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alex Jul 15, 2007

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/sportSkills HAHAHAHAAAA!!!! yessssss!!! so, brotherman, if you look at the above link you will see that football is indeed a harder sport to play than baseba...

brotherman Jul 15, 2007

I read one paragraph and stopped. "Toughest" is the term used. As in, something that demands the most out of your body. That was never a debate. I was speaking of hitting a sphere with a cylind...

alex Jul 15, 2007

god you're an idiot. whatever. there is nothing left to argue about. the rankings were based on "difficulty." you didn't even read the entire thing. direct quote: "In Page 2's Ultimate Degree of...

brotherman Jul 15, 2007

And my argument is definitely proved. Under the heading Hand/Eye Coordination, it scored a 9.25. That is better than every single other sport. That is the argument I was proving, not agility or ...

alex Jul 15, 2007

uuuh...you. you're the idiot now. "Anyone knows hand/eye coordination is a harder skill than being strong or agile." this is so dumb. there is no possible way to judge which skill is harder (st...

brotherman Jul 15, 2007

Strength isn't a skill. Agility isn't a skill. It's inherited by keeping yourself in shape and pushing your body to the limit. Anyone who is set on doing that can accomplish those things. I work...

alex Jul 16, 2007

blah, blah, blah...hand eye coordination is something some people have naturally, just like some people are naturally strong, or fast. please don't ever talk about football like you know anything a...

tesoro tesoroOG 2001

HAHAHA..."baseball is pagan false doctrine. football is the truth" I love it. haha

As an outsider...(i know nothing about sports) you both make really good arguments....and I am not yet convinced of either....please continue. haha

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brothermanOG 2004

Alex keeps arguing the all-around difficulty, which I never argued. If ESPN did a survey on the most difficult "skill" in sports, hitting a baseball will be #1. What they did in the survey he linked us to was average all aspects into one score. I don't disagree with the survey, looks accurate.

But, apparently Alex has never seen Mariano Rivera saw bats in half with his cut fastball. The guy has something like a 0.05 ERA in the postseason. And the hits people got off him were usually bloopers and bouncers up the middle, nothing solid. He's also probably never seen Barry Zito's trademark 12-6 curveball. It starts out at 12 o'clock and ends at 6 o'clock. There are so many different kinds of pitches with movement and guys who have sneaky deliveries, that a hitter has an extremely difficult job out there. Whole teams usually have a team batting average of about .260 to .270. And that is good teams. A 27% success rate? Name any skill in sports where you can win with that kind of rate of success?

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alexOG 2001

yeah, well you're stupid.

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brothermanOG 2004

I know you are but what am I.

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