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lincecum is different, though. i have the feeling that that guy could throw 200 pitches and not be the worse for wear. his mechanics are just too perfect. at 5-10 you don't have much room for wasted energy, everything has to be fluid in order to throw so hard and so well. it's why his dad made the pitching coach at washington promise to leave his delivery alone before he'd allow him to sign an loi. strasburg is in wood/prior mold. lots of energy moving in conflicting directions, enormous legs putting thousands of pounds of pressure on a lagging elbow. unsustainable curveball. i give him 200 innings before his first major career-impacting injury. lincecum has already lost velocity and the knock on him his whole career, even pre-draft, has been poor mechanics and too much movement in his delivery not really. he definitely looks weird, a while ago, prior's mechanics were said to be perfect but obviously he was putting to much pressure on his arm by using his legs. lincecum's delivery looks weird, but his release point is consistent, he doesn't put a ton of strain on his arm though he does make the inverted-L in his delivery. essentially, the motion is unorthodox, but it ends up being more efficient because it takes the pressure off his arm and allows him to get more on his pitches. the guy has a seven-foot stride, that's unreal for a guy who's 5-10.

here's a link i basically just quick searched http://www.drivelinemechanics.com/2008/06/12/pitcher-analysis-tim-lincecum/

i wasn't attemtping to hate on soccer. i still enjoy it every 4 years, i just suggested that they should have power plays to increase scoring chances from time to time.

I didn't last much past the first ten minutes, to be honest. It's not just that the scoring is low. It's that the two teams combined are averaging something like ten shots on goal per game. I think atmosphere matters. I was at a rowdy soccer bar with some friends who hadn't been into soccer before. Once we started yelling and chanting with the other fans they were sold. I think it'd be hard for a new fan to get into the sport by just watching at home -- you miss a lot of the intricacies of the game and the announcers don't highlight the small things the way they do in baseball. it's mostly silence because mostly nothing is happening. ah, the nuance of nothing, gotta love it.

Wait, are you the one that was stuck on that asinine notion that MLS game attendance figures and NHL game attendance figures are reasonable comparisons? Also, that country across the pond was probably the absolute best matchup the US could have had in terms of bringing in interest in the states. That was me, and 4 years ago or whatever it was not a great argument. This season, though, the attendance figures are about equal, with MLS at 16,320 and the NHL around 16,900 Source: http://www.mls-daily.com/2010/04/mls-attendance-moves-past-nba-nhl.html Not that it means MLS is more popular, but the attendance figures are more even now than they were. stop the average schmo on the street and ask him who won the mls cup and who won the stanley cup and see who wins. the only reason i know is that i was up late on a meth binge watching reruns of things on some sports channel.

italy isn't the casual draw that england is.

that's pretty fantastic

Exactly 0. yeah, the point was that you can't make a comparison between the opening game of 2006 and the opening game of 2010.

and how many people turned the game off after 20 minutes saying "jeez, every 4 years i forget how boring this [expletive] is"?

So 16.8 million watched Saturday's match between the US and England. how many viewers did the US-England game attract in 2006?

hey, one guy hit the post he should be crowned the new pele

come on, that was some of the best work i've ever done.

raise your [expletive] hand if you have a scarf in your room

Wherever they are, I'm sure the non-niche crowd will just find out by the SI cover. what the one that says a beautiful sport with all of the paupers running in the streets with their bag ball? you can play soccer anywhere for nothing and still people in america shun it like the plague unless they're one of those soccer guys that have scarves in their rooms.

but let me tell you, if it's one thing that turns people onto your sport, it's nothing happening for 90+ minutes. that's sure to attract the non-niche crowd. if it keeps up this blistering pace, people are gonna be cartwheeling in the streets of medicine hat by july!

That is....less than correct. By what measure? 27 million people watched Olympic hockey. 4.9 million watched USA vs England soccer. The best hockey league in the world barely outdraws a soccer league that isn't in the Top 5. That was also a championship game against America's hat, as opposed to a group game against a country across the pond. If the US plays Mexico in the World Cup final, I can assure you the ratings will be incredible. only if all the illegals in arizona can steal a tv in time to watch it.

Hockey: The gold standard for captivating sports and immense popularity soccer is only popular internationally because you can make a ball out of a bunch of wadded-up unicef grain bags.

POWER PLAYS PEOPLE POWER PLAYS

that's 6 out of 52, though.

seriously, they need to send 3 players off for 5 minutes instead of granting free kicks.

that is [expletive] [expletive]. now i really can't wait until he's finished.

taking a step back from the knob-slobbing, wood's crazy movement caused his elbow to run down the street screaming and vowing never to return and he had to go get it and punch it in the face and threaten it with a terror attack for it to agree to come back, and when it did, no more slurvy. and the fact that prior put all of his pitches around the plate eventually led to hitters employing the foul ball strategy against him. his location didn't help his pitch counts through 5. if you can't hit him, break him.

how many days is that? i don't have much time

lincecum is different, though. i have the feeling that that guy could throw 200 pitches and not be the worse for wear. his mechanics are just too perfect. at 5-10 you don't have much room for wasted energy, everything has to be fluid in order to throw so hard and so well. it's why his dad made the pitching coach at washington promise to leave his delivery alone before he'd allow him to sign an loi. strasburg is in wood/prior mold. lots of energy moving in conflicting directions, enormous legs putting thousands of pounds of pressure on a lagging elbow. unsustainable curveball. i give him 200 innings before his first major career-impacting injury.

he's pitched 12 innings you weirdo you haveta start somewhere, loser