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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Soccer is boring. Football isn’t.  Ticket sales tells you all you need to know [/quote]

American soccer is equivalent to lower leagues in Europe. Every time Premier League teams come to America they sell out football stadiums. I love football, but there’s A LOT of downtime in a game. That’s boring.[/quote]

The funny thing is, imagine if soccer were even a tier 2 sport in America. Imagine how the US would dominate the world. I mean it's pretty impressive the US can even field a decently ranked national team every year when literally the top 50% of American athletes are playing other sports. [/quote]

The funny thing is that “tier 2” USMNT and D1 soccer athletes are included in the top 50% of American athletes. You can try to disprove it, but when you consider VO2 max, BMI, HRV, RSI, plus movement and load metrics it’s incontrovertible. Top athletes compete for more than 8 seconds at a time with the luxury of recovery time after each play.

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You read that wrong. Soccer is tier 3. Behind the major team sports and then the individual sports. There's no way the top athletes are playing soccer. No one in America would choose to play soccer if they excelled in basketball or baseball. Football is a little different because of the violent nature of it but college and pro football players are elite, nevertheless. You load a bunch of biometric stats that are required to play soccer but there's no way that 11 people among people like Lebron, Kyrie, Ant Man, the Ball brothers, or any of the top 30 NFL receivers and running backs wouldn't have dominated in soccer. American athletes are just just bigger, stronger, faster, and more athletic than athletes in other countries. And if America really cared about soccer and was invested in it, we could literally just buy the best players and give them a passport to fill in any gaps like other countries do.[/quote]

Baseball? BWAAHAHAHAHAH! That’s a fat kid sport. My soccer players were excellent baseball players. They’d eat 2-3 hotdogs right before games because they never got any exercise while playing.[/quote]

Apparently not good enough to get drafted. 10/10 kids would choose baseball if they excelled (i.e., hs drafted or D1 scholarship) at it over soccer unless they were the unicorn prodigy in soccer.[/quote]

They quit baseball early. It’s the most boring game on the planet. Curling is more compelling. The MLB needs to bring steroids back to make it more entertaining.

The World Cup will shove baseball aside in the U.S. for two months this summer. One of the World Cup semifinal matches is on the same day as the MLB All-Star Game. Soccer is on at 3pm while the All-Star Game is in prime time. The soccer ratings will crush the baseball ratings.

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You saying baseball is boring is meaningless. You don't understand the game. You can't follow the game without an announcer. You can't anticipate why a pitcher would throw a certain pitch according to the inning and count. You don't know what the batter is trying to do. You're the old ladies that get hit by a foul ball because they don't realize that batted balls can go anywhere. [b]The fact is that baseball players can play other sports but people that play other sports can't play baseball. It's that hard. Ask Deion and Jordan. [/b]

Stick to simple 1D sports like soccer. Just be sure to join SAG first.[/quote]

You kind of have that backwards.

Both Sanders and Jordan payed other sports as their primary sports and then picked up baseball as a novelty.  And neither were very good at baseball.

Yes, baseball is a tough sport to play well.  Batting a ball thrown by a pro pitcher is an enormously difficult task.  But face it, baseball players stand around (or sit) for the vast majority of a baseball game.  Playing first base is not a great way to get cardio in.[/quote]

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