Sectorgame

Ah. Just checking.

One question: is cricket actually supposed to make sense? And if it is, why doesn't it?

It's like computer techs, what they are talking sounds highly intuitive and technical, when in actuality what they are saying is incredibly simple and easy to understand, they just wrap it up in jargon to make themselves sound more knowledgeable

Moonsword wrote:Ah. Just checking.

One question: is cricket actually supposed to make sense? And if it is, why doesn't it?

No. Best I can tell, it's an excuse to get out the house and drink beer stagnating on a sunny day.

And technically, that's 2 questions.

/me sighs*

Thanks, Hunter; I've been looking for a good one of those for a while.

It really is equally as exciting to listen to. You know, a college mate of mine gets up at insane hours of the morning to watch cricket. And even waits when weather stops play. Crazy...

LMAO.

It does get a bit dull at times, but its like a slow build up of tension to the few exciting moments. I mostly watch the highlights at the end of the day and the final score. It's difficult to watch the whole thing. If its on, I'll occasionally flick over to check up on the score.

At least we don't have to watch grid-iron and baseball. Blah!

Just gimme the Rugby League, mainly the State Of Origin series between QLD and NSW. The occasional game of Rugby Union isn't too bad either.

AFL just sucks balls though, damn ariel ping pong.


While I'm at it, I'll have a go at the yanks bringing over this skycam thing for the Rugby League. They were boasting all about it blah blah blah, then after one match it was never seen again. The pic qual was crap, and rare was there better views than conventional camera work.

Bloody Yanks. *rolls eyes*

Rugby league? Pansies. What's up with all that touch tackle pish, getting tackled and keep the ball?

Grug wrote:At least we don't have to watch grid-iron and baseball. Blah!

Bloody Brits; you wouldn't know a good sport if it hit you in the face. Football employs the most strategy of any sport I've ever seen; every play that's called can be vital to the outcome of the game, and every one of the eleven players has to be performing exactly as they should for things to go right. Plus, there's nothing like watching your quarterback hit your receiver 50 yards downfield, having him completely juke out his defender, and watching him high-step into the endzone. Go Eagles! As for baseball, it's the perfect example of individual efforts being part of the team; with each pitch, with each it, the individual player has to do things right in order for the out to be made. Seeing a great pitcher's duel, with neither side giving an inch, can be a really dramatic thing to see, provided you have enough patience to sit through it. (I wouldn't expect soccer fans to, though, since you need to have constant and purposeless motion in your sports. ) Also enjoyable is one of those slugfest innings where your team just keeps driving in the runs; there's nothing like standing up and screaming with 40,000 other fans when one of your hitters smacks a ball over the fence.

P.S. While I know next to nothing about Australian football, I've seen it a few times on TV, and it looks absolutely insane. People passing the ball around, kicking it 50 yards at a time...I don't understand it, but it looks like it would be a lot of fun to play.

I'm not a bloody Pommy damn it!

And there's no such thing as soccer! It's called Football. The majority of the world calls it Football therefore it is!(Makes sense really, the thing you do most is kick the ball with your foot.)

The sport the Americans call Football is just Rugby with lots of armour on.


(Yes, I am being as violently patriotic as I can manage.)

Top Gun wrote:

Grug wrote:At least we don't have to watch grid-iron and baseball. Blah!

Bloody Brits; you wouldn't know a good sport if it hit you in the face. Football employs the most strategy of any sport I've ever seen; every play that's called can be vital to the outcome of the game, and every one of the eleven players has to be performing exactly as they should for things to go right. Plus, there's nothing like watching your quarterback hit your receiver 50 yards downfield, having him completely juke out his defender, and watching him high-step into the endzone. Go Eagles! As for baseball, it's the perfect example of individual efforts being part of the team; with each pitch, with each it, the individual player has to do things right in order for the out to be made. Seeing a great pitcher's duel, with neither side giving an inch, can be a really dramatic thing to see, provided you have enough patience to sit through it. (I wouldn't expect soccer fans to, though, since you need to have constant and purposeless motion in your sports. ) Also enjoyable is one of those slugfest innings where your team just keeps driving in the runs; there's nothing like standing up and screaming with 40,000 other fans when one of your hitters smacks a ball over the fence.

It's f#####g boring!

Plain..and...simple.

I mean, American football - how pathetic is a sport where they celebrate tackling the opposition? Rugby at least is a proper tough sport.

And baseball is glorified rounders without the fun.

Y'know what the constant motion in football is - effort! That's what you have with a high energy, high fitness, high speed sport. Every run off the ball is tactical, either pulling someone out of position, pushing them into a position, or going down a channel for the ball. None of this needing a wee rest after running a few yards or when you've been tackled, oh no.

Black Wolf wrote:Two? You couldn't score two more bloody runs!


Bloody useless Kasper. f### him off.

Had a problem with me? (Kasper is my real first name, btw.)

The batsman's last name is Kasprovicz or something (pronounced Kasprovitch), but everyone calls him Kasper. And he fucked up and lost the test for Australia, so I was (and still am, to an extent, given the result in the third test) irked.

On another note, Kasper is an unusual first name.