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Schad said:
Baseball's my oldest love as a sports fan. The advantage is that there's so much baseball that you can miss a fair bit of it along the way; I have gotten to see very few games this season as my free time has been roughly nonexistent, but there's still almost 100 games per team to go!
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Yes, can definitely get your point there. Quite like the prospect of a sport I feel that I can actually dip in and out of without it being hugely detrimental, as such

With having a Saints STH I see almost every game, most in person, and with the NFL having such a relatively small amount of games, making them very meaningful, I never tend to miss one if I can avoid. With the NBA season, I reckon I watch about 70% of the team’s schedule live, just missing the crazy late west coast tip-offs

Never played baseball and very much starting from scratch with my knowledge base but starting to enjoy it. Find it quite relaxing to watch, or have on in the back and drift in and out of

Do you have a specific team you watch, Schad?
 
- Doing The Lambert Walk said:
Yes, can definitely get your point there. Quite like the prospect of a sport I feel that I can actually dip in and out of without it being hugely detrimental, as such

With having a Saints STH I see almost every game, most in person, and with the NFL having such a relatively small amount of games, making them very meaningful, I never tend to miss one if I can avoid. With the NBA season, I reckon I watch about 70% of the team’s schedule live, just missing the crazy late west coast tip-offs

Never played baseball and very much starting from scratch with my knowledge base but starting to enjoy it. Find it quite relaxing to watch, or have on in the back and drift in and out of

Do you have a specific team you watch, Schad?
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Blue Jays fan. I was an obsessive baseball player as a kid, and my family didn't have cable TV until I was about 16, so Blue Jays baseball games were effectively the only team sport outside of hockey that I could watch, as most/all of them were carried on public television at that time. I started playing baseball when I was around 4, and at the time the Jays were i) really good, and ii) the only team I could watch anyway. Then they won back-to-back titles when I was 7 and 8 and that cemented it.

Didn't hurt that baseball played into my [HASHTAG]#stats[/HASHTAG] obsessiveness...somewhere at my parents' place, there is still a binder full of the game stats that I kept when I was, like, 6.
 
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Schad said:
Blue Jays fan. I was an obsessive baseball player as a kid, and my family didn't have cable TV until I was about 16, so Blue Jays baseball games were effectively the only team sport outside of hockey that I could watch, as most/all of them were carried on public television at that time. I started playing baseball when I was around 4, and at the time the Jays were i) really good, and ii) the only team I could watch anyway. Then they won back-to-back titles when I was 7 and 8 and that cemented it.

Didn't hurt that baseball played into my [HASHTAG]#stats[/HASHTAG] obsessiveness...somewhere at my parents' place, there is still a binder full of the game stats that I kept when I was, like, 6.
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Somehow I had a feeling that you were going to say Blue Jays. :)
 
- Doing The Lambert Walk said:
Me too actually! That was my first experience of in-person MLB. Amazing end to the Sunday game (unless the Phillies are your team?)

Still trying to work out who to root for, but I quite like having a regional approach based on my other US sports teams. Means you get some nice overlap with locals in the same position and have people to talk multiple sports with. I root for the Colts and the Pacers in NFL + NBA and checked who their fanbases follow, given there’s no MLB team in the state

Indiana baseball fans seem to split between the Cubs (a lot), the Reds (also a lot), the Cardinals (a sizeable amount) and a small number who are going with the Guardians or Tigers

I think I lean to the Reds as I can’t make myself want to cheer for the Cubs
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I'm a Twins fan.
 
- Doing The Lambert Walk said:
Someone did suggest me to be a Twins fan, things seem to be looking up a bit for them although not easy to overtake the Royals and Guardians atm.
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Twins currently hold a WC spot. And TBH should overtake the Royals as we have a deeper squad. Anything happens to Witt and KC are toast. Twins have had injuries to their 3 best position players and are still on track for the play offs.
 
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He's got to be considered right up there in terms of longevity of athleticism. He is 39 and okay he's moved away from the top leagues now, but he is still playing at international level and can compete with the speed, strength, fitness etc of guys 10/15/20 years younger than him. And can still outjump most! This is a sport where it's not unusual for players athleticism to decline at around 30. And he is still going strong at 39. So difficult to compare between sports because the demands on the body are so different, but he has got to be right up there with the greatest athletes of all time.
 
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He's got to be considered right up there in terms of longevity of athleticism. He is 39 and okay he's moved away from the top leagues now, but he is still playing at international level and can compete with the speed, strength, fitness etc of guys 10/15/20 years younger than him. And can still outjump most! This is a sport where it's not unusual for players athleticism to decline at around 30. And he is still going strong at 39. So difficult to compare between sports because the demands on the body are so different, but he has got to be right up there with the greatest athletes of all time.
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I think the list is meant to be more a measure of sporting greatness and achievement rather than how "athletic" they are.
Babe Ruth is at number 6 and from the i've seen pictures of him he doesn't appear to have been a perfect specimen of physical fitness.
Maradona not even being on the list is scandalous imo and it's very US-centric too.
 
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Saints_Alive said:
I think the list is meant to be more a measure of sporting greatness and achievement rather than how "athletic" they are.
Babe Ruth is at number 6 and from the i've seen pictures of him he doesn't appear to have been a perfect specimen of physical fitness.
Maradona not even being on the list is scandalous imo and it's very US-centric too.
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Yes it's certainly USA! USA! as are other similar listings. Ronaldo was bragging that he'd out performed Haaland whilst playing in the Saudi league, Hardly a comparison as C. R. does stat padding, he can be likened to a flat track bully in cricket.
 
Saints_Alive said:
I think the list is meant to be more a measure of sporting greatness and achievement rather than how "athletic" they are.
Babe Ruth is at number 6 and from the i've seen pictures of him he doesn't appear to have been a perfect specimen of physical fitness.
Maradona not even being on the list is scandalous imo and it's very US-centric too.
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It is very US centric! I wasn't really replying to that list as such as continuing the debate from where it started on the euro thread which did start about Ronaldo being probably the greatest athlete in terms of athleticsm of all time.
 
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It is very US centric! I wasn't really replying to that list as such as continuing the debate from where it started on the euro thread which did start about Ronaldo being probably the greatest athlete in terms of athleticsm of all time.
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Your opinion, not shared widely and your original post was "Quite comfortably the greatest athlete of all time in my opinion". Now "probably", never mind, whatever.
 
StJabbo1 said:
Your opinion, not shared widely and your original post was "Quite comfortably the greatest athlete of all time in my opinion". Now "probably", never mind, whatever.
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No it wasn’t. You’re confusing me with whoever started the debate.
 
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