I still don’t understand why people watch any sports. I’ve been to basketball, baseball, hockey, rugby, even curling and its ultimately the same as watching the dvd logo bounce to me.
you can become invested in a team or athlete. you can learn about the sport and its play and thus see the competition happening in real time. you can see people battling, people struggling against each other or against themselves. you can see people making a fool of themself, embarrassing themselves for those in the know for years to come. it takes full dedication to one topic for years and decades to play on a high professional level, which is very admirable. once you understand the sport you can trace back the dedication from the resulting play. it may make you feel things.
competitive sport is a struggle, and struggles are tense and exciting when you understand them. the prerequisite is understanding though. movies also explain their struggles, and when you understand or assume is when you feel things.
it becomes easier if you watch a sport you can play and grasp the difference between yourself and a professional athlete. basketball is my favorite for this because i know my skills are excellent passing and almost nothing else. i know how much time i’ve spent in the lab working on jumpers, free throws, and layups to still not have a good touch on the ball. then i see a player pass, shoot, dribble, cut, all almost flawlessly, and i can understand the gap between myself and them as skilled athletes. it’s especially relevant to just go watch a shoot around. the worst three point shooter in the WNBA or NBA is a better three point shooter than anyone you’ve ever played against or with
when you don’t have much of a personality, it’s easy to rent one (and “friends”!) by donning the right logos and pretending you’re part of it all by putting on a jersey.
it’s really very sad; every year billionaires compete against each other to see which one owns the most skilled workforce at playing children’s games. Because make no mistake, that’s what it’s all about, watching adults waste billions of dollars, day in, day out, hyper-fixated on watching sweaty, roided, aggro men run around on playfields (often in tight tight clothes). They take this shit seriously, gambling disgusting amounts of money, have heart attacks when their team loses, wasting their incomes on season tickets and other paraphernalia.
We could solve world hunger, or poverty, or aids, or cancer. But instead every year, we waste billions instead making rich people richer while the sportos justify it because they can’t find other ways to spend their lives.
Is it enough that I watched yowamushi pedal? I already biked for my work commute but I can get behind naming and talking to my abs. I felt sick to my stomach when I went biking with friends and some of them started singing hime hime though.
I still don’t understand why people watch any sports. I’ve been to basketball, baseball, hockey, rugby, even curling and its ultimately the same as watching the dvd logo bounce to me.
you can become invested in a team or athlete. you can learn about the sport and its play and thus see the competition happening in real time. you can see people battling, people struggling against each other or against themselves. you can see people making a fool of themself, embarrassing themselves for those in the know for years to come. it takes full dedication to one topic for years and decades to play on a high professional level, which is very admirable. once you understand the sport you can trace back the dedication from the resulting play. it may make you feel things.
competitive sport is a struggle, and struggles are tense and exciting when you understand them. the prerequisite is understanding though. movies also explain their struggles, and when you understand or assume is when you feel things.
it becomes easier if you watch a sport you can play and grasp the difference between yourself and a professional athlete. basketball is my favorite for this because i know my skills are excellent passing and almost nothing else. i know how much time i’ve spent in the lab working on jumpers, free throws, and layups to still not have a good touch on the ball. then i see a player pass, shoot, dribble, cut, all almost flawlessly, and i can understand the gap between myself and them as skilled athletes. it’s especially relevant to just go watch a shoot around. the worst three point shooter in the WNBA or NBA is a better three point shooter than anyone you’ve ever played against or with
when you don’t have much of a personality, it’s easy to rent one (and “friends”!) by donning the right logos and pretending you’re part of it all by putting on a jersey.
it’s really very sad; every year billionaires compete against each other to see which one owns the most skilled workforce at playing children’s games. Because make no mistake, that’s what it’s all about, watching adults waste billions of dollars, day in, day out, hyper-fixated on watching sweaty, roided, aggro men run around on playfields (often in tight tight clothes). They take this shit seriously, gambling disgusting amounts of money, have heart attacks when their team loses, wasting their incomes on season tickets and other paraphernalia.
We could solve world hunger, or poverty, or aids, or cancer. But instead every year, we waste billions instead making rich people richer while the sportos justify it because they can’t find other ways to spend their lives.
Pro sports is a cancer on our species.
You need to watch more sports anime and then you will get it. I recommend starting with high school male volleyball show haikyuu.
Is it enough that I watched yowamushi pedal? I already biked for my work commute but I can get behind naming and talking to my abs. I felt sick to my stomach when I went biking with friends and some of them started singing hime hime though.