but we fifa now..

>4 pages

Maybe later.

in a nutshell, americans see soccer as a foreign 'european' sport, dont wanna be told what to like, low scores makes us think its boring, doesnt have the bullshit all our other sports have making us think its not worth paying any mind.

>2009

so we just need to brainwash our kids into thinking handegg sucks and train them to troll eurotrash and win fifa

My one complaint is that the refereeing is not an exact science like in American football.

If a goal is disallowed I want them analyzing every angle of video for 10 minutes before making their decision.

Fuck the flow, justice must be done.

>The rules emphasize non-violence, restraint and equality, all determined by a non-biased official, the referee.

maximum trolling

>>5822843
BUT ITS THE HUMAN ELEMENT OF TEH SPORT hurdur

make all the nigger kids in america think soccer is better than football, baseball and basketball and in 10 years USA would be the best team in the world. It wouldnt even be a competition.

>>5822872
basically, if we gave an effort to reallly promote it but.. we've got our balls too caught up in handegg and luckswing and apehoop to ever give this a chance.

>"I think it is important for all of those young out there, who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands, a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport"
Jack Kemp is now my hero

>>5822983
uh, wut?

>>5822983

Not quite sure what he's doing in the 4th panel.

>The rules emphasize non-violence, restraint and equality, all determined by a non-biased official, the referee.

Fucking lol.

<=== Football

>The rules emphasize non-violence, restraint and equality

>During the games both sets of supporters sing anti-Catholic/anti-Protestant songs and regularly clash with police and crowd control officers. Rangers fans sing "F**K the Pope!" and Celtic fans sing "Surrender or you'll die" and "F**K the Queen". This kind of passion can only be found in a soccer rivalry that not only divides cities, but also divides nations, ethnicities, and even religions.

Waht teh fuck... does not compute.

>>5822983
It's Bob Bradly and his son who plays on
the US team. Makes sense.

It's the saturation of other sports

If not even hockey can get on Network television for regular season games then soccer definitely won't.
Yes it's growing in popularity but every sport in America is (see rating for the NHL and NBA finals this year).

It's only hope is to be on during the dead period of the year when baseball is the only sport being played.

wat?

democracy =/= capitalism

one is a form of goverment, the other is a way to run your economy

>>5822843
but the fact that football is basically the simplest sport imaginable is part of what makes it so appealing

>>5822675

lulz so hard at this:

"former Buffalo Bills quarterback Jack Kemp, one of the more influential conservatives of the 1980's, went before the US Congress to try and pass a resolution that would stop the US from hosting the World Cup in 1994. Kemp said, "I think it is important for all of those young out there, who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands, a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport" Jim Rome, a famous sports host, said of soccer, "My son is not playing soccer. I will hand him ice skates and a shimmering sequined blouse before I hand him a soccer ball. Soccer is not a sport and does not need to be on my TV, and my son will not be playing it"

fucking awesome.

>who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands
>throw it...and put it in your hands
>real FOOTball
>throw it...and put it in your hands

Also I lol'd at him calling handegg democratic and soccer socialist when the NFL is more socialist than most socialist governments. Forcing parity (equality) =/= democratic.

>>5823329
sounds like a typical ignorant american.

>>5822843


Eurofag agrees with you. It's time time to instant replay
into football.

>>5823329
>who someday hope to play real football, where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands,
>football [...] put it in your hands
>football [...] hands
>hands

>>5823342

sounds like someone having an opinion.

>>5823364

>sounds like someone having retarded prejudices

Fix'd.

>>5823353
no

>Americans have not embraced this international game because the sport does not represent their sport culture.
implying americans have a culture

>>5823329
...and Jim Rome is an immense faggot who's opinion is less than worthless. If you take him seriously you are getting trolled harder than anything the internet can throw at you.

>>5823423
>implying that you are an authority on culture when you don't even know well enough to green text when implying

>>5823446

I think you have the wrong idea of what an "opinion" is. He is free to think what he wants. Why should/shoudn't I take it seriously? Why get butthurt over it? Its an opinion.

>>5823423

>implying our culture hasn't taken over the world like it or not.

How was MTV this morning? Enjoy the last hollywood film you saw?

>>5823482
europeans don't know how to think for themselves
all the euros who were capable of such a feat moved to the united states a long time ago

that is why american government emphasizes freedom and individualism while european government focuses on conformity and collectivism

>>5823353

Instant replay in soccer would be awful.

