Hills on which you’re willing to die.

Baseball is better on the radio than on TV and equal to seeing it in person.

ambient sport

i think baseball is the best sport to listen to on the radio out of hte big north american sports and soccer but that is a hell of an opinion.

tuna melts are bad

it's the best sport on radio because the players are in fixed positions and it's easy to picture what's going on in your head

football is second best because it has formations, breaks in the action to reset

then hoops, soccer, hockey in that order

I like soccer on the radio but I only hear it during World Cups. Couldn’t guess if our MLS team even has a radio deal.

Baseball games are also too long so radio gives you three hours to sit on a dock and watch the waves or take a long walk.

yeah it's got a nice pace for radio

Princess Bride isn't funny

We’ve had Bob Uecker my entire life so yeah baseball on radio rules

basketball on radio sucks because the announcers are constantly playing catch-up and the audible reaction of the crowd often tips off what just happened before they can spit it out.

whereas a home run takes a long time to land so the broadcaster can build excitement while it's in the air.

Man I miss listening to skip carey call games on my night shift

pj carlisemo over am radio sounds like super dave

Princess Bride isn't funny

You're right, ofc. It is clever and entertaining. It sometimes rises to amusing. But it's not funny.

hersheys peanut butter cups are gross

lauryn

I don't have patience for baseball radio, but I can accept its superiority.

I've never enjoyed Princess Bride.

If you mean Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, then you are straight up rong.

Even I love baseball over the radio, and I hate baseball.

Baseball is better on the radio than on TV

vin scully still lives

sorry yes i meant REESES peanut butter cups

they are gross

I love them so much, especially the mini cups.

Cheese is the apex of human civilization.

Network sucks.

try freezing the cups, trust me

rolling 2021 opinions thread lol

This is more like innocuous opinions that I am irrationally insistent upon...

In which case:
- mayonnaise is gross
- 99% of pizza is gross
- Chicago is neither friendly nor attractive as a city

Tal's

the reason baseball is the best sport is because there's no rule against putting weird shit in the field of play and making the players just deal with it

like bear traps?

if so, why couldn't someone had done that to Aubrey Huff during his career

wrigley had them in the 70s

that explains Joe Pepitone's performance in his twilight years

- Chicago is neither friendly nor attractive as a city

This is impressive, as you’ve managed to be both 100% correct (the former) and 100% incorrect (the latter).

The saying is "another thing coming"

Ralph wiggum dreamt he was A VIKING, not was good at dreaming

Fuck u I will salt my food before i taste it

Fruit does not belong on pizza, nor in curries.

...those are prob more challops than anything else but haha whatever.

Homicide, Life on the Street is better than The Wire.

Spielberg made all his best movies before 1985.

The Grateful Dead should focussed on more studio albums and fewer live recordings.

Kiss are a far more influential band than the Velvet Underground, having essentially invented party metal, disco metal, epic power metal, franchise rock and artist-branded pinball machines.

Grayson Perry is wildly overrated

that car song is the best thing Joni ever did

Yeah, the thing is that a challop on ILX is just what is generally accepted as true in the rest of the world, mine being that Radiohead never made a better album than OK Computer, Sgt Pepper is the best Beatles album, Syd-era Floyd is nothing compared to Waters-era Floyd, etc.

it's the best sport on radio because the players are in fixed positions and it's easy to picture what's going on in your head

football is second best because it has formations, breaks in the action to reset

then hoops, soccer, hockey in that order

Cricket is the best sport on radio and it's not even close.

I haven't watched test cricket on television since 2005 and am not a proper cricket fan. But love listening to it on the radio, all three formats. Even that balding smug wanker Vaughan can't ruin it!

Americans in "not knowing about the most watched sport on earth" shocker

Cricket isn’t a sport, (don’t try to) change my mind.

is that a hill on which you are willing to die, or just a general statement?

