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Topic: If we didn't have a playoff...

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FearlessF

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Re: If we didn't have a playoff...
« Reply #84 on: December 17, 2019, 03:30:36 PM »
No Baseball, no lacrosse. Wisconsin spring sports are horrible. Just softball, tennis and track? Yuck.
no golf team!????!!!
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Re: If we didn't have a playoff...
« Reply #85 on: December 17, 2019, 03:43:06 PM »
Golf is a terrible spectator sport.

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Re: If we didn't have a playoff...
« Reply #86 on: December 17, 2019, 03:52:28 PM »
Golf is a terrible spectator sport.
Better than baseball.

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Re: If we didn't have a playoff...
« Reply #87 on: December 17, 2019, 03:58:12 PM »
Baseball you can watch the whole game in one spot. 

Golf you either have to pick someone and follow them around, or sit in one spot and watch everyone play the same hole. 

Only rowing and cross country would be worse.

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Re: If we didn't have a playoff...
« Reply #88 on: December 17, 2019, 04:47:44 PM »
I spectated the President's cup

from my recliner, didn't even have to make the long flight
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Re: If we didn't have a playoff...
« Reply #89 on: December 17, 2019, 04:49:36 PM »
Better than baseball.
Uhhhh... no.  Can't agree with that take, at all.

Baseball isn't the greatest spectator sport in the world, but it ranks about 157,932 spots above golf.

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Re: If we didn't have a playoff...
« Reply #90 on: December 17, 2019, 04:58:46 PM »
(To be honest, I was being flippant.)

I think golf is a MUCH better game to watch on TV. I can't bear to watch baseball on TV.

I'd say baseball is a better game to watch in person. It's still bloody boring as hell, but it's a lot better than on TV.

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« Reply #91 on: December 17, 2019, 05:04:26 PM »
Heh, I'm just having a little fun. too.

I like college baseball, I don't much care for MLB.

Almost anything can be fun to watch in person, I've been to Dell Match Play here in Austin and that was fun, I've been to pro baseball games and that was fun.

But about all I ever watch on TV anymore is football, futbol, and auto racing.


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Re: If we didn't have a playoff...
« Reply #92 on: December 17, 2019, 05:19:08 PM »
The wife would get tickets to the tennis tournament in Cincy each year, they were in a "box" type area, she raved about it, so I went, one year.  

It was somewhat interesting for 5 minutes.  They are superb athletes for sure (duh).  

I really enjoy "playing" baseball these days.  I hope to be in decent enough shape that my legs hold out mostly, my shoulder is past redemption.  That starts in less than a month now.


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Re: If we didn't have a playoff...
« Reply #93 on: December 17, 2019, 06:55:20 PM »
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« Reply #94 on: December 17, 2019, 08:42:41 PM »
I remember when someone told me there was a golf channel - I literally thought they were joking.  

*watching paint dry in hushed tones*


Watching golf is basically a lullabye for 50 year old men to fall asleep to.  Just stick a mobile over them and call it an afternoon.
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Re: If we didn't have a playoff...
« Reply #95 on: December 17, 2019, 08:58:54 PM »
There is more than one golf channel here.  There are 3 or 4 poker channels, nonstop poker tournies.

I can't count how many channels are selling stuff or wanting you to sue Monsanto.

We have channels that are nothing but lawyers wanting to help you sue in a class action, entire 24 hour channels.

Our classical music channel is Number 866, and there are plenty above that I've never even checked.  Some of the intervening channels are "premium" including about 50 on porn.  Who needs 50 porn channels?  Even in my youth I didn't need 50.

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Re: If we didn't have a playoff...
« Reply #96 on: December 17, 2019, 09:56:23 PM »
golf on TV is good for napping

but, I can sleep to  a triple overtime NCAA football game in the right situation
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Re: If we didn't have a playoff...
« Reply #97 on: December 17, 2019, 10:05:38 PM »
Heh, I'm just having a little fun. too.

I like college baseball, I don't much care for MLB.

Almost anything can be fun to watch in person, I've been to Dell Match Play here in Austin and that was fun, I've been to pro baseball games and that was fun.

But about all I ever watch on TV anymore is football, futbol, and auto racing.


I loved hockey as a child, then slowly grew away to barely ever watching it.  Now as analytics are an increasing part of all sports, I find hockey to be the one sport where they (so far) haven't discovered that the most efficient style of play is a worse version of the sport from a watchability standpoint, I've found myself watching more.

I would love to watch more soccer, but I struggle to get into not having a rooting interest.  When I lived in London, Chelsea was the local team where I lived, so I tried to force an adoption, and maybe if I had lived there longer it would have stuck, but it didn't.  So I love international soccer, but cant fully get into club play.  And by all in, I mean all in.  I'm the guy watching Nicaragua-Hondurus Gold Cup pool play games.  That's partly why I hate the revamped World Cup format.  They basically made two years of qualification games meaningless, to allow more teams into an increasingly fluky tourney.

Golf is the other sport I watch substantially more than I used to.  I used to be a Sunday majors only guy, but now, I'll find myself watching Friday coverage of the Houston Open on Golf Network.  I wouldn't hate if a few more of these guys had personality though.

 

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