They have replays in American sports like football and basketball because those games have a million fucking stoppages of play.

>>5823495
Deleted the channel and no, not watching movies. Sitting in a cinema or in front of the TV is unproductive and turns you into a fat faggot.

>>5823495

I haven't watched MTV for years now.
I haven't watched a Hollywood movie for years now.

You failed.

Also:

>implying MTV and Hollywood are cultural

>The rules emphasize non-violence, restraint and equality, all determined by a non-biased official, the referee.

>>5823523

so sitting in front of a computer on /sp/ is productive?

>>5823523
>implying that 4chan isn't american culture

>>5823515

No it's not awful. It should be an option the referee can choose if he's unsure what happened. A lot of plain wrong red cards and penalties could be avoided that way, also end for Italian divers. That would be a really good thing for international football.

>>5823562

Every euro country has an MTV network.
The number one movies in your country are generally going to be hollywood films.
The number 1 record in your country is normally going to be an american artist.

Just because you sit at home on the internet all day and don't watch films or listen to music doesn't mean your country hasn't embraced it.

>>5823523
>Sitting in a cinema or in front of the TV is unproductive and turns you into a fat faggot.

Wow, amazing

You can make eurocunts say anything stupid so long as they believe their retort insults Americans.

>a distinction should be made that football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport

this is why the world hates you, murrika

>>5823598
>judging an entire country based on one senator

>>5823329
someone can send one email for Jack Kemp, to question him about the win of USA in that match?
And say to this guy what he's playing is giridon and not football. And explain to the guy what they're playing are socialist.
giridon and baseball = parity and others stuff

>>5823585
not really, french movies are quite popular in europe

>>5823598

>he thinks we all believe that

>>5823630
jack kemp is dead, dumbfuck

Here let me fix this for you
>Our pro-league sucks
>We have no emotional attachment to our pro-league
>We have no emotional attachment to better foreign league
>Because the MLS sucks, our culture doesn't give a shit about it. Meaning many kids don't aspire to be soccer stars like they do football and basketball stars.
>We aren't accustomed to the game.

>>5823632

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/intl/

>>5823657
>didn't read the article
tell me, does it herp when you derp?

>>5823582
yeah, 4chon is so american culture that almost every thread is about european football.

>>5823670
You are right, I didn't read the article.

I didn't say I did.

It was four pages long and instead of wasting my time to read it I just decided to post my thoughts on it.

>Oliver Chettle
(Guest)
12/02/2009
Slow? In American football there is hardly any actual play at all. Basketball players walk most of the time, and baseball is like watching paint dry. The only fast major American sport is ice hockey, which as you say is actually Canadian.

haha, love you oliver

>>5823655
At least the son can play the true football and not giridon.
Do you feels good, jack kemp?

I can be dumb about american football. But if you think I'm from usa, then fuck yourself. I don't know what is happening in american sports.
I'm only spilling your oil in your sea.

How come no one ever asks why we canadians don't like soccer? its because we've got a sport that is much more entertaining, as do the ameribros.

its not too hard to figure out, people are going to watch what they enjoy.

>>5823733
jack kemp was not the guy talking about his son, that was jim rome

that's two strikes. one more and you're english officially isn't good enough for you to be posting here

>>5823697
>baseball is like watching paint dry

my god, my toughts exactly.

>>5823760
pretty much. hockey is just soccer on ice. it's more fast paced and there's no diving so it's better even if people still only score a few times a game and it's usually on accident
anyway, it doesn't take much to be better than soccer

>>5823585
>Every euro country has an MTV network.

So what? That's because american media companies are tendentially imperialistic pricks who want to export the "american way of life" and European countries are democratic. Don't fool yourself into believing to much people are caring about MTV shit.

>The number one movies in your country are generally going to be hollywood films.

implying dumbed down european underclass watching hollywood blockbusters are relevant for European culture. Protip: Nobody gives a shit.

>The number 1 record in your country is normally going to be an american artist.

Lol no.

Take the German charts as an example, german artists pretty much mixed with american ones and others:

http://uk.launch.yahoo.com/c/de/single_charts.html

>Europeans insult Americans for criticizing soccer for being boring and ending in 0-0 ties by saying it's "not all about the scoring, it's about the artistry of the players on the field."
>Then they call baseball boring

>>5823760
>its not too hard to figure out, people are going to watch what they enjoy.
This is really hard for Europeans to figure out. People are allowed to like different things.

