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Soccer is boring AF. There, I said it.

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exciting honey-headed cuckoldry
  06/20/18
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Swashbuckling foreskin university
  06/21/18
nah it's 180
Cheese-eating cerebral elastic band
  06/20/18
(Homo)
razzmatazz massive hospital mother
  06/20/18
how is it any more boring than any other sport?
bonkers sickened mexican
  06/20/18
No hitting, no scoring, faggy.
exciting honey-headed cuckoldry
  06/20/18
come on there's more to sports than just hitting and scoring...
bonkers sickened mexican
  06/20/18
They're obviously athletic. I'm watching my first ever socc...
exciting honey-headed cuckoldry
  06/20/18
it's ok not to like soccer. i'm not a big soccer fan either,...
bonkers sickened mexican
  06/20/18
At least there's continuous scoring.
exciting honey-headed cuckoldry
  06/20/18
Scoring on almost every possession is even more boring than ...
Brindle tattoo
  06/20/18
seriously. there's absolutely no tension during the game. co...
bonkers sickened mexican
  06/20/18
exaggerated
overrated lascivious heaven
  06/20/18
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saffron stimulating quadroon menage
  06/20/18
basketball sucks and looks stupid and it's played by freaks
Cheese-eating cerebral elastic band
  06/20/18
the worst part of basketball is the constant tv timeouts and...
fragrant liquid oxygen temple
  06/20/18
Basketball and soccer are the two poles of "too much sc...
Chrome private investor
  06/20/18
Nfl is literally just 4 hours of commercials occasionally in...
topaz forum
  06/20/18
cr. it is really an awful sport.
Arousing Milky Dopamine
  06/20/18
Well, that sounds like your fault for staring at the screen ...
Chrome private investor
  06/20/18
if scoring events are the only things of interest pretty ...
infuriating jade theater twinkling uncleanness
  06/20/18
I didn't say scoring was the only interesting thing, but it'...
Chrome private investor
  06/20/18
tbf, I usually don't find soccer that interesting either ...
infuriating jade theater twinkling uncleanness
  06/20/18
once you get a sense of tactics and counter-tactics, what po...
Cheese-eating cerebral elastic band
  06/20/18
I'm sure that's the case, that seems to be what's roughly ne...
infuriating jade theater twinkling uncleanness
  06/20/18
there seem to be more varieties than in other sports. i'm a ...
Cheese-eating cerebral elastic band
  06/20/18
makes sense ---- seems like the more command/control t...
infuriating jade theater twinkling uncleanness
  06/20/18
or you can look at it the other way and say it's more intere...
Cheese-eating cerebral elastic band
  06/20/18
fair enough I agree its largely an aesthetic preference ...
infuriating jade theater twinkling uncleanness
  06/20/18
yeah i think you might be right about the second part. it's ...
Cheese-eating cerebral elastic band
  06/20/18
look, you just don't get it, man.
Arousing Milky Dopamine
  06/20/18
It’s boring if you don’t care about the teams
Mint fortuitous meteor degenerate
  06/20/18
Best asses on TV imo
topaz forum
  06/20/18
Unnngh
exciting honey-headed cuckoldry
  06/20/18
https://78.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqx7ageePl1qlcvon.jpg
Boyish Greedy Police Squad
  06/20/18
opposite for me. i can watch any soccer game and rarely hav...
Arousing Milky Dopamine
  06/20/18
i only watch every four years for the WC but somehow i can w...
Sienna library
  06/20/18
because you don't like the sport -- you like the "event...
bonkers sickened mexican
  06/20/18
I havent been in US for world cup since 16 years so its 1800...
Sienna library
  06/20/18
i'm not disagreeing
bonkers sickened mexican
  06/20/18
Hot take.
Sticky jew
  06/20/18
Hot take.
Sticky jew
  06/20/18
No, it's 180. There's not even enough time to really ge...
Brindle tattoo
  06/20/18
this is a big thing for me. fucking baseball games are AT LE...
Cheese-eating cerebral elastic band
  06/20/18
Exactly. Soccer game, you drink 3 beers and it's over. Per...
Brindle tattoo
  06/20/18
This is one of the best things about soccer. You know exactl...
heady corner dog poop
  06/20/18
soccer is like hockey, meaningless games with teams you don'...
Bearded Senate Persian
  06/20/18
its not boring, it just requires patience and understanding ...
saffron stimulating quadroon menage
  06/20/18
ppl just don't know how to watch for tactics and don't know ...
Cheese-eating cerebral elastic band
  06/20/18
moniker of the week
Boyish Greedy Police Squad
  06/20/18
"It's not boring, it just has a lot less happening.&quo...
Chrome private investor
  06/20/18
thats not what i said, and its not true. soccer is non stop,...
saffron stimulating quadroon menage
  06/20/18
And most of what is happening isn't interesting, because nob...
Chrome private investor
  06/20/18
thats probably because you dont understand what people are t...
saffron stimulating quadroon menage
  06/20/18
"a thero thero tie is beauthiful," he lisped
fragrant liquid oxygen temple
  06/20/18
i never understood what the objection is to a tie. i have...
bonkers sickened mexican
  06/20/18
there's less inherently wrong with a tie. it's a 0-0 tie wit...
fragrant liquid oxygen temple
  06/20/18
Professional sports channel competitive energy into an alter...
Chrome private investor
  06/20/18
(guy with blue balls waiting til marriage)
Cheese-eating cerebral elastic band
  06/20/18
>> or co-champions at the end of a PL season? <<...
bonkers sickened mexican