Its "another think coming" no need for anyone to die

Cricket isn’t a sport, (don’t try to) change my mind.

A sport that isn't a sport is a beautiful thing.

There is no hill worth specifically setting out to die on, includong everest and this statement

is that a hill on which you are willing to die, or just a general statement?

A hill I will die on is that Golf and Formula 1 are the most horribly tedious and worthless sporting competitions on earth, and they are even worse than all that wacky shit they do in North America.

Formula 1 drivers and golfers are the worst too.

only rivalled by tennis players

Formula 1 yes horseracing yes marathon yes cycling double yes basically anything that is a test of viewer stamina

Golf no but we have covered i think that golf means an awful lot of things depending on where you are, its not a rich mans game where im from we play it in tracksuits and a round is a fiver

Now ironically i have died on a few hills while playing

Sorry, misleading there, I actually like golf and I like watching it but professional golfers are horrendous charisma-free money-making machines, especially the interchangeable ones produced by the US college system.

Totally with DL on Grayson Perry, his art is very, very bad.

xps I like watching cycling on TV, it's soothing to watch them traverse the French (or wehrever else) countryside

"Now ironically i have died on a few hills while playing"

if you are going to carry on playing during a lightning storm then get some of those big yellow rubber dielectric safety wellingtons on, it wouldn't look any worse than the usual golfing attire!

formula one is fine in its place, which is

1. you have just finished a massive Sunday lunch
2. there is nothing else on TV
3. you fall asleep just after the start
4. you wake up just in time to see the finish

Guess my real answer to this is "if a sizable chunk of your time spent thinking/talking about music/film/art is dedicated to dwelling on how much of it you hate, then this is obviously a problem with you, not a problem with the music/film/art"

Don't think this is controversial, but I could get into a fight about this every half an hour if I said it every time I thought it.

I think Formula 1 would have been more fun back in the days when the cars were shit and kept blowing up and there was a top driver with a schoolboy classic comedy name Dick Seaman.

Golf but using F1 cars on a hill I could die on.

Correct on both counts since, calz

90% of Western pop culture is for children, but marketed to adults. The resulting brain poisoning is why humanity is doomed.

british comedy is terrible

the green album is the best Weezer album.

Golgotha

Tesco not Tescos.

proper egg mayonnaise is made wi fookin' salad cream

british comedy is terrible

gutting to grow up on Sunday night British comedy on the local PBS station and then see it as an adult

Golgotha

Hamburger

Martinis are made with gin.

You can make and enjoy other drinks but they are not martinis

Parliament Hill might be nice.

Inverted look is default. If you think "normal" look is normal your brain doesn't work properly

I used to rip the piss out of a friend of mine who was so deeply into the emerging e-ciggies subculture 10 years back that he travelled to a vaping conference in Warsaw and also panic-bought gallons of liquid nicotine when he thought the EU were going to put some supertax on it or something. But now I would argue that vaping is a far superior way of getting a good banana flavoured nicotine-to-brain hit than real choky coughy ciggies could ever deliver.

Golf but using F1 cars on a hill I could die on.

Modern commercialised/corporatized sport is not only boring as fuck but is fundamentally used as a method of distracting from and tuning out social problems/political issues. At which it's been pretty successful.

I don't care who wins, but I sometimes enjoy watching F1 races in the same way one might watch one of those YouTube videos of 10-hour train rides through Norway or wherever. Turn the sound off and just let the journey flow.

I say "Tescos" just to annoy people dying onthe Tesco hill

asdas, lidls, waitroises

Homicide, Life on the Street is better than The Wire.

― Lily Dale, Wednesday, April 14, 2021 11:45 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I'm pretty sure I disagree but not by much and this is a perfectly respectable hill to die upon.

