Attempting to become the next Vuvuzela craze?
What is the sport with the least number of competitors? Seems crazy to me that they have Olympic softball with 6 teams. And two of those teams probably shouldn’t even be there (Italy was outscored 13-0 in its games and Australia 17-4). If that few nations play the sport, it makes no sense to me that it’s in the Olympics.
I guess they feel since they have baseball they have to have softball?
Softball only first got included in the games in 1996. This year is the first time again since 2008. Softball and baseball are not coming back in 2024.
Yeah, I think the driving force behind softball not coming back is only a handful of places play it, which is fine, but if you’re going to have it included, at least do it right.
IMO- It’s really a slap in the face to softball players that they’ll spend billions of dollars for the games yet softball has to play on modified baseball fields. Really putting in the minimal effort for its last time at the games. Hell, the fields I play beer league softball on are actual softball fields with amazing real grass that get maintained by a couple of town employees who water and cut it occasionally.
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Women’s 3x3 basketball is fun as hell. Incredibly fast paced.
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Japan had a surprisingly close loss against rugby powerhouse Fiji. I expected a blowout, but those guys really brought it.
I screwed up timewise for bets, so let’s do another poll. My intention is to place a bet for an event taking place on Tuesday. Will do a poll to pick a sport, then do a poll
later today to pick a bet on that sport.
Pick a sport for me to bet on
- Men’s basketball
- Women’s basketball
- Cycling time trial
- Men’s synchronized diving
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Tuesday already came and went in Tokyo I think.
I’m going off the times and dates from the sports book kiosk.
I don’t really like the olympics and most of these sports are boring, but I would absolutely tune in if they had drinking competitions. It’s an event about national pride and seeing the best in the world, but there is no representation of the primary recreational activity for many countries.
Who wouldn’t want to see an underdog defeat the Russians in vodka consumption? Ireland vs Germany in the grand finals of beer drinking would have people rushing to the sportsbooks in a patriotic fervor.
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I don’t think it’s a good idea to turn an activity that can result in long-term harm to the participants into a competitive event. [Looks at american football] Eh nevermind.
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Beerfest is better than super troopers.
I said what I said
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I don’t think straight up drinking would be interesting enough to watch. A better idea would be to make it the first event of the decathlon imo.
Drinking + firearms is a classic funtime combo.
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Just add some cigarettes and you’ve got an ATF triathlon.
Im on board actually. Ive watched Beerfest more times than Super Troopers
As if you completely ignored my post
Beerfest would be elite if not for the Monique storyline.
Just saw some highlights and that is crazy the field they play on. At least they should have put grass over the entire infield rather than leave the dirt. It’s not like Japan has a shortage of baseball fields that they couldn’t have made one a bit more softball friendly for a few weeks.