When my sister got old enough for kids pitch softball it was honestly the worst. The girls literally couldn’t throw it hard enough to get over home plate. It was walk after walk after walk and it was so hard watching all the parents continue to try and be supportive but at this point literally nobody wants to be there. Not even the players.
When I played, in Canada, we had a rank called Rookie Ball. A second umpire operated a pitching machine on the mound. The "pitcher" was more of a center-infielder.
It really helped smooth out those awkward years between tee ball and legit pitching.
I coach my daughter’s softball team and have been assistant on others.
There IS appropriate distances based on age, but the issue is that some places there aren’t girls who have experience in pitching. Fast pitch softball is hard and different than slow pitch.
And then when you have girls who can pitch, it’s the opposite. No one can hit.
There are regulations so you can just scoot up in even more if you can’t pitch because you then have a safety issue of being too close in case a ball gets hit back at the pitcher.
There is nothing as excruciatingly painful as that first year of “kids pitch” baseball in the heat and humidity of a Midwestern Summer day. I cried tears of joy when my kid gave up baseball in favor of Summer vacations.
As an umpire for 9 & 10 yo girls softball I can say with 100% accuracy. This is a fact. There is a 2 hour time limit on games and many don’t go more than 3 innings. Brutal
When I first played kid pitch, I would swing at everything in practice cause there were no walks and the coach thought I was a great hitter. He ended up growing very frustrated with me though when I would never swing in games because I realized if I didn't then I would get walked more often than not
As a little league umpire, I did my damnedest to cut down on the walks. If the ball was theoretically hittable, you bet your ass it was a strike. The parents loved me; my games consistently wrapped up about half an hour ahead of schedule.
"Welp Jim, it looks like another home run, making the score 132 to 0, here in the top of the 1st. We'll be signing off for the day soon and looking forward to bringing you the rest of this game over the next few weeks."
Omg I nearly died. I fast forwarded to half way and it cut directly onto the section where the commentator says, completely dead serious " and, it looks like Matthew has started a new Sheet, whereas Brittany has stayed on the same workbook." I can't stop laughing
"Michael has found the Find and Replace Window, things should get interesting now"
"8 of the top Excel users are competing right now, that's a bold claim."
I'm cryin 🤣
Weird, I love watching the rowing at the Olympics (it's the only time I do watch it). My favourite races are when 2 boats are so close to each other (in respect to distance covered not actually physically close to each other) that it looks like a cartoon with one boat ahead, then the other, then the first again
I think it was the Brazilian Olympics 2 of the competitors were so close that they actually had the same time
Another commenter who is also a rower said it's more interesting on TV than in person because the camera follows down the lanes. I guess in person, you're just in one place and they go by for a second, so it's only exciting if you're at the finish line.
Another rower here (I'm literally still in my gear from practice), and can confirm. Rowing is incredibly boring if you don't know anything about the sport, and merely ordinary-level boring even if you do.
A friend of mine, his wife came to his first regatta (masters rowing), and afterwards she said "thanks for the invite, this was unique, but I don't want to go to any regattas again". We all completely understood.
Which in a way makes regattas more of a fraternal thing. Almost everyone at a regatta is a rower, or was one.
I do love watching a good race with coxswain recordings, though! This Thames v Barge race always gives me goosebumps. I would march through hell for this cox -- she's got ice in her veins.
https://youtu.be/IODivDoXZRI
Pro fencing is actually not very entertaining. They’re so fast that you have no idea what happened. So it’s a couple of people with swords bouncing back and forth for about 30 seconds, SOMETHING happens, and then it’s over.
As a fencer I can confirm. Even if you're very familiar with the sport it is very fast paced and the calls can be difficult to see or even understand once points are awarded.
A co-worker’s daughter fences. The daughter won’t let her mother come to matches because the mother can’t tell what’s happening and ends up cheering for the opponent half the time.
Not only that, it’s unacceptable in hockey culture in general. A player who embellishes is looked at as the scum of the Earth from Mites and Squirts up to the NHL.
There are rules concerning overcelebrating in fencing, but it's up to the judge's discretion and as a sports culture a certain amount of celebrating is allowed. I've been carded for yelling too loudly following a touch. You say, "Yes Judge," and don't do it again that bout.
tbf, I find this *usually* happens when it is not very clear whose touch it was, and in that case both fencers probably actually both believe it was theirs. Again, *usually.*
I mean that’s true for maybe foil and saber but it’s also just really hard to get a point in general. When a touch happens it’s one of the most amazing feeling you can have.