Marks & Spencers's

Woolworths's?

never forget Hillards who those Tescos wankers's did a hostile takeover on in the 80's

hillards on which...

for years I still called the Tescos in Hudds "Hillards" out of protest against rapacious capitalism

it was a fumble

glad that my hill is the one that caused the most reaction.

in the style of Mark Stewart : "y'all y'all b$stards b$stards"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5gqI8naKas

Bands with more than one guitarist have too many guitarists.

if only lizzy were even thinner

as a fan of the warlocks : hard disagree.

Lead and rhythm = you're doing it wrong

Dual-guitar interplay = fuck off

also string quartets should have just one violin

Three or more guitars = wtf, no. Just no.

There are other instruments, you know :P

Ok, what about this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv3BDgxuXh8

Glenn Branca gets a pass. 100 guitars playing the exact same thing is fine. Xp

xp wait, i see two guitar players there but i only hear one?

Dave Murray & Adrian Smith would like to see you in the parking lot

twin guitar attack RULES

Metal RIP

~ puts on Warlocks just to confirm that more guitars is not a bad thing ~

fear that such examples are not exactly proving the point.
but hey.

Modern commercialised/corporatized sport is not only boring as fuck but is fundamentally used as a method of distracting from and tuning out social problems/political issues. At which it's been pretty successful.

I wanna nod and agree with this and also say you can substitute any iteration of culture with "modern commercialised/corporatized sport" and the point would be precisely as true

Modern tho?

to deny oneself the pleasure of a harmony lead...unthinkable

this is recorded better so you can hear it better but so much african guitar stuff has great interplay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIAOG9nhrt8

'Polyphony was a mistake.'

Now there's a hill to die on, while a mournful monody plays in the background.

darragh i meant not just modern? defining characteristic of culture is it's a distraction from "real shit"

Ah ok missed it, agree i think

one thing that just occured is the history of modern sport i.e. 1850s-ish on is a series of arguments about money/commercialism, it's embedded in the nature of what sport is now, there is no corinthians

not as a critique of you glum because your point stands just rambling to myself

I have so many. I'll second this one

Spielberg made all his best movies before 1985 (even a little earlier than that for me)

and, along the same lines, add two I've expressed many times on here:

Boogie Nights is far superior to Phantom Thread
Rushmore is far superior to Grand Budapest Hotel

xp

there was a hillsborough related post I read earlier about how unfashionable and scruffily w/c football was in the 80's. it got me reminiscing about the days of getting in for free at 3/4 time at a crumbling relic of a football ground

I remember when, in the circles I was moving, it was almost embarrassing to admit you were into football - this in Scotland too.

I think my emotional attachment to my hometown club is all based on sepia tinted memories of when football was shite!

applauding a pitcher for no-hitting your team is an appalling act of betrayal

xxxp - the baseball stadiums of my youth that were a bit shit are missed. Now panels are everywhere instructing people when and how to cheer, every half inning is an advertisement, there's never a little bit of quiet from the PA announcer exhorting you to go buy a Dodge after the game.

Even minor league stadiums have been too gussied up today.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dfhnx71W0AECZIL.jpg:large

these lads decided the stinking Kilner Bank near the toxic ICI plant was a good hill to die on, as long as you got a view of the game. Maybe a bit twee but I love that pic.

On a site predicated on loving music...

fundamentally used as a method of distracting from and tuning out social problems/political issues. At which it's been pretty successful.

I wanna nod and agree with this and also say you can substitute any iteration of culture with "modern commercialised/corporatized sport" and the point would be precisely as true

"It is difficult to get the news from 12" dance remixes, but men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there."

"Even I love baseball over the radio, and I hate baseball."

Same

"Americans in "not knowing about the most watched sport on earth" shocker"

Non Americans in "favoring a shitty boring sport" shocker. Make something worth following and we will

lol! joke country

xp are you so out of touch? No, it’s every other country that’s wrong

I'll never relinquish my NA accent and patterns of speech *BUT* calling it 'soccer' will never not feel wrong. It just oozes baseless contempt. Like, you think you're so special, huh?

