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[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Most sports in Japanese are referred to with borrow words.

フットボール - futtoboru
サッカー - Sakka
バスケットボール - Basukettoboru

But baseball? You think that's besuboru? Hell nah, that's mother fuckin yakyu (野球)

To me, that's the greatest sign there is of how integrated into the culture the sport is.

[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

I would like to see what Japan could pull off playing Banana Ball.

[–] ShotDonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Geef me mijn HONKbal. Het is honkbal hier in Holland. Honk. Bal. Honkbal. In het Japans: honkubalu.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago

They can have it!

[–] homik@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 hours ago
[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago

Yeah that's something we like about Japan. Our countries keep getting into things the other introduces us to.

[–] bridgeburner@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)
[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Their Little League are always top tier, and the best player in MLB is Japanese.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 11 points 17 hours ago

That’s fine. The more the merrier.

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 18 hours ago

How many countries claim football?

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 83 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 10 hours ago

I feel like sumo is the Imperial sport and baseball is the National sport

[–] stupidcasey@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Damn, professional KFC eater's? You really are stealing America's culture.

[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Fuckin sigma. Sumo has so much AURA

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 12 points 1 day ago (7 children)

But, to be sure, it has great physical impact too

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[–] yesman@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's why we're invading Cuba: to teach them baseball! We might even share our American love of classical cars.

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[–] Lumidaub@feddit.org 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Kids, play nice, you can share a national sport, just like everybody else does with footie.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago (7 children)
[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So should rugby be called handegg, too?

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Rugby is real sport for real men.

[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It is. And so is American football. You don't believe that because you're ignorant, but just because you don't like or understand a sport doesn't mean it isn't a real sport.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 0 points 3 hours ago

Only real men argue seriously in meme conversations.

[–] urandom@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago

There are a lot of very valid criticisms of American football. I love it, sometimes in spite of myself, but I won’t fault anyone who thinks it’s an overly-managed made-for-TV snoozefest with no rhythm whatsoever. For better or worse, though, those helmets and pads do not make it any less of a violent “manly” sport. Far from it: they are the way Americans make ourselves feel better about watching a literal bloodsport with a ball.

The way the game moves and the ruleset reward explosive impacts, and the unlimited substitutions mean players are selected and trained to optimize delivering and enduring that violence instead of, say, actually running for 80 minutes. The result is a dozen hits a game that would make a “biggest hits of the season” compilation video for rugby or Aussie rules. Also chronic traumatic encephalopathy.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago

Hand egg without brain shell.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (6 children)

That's what happens to colonies. Look at how popular Cricket is in Commonwealth countries.

[–] PoliteDudeInTheMood@lemmy.ca 5 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Most Commonwealth countries, Canada is different because of our close connection with the US.

There's a group of Indians near me who play cricket every weekend so sometimes I'll go by and bother them. "You're playing the game wrong, you know. Have you guys never watched baseball before?" They're always super nice and will spend ages explaining everything about the sport. They have a level of zeal for the sport which cannot be matched by even us hockey fans. Last summer we went down to the Galapagos and our group was mostly Brits and I would wait until late in the evening after they had started drinking and ask if they play soccer over there, and that is just as much fun to me.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

ask if they play soccer

I mean, that is where the word came from originally.

[–] PoliteDudeInTheMood@lemmy.ca 2 points 12 hours ago

I know the story: “association” → “assoc” → “soccer”, but they apparently didn't get the memo, and there was much arguing.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

We have Rugby and Gaelic Football as our sports from the Commonwealth. We just suck at them because there's only 3 months a year to play it.

[–] PoliteDudeInTheMood@lemmy.ca 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm a big guy, so someone decided that I'd be good at Rugby, and I got invited to the high school rugby practice. I had a good time even though the practice was in March and there was a foot of snow on the ground, but to this day, I have zero idea of how to actually play the game.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

The worst part of snow is how hard the ground is.

Move ball from one end to the other, touch it down. Don't throw it forward.

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