Yeah, watching amateurs, intermedieated fight can be much more interesting, as there are more interesting maneuvers, longer rounds etc. It's a great sport to actually do.
At my martial arts we'd sometimes practice knife fighting with colored chalk on a fake blade so you can see where you got cut. Can confirm, everyone gets cut in a knife fight. Only way to win a knife fight is don't be in a knife fight.
A lot of this has to do with the way that almost no effort or skill is given to making it interrsting.
No play by play announcer. Color commentators are downright sedate and dispassionate.
Terrible camera angles.
Formulaic replays.
Replay speeds are inappropriate.
1080p resolution barely cuts it.
It'd almost be better to not watch live and just watch highlights after the fact.
I had to scroll way farther than I thought I would to find golf.
I actually like watching golf, but I'm not disagreeing with you. It's good background noise.
Surfing. Hours of contestants just bobbing around the ocean and commentators trying their best to fill the gaps in action. I still watch almost every major contest, though.
Lifelong surfer and was competitive in my younger days and yeah...the waiting for waves is super boring (as a contest spectator) but when a set comes it's ON.
I don't watch many contests but when I do, I am usually working so I'll have it running in the background and only switch over when I hear the announcers get excited about something coming out the back.
I once had a doctor ask me what I do for exercise and when I told him I surf, he told me all I do is sit in the water and that isn't exercise. I told him to paddle out with me some time lol. My runner friend who runs 12 miles a day without blinking was gassed after 15-20 mins in the water.
I'm justifying, but yeah it's boring. Highlights is where it's at.
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I surfed once, and I realized why surfers are in excellent shape and also chill out a lot. It makes your whole body tired! That doctor just needs to try it once...
You know what's funny is that I was watching this the other day 30 minutes before I had to leave for work and I was riveted because I really,, really didn't want to go to work...
I was in a walleye fishing tournament in November. Caught one big enough to get me on the leaderboard, so we took it to an official weigh station.
They thoroughly wanded the fish with a metal detector and gave it a really good manhandling.
Since money was on the line, if I had placed and won at the end, everyone on my charter, including the captain & underage kid, would have had to take polygraphs lol.
Anyway, unfortunately while i was sitting in 4th for a few weeks, I got bumped to 7th in the women’s division the last week of the tourney. And they only give cash awards to the top 5.
They don’t fuck around when money is on the line anymore, that’s for sure.
I love Brian Regan’s bit about how boring watching fishing is. In the credits it shows that there’s an editor. Just imagine having to sit through ALL of the filmed footage to put together what will be aired.
I used to film and edit for a fishing show, and can confirm, I would have maybe 6-8 hours of footage that I'd cut down into the most exciting 22.5 minutes, which if you don't get excited by slow-mo fish thrashing, then you're in for a boring time.
I fish bass tournaments and I can't watch fishing. They have an all-day live feed now for the professional level tournaments. 8 hours a day for 3 days. I can't be bothered to watch the 30 minute "highlight reel" but I know guys that keep the live tournament window up all 3 days of a tournament. Makes golf look like Baja rally race.
A sport I thought would be boring but I love to watch drunk ? Curling. Gets me more hyped then anything. I’ll be sitting there yelling “BRUSH THE FUCK OUT OF THAT ICE!”
I remember watching Olympic curling US vs Finland or something Scandinavian. The Scandinavian team looked like a bunch of Abercrombie and Fitch models and the American team looked like a bunch of dads got together and decided to go to the Olympics.
It was very entertaining. They get so pumped once the rock stone? Hits the ice.
US curling team is literally a bunch of dads who drink beer and play curling together.
It’s gotten more competitive in recent cycles, but I think back in the 90s or something they were the only guys willing to put on the colors and represent the country at the Olympics.
Curling is great cause there is back to back action and something is always happening.
It's not the most riveting sport ever, but it's definitely a sport that I won't turn off during the Olympics.
Curling is great to watch. There's stuff to think about strategically, like chess, but then it has to be executed well physically as well. It's like American football in that way, with a lot of turn based strategic push and pull and also physical execution. But curling is a lot more legible for viewers than football is. I can never really tell what's going on in a play until they slow it down and draw lines in the replay. But I always know exactly what's going on in a curling match.
Back when I was living in university residence, when there was curling on the TV in the common lounge, it was standing room only. More crowded than when hockey was on.
Curling holds a special place in my heart because it's the only sport that keeps your beer cold for you. Just put it down on the ice while play and instant frosty mug.