It's not even our word

Modern commercialised/corporatized sport is not only boring as fuck but is fundamentally used as a method of distracting from and tuning out social problems/political issues. At which it's been pretty successful.

― glumdalclitch, Thursday, April 15, 2021 9:33 AM (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Happy Jackie Robinson day.

Yeah the word "soccer" originated in England

But far be it from me to distract from the lol USA sux narrative, because that's always fresh and fun

it might lack freshness but so many of you lot love to keep it alive!

Originated in England and was still used frequently there until a few decades ago!

Odd when people act like it's an americanism when the word itself is the epitome of irritating britisher nicknaming

The word soccer is humiliating to the English because it is a constant reminder of their failure to strangle rugby in its cradle

Lol is if you ever heard anyone using the word soccer apart from when referring to computer games!

quite funny to call it the soccer innit

Duncan Disorderly (Tom D.) at 3:47 15 Apr 21

it's the best sport on radio because the players are in fixed positions and it's easy to picture what's going on in your head

football is second best because it has formations, breaks in the action to reset

then hoops, soccer, hockey in that order

Cricket is the best sport on radio and it's not even close.


I could definitely see this, cricket obviously being more similar to baseball than any of the other sports

I actually thought the original quote was about cricket and not "soccer" and thought it was a tad hyperbolic - though obviously far more people do watch cricket worldwide than baseball.

... the one about Americans not knowing about the most watched sport in the world, or whatever it was.

tbf there are probably more cricket fans in India than the entire population of north america.

Probably nearer to twice as many.

I don't think it's accurate to say football/soccer isn't popular in America, that has changed a lot. the MLS has a big fanbase and obviously youth soccer has been huge for a long time. Minnesota United opened a big new stadium a few years ago and it's pretty much always sold out

Seattle is crazy for the Sounders

Yes, it seems reasonably popular.

accurate to say cricket isn't popular in america, which is a shame because it rules (allows for irregular field dimensions)

oh yah no one knows anything about cricket

The word soccer is humiliating to the English because it is a constant reminder of their failure to strangle rugby in its cradle

And the class system, of course.

this is recorded better so you can hear it better but so much african guitar stuff has great interplay

I don't hear it? :)

It seems like most of the guitar sound is coming from one guitarist, and there's a second guitar softly strumming barre chords that is quite subtle. It's barely even there.

Most of the Tuareg bands I've seen had a setup like that, with one amazing guitarist and an understudy or something who wasn't allowed to take their index finger off the fretboard.

I once witnessed a classmate literally piss on a rugby ball when it went down an embankment, before throwing it back, glistening with piss, to the middle class poshboy rugby captain, when we were having rugby imposed on us by a borderline paedophile, tory PE teacher.

going to a United match was really cool, for some reason I found the game so much more compelling live, felt like I had such a better sense of the game, would like to go again

hockey was the same way, I still don't really enjoy it that much on tv

(xp) Yes, we had to play it too, stupid fucking game to make schoolkids play when everybody grows up at different rates.

I live near a university with a large contingent of South Asian students, I’ve tried watching pickup cricket and it’s pretty boring.

Cricket is ambient sport, it goes on in the background and you can dip in and out of it.

It's the notes they DON'T play, maaaan

I wish I could say the same about your shitposts that you DO make

Seattle is crazy for the Sounders

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, April 15, 2021 8:28 PM bookmarkflaglink

Orlando loooooves Orlando City as well. It's changed the culture of the Church Street area

Live soccer is the best and if this global pandemic ever ends I wanna watch Wolves play at Molineaux

Yeah, I miss having time to make the trek to see FC Dallas. Genius to build the stadium as deep into the rich white suburbs as possible.

not to bore on about it too much, but cricket was very nearly popular in the US, the first international sporting event was a cricket match between the US and Canada, and it was only supplanted as the "summer sport" in the US in the early twentieth century:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-history-of-cricket-in-the-united-states-132185661/