Baseball, huh?
That’s fine. The more the merrier.
How many countries claim football?
Which football?
I didn’t say American football. That’s not really something that would make sense since it’s not the national sport and definitely not a national sport in any other countries.
The one with the foot and the ball
If it was the American version, the question wouldn’t make any sense.
I feel like sumo is the Imperial sport and baseball is the National sport
Damn, professional KFC eater’s? You really are stealing America’s culture.
Fuckin sigma. Sumo has so much AURA
But, to be sure, it has great physical impact too
Isn’t it more like WWE than Greco Roman Wrestling though?
I’ve been writing brief (a few sentences) breakdowns of many of the daily matches over in the sumo sub. Today (day 9) had some good stuff to check out.
The live videos go down not too long after streaming but this one’s up for now, and I recommend checking out this match. If it’s gone when you get to it the highlights will be up tomorrow.
Even professional wrestling like WWE is more intense in Japan, Strong Style is not a joke you can see the impact difference in striking power
Dude, watch some high level matches, they collide like freight trains, punch each other in the face five times and someone inevitably ends up making a 300 pound mass of muscle and fat their bitch.
It’s all real if thats what you’re asking
oooh… for some reason when they said “WWE” my sleep-deprived brain read “MMA” lel.
A sumo wrestler is like a defensive lineman in gridiron football, combined with a judo competitor. Sumotori can shove their opponent down or out, they can hit with an open hand, they can do BJJ-style “no gi” throws, or grab the belt for leverage and/or do judo-style trips and throws. Yeah they’re fat but beneath that they are like half muscle. Most matches are over in under 30 seconds, many under 10.
For more info see this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA8wS_t5Lv8
For English-commented matches see: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/shows/sumo/
That’s why we’re invading Cuba: to teach them baseball! We might even share our American love of classical cars.
Wasn’t Fidel a big baseball player/fan?
Its a joke because there’s a high population of Cubans in the MLB.
Kids, play nice, you can share a national sport, just like everybody else does with footie.
America: No.
So should rugby be called handegg, too?
manly handegg
There are a lot of very valid criticisms of American football. I love it, sometimes in spite of myself, but I won’t fault anyone who thinks it’s an overly-managed made-for-TV snoozefest with no rhythm whatsoever. For better or worse, though, those helmets and pads do not make it any less of a violent “manly” sport. Far from it: they are the way Americans make ourselves feel better about watching a literal bloodsport with a ball.
The way the game moves and the ruleset reward explosive impacts, and the unlimited substitutions mean players are selected and trained to optimize delivering and enduring that violence instead of, say, actually running for 80 minutes. The result is a dozen hits a game that would make a “biggest hits of the season” compilation video for rugby or Aussie rules. Also chronic traumatic encephalopathy.
Hand egg without brain shell.
Vs cushioned hand egg?
Most of the points are scored by kickers these days 😠
still egg
AckSHully an egg has a pointed end and a rounded end. American footballs are prolate spheroids.
I had prolate spheroids once. I spent two weeks in the hospital.
prolate spheroid sounds like a good insult
Or a band name
That’s what happens to colonies. Look at how popular Cricket is in Commonwealth countries.
Most Commonwealth countries, Canada is different because of our close connection with the US.
There’s a group of Indians near me who play cricket every weekend so sometimes I’ll go by and bother them. “You’re playing the game wrong, you know. Have you guys never watched baseball before?” They’re always super nice and will spend ages explaining everything about the sport. They have a level of zeal for the sport which cannot be matched by even us hockey fans. Last summer we went down to the Galapagos and our group was mostly Brits and I would wait until late in the evening after they had started drinking and ask if they play soccer over there, and that is just as much fun to me.
We have Rugby and Gaelic Football as our sports from the Commonwealth. We just suck at them because there’s only 3 months a year to play it.
I’m a big guy, so someone decided that I’d be good at Rugby, and I got invited to the high school rugby practice. I had a good time even though the practice was in March and there was a foot of snow on the ground, but to this day, I have zero idea of how to actually play the game.
The worst part of snow is how hard the ground is.
Move ball from one end to the other, touch it down. Don’t throw it forward.
ask if they play soccer
I mean, that is where the word came from originally.
I know the story: “association” → “assoc” → “soccer”, but they apparently didn’t get the memo, and there was much arguing.
are you saying that japan was a US colony in 19th century?
Pretty much was after WWII.
iirc baseball was japans national sport before ww2
Really? I’m anything but an expert in Japanese history but weren’t they very anti-western back in the empire’s days?
Also not an expert, just talking from what I remember from history class: in the mid 19th century, Japan underwent a period of rapid westernization and industrialization called the Meiji Restoration. This was at least in part a response to western interference in the region, including a pivotal moment when the US forced the country to sign unequal trade deals by showing up with some big naval vessels.
So it was kind of a love-hate relationship. They didn’t like the westerners invading their country, but they also admired them enough that they not only adopted western tech, but also a bunch of social and political customs.
All I know about japanese baseball is the number 34-2
Who cares though? Rednecks care and who cares what they care about.
Redneck here. I dont give a fiddlers fuck about baseball.
Every rule has an exception. 🤷
Stick your generalizations up your ass then.
And then you go stereotypical. 🙄
Ditto homie. We should all reflect on our shortcomings.