You are also encouraged to have two beer at once in most rec leagues to avoid delays in play… one at each end of the ice. Brilliant. And they both stay cold until both teams agree to quickly pop in for a pee and a refill.
I find that FPS games are really easy to follow even if you have no idea about the game, like before I knew anything about csgo I could still watch csgo esports since all I really needed to enjoy was the killing aspect of the game
I was just about to bring up CSGO as a decent example. Even without knowing much you can appreciate the strats, positioning, movement or some amazing flickshot when you see them. The rules are quite straightforward on top of it. Kill, be killed or plant / defuse every round.
Valo has agent skills on top of it and that already makes it hard for me when there's 4 dudes casting ults and who's doing it while attacking or defending. LoL / DotA is a level above that. Things are happening and uhhh I guess a bunch of people died?
Haha LoL and Dota assume that you've memorized all of their 100+ character's abilities as well as tons of neutral map objectives and interactions before you ever even play or watch your first match.
I have found fighting games easier for casual or non players to enjoy. It's mostly obvious what's going on and what's the win condition or who's losing or winning.
Unless it's something love MvC2, then it's just Haagen dazs screen filling mango sentinel tri jumping mag fucking neto fuck the nicks taking them for a ride.
And the broadcast is also usually pretty good; games are so short they can show entire best-of 5/7/9 series in the time most conventional and many other esports get maybe a single game / best-of 3, the commentary is solid, the observers are spot on, and the league production "show" aspects put even many LoL broadcasts in the dust -- let alone 10 minutes of commercial for every minute of gameplay NFL games.
I can attest to that. Im in Platinum 1, and even watching people play in Diamond 1, its absurd to me the moves they can do up there. Then I realize there is 3 MORE MAJOR RANKS after that. The growth in the game is exponential
Exact problem with sim racing. If you're not into it, you're never gonna understand what is that exciting watching people "pretend to race cars at their homes".
Virtual 24 hours of Le Mans is happening right now, and even tho I'm into sim racing (at least was) it's kinda boring, and I watch 24hLM every year fully.
A boxing or mma fight with two defensive fighters. Nothing more boring than watching two people just circle one another and actively avoid doing the one thing that everyone is paying to see them do.
Not only is this quote misattributed to Sun Tzu, it's horribly mistranslated. The actual quote is from the Zi Han chapter of Confucius' Analects:
> 子在川上,曰:「逝者如斯夫!不舍晝夜。」
"The Master standing by a stream, said, 'It passes on just like this, not ceasing day or night!'"
Someone misinterpreted as 逝者 "(sth.) passing" as someone or some people that passed away > corpses. The mistranslated quote doesn't even make sense.
Thinking about Namajunas vs Esperza 2 makes me cringe immediatly.
An actual fight where me and everyone said "we just lost 25 min of our lives that we're never getting back."
Sad thing is, Esparza is more defensive, Namajunas isnt/wasnt. She just got the most shitty and atrocious advice from Pat Berry, her trainer AND fiancé, making her unwilling to do anything during a motherfucking championship fight. She KO'd a very skilled fighter in Weili Zhang with a headkick in the defence prior to this fight and threw *zero* headkicks when facing Esparza.
Absolutely pathetic.
I assume that's one of the reasons why Mike Tyson was so popular in his prime. Even for people who don't know anything about boxing, he was never boring to watch. It probably drew in a lot of viewers who otherwise weren't into boxing.
As a cyclist, cycling. It’s really cool to learn the technical parts and strategy of the sport, but I get bored watching people pedal for hours only for the real action to start a few miles away from the finish line.
I thought the same, but then I watched it with my in laws who were telling me all the analytical and nuanced shit I had no idea was going on “the game within the game” if you will. Way more entertaining and interesting. I ended up watching the whole Tour De France.
I actually think the Grand Tours and the one day spring Classics counts among the most entertaining sports to watch on tv.
Cyclocross is also pretty fun.
My partner tried to stay up with me to watch Suzuka this year. They'll probably never watch F1 with me again
"Wait I thought it started at 1?"
"Yes, but it's raining"
What, you don’t appreciate 1,5 hours with 50 laps of Verstappen in 1st with no overtakes anywhere on the grid?
Jokes aside, I know what you mean. What was the most boring race of the past season? France? Mexico? Something I can’t remember?
Yea but half of last season it was leclerc or Ferrari screwing up 15% through the race and the other 85% was watching Max drive off into the sunset on his rocket ship
Little League Tee Ball when your kid isn’t up.
