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Walker
Walker
Duuuude. We already DID this one. We need a new slant. Baseball is... manlier? Can we argue about which sport is manlier?
Arseface
Arseface
How many baseball players get hit but a hard ball travelling at 150ks in the head, stomache, fingers, ribs, and yes, the nuts, and keep playing?

I even saw one guy go out to bat with a broken arm once.
Walker
Walker
How many cricket players play one-handed? Gotta be a hardcore real man to do that. And hell, baseball players single-handedly keep the chewing tobacco industry afloat. Disgusting, yes, but that's pretty manly.

Plus, you told me that you got women who play cricket. Ain't none of that with baseball-- they get foisted off into softball. (Which is also probably manlier than cricket, but we won't get into that.)
Arseface
Arseface
Way to dodge my injury question. Aint nothing manlier than a battle scar/welt/whatever.

Yeah, but our women cricketers are hot.

And real men can catch without giant mittens.
Walker
Walker
There's a lot of talk these days about what pussies MLB players are, because these days, when your catcher breaks a finger and has a spur of bone jutting out of his hand, he DOESN'T just tape it up and get back in the game. These modern wusses.
Walker
Walker
And I DID address that point. We've had hardcore, ass-kicking professional ballplayers who have LITERALLY played with one hand-- because they only had the one to play with. How's that for an injury?
Walker
Walker
Exactly-- that's why they aren't manly. Sexy, feminine pieces of ass, that's what your female cricketers are.

Real men don't gotta prove their manliness by catching the ball bare-handed. There's a reason the only people who still do that are drunk, middle-aged men playing softball with a comically oversized ball in Chicago.
Arseface
Arseface
Arseface
Arseface
And they don't have to prove their manliness? Thats retarded. It takes skill and bravery to catch a ball fingers up 2 inches in front of your face going at like 170ks.
Walker
Walker
That video's copyrighted. Your argument is bullshit. And it ignores all the hardcore old-school ballplayers who DID play with broken limbs and blood everywhere.

Fat. Middle-aged. Chicagoans. That's all I'm saying. That's what your cricketers have the most in common with.
Arseface
Arseface
It's still full of people getting shot in the face with a little leather cannonball.

Cricketers are like Sean Connery. They're all nice and polite n ****, but they'll still **** you up.
Arseface
Arseface
Also: when did ball players start wearing helmets? Like, roughly what year.
Walker
Walker
Walker
Walker
Baseball's so manly that they have to equip every professional ballfield with a legion of riot-armored enforcers to bust up riots on the field. Really!
Arseface
Arseface
Yeah but you don't aim at the batters body, do you? You pretty much do in cricket. That's why they have to wear ARMOUR on the field.

I'm not sure that makes them manly, just stupid.
Walker
Walker
"Pretty much do" What's that mean? And they still do, they just get fined stupid amounts of money for it.

What makes them stupid?
Arseface
Arseface
It mean's it's a legitemate tactic to try and physically injure and intimidate the batsman. Often by bowling directly at the head. They're ALLOWED to do it.

Riots on the field sounds more stupid than manly.
Walker
Walker
I dunno. Is lack of pitching skill manly? I mean, if they were REALLY good at the game they'd only need to do that to teach a batter a lesson.
Walker
Walker
Well, technically I made it up. No riots, though there is the occasional fight. Ranging from "holy ****, did the coach just punch the umpire" to "holy **** the entirety of both teams are out there beating the **** out of each other" to "why the **** are New Yorkers such bitches and why are they throwing **** on the field?"
Arseface
Arseface
Because it's hard to get batsman out because they're not forced to run every time they hit the ball. So the bowler has to get creative. You're not relying on the batsman being **** to get him out. Sometimes you have to phyiscally intimidate him.

Baseball players are stupid then.
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