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@ThorSanchez97

As I go on it all fades away except for the soccer.

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Thor Sanchez
Thor Sanchez@ThorSanchez97·
@STL_Stats_Facts Remember, the old-timers also say stuff like Jesse Owens would have run a sub-9 100m with modern shoes and tracks. Babe Ruth would have 150 homers a season in today's parks. Leonidas of Rhodes probably do a 1-hour marathon with modern training.
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Thor Sanchez@ThorSanchez97·
@frenchjraff And recently Newcastle. Schalke. Kaiserslautern. Blackburn once won the Premier League, then were relegated 4 years later, and have been in League 1. I started following 1860 Munich 25 years ago, were in European competition. Have been in the 3rd tier or lower for a decade+.
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JJ - Antifascist 🇱🇸🇸🇯🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇸🇵🇹
"Relegation isn't a realistic concern for top teams" Tell that to Tottenham and Sevilla #ProRelForUSA
Paul Harvey@Thundering165

@frenchjraff Relegation isn't a realistic concern for top teams, who have most of the fans anyway. Instead, competition is for other things (trophies, European competition, or playoff spots in the leagues who have playoffs). That's what they're battling for, that's why thy spend so much.

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Thor Sanchez@ThorSanchez97·
@_chris96bcfc At work we have an annual 2-mile fun run/1-mile walk. Approximately 1% of the workforce runs the 2 miles, with an average finish in the 20 minute range. Maybe another 5% do the 1 mile walk. Assume most of the rest have no ability or desire to even do that.
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MeyerTechRants@MeyerRants·
@moneybren_nz @DavidDack While bro's chart was silly, this swings too far in the other direction. I got up to a 30m 5k by running a few times a week for a couple months. If you're not fat it's pretty achievable. I wouldn't define elite as "bro literally just gets off his ass now and then"
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David Dack@DavidDack·
How fast is your 5K? • 12–14 min = Olympic-level • 14–18 min = Elite • 18–22 min = Competitive • 22–25 min = Average • 25–30 min = Fit enough • 30–40 min = Beginner Over 40? You’re out there trying. And honestly… that counts more than people admit. Most people won’t even test themselves over 5K. They’ll stay comfortable and never find out. You did. That already puts you in a different group.
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Thor Sanchez
Thor Sanchez@ThorSanchez97·
@m00kie59 @redhart171 @frenchjraff The gap is huge. 2nd tier soccer leagues in Europe are independent clubs, some of which are as good as lower Premier teams. With 10 levels below that. Closest thing here is minor league baseball, and the MLB teams own almost all the players. So completely unworkable.
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Aaron Jay
Aaron Jay@m00kie59·
@ThorSanchez97 @redhart171 @frenchjraff We have leagues that exists local ones. Just majority of them are college summer leagues. For Northeast you have APSL which is the closest thing yoi will get for division four with pro/rel to state leagues. SWPL in SW part of the u.s.
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JJ - Antifascist 🇱🇸🇸🇯🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇺🇸🇵🇹
When you don't have promotion and relegation you have these teams like Houston Dynamo of MLS that become totally irrelevant. An entire city like Houston wasted because they only have 1 team and it's the Dynamo and they can never be relegated for a better team #ProRelForUSA
Glenn Davis@GlennDavisSoc

@TroopaKing No MLS Cup in 18 yrs for Dynamo. I am talking novelty in second phase of new stadium. Organizational, lack of leadership has led to lack of relevancy. Who is accountable?

