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Soccer is boring AF. There, I said it.

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Provocative market
  06/20/18
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Bearded underhanded whorehouse dingle berry
  06/21/18
nah it's 180
Swashbuckling den faggot firefighter
  06/20/18
(Homo)
Blue goyim persian
  06/20/18
how is it any more boring than any other sport?
Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life
  06/20/18
No hitting, no scoring, faggy.
Provocative market
  06/20/18
come on there's more to sports than just hitting and scoring...
Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life
  06/20/18
They're obviously athletic. I'm watching my first ever socc...
Provocative market
  06/20/18
it's ok not to like soccer. i'm not a big soccer fan either,...
Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life
  06/20/18
At least there's continuous scoring.
Provocative market
  06/20/18
Scoring on almost every possession is even more boring than ...
Irradiated Mauve Nursing Home Cuck
  06/20/18
seriously. there's absolutely no tension during the game. co...
Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life
  06/20/18
exaggerated
Big angry giraffe
  06/20/18
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Spruce bearded athletic conference stock car
  06/20/18
basketball sucks and looks stupid and it's played by freaks
Swashbuckling den faggot firefighter
  06/20/18
the worst part of basketball is the constant tv timeouts and...
Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage
  06/20/18
Basketball and soccer are the two poles of "too much sc...
Zombie-like ticket booth
  06/20/18
Nfl is literally just 4 hours of commercials occasionally in...
Abusive Tattoo Private Investor
  06/20/18
cr. it is really an awful sport.
Histrionic saffron messiness
  06/20/18
Well, that sounds like your fault for staring at the screen ...
Zombie-like ticket booth
  06/20/18
if scoring events are the only things of interest pretty ...
useless vengeful orchestra pit
  06/20/18
I didn't say scoring was the only interesting thing, but it'...
Zombie-like ticket booth
  06/20/18
tbf, I usually don't find soccer that interesting either ...
useless vengeful orchestra pit
  06/20/18
once you get a sense of tactics and counter-tactics, what po...
Swashbuckling den faggot firefighter
  06/20/18
I'm sure that's the case, that seems to be what's roughly ne...
useless vengeful orchestra pit
  06/20/18
there seem to be more varieties than in other sports. i'm a ...
Swashbuckling den faggot firefighter
  06/20/18
makes sense ---- seems like the more command/control t...
useless vengeful orchestra pit
  06/20/18
or you can look at it the other way and say it's more intere...
Swashbuckling den faggot firefighter
  06/20/18
fair enough I agree its largely an aesthetic preference ...
useless vengeful orchestra pit
  06/20/18
yeah i think you might be right about the second part. it's ...
Swashbuckling den faggot firefighter
  06/20/18
look, you just don't get it, man.
Histrionic saffron messiness
  06/20/18
It’s boring if you don’t care about the teams
Coiffed new version
  06/20/18
Best asses on TV imo
Abusive Tattoo Private Investor
  06/20/18
Unnngh
Provocative market
  06/20/18
https://78.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqx7ageePl1qlcvon.jpg
sable police squad
  06/20/18
opposite for me. i can watch any soccer game and rarely hav...
Histrionic saffron messiness
  06/20/18
i only watch every four years for the WC but somehow i can w...
Hairraiser partner selfie
  06/20/18
because you don't like the sport -- you like the "event...
Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life
  06/20/18
I havent been in US for world cup since 16 years so its 1800...
Hairraiser partner selfie
  06/20/18
i'm not disagreeing
Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life
  06/20/18
Hot take.
Alcoholic vibrant immigrant
  06/20/18
Hot take.
Alcoholic vibrant immigrant
  06/20/18
No, it's 180. There's not even enough time to really ge...
Irradiated Mauve Nursing Home Cuck
  06/20/18
this is a big thing for me. fucking baseball games are AT LE...
Swashbuckling den faggot firefighter
  06/20/18
Exactly. Soccer game, you drink 3 beers and it's over. Per...
Irradiated Mauve Nursing Home Cuck
  06/20/18
This is one of the best things about soccer. You know exactl...
slap-happy rusted corn cake
  06/20/18
soccer is like hockey, meaningless games with teams you don'...
Thriller dilemma
  06/20/18
its not boring, it just requires patience and understanding ...
Spruce bearded athletic conference stock car
  06/20/18
ppl just don't know how to watch for tactics and don't know ...
Swashbuckling den faggot firefighter
  06/20/18
moniker of the week
sable police squad
  06/20/18
"It's not boring, it just has a lot less happening.&quo...
Zombie-like ticket booth
  06/20/18
thats not what i said, and its not true. soccer is non stop,...
Spruce bearded athletic conference stock car
  06/20/18
And most of what is happening isn't interesting, because nob...
Zombie-like ticket booth
  06/20/18
thats probably because you dont understand what people are t...
Spruce bearded athletic conference stock car
  06/20/18
"a thero thero tie is beauthiful," he lisped
Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage
  06/20/18
i never understood what the objection is to a tie. i have...
Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life
  06/20/18
there's less inherently wrong with a tie. it's a 0-0 tie wit...
Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage
  06/20/18
Professional sports channel competitive energy into an alter...
Zombie-like ticket booth
  06/20/18
(guy with blue balls waiting til marriage)
Swashbuckling den faggot firefighter
  06/20/18
>> or co-champions at the end of a PL season? <<...
Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life
  06/20/18
someone has to advance in a single-elimination tourney. you ...
Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage
