Why is baseball so comfy in anime but actually shit irl?
Because it's fucking boring.
>>142919230
Seconding this, but since every anime uses it, it's also very boring. Can't understand why Japan has such a boner for this, some sort of literal battered wife syndrome me thinks
I don't even like baseball particularly and I still think it's one of the best ball games in existence. There is something insanely satisfying about hitting a flying ball with a stick.
There is just one major flaw to the game:
Too many inactive players.
The whole thing is focused on the extreme fun that a select few boys (or girls) are having while everybody around them is waiting for their turn, and a few guys are on passive duty and are waiting for the ball to fly in a particularly promising direction so they can run for a few seconds and feel marginally useful.
The mechanics of pitching are incredible but the games can go on quite long
I find it a good sport to have on in the background while doing other things
>Why is 2D > 3D?
What a silly question.
Baseball is fucking boring since they're standing still most of the time.
>>142919413
It would be way better if they hit flying sticks with their balls
I have to keep reminding myself that it's actually not fun because I keep wanting to join a team.
>Chihayafuru
>Hanayamata
>>142919180
Because you're dumb weeb... i am also a dumb weeb, that's just the way it is. Your parents didnt teach you music or draftsmanship or books/poetry as a kid and now you have a rotten pumpkin for a head so you come up with stupid conclusions... that's just the way it is we have to deal with it you & i.
>>142919814
Stop writing like an imbecile or fuck off.
fuck baseball
>>142919180
Cute Boy
NPB streams are ultimate comfy though. I find MLB games to be sort of boring, no crowd atmosphere, only people sitting.
>>142919180
Because there's a difference between the innocence of a game being played casually among friends and the ad filled, curruption riddled sports broadcasted on television
The reason you like sports anime over actual sports is because you connect to the characters, therefore you care about what they're doing.
Oh yeah, summer Koshien starts on August 7th. Gonna be fun.
>>142919180
Same with everything else. I watched basketball and just dropped it because it wasn't like Ro Kyu Bu.
>mahjong
>irrational piece of shit in anime
>irrational piece of shit in real life
>equally addictive in both realms
>>142919413
So it's like a turn based sport. Most people that like anime like turn based jrpg's.
>>142923360
Pls no bully
Because the Japanese make Baseball more fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHJ-TbC1bHc
>>142922956
I don't understand whats happening.
>>142924445
>Martin tossed the back to the pitcher
>Accidentally hit Choo's bat
>Few on the turf had no idea what to do but Odor on the 3rd, who ran to the base and scored
>Every fans in SkyDome pissed as hell
>The bottom half of the inning, Rangers made 3 errors in a row
>Bautista hit a HR, flipping the bat like a boss
Back to the topic, you gonna play the game and live with it to get the feel. Those anime just let you know what would feel like playing the game.
>>142919293
Maybe they just want to feel a long, hard rod for once
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kNTY4bAOk8
Next season!
>>142927629
>that accent
holy fucking shit
>>142924809
This is absolutely hilarious
>>142919470
/a/ is 18+ anon.
Basketball used to be shit because people would just turtle with the ball until some guy figured out to add a timer so you have to keep the ball moving.
Normalfags are attracted to the motion and competition. Its why stuff like circuses, martial arts, MMA, wrestling etc. is popular. If you don't like that shit, then you go to your animes where its all about cute 2D girls because you don't like competition.
You're still excited by motion, which is why running is in every anime OP and they try their best to simulate movement without killing their budget during fight scenes.
I could go into more sports shit about how foreigners basically brought different sports like wrestling, boxing, and especially baseball into japan and made it 'cool' like hollywood movies and such but I think you get the idea.
It wasn't the bombs that changed them.
It was the baseball.
>>142924809
Holy shit.
>>142919180
Golf anime when?
>>142924809
>>142919230
>>142919293
>>142919462
>>142922956
faggot /a/ users thinking baseball is boring
try soccer that shit is boring or even golf.