Wow that dude has no clue.

Soccer and Religion is the same because you want your team to win. You believe in your team.
Like in every other sport ?

You don't need good equipment ?
You can play a lot of sports with stuff you find on a landfill.

Its easy and simple ?
As easy and simple as every other major sport.


Main rivalry England and Germany.
I am German and I can clearly say.
NO

Then he finally gives the answer after 4 pages.
"because its slow paced and low-scoring".

>>5823780
No diving? Don't lie.

>>5823760
oh canadians, so you play sports too? that's cool, hope you'll become interesting someday.
tbh, if amerifags weren't trolling you, we wouldn't be aware of your existence.

>>5823797
>This is really hard for Americans to figure out. People are allowed to like different things.

Fix'd.

>>5823760

>>5823826
okay, there's a little diving
after all, there are euros in the league
it's nothing like soccer though

>Soccer is the perfect game for the post-modern world. It's the quintessential expression of the nihilism that prevails in many cultures, which doubtlessly accounts for its wild popularity in Europe.
Hahahaha what a crock of shit. And I'm a liberal arts major.

Regardless, everything he said about football also applies to american sports. That was a really silly attempt at trying to create a difference between sports in america and sports in the rest of the world. Sports are all about living vicarious thrills.

>>5823832

See, why do you take it so personally when someone doesn't like your sport? If you don't like hockey, then OK, good for you. Why do you take it like an insult?

>>5823780
>no diving
>Crosby

The world shuns handegg because they can not afford the equipment.

it has no goals they said .

>>5823863
>And I'm a liberal arts major.
you say that like it means that you know something

>>5823665
shit films watched by hipsters.

>>5823845
>implying that Europeans aren't constantly trying to shove soccer down our throats

the real reason Americans don't like soccer is because there aren't any clips of it in the music video for Dire Straits' Walk of Life.

But it's rubbish. America didn't invent any of those sports. They were just adapted from European games.

American Football was Rugby that slowy got more retarded, Basseball still is Rounders, a game little girls play, you took Hockey and put it on ice, doesn't make it American, and basketball has been played around the world in various forms centuries before the US was founded.
Basically the article is saying Americans don't like football because of their poor education and misplaced nationalism.

>>5824070

yeah let's tell americans they are stupid

that will make them enjoy soccer

>>5824108
Liking sports based on where they think they were created is pretty stupid. I mean the rest of the world hates England but they can get on board with playing our games.

>>5824070
>a game little girls play

>>5824148
Those are big girls.

pic related; replace with fat black men on steroids and you have baseball.

>>5824070
And the article's dead wrong, we don't like soccer because we aren't interested in having shitty games shoved down our throats where there are more worthy pursuits to be attempted.

Running around for 90 minutes accomplishing something worthy of note once or twice or three times or maybe even four times is a waste of my time. I'm paying for a ticket, I WANT TO SEE SOMETHING HAPPEN. Players like Peyton Manning and Kobe don't get paid to show off their fundamentals, THEY GET PAID TO PUT POINTS ON THE BOARD. Sure, it's awesome to see people so fundamentally sound and it looks great analyzing it later, but the important part of COMPETITIVE SPORTS is WINNING.

THAT is why we hate soccer - NOTHING. EVER. HAPPENS.

>>5824180
Looks like a shitty cross between tennis and cricket, do not want.

Soccer isn't popular in the US is because the television networks don't want it as there is no way to advertise for 45mins.

>>5824206
>THAT is why we hate soccer - NOTHING. EVER. HAPPENS.
That's why it's exciting when things do happen!
Although this WC has been a terrible introduction.

>>5824216
Funny, its your national pasttime essentially. So most of you do want.

>>5824070
>european games

England doesn't like it when you say that.

>>5824240
>make something boring so that the interesting parts seem exciting in comparison to how bored you were a second ago
>implying that this is a good foundation on which to build a sport

I like watching paint dry because sometimes a fly lands on it!

>>5823905
You got it all wrong, I said that -precisely- because I know nothing.

Football isn't popular in the US because they are not the best at it

>>5824206
>I don't understand soccer at all

Thats sad.Stuff happens all the time. You just don't understand the tactic at all. Don't just focus on the ball.

>>5824240
Games here are exciting when things happen and we don't have to wait 20 30 40 minutes for them to happen.

>>5824246
are you talking about baseball?
do you think that little girl is playing baseball?

>>5824271
COMPETITIVE. SPORTS.

