OT: Study shows baseball is contributing in America's obesity problem...

[apalisoc_9]

The Whole point of sport is to encourage kids to perform physical activities that burn calories to give them better health.

According to a new Study, baseball falls short in this matter as is other Sports that require extreme strength such as sumo wresting, shutput throwing, darts and Golf.

I know mid likes to use the throwing is so hard argument.

Well newsflash shutput throwers are also fat and have strong shoulders.


America should really reconsider this problem or else future kids will struggle.

[midnightpulp]

Baseball living rent free.

Anyhow, looks like you're wrong.



Correlation doesn't imply causation, but the 80's is when youth soccer really took off in the US (and when childhood obesity rates started to rise). It's where protective parents would put their uncoordinated and unathletic kids, where they could lightly jog around and aimlessly kick a ball. This meant no pressure on the kid to perform (unlike Little League Baseball, which is merciless), so after soccer was over they'd retreat to their donuts, juice boxes, and Mario Brothers. Kids who played baseball would play it constantly, since we were obsessed with improving.

Since kids are lazy s by nature, they saw how easy soccer was, so more and more played it. No pressure. No embarrassing strikeouts or dropped pop flies. No crying. Everyone having fun. And thus, no practicing away from the game, translating into a generation of people who think Pokemon Go is legitimate exercise.

Correlation with AYSO soccer and youth obesity seems pretty strong here.

[midnightpulp]

And not to mention the most popular youth soccer movie of the 90's features a transves e as the main character (of course a soccer movie would be the first sports movie to feature a transves e). Not surprisingly, the number of people who identify as trans has skyrocketed.



ing TicTacTrot. Its insidious influence has no limits.

[Spurtacular]

And not to mention the most popular youth soccer movie of the 90's features a transves e as the main character (of course a soccer movie would be the first sports movie to feature a transves e). Not surprisingly, the number of people who identify as trans has skyrocketed.



ing TicTacTrot. Its insidious influence has no limits.

It took about 20 seconds, but that's starting to ring a bell. Was this with Rodney Dangerfield?

[midnightpulp]

It took about 20 seconds, but that's starting to ring a bell. Was this with Rodney Dangerfield?

Yeah.

[Xevious]

The is everybody's obsession with baseball?

[140]

keep dem graphs coming

[DMC]

Obesity came with the introduction of the latch key kids, dual working parents, kids left to eat as they will, and parents divorcing in record numbers, each treating the kid like a zoo animal, over feeding the out of it to win mommy or daddy points. The gaming console ties in there nicely as well. Kids no longer told to get the out of the house, instead sitting in their bedrooms eating and playing videogames all day/night. Now being fat is just a lifestyle choice, don't shame me bro.

You can throw in Pixar and Disney... since parents treat a 2 hour movie like a baby sitter. Throw some cheetos down with the minions and you have a 120lb 5 year old who knows the words to every Disney musical.

Blaming obesity on any sport is stupid as but par the course for apo and the crew who never met a schtick they wouldn't overuse.

[BD24]

OP claims a study shows a link to obesity, yet provides no link to the supposed study. Shocking.

I'm sure the study is real and OP didn't just make it up though.

[Spurtacular]

Yeah.

Yea, I only saw pieces. I bet it's better than a lot of movies today though.

[Clipper Nation]

Baseball living rent free.

Anyhow, looks like you're wrong.



Correlation doesn't imply causation, but the 80's is when youth soccer really took off in the US (and when childhood obesity rates started to rise). It's where protective parents would put their uncoordinated and unathletic kids, where they could lightly jog around and aimlessly kick a ball. This meant no pressure on the kid to perform (unlike Little League Baseball, which is merciless), so after soccer was over they'd retreat to their donuts, juice boxes, and Mario Brothers. Kids who played baseball would play it constantly, since we were obsessed with improving.

Since kids are lazy s by nature, they saw how easy soccer was, so more and more played it. No pressure. No embarrassing strikeouts or dropped pop flies. No crying. Everyone having fun. And thus, no practicing away from the game, translating into a generation of people who think Pokemon Go is legitimate exercise.

Correlation with AYSO soccer and youth obesity seems pretty strong here.

When will the povertyball crew stop trying to diss baseball? All of their threads get shut down in the first reply.

[lefty]

keep dem graphs coming

Beisbol

[140]

Beisbol

Lou said it best tbh

[lefty]

Lou said it best tbh