  06/20/18
someone has to advance in a single-elimination tourney. you ...
fragrant liquid oxygen temple
  06/20/18
i agree with that, but i also don't love single-elimination ...
bonkers sickened mexican
  06/20/18
even double elim has a tie problem. only a round robin w no ...
fragrant liquid oxygen temple
  06/20/18
than baseball? football? lol no.
Arousing Milky Dopamine
  06/20/18
I never understood the appeal of the game. Growing up I neve...
Adventurous Iridescent Feces Voyeur
  06/20/18
MLS used to be unwatchable but it's slowly gotten much bette...
Cheese-eating cerebral elastic band
  06/20/18
, he lisped from his macbook
fragrant liquid oxygen temple
  06/20/18
time to quote xo ann AMERICA'S FAVORITE NATIONAL PASTIME:...
fragrant liquid oxygen temple
  06/20/18
dumb
Cheese-eating cerebral elastic band
  06/20/18
literal homosexual.. Date: June 20th, 2018 10:20 AM Auth...
fragrant liquid oxygen temple
  06/20/18
retarded take
saffron stimulating quadroon menage
  06/20/18
(Foreigner)
Bronze stead
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fragrant liquid oxygen temple
  06/20/18
I hate soccer but this article sucks.
Chrome private investor
  06/20/18
(Guy who spams 24/7 on an even duller sport)
Flushed gay wizard
  06/20/18
(literal homosexual)
fragrant liquid oxygen temple
  06/20/18
(Guy with 100s of posts on male clothed tennis players)
Flushed gay wizard
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crystalline queen of the night deer antler
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fragrant liquid oxygen temple
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crystalline queen of the night deer antler
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fragrant liquid oxygen temple
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bonkers sickened mexican
  06/20/18
this is literally the gayest poast I've ever read on this si...
heady corner dog poop
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crystalline queen of the night deer antler
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fragrant liquid oxygen temple
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heady corner dog poop
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crystalline queen of the night deer antler
  06/20/18
In Europe we don't like 'soccer' either. Basketball and c...
Smoky odious stock car church
  06/20/18
lol setstein with the bizarre euro perspective 180
saffron stimulating quadroon menage
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crystalline queen of the night deer antler
  06/20/18
there's drama, there's crying, there are butts, there are me...
Histrionic Magenta Brunch
  06/20/18
My least favorite part that penalty kick's (not the overtime...
cerise supple bawdyhouse sandwich
  06/20/18
I agree with this. Should play until someone scores. If the ...
Adventurous Iridescent Feces Voyeur
  06/20/18
I agree I hate PKs. Past a certain time you could start ...
bonkers sickened mexican
  06/20/18
A pk should be half a point so that if the other team actual...
topaz forum
  06/20/18
probably more than half so that 2 PKs > 1 goal though ...
bonkers sickened mexican
  06/20/18
Just give red cards or give PK's for egregious fouls inside ...
cerise supple bawdyhouse sandwich
  06/20/18
180 aspie subthread
fragrant liquid oxygen temple
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passionate affirmative action step-uncle's house
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loling @ DBG & Ironside aspieing up the thread with mult...
flatulent corn cake sanctuary
  06/20/18
"how can we compare this to tennis?"
heady corner dog poop
  06/20/18
to be fair i also analogize to wrestling quite frequently
bonkers sickened mexican
  06/20/18
l'chaim!
fragrant liquid oxygen temple
  06/20/18
If all you watch is the World Cup you’re not really qualifie...
buck-toothed address travel guidebook
  06/20/18
TCR
Low-t Comical Indirect Expression
  06/20/18
I feel like both paragraphs are a little overstated. I've se...
topaz forum
  06/20/18
that's what this article was arguing: https://slate.com/cult...
infuriating jade theater twinkling uncleanness
  06/20/18
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Arousing Milky Dopamine
  06/20/18
All sports are boring to watch unless you are vested in the ...
Pontificating scourge upon the earth lay
  06/20/18
this is flame. i'll happy watch a tennis match between two g...
fragrant liquid oxygen temple
  06/20/18
interestingly i feel the opposite. i actually PREFER watchin...
bonkers sickened mexican
  06/20/18
As others have mentioned, if you understand the nuance of th...
judgmental big wrinkle
  06/20/18
Good point with the Germany game. The excitement was buildin...
Adventurous Iridescent Feces Voyeur
  06/20/18
Yeah it was 180. Also Iceland vs Argentina was great imo. Th...
judgmental big wrinkle
  06/20/18
Every other sport has that dynamic, though, with the caveat ...
Chrome private investor
  06/20/18
i really think a lot of that is just your preference for ano...
bonkers sickened mexican
  06/20/18
Well yeah, but I have reasons for preferring other sports, s...
Chrome private investor
  06/20/18
Lool Aren’t you a hockeymo? hockey is so boring, they ha...
jet-lagged bull headed haunted graveyard
  06/20/18
exceptionally boring
Twinkling 180 Parlour Pisswyrm
  06/20/18
It makes for a pretty boring TV watching experience, but it'...
multi-colored hideous preventive strike point
  06/20/18
Rach pull the plug
razzmatazz massive hospital mother
  06/21/18


