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minus-squaredmention7@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 months agoStraight guy who enjoys baseball here – youre not wrong! At least baseball doesn’t need to have a squad of attractive women bouncing around in skirts on the sidelines to affirm the viewers’ sexuality.
minus-squaremasquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months ago a squad of attractive women bouncing around in skirts on the sidelines I always thought they put them there because without them there’d literally be nothing about the whole affair worth watching.
minus-squarepeoplebeproblems@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoYou know I never understood the point of cheerleaders other than being fun to look at. Your explanation makes way more sense.
minus-squareoftenawake@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·24 days ago“We are not gay, we have scantily-dressed womenfolk present, thus proving our masculinity beyond question! Definitely. Not. Gay!”
minus-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoIt does offer about the same amount of (in)action as 'murican handegg
minus-squaredmention7@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 months agoI remember reading an analysis of in-play vs idle time of several popular pro sports, and American football was dead last, even behind baseball. Which is fine on its own, but pretty ironic given how so many American football fans seem to sneer on soccer for being too boring.
minus-squareprimrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexuslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoWatching things you don’t understand is generally boring.
Straight guy who enjoys baseball here – youre not wrong!
At least baseball doesn’t need to have a squad of attractive women bouncing around in skirts on the sidelines to affirm the viewers’ sexuality.
I always thought they put them there because without them there’d literally be nothing about the whole affair worth watching.
You know I never understood the point of cheerleaders other than being fun to look at.
Your explanation makes way more sense.
“We are not gay, we have scantily-dressed womenfolk present, thus proving our masculinity beyond question! Definitely. Not. Gay!”
It does offer about the same amount of (in)action as 'murican handegg
I remember reading an analysis of in-play vs idle time of several popular pro sports, and American football was dead last, even behind baseball.
Which is fine on its own, but pretty ironic given how so many American football fans seem to sneer on soccer for being too boring.
Watching things you don’t understand is generally boring.