>>142929900
Soccer is boring to watch but at least it's fun to play.
>>142929900
All three are excessively and needlessly boring.
>>142919180
Anime makes every sport look better than it actually is.
>curling anime when
>bobsled anime when
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlORWhsJjNM
As someone who grew up having to listen to Vince Skully every day on the radio (thanks to dad), this became one of the best jokes The Simpsons ever did.
>>142929900
A lot of people find baseball boring because they don't understand all the rules, I guess.
Soccer is a very straightforward spectator sport, with something constantly moving. Baseball is really more about quick plays. It really is kind of like a tactical RPG. Having a runner on second, rather than first with someone up to bat opens a shitload of more options and potential plays on the field rather than if he was just at first, which is why you see sacrifice bunts if there are no outs.
Hell, the game becomes 10x more exciting if you know even a little bit about pitching and what they're trying to do when they throw a certain pitch, and so on.
Most people 'know' how baseball works, but they don't really, if that makes sense. Yeah, you hit a ball with a bat and catch it if you can, but it really is a bit more deep than that. Understanding the plays and how tense things really can get every inning makes it a lot more fun to watch.
>>142930441
American Football has even less going on than Baseball most of the time. You watch an entire game just to see four complete passes and two touchdowns. The other 99% of the time is big guys ramming into each other for 5 seconds, then huddling for 45 seconds.
All that said, you can make an argument that any sport has downtime. I love Football (Soccer). But you can go the entire 90 (+5) minutes with no one scoring a goal. If all someone cares about is the goal, then they'll be bored to tears. I enjoy Football because I like to see the technical aspect. But many people (especially in America) don't even care about it. I just find it ironic that the same people who gripe about Football seem to love Baseball. I guess watching a guy spit and rub his nuts between hits is more interesting than watching a guy run for 20 minutes straight and then get elbowed in the face.
>>142924809
>be Canadian, never watched a game of Baseball
>jump on the bandwagon when the Jays start making noise
>this game
That was a fun run while it lasted. Way better then the Raptors run. Even though they made it to the conference finals, they played like shit for the majority of the playoffs. The 2 wins against the Cavs kinda made up for it though.
>>142930143
>curling anime when
There is a curling manga iirc. Some /a/ posted it a while ago. So there is a small chance.
>bobsled anime when
Never.
>>142919180
I don't know about baseball but I've always had a blast playing my country's version of it.
>>142930441
>game becomes 10x more exciting if you know even a little bit
Hey guys if you give a shit in the first place you'll give EVEN MORE of a later on!
Its so exciting! Its like a drama!
Just admit that your dad got you into it when you were a kid. Most of us watch anime because we loved it as kids, same thing.
Baseball is scary. It's about catching a tiny flying ball that's literally going hundreds of miles per hour. It's a dangerous sport that can easily break your nose, knock your teeth out, or even kill you.
>>142930732
ah yes
the technical aspect of soccer
>>142931761
The ball goes max 180 MPH off a bat and most pitchers can't even go past 100 MPH when throwing. It can be dangerous, but 99% of the time, the ball goes in expected places. And you're trying to avoid boredom more than the ball.
The game is actually more dangerous to the fans than the players. This comes from someone who has been hit twice by a baseball and once by a softball. My head is a magnet for the damn things. Yet players can play 3,000 games and never get hit.
>>142931761
When I woke up this morning I never figured I would find someone afraid of a fucking baseball.
>>142931830
He made it sound like quidditch to me where two guys spend the entire game trying to fucking end it while meanwhile everyone else is actually trying to win.
>>142931872
I got hit in the balls once by a soccer ball. I think that shit happens a lot more. It wasn't funny like it was on tv. I waited for the laugh track but it didn't come.
>>142931830
is he faking getting an injury or something?
>>142931470
Orange Delivery. Mostly untranslated, but it got me hooked on Japanese womens' curling.
