Amateur: "Athlete" you can beat in a 300 meter run?..

**FkLA** · 08-09-2017

Sports which are built around girly body types aren't real sports.

Miguel Cabrera. Unathletic? Okay.

At all these moving goalposts.

"Well, my sport NEEDS those players to look like girls or be clinically obese, so it's okay. But a few cherry picked players got fat and were decent players, so it's different." That said, if girly body types can succeed at a sport, what's that say about the athletic demands of said sport? I don't give a about stamina. All the unathletic kids ran cross-country. Color me unimpressed.

Weight can also help increase pitching velocity and hitting power, so it does help, but this depends on the individual player's physiology and the position. Too much muscle mass is actually a detriment to flexibility.

It's also like skill and knowledge don't exist in your world. Colon can make up for his lack of athleticism with skill. Would he be better if he was still in the shape of his younger days? Have no idea. If he retained his skill and flexibility while putting on the extra weight, he might've become even better. Some body types don't do well with excessive muscle mass.

Happens in boxing all the time. Texas's own (and likely a distant relative of yours) Homero Fonseca has won les and remained an effective professional boxer looking like this. And no

Texas Champ. The MLB is 800 players deep. In boxing, only a select few are good enough to compete for a world le. Them being the absolute best-of-the-best doesn't invalidate the effective professional boxers who are good enough to win regional les, get televised fights, and make a living off the sport.

Don't think I'm making fun of El Oso. Guy has skills and is someone I respect more as an athlete than any soccer twink. Look at him press the action against a former Olympian and the 12th ranked HW in the world. Nice footwork and combination work there. El Oso also went the distance with Andy Ruiz Jr., 14th ranked HW in the world.

Noone said Cabrera is unathletic. Simply that fatball is so dull and requires so little physical exertion that he can remain elite despite this transformation:

**DMC** · 08-09-2017

Originally Posted by FkLA

Noone said Cabrera is unathletic. Simply that fatball is so dull and requires so little physical exertion that he can remain elite despite this transformation:

Barkley
Diaw
Shaq

Basketball is easy too, especially the pros.

**apalisoc_9** · 08-09-2017

Originally Posted by DMC

Barkley
Diaw
Shaq

Basketball is easy too, especially the pros.

Fatass

**DMC** · 08-09-2017

Originally Posted by FkLA

Noone said Cabrera is unathletic. Simply that fatball is so dull and requires so little physical exertion that he can remain elite despite this transformation:

Barkley
Diaw
Shaq

Basketball is easy too, especially the pros.

You can compare soccer player to cyclists. They have great stamina and aren't big because it would hinder their games, but they aren't athletic beasts by any stretch of the imagination just as the Kenyan runners aren't.

**DMC** · 08-09-2017

Originally Posted by apalisoc_9

Fatass

Sleeper Cell, feta and olive eating try hard.

**apalisoc_9** · 08-09-2017

Originally Posted by DMC

Sleeper Cell, feta and olive eating try hard.

Oink oink

**midnightpulp** · 08-09-2017

Originally Posted by FkLA

Noone said Cabrera is unathletic. Simply that fatball is so dull and requires so little physical exertion that he can remain elite despite this transformation:

That exactly what you're arguing since your entire implication is that fatness impairs athleticism. Depending on the sport, position, and person, fatness can actually be a benefit.

Also, Cabrera doesn't even look particularly fat. He put on something called mass, which you should be familiar with loving the fattest sport in the world.