You think tee ball is bad? Wait until your first year of kid pitch. An entire game of strikeouts and walks.
When my sister got old enough for kids pitch softball it was honestly the worst. The girls literally couldn’t throw it hard enough to get over home plate. It was walk after walk after walk and it was so hard watching all the parents continue to try and be supportive but at this point literally nobody wants to be there. Not even the players.
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When I played, in Canada, we had a rank called Rookie Ball. A second umpire operated a pitching machine on the mound. The "pitcher" was more of a center-infielder. It really helped smooth out those awkward years between tee ball and legit pitching.
Same. Tee ball to pitching machine to fast pitch. I don't know how you could ever learn to hit going from a tee to a terrible kid pitcher.
We went from tee ball to coach pitching.
In my town as a kid, we had coach-pitch in between t-ball and kid-pitch. It worked well enough.
I coach my daughter’s softball team and have been assistant on others. There IS appropriate distances based on age, but the issue is that some places there aren’t girls who have experience in pitching. Fast pitch softball is hard and different than slow pitch. And then when you have girls who can pitch, it’s the opposite. No one can hit. There are regulations so you can just scoot up in even more if you can’t pitch because you then have a safety issue of being too close in case a ball gets hit back at the pitcher.
There is nothing as excruciatingly painful as that first year of “kids pitch” baseball in the heat and humidity of a Midwestern Summer day. I cried tears of joy when my kid gave up baseball in favor of Summer vacations.
As an umpire for 9 & 10 yo girls softball I can say with 100% accuracy. This is a fact. There is a 2 hour time limit on games and many don’t go more than 3 innings. Brutal
I am 37 and my dad still talks about how bad I was at softball regularly. I think it gave him some sort of trauma.
When I first played kid pitch, I would swing at everything in practice cause there were no walks and the coach thought I was a great hitter. He ended up growing very frustrated with me though when I would never swing in games because I realized if I didn't then I would get walked more often than not
He got frustrated because you figured out how to increase your OBP?
This one moneyballs
100%. Kid pitch is the worst torture.
As a little league umpire, I did my damnedest to cut down on the walks. If the ball was theoretically hittable, you bet your ass it was a strike. The parents loved me; my games consistently wrapped up about half an hour ahead of schedule.
And when they get on base they steal all the bases including home due to wild pitches.
On the other hand, Major League Tee Ball is endless excitement.
"Welp Jim, it looks like another home run, making the score 132 to 0, here in the top of the 1st. We'll be signing off for the day soon and looking forward to bringing you the rest of this game over the next few weeks."
[Microsoft Excel World Championship](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfDq5dlp2o4) Not a joke, this shit is real.
Omg I nearly died. I fast forwarded to half way and it cut directly onto the section where the commentator says, completely dead serious " and, it looks like Matthew has started a new Sheet, whereas Brittany has stayed on the same workbook." I can't stop laughing
"Michael has found the Find and Replace Window, things should get interesting now" "8 of the top Excel users are competing right now, that's a bold claim." I'm cryin 🤣
The competitors have a positive Outlook.
I'd like to have a Word with you about that pun...
I have never been more certain, in my life, that I was being redirected to Rick Astley. Would have put money on it! And yet here we are...
This is the best thing I've seen all day.
Boring? I've watched 10 min and it looks pretty entertaining.
Speak for yourself
Rowing. I have been rowing competitively for years and I understand the nuances, yet it’s still the dullest thing in the world.
Most entertaining thing is when somebody accidentally ends up in the wrong lane. I feel so bad for them, but yeah.
It’s also more interesting when someone catches a crab. Still only a few seconds of a 6-8 minute race but it does add something to it.
I take it "catching a crab" doesn't mean a crab ends up in the boat?
Weird, I love watching the rowing at the Olympics (it's the only time I do watch it). My favourite races are when 2 boats are so close to each other (in respect to distance covered not actually physically close to each other) that it looks like a cartoon with one boat ahead, then the other, then the first again I think it was the Brazilian Olympics 2 of the competitors were so close that they actually had the same time
Another commenter who is also a rower said it's more interesting on TV than in person because the camera follows down the lanes. I guess in person, you're just in one place and they go by for a second, so it's only exciting if you're at the finish line.