The girls made it all the way to the final at the World Championship in March, and they were up in the eighth end, but they ended up losing to the Swiss team 6-9. Satsuki-chan a cute skip.
>>142931830
Flopping is obviously a problem. And pretty much should be gone thanks to dozens of slow motion cameras all over. But since FIFA still refuses to allow replays, officials are stuck going by their judgement. And so it will always remain.
The big problem with Football is actually the off-sides rule. They should be like Hockey and allow any shot. This would increase the number of goals and the 'excitement' of the game. As well as make defenders work more.
>>142931872
>max 180 MPH off a bat
I hope that was a typo. The upper limit on exit velocity is probably around 130 mph. The highest exit velocity since statcast started tracking it was 124 mph.
>>142931886
Anything is dangerous when it goes over a hundred miles an hour, dickhead. You might think differently if a baseball hit you in the side of the head and gave you lasting brain damage.
>>142924809
Couldn't imagine /sp/'s reaction.
>>142931966
Yes. It happens every Soccer game. If you get a lenient official, they'll call everything a foul. And Soccer players realize this, so they overact any time they get touched.
>>142931980
>since FIFA still refuses to allow replays, officials are stuck going by their judgement
This is why this shit won't ever be an american sport except for the mexicans. Football here they analyze the shit out of everything and turn it into a Fate/Stay Night powerlevel discussion
>>142932027
Statistically that not a fucking issue for you especially because you're not going to be playing.
>>142932210
Thats ridiculous. I couldn't take my sport seriously if they did that. Then again all sports have their dumb cheating stuff.
>>142928976
>MMA, wrestling etc. is popular. If you don't like that shit, then you go to your animes where its all about cute 2D girls because you don't like competition.
But that's my second favorite thing to cute 2D girls.
>Why is _____ so comfy in anime but actually shit irl?
welcome to the game of life
>>142931637
Not really. A game like hockey is much more straightforward. It's easy to understand the plays that are made. Any viewer will feel a sense of tension during any shot the team down by one goal makes. Any breakaway, or pass down the ice.
Baseball to most is hit a ball, and catch a ball. People don't feel a lot of tension when one team is up by 3, but those moments come a lot. A game I watched last night could have been drastically different if a few different plays were made, or hits. That's what makes it exciting, but during those moments a lot of people don't really understand whats happening.
Personally I'd say it's because the focus is different in some sports. You can follow the puck and know when to shit your pants because it's either in the net or not. With baseball you can just watch the ball for 9 innings and be bored as fuck unless there's a big hit or a HR. If you don't know the plays, or pitching beyond "throw ball get strike three out", the game will be incredibly shitty and boring to most people.
>>142932257
Well, I don't care for the MLS, but its growing quite well. And in a city like Portland, its the most popular sport. The Timbers are basically the best team in MLS, while the Trail Blazers are a joke in basketball.
>/a/ discussing sports
I just like hitting.
I go the batting cages every couple weeks and I try my best to shatter wooden bats.
>>142932363
FOIGHT
>>142919180
>Why is anime comfy but real life isn't
Because sports anime maintains your attention with character drama, and then slowly eases you into the sport itself. They usually explain the sport as if you've never seen it before, which is a lot more accessible to people who don't care about sports. Also there's no real downtime to it since it's fiction.
As for RL sports, it helps a LOT to have personal experience with the sport. But even then, you don't need it to get into any sport, all you have to do is genuinely take interest in it and try to learn about it. I've seen plenty of American Football games, but it still bores the ever-living shit out of me because I'm just not interested in it. And yet, I watch all 162 games of the MLB season.
>>142932503
AND WIN
>>142919180
No, the only sport manga i can't read is Baseball. it's fucking boring
Who /emotionallycrushedbyMoshidora/ here?
>>142932509
It's also because the players in games are all highly skilled and tend to execute the same successful plays over and over but in sports anime a tiny variation on a technique is ground breaking and wins the match for them.
