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06-15-21, 10:30 AM
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The latest integrity scandal brings an unprecedented crisis to the game.
"With an aging core audience, and many young children turning to sports they view as more exciting, watching big-leaguers
swing and miss in three hour wars of attrition is not an easy product to sell to a new generation". #BallSportsNews
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/12/s...sultPosition=1
"With an aging core audience, and many young children turning to sports they view as more exciting, watching big-leaguers
swing and miss in three hour wars of attrition is not an easy product to sell to a new generation". #BallSportsNews
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/12/s...sultPosition=1
06-15-21, 10:36 AM
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We only watched the second half of Phillies at the Dodgers last night, but it was still glorious.
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06-15-21, 10:46 AM
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LesterOfPuppets gets it.
06-15-21, 10:48 AM
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TBH I'm kind of the same way with cycling. I can't bring myself to watch it -- especially since it's so hard to watch in the U.S. and you have to go out of your way and jump through a lot of hoops just to watch a video with terrible quality and announcers speaking Dutch at 6 in the morning or whatever.
I watch more downhill racing than anything else though. UCI World Cup races are easy to view on redbull.tv
Leogang Men's racing starts at about 22:00
https://www.redbull.com/us-en/live/d...bike-world-cup
While Rob and Claudio are technically speaking English they can be tough to understand at times
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06-15-21, 10:58 AM
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LesterOfPuppets gets it.
06-15-21, 11:01 AM
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Going to a game is like that for me - it's wonderful forced relaxation. Just too many other things going on around the house for me to devote any time to watching a live game on TV.
06-15-21, 11:11 AM
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Minor league games are the best these days, IMO. But that might be biased in that the only regular season MLB games I've been to in the last 5 years have been in Phoenix. At Diamondbacks games, with the indoor stadium where they play too much loud music all the time it totally ruins the vibe.
06-15-21, 11:32 AM
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Minor league games are the best these days, IMO. But that might be biased in that the only regular season MLB games I've been to in the last 5 years have been in Phoenix. At Diamondbacks games, with the indoor stadium where they play too much loud music all the time it totally ruins the vibe.
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Oh, the best part of the PT visit:
We're talking about stretching and rolling the IT band and my PT is pointing it out to me, "so, it runs along here and attaches right here. You can actually see it really easily on you, because you're so nice and lean."
Yeah, a guy talking about my legs like they're a cut of meat. I'll take it.
We're talking about stretching and rolling the IT band and my PT is pointing it out to me, "so, it runs along here and attaches right here. You can actually see it really easily on you, because you're so nice and lean."
Yeah, a guy talking about my legs like they're a cut of meat. I'll take it.
06-15-21, 11:36 AM
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06-15-21, 11:40 AM
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06-15-21, 11:49 AM
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06-15-21, 12:07 PM
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06-15-21, 12:09 PM
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06-15-21, 12:20 PM
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Several years ago and for no good reason at all, someone put me on a patent he filed and some corporation licensed the device. Looks like enough royalties have accumulated that the gov't is going to make another payout. I knew there was a reason I ordered those fancy bibs!
06-15-21, 12:57 PM
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Not being boiled in hot oil in a few minutes.
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06-15-21, 01:24 PM
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Ah. This could be why I found Ibuprofen seemed to be effective.
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06-15-21, 01:26 PM
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06-15-21, 01:33 PM
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I find baseball to be excruciatingly dull, whether on TV, in person, or on the field. My Grandfather, OTOH, played professionally back in the 19-teens, then umpired at various levels for 57 years. I think he holds the record for most years of umpiring, but I never bothered looking it up.
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That's because the ice keeps melting. Makes skating tough.
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06-15-21, 01:52 PM
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06-15-21, 01:55 PM
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I find baseball to be excruciatingly dull, whether on TV, in person, or on the field. My Grandfather, OTOH, played professionally back in the 19-teens, then umpired at various levels for 57 years. I think he holds the record for most years of umpiring, but I never bothered looking it up.
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What does Velo Vol do for excitement?