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Other than UNC basketball or football, what's your favorite sport to watch?

For me, it's baseball. Nothing beats it in my opinion. I used to watch the NBA, but don't really follow it much anymore. Same with the NFL. I prefer college football and basketball. Never got fully into hockey, but will watch the playoffs.
 
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MWHeels said:
Other than UNC basketball or football, what's your favorite sport to watch?

For me, it's baseball. Nothing beats it in my opinion. I used to watch the NBA, but don't really follow it much anymore. Same with the NFL. I prefer college football and basketball. Never got fully into hockey, but will watch the playoffs.
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Baseball for me too. More specifically college baseball. The ACC network was a dream come true for me last season. I was able to watch all but a few UNC baseball games.
 
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I grew up loving baseball, played some baseball and coached baseball when my kids were younger. By far my favorite sport.

I LOVE college baseball, mainly because you can see the passion and emotion from kids who still play because they love the game. I go to HS baseball games for the same reason.

My son won't play this year (senior year in HS) since he missed last year with a back injury, so I will definitely miss watching him play, but I will still head out to the ball park to watch his former teammates.

I would say football would be a close second and basketball third for me personally. Probably because my son played all three since he was about 4 years old. Gave up basketball after his freshman year and just finished his final year in football, where he had a fantastic senior season. Still, I wish he would play baseball this last year, but I understand why he won't. He wouldn't get much PT and he can't stand sitting on the bench.
 
College football is the greatest game ever invented. College basketball is second. I like the NFL but mostly because of Fantasy. MLB is hard to watch until mid-August. Don't get me wrong, attending games live is fun. But watching a regular season MLB game on the TV in June just doesn't do it for me. College baseball is better but it's not on regularly which makes it harder to follow and know what's going on. Kind of the same with the NBA. I don't really watch until it's the playoffs. I don't do hockey. I tried when I was in high school and college. I even claimed the Whalers as "my team". But like the Whalers in Hartford, my interest in hockey didn't stick. I'm a Southerner...what can I say?

But from April to August, I f*cking love watching the PGA tour. Can't love it any more than I do. The best is when the US Open is played on the West Coast and I can watch golf at night. That's my favorite. I hardly even play much anymore because of time constraints but I still love watching it, following it, talking about it, etc.
 
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College football is the greatest game ever invented. College basketball is second. I like the NFL but mostly because of Fantasy. MLB is hard to watch until mid-August. Don't get me wrong, attending games live is fun. But watching a regular season MLB game on the TV in June just doesn't do it for me. College baseball is better but it's not on regularly which makes it harder to follow and know what's going on. Kind of the same with the NBA. I don't really watch until it's the playoffs. I don't do hockey. I tried when I was in high school and college. I even claimed the Whalers as "my team". But like the Whalers in Hartford, my interest in hockey didn't stick. I'm a Southerner...what can I say?

But from April to August, I f*cking love watching the PGA tour. Can't love it any more than I do. The best is when the US Open is played on the West Coast and I can watch golf at night. That's my favorite. I hardly even play much anymore because of time constraints but I still love watching it, following it, talking about it, etc.
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The Masters!
 
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The Masters!
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The Masters is so, so great for many reasons but the biggest is the time of year that it's played. To me, Spring arrives the weekend of The Masters. And it's been cold and you've been cooped up inside all winter and then boom - The Masters happens and you feel alive again. Effin' fantastic.
 
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gunslingerdick said:
College football is the greatest game ever invented. College basketball is second. I like the NFL but mostly because of Fantasy. MLB is hard to watch until mid-August. Don't get me wrong, attending games live is fun. But watching a regular season MLB game on the TV in June just doesn't do it for me. College baseball is better but it's not on regularly which makes it harder to follow and know what's going on. Kind of the same with the NBA. I don't really watch until it's the playoffs. I don't do hockey. I tried when I was in high school and college. I even claimed the Whalers as "my team". But like the Whalers in Hartford, my interest in hockey didn't stick. I'm a Southerner...what can I say?

But from April to August, I f*cking love watching the PGA tour. Can't love it any more than I do. The best is when the US Open is played on the West Coast and I can watch golf at night. That's my favorite. I hardly even play much anymore because of time constraints but I still love watching it, following it, talking about it, etc.
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I watched golf when Tiger was dominating. I don't have much interest in it anymore.
 
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I watched golf when Tiger was dominating. I don't have much interest in it anymore.
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Ha. I watch more golf now that Tiger isn't playing. Don't get me wrong, Tiger was a marvel for sure. But golf is more compelling now because you don't have one guy running the show. You have 10-20 guys that threaten on a weekly basis and you could make an argument for as many as 6 or 7 that are currently the best golfers in the world. That's entertaining to me.
 
College and Pro Football are great. College basketball is great. NBA isn't much fun because you know who's going to win it all at the end.