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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:30 AM
Author: exciting honey-headed cuckoldry



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36276960)



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Date: June 21st, 2018 3:00 AM
Author: Swashbuckling foreskin university



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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:30 AM
Author: Cheese-eating cerebral elastic band

nah it's 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36276965)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:38 AM
Author: razzmatazz massive hospital mother

(Homo)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277004)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:35 AM
Author: bonkers sickened mexican

how is it any more boring than any other sport?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36276992)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:47 AM
Author: exciting honey-headed cuckoldry

No hitting, no scoring, faggy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277058)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:50 AM
Author: bonkers sickened mexican

come on there's more to sports than just hitting and scoring.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277076)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:53 AM
Author: exciting honey-headed cuckoldry

They're obviously athletic. I'm watching my first ever soccer game right now and I'm bored as shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277106)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:57 AM
Author: bonkers sickened mexican

it's ok not to like soccer. i'm not a big soccer fan either, but for example i think basketball is far, far more boring.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277122)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:01 AM
Author: exciting honey-headed cuckoldry

At least there's continuous scoring.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277146)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:04 AM
Author: Brindle tattoo

Scoring on almost every possession is even more boring than scoring one goal per game.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277163)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:06 AM
Author: bonkers sickened mexican

seriously. there's absolutely no tension during the game. constant fouls and free throws. blech

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277170)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:07 AM
Author: overrated lascivious heaven

exaggerated

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277177)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:07 AM
Author: saffron stimulating quadroon menage



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:03 AM
Author: Cheese-eating cerebral elastic band

basketball sucks and looks stupid and it's played by freaks

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277160)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:20 AM
Author: fragrant liquid oxygen temple

the worst part of basketball is the constant tv timeouts and fouls near the end of a game. it's absolutely awful and anticlimactic.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277250)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:22 AM
Author: Chrome private investor

Basketball and soccer are the two poles of "too much scoring" and "no scoring." NFL football (not CFB) is probably the ideal, along with hockey.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277261)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:31 AM
Author: topaz forum

Nfl is literally just 4 hours of commercials occasionally interrupted by 4 seconds of play.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277322)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 11:13 AM
Author: Arousing Milky Dopamine

cr. it is really an awful sport.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277686)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 3:04 PM
Author: Chrome private investor

Well, that sounds like your fault for staring at the screen slack-jawed during every commercial break, instead of talking to your friends or doing literally anything else.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279415)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 11:31 AM
Author: infuriating jade theater twinkling uncleanness

if scoring events are the only things of interest

pretty much all sports are boring as fuck

1, 2, or 3 things of interest every 90 minutes, is shitty entertainment

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part of why football is really popular is that they've trained us as viewers to find it interesting every time a first down is at stake, we know that a 15 yard play is really good

even though in determining the outcome of the game, its probably something on the order of putting 3 or 4 passes together in soccer

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its probably ok not to go through heroic efforts to find every sport interesting

but, one way to enjoy soccer more is to focus on which team possesses the ball more, lots of the really good chances come at the end of long chains of possession, the longer you possess it, the better your odds of it finally winding up with a good chance are

one way to imagine it, is think of what optimal basketball strategy would be if there was no shot clock, the basket was 5 feet tall, and goal tending was legal

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277811)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 1:32 PM
Author: Chrome private investor

I didn't say scoring was the only interesting thing, but it's a very important part of it, and I agree that football does even better in terms of excitement because of first downs, possession, and the like.

