Hockey Observations at the Ballpark

Tigers33 · Post by **Tigers33** » Fri Jul 19, 2013 10:13 am

I didn't say Phil was a better athlete then joe mauer. But since you wanna have some fun then lets...

How many golfers are overweight and chain smoke?

Now lets look at overweight baseball players too. And oh yeah they take steroids in baseball

JSR · Post by **JSR** » Fri Jul 19, 2013 10:55 am

Froggy Richards wrote:
stonehands wrote:
JSR wrote: Way beyond laughable sort of like the way you completely ignored the Tiger Woods comparison.... I'll take Tiger Woods (athleticism wise) over any baseball player period... I notice you stayed away from that one

stonehands · Post by **stonehands** » Fri Jul 19, 2013 11:27 am

JSR wrote:
Froggy Richards wrote:
stonehands wrote: Since you seem to have conceded defeat in the Joe -vs- Phil argument lets match up Big Joe -vs- Tiger.

Making imaginary assumption that they are the same age and in there prime we'll face them off:

Baseball - Joe wins
Football - Joe wins
Golf - Eldrick
Hockey - Joe (hear he's actually pretty good too)
Basketball - Joe
Soccer - who cares
Tennis - Joe

Looks like it would be 5 - 1 Joe, give Tiger soccer because again no one cares, and it's still 5-2 Joe.

Get back to reading your Packer Weekly.

Froggy Richards · Post by **Froggy Richards** » Fri Jul 19, 2013 12:03 pm

JSR wrote:
Froggy Richards wrote:
stonehands wrote: So we're done with Phil vs. Mauer? I don't blame you, you really got destroyed on that one. Not just by me, but also by everyone else who commented on it.

Okay, I'll play. The most athletic thing I've ever seen Tiger do is swing a golf club and walk after his ball. So I'm not sure how we would know how good of an athlete he is, but Stone does a good job of breaking it down in the post above so I will defer to him.

This chess match has turned into Boris Kasparov vs. Barney Fife. I could go on making you look like an idiot forever, but I'm bored with it now so I won't have anything more to say after this. I'll just leave it up to the experts that get paid to do this sort of thing. Maybe you can argue with them next.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/st ... ndathletes

ESPN's Top 10 Best All around Athletes of All time.

1. Jim Brown
2. Jim Thorpe
3. Dave Winfield
4. Bo Jackson
5. Wilt Chamberlain
6. Rafer Johnson
7. Jackie Robinson
8. Michaell Jordan
9. Gordie Howe
10. Lou Gehrig

Others receiving votes: Jerry Rice, Bob Gibson, Kirk Gibson, Charlie Ward, Deion Sanders, Bob Mathias, Danny Ainge, John Elway, Eric Heiden.

7 out of 19 are Baseball Players? MORE than any other Sport? Oh, and 0 Golfers.

You lost, get over it.

DrGaf · Post by **DrGaf** » Fri Jul 19, 2013 12:24 pm

stonehands wrote:
JSR wrote:
Froggy Richards wrote: Pretty sure it's a landslide in Tiger's direction for personality and philandering.

5-4 Joe.

InigoMontoya · Post by **InigoMontoya** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 6:44 am

Tigers33 wrote:I didn't say Phil was a better athlete then joe mauer. But since you wanna have some fun then lets...

How many golfers are overweight and chain smoke?

Now lets look at overweight baseball players too. And oh yeah they take steroids in baseball

The PGA has 45 events with combined purses nearly $300 million, not even considering endorsement deals which tend to ramp up exponentially for the players that are on TV on Sunday. I'm thinking there may be more than one or two of those guys with a card that may be performance enhancing - technology is going into more than just the golf clubs.

JSR · Post by **JSR** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 10:09 am

Froggy Richards wrote:
JSR wrote:
Froggy Richards wrote: I am done... but only because you cannot fight stupid and you sir are the king.... your list just proves your stupidity beyond all doubt, arguments of subjectivity cannot be "proven" with a list made up by guys who's job it is to get people to argue.....

