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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Apparently not. It seems from reading everyone's posts today that they are trying to fix it so that the team with the best penalty kickers doesn't always win. Going from penalty kicks to different types of sudden death to determine the outcome of the game seems pretty fundamental to me. It's like if baseball (and don't get me wrong, baseball has it's problems too, but most of them -- like the designated hitter -- are tied to greed) tried to change it so that there were no extra innings because all games would be decided by home run derby after the 9th.
People love soccer. No question. If you're going to reduce the argument to whether or not it is a popular sport to determine whether or not it is flawed, then the answer is simple.
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I'd love it if baseball became a home run derby after the 9th. Home runs are about the only thing I've ever really loved in baseball. When they started making smaller stadiums and juiced the ball a few years back, they really fucked the game up. Guys like Luzinski, Rice, Stargell, Kingman, Schmidt, etc... used to be great to watch because at any moment they might launch a moonshot. Cats like that used to tag the ball over the center field fence in the Astrodome. Now you have all these short fields and roid nuts nailing what would have been long flies in the old days out of mini-fields.
No one can tell me the ball wasn't tightened a few years back. The ball just doens't suddenly decide to start jumping off the bat like that, then suddenly go back to almost normal again a few years later. From McGuire's 70 through Bond's 74, there had to be something going on with the ball. And Sosa should have been traded byb edict of the commissioner. Leaving that monster in Wrigley was a joke.