Also, it's telling that everything that supposedly makes soccer more interesting is something where it's easily eclipsed by other major sports.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36278618)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 1:39 PM
Author: infuriating jade theater twinkling uncleanness

tbf, I usually don't find soccer that interesting either

I sort of accept that that's largely because I don't have a great handle on the process that leads to scoring

Its difficult for me to know which midfield plays are high value midfield plays, and which ones aren't

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36278685)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 1:45 PM
Author: Cheese-eating cerebral elastic band

once you get a sense of tactics and counter-tactics, what positions are in what formations and where they're expected to be, what roles players are supposed to play, and the combinations of skills and aptitudes individual players have it becomes a lot more interesting. being out on the field in unbroken 45 minute chunks also means there's an additional psychological element

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36278741)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 1:57 PM
Author: infuriating jade theater twinkling uncleanness

I'm sure that's the case, that seems to be what's roughly necessary to enjoy any sport

How much command/control do soccer managers have?

Is it up to the players to know which tactics to employ when?

How much do coaches who have better tactical acumen than the other coach matter?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36278856)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:09 PM
Author: Cheese-eating cerebral elastic band

there seem to be more varieties than in other sports. i'm a big hockey fan and there isn't the same degree of variability there i don't think.

the managers control everything and give specific instructions to each player. once the half starts though it's mostly up to the players to adapt, with occasional instructions from the sideline. they also make substitutions, which if engineered correctly can change the entire look of the team with a single change.

good managers are pretty important. a shitty team with a good manager can do a lot if they can stifle a better team and play to their strengths. a bad manager tries to force the wrong outline on the wrong players.

that being said, you throw a team like spain together and they're going to crush an inferior team most of the time just because they have 11 of the best 100 players in the world and are seasoned champions.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36278966)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:24 PM
Author: infuriating jade theater twinkling uncleanness

makes sense

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seems like the more command/control the coaches/managers have the more strategically deep the game becomes

picking between broad outlines that the players adjust to over 45 minutes or whatever is important, but there's only so deep you can get when you're depending on players to notice and exploit opportunities

when the coach can notice an opportunity and exploit it with the next play call,

your game becomes much deeper strategically

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279085)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:32 PM
Author: Cheese-eating cerebral elastic band

or you can look at it the other way and say it's more interesting because there are contingencies that need to be planned for in advance and that makes it more complex.

really though it has to do with a combination of culture, natural affinity, and open-mindedness. i find myself debating soccermos from south american and european countries a lot about soccer /not/ being an obviously superior sport, even though part of me agrees because i love it. and obviously i do the opposite a lot with north american bros where there's obviously an element of disdain for sissy soccer players.

baseball is something i grew up with and even my team, the blue jays, won when i was a kid and were part of the zeitgeist. i still go to games and watch and listen now and then, follow the news, watching the standings, etc. but baseball will just never really do it for me.

there are few areas in life that are more about value judgments and aesthetic preference.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279184)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:44 PM
Author: infuriating jade theater twinkling uncleanness

fair enough

I agree its largely an aesthetic preference

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additionally, I don't think a game necessarily gets more aesthetically pleasing the deeper it gets strategically

I actually think that's one of the big mental biases people who think of themselves stat nerds have

its probably totally uncorrelated, and if anything probably slightly negatively correlated

strategically perfecting games probably looks like the Devils inventing the neutral zone trap more often than the Warriors shooting tons of 3s

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279274)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:51 PM
Author: Cheese-eating cerebral elastic band

yeah i think you might be right about the second part. it's more complicated than that and depends on what the strategies look like externally.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279341)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:28 PM
Author: Arousing Milky Dopamine

look, you just don't get it, man.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279138)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:45 AM
Author: Mint fortuitous meteor degenerate

It’s boring if you don’t care about the teams

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277047)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:46 AM
Author: topaz forum

Best asses on TV imo

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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:48 AM
Author: exciting honey-headed cuckoldry

Unnngh

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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:48 AM
Author: Boyish Greedy Police Squad

https://78.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqx7ageePl1qlcvon.jpg

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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:32 PM
Author: Arousing Milky Dopamine

opposite for me. i can watch any soccer game and rarely have a stake in the outcome. to a lesser extent i can do this with basketball.

no chance in hell i'm watching a random baseball or football game.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279173)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:51 AM
Author: Sienna library

i only watch every four years for the WC but somehow i can watch every game, its 180, esp watching in bars and ppl go crazy

but outside WC i cant watch shit, its quite fucking odd

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277092)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:52 AM
Author: bonkers sickened mexican

because you don't like the sport -- you like the "event" and "spectacle" that is the world cup

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277099)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:32 AM
Author: Sienna library

I havent been in US for world cup since 16 years so its 180000 abroad. 2010 I was in 180 AFRIKKKA and watched in bars with CHILL AS FUK AFRIKKKAN brehs, last time I think I was in SE ASIA and it was wild, and now Im in NOWAGISTAN again and its 18000

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277332)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:33 AM
Author: bonkers sickened mexican

i'm not disagreeing

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277341)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:53 AM
Author: Sticky jew

Hot take.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277102)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 9:56 AM
Author: Sticky jew

Hot take.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277117)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:03 AM
Author: Brindle tattoo

No, it's 180.

