this is a terrible take for so many reasons

>Dude I can throw a perfect inning, just get my sister up there batting, she'll swing at ANYTHING I strike her out every time.

i'm not comparing a 9 dart leg in the world championships to you striking out your sister...i'm comparing it to facing the best hitters on the planet

>Now have that pitcher hit strike-zone dead centre 9 times in a row - that's the equivalent

no it isn't because, the same way MVG or whoever isn't trying to hit the exact same spot every time, neither is a pitcher...a pitcher is trying to hit his spot, which isn't always right down the dick, same with darts...they're not up there aiming for 9 double corks every leg...not to mention, if you divide the strike zone into 9 equal boxes, so there's one right in the middle, 99% of professional pitchers (meaning all the way down to rookie ball) can hit that middle box 9/9 probably 99% of the time, it's not that hard; you literally picked an easier task for your equivalency

>Also have him do it under TV lights (if you've ever been on TV you know it's HOT up there) and with a thousand fans screaming in the same room

the world record for people at a darts event is about 1/3 of Yankee Stadium's average for last season, and they play outdoors in the summer...i think they'll be fine "under the lights with screaming fans"

since 1984, which was the first televised perfect leg...

perfect games (MLB) - 13

televised 9-dart legs - 72 (which means there were more professional 9-dart legs not televised...since 2007 there have been approx. 4 per year televised; if we assume 4 per year total going back to 1984, it's closer to 150)

immaculate innings (MLB) - 85

to say that a perfect leg in darts is similar in rarity to a perfect game in baseball, when one happens more than 5x as often is insane

Gezzy is generally super gracious after every loss. Everyone on the tour will tell you he's one of the nicest blokes on there as well. It's just his on stage antics that can grate on people, and they extrapolate that to the rest of his personality

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No way in the world they are winning UCL. They can't perform as a team like for example Manchester City.

I dunno. They never seem to get it together and as a team, they have flaws.

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Would be surprising if PSG didn't win the UCL this year.

I’m imagining him coming to practice semi-drunk and just messing around

80,000 people over 15 days of darts! Bucket list to attend one of these events!

The people on the field are top of the line medical professionals. This isn’t some high school trainer fresh out of college. Crazy you’d think the guys in the sideline would be that clueless when this is their jobs. They knew damn well the situation the second they saw him.

People are interested in how him and Mbape interact.

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Did his mom shoot him out her pussy and score a bullseye on his birth day? He was born to play darts.

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It wasn't like sleep in that sense. I wasn't aware of anything.

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I dont know for sure but I suspect it was a reference to this genius bit of commentary from years past

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o58stoJJ5No

> are not very talented, but managed to train enough to become great.

Heh, John Lowe. Worked though!

> once there is a German icon in darts

You've got a couple of VERY promising guys right now. Max Hopp is going to have to improve his game significantly in order to stay near the top of German players

Dude I can throw a perfect inning, just get my sister up there batting, she'll swing at ANYTHING I strike her out every time. Now have that pitcher hit strike-zone dead centre 9 times in a row - that's the equivalent. Also have him do it under TV lights (if you've ever been on TV you know it's HOT up there) and with a thousand fans screaming in the same room

> Right so basically the bullseye requires more skill than the other spots that are targeted.

I don't think you're looking at it the right way. Sure, the bullseye is smaller and harder to hit, but I wouldn't say it requires more skill. Imagine archery, but the bullseye moves all around the board. That's what this game is. You see them aiming for triple 20 most of the time, but you can't win there. You have to then hit the triple 19, then the triple 12, or if you miss you have to hit different numbers all over the board. If you're just focusing on the bullseye it's much easier to adjust when you're off, but you can't adjust to hitting the double 16 if you haven't thrown there yet.

The dart game Cricket has more emphasis on the bullseye, because you are required to hit it to win, but even that game forces you to hit other numbers as well.

There's been 23 hole in one's at 16 at the masters. 33 hole in one's at Augusta if you include other holes.

There's now been two 9 dart legs in a world final.

There's been 34 televised 300s, 2 of which came in the PBC championship.

Oh, I absolutely agree with you. The coming years may be the best years for Darts ever. Sure, there will never be another Taylor, or Bristow, or Lowe, but those are legends for more reasons than just their talent. But the level of play will be incredible over the next few years, probably better than it ever was. I can't wait to see where the current generation of players will lead us

African or European?

there are still plenty of bullseyes hit in darts though, and a lot of the biggest checkouts require you to finish on it, it’s not like players can just avoid it consistently. i actually think if they were constantly aiming at it at the end of every leg it’d take away from the thrill of when it does get hit.