  06/20/18
i agree with that, but i also don't love single-elimination ...
Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life
  06/20/18
even double elim has a tie problem. only a round robin w no ...
Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage
  06/20/18
than baseball? football? lol no.
Histrionic saffron messiness
  06/20/18
I never understood the appeal of the game. Growing up I neve...
Kink-friendly national
  06/20/18
MLS used to be unwatchable but it's slowly gotten much bette...
Swashbuckling den faggot firefighter
  06/20/18
, he lisped from his macbook
Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage
  06/20/18
time to quote xo ann AMERICA'S FAVORITE NATIONAL PASTIME:...
Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage
  06/20/18
dumb
Swashbuckling den faggot firefighter
  06/20/18
literal homosexual.. Date: June 20th, 2018 10:20 AM Auth...
Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage
  06/20/18
retarded take
Spruce bearded athletic conference stock car
  06/20/18
(Foreigner)
Appetizing crusty toilet seat puppy
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Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage
  06/20/18
I hate soccer but this article sucks.
Zombie-like ticket booth
  06/20/18
(Guy who spams 24/7 on an even duller sport)
Transparent Voyeur Station
  06/20/18
(literal homosexual)
Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage
  06/20/18
(Guy with 100s of posts on male clothed tennis players)
Transparent Voyeur Station
  06/20/18
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Arousing Sweet Tailpipe
  06/20/18
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Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage
  06/20/18
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Arousing Sweet Tailpipe
  06/20/18
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Arousing Sweet Tailpipe
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Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage
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Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life
  06/20/18
this is literally the gayest poast I've ever read on this si...
slap-happy rusted corn cake
  06/20/18
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Arousing Sweet Tailpipe
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Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage
  06/20/18
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slap-happy rusted corn cake
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Arousing Sweet Tailpipe
  06/20/18
In Europe we don't like 'soccer' either. Basketball and c...
talking peach incel cuckoldry
  06/20/18
lol setstein with the bizarre euro perspective 180
Spruce bearded athletic conference stock car
  06/20/18
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Arousing Sweet Tailpipe
  06/20/18
there's drama, there's crying, there are butts, there are me...
Passionate black abode
  06/20/18
My least favorite part that penalty kick's (not the overtime...
multi-colored multi-billionaire
  06/20/18
I agree with this. Should play until someone scores. If the ...
Kink-friendly national
  06/20/18
I agree I hate PKs. Past a certain time you could start ...
Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life
  06/20/18
A pk should be half a point so that if the other team actual...
Abusive Tattoo Private Investor
  06/20/18
probably more than half so that 2 PKs > 1 goal though ...
Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life
  06/20/18
Just give red cards or give PK's for egregious fouls inside ...
multi-colored multi-billionaire
  06/20/18
180 aspie subthread
Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage
  06/20/18
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Bronze contagious affirmative action
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Fragrant lettuce
  06/20/18
loling @ DBG & Ironside aspieing up the thread with mult...
mischievous fiercely-loyal boistinker address
  06/20/18
"how can we compare this to tennis?"
slap-happy rusted corn cake
  06/20/18
to be fair i also analogize to wrestling quite frequently
Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life
  06/20/18
l'chaim!
Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage
  06/20/18
If all you watch is the World Cup you’re not really qualifie...
Crimson shrine
  06/20/18
TCR
laughsome national security agency
  06/20/18
I feel like both paragraphs are a little overstated. I've se...
Abusive Tattoo Private Investor
  06/20/18
that's what this article was arguing: https://slate.com/cult...
useless vengeful orchestra pit
  06/20/18
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Histrionic saffron messiness
  06/20/18
All sports are boring to watch unless you are vested in the ...
Flushed Community Account Rigpig
  06/20/18
this is flame. i'll happy watch a tennis match between two g...
Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage
  06/20/18
interestingly i feel the opposite. i actually PREFER watchin...
Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life
  06/20/18
As others have mentioned, if you understand the nuance of th...
stirring tanning salon
  06/20/18
Good point with the Germany game. The excitement was buildin...
Kink-friendly national
  06/20/18
Yeah it was 180. Also Iceland vs Argentina was great imo. Th...
stirring tanning salon
  06/20/18
Every other sport has that dynamic, though, with the caveat ...
Zombie-like ticket booth
  06/20/18
i really think a lot of that is just your preference for ano...
Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life
  06/20/18
Well yeah, but I have reasons for preferring other sports, s...
Zombie-like ticket booth
  06/20/18
Lool Aren’t you a hockeymo? hockey is so boring, they ha...
soul-stirring hissy fit crackhouse
  06/20/18
exceptionally boring
fluffy son of senegal
  06/20/18
It makes for a pretty boring TV watching experience, but it'...
180 Plaza Doctorate
  06/20/18
Rach pull the plug
Blue goyim persian
  06/21/18