There's not even enough time to really get bored since it takes half the time to play a soccer game as it does to play an NFL/MLB game, and almost no interruptions or ads.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277158)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:14 AM
Author: Cheese-eating cerebral elastic band

this is a big thing for me. fucking baseball games are AT LEAST three hours long and NFL games have about seven thousand beer and truck commercials

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277212)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:15 AM
Author: Brindle tattoo

Exactly. Soccer game, you drink 3 beers and it's over. Perfect length.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277216)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:57 AM
Author: heady corner dog poop

This is one of the best things about soccer. You know exactly how long the game will take.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277584)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:05 AM
Author: Bearded Senate Persian

soccer is like hockey, meaningless games with teams you don't care about that end 0-0, 1-0, or 1-1 are boring, but at the top level both sports are as good as it gets.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277166)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:06 AM
Author: saffron stimulating quadroon menage

its not boring, it just requires patience and understanding more than most american sports. some games can be shitfests but top level soccer is exhilarating

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277173)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:15 AM
Author: Cheese-eating cerebral elastic band

ppl just don't know how to watch for tactics and don't know how hard it is to do various things

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277220)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:41 AM
Author: Boyish Greedy Police Squad

moniker of the week

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277411)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:20 AM
Author: Chrome private investor

"It's not boring, it just has a lot less happening."

Okay.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277254)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:21 AM
Author: saffron stimulating quadroon menage

thats not what i said, and its not true. soccer is non stop, there is always something happening

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277257)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:27 AM
Author: Chrome private investor

And most of what is happening isn't interesting, because nobody is even close to scoring. The typical soccer match doesn't even have 30 shots in 90 minutes, and most of those shots aren't on target. The NHL has about three times as many.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277292)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:30 AM
Author: saffron stimulating quadroon menage

thats probably because you dont understand what people are trying to do. even a 0-0 soccer match can be full of tension and have you on the edge of your seat. also, when a goal is scored, because they are so hard to come by, the emotions are even more pronounced.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277315)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:33 AM
Author: fragrant liquid oxygen temple

"a thero thero tie is beauthiful," he lisped

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277342)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:36 AM
Author: bonkers sickened mexican

i never understood what the objection is to a tie.

i have to say re soccer though that i really dislike PKs as a way to break ties and ESPECIALLY in big games

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277368)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:43 AM
Author: fragrant liquid oxygen temple

there's less inherently wrong with a tie. it's a 0-0 tie with no scoring that's the problem.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277425)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:44 AM
Author: Chrome private investor

Professional sports channel competitive energy into an alternative sphere. We psychologically crave winners and losers, and ties basically provide a case of blue balls.

To put it another way, would you be fine with having a tie in the World Cup final, or co-champions at the end of a PL season? Same principle.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277431)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:49 AM
Author: Cheese-eating cerebral elastic band

(guy with blue balls waiting til marriage)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277481)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:56 AM
Author: bonkers sickened mexican

>> or co-champions at the end of a PL season? <<

sure, why not? better that than some arbitrary after the fact tiebreaker regarding goal differential that no one is *really* thinking about.

no different to me than two swimmers touching at the same time and getting the gold medal.

to me sports is about the competition and the play of a particular game. the actual "win" is less important to me.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277571)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:59 AM
Author: fragrant liquid oxygen temple

someone has to advance in a single-elimination tourney. you need a way of resolving ties at some point.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277604)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 11:00 AM
Author: bonkers sickened mexican

i agree with that, but i also don't love single-elimination tourneys

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277610)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 11:40 AM
Author: fragrant liquid oxygen temple

even double elim has a tie problem. only a round robin w no knockout stage can allow for a champion decided on ties

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277871)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:32 PM
Author: Arousing Milky Dopamine

than baseball? football? lol no.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279182)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:17 AM
Author: Adventurous Iridescent Feces Voyeur

I never understood the appeal of the game. Growing up I never played and we never watched it on TV or anything (it wasn't on, really, except for the World Cup). Had kids and they played -- not well. Typical American suburban kids' soccer. But even watching those crap games I began to pick up on the nuances of the game.