>>142919180
Maybe for you but baseball is the sport you get a cup of coffee/beer/etc and a snack or two and relax
If it puts you to sleep then congrats you did one of the many opportunities baseball gives you another is excitement
Sadly for me my team(Dodgers) give me anger and have for 22 years now
I watch all 4 major leagues but in order to me overall it goes
Baseball
Football
Hockey
Basketball
I know a lot of weebs here in Vegas that absolutely love baseball some because of anime and manga like cross game(aka the GOAT baseball manga and adachi's best work I only)
It's something that grows on you
>>142932792
At least you get to watch one of the best pitchers to ever play the game every 5 days. That's a lot more than some other teams' fans can say.
![i5tTNrx[1].gif](https://i.imgur.com/LZ5S1rd.gif "i5tTNrx[1].gif")
Baseball is relaxing as hell to watch, and easily my favorite sport. It gives me a lot of the same feelings as watching SOL, but with action and competition on top. Plus it has the most enjoyable spaghetti of any sport, like >>142924809
>>142932792
The stereotypical image of an /a/utist is a skinny virgin with anime posters all over his room and a shitload of merchandise and figurines.
But if you've ever ventured outside of moe-land you'd see how varied it is. The cycle group on /n/ might as well be an anime club at this rate. There's quite a bit of /o/ autism on /a/ as well.
It's really quite interesting to see interests collide. It's always funny to me when, in whatever thread, it occasionally spirals off into some hardcore off-topic discussion about motorcycles, or cycling, or baseball, or football, soccer.
Because you connect with the characters and story more than the sport, the massive amounts of downtime and myriad of rules are often skipped and the main cast are almost all simple, clean and attractive.
You turn on the tv to watch some baseball and have a bunch of guys chewing things obnoxiously, spitting, standing still, looking around and chatting constantly, and I mean *constantly*.
The sheer amount of downtime between pitches is probably a large factor, especially in slower games with lots of balls and fouls. The shots of the players and staff looking bored, blank or relaxed downplay the events of the game, which isn't surprising considering downtime and the amount of games played. It is technically a job after all.
Basically the romance of it in anime clashes with the reality of the sport in the real world
>>142932507
Youve never listened to In The Aeroplane Over The Sea while laying on your bed.
>>142929900
Footaball is alright to watch and I find the intensity of each goal and attack in general to be quite higher than Basketball where the hype is generally in seeing a break in the scoring tradeoffs and one team getting ahead while the other one has to catch up.
Also football is really fun to play. I understand why colonials would hate it. The fat fucks need scooters to get around shopping malls. The thought of having to run around a massive field by itself would be enough to cause one a heart attack.
Baseball is just utter shite though.
>>142933155
Football is pretty good, but every single time the momentum of an attack is disturbed by some cocksleeve diving, or the offside rule.
A match is only ever good when the referee doesn't pay attention to divers, which is basically never.
The only type of people that hate sports are the type of people who aren't good at sports.
It's okay to be indifferent about something, you don't have to like everything, but to hate something you don't know is preposterous
>>142933125
>not Pink Moon
>>142933239
Offside is understandable and I'm alright with it. Divers deserve to die a painful, premature death though. I don't really get why the're so prevalent in football over all other sport. The size of the playing field making what the ref sees vague enough to fuck with him I guess.
>>142933125
>not listening to Building Steam with a Grain of salt at 4am in the morning while not having had any sleep
>>142919180
It's pretty damn comfy irl too, its just rare to find an empty ball field.
>>142933093
Or food
>>142932862
True but my younger brother , born in Michigan , to to see his baseball team go to two WS and lose but go to them nonetheless
Shit just ain't fair we're wasting kershaw's prime
>>142933093
Yeah that is typical on this site
/v/ was the biggest offender in this since its inception
I remember old sport threads talking about mutant league then the next minute they'll talk about the nfl season
Thank god 18-1 happened otherwise we'd have those tripfags from sp roaming this site
Soccer is good because there's only one thing to convert and it's probably the most valuable single point of any sport since most games are decided on one or two goals.
