twee-est major professional sport (US)

I understand how, hypothetically, revering British culture of several decades ago is twee, but I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around the alcoholism and bad tattoos.

Baseball in a walk.

Golf, Tennis and NASCAR are more major than soccer/futbol or is this only team sports?

I don't hate twee as much as many of you apparently do but I do rather think it's baseball. Soccer is pretty jocky actually and if it's not it's people who like to get drunk early on weekends.

"but I'm having trouble wrapping my mind around the alcoholism and bad tattoos."

Why bring the NBA into this?

people who like to get drunk early on weekends.

Yeah, like 8am.

Soccer is all about suburban kids who have mommy drive them to games in minivans with orange slices to hand out to the rest of the team at halftime. Maybe that's not twee, but it's sure lame.

Bill, it's also about immigrants and urban kids who play on asphalt.

soccer fans wear scarves, that's pretty dang twee

Has Tiger so befouled Golf that it is out of the running?

I find it hard to believe that macho, sports-type American males actually approve of baseball with all the guys in tight pants and little caps scampering about.

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I bet you have some hilarious views on football too. Here I'll get you started: "tight end."

"urban kids who play on asphalt"

that's all basketball, all the time in these parts.

baseball is def the corniest but that isn't the same as twee

I like the twee of baseball; odd shaped park, peanuts, pinstripes, hot dogs, 7th inning stretch, score cards carefully filled-out...

'Soccer mom' is pretty much an amateur porn genre now = not twee

Bill, it says 'US' not 'in Bill's parts'.

Baseball, because the managers wear uniforms, too.

Wait, how are hot dogs twee?

none of these things are partic twee even when theyre lame. twee is like 20something faggots playing capture the flag & drinking lemonaid & shit right?

Where i live (NYC metropolitan area) i've seen much more playground basketball than "asphalt soccer" by a very wide margin.

Hot dogs aren't twee but having teh obligatory hot dog at the ballpark is.

there are a lot of different definitions of "twee" "masculine" "american" "football" "soccer" "basketball" floating around here

canada is very twee so hockey

Mandatory Hot Dog sounds Orwellian and terrifying!

Bill, in NYC you've undoubtedly seen more basketball than soccer, period, no?

I dunno, Phillip. I could be far too easily led down the path to totalitarianism via hot dogs.

Soccer is all about suburban kids who have mommy drive them to games in minivans with orange slices to hand out to the rest of the team at halftime. Maybe that's not twee, but it's sure lame.

Yeah okay I don't know any of these people, but they're probably more of the total % of "soccer" "fans" than the kind of people I do know. Anyway, the answer is STILL baseball.

Why does UK poll get golf but not US? I can't name a single brit golfer. Unless, is Hoagie Carmichael British?

Because we invented it. Also, watch more golf.

:-)

we invented baseball and 'soccer' too fwiw

you didn't invent baseball, you invented some shit called "rounders"

Actually, 'rounders' in the west of England was called baseball.

As an Englishman I am obliged to stipulate three things.

1. We weren’t the first people to think of kicking a ball around.

2. We were the first to have a hissy-fit about rules and threaten to take our ball away, thus creating the modern version of the sport played worldwide.

3. We don’t understand how our own creation works and our tactics have the subtlety and sophistication of a herd of stampeding elephants with toothache. Which is pretty much how we do everything round here.

The only truly American sport amongst the majors is basketball.

Wasn't basketball invented by one guy sitting down and trying to think up a new game? I mean, it didn't grow organically at all, not even from a bunch of guys tossing a ball around one day. That's pretty weird, amazing that it caught on.

Actually it's part Canadian if you include his place of birth.

I have just googled hoagy carmichael and am super embarrassed to find out he had nothing to do with golf. Is there a famous old-timey golfer who sounds like a sandwich that I'm really thinking of?

Arthur Philly Cheesesteak won the open in 1956?

Cheesesteak doesn't sound twee enough...

Arturo Muffaletta had a good run in the 60's, I think.

haha, I never even actually really registered that you said Hoagie Carmichael. Are you thinking of Ben Hogan? Because he was one of yours.

Swedish pro Anders Smörgås?

reuben po'boy

Actually it's part Canadian if you include his place of birth.

And both parets were Scots.

Patrizio 'Pa' Nino was another classic golfer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om_yq4L3M_I

well, that settles it.

carlin otm
r.i.p.

Voted the one that most resembles a Morrissey song.

two years ago, the NFL used a cover version of "everyday is like sunday" in one of its TV promo ads over here in the USA.

can't find a video of it anywhere on the Interweb, sadly.

none of these sports seem twee... Maybe I don't even know what the term means anymore. Foosball, if it were a professional sport, would be the most twee sport. therefore, my vote is with soccer.

I still can't quite wrap my head around that.

lol I'm still pissed off about the North Stars so I'm not going to get on anyone's case over losing their team

Walter O'Malley is one of the most unfairly maligned people in American history. based on everything i've read about the guy, his only real "black mark" (if you can call it that) is moving the Dodgers to LA (and his reasons for doing so were entirely defensible).

cmon dan you got the "wild" now

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_iiwJQZFvT8E/SmFcHOYNU8I/AAAAAAAAANk/LcDZqJWCDwI/s400/the-glare-michelle-obama-carla-bruni-sarkozy-glare-demotivational-poster-1244466818.jpg

l-r: CAD, me

loooool

worst hockey game i ever went to was a bruins-wild game. we took my irish friend who had never seen hockey in person and we were all like "it's really fun, you're gonna love it" and it was a horrific stagnant affair that ended like 1-0.

Brooklyn Dodgers average home attendance in '57, their last year in Brooklyn: 13,354. If they really wanted them to stay, maybe more of them should have gone to the games.

13k was pretty high for '50s attendance. For all the Golden Age talk, teams routinely draw 3-4x as many fans today as any team did in the '50s.

They can make a dull season in a sport I haven't followed since the 80's seem like the most compelling, epic and poignant thing ever. If Goebbels or Stalin had had NFL Films...

looool at this

iirc the dodgers moved because of a dispute with NYC's city planner who wanted them to build their new stadium in flushing, not brooklyn (ebbets wasnt cutting the mustard anymore - too small, too inaccessible to suburban fans), dodgers threatened to move, city hall didn't believe them, then they moved

13k was pretty high for '50s attendance. For all the Golden Age talk, teams routinely draw 3-4x as many fans today as any team did in the '50s.

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In 1957, the Brooklyn Dodgers were 10th out of 19 teams in attendance. I think I'm missing what the dewey-eyed nostalgia regarding this team is about. Im of half a mind to have Hammill produce ticket stubs to prove he ever went to Ebbets Field.

'57 was soon after a few teams changed cities and saw a bump in attendance (the Dodgers are well within the top half of teams in their old cities). They were also hurt because it was obvious early in the season that they'd be moving.

Before 1957, the Dodgers had been first or second in NL attendance for most of the decade (though average attendance was basically the same).

I can understand pining for the Brooklyn Dodgers in two ways - a lot of people are still alive for whom the Dodgers were the team they grew up with (the move worked out for my dad, though - he grew up a Dodgers fan in California, they moved to LA when he was 10), and because losing them was (as I understand it) a big knock against Brooklyn having an identity of its own.

Ok, fair. I dont agree, but you make fair points.

Wow this thread. It's totally baseball.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Twee-est, eh? Hmm, now which one of the sports listened in the OP did Ken Burns make an 18 and 1/2 hour documentary about...

baseball probably is the right answer here, but within my group of friends hockey fans are the most precious

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

wau

not surprised by the result, but i thought that w/ all us Yanks here that there'd be more votes for soccer-twee.