple of times. The only other professional sports thing I've attended as an adult was a couple of Blues hockey games. Booooring.
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Are you a Yooper?
 
Cypress said:
I have been watching Olympics since '72 Munich and would never even entertain the notion of rooting against Team USA.
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I was in Munich just before it occurred while they were setting up. Republicans probably support the terrorism and murder against Jews then.
These people have gone fucking nuts.
 
Micawber said:
I was in Munich just before it occurred while they were setting up. Republicans probably support the terrorism and murder against Jews then.
These people have gone fucking nuts.
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You need to seek mental help. Cannot afford your Obamacare premiums?
 
NiftyNiblick said:
As a former professional boxer, I NEVER watch MMA.
Their punching skills are really bad, even at the highest UFC level, but just the same, they're crazy people trying to kill each other.
They're tough guys for sure.
They can't deliver punches as well as boxers understandably because they need kicking and grappling skills too.

Also, they must defend their entire bodies, not just the front half of the top half.

Boxers, on the other hand, can only attack the front half of the top half of the body against an opponent highly skilled at defending it,
so landing solid blows against skilled competition takes extreme skill. I've sparred with pros not like myself--people you've heard of--
and they're ungodly good.
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There are quite a few MMA fighters who are boxing based. With 4 ounce gloves, they do devastate some fighters. These days, there are so many MMA gyms around, most in the sport are very well rounded. Many who follow boxing aren't interested. It's like football/rugby. Similar, but different.

Boxing is dead. Sure, the PPV events make a lot of money, but the corruption is disgusting. I live where Tyson trained. What King did to him was a travesty. It's a filthy business
 
 
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