I like watching it now. Not my go to sports to watch (football and baseball), but I enjoy watching talented teams play. That Spain Portugal game was great. The lack of scoring actually adds some tension (unless it is like 3-0 or something).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277237)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:20 AM
Author: Cheese-eating cerebral elastic band

MLS used to be unwatchable but it's slowly gotten much better over the last five years. Now I just watch the big European matches, whether that's the Madrid derby or a Champion's League match or whatever, and my local MLS team's games.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277253)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:27 AM
Author: fragrant liquid oxygen temple

, he lisped from his macbook

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277295)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:24 AM
Author: fragrant liquid oxygen temple

time to quote xo ann

AMERICA'S FAVORITE NATIONAL PASTIME: HATING SOCCER

June 25, 2014

I've held off on writing about soccer for a decade -- or about the length of the average soccer game -- so as not to offend anyone. But enough is enough. Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation's moral decay.

(1) Individual achievement is not a big factor in soccer. In a real sport, players fumble passes, throw bricks and drop fly balls -- all in front of a crowd. When baseball players strike out, they're standing alone at the plate. But there's also individual glory in home runs, touchdowns and slam-dunks.

In soccer, the blame is dispersed and almost no one scores anyway. There are no heroes, no losers, no accountability, and no child's fragile self-esteem is bruised. There's a reason perpetually alarmed women are called "soccer moms," not "football moms."

Do they even have MVPs in soccer? Everyone just runs up and down the field and, every once in a while, a ball accidentally goes in. That's when we're supposed to go wild. I'm already asleep.

(2) Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.

(3) No other "sport" ends in as many scoreless ties as soccer. This was an actual marquee sign by the freeway in Long Beach, California, about a World Cup game last week: "2nd period, 11 minutes left, score: 0:0." Two hours later, another World Cup game was on the same screen: "1st period, 8 minutes left, score: 0:0." If Michael Jackson had treated his chronic insomnia with a tape of Argentina vs. Brazil instead of Propofol, he'd still be alive, although bored.

Even in football, by which I mean football, there are very few scoreless ties -- and it's a lot harder to score when a half-dozen 300-pound bruisers are trying to crush you.

(4) The prospect of either personal humiliation or major injury is required to count as a sport. Most sports are sublimated warfare. As Lady Thatcher reportedly said after Germany had beaten England in some major soccer game: Don't worry. After all, twice in this century we beat them at their national game.

Baseball and basketball present a constant threat of personal disgrace. In hockey, there are three or four fights a game -- and it's not a stroll on beach to be on ice with a puck flying around at 100 miles per hour. After a football game, ambulances carry off the wounded. After a soccer game, every player gets a ribbon and a juice box.

(5) You can't use your hands in soccer. (Thus eliminating the danger of having to catch a fly ball.) What sets man apart from the lesser beasts, besides a soul, is that we have opposable thumbs. Our hands can hold things. Here's a great idea: Let's create a game where you're not allowed to use them!

(6) I resent the force-fed aspect of soccer. The same people trying to push soccer on Americans are the ones demanding that we love HBO's "Girls," light-rail, Beyonce and Hillary Clinton. The number of New York Times articles claiming soccer is "catching on" is exceeded only by the ones pretending women's basketball is fascinating.

I note that we don't have to be endlessly told how exciting football is.

(7) It's foreign. In fact, that's the precise reason the Times is constantly hectoring Americans to love soccer. One group of sports fans with whom soccer is not "catching on" at all, is African-Americans. They remain distinctly unimpressed by the fact that the French like it.

(8) Soccer is like the metric system, which liberals also adore because it's European. Naturally, the metric system emerged from the French Revolution, during the brief intervals when they weren't committing mass murder by guillotine.

Despite being subjected to Chinese-style brainwashing in the public schools to use centimeters and Celsius, ask any American for the temperature, and he'll say something like "70 degrees." Ask how far Boston is from New York City, he'll say it's about 200 miles.

Liberals get angry and tell us that the metric system is more "rational" than the measurements everyone understands. This is ridiculous. An inch is the width of a man's thumb, a foot the length of his foot, a yard the length of his belt. That's easy to visualize. How do you visualize 147.2 centimeters?

(9) Soccer is not "catching on." Headlines this week proclaimed "Record U.S. ratings for World Cup," and we had to hear -- again -- about the "growing popularity of soccer in the United States."

The USA-Portugal game was the blockbuster match, garnering 18.2 million viewers on ESPN. This beat the second-most watched soccer game ever: The 1999 Women's World Cup final (USA vs. China) on ABC. (In soccer, the women's games are as thrilling as the men's.)

Run-of-the-mill, regular-season Sunday Night Football games average more than 20 million viewers; NFL playoff games get 30 to 40 million viewers; and this year's Super Bowl had 111.5 million viewers.

Remember when the media tried to foist British soccer star David Beckham and his permanently camera-ready wife on us a few years ago? Their arrival in America was heralded with 24-7 news coverage. That lasted about two days. Ratings tanked. No one cared.