I used to love watching baseball, but it's just gotten too slow and drawn out for my liking now. I like watching the NHL because it's faster paced than baseball, and has the unpredictability that the NBA lacks.

Watching golf is actually pretty fun too.

I don't regularly go to my local highway to watch cars drive, so I don't know why I'd watch them drive around in circles on TV for hours on end.
 
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Hark_The_Sound_2010 said:
College and Pro Football are great. College basketball is great. NBA isn't much fun because you know who's going to win it all at the end.

I used to love watching baseball, but it's just gotten too slow and drawn out for my liking now. I like watching the NHL because it's faster paced than baseball, and has the unpredictability that the NBA lacks.

Watching golf is actually pretty fun too.

I don't regularly go to my local highway to watch cars drive, so I don't know why I'd watch them drive around in circles on TV for hours on end.
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The challenge or review or whatever you want to call it in baseball needs to be done away with. Umpires are human and are/should be part of the game. Pitching by committee has slowed the game as well.
 
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The challenge or review or whatever you want to call it in baseball needs to be done away with. Umpires are human and are/should be part of the game. Pitching by committee has slowed the game as well.
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I would be in favor of no replay whatsoever in any sport. None. But that will never happen. Some NFL games have become unwatchable because of the replays. It's absurd. And now more than ever, we're having replays and bad interpretations and people are more pissed after the replay and call than they were before the replay when the refs just made the wrong call. Baseball is slow as hell and now we're replaying that? Good god.

Athletic competition was never meant to be so serious that "by all means, we have to get the call right". In fact, I'd argue that athletic competition was built to help people deal with the adversity of scoring a TD but it being called out. One of the cornerstones of athletic competition is "sportsmanship". And sportsmanship encompasses getting the shit end of the stick sometimes and still smiling because, after all, it's still just a f*cking game.
 
I have largely given up watching ALL pro sports. It just isn't sport to me. It looks like they just go through the motions and collect a paycheck. Golf is probably the only pro sport I will watch and The Masters is usually all I will watch of it. I do like the US Open sometimes, but there is absolutely no place on earth as beautiful as Augusta National in the spring. Just once I would like to go there for The Masters. I can't imagine I would ever get to play there, but just going would be enough for me.

College sports and HS sports are the best, IMHO, although I do enjoy watching youth sports, too. Kids being kids is great.
 
1st MLB
2nd women’s college volleyball
3rd women’s beach volleyball
4th women’s tennis
 
I'll be honest, I really don't understand all the hype around college football. I watch UNC, although there were times where I didn't watch this year because I got tired of watching us get our asses kicked, but I don't watch any other games. Is the atmosphere great? Absolutely, but so is European soccer, and the vast majority of us don't give a damn about that either. I can't get into college football because 90% of all teams are essentially playing for nothing by week four. That just isn't fun for me. Why should I care about the Chick-fil-A Chicken Sandwich Bowl or the Clorox All-Purpose Cleaner Bowl? I just don't understand all the fuss about it.
 
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The challenge or review or whatever you want to call it in baseball needs to be done away with. Umpires are human and are/should be part of the game. Pitching by committee has slowed the game as well.
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Ya, I like the presence of replay so that we can fix debacles like what happened awhile back with the ump completely porking that pitcher that threw a perfect game, on the last "out". But whether a runner was safe or out at 1st in the top of the 1st inning is relatively meaningless.

Agreed with the pitcher by committee thing too. Slows the game down so much when you have the "lefty specialist" come in to get one guy, then bring in the setup guy, then bring in the closer, etc. I've heard proposals where relievers would have to face a minimum of 3 batters or something once they entered the game.

If they'd enforce the pitch clock, and the batter not stepping out of the box during an at bat - that'd go a long way. They should also bring relievers in via golf cart again to speed things up, and tell them they have to be fully warmed up once they hit the mound - no on field warmup tosses.
 
College basketball - I watch the Heels and some other ACC games (except dook). I don't watch a ton of other teams but always enjoy march madness.

College football - I watch the Heels and other games that interest me. But I usually don't give two shits about the playoffs when it's the same damn teams in there every year. If bama, (and God forbid) osu makes it this year, I definitely won't watch that crap.

NFL is about the only other sport I watch consistently. Some people want to hate on the "parity" aspect of the pros, but at least it gives most fans hope from one year to the next. Otherwise in college, unless you're one of the handful of big dogs, you get stuck playing muffler bowls.
 
College football by a country mile. I'm the guy who watches Tuesday night MACtion with a cold brew in my hand. I could watch literally any two FBS teams play.

I get into college basketball, but only after CFB is over. And increasingly, I just watch UNC.

I used to be hardcore into soccer (EPL and USMNT), but my interest in both has waned heavily the past couple years.
 
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