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JFC that was obviously what I meant. Way to try to save face. It's incredibly hilarious how sensitive Europeans when it comes to talking about sports.

Er..what? You clearly don't know how to do math - or just are shockingly misinformed about population figures. The US has 32% of the percentage of the population of the Americas all on its own. Mexico has 12%, Columbia 5, Venezuela 3... I didn't know the qualification here was the sport had to be the MOST popular in each country. If that's the case then those metrics obviously counting India for cricket, table tennis, and hockey really need to make a choice.

....That's literally much of the western hemisphere. Baseball is extremely popular in all of the Latin American countries you identified.

You really gotta wonder if those estimates are actually based on the percentage of fans in each country or if they're just identifying countries then looking up population figures and doing basic addition.

Certainly seems to be the implication to me. But as mentioned I don't think it's likely to land too hard - other than devotees most probably aren't gonna remember it in a few weeks.

Man someone really wants to join Cruise and R. Kelly in the closet...

Fair enough. Either that or you're just bringing up standard deviations which has no relevance to my point.

Because I never said anything about a standard deviation/normal distribution. I said it was significantly higher than the mean height for males. When I said that, I was thinking about 5'10" - without looking anything up. And, yeah, turns out that's pretty much the case outside of a handful of European countries. In other words, you're cherrypicking the top countries that make up the aggregate mean. It'd be one thing if those countries had any type of involvement with baseball as a sport, but outside of Didi Gregorius, they don't. The reason it's an absurd statistical argument is because you were suggesting 6'1" was close to the mean of any country that has anything to do with baseball. I guarantee if I made a similarly misleading comparison about European-centric sports on here the pushback would be massive.

Hohkay. Thanks for sharing!

I don't even know what "Wish" is.

Yeah Gadaffi is a terribly uninformed comparison and it's quite hilarious to compare Soleimani to what happened in the third act of the film. This..is pretty much exactly what I've been saying. It's Tom Cruise jacking himself off to an absurd premise.

I absolutely loathe what Bill Maher has become. He's always been a bitter old man, but the last couple of years - due to being attacked by the left - he's decided to make it his mission to focus on random leftist overreaches instead of the obvious problems that plague this country today. Anyway, he ended his "new rules" tonight entirely devoted to this film: The complete lack of definable enemy was, indeed, part of why the film was piece of shit. But also because the actions in the final act clearly would have started a war with whatever "enemy" this apparently was. That's a big part of why it was predominately Mystery Science Theater for me and my family..and anyone with a brain.

Yikes...baseball is decidedly unpopular in the countries the link you gave me listed at anywhere around 6'1" as a mean height for males. That's why it's a patently fallacious statistical argument.

Yeah I saw they were combining ice and field hockey. Still seems pretty silly to me but ok. This is a pretty absurd statistical argument since the vast majority of baseball players don't come from the Netherlands, Estonia, Denmark, etc.

Sorry, I meant to say "increasingly for" baseball - particularly with hitters lately but, again, has also been the case for pitchers (or at least starting pitchers) for quite awhile now. That was the entire argument I was making in the first response I made to you. Also, yes, 6'1" is significantly above the mean for males in the aggregate (albeit no, certainly not "freakish"), and the players (hitters and pitchers alike) are getting more buff even since the steroid era (which, well..we'll leave that at that). Aye I saw both of these doing a quick google too. I don't believe hockey has 2 billion fans.

Great Crash Test Dummies song!

I didn't know you could also divine my mood. Not angry at all, just thought your bit of trolling deserved the same in kind - particularly considering mine included, ya know, facts. Seems as if you can dish it out but can't take it.

Well, it's ludicrously ignorant to write off baseball as a "niche local sport" either, unless you want to pretend much of the western hemisphere along with Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan encapsulate "niche local." Seems rather offensively eurocentric to me, but you do you! ....except basketball and baseball, which was the argument I was making. LOL, holy hyperbole Batman!

People seem to love to mention how soccer is the most popular sport in the world. Well, both basketball and baseball are in the top 10 by any metric as well.

On Daenerys vs. Rhaenyra: Rhaenyra didn't birth three dragons through magic for the first time in over a century. Rhaenyra wasn't apparently fireproof as is suggested in the Dothraki scene in season 6; and essentially depicted as the magical chosen one for most of seasons 2-5. Rhaenyra didn't have that huge flex where she is supported by the the Unsullied, Dothraki, Dorne, Iron Islands as they set sail for Westeros -- not to mention having a number of the show's clearly most favorably depicted characters fall all over themselves trying to serve her. So..no, I don't think it's the same thing at all. Although, of course, there will be a shitton of consternation about the depiction of women as rulers if/when Rhaenyra is portrayed as going crazy.

Kind of a bad time to make this argument here in the states considering Judge's season. Baseball hitters are in general getting bigger and stronger - albeit I remember meeting Jose Guillen at a party about two hours after he hit a game winner off Mo Rivera and was shocked we were the same size. Baseball pitchers have generally been bigger than average size of quite a while now - indeed if you're average size coming up as a pitcher scouts will have a tendency to write you off due to injury/durability concerns.

Poor Bernard Shaw died on the wrong day.

No, I don't literally think the character was stewing for years solely because he was there when he died. That was rather apparent exaggeration that you amusingly got hyper defensive about and in the process tried to act like his father's death wasn't a huge part of his resentment.

Well, grandchildren (as well as I suppose bastard children), but yeah this is a very important point that doesn't get mentioned nearly as much as it should.

...Wait, so you're telling me you agree with LV? Man things have changed over the years...