What do you do when your 2 favorite teams play each other?
heyyy yahhh I saw that leafs v.s. red wings on tv. :] you do have a point but idkk it's just weird seeing your 2 favorite teams play each other, luckily my sharks & penguins don't play each other that often. i'm happy we get a home & home with each other though. & yahhhh my brother hates both the sharks & penguins because I love them ughh makes me so mad.
Are you a true fan of your favorite team?
I know the answers above are for Pro teams, but college ball is in my blood for life. I've been a fan of the same team for over 30 years (pro teams change owners more often than that. College teams stay put) I'd say I'm a true fan. I know some who are even more die hard fans than I am, so they probably don't count me as a die hard fan. I think it's easier to be a true fan of a college team than it is a pro team. I live near Charlotte. We've had the Hornets.......and they left. Now we have the Bobcats. Two totally different organizations. It's hard for me to feel true to them when they will up and leave if the owner sells. I don't feel they are very true to their fan base. It's all about the money. I will remain a fan of my college team, though. Love to see them play and love the school.
Do you always defend your favorite team/player?
This is a pretty good question. I would say I mostly defend my team. I'm a Pirates fan and I mostly hear people saying how we will never win or how bad our pitching is. It is then when I will step in and play defense. But if it is a truthful comment, for example, "Tom Gorzelanny had an awful outing last night." Then I won't really say anything, or I will agree and speak my mind. I guess it all depends on what fans are talking about my team. If it's Phillies fans then I will definitely fire back, say a couple things and then they won't be able to say anymore. But I agree with you Greta, about Jason Varitek. He's the motivation man no questions asked and I don't think he deserves to be negatively criticized even though he's hitting .215.
What is your least favorite thing about your favorite sports team?
Favorite team: the New England PatriotsLeast favorite thing: SpyGate hatersGo to any Little League field in the country more than halfway through the season and you'll see kids stealing signs (I played, we all knew the other team's steal base, take, swing, choke up signs). What the Patriots did was use a camera to record the signs, which is a bit more accurate and efficient than using TV footage and scouts notes.What they didn't do was record the Rams' walkthrough prior to Super Bowl XXXVI, and even Mike Martz has come out and said this wasn't possible due to the stadium and team security since the practice was at the Super Dome. This would be actual spying, but even the writer from Boston Herald has admitted he made it up.I judge stealing signals through the lens of what I wouldn't want my kid doing. Sure stealing signals is amoral, but I dare you to watch almost any baseball game where there's a man on second base and tell me he isn't trying to broadcast tips to the hitter (which is at least part of why you'll see the best defensive catchers call more brief mound meetings with the runner on, or why they cover their mouths to talk to avoid lip readers). I don't even think it compares to using steroids - it is both cheating and a terrible health risk to all of the kids following their examples. And BountyGate paying each other to INJURE other players? Not even close, stealing signs in plain sight doesn't even remotely compare in my mind to using harmful substances or purposely encouraging dirty hits on opposing players (spearing or going for the knees).I honestly don't view the whole thing of video taping signals in plain sight instead of having scouts wrote them down or pulling them from HD game footage as being any worse than the Super Bowl winning 49ers and Broncos spending above the salary cap. Bad but not nearly as ridiculous as the haters would imply.I'll be back with links. Facts don't support the haters' arguments.Close second: Boston Pink Hat Nation, or how I almost got banned from my dad's Patriots season tickets for standing up and cheering the defense on 3rd down (fuck the corporate seats)On the plus side, we'll find out who the real Celtics fans are now.
Do you watch football (soccer) if it's not your favorite team that is playing?
Yes, I do.I used to go to live games of Indy 11 when I somehow managed to live in Indianapolis for 6 months miraculously. Back then Indy 11 used to play in NASL which was the only recognized division 2 in USA at the time. Today, Indy 11 play in USL which today is also recognized as a division 2 in USA.I used to go to Union Jacks, a bar in Indianapolis which used to host LFCIndy (official LFC supporters group of Indianapolis) during any game of LFC. It is here where I got introduced to soccer culture of that city and then Indy 11. Indy11 was fun as long as I was in that city but it didn't change my allegiances.On TV, if I am not on vacation or visiting other places, I usually look if there are any soccer games on live. If there is one, I tune in. I even managed to watch Raleigh vs NY Cosmos and games of such magnitude on TV. I never felt that it is waste of my time. I just watched as I get more excited watching the game than movies or any series.On the other hand, I skipped watching or going to the games of clubs I like on few occasions. I skipped going to home games of NYCFC that were pushed out of Yankee stadium. This is not just due to inconvenience but also as my sign of protest over the board being lazy in finding a new and permanent home. I know it has little to no impact, but I wanted to do it. I wrote to them about my displeasure on club changing the venue for those home games. There was generic response but nothing encouraging. More recently, I didn’t watch LFC vs Spurs as I was on a holiday with my wife and this does happen whenever we travel, I simply switch off my soccer fan side.
Is it a good strategy to always bet on the favorite?
In short, Never.Let me explain this by taking an example of a famous Soccer/Football team playing in the Ligue 1 of France - Paris Saint-Germain.PSG is always favorite team to win each game this season as their performance is outstanding. Check out the standingHowever because of this fact their odds are very less, and hence the profit you'll earn will be too little. Check out the odds of the game PSG vs Troyes last weekPSG to win the game was at 1.20 (i.e. on $100 at risk you'll get $20 profit)To gain more profit on PSG win, you'll have to bet huge amount. Now if you risk a huge amount, it may go wrong too!Check out odds & result of game between PSG & Monaco last SundayPSG to win the game was at 1.36 (i.e. on big $1000 wager you might only get $360 profit). And the Monaco beat PSG by 2-0 (Monaco's odds to win was 9.0 OR 1 to 9 - Payout of $900 on only $100 at risk)Now one may argue that if we don't wager huge money we might not risk more and we might not loose more; Yes, true. But then your profit will be so less that by the time you make total $100 profit (Some of the game odds are as low as 1.09), you'll end up loosing that $100 on the next PSG loss. (Because however the favorite/best the team is, it is still going to loose/draw a game sometime sooner or later) We can see in the first standing link that out of 31 games PSG won 24. Even the best teams of European soccer hasn't win all the games. Check out the standings of La Liga (Barcelona), Bundesliga (Bayern Munich), Serie A (Juventus). [Didn't include Leicester from the English Premier league as they were never favorite to lead/win the league before the season commenced.]This surely proves that betting on always favorite is not a good strategy. Your picks should be versatile and you should only bet when you analyze that the odds offered by bookmaker is not matching your calculated analysis on any particular game.I hope this answers your question.
Whats your favorite basketball team?
Clevland Cavaliers
What would happen if you suddenly became your favorite video game character?
My favorite character is Wheatley from Portal 2.He’s a spherical robot specifically built to make terrible decisions in order to prevent Aperture Science’s controlling intelligence, GLaDOS, from killing everyone. In GLaDOS’ words: “You’re not just a regular moron, you were designed to be a moron.” Being a sphere, he relies on a rail to get around unless someone else is there to carry him. He’s very funny though and has a charming West Country accent.So basically, I’m a metal ball with no arms or legs and have the intelligence of a potato with a British accent and moronic sense of humor. Excellent.Spoiler AheadWheatley is sent to space at the end of the game after causing a whole lot of trouble and is stranded there, which means I’m going to be bored for eternity. Even worse, the fact that I will constantly make bad decisions prevents me from coming up with a plan to get home. Hopefully an asteroid or spaceship will crash into me and put me out of my misery.