So what are the toughest man sports?
6. Soccer is an okay sport when kids are playing it, yet it's not even near as exciting as the rest of the American sports. Basically, the field is too big, and there isn't enough scoring. Professional soccer is even worse. And, in case you're wondering, the reason it's called soccer in the U.S. and not football, is because football is more of a masculine name for a sport, and soccer is a sissy sport thus is deserving of a sissy name. I'd still encourage my kids to play the game, and I'll enjoy watching it, yet it's not even close to my favorite. And understandably so do the rest of the United States folks think this sport is sissy. So why is soccer called soccer in the U.S. (as this post asks)? Now you know. It's boring. It's like watching a game of ping pong. Actually, the reason it's called football is because the game was called association football in England. This was to differentiate it from rugby football. Hence, since the English like to shorten names, they called the game SOCer, with S-O-C coming from the word association, and the er tagging along.
5. Boxing would be #1 on this list, except you cannot watch it on regular TV, which has made the sport nonexistent to the rest of the world. It's one tough sport, but the last time there was a game worth watching the likes of Mike Tyson and George Forman were still playing.
4. Basketball is a good sport, but as one of my friends from college used to say, it's basically a bunch of tall idiots running up and down a court with their knuckles scraping on the ground. And any sport that you have to have the best player in the world on your team to win anything isn't an exciting sport at all. Think the best players in the history of the game, and you'll find a winning team. Since the Celtics and the Lakers have won more than half of all NBA championships, this basically shows you where the best players have landed, and not where the best all time teams have landed. So, basketball can be a very good sport, and I rank it behind baseball and football as my favorite sports, yet as far as for being a man's sport, it's not even close because only the tall can play.
3. Baseball is a good sport all the way around. I love how it lasts three hours or longer. I love a well pitched game, and I love a game where the home team scores a lot of points. I love baseball statistics, and I love baseball statistics. This is a game for everyone. You can be small and you can be tall, you can be round and you can be square. You can fight, and you can sit on the bench and dump whipped cream down your pitcher's underwear. This is a time tested sport that anyone of any age and any size can play. This is truly one of the greatest all time sports. And while I rank baseball as my favorite sport, I have to rank it here as #3 on the all time greatest man's sports.
2. Hockey is a tough sport. You can hit on the run and trip and hope you don't get caught. You can stop the action and get into a brawl. And while you might pay a penalty, it's often worth it. And while you might get a chance to actually play hockey, that's not why you attend the game. Hockey is about fighting, and if that fight were taken out of the sport, it would be a sissy sport like soccer.
1. Football is by far the best sport in America, and worthy of the name football. It's a tough sport. The only exception I'd have to this sport are all the rules. I think they should take out rules that protect the quarterback, and the whistles that call a play dead. I think anytime the ball is free the ball should be in play. This would make it even tougher. Sure there would be more injuries, but it would be worth it. The injury risk alone makes this sport manly.
Sure there's other sports that can be fun, like swimming or ping pong or volley ball or dodge ball (which could have made my list), yet none of them compare with top 5 on my list. What do you think is the toughest sport?
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Sunday, August 22, 2010
Saturday, June 26, 2010
10 changes I'd make to Major League Baseball
As a lifelong Detroit Tiger and baseball fan, I have some humble advice for the league:
1. Allow Pete Rose into the Hall of Fame. He's the MLB leader in total hits, and all those hits were obtained before he did something stupid. He should be in unanimously.
2. Allow instant replay. Each manager should get three opportunities each game to question a call, including balls and strikes. And the review should be automatic in the 9th inning or later.
3. Get rid of the designated hitter (DH). I think the game would be more interesting, and probably even more fun for the players and managers, if pitchers were allowed to hit.
4. Shorten the season by 20 games and start the post season earlier so the World Series can be played the first week of October when the weather is still nice.
5. Get rid of inter-league play as it currently stands. The way which teams are chosen to play each year creates too much imbalance. Inter-league play is no longer exciting and must be eliminated. Besides, accomplishing this will help balance the divisions.
6. Balance the divisions. Five teams in the National League Central have to vie for one a playoff spot, and only four in the American League West. The Angels get to the playoffs every year by beating 3 easy teams. This is not fair. CBSSports, in this post, has a good idea to balance the divisions:
There would be four 15 league divisions, and each team plays each team at least once. If MLB wanted, it could always have at least one inter-league series going on. As noted:
"14 of the AL teams would face each other, 14 of the NL teams would face each other, and then one AL team and one NL team would face off in the one inter league series.... That way, every team is playing two series every week, and every team has an equal chance at the playoffs."
Of course this would mean one National League team would have to move to the American League, and I think the easy favorite would be Milwaukee which already jumped leagues for no apparent reason twice. Although there could be some sort of lottery or something to decide which team has to switch leagues.
7. Fix the voting system for the All Star Game. I think voting should be done 70% by the fans, and 30% by sports reporters, players, managers and baseball administrators. This would assure only the best players get to the game, and not some old washed up superstar.
8. Change the rule that says one player from each team has to be on the All Star Game. Only the best should make it to the All Star Game.
9. The rule that the winner of the All Star Game game gets home field advantage in the World Series should end too. This game should be for fun only.
10. The team with the best record should get home field advantage in the playoffs. This can be done because you don't have to worry about one team having the best record because it has only easy teams in its division: the divisions will be balanced.
1. Allow Pete Rose into the Hall of Fame. He's the MLB leader in total hits, and all those hits were obtained before he did something stupid. He should be in unanimously.
2. Allow instant replay. Each manager should get three opportunities each game to question a call, including balls and strikes. And the review should be automatic in the 9th inning or later.
3. Get rid of the designated hitter (DH). I think the game would be more interesting, and probably even more fun for the players and managers, if pitchers were allowed to hit.
4. Shorten the season by 20 games and start the post season earlier so the World Series can be played the first week of October when the weather is still nice.
5. Get rid of inter-league play as it currently stands. The way which teams are chosen to play each year creates too much imbalance. Inter-league play is no longer exciting and must be eliminated. Besides, accomplishing this will help balance the divisions.
6. Balance the divisions. Five teams in the National League Central have to vie for one a playoff spot, and only four in the American League West. The Angels get to the playoffs every year by beating 3 easy teams. This is not fair. CBSSports, in this post, has a good idea to balance the divisions:
There would be four 15 league divisions, and each team plays each team at least once. If MLB wanted, it could always have at least one inter-league series going on. As noted:
"14 of the AL teams would face each other, 14 of the NL teams would face each other, and then one AL team and one NL team would face off in the one inter league series.... That way, every team is playing two series every week, and every team has an equal chance at the playoffs."
Of course this would mean one National League team would have to move to the American League, and I think the easy favorite would be Milwaukee which already jumped leagues for no apparent reason twice. Although there could be some sort of lottery or something to decide which team has to switch leagues.
7. Fix the voting system for the All Star Game. I think voting should be done 70% by the fans, and 30% by sports reporters, players, managers and baseball administrators. This would assure only the best players get to the game, and not some old washed up superstar.
8. Change the rule that says one player from each team has to be on the All Star Game. Only the best should make it to the All Star Game.
9. The rule that the winner of the All Star Game game gets home field advantage in the World Series should end too. This game should be for fun only.
10. The team with the best record should get home field advantage in the playoffs. This can be done because you don't have to worry about one team having the best record because it has only easy teams in its division: the divisions will be balanced.
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