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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
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.
I feel like sumo is the Imperial sport and baseball is the National sport
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.
Fuckin sigma. Sumo has so much AURA
I would like to see what Japan could pull off playing Banana Ball.
They can have it!
Why did you use THAT flag?
Lol, this isn't my creation and I wondered the same thing. I assumed that maybe this was what the flag looked like in 1872, but looking it up now - nope! It says this was the war flag.
Yeah that's something we like about Japan. Our countries keep getting into things the other introduces us to.
That’s fine. The more the merrier.
Baseball, huh?
Their Little League are always top tier, and the best player in MLB is Japanese.
Geef me mijn HONKbal. Het is honkbal hier in Holland. Honk. Bal. Honkbal. In het Japans: honkubalu.
That's why we're invading Cuba: to teach them baseball! We might even share our American love of classical cars.
Kids, play nice, you can share a national sport, just like everybody else does with footie.
America: No.
So should rugby be called handegg, too?
manly handegg
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.
That's what happens to colonies. Look at how popular Cricket is in Commonwealth countries.
