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Whats this bout jeter the cheater?
Chamillitary Click:
--- Quote from: Javier on September 17, 2010, 03:36:25 PM ---Soccer players fake it or make it look worse to get fouls called. It isn't because somebody is shutting them down. My point is people were shitting so hard on the actors in soccer yet Jeter is being applauded for literally the same thing. Same way how sometimes you can't avoid getting hit by a fastball, you can't avoid a tackle. Both sports can offer some serious injuries, just recently look what happened to Valencia of Manchester United. And then in baseball you got what happened to Carlos Santana. I don't know why it a constant dick measuring contests when it comes to sports.
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I typed in "Baseball acting/Baseball Players acting" & one video came up of some college game of a pretty bad "fake" thing. The funny thing is, the video under it was a Soccer video. There must be something in Youtube that registers "player" & "acting" as automatically something Soccer related lol.
Anyway, I applaud it because I love the Yankees, Jeter is having a rough year, we're fighting for the division & Jeter pulled a fast one. If players did this on a nightly basis, I'd hate it. But it never happens & the one time it does happen it's for my team & it was followed by a 2 run homerun, if I'm not mistaken. But Soccer is just every other player, grasping their knee like it's some career ending shit & then on some fastbreak literally minutes later, they are running all out full speed like a fuckin' gazelle lol.
Javier:
--- Quote from: Chamillitary Click on September 17, 2010, 05:08:53 PM ---
--- Quote from: Javier on September 17, 2010, 03:36:25 PM ---Soccer players fake it or make it look worse to get fouls called. It isn't because somebody is shutting them down. My point is people were shitting so hard on the actors in soccer yet Jeter is being applauded for literally the same thing. Same way how sometimes you can't avoid getting hit by a fastball, you can't avoid a tackle. Both sports can offer some serious injuries, just recently look what happened to Valencia of Manchester United. And then in baseball you got what happened to Carlos Santana. I don't know why it a constant dick measuring contests when it comes to sports.
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I typed in "Baseball acting/Baseball Players acting" & one video came up of some college game of a pretty bad "fake" thing. The funny thing is, the video under it was a Soccer video. There must be something in Youtube that registers "player" & "acting" as automatically something Soccer related lol.
Anyway, I applaud it because I love the Yankees, Jeter is having a rough year, we're fighting for the division & Jeter pulled a fast one. If players did this on a nightly basis, I'd hate it. But it never happens & the one time it does happen it's for my team & it was followed by a 2 run homerun, if I'm not mistaken. But Soccer is just every other player, grasping their knee like it's some career ending shit & then on some fastbreak literally minutes later, they are running all out full speed like a fuckin' gazelle lol.
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You are mistaken, it isn't every other player. And the reasons people act out in soccer is because refs have a really hard time seeing what's a foul and what isn't(personally that's still not a good excuse). The game is usually played at a fast speed, so the ref can't catch everything. Even with this in mind, majority of players and fans do not like it and it is frowned upon. In fact, different cultures and leagues view it differently. The South American leagues and countries usually have more actors there compared to Europe in general. I can go for literally different leagues within each region, but it'll be too much. Point is it is not something that every other players does and even in leagues where it is more common...it's still not acceptable.
Chamillitary Click:
^Yeah, but bottom line is that acting is still a major part of the Soccer culture. So even if it's frowned upon & maybe not every player does it; but it does happen at least once a game. I mean, I'm just speculating but honestly, it has to happen at least once a game, right? So I mean games can be won & lost because some teams have better actors than others, that's silly, in my opinion.
Not that all games are won & lost based off of whether a ref makes a call or not, but theorhetically, that could be the case.
The closest thing that comes to acting besides what we see with Jeter here, which never happens, is occasionally Lou Pinella flipping out on an umpire; which is beyond entertaining lol.
That's why Basketball can be silly too, when players are throwing their arms in the air for calls, while spiraling out of the control.
Javier:
Games are mainly won by tactics and players, then I would say ref mistakes. I saw pretty much every World Cup game, and that didn't happen. The closest one was Ghana vs Uruguay but that game overall was tactically driven.
Chamillitary Click:
--- Quote from: Javier on September 17, 2010, 05:27:27 PM ---Games are mainly won by tactics and players, then I would say ref mistakes. I saw pretty much every World Cup game, and that didn't happen. The closest one was Ghana vs Uruguay but that game overall was tactically driven.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't one of the tactics, "fall on your face & throw your arms up if you don't get the call"? :P
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