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Don't remember ever being excited about watching baseball before, let alone doggedly staying up way too late to finish a game. Any other bandwagoners feeling a little tuckered today?

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why does every American sport mostly consist of waiting for players to get set up?

[–] MyBrainHurts@piefed.ca 14 points 4 months ago

More time for consumerism!

[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

As opposed to waiting for players to feign injury?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This is Canada, we watch Hockey and Rugby. They aren’t flopping like basketball players.

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah curling and Aussie rules too.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You know, if there's something other than ads or my feet to watch while waiting, I'll take it.

[–] villasv@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Assuming this is about soccer...

Even with teams that have players that are notoriously bad at this, the total time the game waits on those is like 5 minutes