water Posted July 9, 2011 Share Posted July 9, 2011 Any sports thrill I get fits under 'guilty pleasure'. I am always embarrassed to tell friends hubby and I watch tennis though I freely admit my husband's is obsession with the Tour de France (Italy, Spain,....) We switch from Cablevision back to DirecTV every few years depending on who is currently carrying the right bicycle channels. There is something different about bicycling and soccer vs. football and baseball but I would never have learned about a peloton if I hadn't met hubby. But this is all my own. I am psyched that Derek Jeter got his 3,000th hit on a home run at Yankee Stadium. There is something about Jeter.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvrBC9EkYoY&feature=player_embedded Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
december_brigette Posted July 10, 2011 Share Posted July 10, 2011 Thanks for posting this!! I don't watch sports, usually. and the news rarely. So, I appreciate the heads-up. I LOVE DEREK JETER. You are definitely right, there is something about him... :loved: db Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crtclms Posted July 10, 2011 Share Posted July 10, 2011 DH does not like sports. I grew up watching baseball, basketball, and especially hockey. I played field hockey, and softball, and was a gymnast. My parents have the TV turned to a game or a cooking show 24 hours a day. Since I got married and moved to the SF Bay area, fandom has become difficult. It is really hard to follow baseball if you don't have a team. I used to follow the Cleveland Indians when I lived in Pittsburgh because I had an enormous crush on Omar Visquel. I hate the Giants, I hate the Dodgers, and the Padres. The Angels are just boring. I still enjoy watching a game, because of the grace and athleticism, but I don't follow the season anymore. Basketball is another sport where you have to have a team orientation. My dad was a Pistons fan, and even though I didn't adore the Pistons, because he followed their season, I always had a rough idea of what was going on in the NBA. That is completely gone. I used to love March Madness, although not the gambling aspect. Facebook has saved me from losing my very favorite sport, hockey. I can't watch the Penguins in San Jose. They only even play here once every other year. Here I sit, with my Pens tattoo, and my Official NHL Lemieux jersey, totally able to follow the season through Facebook. Plus, all my friends from Pittsburgh are on Facebook blabbing about them. Mario Lemieux has turned Pittsburgh into a Hockey Town. Steelers? It goes without saying. But I love my Pens. Having blathered on and on, I had no idea Jeter was any where near that achievement. It makes me feel 100 years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Posted July 10, 2011 Share Posted July 10, 2011 I just want to add that I adore the Tour de France. Most years I watch it, this year I have NOT been (not in the mental headspace for much TV ATM) was a heavy duty biker as a teenager (like 200 miles a week, rode a century (haha, it was HELL, but I wanted to prove I could do it) etc.) The tour has so many happy associations for me... used to go to my best friend's house who was also an avid biker, and every day we'd watch then have High Tea (her family is british, she went back there to live eventually) which pretty much involved superb tea, scones, clotted cream, jam, all that madness. It was AWESOME. Maybe I should turn it on today as it's a great thing to "watch" while doing yoga, but eh, I'v.e been doing mindful yoga, where I don't put the TV on...... but I LOVE PHIL LIGGOT. he is my hero, heh. What to do, what to do. Depending on how long it takes to help mr. a with his SSDI app, I might be able to catch the afternoon showing. biking is like extreme sports plus chess playing, since there are teams and all kinds of other madness. It really takes a LOT to understand it correctly. Such a great sport. I also adore the drugs (the teams are constantly trying to stay one step ahead of the biking drug enforcement agency, heh) and the crashes and possible deaths. It's really better than nascar once you get the hang of it. BTW Lance Armstrong is in serious do-do and under investigation for using EPO which I am totally sure he did/does. You can't race these days at that level without drugs. I forget the particulars, but it's interesting. Anna Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
water Posted July 10, 2011 Author Share Posted July 10, 2011 ..... but I LOVE PHIL LIGGOT. he is my hero, heh. Love Phil Liggot's voice. He is talking right now in my living room. Something about his stream of bike consciousness makes me feel very safe and calm. You can ride without drugs these days but you will not win the Tour. According to hubby everyone dopes and has been for years. Lance has just been smarter about getting caught. So 'they' had to get him on conspiracy charges. If he hadn't been part of the Postal Service team, Lance might have gotten away with it. I don't know how these guys do it. It is one of the most difficult races in the world. Up and down those mountains for three fucking weeks. Done for the day, they eat, they sleep and start all over again. I get freaked out by the people on the road watching. They look so close to the bikers. And then there are those idiots in wacked out costumes who run up the mountain just to get on TV for a few seconds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crtclms Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 Anna, one thing my dad and I really like to watch together is Australian Rules Football. It used to play overnight on ESPN, I guess there are a large community of ex-patriots who follow it in the NYC area, and ESPN is in CT. But no one ever explained the rules, it was just a feed from Australia, so they assumed everyone knew. So my dad and I had to reverse engineer how the game worked and was scored. That was fun. I have a Melbourne Magpies Jersey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Posted July 11, 2011 Share Posted July 11, 2011 haha, yes, australian rules football has no rules as far as I can tell..... it pretty much seems to be a free for all. If you could reverse engineer the rules, I'm impressed. Anna ETA: I used to watch regular football with my mom every weekend, she was SO into it. I'm not a sports person, so it always amuses people when I watch the superbowl (for commercials only) that I know every rule on the books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
water Posted July 16, 2011 Author Share Posted July 16, 2011 hubby predicts Cadel Evans wins the Tour. I saw a guy yesterday 'take a private break' off his bike and some amazing video of Egyptian vultures. hubby says they do sometimes relieve themselves right off the bike without stopping. Whip it out and go. Usually a teammate holds the bike steady. Today someone stuffed a newspaper down his shirt as he started to swiftly descend. Apparently this is the best way to soak up the sweat. These guys can basically get undressed and dressed again without leaving the bike. And I cannot believe how many mountains they are going up and down and up and down today. They are all iron men. Asked hubby why they all have long skinny faces. "These guys have no body fat at all." I don't get these people camping on the downhill side of the mountain. Yeah, maybe there was no room on the upswing, but they see the riders for all of a quick flash. And I still cannot bear to watch the riders weaving in and out of the cars, motorcycles, and crazy people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mammakanin Posted July 22, 2011 Share Posted July 22, 2011 we lost eurosport on our cable system (took it out of basic and put it in the premium, where you have to buy a whole bunch of channels we will never watch, so we never went to premium) what i miss most is biking and ski jumping! we used to follow the tour de france every summer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
water Posted July 23, 2011 Author Share Posted July 23, 2011 we lost eurosport on our cable system (took it out of basic and put it in the premium, where you have to buy a whole bunch of channels we will never watch, so we never went to premium) what i miss most is biking and ski jumping! we used to follow the tour de france every summer! It's been an exciting week for hubby. Time trial today determines the winner apparently. Hubby still thinks Cadel Evans wins because he is such a good time trialist and Andy Schleck is not. But we shall see! We just got home from the beach, hubby has his new bike wheels delivered from Amazon. He makes puts the wheel together himslef. Last night, he lays down next to me and says: "Can't figure out the perfect lubrication for my spoke nipples." hee hee. Spoke nipples. who knew there was such a thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
water Posted July 23, 2011 Author Share Posted July 23, 2011 hubby predicts Cadel Evans wins the Tour. And he was right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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