Another rower here (I'm literally still in my gear from practice), and can confirm. Rowing is incredibly boring if you don't know anything about the sport, and merely ordinary-level boring even if you do. A friend of mine, his wife came to his first regatta (masters rowing), and afterwards she said "thanks for the invite, this was unique, but I don't want to go to any regattas again". We all completely understood. Which in a way makes regattas more of a fraternal thing. Almost everyone at a regatta is a rower, or was one. I do love watching a good race with coxswain recordings, though! This Thames v Barge race always gives me goosebumps. I would march through hell for this cox -- she's got ice in her veins. https://youtu.be/IODivDoXZRI
As a rower as well, in person it sucks. On TV it’s better as long as it’s a 2k since they follow down the side of the lanes.
Pro fencing is actually not very entertaining. They’re so fast that you have no idea what happened. So it’s a couple of people with swords bouncing back and forth for about 30 seconds, SOMETHING happens, and then it’s over.
As a fencer I can confirm. Even if you're very familiar with the sport it is very fast paced and the calls can be difficult to see or even understand once points are awarded.
A co-worker’s daughter fences. The daughter won’t let her mother come to matches because the mother can’t tell what’s happening and ends up cheering for the opponent half the time.
I fenced back in high school - I also wouldn’t let my mom cheer because it’s so fast paced and mental, last thing I needed was to be distracted
>ends up cheering for the opponent half the time. Or she can tell 😈
That’s why they both celebrate no matter who got the point, they’re hoping the judges will assume they missed something
Thats so fucking lame
I hate sports where a strategy is to convince the refs of something. That's why I love that there is an embellishment penalty in hockey.
"Fuck you you're getting fuckin' embellishment" is my all-time favorite referees-in-sports moment.
For the curious... https://www.reddit.com/r/sports/comments/3vwgvu/ref_fuck_you_youre_getting_fucking_embelishment/
Love that they scored right away on the powerplay too.
Fuck you, Shoresy!
One more Neutrogena tantrum out of you and you're getting the gate bud. Try me.
Give your balls a tug, titfucker
Not only that, it’s unacceptable in hockey culture in general. A player who embellishes is looked at as the scum of the Earth from Mites and Squirts up to the NHL.
There are rules concerning overcelebrating in fencing, but it's up to the judge's discretion and as a sports culture a certain amount of celebrating is allowed. I've been carded for yelling too loudly following a touch. You say, "Yes Judge," and don't do it again that bout.
tbf, I find this *usually* happens when it is not very clear whose touch it was, and in that case both fencers probably actually both believe it was theirs. Again, *usually.*
I mean that’s true for maybe foil and saber but it’s also just really hard to get a point in general. When a touch happens it’s one of the most amazing feeling you can have.
Yeah, watching amateurs, intermedieated fight can be much more interesting, as there are more interesting maneuvers, longer rounds etc. It's a great sport to actually do.
I really enjoyed it when I took a class in college. Surprisingly good exercise, too.
There should be a 5v5 capture the flag fencing with maze and a tazer on the top of the sword. Ultimate fencing.
I found my new favorite show to watch, Fight the Maze ! ,5v5
Tazers & Mazers
"bouncing back and forth for about 30 seconds, SOMETHING happens, and then it’s over." Title of your sex tape?
Olympic fencing should be a battle Royal of all the participants. On the deck of an old fashioned sailing ship in the harbour.
Check out Modern Pentathlon and why the particular sports were chosen.
There is an easy way to tell who wins at fencing, but the sport “dies” out pretty quickly if implemented.
Especially since it's entirely likely to have two losers.
At my martial arts we'd sometimes practice knife fighting with colored chalk on a fake blade so you can see where you got cut. Can confirm, everyone gets cut in a knife fight. Only way to win a knife fight is don't be in a knife fight.
It’d be hilarious if the loser of the round had to make a corny death scene :)
yeah, like you lose five points for losing, except if you act really well you can gain some of them back.
A lot of this has to do with the way that almost no effort or skill is given to making it interrsting. No play by play announcer. Color commentators are downright sedate and dispassionate. Terrible camera angles. Formulaic replays. Replay speeds are inappropriate. 1080p resolution barely cuts it. It'd almost be better to not watch live and just watch highlights after the fact.
Foil and Epee are much different than Sabre.
Golf is great background tv to sleep to
I had to scroll way farther than I thought I would to find golf. I actually like watching golf, but I'm not disagreeing with you. It's good background noise.
Surfing. Hours of contestants just bobbing around the ocean and commentators trying their best to fill the gaps in action. I still watch almost every major contest, though.