You don't feel elation when somebody is about to shoot a basket or hit a homer in the early game but when a goal approaches at any time in soccer it can tear your heart out because it could be the death knell.
God, this series was depressing. And I hate OP for making me think about it.
>>142933587
This is 100% true, did you watch today's england match in euro 2016? The amount of relief I felt when the score became 1-1 in the second half was incredible.
>>14293309
I agree.
/a/ likes to think of themselves as isolationist Japan, but day in day out there's crossposters sneaking themselves and blending themselves. Only when specific topics, like this thread, does it show.
>>142933260
no, fuck you, i hate the fact that people go to top colleges to literally throw a piece of rubber. They spend their most formative years learning a useless skill meant only to entertain the masses. They will never be a productive member of society. And the fans are by and large just drunken pieces of shit.
>>142933501
Oh yeah, forgot about that. I've definitely seen some of that shit around. There's also a surprising amount of weebs on /fit/, and vice versa.
>>142919293
me thinks you you commit sudoku
>all these millennial autists ITT who are incapable of appreciating the greatest sport in existence because they have no patience
>>142933718
It's really not JUST that. If you're autistic to spend all your time on /a/, you're likely just as autistic to spend hundreds of hours hyperfocusing on whatever else hobby you have. It's a bit different than /v/ crossboarders because quite a lot of it gets more rowdy on the other boards rather than /a/ and is not nearly as intrusive. Nobody from /k/ is browsing in the off chance they can shit up threads, it's usually just some weeb who loves guns as much as he loves his waifu, and will talk about it given the chance.
In fact, there are a few shows where you'll be better off reading the threads ON the other boards rather than /a/.
>>142933727
That's not the sport though, that's the people that surround the sport. Related, but totally different things.
Your like the type of people who hate anime because of their thoughts about weebs or the occasional "wierdo" that crowds around this medium, when they should be critiquing the actual show/movie.
>>142933897
>being a nigger
because baseball in anime has the goofing off, just dicking around with friends and other amatures feel that pro baseball completely lacks because its try hard for that big money.
It's comfy in movies as well.
Have you swung the bat yet, /a/?
fun, manly sports to play
>hockey
>tennis
shit tier sports for faggots
>soccer
>baseball
>>142933727
sorry that a tiny amount of hard-working people are lucky enough to earn money doing a fun meaningless thing, rather than the less fun meaningless things that most people do to earn money
>>142919180
Finnish baseball is so much better than this shit.
>>142934178
how is it possible that the best episode in that series was the baseball episode?
>>142933125
>implying everyone has the same music tastes
>implying I listen to music to relax
>implying I even like music
>>142934218
They're both trash, fampai.
If an anime has a baseball episode, it will always be the best one.
>>142934324
>not liking music
>>142933125
>"babby's first day on /mu/"-memecore
>>142934173
Shit thats some good ass taste
Not even the unending series of unwanted sequels can kill the greatness of the Sandlot
>that whole 4th of July sequence
Sports are boring in general. I have never seen appeal in any of them except for maybe boxing and street racing and that's only due to Joe/Ippo and Initial D.
>>142919180
Pro baseball is boring as fuck, but I always had fun watching the old dudes play softball in the local league when I worked for the city's park services. No downtime, tons of shit talk, impressive plays.
All pro sports suffer from too much downtime.
>>142934430
Doesn't mean it isn't good
>>142919180
>This movie have better writing that Re:zero + female MC
>>142934966
It doesn't, but it isn't all that great either. Its value as part of internet culture outweighs it as a musical experience.
>>142919180
>Anyone still caring about Baseball anymore
These fucking Japs and their 50's time warp. Do they have none of their own ideas anymore? Can they not innovate culture? Why do they keep doing things the way the Burgers taught them to 70 years ago (I mean just look at the way they write fucking stories and dialogue)?