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Thor Sanchez@ThorSanchez97·
@frenchjraff @redhart171 I have doubts. NCAA basketball has hundreds of teams down to D3 all across the country, and very long established fanbases. You'd have to take from that, or add to it. You can't just invent the 100+ years of history that many lower-tier clubs have in England, Germany, etc.
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Thor Sanchez@ThorSanchez97·
@HawkEmDownChris Such a weird take, dripping with recency bias. You could argue Griffey isn't a top five CFer all time. Behind Mays, Mantle, Cobb, Speaker, Trout. Slope of history offsets could possibly put him ahead of Speaker. But nowhere close to Mays.
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HAWK
HAWK@HawkEmDownChris·
Ken Griffey Jr. isn't available, who's your favorite MLB center fielder of all time?
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Thor Sanchez@ThorSanchez97·
@redhart171 @frenchjraff By far the biggest hurdle to pro/rel in the US is the total lack of lower divisions and associated clubs to relegate to, because of 100+ years of league monopolies. Soccer could get there with USL, etc. MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL... essentially impossible in the short term.
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Nick Hartle@redhart171·
@ThorSanchez97 @frenchjraff Yes, I am against all the taxpayer funded stadiums and what not. I am not against pro/rel, but it’s not the only answer everyone seems to think it is. I have been wrong before so…
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Thor Sanchez@ThorSanchez97·
@GamewithDave While streaming and e-readers have downsides and the corporate BS is stupid, let's not pretend that hoarding tons of physical copies of the same media that's mass produced by corporations is morally superior.
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Dave
Dave@GamewithDave·
We didn’t “lose” physical media. We walked away from it. The shops still exist. The discs, the vinyl, the collections, all still there waiting. Streaming is easy. Owning something is meaningful. If you miss it… support it.
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Thor Sanchez@ThorSanchez97·
@ben_bowman_ What's the actual likelihood that a random number generator spits out random outcomes and sports fans come up with a completely invented narrative to describe the reasons? 100%?
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Ben Bowman 🏆🏆🏆
Ben Bowman 🏆🏆🏆@ben_bowman_·
What is the actual likelihood that our retractable pitch is a factor causing these injuries?
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Thor Sanchez@ThorSanchez97·
@frenchjraff @redhart171 Land of the free, home of the oligarch-run sports monopoly where taxpayers buy a handful of billionaires lavish mallparks.
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Thor Sanchez@ThorSanchez97·
@frenchjraff @redhart171 We can thank baseball owners of the 19th century. They weren't sure if pro sports could actually work, so they managed to form monopolies to protect their precarious investments, complete with territorial "rights" that have turned into $billion corporations with no competition.
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Thor Sanchez@ThorSanchez97·
@frenchjraff @redhart171 One of the biggest benefits of pro/rel is that the market decides at what level a team plays. Instead of rich guys guessing. "Hey, Miami will be great for baseball, right?!" Draws 8000 fans a game.. oh well, they're a MLB team forever or until we move the franchise to Austin.
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Thor Sanchez@ThorSanchez97·
@redhart171 @frenchjraff Maybe not good riddance, you feel for the fans. But is that worse than propping up a monopoly (and all the huge negatives that entails) that then relocates the team somewhere else if the owners' profits aren't high enough?
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Nick Hartle
Nick Hartle@redhart171·
@ThorSanchez97 @frenchjraff So losing revenue and then they go down and go into oblivion. I don’t disagree with pro/rel, but it’s not the only solution. It may be part of the reason teams are folding all over Europe as well? Then what, we just say good riddance?
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Thor Sanchez@ThorSanchez97·
@redhart171 @frenchjraff Incentivizes ownership to try harder, lest they go down and lose tremendous revenue streams. In American sports the only penalty for losing is somewhat fewer fans and higher draft picks.
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Nick Hartle@redhart171·
@frenchjraff How relevant would they be in a second or third division? Not for or against pro-rel, serious question. How would it help here?
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Thor Sanchez
Thor Sanchez@ThorSanchez97·
@ExpensiveFlight @HITCSevens Plenty of Americans love sport. They just see the corporate overlords and blatant price gouging like a Spurs or Everton fan sees The Gods smiting them on the field constantly. It sucks, but it's just how the world is, and you get on with pulling for your team anyway.
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Testing the Water
Testing the Water@ExpensiveFlight·
@HITCSevens It’s because Americans don’t really love sport - they love all that is around it. They don’t understand loyalty. It’s just a show to them - light entertainment. Football is religion in Europe.
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Alfie | HITC Sevens@HITCSevens·
I don't know why Europeans protest about expensive tickets. Americans never protest about expensive tickets, and for some unknown reason, their tickets are much more expensive.
Simon@USRedTalk

As an American, this doesn’t make sense to me. I understand protesting the ticket price increases, but it’s such a small percentage increase compared to what we have to pay over here in America. Going to an MLS match costs more than what a Premier League match costs.

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Commenter51@Commenter51·
@throwing_daniel I mean why even go to the ballpark if there is no chance of catching a baseball with your bare hands in between hotdogs?
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Daniel but sports
Daniel but sports@throwing_daniel·
home runs are a very boring part of baseball and small ball will do more to advance this sport than a dozen raleighs and schwarbers. We should start making the balls softer
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Thor Sanchez@ThorSanchez97·
@throwing_daniel Softer balls make exit velocity and batting averages much lower, along with fewer homers. See: Japan, where runs are at deadball levels. We need much bigger outfields with today's balls to incentivize line drives and in-the-park hits.
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Vinny’s Corner
Vinny’s Corner@VinnysCorner1·
Name a legendary first basemen that doesn’t get talked about enough I’ll start: Rafael Palmeiro
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Lomez
Lomez@L0m3z·
This is a fun question to think about. My back of the envelope explanation is that because lefty catchers have to throw across their bodies to get to the runner’s side of 2b on a steal and because their throw will naturally tail away from the runner, they lose something like .1s v a righty catcher’s throw, all else being equal. If a righty catcher is throwing ~85mph on his throws to 2b, a lefty needs to throw ~95mph to make up for that lost time. But if you’re a lefty catcher who can throw 95, guess what? You’re not a catcher. You’re a pitcher.
Steve Sailer@Steve_Sailer

There hasn't been a left-handed catcher in MLB since the 1980s, but nobody can agree on the definitive reason why not. It sounds to me like it could be discrimination driven by prejudice. But the SPLC et al don't fundraise against the rising tide of handism, so nobody cares.

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