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Yesterday I watched the USA women win the a tournament to bascially win the World Series of women's softball. I watched a game over the weekend too. Yesterday they beat Japan.
Having laid that groundwork, I will now add that I am an "older" guy who watches a lot of various sports. Anyway, I was utterly shocked at the difference in size comparing the American women to their Japanese counterparts. And when I say "size", for the most part I'm not talking about height. I am estimating that the American women averaged about 50 pound more a player. I have tried to think of a high level team competition where one team was so much larger than the other, men's teams or women's. I come up empty. The Japanese women were generally slender. The American women were, to be kind, rubenesque.
When it came to softball, the American women were more talented, and they rightfully won. But I couldn't help thinking that it was a good thing they were playing softball and it was not a team triathlon.
Well, of course. Different sports require different physical skills and makeup.
Could you see a male sprinter as an effective offensive lineman in the NFL?
Maybe what I wrote was confusing. I intended to say that given their excessive size, the American women were lucky that the sport was softball and not team triathlon because they likely would have lost a triathlon to the leaner, better conditioned Japanese women.
Christ man, it is softball, the 6 pack is somewhere on the mound, friggen donut eating ladies playing an over the hill game.... Yeah, I'll watch that...
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