>>142935744
I disagree.
>>142929625
A whole bunch of people fucked up, and then really paid the price when a guy hit a home run after
>>142935904
I know you're trolling, but Japan has always been about taking stuff from other cultures and improving it. Wither its India, China, Netherlands, Germany and America. Sadly, this sometimes turns out good (like imitating the good music of the 80s in the 1990s) and sometimes turns out bad (current big trend is shitty grunge and rap). Japan always seems to be using the fad that was popular 10 years before in the west. And since the west has had shitty music and movies for 20 years, that means we have to struggle through 10 more years of shit for Japan.
>>142919180
Watching baseball is boring as fuck, but playing it is pretty fun.
football is best fuck handegg
>>142936126
>Wither its India, China
Are you talking about Buddhism?
>>142936375
Japan got Buddhism and a lot of culture influences from India. They got a lot more from China such as their early alphabet, the basis for government, Confucian ideas of family, etc.
>>142936375
Well there's that, but also the writing system, rice farming, etc. A lot of Japanese culture is actually derived from China in some way.
>>142928967
It's not unfortunately
>>142934198
>tennis
>manly
It wasn't comfy at all.
>>142934198
>tennis
>>142929900
I unironically think golf is exciting, I wouldn't watch it but when everything lines up it's such a rush.
>>142938570
this
I used to play golf with my dad
I loved it
>>142919180
I think jock culture and copious amounts of advertising turn more people away from spectator sports more than anything else.
>>142939000
If anything, the endless media sports as a whole gets is what lures people in. The people who are the most susceptible to marketing and media tend to also love sports (and reality shows).
>>142933302
My nigga
>>142931980
>This would increase the number of goals and the 'excitement' of the game
It would then decrease the importance of goals in a game where even draws can mean a lot ala Iceland vs Portugal.
>tfw your local baseball radio broadcasters are goat
It's not something to pay extremely close attention to as there is a lot of down time and the season is one of the longest in sports. But getting attached to your team even if they suck is comfy.
>>142941926
>Kruk and Kuiper
I fucking cringe every time ESPN or the MLB network casts a game.
>>142919180
>>142919413
Okay, how about this:
The batter is now allowed to throw 3 consecutive balls in 3 second intervals.
Runners are now allowed to run freely on the field and hinder the defenders e.g. by tackling and grappling them. Of course runners are still out if they're not on base in time. Defenders are likewise allowed to attack runners.
Runners now have to overcome obstacles, such as water ditches and walls.
>>142935744
You realize ITAOTS was renowned years before /mu/ even existed. Stop talking shit about things you don't know faggot.
>>142924809
>flipping the bat like a boss
Are you fucking retarded? Bautista is a degenerate asshole, and the batflip was absolutely disgusting.
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>Samurai Champloo baseball scene
>Alte Kameraden starts playing
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I wish season 3 was better as a whole but that baseball episode was still gold
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>>142930143
>mfw as an O's fan seeing Machado not take that bullshit from Ventura anymore a few nights ago
Baseball is awesome when it's just you and your bros fucking around.
It also helps if you're decent at it.
>>142919814
>Your parents didnt teach you music or draftsmanship or books/poetry as a kid and now you have a rotten pumpkin for a head
Mean but lol.
>>142919180
holy fuck is that from "The Girl who lept through time" ? anime movies fells so hard in animation quality since the late 90's/early00's jesus fuck 2d animation is truly dead.
>>142919180
People actually hit the ball and catch it in anime.
In real life, hitting the ball is quite difficult and catching it involves running all over the damn place. It's a real workout. If you want something casual or "comfy", then you just toss the ball at each other and catch it in mitts. Of course, anime generally wants something more interesting without the characters putting more effort into it, so the baseballs are magnetically attracted to the bat and the gloves, making every swing hit and every catch work without moving too much.
