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Sports Technology?
An anonymous reader writes "With the 90th Tour de France starting today, it is fun to marvel at the improvement of road bike technology over the years. Like others, I have traded up from heavy steel to aluminum, and now carbon fiber, ending up with a bike far better than its rider. How have advances in sports technology enhanced your own performance and enjoyment of sport?"
But the best sporting technical innovation: scores displayed permanently in the top left corner of your TV picture. We take it for granted nowadays but there was a time that you had to wait for the commentator to tell you what the scoreline was - how annoying was that?
If the score is your greatest concern, why not save yourself the boredom of the game and guys standing around for 3 hours scratching themselves and patting each other on their asses; just watch the evening news.
There are others but these are the ones that most improve my enjoyment of sports.
You forgot a "watching" in there. I'd much rather be out there doing something myself than sitting on the couch. Spectator sports are pointless as hell if you're a straight man.
Why shouldn't I enjoy . . .
No, a better question is why should you enjoy it? What does it matter that millionaires play some silly little game well? Are you completely blind to the way you're manipulated into submissive consumerism by these sports franchises?
Are you really suggesting that everyone who's ever watched a sporting event - whether live or on TV - is gay?
That's an interesting way to take things, but it say more about where your thoughts are than what I'm thinking. No, sadly what I'm saying is that pointless sports spectatorship is only "important" in a pointless life. I can at least respect a gay guy (or a woman) for watching sweaty men if that's what gives them a charge. For everyone else, it's really just a way to fill the empty hours of your life.
Think about it. Why are you wasting your time on baseball (or whatever)? Because someone else told you it mattered? Do you really think it matters more than anything else? Matters more than actually spending time with your family instead of spending time near them watching yet another season of some guys playing with some ball?
Frankly, the rest of us - straight and gay - can do without your macho bullshit.
Yes, you'll sure show me! You sit on that couch and drool with authority. My point was never about what is or isn't macho. My point is that you should participate in your life. Sorry if that sort of thinking upsets you and is contrary to the controlled teaching you had previously been exposed to.