WINNERS AND LOSERS.

We keep score for a reason, and at the end of the day the SCORE is what matters. SO PUT THE BALL IN THE GODDAMN NET YOU PRISSY OVERPAID FAGGOTS. CHRIST.

>>5824258
>implying that you know nothing if you know everything there is to know about nothing

>>5824289
rounders = baseball with smaller bats

exactly the same

>>5824289
Let it go.

>>5824312
I don't see a catcher, umpire, home plate, a fence, I don't see base paths, I don't see gloves, I don't see a shitload of other things that baseball requires.

>>5824289
actually, yes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUkZXseTf3U&feature=related

just add 140 lbs to all the players, stick adverts in every 20 seconds and stick a crowd of drooling retards around the pitch and you have baseball

>>5824312
oh, i get it. you were just too lazy to find the correct picture.
>eurofags

>>5824331
They are all part of the game, except instead of bases there are poles, and there is no armour or gloves.

>>5824206
>Running around for 90 minutes

football = sport

> Running around for 10 minutes out of 176 minutes

american fatball = not a sport but entertainment and all american family event and commercials

Deal with it.

>>5824333
Don't look like any baseball I've ever seen.

>>5824353
Light jogging and passing drills does not a sport make. Get over it.

>>5824333
>put adverts on the players jerseys
>imply that your sport has fewer adverts than others
>mfw a euro was this dumb near me

>>5824331
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1gQCVVF10w&NR=1

notice how everyone is spending the entire game standing still, and that there is pretty much nobody in the stands

how can you watch stuff like this?

america loves to be told what to do by books.

the bible, play books, etc.

>>5824333

>he thinks thats baseball

soccer is a glorified game of keep away

>>5824384
How can you watch 22 guys derp around on the field for 90 minutes? Seriously, how do you not quit after the 30th straight turnover with no visible change other than the side of the field the ball is on? I'd fucking lose my mind.

>my expression when i realized all europeans have to think alike and enjoy the same things, otherwise they are ostracized from their community and made fun of for being individualistic.

>Most Americans see the game as a slow-paced, low-scoring, boring game.

Boring's arguable, and slow-paced might be disputed, but I serious don't see how "Americans see" the game as low-scoring, implying it objectively isn't. When you're averaging 1.025 goals per game per team, it's a low-scoring game. Let's not pretend that's just perception.

>>5824378
>implying you don't have an advert break every minute

>>5824351
> no armour or gloves.

mah face when european little girls are more bad ass than fatass american "athletes"

>>5823510

hahahaha faggot

>>5824414
Those bitches aren't throw 90+.

Nice try troll.

>>5824390
Isn't that also what handegg is?

Ok fuck this, I played american football for three years in high school, I won't even pretend, that's exactly what motherfucking american football is, bro.

>>5824358

0/10

>football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist sport

Oh god wat

>>5824439
Nigga.

please.

We give the ball back to the other team when we score, how the fuck is that keep away?

>>5824425
>reply to a post an hour old
>implying that it is still relevant to the conversation
lucky for you, I'm still here.
if you have anything to say besides laughing at me for being correct then please feel free to do so
after all, this is an American website

>>5824425

>salary caps and rewarding shittiest teams with #1 draft picks
>capitalist

>>5824439

you're thinking of rugby.

and if you were really an american you wouldn't be calling it "american football"

Why in the fuck do you think the rest of the world cares? Football is the world sport, love it or hate it. 300 million people don't make a difference, when the sport is loved by several billion people all around the world. It is not football, that has to adapt to the USA, it is the USA.

The NBA is the only good shit Amerifags have, I feel kinda sorry for them

>>5824495
Faggot WE DO NOT WANT YOUR GAME HERE.

STOP TRYING TO SHOVE IT DOWN OUR THROATS.

>>5824465

>capitalist

Yes, because if you just gave the BEST team the #1 pick every year, will then they will continue to dominate and the other teams won't have a chance at getting popular and generating revenue.

its a win-win.

>>5824456

>europeans don't know how to think for themselves

What the fuck are you talking about bro?

>>5824439
actually no. In American football, you are unable to retain possession of the ball for more than 5% of the game if you are not successful in advancing on offense. If you are being successful, you can retain possession for maybe 12% of the game before you score and give the other team a chance.

In soccer you can score in the first 3 minutes then spend the rest of the game passing it around. Preventing the other team from even having an opportunity to do something exciting is seen as a legitimate tactic that is routinely exercised at advanced levels.

while I am depressed and suicidal, i do not hate myself enough to subject myself to that.