>>142919180
Because you never had enough friends to get together a neighborhood game and fuck around with during a summer afternoon.
Sports in general are comfy as fuck, especially the relatively lazy ones. They only get cringey and lame when people take them too seriously, like literally everything else.
>>142929900
All sports are boring as fuck to watch.
I understand being an athlete and wanting to watch other people play, because you can judge their skills compared to yours and live vicariously through them, but what do normal normalfags get out of them?
>>142951213
Why do we watch anime if we're not animators, directors, or writers?
>tfw Oofuri makes me feel extremely nostalgic about summer afternoons playing with my friends even though it wasn't baseball what we played.
I don't really know how but it does the trick.Btw there were no homo vibes with my friends.
>>142951062
How did this happen?!? I know this is supposed to be hyperbole, but jeezus...
>>142943116That's exactly who I was talking about, my nigga
>>142919180
baseball is fun to watch with a group of friends while drinking because the game is more for the background while you socialize, its a plot device to hang out with people
>>142929900
Soccer is boring. Baseball is boring. Golf is boring. Every sport is boring.
>>142951213
Normal normalfags use substances while watching sports often, makes it fun
>>142919180
Playing baseball in the park with your buds is chill/fun as shit.
Watching it on TV is boring as fuck.
Who /hanshintigers/ here?
>>142944585
Why are you such a baby? They were completely dominant that game.
>>142951213
I enjoy watching all sports pretty much, no particular reason i just like it similar to how i like anime.
>>142952144
meme team
>>142951920
Hockey isn't.
Fighting is a legitimate part of the sport. They don't break up fights till someone falls or it's a stalemate, or too one sided. They let them fight it out.
It's fast, it's brutal, it takes skill, and there are some amazing plays that happen.
Is there a hockey anime yet? Or even manga?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmVG31m6lMU
>No cute girls fighting in the rink, slamming each other against the walls, making good plays
>>142951803
>hyperbole
The same shit happened in soccer.
You could feel the regret and pain on her face as she flopped on the floor, having kicked the ball in to her own goal. I think she cried.
I can't find the webm though.
>>142944585
>Amerifags still pissed at Joey Bats making the moment for Jays and Canada for a long time
Because you have shit taste.
Anime and baseball are the only things that don't make me want to kill myself.
>>142952250
There are manga about ice hockey, but I don't think there is anime adaptations of those yet.
>>142952499
Adachi must be your god.
>>142952446
Women's soccer is notoriously shitty.
There are countless anecdotes about Women's soccer teams being beaten by High School Boys' teams
>>142952594
Baseball itself is my patron deity.
>>142952581
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJFI3S06FqA
It's such a great sport.
>Mad at a player
>Tension
>Literally call out to him
>Both of them throw their gloves and sticks and instantly begin fighting
>One gets knocked the fuck out, end fight, that hype from the winning team, that disappointment from the losing team
It's so fucking great. All the slamming in to each other and wizard shit they do with their sticks is amazing.
Olympic Fencing is the best sport. Why fuck around with pucks and balls when you can fight with swords/play tag with car antennas. Shame the only fencing manga is Duel and only the first chapter was translated, not that it mattered because it was shit. Kendo is shit and so is Bamboo Blade.
>>142952938
> Kendo is shit
Say that to my face irl, not over the internet, see what happens.
>>142952616
I would like to play soccer against them, lose and be dominated by sweaty fit girls in the shower afterwards.jk even after 15 years of not playing I would beat their shit up
Princess Nine S2 when?
>>142952963
Enjoy your stupid neutered Kenjutsu warrior sport where you can only hit the head, wrists, and right side of the chest, and you need to fight the same way whether you are right or left handed. Don't forget that there's no electric scoring and every competitive match I've watched has been the two of them running at each other and one person getting a point for hitting 0.3 seconds earlier, with no real defensive play.
