Lord_AsmodeusgoeticSobriquet:Here is your magical cryptic riddle-tumour: I AM A TIME MACHINERegistered Userregular
I didn't even know baseball's unwritten rules existed until now and they sound like the most pathetic, petulant, childish excuse for 'sportsmanship' I've heard of in a long time
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I didn't even know baseball's unwritten rules existed until now and they sound like the most pathetic, petulant, childish excuse for 'sportsmanship' I've heard of in a long time
Listen, when you have a dude hurling bird-exploding projectiles directly at a dude holding a club, you should probably try to keep visible emotional displays to a minimum.
But yes, it does result in a bunch of grim man-babies looking for any excuse to have a lame pretend brawl.
When I was a kid I watched a motocross race and the winner got disqualified for raising his hands off the handlebars in celebration before crossing the finish line. I thought it was the dumbest thing.
there are countless similar tales about why the nfl stands for the no fun league
really? I thought the NFL was famous for grandstanding after touchdowns, of the sort that would instantly empty the dugouts in a baseball game.
Yes and no. There has been a penalty for "excessive celebration" that has been enforced...not so evenly. I'm of the opinion hell yeah celebrate, sport is about spectacle and entertainment, not grim faced men.
When I was a kid I watched a motocross race and the winner got disqualified for raising his hands off the handlebars in celebration before crossing the finish line. I thought it was the dumbest thing.
They should go the complete opposite direction. All scores and big plays require a celebration. All celebrations must be over the top, actual threats of violence against the opposing team, or personal attacks against the opposing teams players and fans. I want a dude to spike the ball, do a throat slit towards the opposing fans, then pull out a picture of the opposing quarterback's mother and start dry humping it for the camera.
there are countless similar tales about why the nfl stands for the no fun league
really? I thought the NFL was famous for grandstanding after touchdowns, of the sort that would instantly empty the dugouts in a baseball game.
used to be, but the nfl has been gradually clamping down
I remember when I was in high school and they specifically cracked down on players celebrating together as a group, killing the rams' then-iconic "bob and weave" dance
When I was a kid I watched a motocross race and the winner got disqualified for raising his hands off the handlebars in celebration before crossing the finish line. I thought it was the dumbest thing.
To be fair, that seems unsafe.
But then you don't get funny internet gifs of people celebrating before the end of the race only to lose in the last metres to someone pushing all the way to the finish line.
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PwnanObrienHe's right, life sucks.Registered Userregular
If only there were an alternative to the No Fun League...
This is so silly! Unless I missed something, it's not like the dude was all "HA HA Kansas City, you all fucking suck!" He hit a wicked home run and threw his bat to the side, good lord the nerve!
YouTube moderation is broken by design. Because YouTube ties channels to accounts (an archaic decision that no longer makes sense), channel owners cannot hire moderators without giving them full control of the channel.
I like Yahtzee's sense of humor alright, on the whole, I actually enjoyed Mogworld a fair bit which apparently makes me something of a standout, on these forums at least. I feel like, apart from simply it being something he's done a long time, he used to give somewhat more thorough opinions about things on Zero Punctuation, and he would talk about games he liked more often, or about things games did well, even if he didn't like the game overall. I feel it was a bit of a feedback loop. A lot of people preferred his negative stuff to his positive stuff, so he did more negative stuff because there just wasn't the audience for that sort of thing, but the more he and/or the Escapist moved to satisfy that audience with Zero Punctuation the more it became synonymous with his brand and what people who watched Zero Punctuation were after.
One could draw many deeper meanings and lessons from this, personally I just miss his older somewhat more varied content.
Bob Chipman did a video on the dangers of "chasing the dragon" of negative reviews (I'll have to look for it later - mobile search isn't condusive to finding it.) He wrote it as a counterpoint to his Pixels review, because that review brought him a lot of viewers because it was so negative - and he felt that was a path he wasn't comfortable with going just to get viewers. I think that Yahtzee is tired of it as well, given things like Dev Diary.
Baseball has a lot of unwritten rules that are...kinda enforced by dumb garbage babies who are also 35 years old, but MLB as a whole has started to embrace players doing goofy celebrations, at least from a marketing perspective, and there are a bunch of younger players who manifestly don't give a shit about unwritten rules, and the sport is generally better for it
This year in particular, there seems to be an uptick in players talking shit and actually enjoying themselves playing baseball, and it's made everything a bit more fun like:
I really like how in KBO and in NPB where they hit and run it out. None of the homerun after homerun
I like the "hustle" style of baseball compared to the boring slug fests since the roid era
UnbrokenEvaHIGH ON THE WIREBUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered Userregular
I mean hell, I get if a guy hits a home run off you and goes too far with the celebration it's going to sting, but throwing the ball at him in response is just chickenshit, it proves nothing except that the pitcher is a spiteful baby.
Strike him out next time, and give him a little back then, stare him down as he walks back to the bench or something.
Don't talk shit when the game's this close and also you look like this guy
it got 100% better when they showed him without his hat and his hair is so very dumb
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My biggest bugbear with Loud Angry Internet Reviewers (which I admittedly watched a lot of back in the day) is how many of them have gone on record saying that they don't do many positive reviews because it's hard to make a funny review about something they like/the fans don't like it. I know fandoms can be fickle, but I don't especially care when the end result has been tons of imitators further poisoning the water and a lot of fans not realising that your persona is a bit.