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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:30 AM
Author: Provocative market



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36276960)



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Date: June 21st, 2018 3:00 AM
Author: Bearded underhanded whorehouse dingle berry



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36282825)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:30 AM
Author: Swashbuckling den faggot firefighter

nah it's 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36276965)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:38 AM
Author: Blue goyim persian

(Homo)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277004)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:35 AM
Author: Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life

how is it any more boring than any other sport?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36276992)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:47 AM
Author: Provocative market

No hitting, no scoring, faggy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277058)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:50 AM
Author: Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life

come on there's more to sports than just hitting and scoring.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277076)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:53 AM
Author: Provocative market

They're obviously athletic. I'm watching my first ever soccer game right now and I'm bored as shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277106)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:57 AM
Author: Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life

it's ok not to like soccer. i'm not a big soccer fan either, but for example i think basketball is far, far more boring.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277122)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:01 AM
Author: Provocative market

At least there's continuous scoring.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277146)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:04 AM
Author: Irradiated Mauve Nursing Home Cuck

Scoring on almost every possession is even more boring than scoring one goal per game.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277163)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:06 AM
Author: Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life

seriously. there's absolutely no tension during the game. constant fouls and free throws. blech

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277170)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:07 AM
Author: Big angry giraffe

exaggerated

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277177)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:07 AM
Author: Spruce bearded athletic conference stock car



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:03 AM
Author: Swashbuckling den faggot firefighter

basketball sucks and looks stupid and it's played by freaks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277160)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:20 AM
Author: Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage

the worst part of basketball is the constant tv timeouts and fouls near the end of a game. it's absolutely awful and anticlimactic.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277250)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:22 AM
Author: Zombie-like ticket booth

Basketball and soccer are the two poles of "too much scoring" and "no scoring." NFL football (not CFB) is probably the ideal, along with hockey.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277261)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:31 AM
Author: Abusive Tattoo Private Investor

Nfl is literally just 4 hours of commercials occasionally interrupted by 4 seconds of play.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277322)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 11:13 AM
Author: Histrionic saffron messiness

cr. it is really an awful sport.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277686)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 3:04 PM
Author: Zombie-like ticket booth

Well, that sounds like your fault for staring at the screen slack-jawed during every commercial break, instead of talking to your friends or doing literally anything else.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279415)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 11:31 AM
Author: useless vengeful orchestra pit

if scoring events are the only things of interest

pretty much all sports are boring as fuck

1, 2, or 3 things of interest every 90 minutes, is shitty entertainment

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part of why football is really popular is that they've trained us as viewers to find it interesting every time a first down is at stake, we know that a 15 yard play is really good

even though in determining the outcome of the game, its probably something on the order of putting 3 or 4 passes together in soccer

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its probably ok not to go through heroic efforts to find every sport interesting

but, one way to enjoy soccer more is to focus on which team possesses the ball more, lots of the really good chances come at the end of long chains of possession, the longer you possess it, the better your odds of it finally winding up with a good chance are

one way to imagine it, is think of what optimal basketball strategy would be if there was no shot clock, the basket was 5 feet tall, and goal tending was legal

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277811)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 1:32 PM
Author: Zombie-like ticket booth

I didn't say scoring was the only interesting thing, but it's a very important part of it, and I agree that football does even better in terms of excitement because of first downs, possession, and the like.

