I’m going to talk only about football just as soon as Spurs start winning, and for exactly as long as they do. Otherwise, I like these topics that take my mind off disappointments.
SOS, I’ve thought the one I should have watched is Anderson Silva. I understand he was the master, at his peak. I also agree that MMA will look better and better as the sport matures.
LDL, Great song, and a noble sentiment. I was working in Manhattan when the Rangers broke Lemieux’s wrist in a playoff series. Got to hear lots of Lemieux-hoo-hoo. Then the Penguins won the series. It was sweet.
I’ve heard two great hockey songs. One was a canuck break up song with the lyric:
"I do all the work. You get the glory.
You’re the great one. I’m Marty McSorley."
Okay, you need to know who Marty McSorley is, but if you imagine the biggest goon on Wayne Gretzky’s Edmonton team, you’d be right.
Exactly--for seven of the nine positions. They spend half the game sitting on the bench, and the other half standing around on the field---with, as you say, four or five bursts of the death defying effort needed to run 60 feet.
A baseball catcher has it much rougher, though, since he spends half the game in a very uncomfortable crouch, not to mention getting dinged by rock-like missiles going 90 miles an hour from time to time. They mostly slam into protective equipment, but picture it going off your throat guard or the protection for more vital soft parts,
not to mention a bare arm, hand, or ankle. It’s no picnic.
Pitchers now only pitch every five days. It used to be four, then three, then two. They aren’t getting any softer. (Well, sure they are, but that’s not the basic problem.) A proper baseball pitch, performed by a professional, rips his shoulder apart a little. Pros are good for 100 or so, then need four days to heal. Many, many pitchers destroy their arms and careers even pitching on four days rest, and many more would do so if they pitched more frequently (though surgery is capable of ever greater wonders--sometimes pitchers surgically rebuilt arms are better than the ones nature provided them with. In the old days, when pitchers pitched more often, they simply didn’t throw as hard, and selected themselves for easy, smooth motions to a much greater extent.
SOS, I’ve thought the one I should have watched is Anderson Silva. I understand he was the master, at his peak. I also agree that MMA will look better and better as the sport matures.
LDL, Great song, and a noble sentiment. I was working in Manhattan when the Rangers broke Lemieux’s wrist in a playoff series. Got to hear lots of Lemieux-hoo-hoo. Then the Penguins won the series. It was sweet.
I’ve heard two great hockey songs. One was a canuck break up song with the lyric:
"I do all the work. You get the glory.
You’re the great one. I’m Marty McSorley."
Okay, you need to know who Marty McSorley is, but if you imagine the biggest goon on Wayne Gretzky’s Edmonton team, you’d be right.
Exactly--for seven of the nine positions. They spend half the game sitting on the bench, and the other half standing around on the field---with, as you say, four or five bursts of the death defying effort needed to run 60 feet.
A baseball catcher has it much rougher, though, since he spends half the game in a very uncomfortable crouch, not to mention getting dinged by rock-like missiles going 90 miles an hour from time to time. They mostly slam into protective equipment, but picture it going off your throat guard or the protection for more vital soft parts,
not to mention a bare arm, hand, or ankle. It’s no picnic.Pitchers now only pitch every five days. It used to be four, then three, then two. They aren’t getting any softer. (Well, sure they are, but that’s not the basic problem.) A proper baseball pitch, performed by a professional, rips his shoulder apart a little. Pros are good for 100 or so, then need four days to heal. Many, many pitchers destroy their arms and careers even pitching on four days rest, and many more would do so if they pitched more frequently (though surgery is capable of ever greater wonders--sometimes pitchers surgically rebuilt arms are better than the ones nature provided them with. In the old days, when pitchers pitched more often, they simply didn’t throw as hard, and selected themselves for easy, smooth motions to a much greater extent.
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