>>5824502

don't.

meanwhile we are laughing at your outdated style of referring and soccer riots which kill tons of people, and your stadium disasters which add to the body count.

>>5824515
i'm sorry, but saying that my post caused you to become butthurt is not an argument as to why it was inaccurate

>>5824495
Or you could let us have our sports and you could have yours.

>>5824533
Now that's a whiteout.

>>5824536

I just don't understand how you can judge all of Europe without knowing them.

>that is why american government emphasizes freedom and individualism while european government focuses on conformity and collectivism


>american government emphasizes freedom and individualism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdPSqL9_mfM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mvP0ArKIGY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vxJD3az3nk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7n95DD9k8A

>>5824476
You're right, I'm not an american, I'm an australian and I styled on you americunts all the way through highschool, starting linebacker while I was still learning the rules by playing madden.

By the way, champ, the ball switches hands more often in rugby than in handegg, so what you're saying doesn't really make sense.

>>5824504
>preventing the rich, successful franchises from spending as much money as they want, in order to make some poorfags competitive so they can play with the big boys
>awarding LOSERS instead of knocking them the fuck out of the league when they are clearly inferior to the best
enjoy your communism

ITT : Americans are mad

>>5824556

Well you guy's sure have no problem doing it to americans (hurr fat, stupid)...

nice double standard brah.

>claim football is non-violent
>mention football hooligans and religious rivalries in the same article

>>5824539
>>5824503
That's perfectly ok with me. I have my sport and you have yours

>>5824569
>Trying to keep all teams competitive to keep their fans interested to keep them spending money on apparel and tickets
>communism

Christ who taught you how to run a business?

>>5824573

if only you knew...

>>5824590
So why the fuck are you here?

>>5824579

Some of these things, like Americans being overweight in average can be proven by statistics. I still would never say that every American is fat because that would be stupid.

>>5824536

It was not an argument, it was just retarded bullshit, also it's not causing butthurt but amusement about the amount of your stupidity.

>>5824504

Lol... you really don't see how a draft to redistribute talent is socialist at its core?

Or how a salary cap forcing the top teams to be on the same footing as mediocre ones is the very anti-thesis of capitalism?

football will never be popular until they change the offside rule.

>>5824516
>taking a knee

>>5824595
>implying your team needs to be successful for people to support it and buy apparel
Bandwagoning nation at it's best

>>5824613
The draft doesn't redistribute talent you fucking idiot, the draft is the distribution system for NEW talent.

We have FREE AGENCY to distribute older more developed talent.

You have NO IDEA what you're talking about and should SHUT. THE FUCK. UP.

Christ.

>>5824636
>he thinks you have to buy a jersey to be a loyal fan

>>5824608
To discuss football you nitwit, why else would I be here. This thread caught my attention because of the massive butthurt in the article. Football is the world's sport, this is an undisputable fact. So enjoy your "world series", while I watch a competition comprising the world's top 32 teams from all around the globe.

>>5824402
>>5824402
>implying not every nation in the world is like that.

>>5824614

How would you want to have it changed?

>>5824637
You are clearly mad. In soccer, the best teams either run their own youth academies or buy the players with actual money. Not just "derp let's play like shit so we can be awarded with the best youth players". I've actually read about teams tanking their season when they've been already out of the playoff race, just to get a better position in the draft. How is that strengthening of the competition?

>>5824637

The draft does kind of redistribute talent, don't the teams with the worst record get first pick?

>>5824658
I'll enjoy my World Series a shitload more than you'll enjoy the World Cup, can guarantee that right now.

You talk about anticipation in soccer? Try watching a guy who hit 30+ HR's this season walk up to the plate with 2 on and 2 out in the bottom of the 9th. THAT is anticipation. THAT is an entire country on edge.

Your shit is small time.

>>5824637

You're rewarding failure by giving the worst teams the best talent that year. Talent is the prime commodity in sport... this is a system that props up the weak while putting restraints on the strong.

You don't see how that's a socialist principle?

IFAF World Cup
> Japan 2
> America 1

>>5824414
The best thing about this post is in its defence of football.

My kids fall over and scream and flail when the other kid taps them. They get up 30 seconds later as right as rain as well. That's my problem with football. They need to man up.

