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[MaximumZero]

My favorite baseball team sucks. They've sucked for a long, long time, and that's never stopped me from watching them, but still. Why can't you be good for a while, Mariners?

Look on the bright side -- all of baseball sucks. 
It's all the tedium of golf, but with more people so it takes longer.

I enjoy the bursts of spectacle between the tedium, same with other sports. I'm trapped in the chair and/or on crutches for quite a while, so I may as well relax, right?

[RedKing]

My favorite baseball team sucks. They've sucked for a long, long time, and that's never stopped me from watching them, but still. Why can't you be good for a while, Mariners?

Look on the bright side -- all of baseball sucks. 
It's all the tedium of golf, but with more people so it takes longer.

I enjoy the bursts of spectacle between the tedium, same with other sports. I'm trapped in the chair and/or on crutches for quite a while, so I may as well relax, right?

Dude, WTH? You back to pitfighting or something? 

[MaximumZero]

My favorite baseball team sucks. They've sucked for a long, long time, and that's never stopped me from watching them, but still. Why can't you be good for a while, Mariners?

Look on the bright side -- all of baseball sucks. 
It's all the tedium of golf, but with more people so it takes longer.

I enjoy the bursts of spectacle between the tedium, same with other sports. I'm trapped in the chair and/or on crutches for quite a while, so I may as well relax, right?

Dude, WTH? You back to pitfighting or something? 

Nah. I just had surgery #4 on my spine, connecting my right SI joint to my pelvis permanently. After 6 weeks on crutches (toe touch only, no weight bearing,) I do physical therapy (yet again,) and then we do the other side, so that my tailbone will be in a fixed position forever. Then after 6 weeks of crutches for that side, we do an ACDF fusion in my neck.

I'm very much retired from fighting. It literally broke me.

[Yoink]

My favorite baseball team sucks. They've sucked for a long, long time, and that's never stopped me from watching them, but still. Why can't you be good for a while, Mariners?

Look on the bright side -- all of baseball sucks. 
It's all the tedium of golf, but with more people so it takes longer.

Uh, dude, I think you're thinking of cricket.   
Baseball is actually entertaining to watch, and I'm pretty sure it's fun to play, too.   




My Upset: I am mondo tired right now. Been a few days of hair-raising, kitten-raising edge-of-seat stuff. Before last night, two nights in a row I was getting up every two hours to feed the kitten. Now the mother cat is doing a better job of feeding her herself, but it's still nerve wracking. Also my sleep schedule is obviously just very battered in general after a couple nights of that.   
Think I'm gonna go back to bed. Hopefully the kitten (who is staying in my room) will let me know if she needs anything.   

[hector13]

Cricket is much more interesting than baseball because, at least in limited overs matches, shit actually happens. Though I say that as someone whose biggest experience of cricket has been video games.

Baseball is described as 30 minutes of action stretched over 3 hours, though I forget by whom. The odd thing is the game also goes by faster if nothing is happening.

[Yoink]

Nah. You wrong. Nothing happens in cricket. A bunch of dudes in identical outfits running back and forth down a straight line. They can't even throw the damn ball properly. And a single game of this monstrosity can and will drag on for fucking days!   
Especially damning is the fact that cricket isn't even fun to play. And I'm not just saying that as someone with a tendency to suck at sports, no, I always sucked at soccer, basketball, badminton, bowling and such as well, but they were at least still fun to play for the sake of playing.   

[hector13]

Nah. You wrong. Nothing happens in cricket. A bunch of dudes in identical outfits running back and forth down a straight line. They can't even throw the damn ball properly. And a single game of this monstrosity can and will drag on for fucking days!   
Especially damning is the fact that cricket isn't even fun to play. And I'm not just saying that as someone with a tendency to suck at sports, no, I always sucked at soccer, basketball, badminton, bowling and such as well, but they were at least still fun to play for the sake of playing.   