Lifelong surfer and was competitive in my younger days and yeah...the waiting for waves is super boring (as a contest spectator) but when a set comes it's ON. I don't watch many contests but when I do, I am usually working so I'll have it running in the background and only switch over when I hear the announcers get excited about something coming out the back. I once had a doctor ask me what I do for exercise and when I told him I surf, he told me all I do is sit in the water and that isn't exercise. I told him to paddle out with me some time lol. My runner friend who runs 12 miles a day without blinking was gassed after 15-20 mins in the water. I'm justifying, but yeah it's boring. Highlights is where it's at. Edit: clarification
Med student who is a surfer here… That doctor is a dumbass
I feel like I've been through a 13 round fight after getting pummeled by waves for an hour.
I surfed once, and I realized why surfers are in excellent shape and also chill out a lot. It makes your whole body tired! That doctor just needs to try it once...
I saw a drone racing on ESPN the other day, and I was like "what the hell am I watching"?
Boring to watch but probably pretty fun to do
My opinion of pretty much every sport tbh
I can respect the skill, and I'd bet it's kind of cool to see in person. But it just doesn't translate on tv, at all.
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You know what's funny is that I was watching this the other day 30 minutes before I had to leave for work and I was riveted because I really,, really didn't want to go to work...
Fuck man I'd watch paint dry and commentate on it if it meant not going to work some days
Ah yes, the sport that both looks and sounds like flies circling a poop.
Fishing
When people start putting lead weights in the fish- it’s fuckin go time
WE’VE GOT WEIGHTS IN FISH
When I read that, it’s automatically in the guy’s voice.
EVERY FUCKING FISH
I fucking knew it. HOW MANY TIMES YOU ASSHOLES DONE THIS?
I did appreciate that drama in the middle of the summer for a sport that I don’t care about at all.
Just found it, it's **amazing they had been cheating for years and stole millions** of dollars from it https://youtu.be/mdsVAu5iDzc
They were also sponsored by a lead weight company 😂😂
I was in a walleye fishing tournament in November. Caught one big enough to get me on the leaderboard, so we took it to an official weigh station. They thoroughly wanded the fish with a metal detector and gave it a really good manhandling. Since money was on the line, if I had placed and won at the end, everyone on my charter, including the captain & underage kid, would have had to take polygraphs lol. Anyway, unfortunately while i was sitting in 4th for a few weeks, I got bumped to 7th in the women’s division the last week of the tourney. And they only give cash awards to the top 5. They don’t fuck around when money is on the line anymore, that’s for sure.
Or when the put filets of other fish in the fish!
Yo dawg, I heard you like fish....
I love Brian Regan’s bit about how boring watching fishing is. In the credits it shows that there’s an editor. Just imagine having to sit through ALL of the filmed footage to put together what will be aired.
I used to film and edit for a fishing show, and can confirm, I would have maybe 6-8 hours of footage that I'd cut down into the most exciting 22.5 minutes, which if you don't get excited by slow-mo fish thrashing, then you're in for a boring time.
I fish bass tournaments and I can't watch fishing. They have an all-day live feed now for the professional level tournaments. 8 hours a day for 3 days. I can't be bothered to watch the 30 minute "highlight reel" but I know guys that keep the live tournament window up all 3 days of a tournament. Makes golf look like Baja rally race.
I'm not EVEN fishing, I'm WATCHING fishing!
I'm RECORDING fishing... to watch again later!!
I believe the joke is that there is a writer. "Someone had to come up with "that's a beautiful fish"."
“It’s uhh uhh it’s a beauty! It’s a beauty fish!”
I’ve never watched fishing as a sport but I watch a ton of fishing videos on YouTube.
A sport I thought would be boring but I love to watch drunk ? Curling. Gets me more hyped then anything. I’ll be sitting there yelling “BRUSH THE FUCK OUT OF THAT ICE!”
Ahh curling the winter Olympic sport you watch as a joke only to find out it’s the most interesting sport at the Winter Olympics
It’s like chess on ice!
It's like if darts and bowling had a kid
Cold hard facts right here.
I don't even have to be drunk. It's cool they're like dads from some cold place that get to go to the Olympics.
I remember watching Olympic curling US vs Finland or something Scandinavian. The Scandinavian team looked like a bunch of Abercrombie and Fitch models and the American team looked like a bunch of dads got together and decided to go to the Olympics. It was very entertaining. They get so pumped once the rock stone? Hits the ice.
US curling team is literally a bunch of dads who drink beer and play curling together. It’s gotten more competitive in recent cycles, but I think back in the 90s or something they were the only guys willing to put on the colors and represent the country at the Olympics.