Yes, an elbow hurts. No, not that much. The grazes from falling over hurt more. The pain you inflicted on yourself is more than what the other guy did to you.

I think I like rugby the best, but that might be because I'm turning into a fag.

>>5824637
This shit is just going completely over your head.

>>5824681
Comparing the world series to the world cup, fucking lol

From what I skimmed through that just sounded like the US corporations cannot totally capitalise on it making lots of monies so they arent interested. Funny really because in recent years thats basically whats happened with football in europe. Its more about the monies then anything, maybe thats why it seems the US are starting to show more of an interest in it.

>>5824683
Franchises draft what they NEED, they don't just blindly grab the best player. You're STILL wrong.

>>5824677
It's a fair distribution system where the more successful teams with less holes have to wait for the less successful teams with more holes to get their picks in order to keep the league competitive and keep the revenue coming.

That's a SMART BUSINESS PLAN.

>>5824675
What the hell is the point of winning a game that means nothing? Playing for pride is nice IN THEORY but when it benefits your organization to tank a season for a better draft pick how is that not a good business decision?

Are Americans the only people who understand intelligent business planning? Or have I just found the most moronic Eurotrash ever to argue this point with?

>>5824708
You don't understand the league, you don't understand the system and you need to STOP. TALKING.

The reason America doesn't like football as much is simple. They already like too many sports. Shit like low scores, rules, resistance to foreign culture and whatever shit they try to say is just excuses. Football will become more popular either with a cost on other sports' popularity or with population growth.

The reasons we have for not liking soccer confuse me a little bit.

Our supposed 'national pastime' is baseball, a sleep-inducing sport that even a significant portion of Americans hold to be boring. Football is our national sport...the day of the Super Bowl is practically a holiday in this country (for reasons beyond just a football game), whereas the World Series can sometimes go completely unnoticed.

Honestly, I think what most people don't like about soccer is the quality of play (even though they don't know it). When I watched Argentina play last week, and saw Messi and the skill of his play, I said to myself 'why don't I see this shit more often?' The athleticism, the skill, the quality...that's something that can't be taken out of account. A lot of MLS teams are just boring to watch because the skill isn't there. I think if you took European teams and moved them to the U.S. that Americans would take an immediate wider interest in the game, and eventually good athletes wouldn't just bank on playing football in high school but might give soccer a try too.

All this article did was prove how little the author actually knows about American sports. I'm assuming he's a worthless Britfag.

>>5824752

We're not disputing that the system works.

We're saying it's a socialist system. Which it is.

The initial post was a response to the quote in the article where some QB talks about soccer being socialist.

It's fucking ironic because the major leagues use a socialist system to promote competition.

>>5824797
Maybe you don't notice the World Series.

The rest of the country does.

itt: people who don't speak english well try to debate topics they don't understand in a language they don't understand

>>5824752
sounds like communism to me

Because soccer is a children's game

>>5824681
>>5824681
>Try watching a guy who hit 30+ HR's this season walk up to the plate with 2 on and 2 out in the bottom of the 9th.

lol, i would really like to know what that means!

anyway, serious question, not ment to troll. Why do you call it world series?

>>5824681
>comparing world cup to the world series
Fucking lol'd. I mean look at /sp/, entire front page is consisted of World Cup threads, even the group stage grabbed more attention than the motherfucking World Series (which is a final), despite this board being over 60% American. That's how BIG the World Cup is, motherfucker.

>>5824752
Dude you're fucking awesome.

I don't know how many posts you'll make before you realize that what your talking about has nothing to do with what anyone else is talking about.

Yes, it is smart business to keep teams competitive.

What you fail to realize is that smart business does not automatically equal: capitalism, democracy, freedom fries, USA!!! USA!!! USA!!!

Distributing talent evenly, allowing teams that performed weaker in previous years to get the first pick, etc. conforms entirely to the most basic ideals of socialism. If you don't understand this then there is really no hope for this discussion.

americans don't have passion
/thread

>>5824809
But it's not, and you're retarded.

FAIRNESS HURR DURR SOCIALISM

ThePreacherKobold confirmed for most desperate tripfag in history. Just let it go.

Maybe Americans should play more soccer. Playing it is the hell more fun than watching it.

>>5824752
>fair distribution system
sup

>>5824841
My friend, I think you may very well be a socialist without actually realizing it.

>>5824681
>Try watching a guy who hit 30+ HR's this season walk up to the plate with 2 on and 2 out in the bottom of the 9th. THAT is anticipation. THAT is an entire country on edge.

