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[last_of_the_grea...]

*Sigh* I cannot believe baseball would survive to the year 2070! Do people get dumber over the decades? Or do they just really like yet another excuse for beer? So, since I see no canon reference to baseball in the '70's, I must assume it does not exist and that Hockey has hopped to the top of the list of most popular sports! Yay hockey, go Canucks (though I imagine those nutty Salish have renamed the Vancouver team to something else)!

[CanRay]

Baseball survived by becoming a "Fantasy Baseball" Sport.

The Players are equipped with Skillwires that stat them out from Players throughout the ages. So you can have the greats of baseball from 1990s play against/with the greats from the 1930s.

The players themselves, as they tire and get hurt, add a level of randomness to it, as well as "Legacy Players", those are kept secret, and are players that only had a few years in the big leagues.

So it's a game for the Stats Lovers, which a good deal of Sports Fans are. This is usually what I point out to Jocks that make fun of us Gamers and our love of numbers and randomness.

Oh... And GO SEADOGS!!!

[last_of_the_grea...]

Any hockey player would beat the crap out of the best baseball players in a fight!

[CanRay]

No denying that.

"I went to a Boxing match, and Hockey broke out!" is an old joke.

[Fortune]

While I love Hockey more than any other sport, I would have to disagree with that statement. There are some Baseball power hitters that would thrash most Hockey players easily. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[CanRay]

Yeah, but it would take the Power Hitters to match your typical Hockey Player.

[Fortune]

Don't know about that nowadays, what with all the rules about no touching and all that crap. Hockey is rapidly sliding into the realm of Soccer, with dives all over the place and penalties for giving another player a mean look. Bring back the man's sport!

[Hatspur]

Don't know about that nowadays, what with all the rules about no touching and all that crap. Hockey is rapidly sliding into the realm of Soccer, with dives all over the place and penalties for giving another player a mean look. Bring back the man's sport!

DO NOT insult the beautiful game. I love Hockey for Hockey and I love footy for footy. Just because Chelski and other whores like Ronaldo enjoy diving does not mean its going down the tubes.

My characters almost always go to Sounders FC games. I'm even doing a run that involves the Yokohama Reds this weekend.

[Snow_Fox]

So speaks the forum dentist.

The reference to playing older players is refered to only in a short story. For cannon, regular baseball is gonig strong as it was listed in Shadowbeat.

I coudl see the indians not wnating to keep 'white man's' games but I'm surprised there are not NAN combat biker teams and a revival of lacrosse, whioch was traditionally an indian war game-and now has been overrun by white college frat boys

[CanRay]

And Canada's traditional Game before Hockey was.

[Fortune]

DO NOT insult the beautiful game.

I absolutely love Hockey. It's a great game. But it used to be better before all the stupid rule and schedule changes.

[Snow_Fox]

yeah, guys with teeth are WAY overrated

[Fortune]

Bah! Teeth are for wimps! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[last_of_the_grea...]

And Canada's traditional Game before Hockey was.

Lacrosse

[CanRay]

Yeah, I know. I was replying to the poster above about Lacross. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[Cantankerous]

I grew up in the Deep South. I didn't even know what Hockey was until I saw "Slapshot" .... and fell in deeply love. Gods it was like Football...on blades....with weapons!!!!

[CanRay]

On ice... With boards to check people into!

[DocTaotsu]

I like futbol, it's more fun to watch than football. I also spent many of my formative years working under the heavy hand of Armenians and alongside Mexicans so I was pretty much forced to enjoy it... or else.

I still think baseball will be going strong, if Japanacorps rule the world than baseball is still big because Japanese take their baseball very seriously. Not like South/Central American futbol intense but still. I work with Japanese fire fighters and the amount of excitement surrounding the highschool baseball playoffs was on par to what I'd expect for the Final Four back in the states.
It helped that Okinawa kicked everyones' teeth in.

Go Naha <Indechiperable Kanji>!

Favorite Desert War teams:
-UCAS Navy VFA-41 "The Black Aces" For the Air to Air division. Sure they might get smoked by the CAS airforce every year but jeez... it's not like there won't always be Cubs fans.
-UCAS Navy HM-14 "Vanguard" For the Heavy T-Bird Division.
-Renraku VC-214 "Patient Stalkers" For the Medium Unrestricted-Drone Squadron Division. They might be a bunch of meta hating pricks and they might be investigated for AI regulation violations every year but they make a mighty fine drone wing. I'm a sucker for good tech like that.

I hear they're going to double the number of combined arms next year. Maybe this'll revive the Close Air Support division I used to watch back in the 50's. Eh... I'm not holding my breath though.

