Oppo Camp Non-Eagles Discussion 2025 Part 2

[thebutterflyeffect]

People need to give the MLB more love on here. Just witnessed one of the all time great finals series (2025 World Series)

 

[ioppolo]

People need to give the MLB more love on here. Just witnessed one of the all time great finals series (2025 World Series)

Baseball for me is what I imagine test cricket looks like to those who have no interest in cricket.

 

[Biggie]

People need to give the MLB more love on here. Just witnessed one of the all time great finals series (2025 World Series)

Not into MLB but that was a great series I must admit

 

[TY24]

I think if I were to get into a US sport it probably would be baseball

 

[Monocle]

For some reason, I cant recall, I actually sat down and watched with that game with intent, and boy did I fall head over heels in love with the game.

Found myself searching up phrases and plays and positions etc, over the coming weeks.

Now I watch the game every week and I love it. But I can absolutely understand why people don't.

AFL will always be my #1 but I do love the NFL.

Good luck explaining to someone new to the game, how and why the flea flicker is such an effective trick play.

 

[Rowan18]

Jesus. I cut my teeth on playing Madden in the 90's. It's how you learn all the coverages and offensive plays.

I love sports, so don't mind NFL, but wouldn't rate in top 5 of sports I'd want to watch. Top 5 after thinking about it for 5 seconds, probably forgotten something really obvious.

1. AFL
2. Test Match Cricket
3. NBA
4. World Cup Football
5. Premier league / champions league

1. AFL
2. Big Bash (good casual fun over summer holidays)
3. Test Cricket
4. NFL
5. Netflix

 

[Matera92]

1. AFL
2. Big Bash (good casual fun over summer holidays)
3. Test Cricket
4. NFL
5. Netflix

 

[Happy Mastenator]

People need to give the MLB more love on here. Just witnessed one of the all time great finals series (2025 World Series)

No interesting in watching day to day of baseball. Will maybe catch some World Series.

 

[ziad]

No interesting in watching day to day of baseball. Will maybe catch some World Series.

Dont watch mutch or at all, but have enjoyed the few live games i have attended.

 

[Happy Mastenator]

Dont watch mutch or at all, but have enjoyed the few live games i have attended.

I've done the US once on my travels. Attended an NBA game which was fun, had a Yankees game locked in before I headed onwards to Europe. Got rained off and so didn't get to go. Was very disappointed.

 

[Goroyals22]

MLB is good for interactions like this



Imagine an afl coach getting in the face of an afl umpire ….

Or for best analysis like this …

 

[Gazeah78]

As a rugby union tragic the complete disregard for the sport in these lists makes me sad.
Interested to hear if people used to watch the game but have been turned off recently given the lack of wallabies success and/or the way the game is now being run/adjudicated - or just had zero interest to begin with.

 

[Happy Mastenator]

As a rugby union tragic the complete disregard for the sport in these lists makes me sad.
Interested to hear if people used to watch the game but have been turned off recently given the lack of wallabies success and/or the way the game is now being run/adjudicated - or just had zero interest to begin with.

Love rugby, and would probably add the wallabies to my top 5, pushing our premier league.

Issue is the lack of marketing and accessibility to games on tv. Can quite often have a game occur without being aware it was even on.

 

[WCErevival]

Baseball is a good insomnia cure.

A sober Homer Simpson said it best

 

[Roobs321]

Reminds me of everyone assuming Richmond were a shoe-in for the 2025 spoon and wondering if they'd even win a game

Nek minnut

just like another spoon campaign in 2010

 

[mattyc75]

As a rugby union tragic the complete disregard for the sport in these lists makes me sad.
Interested to hear if people used to watch the game but have been turned off recently given the lack of wallabies success and/or the way the game is now being run/adjudicated - or just had zero interest to begin with.

I'm from WA so never was into either rugby but I do remember them seemingly being bigger in the 80s. I even know the names of a lot of players back then like campese.
The only other time I wouldve watched them was while living in London in the early 2000s. At the walkabout pubs
Is union becoming less relevant like cricket seems to be these days?

 

[Avalor]

As a rugby union tragic the complete disregard for the sport in these lists makes me sad.
Interested to hear if people used to watch the game but have been turned off recently given the lack of wallabies success and/or the way the game is now being run/adjudicated - or just had zero interest to begin with.

For me, very little interest in it from the beginning.

 

[cameronian kid]

My top 5

1) Olympic Athletics
2) Masters golf
3) AFL (goes to one if the eagles make finals)
4) Test match cricket
5) Scorchers

 

[The Dodger]

That "sell the team" chant by the A's crowd was something. Cant find a good video of that anymore. Someone posted the best one ive seen in the random thread and cant find it anymore.

 

[FKASC]

“And here comes the subway!”

 

[Dazzler9]

As a rugby union tragic the complete disregard for the sport in these lists makes me sad.
Interested to hear if people used to watch the game but have been turned off recently given the lack of wallabies success and/or the way the game is now being run/adjudicated - or just had zero interest to begin with.

I followed the Wallabies from early 90s to mid-2000s, when the game was flourishing. I've since lost any interest in it to the point where I couldn't name a single player. (I assume Honey Badger no longer plays).

 

[Roobs321]

Eagles are the only team I watch each week play-by-play regardless, my other clubs in the longterm are a bit bandwagon prone

1. AFL
2. tennis
3. World Cup Soccer

if I grew up there (but I didn’t): Gaelic

glued to these growing up but seldom find the time nowadays:
golf
Tour de France
Ironman (surf lifesaving)
triathlon
swimming
league finals/SoO
summer test cricket

 

[Bender_]

Baseball is a good insomnia cure.

A sober Homer Simpson said it best

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There's a good reason "just think about baseball" works well.

 

[Dazzler9]

There's a good reason "just think about baseball" works well.

Don't think of the Ashes squads - Head, Tongue, Wood and Root might not work as well.

 

[Mr Q]

One thing that I can’t wrap my head around with NFL is teams up and moving away from cities. It just seems so bizzare. You do that in England people would burn the club down and even here an AFL club changing cities would have such an uproar. If the Eagles chmaged cities, I’d probably stop watchong footy

There is precedent in England when Wimbledon relocated from SW London to Milton Keynes.

The supporters turned around and created a new Wimbledon club, switched their allegiances completely, and now the replacement club is in a higher division than the Milton Keynes club. A metaphorical case of burning the club down and rebuilding from the ashes.

Here, to be fair, the Swans moved cities in '82 to Sydney, and the remnants of old Fitzroy are in Brisbane - and both clubs retained quite solid support from their original bases in Melbourne. I remember talking to a few Melbourne based Swans fans briefly after the '05 GF.