If more "Americans" are watching soccer today, it's only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy's 1965 immigration law. I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.

COPYRIGHT 2014 ANN COULTER



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277270)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:24 AM
Author: Cheese-eating cerebral elastic band

dumb

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277275)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:28 AM
Author: fragrant liquid oxygen temple

literal homosexual..

Date: June 20th, 2018 10:20 AM

Author: Anthony Bourdead

MLS used to be unwatchable but it's slowly gotten much better over the last five years. Now I just watch the big European matches, whether that's the Madrid derby or a Champion's League match or whatever, and my local MLS team's games.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277253)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277300)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:25 AM
Author: saffron stimulating quadroon menage

retarded take

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277278)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:26 AM
Author: Bronze stead

(Foreigner)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277288)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:28 AM
Author: fragrant liquid oxygen temple



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277304)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:28 AM
Author: Chrome private investor

I hate soccer but this article sucks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277302)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:33 AM
Author: Flushed gay wizard

(Guy who spams 24/7 on an even duller sport)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277344)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:36 AM
Author: fragrant liquid oxygen temple

(literal homosexual)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277369)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:37 AM
Author: Flushed gay wizard

(Guy with 100s of posts on male clothed tennis players)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277378)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:37 AM
Author: crystalline queen of the night deer antler



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277380)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:38 AM
Author: fragrant liquid oxygen temple

http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3984144&mc=6&forum_id=2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277390)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:40 AM
Author: crystalline queen of the night deer antler



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277402)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:43 AM
Author: fragrant liquid oxygen temple

https://i.imgur.com/6RuxHRt.png

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277422)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:37 AM
Author: crystalline queen of the night deer antler



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277379)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:39 AM
Author: fragrant liquid oxygen temple



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277397)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:57 AM
Author: bonkers sickened mexican



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277577)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 11:05 AM
Author: heady corner dog poop

this is literally the gayest poast I've ever read on this site

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277645)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 11:12 AM
Author: crystalline queen of the night deer antler



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277678)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:26 PM
Author: fragrant liquid oxygen temple



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279109)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 11:05 AM
Author: heady corner dog poop



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277643)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:36 AM
Author: crystalline queen of the night deer antler



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277370)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:49 AM
Author: Smoky odious stock car church

In Europe we don't like 'soccer' either.

Basketball and crash-ball, a static and inferior version of rugby, are both ridiculous sports.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277473)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 11:07 AM
Author: saffron stimulating quadroon menage

lol setstein with the bizarre euro perspective 180

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277657)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 11:14 AM
Author: crystalline queen of the night deer antler



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277693)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:43 AM
Author: Histrionic Magenta Brunch

there's drama, there's crying, there are butts, there are men with cool hair cuts, there are coaches who look like men from othertimes, there's backstory

it can work if you want it to

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277426)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:50 AM
Author: cerise supple bawdyhouse sandwich

My least favorite part that penalty kick's (not the overtime ones) are how many games are won. Just do run around for 90 minutes not being able to score, only to have one team win by being given a 50% chance layup.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277485)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:54 AM
Author: Adventurous Iridescent Feces Voyeur

I agree with this. Should play until someone scores. If the players are too tired they can sit down on the pitch -- sort of like a dance marathon. Eventually someone will fuck up.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277547)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:59 AM
Author: bonkers sickened mexican

I agree I hate PKs.

Past a certain time you could start removing players from the field every 5 minutes starting with defenders. certainly that would open up scoring.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277601)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 10:59 AM
Author: topaz forum

A pk should be half a point so that if the other team actually scores they will win

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277606)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 11:05 AM
Author: bonkers sickened mexican

probably more than half so that 2 PKs > 1 goal

though i suppose the counterargument is that if you're winning 2-1 late in the game and a guy has a good strike opportunity you now have an incentive to foul since a PK can't beat you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36277647)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 12:19 PM
Author: cerise supple bawdyhouse sandwich

Just give red cards or give PK's for egregious fouls inside 5 minutes so teams just don't tackle the other players.

But it's so gay when like France and Germany are in a 0-0 game in the 75th minute and Germany gets a PK to win 1-0.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36278133)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:29 PM
Author: fragrant liquid oxygen temple

180 aspie subthread

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279145)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 1:36 PM
Author: claret whorehouse hairy legs



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36278659)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 1:37 PM
Author: passionate affirmative action step-uncle's house



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36278672)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 1:59 PM
Author: flatulent corn cake sanctuary

loling @ DBG & Ironside aspieing up the thread with multiple subthread wastelands

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36278861)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:03 PM
Author: heady corner dog poop

"how can we compare this to tennis?"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36278907)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 3:47 PM
Author: bonkers sickened mexican

to be fair i also analogize to wrestling quite frequently

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279720)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:26 PM
Author: fragrant liquid oxygen temple

l'chaim!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279117)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:14 PM
Author: buck-toothed address travel guidebook

If all you watch is the World Cup you’re not really qualified to make a statement about how boring soccer is. The World Cup is interesting as a spectacle but is the most boring, defensive soccer that top pros ever play. The teams have relatively little attacking chemistry because they don’t play enough together, and it’s the end of the season, and they’re playing in the heat during the day. Not a good recipe for end-to-end entertainment.

