2026 MLB Season Thread

[HIM]

not too much on soccer!

#avycheck
#COYG

 

[アミーゴ]

What does COYG mean?

RIP PELE

 

[DeadsetAce]

#COYG

<3

 

[CP1708]

Yiiiiiikes.

If it was just dudes jogging around, it would be called... Jogging.

That is pure, uncut, unfiltered American horse**** right there, my friend.

I said what I said. I know soccer lovers get up in arms anytime someone questions their beloved event of a bunch of folks running around on the grass for an hour and a half not scoring.

I LOVE when I hear the announcers "oh, they have totally dominated this match today....." *Squints up at the scoreboard*.......1-0.

FOH someone dominated another team with a single *** goal. They all got some cardio and someone miraculously scored a point. I'm fully aware everyone else around the world loves it, everyone else around the world loves drugs too, don't mean they're good for you. Means people are stupid.

Funny thing, people are furious with scoring being up in the NBA, whereas soccer could really benefit from someone ACTUALLY scoring in a game. 0-0, each team gets a point.

Soccer sucks. Pull your little red card out at me, I don't care. (Yellow card, blue card, whatever the hell color flashcard it is) Only reason I don't type it in the thread title is I don't want a bunch of randoms coming in here screaming cuz someone questions their favorite joggers.

 

[darthska]

I said what I said. I know soccer lovers get up in arms anytime someone questions their beloved event of a bunch of folks running around on the grass for an hour and a half not scoring.

I LOVE when I hear the announcers "oh, they have totally dominated this match today....." *Squints up at the scoreboard*.......1-0.

FOH someone dominated another team with a single *** goal. They all got some cardio and someone miraculously scored a point. I'm fully aware everyone else around the world loves it, everyone else around the world loves drugs too, don't mean they're good for you. Means people are stupid.

Funny thing, people are furious with scoring being up in the NBA, whereas soccer could really benefit from someone ACTUALLY scoring in a game. 0-0, each team gets a point.

Soccer sucks. Pull your little red card out at me, I don't care. (Yellow card, blue card, whatever the hell color flashcard it is) Only reason I don't type it in the thread title is I don't want a bunch of randoms coming in here screaming cuz someone questions their favorite joggers.

I don't even love soccer.

Stop me if you've heard this before: Gray area.

There's a lot of gray area in between loving something and hating something. I don't love soccer, but I'm not ignorant enough to think that it's really just people jogging. Even though I don't love it, I recognize that there is a ton of skill to it.

 

[darthska]

I LOVE when I hear the announcers "oh, they have totally dominated today....." *Squints up at the scoreboard*.......1-0.

*baseball has entered the chat*

 

[CP1708]

*baseball has entered the chat*

They don't say a team dominated, a PITCHER dominated, but the hitters didn't do ****.

And the amount of 1-0 baseball games vs the amount of 1-0 soccer games could fill the Grand Canyon.


*I wasn't accusing you of loving soccer, I wouldn't wish that on anyone. Ok, maybe xtapolicious or whatever his letters were, but thassit.

 

[DeadsetAce]

maybe xtapolicious or whatever his letters were

 

[CP1708]

Old Lebron fan circa 2008-09. 98% of his posts were just Lebron.

 

[darthska]

Xtralebronfan

 

[DeadsetAce]

CP1708 i know im not gonna change your mind on soccer but don't tell me you haven't seen teams in other sports (like football) dominate time of possession yet fail to put the ball in the endzone. same idea in soccer. hell ive heard announcers in the NFL say a team dominated a half but find themselves down at halftime

 

[CP1708]

CP1708 i know im not gonna change your mind on soccer but don't tell me you haven't seen teams in other sports (like football) dominate time of possession yet fail to put the ball in the endzone. same idea in soccer. hell ive heard announcers in the NFL say a team dominated a half but find themselves down at halftime

They don't jog around the field.
The QB isn't like a goalkeeper 80 yards away sittin in a lawnchair.
Football players use their hands and arms for 3 hours.
BOTH teams scored.......by halftime (in your scenario)
NFL games don't end 0-0 all the time.
NFL games can score on any singular play. Ain't no soccer goals gettin scored near midfield.
Injury untimed clock
NFL is violent. Soccer is cardio with a ball.

A running clock.......while they just run around kickin the ball back and forth not even attempting shots on goal.

Must be so exciting for 90 minutes while guys kick and ball back and forth without tryin to score. Exhilarating I'm sure......

 

[DeadsetAce]

unhinged!

 

[Bantz Lord T]

Soccer is just dudes joggin around for 90 minutes.
Baseball requires actual stress on pitchers arms, so you can't make the same comparison. Pitchers only have so many throws per season, no team wants to waste them on a national pride exhibition.

To recap, Soccer sucks.

Yeah because Brewers/Pirates on a random Tuesday afternoon in the summer is definitely more important

 

[xxpizzo]

1st time i ever seen this in all my life and i grew up playing baseball

 

[CP1708]

Yeah because Brewers/Pirates on a random Tuesday afternoon in the summer is definitely more important

Better than watchin the Ca......I won't say it fam, I know you a soccer dude, I'm not tryna pile on, you got it rough enough. *Hugs*

 

[Bantz Lord T]

Better than watchin the Ca......I won't say it fam, I know you a soccer dude, I'm not tryna pile on, you got it rough enough. *Hugs*

The WBC is played every 4 years. It’s our chance to show the rest of the baseball world we’re still the best at the sport we introduced to them. We have pitchers like Clayton Kershaw who are willing and able to represent us in this tournament and our teams don’t let them. Why? To get an extra start out of him against the Rockies? Miss me with that. Team USA should have its best aces out there.