Froggy Richards · Post by **Froggy Richards** » Mon Jul 22, 2013 2:02 pm

stonehands wrote:
JSR wrote:
Froggy Richards wrote:

JSR · Post by **JSR** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 11:31 am

Froggy Richards wrote:
stonehands wrote:
JSR wrote: Seeing as YOU proclaimed ESPN to be the "experts" on the subject:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/ ... id=2555909

Also there is this:

Physical therapist Keith Kleven has long said that Woods is one of the most athletic people he has ever seen. Woods has trained with Kleven, a member of the Southern Nevada Sports Hall-of-Fame who has worked with the likes of Mike Tyson, Greg Maddux, Mike Maddux, Ryan Moore and many others, for several years, and makes special trips to Kleven's office that is located here in Las Vegas.

"In overall athleticism, balance and structure, he probably exceeds all world-class athletes that I work with," says Kleven. "We have done a lot of things that I haven't done with others. He is very gifted."

I'll give Joe baseball and hockey but I think you VASTLY underesitmate Woods' overall athleticism and ability to play the other sports at a very high level if he wanted to....

No go back to watching your Twinkies and your title-less Bi-Queens...

SCBlueLiner · Post by **SCBlueLiner** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 12:19 pm

This has devolved into the realm of stupidity.

Thanks for taking what was supposed to be a light hearted thread and turning it into a 3 page bickering match.

goldy313 · Post by **goldy313** » Tue Jul 23, 2013 9:03 pm

Why baseball is better: $100 in equipment at the most, sitting outside on a warm summer evening, playing catch, kids ride their bikes to practice/ I don't have to be at practice, getting ice cream at the DQ after the game, keeping the scorebook, I never had to leave town for a game or a practice until high school, no 5:30 am practices.

Why hockey is better: it never rains in a hockey rink, the game moves at a faster pace, playing time means something, people actually go to high school hockey games, one kid can't dominate a hockey game, kids get more exicted about scoring, more of a team game.

All in all I miss baseball more than hockey when the kids were all through with sports. Even today we still play catch, plan to see a major league ballgame every year as a trip, and general sports talk centers around baseball far more than hockey. You have to be pretty passionate about hockey to enjoy it now with the expense, baseball is a leisurely activity.

InigoMontoya · Post by **InigoMontoya** » Wed Jul 24, 2013 8:31 am

Never been given the opportunity to pay for a chance to throw a baseball over the backstop to see if I can get it closest to the pitching rubber.

DrGaf · Post by **DrGaf** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:16 am

InigoMontoya wrote:Never been given the opportunity to pay for a chance to throw a baseball over the backstop to see if I can get it closest to the pitching rubber.

The kids and I recently went to a Saints game and this thread popped into my pathetic hockey dwelling brain.

I don't know if they do it every game, but the last few I've gone to they do chuck tennis balls into hula hoops post-game. Wasn't paying attention to the prize though.

InigoMontoya · Post by **InigoMontoya** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:19 am

I couldn't even imagine if the Saints organization owned a minor league hockey team. Pigs dropping the ceremonial first puck, ankle benders on the ice in their gay brother's figure skates, and the characters in the bleachers would be beyond my imagination.

SCBlueLiner · Post by **SCBlueLiner** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:22 am

In keeping with the spirit and the season, I've been to football games where you could buy soft frisbees and at halftime you would throw them onto the field in an attempt to land them on a bullseye in order to win prizes. I immediately thought "chuck-a-puck".

SCBlueLiner · Post by **SCBlueLiner** » Thu Sep 05, 2013 10:38 am

InigoMontoya wrote:I couldn't even imagine if the Saints organization owned a minor league hockey team. Pigs dropping the ceremonial first puck, ankle benders on the ice in their gay brother's figure skates, and the characters in the bleachers would be beyond my imagination.

Face paint lady roaming the bleachers? Yeah, she kinda creeped me out. Definitely a carnival-like atmosphere at those games. Fun, though.

DrGaf · Post by **DrGaf** » Fri Sep 06, 2013 1:21 pm

SCBlueLiner wrote:
InigoMontoya wrote:I couldn't even imagine if the Saints organization owned a minor league hockey team. Pigs dropping the ceremonial first puck, ankle benders on the ice in their gay brother's figure skates, and the characters in the bleachers would be beyond my imagination.
Face paint lady roaming the bleachers? Yeah, she kinda creeped me out. Definitely a carnival-like atmosphere at those games. Fun, though.

Nothing like a massage from a nun as well ... not exactly the same as that massage in Thailand.