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Does anyone else feel like watching free agency is just a slow-motion exercise in regret? It’s such a weird part of the season. One minute you’re celebrating letting a veteran go to clear cap space or make room for youth, and the next, you’re watching them put up massive numbers for a direct rival. It makes you question the entire evaluation process.
I remember a few years back when my favorite team cut a certain linebacker because they thought he was "washed." Watching him dominate the field for a different squad the following month was brutal. It wasn't even about the money; it was that nagging feeling that the front office might have misread the situation entirely. It really changes how you view the roster depth.
It feels like a gamble every single year. You're either winning by being disciplined or losing by being too quick to pull the trigger. Do you think teams actually overvalue loyalty, or is it usually just a case of bad luck when a former player succeeds elsewhere?
slycrane94 said:I don't need to believe in anything. Science is what pulled us out of the caves, while religion just spends its time trying to shove us back in... those with any sense can see that.
Science didn't exactly drag us out of the caves, but I am curious about how exactly religion plans on dragging us back in...
slycrane94 said:http://psr.sagepub.com/content/early...88868313497266
Exactly...
Just another embarrassment for the moderation team. Honestly, how many people are even running this place? You’ve got a moderator who spends their time trolling and a "scientist" busy planting logical fallacies everywhere... where are the admins hiding now? Are they going to try and justify this mess too?...
urbanbear45 said:it’s not really about the fans acting "submissive," it's more about how everything else just played out...
The real issue, if you can even call it that, was how the North side supporters just sat there being submissive in the stands instead of showing some actual solidarity with the group, leaving together so they could actually give the cops hell down at the roundabout... imagine if the North section had just gone silent instead. That would have been a move...
So that's your idea of unity in the moment, and I won't even get started on the West side...🙂
The North side supporters were actually pretty happy to see the BBB kicked out, just as much as the West side was. You could hear all sorts of comments flying around against the BBB, it's just that the news reporters didn't bother to write any of that down. There were even people scattered throughout the North side shouting that Jerry Maguire is a crook, but those were just isolated individuals or tiny little groups of two or three people... honestly, though, I don't remember ever seeing so many cameras pointed at a single spot. The entrances to the North are covered by cell phone cameras, the area around the playground has cameras aimed right at the North, there are cameras on the poles, the cops have cameras, it’s just cameras everywhere...
A 26-year-old Slav passed away yesterday while hiking through the Rocky Mountains. And here is what another cardiologist had to say about it:
"The most frequent drivers behind potential incidents during or after physical exertion are cardiovascular events... In athletes under the age of 30 to 35, the cause of sudden death is most often various congenital cardiovascular conditions—things like hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia, coronary artery anomalies, prolonged QT interval, and so on—that went undetected before they started training..."
"For physically active individuals over 35, the primary causes of sudden death are usually atherosclerotic changes in the coronary arteries along with their complications, such as myocardial infarction, ventricular fibrillation, or cardiac arrest."
The frequency of sudden cardiac death on athletic fields is honestly pretty worrying, and you really have to look at the gap between increasing physical demands and an athlete's actual capacity... Pushing too hard can act as a "trigger" for a whole chain of sudden death factors...
"The demands of modern elite sports are getting harsher, and ambitions are growing even as the body's limits remain fixed. Today's sports sometimes require superhuman efforts from athletes. Driven by this ambition, an athlete is forced to ramp up their training intensity while simultaneously cutting back on the time needed for rest and recovery."
"There's no doubt that sports and physical activity are healthy and improve quality of life, but when intense exercise pushes past our biological boundaries, physical activity can become fatal, especially in those with undiagnosed underlying conditions..."
Angela Wright said:They go through quite a bit of Voltaren for even the smallest injuries, and then you have these guys handing them out like candy, only to end up in an ambulance because they ignored all the contraindications and underlying heart issues... it’s a recipe for disaster. I remember seeing a solid documentary on the BBC about this exact mess once.
I honestly think the blame falls squarely on the coaches and medical staff, since they don't bother explaining the actual risks of using stuff like that... though, I suppose it becomes a different problem entirely if the athletes decide to ignore the warnings and take things under the table just to keep people in the dark...
Nicholas Chavez70 said:It’s entirely possible he just had some underlying heart issue and his system finally gave out under the pressure, or maybe someone with a weak cardiovascular setup or just bad genetics gets hit with a dose of Nandrolone (Deca-Durabolin), or more likely some cocktail of stuff that spikes blood pressure until the heart just quits... Yeah, as shocking as it sounds to some people, pro athletes in basically any league are almost certainly using steroids...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nandrolone
Yeah, there's plenty of chatter on the sidelines about how players at every level are constantly taking all kinds of crap...
Can cardiologists actually tell the difference between hypertrophic cardiomyopathy—you know, when the heart muscle thickens because of an actual disease—and just having a thick heart from intense athletic training? Like, you go in for an echocardiogram, they see the thickening, but how on earth do they figure out if it’s genetic or just the result of hitting the gym hard...
We just got word about the tragic passing of 23-year-old Alen Pamić. It feels like there’s this growing, grim list of young soccer players, aged anywhere from 13 to 30, who just suddenly collapse despite appearing perfectly healthy on paper. We're looking at 22 players in just five years...
What really strikes me is how these sudden cardiac arrests and heart attacks seem specifically tied to soccer players. It isn't happening to people in other high-intensity sports—not the aerobic stuff like cycling, triathlons, long-distance running, rowing, or swimming, nor the anaerobic types where you redline the heart quickly, like weightlifting, boxing, or sprinting...
Why specifically soccer players?
Is it just because the sheer number of soccer players is so much higher than any other athlete, making it statistically inevitable that more would have underlying issues or die even without them...
Or is it because they're being pushed way too hard in training starting from childhood, unlike sports with similar intensity levels like basketball, handball, or rugby...
What are the actual reasons why athletes under 30 are dying, and what are the real risks involved? I’m looking to the actual doctors hanging out on this forum for an answer, because you can't get anything concrete from the news reports...
Edit: A bit more info popped up in the news:
Generally, the most frequent cause of sudden cardiac death is arrhythmia, which isn't always triggered by physical exertion, but rather by an undiagnosed condition—most often hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, where the heart muscle thickens due to disease rather than exercise. Inflammation of the heart muscle or early-onset coronary artery disease can also be factors. According to Dr. Bergovac, it’s absolutely vital that doctors check for a family history of sudden cardiac death during screenings, whether the person is a former athlete or not, since many heart defects are purely hereditary. We shouldn't forget that in America, even outside of sports, around 9,000 people die from sudden cardiac arrest every year...
Wrapping up the discussion, Dr. Bergovac emphasized how critical all of this is, noting that modern elite sports simply aren't "healthy" anymore. They demand almost superhuman effort that some athletes just aren't built to survive...
If the rest of the world is already taking us for a ride just because we let them... why shouldn't he get his cut too?
The movie was actually pretty great...