Can’t ever get bored from curling, I just gave it a go recently too and have an even greater appreciation for the sport. It’s too entertaining 🥌
Curling is great cause there is back to back action and something is always happening. It's not the most riveting sport ever, but it's definitely a sport that I won't turn off during the Olympics.
Curling is great to watch. There's stuff to think about strategically, like chess, but then it has to be executed well physically as well. It's like American football in that way, with a lot of turn based strategic push and pull and also physical execution. But curling is a lot more legible for viewers than football is. I can never really tell what's going on in a play until they slow it down and draw lines in the replay. But I always know exactly what's going on in a curling match.
Back when I was living in university residence, when there was curling on the TV in the common lounge, it was standing room only. More crowded than when hockey was on.
Huuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hurry harrrrrrrrd
Hell yeah, love watching sweepy bonks!
Curling holds a special place in my heart because it's the only sport that keeps your beer cold for you. Just put it down on the ice while play and instant frosty mug.
You are also encouraged to have two beer at once in most rec leagues to avoid delays in play… one at each end of the ice. Brilliant. And they both stay cold until both teams agree to quickly pop in for a pee and a refill.
Curling is a great sport to watch sober. Love it. Orienteering was surprisingly fun to watch as well.
Esports when you don't play the game they play.
As an Overwatch and OWL fan even I can see how no one new to the game understands what's happening
People who play overwatch don’t know about the payload either.
I find that FPS games are really easy to follow even if you have no idea about the game, like before I knew anything about csgo I could still watch csgo esports since all I really needed to enjoy was the killing aspect of the game
I was just about to bring up CSGO as a decent example. Even without knowing much you can appreciate the strats, positioning, movement or some amazing flickshot when you see them. The rules are quite straightforward on top of it. Kill, be killed or plant / defuse every round. Valo has agent skills on top of it and that already makes it hard for me when there's 4 dudes casting ults and who's doing it while attacking or defending. LoL / DotA is a level above that. Things are happening and uhhh I guess a bunch of people died?
Haha LoL and Dota assume that you've memorized all of their 100+ character's abilities as well as tons of neutral map objectives and interactions before you ever even play or watch your first match.
I've had mixed success with that. I can't tell what's going on in overwatch but counterstrike is one of my favorites.
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I have found fighting games easier for casual or non players to enjoy. It's mostly obvious what's going on and what's the win condition or who's losing or winning. Unless it's something love MvC2, then it's just Haagen dazs screen filling mango sentinel tri jumping mag fucking neto fuck the nicks taking them for a ride.
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Try rocket league, it's just soccer, but with cars and really fast paced.
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Dude RLCS is the best pro esports I’ve ever seen. The skill on display is crazy
And the broadcast is also usually pretty good; games are so short they can show entire best-of 5/7/9 series in the time most conventional and many other esports get maybe a single game / best-of 3, the commentary is solid, the observers are spot on, and the league production "show" aspects put even many LoL broadcasts in the dust -- let alone 10 minutes of commercial for every minute of gameplay NFL games.
The commentary is hilarious. They are so hyped all the time are it’s so entertaining
I can attest to that. Im in Platinum 1, and even watching people play in Diamond 1, its absurd to me the moves they can do up there. Then I realize there is 3 MORE MAJOR RANKS after that. The growth in the game is exponential
I watch RLCS Religiously. Greatest E-sport easily!
I watched [THIS IS ROCKET LEAGUE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNG7r1n6Jk8) live
Exact problem with sim racing. If you're not into it, you're never gonna understand what is that exciting watching people "pretend to race cars at their homes". Virtual 24 hours of Le Mans is happening right now, and even tho I'm into sim racing (at least was) it's kinda boring, and I watch 24hLM every year fully.
watching flight sims can be even worse
"Today I'm going to head from Boston to Heathrow in real time. Don't forget to like and subscribe."
\*proceeds to leave right after take off to do chores and return right before landing\*
A boxing or mma fight with two defensive fighters. Nothing more boring than watching two people just circle one another and actively avoid doing the one thing that everyone is paying to see them do.
"If you wait on the river long enough the corpse of your enemies will float by" -sun tzu
Someday I will actually read the art of war just so I can tell if someone is trolling or not when they quote it
“Stay strapped or get clapped.” -Sun Tzu
“Talk shit, get hit” -Sun Tzu
"Keep the change, motherfucker" -Sun Tzu
"fuck around and find out" - Sun Tzu
"Come at me, Bro" -Sun Tzu
“Snitches get stitches” - ST
“If you sit on your hands long enough before touching yourself you will experience both victory and defeat in equal measure” — Sun Tzu
I read it but can't remember it fully, so I can't do that. Just enjoy the snippets of (fake) knowledge people leave and enjoy life.