You best be trolling

At most 30% of the country is watching and cares about the World Series, and that's if the Yankees are in it. When England play in the World Cup whole businesses shut down.

>>5824841

Lol, you still can't see it. It's still going over your head.

>>5824841

From what I've noticed you seem to equate typing in all caps to somehow making your point more valid.

pic related, it's describing you.

>>5824852
I'd say he's the most dignified.
I have provided him with many opportunities to just turn this thread into a complete troll fest but he has turned them all down
Perhaps, by the mere act of taking eurofags seriously he is trolling them.

>>5824752
When the league system basically forces you to play like shit, when your fans hope their team won't WIN just so they can grab some college starlet, something is clearly wrong. It's sport, a competitive activity, and a loss is more celebrated than a win. Fucking travesty.

>>5824899
0/10

>>5824831
The front page is covered in World Cup threads because of the invasion of faggot /b/tards and anyone else who is tearing this board apart with their faggotry. This is not a good thing. The only reason this board still exists is because England v. America ended in a tie.

>>5824832
>smart business
>making the most money possible
>not capitalist

Are you even reading what you're typing?

>>5824827
Because the best baseball players in the WORLD play in the best league in the world (MLB) and we play a SERIES to decide the champion

World

Series

Simple enough?

>>5824874
Christ I hope not, I fucking hate socialists.

>>5824927
I thought you were a Christian.

>>5824915
Honestly that's like declaring the soccer champion of Europe (Champions league winner) a World champion just because all the best soccer teams are from Europe.

>>5824915
so would you rename it if the japanese league got better than yours?

>>5824813

I'd recommend that you look at TV ratings for the World Series. It might be popular in some circles (*cough* traditionalist white American *cough*), but it doesn't have nearly the popular outside of the upper-Midwest and Northeast that you seem to think it does.

The sport's pretty decent, and game attendance has been growing, but it's been falling out of favor with TV audiences (which is where the real money is made). No one's saying baseball is completely irrelevant, but it's really just the third most popular sport in the U.S. now.

>>5824927
>I fucking hate socialists
>thinks New Deal was awesome, voted for Obama
lol'd

ThePreacherKobold is my favorite tripfag out of any board.

Please tell me he's a real, blue blooded, thoroughbred american.

This shits like watching a monkey in a zoo.

>>5824940
It's an informal title, there's no FIFA for baseball that actually matters, the WBC is a warm up session for some of the glory hogs of MLB.

>>5824915
>Because the best baseball players in the WORLD >play in the best league in the world (MLB) and we play a SERIES to decide the champion
>World
>Series
>Simple enough?

OH WOW

>>5824915 proves how right >>5824832 was when he said:

>What you fail to realize is that smart business does not automatically equal: capitalism, democracy, freedom fries, USA!!! USA!!! USA!!!

>>5824952
Dude, voting for John McCain makes you a bona fide retard. He was gonna die a year into the gig and we were going to have goddamn Sarah Palin.

DO

NOT

FUCKING

WANT

>>5824940
That would almost be as stupid as declaring the teams that participate in the world cup world champions when they would get destroyed by the winner of the champions league.

>all determined by a non-biased official, the referee.

Tell that to the US team.

>>5824984
Someone PLEASE tell me how the smartest business decision possible to make the most money doesn't equal capitalism.

I am DYING to hear how that is possible.

The real reason the sport isn't successful in the U.S is partly because it is seen as a sissy sport and advertisers hate it because it can be short with little advertising time.

>>5824987
I'm not debating whether McCain and Palin were retards, but Obama is socialist at least by American standards.

Anyways AFAIK you're a catholic living in big ass city in Cali, so no wonder you have a socialist mindset, just stop fucking denying it when it's obvious to everyone.

>>5824465
So i wasn't the only one lolling at that.

TPK keep fighting the good fight until these heathens wise up. You're a saint.

This is beautiful.

>Smart business
>Cannot ever happen outside of capitalism.

This is what murkkans actually believe!

>>5824915
>Because the best baseball players in the WORLD >play in the best league in the world (MLB) and we play a SERIES to decide the champion
>World
>Series
>Simple enough?

lol, thats retarded. true, but retarded nevertheless

>>5824991

Club football and international football are seperate things. The World Cup is the ultimate competition for international football, and is pretty fair in its qualifying format (allowing the widest range of quality talent to come to the world stage without allowing too many shit-tier sides in).