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Post by phil on Jun 29, 2005 20:56:45 GMT -5
I guess you won't be getting the Golf channel on cable then ...
Add Soccer to the Most Boring Sport to Watch on TV list...
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Post by phil on Jun 29, 2005 21:06:12 GMT -5
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Post by mellie on Jun 30, 2005 10:21:50 GMT -5
I have the golf channel!! My dad comes over and turns it on and falls asleep every time. It never fails!!
Soccer I find interesting!! I dont follow religeously though! We have Fox Soccer channel over here, which has soccer 24/7, unless they are playing AFL Football!
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Post by RocDoc on Jun 30, 2005 12:07:55 GMT -5
World Cup soccer/football (the real footbal!) championship got me interested the year that the U.S. hosted it (1995 I think...there was a fanTAStic match involving Sweden that did it...on a hot Sunday afternoon)and I'll honestly put a game on every now and then. In fact last night Brazil was beating Argentina 4-1 in a game I watched for maybe an hour on one of the (many, erm, TOO many) Spanish stations here...with the commentators having a banner behind them saying 'Germany 2005', pret' much the only thing I could understand. So this IS a World Cup year? And it is in Germany? The immense physicality of playing that game sprinting across that huge field...and with even FASTER bursts of speed to lunge toward the ball for the 2-3 whatever hours that they play. Come on, that has to be impressive...of course the huge field and the fact that most of those players are like 5'6" (and less) midgets makes it seeeem as though the game is moving glacially, especially from the overhead cameras. 'Proportion' y'see. But often, the way that set plays and strategies evolve can be poetry, at least early in the game. Later on in a match, IF you have the imagination and ability to place yourself in those players' dog-tired shoes, you can feel the supreme effort that they've got to expend especially if they're a point behind. If I'm into a game I can honestly feel the ache. Those excellent suspended-on-wires motor-driven cameras are probably even more a boon to 'Real' football than they are to 'American' football as to their ability to bring you right into the action and show the incredible acrobatic moves that those guys are making....too bad they're only used for the biggest games....and I DO think that that's what they were using in the '95 World Cup...it was awesome. ~ I've despised golf ever since all my racquetball and tennis partners would ditch me (and a true workout) in favor of that slow plod across the countryside while drinking beer and smoking cigars. Bastiches! The only 'last laugh' I get is that now 20-25 years later many of them are carrying 40-50 pounds more than me...IF they're not already dead of artherosclerosis...  Some 'laugh', eh? They idea of golf actually appeals to me, BUT... - I do not have, nor did I previously, have the flippin' 2-3-4 hours to play 18 holes while drinking and smoking... - my time is spent MUCH more wisely at the gym for 45-60 minutes of sweating... - golf is so goddamned expensive here! It's usually the equivalent price of a lift ticket to go ski someplace, NOT a good equivalency IMO. Cause skiing indeed IS the cat's ass...right Phil? No way that golf can even begin to be in that contest. - IF I began to play regularly (for some dumb reason), first of all, I would SUCK at it (there IS a skill set after all) and then I would stubbornly begin to throw more time (and $$$) at it....something which has never been an option for me... I'll take up golf when I'm friggin 80 and just don't give a shit anymore I suppose. |
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Post by phil on Jun 30, 2005 13:11:43 GMT -5
So this IS a World Cup year?
Nope! At least I don"t think so ...
Preliminary rounds to see which teams
get to compete in 2006.
World Cup matches are fun to watch
in Italian, Greek, Mexican...etc...bars and restaurants!
You turn your back to the tube
and watch the people watching the game ...
Much more action there than on the field ... ;D
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Post by phil on Jun 30, 2005 13:18:42 GMT -5
Cause skiing indeed IS the cat's ass...right Phil?
I've been diagnosed with a severe case
of hip osteoarthrisis a few months ago
and it doesn't augur well for skiing in the future ...
Maybe I'll start ice fishing instead !!
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Post by mellie on Jun 30, 2005 13:41:39 GMT -5
Where in the world are you that you can even CONTEMPLATE ice fishing right now?? Im so there... going to the airport.... lol
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Post by RocDoc on Jun 30, 2005 18:33:37 GMT -5
Osteoarthritis, degenerative joint disease(DJD) is NOT the end of skiing, unless you had some bizarre hip injury when you were younger which caused some sort of asymmetric wear.
Arthritis of any type is the natural process of the cartilage wearing out....and because it has zero blood supply(and blood is what heals any injury), you need to find ways to compress and release that cartilage, working it like a sponge because that's the only way that cartilage can drink in the components of blood plasma which help it repair itself and not allow it to get worse...tell me that your doctor's got you on glucoseamine sulfate/chondroitin please?
If not, start using it.
It takes 3 months to build up enough in your system for it to work.
They're the building blocks of cartilage they are and all the studies say that that supplement does really work to stop the degeneration at whatever stage it's at.
Then...
Strengthen the absolute livin' shit out of that hip and work all the ranges of motion so it doesn't stiffen up on you....
I thought it was your back that had you laid up...
The only 'downhill' I wanna hear about from you are the ones at Mt Ste Anne...
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Post by stratman19 on Jul 1, 2005 10:23:14 GMT -5
Stop dissin' golf, you bastards! There, I said it. ;D
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Post by mellie on Jul 1, 2005 10:46:14 GMT -5
I dont have anything against playing it, just WATCHING ON TV!!!! lol
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Post by ScottsyII on Jul 1, 2005 10:49:52 GMT -5
LOL... I'm with Mellie Stratman... must be a real engaging thing to play, but man, to watch is to cause insomnia! Mellie's dad loves his golf and yet he still falls asleep to it! lol!
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Post by RocDoc on Jul 1, 2005 12:25:29 GMT -5
See? It's a geezer sport!
~
Lotsa great courses up near Traverse City, eh Stratman?
..and I know Grand Traverse ain't cheap!
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Post by maarts on Jul 3, 2005 8:04:23 GMT -5
Aaaanyway....  Federer in straight sets. |
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Post by RocDoc on Jul 6, 2005 11:47:35 GMT -5
Phil?
Glucosamine? Eh?
Are ya?
~
CONFRONT your mortality!
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Post by pissin2 on Jul 6, 2005 12:02:44 GMT -5
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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