What! I'm a fan of the Air Division so sue me! Not everyone wants full simsense off some guy who's been humping a 200 pound pack unassisted for 4 days. Give me full immersion, multi-POV air-to-air feeds any day. I also hear CrashCart might be hosting a demo team this year, they want to start a medic division to "Improve Tactical Combat Care" but everyone knows it's really so they can show DocWagon up. Not sure if that's going to have much widespread appeal though...

[Wesley Street]

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but I believe it states in the Sprawl Survival Guide that baseball, soccer, American football, rugby, auto racing, etc. all survive in 2070. I'm sure hockey is still there too. It's not like all that stuff is going to disappear in a few decades time. However, if I'm remembering correctly, there are different rules regarding the use of cyberware and magic.

I would imagine NASCAR involves a rigger sitting in a modified Mercury Comet thinking his way through the turns. There would probably be publicly televised drafts to get the best physical adepts on your hometown basketball, football or baseball team. Only so much cyber/bioware or magical ability would be permitted before the player got bumped to a different "weight class". Wouldn't be surprised if there were some kind of minority Ork & Troll Leagues teams. That would make for an interesting Ken Burns documentary.

The future's going to be just like today... only with different cars and haircuts. And pointy ears and horns. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Speed Wraith]

*Sigh* I cannot believe baseball would survive to the year 2070! Do people get dumber over the decades? Or do they just really like yet another excuse for beer? So, since I see no canon reference to baseball in the '70's, I must assume it does not exist and that Hockey has hopped to the top of the list of most popular sports! Yay hockey, go Canucks (though I imagine those nutty Salish have renamed the Vancouver team to something else)!

No reference? Yankee Pitcher and Louisville Slugger cyberarms (Augmentation pg 45).

And all this chatter on this thread makes me say, "See, we do too need a new/updated Shadowbeat! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[CanRay]

I would imagine NASCAR involves a rigger sitting in a modified Mercury Comet thinking his way through the turns.

I remember reading SOMEWHERE that NASCAR demanded a total lack of cybernetics, for the same reason that they put Restricter Plates on cars to prevent them going too fast. And that F-1 Racing was a for the lovers of Engeneering in both Car and Driver.

In fact, I have that as a plot point in "A Night To Never Remember". Just wish I could remember where I read it now. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dead.gif)

[Kyoto Kid]

...so I wonder if the Green Bay Packers are still publicly owned & they still play outdoors there.

For some of my other "homer" teams, with the way things have been going recently, It would be more likely that the Milwaukee Brewers (finally getting the skinflint Selig Family out of the front office) would actually outlast the Bucks (a team in need of a special lottery for quality head coaches instead of players).

In the RL throws you a curve: Since Shadowbeat was released: The Houston Oilers moved to Tennessee The Rams are in St. Louis, the Expos are in DC, The Grizzlies are in Memphis, The Hornets are in New Orleans, The Bobcats appeared, the Sonics will soon be in Oklahoma, and a woman driver won her first major race in open wheel competition (& damn near won the Indy 500).

As to Hockey, maybe it might see a resurgence (especially with highly violent sports like Combat Biker and Urban Brawl) but since the lockout, the NHL took a hit. I think matches are currently broadcast some backwater cable network after ABC/ESPN dropped the NHL from their schedules.

[CanRay]

No reference? Yankee Pitcher and Louisville Slugger cyberarms (Augmentation pg 45).

And all this chatter on this thread makes me say, "See, we do too need a new/updated Shadowbeat! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

OK, I have to second that one! My group would love it, that's for sure!

[ravensmuse]

I remember reading SOMEWHERE that NASCAR demanded a total lack of cybernetics, for the same reason that they put Restricter Plates on cars to prevent them going too fast. And that F-1 Racing was a for the lovers of Engeneering in both Car and Driver.

In fact, I have that as a plot point in "A Night To Never Remember". Just wish I could remember where I read it now. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/dead.gif)

So it would be more boring than it already is?

C'mon. I'm a fan of NASCAR, have been since I was a little kid, and I'd still rather watch F1, Indy, CART, Dakar, rally racing...Hell, I'd take a Tour De Bicycling over NASCAR nowadays.

But man, imagine drag racing? mmmm.

[Speed Wraith]

In the RL throws you a curve: Since Shadowbeat was released: The Houston Oilers moved to Tennessee The Rams are in St. Louis, the Expos are in DC, The Grizzlies are in Memphis, The Hornets are in New Orleans, The Bobcats appeared, the Sonics will soon be in Oklahoma, and a woman driver won her first major race in open wheel competition (& damn near won the Indy 500).

Don't forget that the bball team in DC is now the Bullets once again (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) I've said it before, and I'll say it again: A group of uppity hermetics became offended by the team name and had it changed back to Bullets. Go 'Skins!