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General Category => Totally Off-Topic Discussions, Rants, Tire & Oil Threads, Etc. => Topic started by: Lucky_Lou on February 08, 2009, 07:54:28 AM
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To cheer up our freinds down under the England cricket team are allowing the west indies to thrash them lulling our aussie freinds into thinking there going to keep the ashes this summer [smiley=grin.gif]
that got me wondering why our american freinds dont seem to bother with cricket maybe because you can play for five days and still draw....just think of all the add breaks they could fit in between overs. so the question realy is........Do Americans play cricket????
Lou
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Lulling us into a false sense of security? [smiley=ROTFLMAO.gif]
Hell, the Under 9's could beat the Aussies right now....and we don't appear to be the most gracious of losers :(
And the Yanks kinda play cricket - the only thing is that they have this tendancy to play their bats kinda high - like having them over their shoulder and then they only play for something called ...ummm...errr...Innings? ;)
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To cheer up our freinds down under the England cricket team are allowing the west indies to thrash them lulling our aussie freinds into thinking there going to keep the ashes this summer [smiley=grin.gif]
that got me wondering why our american freinds dont seem to bother with cricket maybe because you can play for five days and still draw....just think of all the add breaks they could fit in between overs. so the question realy is........Do Americans play cricket????
Lou
Not very well.
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There may be some small local leagues and I know that some universities have club level (intra-campus, not inter-university) competitions, but generally the answer is "no".
We do like our baseball very much, but we usually consider a 5-hour long game to be too long - I cannot possibly imagine trying to keep up with a game that could span days. Maybe it has something to do with our drinking beer while watching baseball - though I've personally tried a few times, it doesn't do my body well to be drinking for 3 or 4 days straight! I don't know how any of your die-hard cricket fans can hold a steady job?!
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Good luck with your cricket matches !
Also, so sorry to hear of all the damage and deaths from the drought and fires in Australia? Is there any end in sight to the hot, dry weather for you? Maybe that will also
keep the cricket matches shorter - only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun, right ?
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We do fish with crickets. :D
Monte
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A five day match would never make it over here (TV-wise) as it would preempt too many liberally slanted TV shows...
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The good news is that an updated format called 20/20 is gathering momentum 20 overs each side
(an over is 6 balls to the uneducated) the game takes a couple of hours so ideal for tv generally pretty exiting as the players realy have to go for it i think it will draw a lot more fans to the game
Lou
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One of my favorite childhood memories was catching about 50 crappie using gray crickets. Fantastic!
But if you mean the game, about all I know about it is watching it on the BBC when I was posted to Yemen for about 4 years. Not much else to do but read and watch tv (and drink if you could get it) but I got intrigued about watching those guys in the white suits. All I really took away is that you can swing at anything, get to carry the bat with you, and if you hit the ball over the garden hose in the outfield you get to score six runs. In it's way, it's much more civilized than what passes for our collision sports over here like football and basketball.
And just to rant, if a basket ball player get 2 points for a regular basket, and 3 points for a long distance shot, why do they still get 2 points for a slam dunk? Seems to me that if you can do that you should be limited to just one point. But I digress....
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All I really took away is that you can swing at anything, get to carry the bat with you, and if you hit the ball over the garden hose in the outfield you get to score six runs.
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That has to be about the best description of the game that I've had the pleasure to read. I especially like the bit about the garden hose!!!!
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One of my favorite childhood memories was catching about 50 crappie using gray crickets. Fantastic!
But if you mean the game, about all I know about it is watching it on the BBC when I was posted to Yemen for about 4 years. Not much else to do but read and watch tv (and drink if you could get it) but I got intrigued about watching those guys in the white suits. All I really took away is that you can swing at anything, get to carry the bat with you, and if you hit the ball over the garden hose in the outfield you get to score six runs. In it's way, it's much more civilized than what passes for our collision sports over here like football and basketball.
And just to rant, if a basket ball player get 2 points for a regular basket, and 3 points for a long distance shot, why do they still get 2 points for a slam dunk? Seems to me that if you can do that you should be limited to just one point. But I digress....
Slam Dunk??/ is that a biscuit you get from Starbucks??
Lou
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I've caught matches on the satellite dish but even our state side "alternative" sports shows won't broadcast Cricket. I'm not aware of any Leagues here in the South West nor have I seen any games going on in local parks. Soccer, and Rugby league games can be viewed in most parks but I've never run across a test here in the states. I enjoy watching a good game of Rugby but of all the spectator sports I most like National League Baseball [pinch hitting is for Nancy boys]. Pitchers & Catchers report to spring training in just a few days.
rich
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Lou,
I haven't been up there in many years but there used to be cricket matches in Van Cortland Park in the Bronx, NYC. No stadium or anything - just an open field with a lot of other sports going on at the same time.
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Lou,
I haven't been up there in many years but there used to be cricket matches in Van Cortland Park in the Bronx, NYC. No stadium or anything - just an open field with a lot of other sports going on at the same time.
