In sports, I hear a lot about how purists of a specific sport (baseball, hockey, basketball) don't like certain things that are going on and want changes.
Personally, I can't stand them.
During the dead-puck era, the NHL All-Star Game seemed to be the one and only occurence where a lot of goals could be scored. Every year, I read articles that bemoan the lack of defense and hitting and that there are too many goals.
But I had to put up with that EVERY NIGHT! They get enough of that every day- is it too much to see somebod actually PUT THE PUCK IN THE NET?!
I had to put up with 1-0 or 2-1 games seemingly all the time. Thank god the rules have changed, because at the time of the lockout, it was looking like these hockey purists had killed the game.
Baseball- I tire of people saying there's too much offense. Do you want to go back to the days where teams barely hit .200 and teams combined for a handful of hits in a game? Remember 1968? Pitchers were ridiculously dominant; if someone actually hit a homer, it felt like a miracle. These geezers need to realize that YOU NEED TO SCORE TO WIN!
Basketball- These people can't stand teams that are flashy, dunk, and want to score. I believe the object of basketball is to SCORE POINTS! These are the people that disdain anyone scoring more than 80 points a game- thank god those days are over. The Spurs and Pistons, when they met in 2005, that was the epitome of bad basketball.
Purists are annoying- they don't believe in scoring and think that all sports should be all defense and shouldn't bother scoring.
How do you feel?
Personally, I can't stand them.
During the dead-puck era, the NHL All-Star Game seemed to be the one and only occurence where a lot of goals could be scored. Every year, I read articles that bemoan the lack of defense and hitting and that there are too many goals.
But I had to put up with that EVERY NIGHT! They get enough of that every day- is it too much to see somebod actually PUT THE PUCK IN THE NET?!
I had to put up with 1-0 or 2-1 games seemingly all the time. Thank god the rules have changed, because at the time of the lockout, it was looking like these hockey purists had killed the game.
Baseball- I tire of people saying there's too much offense. Do you want to go back to the days where teams barely hit .200 and teams combined for a handful of hits in a game? Remember 1968? Pitchers were ridiculously dominant; if someone actually hit a homer, it felt like a miracle. These geezers need to realize that YOU NEED TO SCORE TO WIN!
Basketball- These people can't stand teams that are flashy, dunk, and want to score. I believe the object of basketball is to SCORE POINTS! These are the people that disdain anyone scoring more than 80 points a game- thank god those days are over. The Spurs and Pistons, when they met in 2005, that was the epitome of bad basketball.
Purists are annoying- they don't believe in scoring and think that all sports should be all defense and shouldn't bother scoring.
How do you feel?