geez, just kill it already

[M2d]

now they agree?

Hockey's what, the sixth sport? Baseball, Basketball, Football, Golf, Nascar...Women's beach Volleyball might be bigger as well. Poker too. Now, after the original, self-imposed "drop dead date", the players' union and management have agreed to maybe agree on a salary cap? and they're talking about playing a 28 game "season"?
Don't pitchers and catchers report soon? let's get on with real sports.

[tdarko]

i am not a hockey fan either but i think you might have stirred up trouble with the canadians [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[M2d]

slow day at work. that was the point.

[BusterStacks]

Hockey is so much more of a real sport than baseball.

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Hockey is so much more of a real sport than baseball.

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I agree

[M2d]

so it team handball, but no one except the players like it either.

[tdarko]

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hey now don't start any trouble now, haha.
baseball is the most skillful sport you can play, i didnt say athletic or any ol' basketball player or football player could do it. baseball takes athleticism too but if you dont have the skill you could be michael jordan and fail at it.
i know i know you all are going to say look at brian jordan, deion sanders and bo jackson...yes very athletic but they are rare cases and they had the "skill" to do the hardest thing in sports which is hit a moving round object with another round object. flame away

[JPinAZ]

Try doing everything that's done in football, except that you're standing 6 inches off the ground on a piece of metal 10 inches long and 1/8 of an inch wide. And instead of running you're travelling around 20 miles an hour. And instead of a big ball you play with a piece of frozen rubber the size of an english muffin.

[tdarko]

i am on hockey's side when it comes to toughness and difficulty dont get me wrong. now i have played baseball with dozens of canadians (some that played professional hockey--never NHL though) and EVERY SINGLE one of them says hitting a baseball is the hardest thing to do in sports.
i respect hockey players because they are obviously super-talented but you are talking about skating being difficult in your post? they grow up skating, it is like walking or running to them. nobody grows up with hitting a baseball as coming second hand or natural. tony gwynn had to take 3000+ swings a day to stay refined because it is a such a difficult thing to do and goes away so quickly.
i will be back later to reply, i gotta go throw a bullpen--i am not skilled enough to hit [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[istewart]

Hockey, while not close to my favorite sport, is still fun to watch. It's screwed itself so hard here though, it might as well pack its bags in America.

And baseball > hockey. It's not close.