Also, it's telling that everything that supposedly makes soccer more interesting is something where it's easily eclipsed by other major sports.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36278618)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 1:39 PM
Author: useless vengeful orchestra pit

tbf, I usually don't find soccer that interesting either

I sort of accept that that's largely because I don't have a great handle on the process that leads to scoring

Its difficult for me to know which midfield plays are high value midfield plays, and which ones aren't

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36278685)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 1:45 PM
Author: Swashbuckling den faggot firefighter

once you get a sense of tactics and counter-tactics, what positions are in what formations and where they're expected to be, what roles players are supposed to play, and the combinations of skills and aptitudes individual players have it becomes a lot more interesting. being out on the field in unbroken 45 minute chunks also means there's an additional psychological element

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36278741)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 1:57 PM
Author: useless vengeful orchestra pit

I'm sure that's the case, that seems to be what's roughly necessary to enjoy any sport

How much command/control do soccer managers have?

Is it up to the players to know which tactics to employ when?

How much do coaches who have better tactical acumen than the other coach matter?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36278856)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:09 PM
Author: Swashbuckling den faggot firefighter

there seem to be more varieties than in other sports. i'm a big hockey fan and there isn't the same degree of variability there i don't think.

the managers control everything and give specific instructions to each player. once the half starts though it's mostly up to the players to adapt, with occasional instructions from the sideline. they also make substitutions, which if engineered correctly can change the entire look of the team with a single change.

good managers are pretty important. a shitty team with a good manager can do a lot if they can stifle a better team and play to their strengths. a bad manager tries to force the wrong outline on the wrong players.

that being said, you throw a team like spain together and they're going to crush an inferior team most of the time just because they have 11 of the best 100 players in the world and are seasoned champions.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36278966)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:24 PM
Author: useless vengeful orchestra pit

makes sense

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seems like the more command/control the coaches/managers have the more strategically deep the game becomes

picking between broad outlines that the players adjust to over 45 minutes or whatever is important, but there's only so deep you can get when you're depending on players to notice and exploit opportunities

when the coach can notice an opportunity and exploit it with the next play call,

your game becomes much deeper strategically

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279085)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:32 PM
Author: Swashbuckling den faggot firefighter

or you can look at it the other way and say it's more interesting because there are contingencies that need to be planned for in advance and that makes it more complex.

really though it has to do with a combination of culture, natural affinity, and open-mindedness. i find myself debating soccermos from south american and european countries a lot about soccer /not/ being an obviously superior sport, even though part of me agrees because i love it. and obviously i do the opposite a lot with north american bros where there's obviously an element of disdain for sissy soccer players.

baseball is something i grew up with and even my team, the blue jays, won when i was a kid and were part of the zeitgeist. i still go to games and watch and listen now and then, follow the news, watching the standings, etc. but baseball will just never really do it for me.

there are few areas in life that are more about value judgments and aesthetic preference.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279184)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:44 PM
Author: useless vengeful orchestra pit

fair enough

I agree its largely an aesthetic preference

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additionally, I don't think a game necessarily gets more aesthetically pleasing the deeper it gets strategically

I actually think that's one of the big mental biases people who think of themselves stat nerds have

its probably totally uncorrelated, and if anything probably slightly negatively correlated

strategically perfecting games probably looks like the Devils inventing the neutral zone trap more often than the Warriors shooting tons of 3s

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279274)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:51 PM
Author: Swashbuckling den faggot firefighter

yeah i think you might be right about the second part. it's more complicated than that and depends on what the strategies look like externally.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279341)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:28 PM
Author: Histrionic saffron messiness

look, you just don't get it, man.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279138)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:45 AM
Author: Coiffed new version

It’s boring if you don’t care about the teams

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277047)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:46 AM
Author: Abusive Tattoo Private Investor

Best asses on TV imo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277053)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:48 AM
Author: Provocative market

Unnngh

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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:48 AM
Author: sable police squad

https://78.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqx7ageePl1qlcvon.jpg

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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:32 PM
Author: Histrionic saffron messiness

opposite for me. i can watch any soccer game and rarely have a stake in the outcome. to a lesser extent i can do this with basketball.

no chance in hell i'm watching a random baseball or football game.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279173)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:51 AM
Author: Hairraiser partner selfie

i only watch every four years for the WC but somehow i can watch every game, its 180, esp watching in bars and ppl go crazy

but outside WC i cant watch shit, its quite fucking odd

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277092)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:52 AM
Author: Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life

because you don't like the sport -- you like the "event" and "spectacle" that is the world cup

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277099)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:32 AM
Author: Hairraiser partner selfie

I havent been in US for world cup since 16 years so its 180000 abroad. 2010 I was in 180 AFRIKKKA and watched in bars with CHILL AS FUK AFRIKKKAN brehs, last time I think I was in SE ASIA and it was wild, and now Im in NOWAGISTAN again and its 18000

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277332)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:33 AM
Author: Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life

i'm not disagreeing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277341)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:53 AM
Author: Alcoholic vibrant immigrant

Hot take.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277102)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:56 AM
Author: Alcoholic vibrant immigrant

Hot take.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277117)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:03 AM
Author: Irradiated Mauve Nursing Home Cuck

No, it's 180.