>>142934173
What about a SOL like the sandlot except it's about kids playing manhunt.
>>142941926
Fuck the Giants's fans for generating so much traffic and making my commute hell. Although I probably should scalp tickets and go to a game sometime.
>it's a neets don't understand sports thread
>>142931872
>tfw sitting five rows back from the front right next to the third baseman
You had to pay attention to every swing, or you risk getting a nasty head injury with every line drive into foul territory.
>>142952938
I like javelin
Though, I don't like how it's always distance. They should have added another event for accuracy, such as a human sized target sorta far out.
Archery is ok
Fencing is ok too
>>142952938
You're out with your waifu for a walk in the park when this guy comes up and challenges you to a duel for your maiden's heart. What do you do?
Keep in mind he's 5′ 6″
How do I get into baseball if i live in the UK? I'm really fucking tired of futball.
>>142919180
Why is everything in the world so comfy in anime but actually shit irl?Except animals, for some reason real life animals are usually way cuter than their anime counterparts. Cats especially
>>142932661
I thought I was alone.
>>142952709
wait ... is fighting allowed in hockey?
I mean, it look like referee don't do shit before one of them is down.
It happen a lot in rugby too (it's more a brawl in those case).
Most of the time they all end up drinking beer together after the match anyway.
>>142951375
That's not the same thing and you know it
>>142932257
>Football here they analyze the shit out of everything and turn it into a Fate/Stay Night powerlevel discussion
Holy fucking shit this is so true.
>>142924809
>BadNewsBears.webm
>People actually liking sports
People only enjoy sports because other people are interested in them. If all knowledge of all sports was erased from the earth tomorrow, I can guarantee you that shit like soccer, baseball, etc would never, ever be reinvented. Things like racing would probably come back, but anything involving balls is boring as fuck and hails from a time when that sort of thing really was the pinnacle of entertainment. Nowadays we have plenty of better things, noticeably videogames and robots, that are leagues more interesting to watch than a bunch of men who have nothing to do with your actual province or nation duke it out in an arbitrary game against other arbitrary teams.
tl;dr hang yourself for being so easily influenced, it's honestly pathetic.
Don't care about sports. Hard to get into because the majority of the game feels like redundant filler. Don't care about the personalities and individual moments are largely repetitive and cool things are by large luck and seem better because of the break of tedium
>>142952250
No matter where, /a/, or FB, twitter, or tumblr, a hockey fan will inevitably butt in and mention something about their sport being superior to another. About the speed, or how hardcore it is to be on skates cutting goalies jugulars, or how the now neutered fights are so brutal, etc.
I mean damn, I like hockey but why the fuck are the fans like this. They'll literally sniff out two twelve year olds talking about like, soccer, on the discussion section of some meme image and interject about how hockey is better and also totally not boring and also brutal
>>142957394
Jesus Christ, this entire autistic rant is the pinnacle of edgy chan elitism.
Who the fuck knows if some sport like football or baseball with all their wack-ass and convoluted rules would be recreated in said world, but I'd put my money on some type of sport being reinvented. Why? Because even in todays world, people still do like going outside and burning some energy, and doing it with friends or acquaintances in some type of friendly competition is just something all humans have liked/done throughout our history, in many, many various forms.
>>142957394
I know it's hard for a fat fuck who is glued to his computer chair by his own sweat and fecal matter to comprehend, but physical activity can be really fun, moreso than video games.
Only entertaining sports to watch are combat sports like MMA.
>>142957139
Yes it is you turbotard. In both cases you watch it for enjoyment. Just because your hobbies don't fit in with a large chunk of society's doesn't mean you have to pretend watching sports is pointless.
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>>142919180
Why is Shinji wearing a skirt in your gif, Anon?
>>142943957
It's brilliant
>>142934259
because it wasn't really about baseball
>>142957086
It was legitimately heartwrenching and unfair what happened to her. And it's not like this some shounen series where she could magically come back.
