MLB votes to eliminate home-plate collisions

[Publius]

Originally Posted by ozzy6900

Next, under the sissification of America, NASCAR will eliminate all collisions.

What a bunch of pussies.

I suspect MLB's result will look a lot like NASCAR's has for years: contact is allowed; deliberate wanton collisions are not.

[jicecone]

Just to rile the indians!

Since when is NASCAR considered a sport anyway?

[DG]

Originally Posted by jicecone

Just to rile the indians!

Since when is NASCAR considered a sport anyway?

You kidding, right? Next you will be dissing golf.

[JJ]

Originally Posted by DG

You kidding, right? Next you will be dissing golf.

And cheerleading....

[jicecone]

Originally Posted by DG

You kidding, right? Next you will be dissing golf.

Not really, their performance on the course has a lot to due with their physical condition, which is more than you can say about NASCAR.

[Publius]

Originally Posted by jicecone

Not really, their performance on the course has a lot to due with their physical condition, which is more than you can say about NASCAR.

Never been in a stock car for four hours at 180 mph in traffic, have you? You know, where it's 120+ degrees and the G-force roller coaster pummels your body the entire time.

You can add the physical demands of NASCAR to the lengthy list of topics about which you aren't too shy to display your ignorance.

It'd be entertaining to see the drivers on the NASCAR circuit go against PGA tour pros in a group competition of physical strength and, especially, endurance. The golfers would get embarrassed.

[DG]

"To put it into perspective, the amount of force a driver feels while driving through the corners would be the equivalent of being pushed for three hours by three 300lb lineman. If that weren’t enough, retired NBA player Shaquille O’Neal has experienced a few laps in a NASCAR cockpit and has said that he can’t remember being involved in a basketball practice or game that exhausted him as quickly as when he drove in the cockpit."

[hbk314]

Originally Posted by DG

"To put it into perspective, the amount of force a driver feels while driving through the corners would be the equivalent of being pushed for three hours by three 300lb lineman. If that weren’t enough, retired NBA player Shaquille O’Neal has experienced a few laps in a NASCAR cockpit and has said that he can’t remember being involved in a basketball practice or game that exhausted him as quickly as when he drove in the cockpit."

My only question is: How did he fit into a NASCAR cockpit? lol

[ozzy6900]

Originally Posted by Publius

I suspect MLB's result will look a lot like NASCAR's has for years: contact is allowed; deliberate wanton collisions are not.

Very close, Publius. I think we are looking at MLB to become a glorified HS baseball sport in a couple of years.

[CT1]

I wonder if they'll use some form of the HS malicious contact rule.

[rbmartin]

Originally Posted by ozzy6900

I think we are looking at MLB to become a glorified HS baseball sport in a couple of years.

I, for one, love HS baseball. I love officiating it and I love watching it.