There's not even enough time to really get bored since it takes half the time to play a soccer game as it does to play an NFL/MLB game, and almost no interruptions or ads.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277158)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:14 AM
Author: Swashbuckling den faggot firefighter

this is a big thing for me. fucking baseball games are AT LEAST three hours long and NFL games have about seven thousand beer and truck commercials

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277212)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:15 AM
Author: Irradiated Mauve Nursing Home Cuck

Exactly. Soccer game, you drink 3 beers and it's over. Perfect length.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277216)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:57 AM
Author: slap-happy rusted corn cake

This is one of the best things about soccer. You know exactly how long the game will take.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277584)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:05 AM
Author: Thriller dilemma

soccer is like hockey, meaningless games with teams you don't care about that end 0-0, 1-0, or 1-1 are boring, but at the top level both sports are as good as it gets.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277166)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:06 AM
Author: Spruce bearded athletic conference stock car

its not boring, it just requires patience and understanding more than most american sports. some games can be shitfests but top level soccer is exhilarating

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277173)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:15 AM
Author: Swashbuckling den faggot firefighter

ppl just don't know how to watch for tactics and don't know how hard it is to do various things

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277220)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:41 AM
Author: sable police squad

moniker of the week

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277411)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:20 AM
Author: Zombie-like ticket booth

"It's not boring, it just has a lot less happening."

Okay.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277254)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:21 AM
Author: Spruce bearded athletic conference stock car

thats not what i said, and its not true. soccer is non stop, there is always something happening

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277257)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:27 AM
Author: Zombie-like ticket booth

And most of what is happening isn't interesting, because nobody is even close to scoring. The typical soccer match doesn't even have 30 shots in 90 minutes, and most of those shots aren't on target. The NHL has about three times as many.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277292)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:30 AM
Author: Spruce bearded athletic conference stock car

thats probably because you dont understand what people are trying to do. even a 0-0 soccer match can be full of tension and have you on the edge of your seat. also, when a goal is scored, because they are so hard to come by, the emotions are even more pronounced.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277315)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:33 AM
Author: Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage

"a thero thero tie is beauthiful," he lisped

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277342)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:36 AM
Author: Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life

i never understood what the objection is to a tie.

i have to say re soccer though that i really dislike PKs as a way to break ties and ESPECIALLY in big games

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277368)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:43 AM
Author: Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage

there's less inherently wrong with a tie. it's a 0-0 tie with no scoring that's the problem.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277425)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:44 AM
Author: Zombie-like ticket booth

Professional sports channel competitive energy into an alternative sphere. We psychologically crave winners and losers, and ties basically provide a case of blue balls.

To put it another way, would you be fine with having a tie in the World Cup final, or co-champions at the end of a PL season? Same principle.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277431)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:49 AM
Author: Swashbuckling den faggot firefighter

(guy with blue balls waiting til marriage)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277481)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:56 AM
Author: Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life

>> or co-champions at the end of a PL season? <<

sure, why not? better that than some arbitrary after the fact tiebreaker regarding goal differential that no one is *really* thinking about.

no different to me than two swimmers touching at the same time and getting the gold medal.

to me sports is about the competition and the play of a particular game. the actual "win" is less important to me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277571)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:59 AM
Author: Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage

someone has to advance in a single-elimination tourney. you need a way of resolving ties at some point.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277604)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 11:00 AM
Author: Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life

i agree with that, but i also don't love single-elimination tourneys

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277610)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 11:40 AM
Author: Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage

even double elim has a tie problem. only a round robin w no knockout stage can allow for a champion decided on ties

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277871)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:32 PM
Author: Histrionic saffron messiness

than baseball? football? lol no.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279182)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:17 AM
Author: Kink-friendly national

I never understood the appeal of the game. Growing up I never played and we never watched it on TV or anything (it wasn't on, really, except for the World Cup). Had kids and they played -- not well. Typical American suburban kids' soccer. But even watching those crap games I began to pick up on the nuances of the game.

