On Preserving The Critical Space

[dubdobdee]

"Soccer is a European sport because it is all about death and despair. Americans would never invent a sport where the better you get the less you score."

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t!lly's first word

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

"goal!"

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

i have read that same article by different ppl about twenty times now (there was a spate of them during the last world cup). why are the americans so obsessed with their hands?

also he shows that the one american addition to soccer, ie that draws shouldn't exist and thus loads of games go to penalties, is pointless and annoying.

also the pope likes football (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7179757.stm) so he should shut his catholic mouth ;)

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

pope = european = about death and despair QED

i got the feeling with this one that he started it out as a tease, really -- and then got increasingly overwhelmed by (very stupid) Waves of Taking his Own Points Seriously

[anatol-merklich.livejournal.com]

Americans would never invent a sport where the better you get the less you score.

Uh I dunno. In baseball, the pitcher's task is to deny the batting team hits and in particular runs, ie to keep the opponent's score as low as possible. So far, so similar to defensive positions in other sports.

But the pitcher is also arguably the player most in focus on a baseball team, and the player designated as "winner" or "loser" of a game. Indeed, a common reason for voiding of baseball bets is that a team started with a different pitcher from the one given in advance.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

what? but in football surely the better you get, the more goals you score?