 

[darthska]

They don't jog around the field.
The QB isn't like a goalkeeper 80 yards away sittin in a lawnchair.
Football players use their hands and arms for 3 hours.
BOTH teams scored.......by halftime (in your scenario)
NFL games don't end 0-0 all the time.
NFL games can score on any singular play. Ain't no soccer goals gettin scored near midfield.
Injury untimed clock
NFL is violent. Soccer is cardio with a ball.

A running clock.......while they just run around kickin the ball back and forth not even attempting shots on goal.

Must be so exciting for 90 minutes while guys kick and ball back and forth without tryin to score. Exhilarating I'm sure......

Yeah I gotta rip this apart.

The QB isn't like a goalkeeper 80 yards away sittin in a lawnchair.

Who's more active: goalkeeper os starting pitcher?

Football players use their hands and arms for 3 hours.

Really? Offense AND defense? Full 3 hours?

Every football team has 3 WHOLE *** TEAMS: Offense, Defense, Special Teams.

NFL games can score on any singular play.

Can? Yes. Likely? Yeahno, not every single play.

NFL is violent. Soccer is cardio with a ball.

Aaaah, so violence is what you need?

So you're selling all your Laker stuff?

they just run around kickin the ball back and forth not even attempting shots on goal.

Yeah I hate when the ball leaves someone's possession and it's not a shot.

Question: How many times in basketball does the ball leave someone's possession and it's NOT a shot? Couple hundred?

And I'm not knocking football for having 3 teams on each team. Not knocking baseball for having starting pitcher chilling for days at a time.

I love it all.

 

[DeadsetAce]

Yeah I gotta rip this apart.

Who's more active: goalkeeper os starting pitcher?

Really? Offense AND defense? Full 3 hours?

Every football team has 3 WHOLE *** TEAMS: Offense, Defense, Special Teams.

Can? Yes. Likely? Yeahno, not every single play.

Aaaah, so violence is what you need?

So you're selling all your Laker stuff?

Yeah I hate when the ball leaves someone's possession and it's not a shot.

Question: How many times in basketball does the ball leave someone possession and it's NOT a shot? Couple hundred?

 

[darthska]

 

[651akathepaul]

Oops. Wrong thread.

 

[CP1708]

Yeah I gotta rip this apart.

Who's more active: goalkeeper os starting pitcher?

Really? Offense AND defense? Full 3 hours?

Every football team has 3 WHOLE *** TEAMS: Offense, Defense, Special Teams.

Can? Yes. Likely? Yeahno, not every single play.

Aaaah, so violence is what you need?

So you're selling all your Laker stuff?

Yeah I hate when the ball leaves someone's possession and it's not a shot.

Question: How many times in basketball does the ball leave someone's possession and it's NOT a shot? Couple hundred?

And I'm not knocking football for having 3 teams on each team. Not knocking baseball for having starting pitcher chilling for days at a time.

I love it all.

Starting pitcher throws 100+ pitches a start. Goalkeeper won't see 100 shots in his ****in career.

Agreed, basketball players pass a hundred times......and shoot on goal EVERY 24 seconds. They score 200+ points a game even in a defensive matchup. (90's woulda been more like 175 )

Violence isn't what EYE need, it's what the sport is. (Larger point, seems to be what everyone wants tho oh I know, I know, not "everyone".......I guess that's why the flag football game drew such high ratings........ )

Good point, they have 3 units that specialize in football. They also don't just run around for 90 minutes. They load up on horse tranquilizers and numbing agents and ram into each other at full speed every 45 seconds......

I know they don't score on every play, but they attempt to. Be it the offense trying to run/pass for a TD, or a defense trying to return a turnover. But the league is filled with 60-70 yard TD's (on all 3 units mind you) every week. (Kick returns are less prevalent now that Devin Hester has retired ) Soccer couldn't fill a commercial break with 60-70 yard scores. Not sure they could fill a commercial break with actual goals.

Soccer RedZone would be snow on the TV for 2 hours.

Dozens of TD's per week, running, passing, Special Teams, Defense. Field Goals, Safeties, Extra Points.

Hundreds of 3's, Free Throws, Dunks, regular 2 point baskets.

Hundreds of home runs, not to mention RBI triples, doubles, singles, sac flies, sac bunts, errors, steals, balks whatever.

Soccer in a week? Handful of goals. Maybe 1-2 per game, 5-6 shots per game? Maybe 10 if things get crazy? And a whole lotta running around on the grass. Aye, Bartolo Colon couldn't play soccer, no doubt. Zero argument there. They are cardio God's for sure. Bart ain't joggin for no 90 minutes.

Ok, I hate that this thread is full of soccer talk. I need a shower. We're blockin all the Padre updates.... well.......no, no, no, *sigh* can't do it. Gimme the Padre updates.

 

[Canadian Destroyer]

If you don't understand how Soccer literally runs the world you probably never left your small suburban town just drove around it in your F-150 a bunch of times.

 

[DeadsetAce]

your F-150 a bunch of times.

F-150, horse and carriage, same thing

 

[lpheat22]

2 injury prone bums and 1 CHAMP

mr j 858 levels of trolling