I like watching it now. Not my go to sports to watch (football and baseball), but I enjoy watching talented teams play. That Spain Portugal game was great. The lack of scoring actually adds some tension (unless it is like 3-0 or something).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277237)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:20 AM
Author: Swashbuckling den faggot firefighter

MLS used to be unwatchable but it's slowly gotten much better over the last five years. Now I just watch the big European matches, whether that's the Madrid derby or a Champion's League match or whatever, and my local MLS team's games.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277253)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:27 AM
Author: Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage

, he lisped from his macbook

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277295)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:24 AM
Author: Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage

time to quote xo ann

AMERICA'S FAVORITE NATIONAL PASTIME: HATING SOCCER

June 25, 2014

I've held off on writing about soccer for a decade -- or about the length of the average soccer game -- so as not to offend anyone. But enough is enough. Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.

(1) Individual achievement is not a big factor in soccer. In a real sport, players fumble passes, throw bricks and drop fly balls -- all in front of a crowd. When baseball players strike out, they're standing alone at the plate. But there's also individual glory in home runs, touchdowns and slam-dunks.

In soccer, the blame is dispersed and almost no one scores anyway. There are no heroes, no losers, no accountability, and no child's fragile self-esteem is bruised. There's a reason perpetually alarmed women are called "soccer moms," not "football moms."

Do they even have MVPs in soccer? Everyone just runs up and down the field and, every once in a while, a ball accidentally goes in. That's when we're supposed to go wild. I'm already asleep.

(2) Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.

(3) No other "sport" ends in as many scoreless ties as soccer. This was an actual marquee sign by the freeway in Long Beach, California, about a World Cup game last week: "2nd period, 11 minutes left, score: 0:0." Two hours later, another World Cup game was on the same screen: "1st period, 8 minutes left, score: 0:0." If Michael Jackson had treated his chronic insomnia with a tape of Argentina vs. Brazil instead of Propofol, he'd still be alive, although bored.

Even in football, by which I mean football, there are very few scoreless ties -- and it's a lot harder to score when a half-dozen 300-pound bruisers are trying to crush you.

(4) The prospect of either personal humiliation or major injury is required to count as a sport. Most sports are sublimated warfare. As Lady Thatcher reportedly said after Germany had beaten England in some major soccer game: Don't worry. After all, twice in this century we beat them at their national game.

Baseball and basketball present a constant threat of personal disgrace. In hockey, there are three or four fights a game -- and it's not a stroll on beach to be on ice with a puck flying around at 100 miles per hour. After a football game, ambulances carry off the wounded. After a soccer game, every player gets a ribbon and a juice box.

(5) You can't use your hands in soccer. (Thus eliminating the danger of having to catch a fly ball.) What sets man apart from the lesser beasts, besides a soul, is that we have opposable thumbs. Our hands can hold things. Here's a great idea: Let's create a game where you're not allowed to use them!

(6) I resent the force-fed aspect of soccer. The same people trying to push soccer on Americans are the ones demanding that we love HBO's "Girls," light-rail, Beyonce and Hillary Clinton. The number of New York Times articles claiming soccer is "catching on" is exceeded only by the ones pretending women's basketball is fascinating.

I note that we don't have to be endlessly told how exciting football is.

(7) It's foreign. In fact, that's the precise reason the Times is constantly hectoring Americans to love soccer. One group of sports fans with whom soccer is not "catching on" at all, is African-Americans. They remain distinctly unimpressed by the fact that the French like it.

(8) Soccer is like the metric system, which liberals also adore because it's European. Naturally, the metric system emerged from the French Revolution, during the brief intervals when they weren't committing mass murder by guillotine.

Despite being subjected to Chinese-style brainwashing in the public schools to use centimeters and Celsius, ask any American for the temperature, and he'll say something like "70 degrees." Ask how far Boston is from New York City, he'll say it's about 200 miles.

Liberals get angry and tell us that the metric system is more "rational" than the measurements everyone understands. This is ridiculous. An inch is the width of a man's thumb, a foot the length of his foot, a yard the length of his belt. That's easy to visualize. How do you visualize 147.2 centimeters?

(9) Soccer is not "catching on." Headlines this week proclaimed "Record U.S. ratings for World Cup," and we had to hear -- again -- about the "growing popularity of soccer in the United States."

The USA-Portugal game was the blockbuster match, garnering 18.2 million viewers on ESPN. This beat the second-most watched soccer game ever: The 1999 Women's World Cup final (USA vs. China) on ABC. (In soccer, the women's games are as thrilling as the men's.)

Run-of-the-mill, regular-season Sunday Night Football games average more than 20 million viewers; NFL playoff games get 30 to 40 million viewers; and this year's Super Bowl had 111.5 million viewers.