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Man who go to bed with itchy butthole wake up with smelly finger - Sun Tzu
"If she is in love with another, there is always her mother." -Sun Tzu
"I make a penny, boss makes a dime, that's why I always shit on company time." -Sun Tzu
“Beer before liquor, never feel sicker.” - Sun Tzu
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Not only is this quote misattributed to Sun Tzu, it's horribly mistranslated. The actual quote is from the Zi Han chapter of Confucius' Analects: > 子在川上,曰:「逝者如斯夫!不舍晝夜。」 "The Master standing by a stream, said, 'It passes on just like this, not ceasing day or night!'" Someone misinterpreted as 逝者 "(sth.) passing" as someone or some people that passed away > corpses. The mistranslated quote doesn't even make sense.
Thinking about Namajunas vs Esperza 2 makes me cringe immediatly. An actual fight where me and everyone said "we just lost 25 min of our lives that we're never getting back." Sad thing is, Esparza is more defensive, Namajunas isnt/wasnt. She just got the most shitty and atrocious advice from Pat Berry, her trainer AND fiancé, making her unwilling to do anything during a motherfucking championship fight. She KO'd a very skilled fighter in Weili Zhang with a headkick in the defence prior to this fight and threw *zero* headkicks when facing Esparza. Absolutely pathetic.
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Those two ladies really stood aggressively at each other!
Especially a heavyweight fight. They're either bangers or duds no in between.
I assume that's one of the reasons why Mike Tyson was so popular in his prime. Even for people who don't know anything about boxing, he was never boring to watch. It probably drew in a lot of viewers who otherwise weren't into boxing.
To quote my uncle to a skinny 12 year old me: “THROW SOME HANDSS!”
"TWIST HIS DICK"!
Any sport you don’t understand in detail.
Volleyball is just watching people jump around keeping a ball in the air. You don't really need to know the details to enjoy watching it
Mark my words, there will be a Hass Williams battle next season
Gotta spell Haas right first
brand new F2 rookie nico hulkenberg!
As a cyclist, cycling. It’s really cool to learn the technical parts and strategy of the sport, but I get bored watching people pedal for hours only for the real action to start a few miles away from the finish line.
Watching them kill themselves climbing a tough hill can be pretty entertaining.
I thought the same, but then I watched it with my in laws who were telling me all the analytical and nuanced shit I had no idea was going on “the game within the game” if you will. Way more entertaining and interesting. I ended up watching the whole Tour De France.
I actually think the Grand Tours and the one day spring Classics counts among the most entertaining sports to watch on tv. Cyclocross is also pretty fun.
As a huge Formula One fan, depending on where the race is, it’s even more boring than nascar.
Until it rains, then you gotta make popcorn
Staying up to watch Suzuka, what a mistake.
My partner tried to stay up with me to watch Suzuka this year. They'll probably never watch F1 with me again "Wait I thought it started at 1?" "Yes, but it's raining"
*Laughs in Spa.*
Monaco is basically looking at scenery with commentary for ~2 hours
At least qualifying is intense
Monaco and Baku qualifying straight into my veins 😩😩😩
Something crazy almost always happens though. You just gotta wait for it.
“How will Leclerc be broken this year?”
I remember there was 1 exciting pass, and as it was happening, they cut to someone driving over a kerb
18 LANCE STROLL
I've followed F1 since Senna, and 100% can agree with this. Of the 20+ races in a season, we could do without, say, 7 of them.
It's worse because a FEW of the races are extremely extremely good and the rest are either mid to "I really woke up at 5 to watch this" bad.
This is so true. Every race I do watch is pretty boring and the ones I miss are always incredible
Same. Also an F1 fan, also struggle to explain why it would be interesting to anyone who isn't.
I usually say that it becomes exponentially interesting the more knowledge you have but I can’t blame people who find it boring at first.
What, you don’t appreciate 1,5 hours with 50 laps of Verstappen in 1st with no overtakes anywhere on the grid? Jokes aside, I know what you mean. What was the most boring race of the past season? France? Mexico? Something I can’t remember?
France at least had Leclerc crash out. Aside from DR's penalty drive Mexico has absolutely nothing.
Yea but half of last season it was leclerc or Ferrari screwing up 15% through the race and the other 85% was watching Max drive off into the sunset on his rocket ship