Comments on: curling: ice cool, red hot

By: Swedish curler in 2010 Paralympic doping scandal - Lorraine Murphy - The Celebrity Industrial Complex - True/Slant

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:25:04 +0000

[...] The drug he freely admits to taking? Metroprolol, a beta-blocker prescribed by his doctor to treat his chronic high blood pressure, and which confers no advantage in his sport. In fact, users are warned that it can cause sleepiness and uncoordination and decrease alertness, and cautioned against driving or doing anything that requires you be particularly sharp. It almost sounds like the warnings for watching curling. [...]

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 23:46:43 +0000

Baseball is zen. If you can find anything George Will has written on the subject, that will clarify the experience. I used to play, and the game is not really very complicated, just fairly slow and there are a lot of gamblers who needlessly clutter things up with useless statistics. It’s a stats nerd’s game nowadays, which is unfortunate. It’s a beautiful game to play, or to watch.

By: Alabaster Crippens

Alabaster Crippens — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 23:32:08 +0000

I’ll check it.
As for Baseball…it always struck me as a strange one. I just assumed there was no way I would ever comprehend that actual rules (much like cricket). I’d just ahve to sit and watch it with a genuine fan who didn’t mind explaining what the hell was really going on.
Maybe one day.

By: raincoaster

raincoaster — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 18:08:43 +0000

I love baseball, myself. If you’re a cricket fan, try Steven L’s blog in the sidebar. It’s all-cricket, all the time.

By: Alabaster Crippens

Alabaster Crippens — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:39:08 +0000

Hmm..They seem to waste all the coverage showing running bits of athletics..which bores the pants of of me. I enjoyed the skating last year…but I’m not a huge fan…I think it all depends on the company you keep when you watch it.
As for boring sports…I love the dull ones…or rather the slow paced ones. Where you can watch for hours at a time without anything genuinely happening. Like cricket…I fell in love with cricket this year…its just so damn langorous. And I don’t get a chance to use that word every day (next time I’ll try and find out how to spell it first).