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?
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 #stats obsessiveness...somewhere at my parents' place, there is still a binder full of the game stats that I kept when I was, like, 6.
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.
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.
Good to see Andy Murray win a game. He’s never going to win a tournament again, but hope he has a reasonable last season.
@fran-MLs little camera , does this mean a game, as in: 15, 30, 40, game, or a match? Winning a game doesn't sound like much of an achievement.
This now the place for GOAT floating. C, Ron doesn't make the top ten on this list headed by Michael Jordan with Muhammad Ali in second. https://www.givemesport.com/greatest-athletes-of-all-time/
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I have issues with the cult around Ronaldo and Messi, but you can’t question either of them being in the top 5 Footballers of all time.
