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[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 8 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 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 14 hours ago

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

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 3 points 14 hours ago

They can have it!

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] ShotDonkey@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] homik@slrpnk.net 2 points 14 hours ago
[–] Varpeggio@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 hours ago

Why did you use THAT flag?

[–] bridgeburner@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

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

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago

That’s fine. The more the merrier.

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 83 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 points 14 hours ago

Sumo's the national sport but baseball is the popular one. People even get excited for the high school national baseball tournament. I don't think people care about watching any sports in the US below the college level.

[–] 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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[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago

How many countries claim football?

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 29 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 26 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 55 points 1 day ago (7 children)
[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So should rugby be called handegg, too?

[–] urandom@lemmy.world 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day 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.

Hand egg without brain shell.

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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 0 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Rugby is real sport for real men.

[–] TheDemonBuer@lemmy.world 1 points 15 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 1 points 15 hours ago

Only real men argue seriously in meme conversations.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (11 children)

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

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