DisMike
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- Jun 5, 2010
Exactly. And I can't help feeling like this is a very gender-shaded conversation. If you substitute "World Series" for "World Cup" and "home run" for "goal", the whole thing just sounds absurd... because there are no circumstances under which we'd condemn a team for celebrating a single-game record setting/tying number of hits/RBIs/home runs in a World Series game, or where we'd fault a young member of a MLB team for celebrating his first World Series home run because the team was already ahead by an arbitrary number of runs. But women's soccer is not, for whatever reason, not thought of in the same sense as men's pro sports. A lot of the local commentators complaining about the celebrations are making comparisons to college or even high school/youth sports, not to other elite athletes playing at a professional level in the top event of their game.
Actually, untrue. If you're up 10 runs in a World Series game and you make a big deal about a home run you know what happens? The next time you're up the pitcher puts one in your ear. Same thing in football. You make a big deal about a touchdown when you're way up, you can count on getting leveled the next time you touch the ball. NBA. You make a big deal about making a shot when you're up 20 or so, you can count on getting fouled...hard the next time you touch the ball.
The problem with soccer is that, under normal circumstances, the goals are few, far between and tough to get. That's why soccer players make such a big deal about scoring. It's rare. The go-to reaction is celebration. It would be hard to switch that off it that's the usual.
I don't fault the ladies because of the soccer culture. Don't do it in baseball though unless you want your jaw wired together.