Go watch a live Premier League game between two decent teams in October, or go to a game at the Bernabeu or Camp Nou, or anywhere in Germany, or watch this year’s Champions League knockout round games, then come back and tell us how “boring” soccer is. If you still think it’s boring, you simply don’t like sports.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279009)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:25 PM
Author: Low-t Comical Indirect Expression

TCR

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279097)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:29 PM
Author: topaz forum

I feel like both paragraphs are a little overstated. I've seen 7-0 blowouts in Spain because there's only 2 (4 at best) teams in the league.

One of the best things about NBA, NFL and MLB is that they're the best players in the world. Soccer has too many leagues with the best players spread out all over instead of consolidated.

Soccer would be pretty one eighty of there was just one major league

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279154)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:33 PM
Author: infuriating jade theater twinkling uncleanness

that's what this article was arguing: https://slate.com/culture/2018/06/2018-world-cup-in-russia-wont-feature-the-worlds-best-soccer-does-that-matter.html?via=recirc_recent

seems pretty spot on

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279195)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:34 PM
Author: Arousing Milky Dopamine



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279199)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:18 PM
Author: Pontificating scourge upon the earth lay

All sports are boring to watch unless you are vested in the outcome somehow. Most Americans would say watching hockey is boring, but if their home team is playing in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup, suddenly they have a vested interest in the outcome.

If you want soccer, or any sport, to be interesting, bet on a game.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279041)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:33 PM
Author: fragrant liquid oxygen temple

this is flame. i'll happy watch a tennis match between two guys with good games where i dont care who wins

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279188)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 3:49 PM
Author: bonkers sickened mexican

interestingly i feel the opposite. i actually PREFER watching something without being vested in the outcome because i can simply enjoy the competition.

if i'm vested, i find that a positive outcome doesn't change my life that much whereas a negative outcome really annoys me.

or put another way, Rafael Nadal wining the US Open makes me far less happy than Djokovic winning the US Open makes me annoyed.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279739)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:42 PM
Author: judgmental big wrinkle

As others have mentioned, if you understand the nuance of the game it's 180. You pit a possession based team against a good counter-attacking team and watch the different strategies play out. Spain vs Portugal was a good example of this.

An underdog like Mexico getting an early goal and going full defensive against Germany is also exciting if you understand the game because you realize how difficult it is to keep defensive concentration for an entire game against the best team in the world. The crappy games have been the ones like Poland vs Senegal where the Poles made a ton of dumb mistakes and were disorganized the entire game, even though there were a decent number of goals.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279266)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 2:45 PM
Author: Adventurous Iridescent Feces Voyeur

Good point with the Germany game. The excitement was building because the Germans were down in Mexico's end seemingly 80% of the second half. It was a matter of hanging on for Mexico, even though they had the occasional exciting counter attack.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279284)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 3:06 PM
Author: judgmental big wrinkle

Yeah it was 180. Also Iceland vs Argentina was great imo. The other thing to keep in mind is the tactics these smaller countries adopt in order to attempt to reach the knock out rounds. Since they drew with Argentina, an upset win against Croatia would likely push Iceland through, so that game will be exciting knowing what's at stake for both teams.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279423)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 3:15 PM
Author: Chrome private investor

Every other sport has that dynamic, though, with the caveat that those sports are also naturally exciting.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279471)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 3:50 PM
Author: bonkers sickened mexican

i really think a lot of that is just your preference for another sport.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279747)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 3:55 PM
Author: Chrome private investor

Well yeah, but I have reasons for preferring other sports, such as them being far more exciting. I deliberately went out of my way to watch soccer during the 2006 World Cup and "get into it" and I hated it.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279773)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 3:09 PM
Author: jet-lagged bull headed haunted graveyard

Lool

Aren’t you a hockeymo? hockey is so boring, they have to allow fake fights

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279441)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 3:12 PM
Author: Twinkling 180 Parlour Pisswyrm

exceptionally boring

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279453)



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Date: June 20th, 2018 3:20 PM
Author: multi-colored hideous preventive strike point

It makes for a pretty boring TV watching experience, but it's fun to watch in person, since you can see the play develop.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36279507)



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Date: June 21st, 2018 2:54 AM
Author: razzmatazz massive hospital mother

Rach pull the plug

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4006264&forum_id=2#36282819)