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Soul Survivor
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May 2003
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People can come up with statistics to prove anything. 14% of people know that.
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Sava
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GO GO GO!
Mar 2001
time: 23:33
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Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
This is coming from someone who's never played it  . Much more physical than baseball or basketball, that's for certain. |
not so... I played soccer from age 4 to 12.... jackass... 
how does soccer being more physical than baseball or basketball make it betteR? soccer is stupid... the ball gets kicked around a field for 2 hours and the teams settle for a 0-0 tie... then someone wins in a shootout... STUPID!!!
my own personal rankings of the best sports
1. hockey (best to play IRL--ice and roller, hasn't been great to watch since mid 90's... best video games to play as well)
2. football (best to watch and follow, second best to play -- tackle without pads is for men... I chipped two teeth playing REAL football)
3. baseball (individual games can be boring to watch... playoffs are great --cubs that is last year was great... best fantasy game to play... great fun to play IRL)
a distant 4th. Basketball... modern NBA is crap... it's turned into streetball and thugball. Good shooters are rare... everyone wants to "go to the hole". A fat monster like Shaq is the best player. Basketball is inherently flawed because taller players have an advantage over others --all things being equal of course-- basketball can be moderately fun when shooting around with friends, but it gets old real QUICK)
soccer is the worst of the major team sports... stupid to play, boring to watch... and the damn euro's and south americans riot when their teams win 1-0 in some lame ass overtime shootout. And people call America stupid...  Any time some non-American calls America brutish, or uncultured, or barbaric... I'll just point to a foreign soccer game.
miscellaneous comments: golf isn't a sport, it's a game... tennis can be entertaining to watch, but only when the women are hot. Most Olympic events aren't sports either... running a certain distance to find out who comes in first doesn't require any skill... just physical prowess. sure, there are little things that good runners can do, but it's not a sport. It's a physical competition.
In order to be a "sport" there needs to be a game with defined rules where there is one winner and one loser in a single game. It must require REAL PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, like running, or skating, etc... golf doesn't count because you just hit a damn ball. Maybe if they chased the ball on foot and could hit each other and stuff like LaCrosse, I would consider making it a sport. But it's just a game. And one that is a waste of land, detrimental to the environment due to the amount of pesticides and chemical fertilizers used... and it sparks of slavery and/or economic enslavement... i.e. caddies carrying golf bags for fat, old, rich, white guys. If I were in charge, golf would be banned.
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Albert Speer
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Puerile Polemic
Mar 1999
time: 00:33
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it's extremely strange how philly was not mentioned in the article especially since the number of homicides was an issue in the recent mayoral election. The AP didn't list philly but the philly inquirer said we had 348 this year.
strange how baltimore was mentioned though it had some 70 less murders. does this have anything to do with the fact that the Republican party in philly was saying the homicide rate was going out of control no thanks to the democrat mayor and journalists don't want to prove the republicans right?
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Albert Speer
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Puerile Polemic
Mar 1999
time: 00:33
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Sava:
but the president has no real influence over police whereas the mayor does so you can blame the mayor.
apparently, philly had a 20% increase in murders since last year. i would think that's notable, krazyhorse, unless the journalists are trying to hide something?
but what a great way to begin the new year...
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And the new year was barely an hour old yesterday when Michael English, 28, of West Philadelphia, who was attending the annual neighborhood New Year's Eve party at a Parkside bar, became the city's first homicide victim of 2004.
He was joined a few hours later by 20-year-old Juan Reyes, shot to death in his North Philadelphia living room.
Spiro's Park Rail Bar & Grill, on Girard Avenue at the foot of Parkside Avenue, traditionally throws a New Year's Eve party for its neighborhood customers, providing hats, noise makers and a disc jockey. But a few minutes after 1 a.m. yesterday, shots were fired in the long, dim, low-ceilinged bar, killing English, police said.
Fokas said the shooting was not preceded by any bar fight or other disruption. Police have no suspects and no motive.
Then, at 2:50 a.m. yesterday, police responded to a shooting at 805 East Allegheny Ave., where they found 20-year-old Juan Reyes face-up in his living room, dead from multiple gunshot wounds. Another man in the house, shot through the shoulder, was taken to Temple University Hospital, and was in stable condition, police said. They would not release his name. Police did not publicly declare a motive or suspects in that case, either. |
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