How Long Would You Abstain From Sex?

[CoolHandLuke]

When I was a little kid I usually gave up sex for lent, and it wasn't too hard (maybe I should say difficult) back then. Sometimes I gave up cocaine instead.

[reds44]

I'm pretty sure I could go the full year, and maybe as long as it takes.

 

As I stated on GRB, I've had my share of sex. Seeing the Cubs win a World Series, well that's something I'm unfamilar with.

Vance, how does the wife feel about this?

[wolf stansson]

You guys are putting the World Series on a pedestal. It's a good time, but not as good as you'd think.

[wekse]

You guys are putting the World Series on a pedestal. It's a good time, but not as good as you'd think.

 

shut your face.

[TruffleShuffle]

You guys are putting the World Series on a pedestal. It's a good time, but not as good as you'd think.

 

sometimes i have felt that way after sex too.

[Tracer Bullet]

You guys are putting the World Series on a pedestal. It's a good time, but not as good as you'd think.

 

sometimes i have felt that way after sex too.

 

If you went 100 years without it, I don't think you'd have the same feeling.

[wolf stansson]

You guys are putting the World Series on a pedestal. It's a good time, but not as good as you'd think.

 

sometimes i have felt that way after sex too.

 

If you went 100 years without it, I don't think you'd have the same feeling.

Oh please. The Cardinals hadn't won in my lifetime until 06. Everything that happened before me was nice and all, but really had no effect on me.

 

So yes, I would feel the same way. You'll see (maybe), it's an awesome few nights of partying and high fiving and you'll start seeing tons of people donning the gear and give each other the grinning head nod and what not, but it wears off. I will say this though, the biggest difference is you feel a lot less anxiety as a fan when your team loses and doesn't make it. That has lasted for me and has made me a lot more healthy of a fan.

[apete6]

You guys are putting the World Series on a pedestal. It's a good time, but not as good as you'd think.

 

sometimes i have felt that way after sex too.

 

If you went 100 years without it, I don't think you'd have the same feeling.

Oh please. The Cardinals hadn't won in my lifetime until 06. Everything that happened before me was nice and all, but really had no effect on me.

 

So yes, I would feel the same way. You'll see (maybe), it's an awesome few nights of partying and high fiving and you'll start seeing tons of people donning the gear and give each other the grinning head nod and what not, but it wears off. I will say this though, the biggest difference is you feel a lot less anxiety as a fan when your team loses and doesn't make it. That has lasted for me and has made me a lot more healthy of a fan.

 

I don't know man. I would compare it to if your entire family for the last 100 years lived in small aparments only and never owned anything. If you were fortunate enough to buy your own little house someday, it would mean a whole lot more to you than if someone else, whose parents always lived in nice owned homes, bought that same exact house.

 

Its not that the Cubs haven't won in our lifetimes, its that failure is the defining characteristic of being a Cub fan and we're sick and tired of that. Even when the Cards went 24 years without winning, it didn't really matter because they have traditionally been such a good organization and no one made fun of them for their "drought".

[wolf stansson]

I don't know man. I would compare it to if your entire family for the last 100 years lived in small aparments only and never owned anything. If you were fortunate enough to buy your own little house someday, it would mean a whole lot more to you than if someone else, whose parents always lived in nice owned homes, bought that same exact house.

 

Its not that the Cubs haven't won in our lifetimes, its that failure is the defining characteristic of being a Cub fan and we're sick and tired of that. Even when the Cards went 24 years without winning, it didn't really matter because they have traditionally been such a good organization and no one made fun of them for their "drought".

I don't buy this personally. Maybe that's how it is for you, but comparing something as irrelevant to your everyday life like a baseball team to your family/heritage is ridiculous. Maybe that's just my personality, I don't know.

 

Don't get me wrong though, it's really cool and really fun and I was overcome with emotion when Wainwright k'd Inge, and it was everything I dreamed and more. I'm just saying the feeling doesn't last and it gives you new perspective on sports afterward. You become more objective and when confronted with getting some and still having the normal odds of winning a World Series or being celibate and being guaranteed to win a World Series, I'd choose the sex. My answer would, I'm sure, have been very different in the summer of 2006 and before.

[TruffleShuffle]

ok can we stop talking about what the outcome of the 2006 world series was? i'd hate to remember what happened that year.

[Tracer Bullet]

You guys are putting the World Series on a pedestal. It's a good time, but not as good as you'd think.

 

sometimes i have felt that way after sex too.

 

If you went 100 years without it, I don't think you'd have the same feeling.

Oh please. The Cardinals hadn't won in my lifetime until 06. Everything that happened before me was nice and all, but really had no effect on me.

 

So yes, I would feel the same way. You'll see (maybe), it's an awesome few nights of partying and high fiving and you'll start seeing tons of people donning the gear and give each other the grinning head nod and what not, but it wears off. I will say this though, the biggest difference is you feel a lot less anxiety as a fan when your team loses and doesn't make it. That has lasted for me and has made me a lot more healthy of a fan.

 

Um, I was making a joke about how Truffle would feel about "bad" sex if he had waited 100 years between encounters (i.e., "bad" sex would feel like great sex if you waited 100 years for it). Apparently that wasn't clear. For the record, I wasn't one of the crazies that checked "as long as it takes."

[TruffleShuffle]

Elliot: Are you currently sexually active?

J.D.: Oh, it's active all right.

Elliot: I'll write "rare dry spell" in the margin.