Remember when the media tried to foist British soccer star David Beckham and his permanently camera-ready wife on us a few years ago? Their arrival in America was heralded with 24-7 news coverage. That lasted about two days. Ratings tanked. No one cared.

If more "Americans" are watching soccer today, it's only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy's 1965 immigration law. I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.

COPYRIGHT 2014 ANN COULTER



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277270)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:24 AM
Author: Swashbuckling den faggot firefighter

dumb

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277275)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:28 AM
Author: Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage

literal homosexual..

Date: June 20th, 2018 10:20 AM

Author: Anthony Bourdead

MLS used to be unwatchable but it's slowly gotten much better over the last five years. Now I just watch the big European matches, whether that's the Madrid derby or a Champion's League match or whatever, and my local MLS team's games.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277253)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277300)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:25 AM
Author: Spruce bearded athletic conference stock car

retarded take

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277278)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:26 AM
Author: Appetizing crusty toilet seat puppy

(Foreigner)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277288)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:28 AM
Author: Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277304)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:28 AM
Author: Zombie-like ticket booth

I hate soccer but this article sucks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277302)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:33 AM
Author: Transparent Voyeur Station

(Guy who spams 24/7 on an even duller sport)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277344)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:36 AM
Author: Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage

(literal homosexual)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277369)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:37 AM
Author: Transparent Voyeur Station

(Guy with 100s of posts on male clothed tennis players)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277378)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:37 AM
Author: Arousing Sweet Tailpipe



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277380)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:38 AM
Author: Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage

http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984144&mc=6&forum_id=2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277390)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:40 AM
Author: Arousing Sweet Tailpipe



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277402)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:43 AM
Author: Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage

https://i.imgur.com/6RuxHRt.png

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277422)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:37 AM
Author: Arousing Sweet Tailpipe



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277379)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:39 AM
Author: Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277397)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:57 AM
Author: Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277577)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 11:05 AM
Author: slap-happy rusted corn cake

this is literally the gayest poast I've ever read on this site

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277645)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 11:12 AM
Author: Arousing Sweet Tailpipe



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277678)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:26 PM
Author: Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279109)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 11:05 AM
Author: slap-happy rusted corn cake



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277643)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:36 AM
Author: Arousing Sweet Tailpipe



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277370)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:49 AM
Author: talking peach incel cuckoldry

In Europe we don't like 'soccer' either.

Basketball and crash-ball, a static and inferior version of rugby, are both ridiculous sports.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277473)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: Spruce bearded athletic conference stock car

lol setstein with the bizarre euro perspective 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277657)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 11:14 AM
Author: Arousing Sweet Tailpipe



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277693)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:43 AM
Author: Passionate black abode

there's drama, there's crying, there are butts, there are men with cool hair cuts, there are coaches who look like men from othertimes, there's backstory

it can work if you want it to

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277426)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:50 AM
Author: multi-colored multi-billionaire

My least favorite part that penalty kick's (not the overtime ones) are how many games are won. Just do run around for 90 minutes not being able to score, only to have one team win by being given a 50% chance layup.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277485)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:54 AM
Author: Kink-friendly national

I agree with this. Should play until someone scores. If the players are too tired they can sit down on the pitch -- sort of like a dance marathon. Eventually someone will fuck up.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277547)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:59 AM
Author: Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life

I agree I hate PKs.

Past a certain time you could start removing players from the field every 5 minutes starting with defenders. certainly that would open up scoring.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277601)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:59 AM
Author: Abusive Tattoo Private Investor

A pk should be half a point so that if the other team actually scores they will win

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277606)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 11:05 AM
Author: Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life

probably more than half so that 2 PKs > 1 goal

though i suppose the counterargument is that if you're winning 2-1 late in the game and a guy has a good strike opportunity you now have an incentive to foul since a PK can't beat you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277647)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 12:19 PM
Author: multi-colored multi-billionaire

Just give red cards or give PK's for egregious fouls inside 5 minutes so teams just don't tackle the other players.

But it's so gay when like France and Germany are in a 0-0 game in the 75th minute and Germany gets a PK to win 1-0.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36278133)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:29 PM
Author: Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage

180 aspie subthread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279145)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 1:36 PM
Author: Bronze contagious affirmative action



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36278659)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 1:37 PM
Author: Fragrant lettuce



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36278672)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 1:59 PM
Author: mischievous fiercely-loyal boistinker address

loling @ DBG & Ironside aspieing up the thread with multiple subthread wastelands

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36278861)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:03 PM
Author: slap-happy rusted corn cake

"how can we compare this to tennis?"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36278907)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 3:47 PM
Author: Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life

to be fair i also analogize to wrestling quite frequently

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279720)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:26 PM
Author: Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage

l'chaim!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279117)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:14 PM
Author: Crimson shrine

If all you watch is the World Cup you’re not really qualified to make a statement about how boring soccer is. The World Cup is interesting as a spectacle but is the most boring, defensive soccer that top pros ever play. The teams have relatively little attacking chemistry because they don’t play enough together, and it’s the end of the season, and they’re playing in the heat during the day. Not a good recipe for end-to-end entertainment.