Test cricket is bananas, I will accept, because anything that lasts five days and can still end a draw is by definition stupid, hence my narrowing interesting cricket to limited overs stuff. The batsman having to hit the ball is infinitely more interesting than watching someone looking at a ball being thrown really hard at them, and sometimes he might swing at it.

[Maximum Spin]

I think the conclusion to draw here is that increasingly performative (not to mention commercial) professional sports are boring in general, but games where people are still trying to have fun in the spirit of rules devised 100+ years ago by people who were also trying to have fun are still fun.

[Reelya]

The difference is that baseball was a game played between people from different cities in America in the railroad era, whereas test cricket was a game played between people from different continents in the era of steam ships. Australia to England in 1914 took around 4-6 weeks so nobody would go over there and only play for a day.

[ChairmanPoo]

I feel quite a bit of ennui

[methylatedspirit]

I went to a clinic to get a health checkup (because university needs you to have one), and I cycled my way there. I'm almost entirely fine.

Now I'm gonna be stuck here for a while because I just had to come in right before a massive rainstorm, and the weather forecast predicts that it's going to last 3 - 4 hours. I'd call my parents right now, but I'm not sure how I'm supposed to fit my full-size mountain bike in the car. I don't think it's a good idea to leave it either, because leaving a bike out in public (even with a lock) is asking for it to be stolen. Goddamnit.

[Il Palazzo]

Ask you parents to bring a wrench with them, or whatever tools your bike needs to take the wheels off. It should then fit in most cars, one way or another.

[methylatedspirit]

I managed to get out of there. The rain died down a bit, so I hauled ass on my bike back home. Thank God for that. (It's not that I hate the place, I just dislike being in public with nothing to do.)

On an unrelated sidenote, the weather app I use seems to be crapping out very often and not showing weather info. If I try looking up a nearby city, it still craps out. Basically for my entire country, it craps out. Dunno what's happening there.

[Yoink]

Gods, life is such a gosh dang chore.   
I have enough imaginary/self-inflicted problems courtesy of my defective headmeats, I don't need actual real-world nonsense to pile up on top of that. But it does. Especially lately. All the damn time. My room has become a sick cat sanctuary and there are food dishes everywhere and crumbs of kitty litter and the litter tray itself needs emptying tomorrow and I'm wondering if I'm gonna contract toxoplasmosis or however the frick you spell it overnight and of course the whole thing stinks, plus I have to keep all the adjoining doors shut to contain unruly vulnerable kittens including the doorway I usually hang my chin-up bar in so even if I did have time to exercise during all this I'd have all sorts of extra inconvenience to deal with.   

Plus, the flea problem that contributed to almost wiping out the entire litter of said kittens is insanely hard to wipe out. You'd have to treat every animal in the house more-or-less simultaneously, as well as changing/burning their bedding and basically any other fabric they've come in contact with. And then, even if somehow you did free the entire house of fleas, one of the outside critters would bring more in sooner or later and the whole process would begin again. Ugh.   
And, of course, who's the one who would have to make the Herculean effort to arrange this hypothetical house-wide deep clean? Me, the person who is chronically sleep-deprived, squeamish and just cripplingly lazy by nature to begin with. So I have the stress of all these animal-related issues, plus an all-encompassing feeling of general purpose guilt that they ain't dealt with already.   

...Nothing new there, I suppose. Still, I just wanna lie on the floor for a few hours. Oh yeah, and I got my hearing aids repaired a couple of days ago (which is neat although I was no longer used to using them), but now I can't find the poke-y bend-y things to clean them with so the left one sounds all muffled already.   
I would probably carrying on whining here for a while but I have run out of steam. I'mma go lie on the floor. Peace out.   

[JoshuaFH]

My favorite baseball team sucks. They've sucked for a long, long time, and that's never stopped me from watching them, but still. Why can't you be good for a while, Mariners?

They were good for "a while"!