twee-est major professional sport (US)

'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.

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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.

yeah, when you think about it a sport that involves hurling a spinning projectile with all of yer might at another human being who's carrying a big heavy stick with the intent to strike the projectile and send it hurtling towards other human beings (which is what baseball essentially is) is anything BUT twee.

pretty lightweight projectile, you wanna try cricket.

aren't you supposed to send it away from other human beings?

Yeah, plus once the ball is in the air it basically turns into a game of tag.

The literature associated with the game of baseball is extremely twee. Pete Hammill made a fool out of himself in the New York Times last week in a review of the new Willie Mays book.

Unlike soccer, there's very few compound fractures in baseball.

Moises Alou would beg to differ.

As would Jason Kendall and Cesar Cedeno.

Also in baseball, you dont get guys who act like they just got mowed down by sniper fire when they are barely touched, like soccer players who are trying to draw penalties. That kind of wimpiness totally turns me off to the sport.

That kind of shit is creeping into basketball thanks to the likes of Manu Ginobili, who probably played a lot of soccer as a kid.

Not wimpiness, deviousness

Ergo not twee

Diving isn't wimpiness, Bill, it's just cheating. The same soccer player who's rolling on the pitch in the 'throes of agony' one minute is whistling happily to himself the next minute after breaking someone's ankle.

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.