Go watch a live Premier League game between two decent teams in October, or go to a game at the Bernabeu or Camp Nou, or anywhere in Germany, or watch this year’s Champions League knockout round games, then come back and tell us how “boring” soccer is. If you still think it’s boring, you simply don’t like sports.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279009)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:25 PM
Author: laughsome national security agency

TCR

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279097)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:29 PM
Author: Abusive Tattoo Private Investor

I feel like both paragraphs are a little overstated. I've seen 7-0 blowouts in Spain because there's only 2 (4 at best) teams in the league.

One of the best things about NBA, NFL and MLB is that they're the best players in the world. Soccer has too many leagues with the best players spread out all over instead of consolidated.

Soccer would be pretty one eighty of there was just one major league

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279154)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:33 PM
Author: useless vengeful orchestra pit

that's what this article was arguing: https://slate.com/culture/2018/06/2018-world-cup-in-russia-wont-feature-the-worlds-best-soccer-does-that-matter.html?via=recirc_recent

seems pretty spot on

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279195)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:34 PM
Author: Histrionic saffron messiness



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279199)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:18 PM
Author: Flushed Community Account Rigpig

All sports are boring to watch unless you are vested in the outcome somehow. Most Americans would say watching hockey is boring, but if their home team is playing in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup, suddenly they have a vested interest in the outcome.

If you want soccer, or any sport, to be interesting, bet on a game.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279041)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:33 PM
Author: Mildly autistic shaky stead old irish cottage

this is flame. i'll happy watch a tennis match between two guys with good games where i dont care who wins

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279188)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 3:49 PM
Author: Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life

interestingly i feel the opposite. i actually PREFER watching something without being vested in the outcome because i can simply enjoy the competition.

if i'm vested, i find that a positive outcome doesn't change my life that much whereas a negative outcome really annoys me.

or put another way, Rafael Nadal wining the US Open makes me far less happy than Djokovic winning the US Open makes me annoyed.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279739)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:42 PM
Author: stirring tanning salon

As others have mentioned, if you understand the nuance of the game it's 180. You pit a possession based team against a good counter-attacking team and watch the different strategies play out. Spain vs Portugal was a good example of this.

An underdog like Mexico getting an early goal and going full defensive against Germany is also exciting if you understand the game because you realize how difficult it is to keep defensive concentration for an entire game against the best team in the world. The crappy games have been the ones like Poland vs Senegal where the Poles made a ton of dumb mistakes and were disorganized the entire game, even though there were a decent number of goals.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279266)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:45 PM
Author: Kink-friendly national

Good point with the Germany game. The excitement was building because the Germans were down in Mexico's end seemingly 80% of the second half. It was a matter of hanging on for Mexico, even though they had the occasional exciting counter attack.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279284)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 3:06 PM
Author: stirring tanning salon

Yeah it was 180. Also Iceland vs Argentina was great imo. The other thing to keep in mind is the tactics these smaller countries adopt in order to attempt to reach the knock out rounds. Since they drew with Argentina, an upset win against Croatia would likely push Iceland through, so that game will be exciting knowing what's at stake for both teams.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279423)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 3:15 PM
Author: Zombie-like ticket booth

Every other sport has that dynamic, though, with the caveat that those sports are also naturally exciting.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279471)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 3:50 PM
Author: Disgusting Piazza Love Of Her Life

i really think a lot of that is just your preference for another sport.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279747)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 3:55 PM
Author: Zombie-like ticket booth

Well yeah, but I have reasons for preferring other sports, such as them being far more exciting. I deliberately went out of my way to watch soccer during the 2006 World Cup and "get into it" and I hated it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279773)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 3:09 PM
Author: soul-stirring hissy fit crackhouse

Lool

Aren’t you a hockeymo? hockey is so boring, they have to allow fake fights

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279441)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 3:12 PM
Author: fluffy son of senegal

exceptionally boring

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279453)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 3:20 PM
Author: 180 Plaza Doctorate

It makes for a pretty boring TV watching experience, but it's fun to watch in person, since you can see the play develop.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279507)



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Date: June 21st, 2018 2:54 AM
Author: Blue goyim persian

Rach pull the plug

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36282819)