[Andy]

I don't know man. I would compare it to if your entire family for the last 100 years lived in small aparments only and never owned anything. If you were fortunate enough to buy your own little house someday, it would mean a whole lot more to you than if someone else, whose parents always lived in nice owned homes, bought that same exact house.

 

Its not that the Cubs haven't won in our lifetimes, its that failure is the defining characteristic of being a Cub fan and we're sick and tired of that. Even when the Cards went 24 years without winning, it didn't really matter because they have traditionally been such a good organization and no one made fun of them for their "drought".

I don't buy this personally. Maybe that's how it is for you, but comparing something as irrelevant to your everyday life like a baseball team to your family/heritage is ridiculous. Maybe that's just my personality, I don't know.

 

Don't get me wrong though, it's really cool and really fun and I was overcome with emotion when Wainwright k'd Inge, and it was everything I dreamed and more. I'm just saying the feeling doesn't last and it gives you new perspective on sports afterward. You become more objective and when confronted with getting some and still having the normal odds of winning a World Series or being celibate and being guaranteed to win a World Series, I'd choose the sex. My answer would, I'm sure, have been very different in the summer of 2006 and before.

I don't blame you for not buying it, most fans wouldn't. But it's pretty much exactly the same as the Red Sox in 2004.

 

Winning the World Series, if you're a Cubs fan, means no more Joe Buck/Jon Miller/whatever road PBP guy on MLB.TV gleefully gnashing their teeth to discuss Bartman, or the black cat, or Victor Diaz, or whatever. It means no more fans of other teams - especially White Sox fans and the occasional stupid fan of the Cardinals/Brewers/Astros - reverting to "1908" or "a century" whenever you argue with them about baseball. It means we are no longer the definition of failure in professional sports.

 

Winning the World Series for a Cardinals fan under 30 or so meant they finally saw a Series win that they could remember. There was no giant burden, no black cloud of whether they would ever see the Cardinals win, no great ending of torture. It's just different.

[javy knows my name]

Winning the World Series, if you're a Cubs fan, means no more Joe Buck/Jon Miller/whatever road PBP guy on MLB.TV gleefully gnashing their teeth to discuss Bartman, or the black cat, or Victor Diaz, or whatever. It means no more fans of other teams - especially White Sox fans and the occasional stupid fan of the Cardinals/Brewers/Astros - reverting to "1908" or "a century" whenever you argue with them about baseball. It means we are no longer the definition of failure in professional sports.

Umm I really, really don't feel this way. ESPN dredging up the 100 years of futility or whatever is just something else they do that annoys me; it doesn't exactly crush my soul. I've only gone about 16 years (since age 6, when I first learned what baseball was) without a Cubs World Series. It really doesn't bother me that the last time they won a World Series was when I was negative 78 years old. And I really hope the players don't feel the way you do because it is way too big a burden to expect them to bear.

[wolf stansson]

I don't blame you for not buying it, most fans wouldn't. But it's pretty much exactly the same as the Red Sox in 2004.

 

Winning the World Series, if you're a Cubs fan, means no more Joe Buck/Jon Miller/whatever road PBP guy on MLB.TV gleefully gnashing their teeth to discuss Bartman, or the black cat, or Victor Diaz, or whatever. It means no more fans of other teams - especially White Sox fans and the occasional stupid fan of the Cardinals/Brewers/Astros - reverting to "1908" or "a century" whenever you argue with them about baseball. It means we are no longer the definition of failure in professional sports.

 

Winning the World Series for a Cardinals fan under 30 or so meant they finally saw a Series win that they could remember. There was no giant burden, no black cloud of whether they would ever see the Cardinals win, no great ending of torture. It's just different.

Yikes.

[Andy]

I don't blame you for not buying it, most fans wouldn't. But it's pretty much exactly the same as the Red Sox in 2004.

 

Winning the World Series, if you're a Cubs fan, means no more Joe Buck/Jon Miller/whatever road PBP guy on MLB.TV gleefully gnashing their teeth to discuss Bartman, or the black cat, or Victor Diaz, or whatever. It means no more fans of other teams - especially White Sox fans and the occasional stupid fan of the Cardinals/Brewers/Astros - reverting to "1908" or "a century" whenever you argue with them about baseball. It means we are no longer the definition of failure in professional sports.

 

Winning the World Series for a Cardinals fan under 30 or so meant they finally saw a Series win that they could remember. There was no giant burden, no black cloud of whether they would ever see the Cardinals win, no great ending of torture. It's just different.

Yikes.

It means nothing more to ME that the Cubs have gone 100 than it does that the Tribe have gone 60 or the Giants have gone 54 or whatever other 20+ year drought exists. But it takes away from my enjoyment of the game to have ignorant fans and lazy broadcasters catering to the lowest common denominator and waving 100 years around, no matter how pathetic their own franchise (Baltimore fans at Wrigley, I'm looking at you) has been during my own entire life.

[Uber]

i'm already "abstaining" if you want to call it that. others would use the more technical term "not getting laid"

 

No wai.

 

Depends, would the person offering this deal be throwing hot girls at me and having them come onto me? It might be hard to do in that respect.

 

In my current lifestyle where I only have as much success as the effort I put into it, I'm sure I could go for quite some time. I really want a Cubs World Series.

 

Let's put it this way. I've turned down sex from my girlfriend before because I've wanted to watch a Cubs game, but I've never not watched a Cubs game because I've wanted to have sex.

 

You could just have sex with the game on in the background. If you want to watch, just switch positions.