heyu123":1v0et1da said:
RolandDeschain":1v0et1da said:
IDK, there's a valid point somewhere within shouting distance of what Nategreat said. How much of an athlete are you if you can excel at a given sport being 50 pounds overweight and not in good enough shape to jog 1 mile? Just a thought.
Being able to run a mile, which a lot of MLB players can do, is not the only trait of an athlete.
If people think you don't have to be athletic to hit a baseball, field a baseball, and throw then that's absolutely ridiculous.
Babe Ruth was still a very effective baseball player while being overweight and hungover on a daily basis during the latter part of his career. You think Tom Brady would even have stats as good as Josh Freeman if he played NFL games hungover and carrying an extra 50 pounds? Not a chance in hell. Now, I'm not saying you can weigh 700 pounds and still be an All-Star MLB player, but it's ridiculous to think you have to be in great physical shape overall to be a good MLB player. Some sports just require significantly more on the human body than others. Why do you think there are 16 games in an NFL season compared to 162 games in an MLB season? If NFL players had to play 162 games in 180 days, they would literally die before reaching the halfway point.
HawksFTW":1v0et1da said:
Careful, iRo is one of the resident experts on fitness and fitness regimes. He'll be here to tell you how wrong you are in a moment.
HawksFTW, I honestly tried to be as "special" as you in the douche bag awards thread, and I couldn't even come close. Could you give me some tips?
BTW, John Daly has spent much of his golfing career overweight by 20-50 pounds. Just look at random pics of him on Google Images, like this one:
*Edited because I thought this was the shack, initially.