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I was sitting at home considering the nature of the universe and found myself thinking about rousing games of kickball that I used to play back in middle/high school PE classes. I was always rather fond of the game and figured that it would make a pretty good professional sport as it combined the best aspects of soccer (kicking, sporadic riots) with baseball (everything else). So, like any self-respecting internet geek, I did a Google search looking for a kickball league, and found that there was an association called WAKA which had leagues around the world (none in NM naturally), but, for the most part, it seems as though it is made up of groups of buddies who get together to relive their childhoods. This lot certainly was not comprised of pro athletes by any means.

Why is this? I've never spoken to anyone who didn't like the game (it is definitely more exciting than baseball) so why hasn't this great sport caught on? I mean, korfball has such a following that there are constant proposals in front of the Olympic committee pleading for it to become an Olympic sport, and korfball is the dumbest sport on the planet (just look at the name). So why can't kickball get the same respect? Has the world degraded to such a point where simple, fun games cannot gain acceptance, yet korfball is allowed to remain with its crummy game-play and infinitely complicated rules?

-Pufer

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the world is a cruel, horrible place...
and you need something else to do if you research the world kickball league. but i must say, is would be an incredibly exciting olympic sport, except for the fact that by the time pros got into it, it would become too one-sided, offensivly. you can kick the ball MUCH farther than you can throw it, and every play would be a home run, or something. the rules would probably have to be changed, so that kicking it over the back wall (baseball home run) would be a foul ball, or an out or something. it would be fun, though...

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Or you could consider changing the type of ball. Making the field really huge. And then tweek the rules ever so slightly. *Random*We played kickball today.*Random* It would not be a homerun every kick however because a) People could still catch/stop it and throw it in, if you switch the ball then it will go slower. I don't know, but it would be more fun to see the art of burning a olympic sport.


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The sport that needs more publicity is cheese racing.

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Exactly, if the ball was something like solid lead then you wouldn't have to worry about home runs. Or, you could simply change the number of bases to like 17 or something and have them zigzag across the field.

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Yeah, with the lead ball you wouldn't have to worry about pitching either. You could just leave it on home plate and have each player take a whack at it when they're up, its not like anything would happen--

"Well Tom we are now in the four thousanth inning and the score is still zero-zero between the Tulsa Wombats and the El Paso Taco-Lungs. Jim Folman is coming up for the Wombats now, he is still recovering from the shattered ankle he sustained while kicking in the fifty-second inning eleven weeks ago, but he has his hopes up for a big return...Wow, you don't see that much, he appears to be down. In the ultra slo-mo video you can pinpoint the exact second that his knee joint turned to dust. It looks like his carreer is over after only one game, he joins the other 452 players out of this game. If you're tunin in to see the big Korfball tourney, you're out of luck because it concluded about a month ago during the eleventh inning."

-Pufer






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HAHAHAHAHA!!!
that ws the funniest thing i have heard (read) in a long time. i wish i was creative.

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How about Blitzball?

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That only worked in books.

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I still think it'd be cool.

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Isn't that the game played in a ball of water or something?

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It's from a book called A Separate Peace. John Knowles. IT's required reading in our school.

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I know, I had to read it two years ago. But appearantly some people have different interpretations of ideas, and names are not always unique.

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That book was terrible, certainly one of the worst five required reads of my public school career.

-Pufer

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I agree.

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I don't, I can name five I thought were worse easily.

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I'm reading that now...It doesn't seem too bad. However, I am only on the 3rd chapter so I probably can't judge...

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Ya, it gets old...

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I really didn't have all that many assigned reads in my English classes (I can remember maybe 15 throughout all of high school) so it isn't too difficult to make it on to my "crap" list. Amongst all the books I've read in my life (which is one hell of a lot, I could read simple chapter books well before I started kindegarten, Shakespeare by grade 3 and I've always liked reading so I've been able to rack up the books) it probably ranks in the bottom 100, but not all that low; it was bad, but not horrific bad.

-Pufer

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If a tree falls in the forest and then springs back upright as a joke, do the squirrels freak out?

I read a book to the class the first day of kindergarten. hehe.

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What book? Did it involve a lot of pictures?

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And did they make fun of you in such a way as to permanantly imprint this upon your brain, or do you remember it for some other reason?


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I was in the speical class for kindgerarten, they gave us cookies.

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I don't remember which book, but it was at least second or third grade reading level. In fourth grade, I had a ninth grade reading level. It's cool, I read college books, and understand them.

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The tables are empty, the dance floor's deserted, you play the same love song, it's the tenth time you've heard it. That's the beginning, just one of the clues, you've had your first lesson, in learnin' the blues!
~Frank Sinatra
Maybe if you hadn't been smoking hobbit-weed, you would have noticed I've turned evil. ~Saruman