#pipeCocky Stride, Musky odoursPope of Chili TownRegistered Userregular
As a coach, I'm 100% in support of celebration as long as it's respectful of the other team and is done after a score/win.
If you showboat while running in a goal or touchdown and get tackled or blocked, or if you celebrate winning a race and fall or get overtaken before the finish line, you're never playing for me again.
Don't talk shit when the game's this close and also you look like this guy
it got 100% better when they showed him without his hat and his hair is so very dumb
That dude totally owned up to it and gave mad respect to Vanderbilt afterwards and it all ended up being v cool and v awesome and v what baseball should allow to happen
I'm 100% on board with shit talking and over the top celebrations as long as everyone involved is aware that every so often, you're gonna talk some good good shit and you're going to extremely fuck up and you can't react by being a little pissbaby
The best trash talkers don’t stop just because they’re losing.
Honestly the most endearing trash talkers come from sorry-ass-underdogs
Browns fans are (were) the best shit talkers. It’s going to suck this year when they only win 7 games and it all comes back to punch us in the mouth...
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#pipeCocky Stride, Musky odoursPope of Chili TownRegistered Userregular
I only like trash talking that is creative. Lazy trash talking is stupid.
"Your team sucks" like dog that is factually incorrect we've won 3 times more championships than you.
One time at a Rockies game I had the good fortune to sit behind the undiscovered Lenny Bruce of baseball heckling. The man was four beers loaded *perpetually* for the whole game, and he was a master. No blue material, nothing inappropriate...but if you made poor fashion choices, or if the trade you got handed wasn't what you wanted, if you'd had run-ins with the law, or if your fucking high school career had some colorful notes in there, this dude knew about it, and was very, *aggressively* interested on getting the player's takes on these subjects
It was annoying for exactly half an inning before we realized "we're in the presence of a genius, this is clearly the best part of the game"
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Listen, when you have a dude hurling bird-exploding projectiles directly at a dude holding a club, you should probably try to keep visible emotional displays to a minimum.
But yes, it does result in a bunch of grim man-babies looking for any excuse to have a lame pretend brawl.
really? I thought the NFL was famous for grandstanding after touchdowns, of the sort that would instantly empty the dugouts in a baseball game.
Things have changed a bit.
Yes and no. There has been a penalty for "excessive celebration" that has been enforced...not so evenly. I'm of the opinion hell yeah celebrate, sport is about spectacle and entertainment, not grim faced men.
To be fair, that seems unsafe.
used to be, but the nfl has been gradually clamping down
I remember when I was in high school and they specifically cracked down on players celebrating together as a group, killing the rams' then-iconic "bob and weave" dance
But then you don't get funny internet gifs of people celebrating before the end of the race only to lose in the last metres to someone pushing all the way to the finish line.
This is so silly! Unless I missed something, it's not like the dude was all "HA HA Kansas City, you all fucking suck!" He hit a wicked home run and threw his bat to the side, good lord the nerve!
It's hard to find a supercut for the LMB {Mexican league} as most you find are from homerun derbies from All star games
Generally the Mexican League baseball is in that weird place between Minor league and Major league yet being it's own league
YouTube moderation is broken by design. Because YouTube ties channels to accounts (an archaic decision that no longer makes sense), channel owners cannot hire moderators without giving them full control of the channel.
Bob Chipman did a video on the dangers of "chasing the dragon" of negative reviews (I'll have to look for it later - mobile search isn't condusive to finding it.) He wrote it as a counterpoint to his Pixels review, because that review brought him a lot of viewers because it was so negative - and he felt that was a path he wasn't comfortable with going just to get viewers. I think that Yahtzee is tired of it as well, given things like Dev Diary.
This year in particular, there seems to be an uptick in players talking shit and actually enjoying themselves playing baseball, and it's made everything a bit more fun like:
I really like how in KBO and in NPB where they hit and run it out. None of the homerun after homerun
I like the "hustle" style of baseball compared to the boring slug fests since the roid era
Strike him out next time, and give him a little back then, stare him down as he walks back to the bench or something.
Don't talk shit when the game's this close and also you look like this guy
it got 100% better when they showed him without his hat and his hair is so very dumb
or his hat messed it up I dunno
but damn
If you showboat while running in a goal or touchdown and get tackled or blocked, or if you celebrate winning a race and fall or get overtaken before the finish line, you're never playing for me again.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
That dude totally owned up to it and gave mad respect to Vanderbilt afterwards and it all ended up being v cool and v awesome and v what baseball should allow to happen
edit: oh hey, two at once!
Honestly the most endearing trash talkers come from sorry-ass-underdogs
Browns fans are (were) the best shit talkers. It’s going to suck this year when they only win 7 games and it all comes back to punch us in the mouth...
"Your team sucks" like dog that is factually incorrect we've won 3 times more championships than you.
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
It was annoying for exactly half an inning before we realized "we're in the presence of a genius, this is clearly the best part of the game"