That took me back to my youth jumpers for goalposts and a dustbin for whickets
sighs......then i discovered girls!!!!!! yeh haaa
Lou
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Lou, in all seriousness, with the rapid increase in the Indian population (sub-continent, not native american) in Texas, I've been told that several of the private schools now have cricket teams. I grew up in Texas in an era where you either played football, baseball, or basketball. Soccer wasn't even heard of around here. Beginning in the 1970's and '80's it was introduced as a youth sport and now it's very big here. I suspect that in another 10 or 20 years cricket will become fairly common in this neck of the woods.
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Im sure you are right on this one ... the Indian cricket board(league/whatever) as just "auctioned"players to take part in a new event some getting 1.5 million$ for 6 weeks play
(12 games)wages previously unheard of in the game...recession what recession
Lou
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Umm - isn't this the same place that they were going to lynch a few people (quite literally) because the team lost and the bookies were not happy? I think $1.5m is a mere drop in the ocean for them.
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Wow! I had no idea there were so many teams in North Texas. Check this out. http://www.ntcricket.com/common/pages/public/iv/clubs.aspx?
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Wow! I had no idea there were so many teams in North Texas. Check this out. http://www.ntcricket.com/common/pages/public/iv/clubs.aspx?
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What a good find even the texas rangers have a team.......ill let you into a small secret i am a texas ranger ill put that story in another post with my latest mission!!!
Lou
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Crap, we have enough trouble trying to get most Americans to tolerate watching soccer (football to you blokes overseas), let alone something like cricket!! ;D
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I listen to the BBC at home (they actually talk about what's going on around the world instead of just here in the US, like all the other US based news channels), and they talk about Cricket all the time. Probably would understand it more if I looked up how its played, basic rules,etc. Because I just don't get all them strange terms they use...... ;D ;D
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Crap, we have enough trouble trying to get most Americans to tolerate watching soccer (football to you blokes overseas), let alone something like cricket!! ;D
No, no - I think you have it slightly wrong there.
That ain't football. Football is played with an oval shaped ball between two opposing teams of 18 players each. It was first played in Victoria in 1858. It is called Aussie Rules. ;D
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Come on Aussie dont confuse them even more "aussie rules" cannot be compaired to the beautiful game,
football was being played before the aborigonies saw there first prison ship .......... [smiley=whip.gif] ;) ;)
DeeG
im a big fan of "american"football started watching it in the eighties some of the terms of the game are far more "strange". this super bowl we saw ruffing the holder...what bull***t...the defender is after the ball trying to miss the kicker what a fix that was and not the only iffy ref call.
we was robbed
Lou
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Lulling us into a false sense of security? [smiley=ROTFLMAO.gif]
Hell, the Under 9's could beat the Aussies right now....and we don't appear to be the most gracious of losers :(
And the Yanks kinda play cricket - the only thing is that they have this tendancy to play their bats kinda high - like having them over their shoulder and then they only play for something called ...ummm...errr...Innings? ;)
I thought you were kidding me but ther you go job done
Lou [smiley=beerchug.gif] [smiley=beerchug.gif]
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The Aussies lost the rugby too...we keep the Bledisloe Cup.And their Prime Minister had to wear an All Black tie for the day after losing a bet with our PM.
They couldn't even win the cricket by cheating? Things must be getting tough....
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I've watched Aussie Rules Football quite a bit in the past, and found it fascinating, kind of like rugby with more flair and speed. ESPN used to televise a weekly match in the States, but discontinued it a few years ago, dammit! :(
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Rugby Aussie Rules Football..(which) . I guess this is where this came from.
New Zealand All Blacks Haka.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GpTsPNwwms&feature=related
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The All Blacks play Rugby Union,once a great amateur sport,now sadly ''just another'' professional ball sport.
Tomorrow night the All Blacks play their greatest rival the South African Springboks at Waikato Stadium,half an hour south of me.A good time to avoid Hamilton.
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The All Blacks play Rugby Union,once a great amateur sport,now sadly ''just another'' professional ball sport.
Tomorrow night the All Blacks play their greatest rival the South African Springboks at Waikato Stadium,half an hour south of me.A good time to avoid Hamilton.
Been to Hamilton i used to work for BP i particularly enjoyed Dunedin the nurses were very accommodating as soon as we tied up at the jetty the first phone call was an invite to a party in the nurses accomodation i was there for 3 days(and nights)happy daze.
Lou
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The Springbok's coach has caused a bit of a stir by keeping his team in Australia before the match - saying Hamilton is too boring.He could be right....maybe the truth hurts.
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Aussie just won the ICC in Pretoria with back to back sixes ..... rugby has never interested me although I was once a Birmingham City fan!! ::)
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You forgot the most important part of cricket. You get to bowl a maiden over.
And real football is called Ruby league. Not that arieal ping pong they play in the deep southern states, where men in tight shorts bitch slap each other in the air. However they do produce some of the best acting dives ever created in sport.
Bet that set the cat umonst the AFL pidgeons ::) ;D
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Rugby, the game of geometry, where one man tries to shove two heads up three arses.
I couldn't help but respond, :)
p.s. Carn the cats, premiers for 2009
Actually I've played Aussie rules in younger days, and Rugby Union in later and enjoyed both, but could not never really get into league.
But at 6'3 and 130kgs, I'm a slow lumbering forward, the only position in league I was suited to was the bench. :)