|
06-26-2014, 10:13 PM | #361 | |
Has a particular set of skills
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: On the water
Casino cash: $1588962
VARSITY
|
Quote:
Baseball for 80 years had all the teams in two divisions. It just doesn't make the rivalry's you see in baseball and football. Watching the World Cup, I understand a lot more about soccer now. The strategy's. I went to a Wizards soccer game back in the day. Hated it. I didn't understand why they couldn't pass the ball successfully more. If a QB can't throw to a wide open receiver regularly, a outfielder throw to a base for an assist they don't play at the top levels. This was suppose to be the top level. Now I see what the top level really looks like. Way different.
__________________
Mind you own damn business |
|
Posts: 79,884
|
06-26-2014, 10:14 PM | #362 |
MVP
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Iowa
Casino cash: $9975811
|
You walked into the middle of a debate. When you walk between flailing fists, you're going to get hit.
|
Posts: 13,873
|
06-26-2014, 10:14 PM | #363 |
Supporter
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Who knows?
Casino cash: $1425884
|
|
Posts: 85,084
|
06-26-2014, 10:15 PM | #364 |
Supporter
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Who knows?
Casino cash: $1425884
|
I will leave you to it guys.
Wow, just wow. |
Posts: 85,084
|
06-26-2014, 10:19 PM | #365 |
Eat/Sleep/Procrastinate/Repeat
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Dystopia
Casino cash: $10017397
|
This is classic troll behavior from notorious.
Dude, if you honestly aren't trying to rile people up then you need to understand that the way you've been posting is EXACTLY how to rile people up. Troll rhetoric down to a T. |
Posts: 33,369
|
06-26-2014, 10:34 PM | #366 | |
MVP
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Iowa
Casino cash: $9975811
|
Quote:
Also, this is a bit like college football. CONCACAF is like the Big 10. We compete with our "conference" to get to the world cup (bowl games I suppose). While you develop rivalries there (Mexico), we root for our "enemies" in the world cup, b/c it helps to validate ourselves compared to better "conferences" like Europe (SEC). Now it may not seem like it, but the group stage does lend itself to rivalries too. Look at the US and Ghana. When a team knocks you out of THE tournament that only happens once every 4 years, you don't forget. There's plenty of history for dramatic back stories. Hope you continue watching and discussing. I don't mean to discourage interest, just think it's silly to criticize one game but not the other, for essentially the same thing. Outside of ties anyway. Also, the people who don't like that head to head isn't the first tie breaker, goal differential ensures that more matches mean something during the 3rd leg of group stage. Less teams feeling comfortable means more effort and better matches. Otherwise, the US wouldn't have had much to play for today. |
|
Posts: 13,873
|
06-26-2014, 10:35 PM | #367 |
MVP
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Iowa
Casino cash: $9975811
|
|
Posts: 13,873
|
06-26-2014, 10:35 PM | #368 |
birth of spatch
Join Date: May 2008
Casino cash: $10006207
|
Guis, Americans can't grasp ties. It makes our brains hurty.
|
Posts: 4,569
|
06-26-2014, 10:37 PM | #369 | |
Eat/Sleep/Procrastinate/Repeat
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Dystopia
Casino cash: $10017397
|
Quote:
|
|
Posts: 33,369
|
06-26-2014, 10:39 PM | #370 |
Has a particular set of skills
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: On the water
Casino cash: $1588962
VARSITY
|
Where did I say there no rivalries in soccer?
__________________
Mind you own damn business |
Posts: 79,884
|
06-26-2014, 10:40 PM | #371 |
Beyond the Rapids
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Langley, VA
Casino cash: $-370000
|
Why does every sport have to be like every other, where you get instant gratification, where there is some sort of a trickle of payoffs every few moments, etc? Can't sports be different and appreciated for their uniqueness, like music or film or beer or women? Why do we have this attitude that if I go unentertained for 2 straight minutes I'm turning it off...?
For that matter, what's the problem we Americans seem to have with a draw? A long game is played where a detailed battle is played out, and at the end of 90 minutes (and sometimes extra time) it's decided that there was nothing much to separate the two on that day, that they both performed equally well. Why is that such an offense...? Every sport doesn't have to be tuned to "You will have one who wins everything and one who loses completely at the end of a predefined block of time today". I think the point in soccer originally when you had recreational clubs playing each other was to measure the skill of the clubs against each other, not to get a result that day. If you drew, then your club and the neighboring town's club could be considered about even that day and that was fine. I know it's American to want to see blood and guts and someone cheered and someone else humiliated, and plenty of explosions throughout, but this game isn't like other games. |
Posts: 80,659
|
06-26-2014, 10:45 PM | #372 |
Beyond the Rapids
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Langley, VA
Casino cash: $-370000
|
|
Posts: 80,659
|
06-26-2014, 10:46 PM | #373 | |
"You like to drink?"
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: "I like to drink."
Casino cash: $1756869
|
Quote:
I just don't understand why WC pool games don't have one 15 minute sudden death half.
__________________
Chiefs 2016 Opponents: Home: JAX, TEN, NO, TB, NYJ. Away: HOU, IND, ATL, CAR, PIT Chiefs 2017 Opponents: Home: BUF, MIA, PHI, WSH, AFC North. Away: NE, NYJ, NYG, DAL, AFC South |
|
Posts: 43,898
|
06-26-2014, 10:47 PM | #374 | |
MVP
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Overland Park
Casino cash: $10020882
|
Quote:
It certainly is the best you'll see Americans play in, though. We just don't have many guys in the top leagues in the world. Yet. |
|
Posts: 19,908
|
06-26-2014, 10:49 PM | #375 |
Eat/Sleep/Procrastinate/Repeat
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Dystopia
Casino cash: $10017397
|
You didn't. You said that it doesn't make rivalries like baseball or football does. I'm saying that when it comes to club soccer, many of its rivalries are intense on a level that only a handful of American sports rivalries can match.
Here's some great late-night reading about one of those rivalries: http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/2014/...istanbul-derby |
Posts: 33,369
|
|
|