At least cricket does offer "World Series" play so to speak whereas the
"Word Series" in the US is the most spuirious use of the phrase imaginable
......... Canada is the only other country in the world.
jh
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Wheeler" <wheelej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, 22 October, 2004 07:39 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: OT GO REDSOX!
>
> Andrew, I suspect you may be inviting the start of a very long thread
> entitled "But What's Cricket?". (Or have we already been down that road?)
>
> John,
> Sydney, Oz.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:Andrew Fildes
>
>
> It's a rather odd game invented by murkins because they can't cope with
> cricket, lacking the patience for a five day game of subtle strategy
> with near infinite variables, many beyond the control of the players
> and organisers. Ken Burns admitted in his fine documentary that it was
> deliberately invented for that reason. These are people who prefer
> games to be short, indoors, high scoring and with lots of opportunities
> for advertising breaks, a taste that isolates them from the general
> international sporting community (the one that plays real football
> rather than a regional novelty code). Heck, they don't even horse race
> on turf much anymore.
> Consequently, they have trapped themselves into a series of
> irrelevancies where car races have turns all in the same direction,
> most people can't play at high level 'cos they're too short or you have
> to change the entire team every five minutes because none of them can
> run more than a few yards every period in full armour plating.
> That said, baseball is about the best of the bunch apart from the
> bizarre tendency to spitting, brawls and very, very bad organ music.
> (or was that basketball?)
> AndrewF
>
> On 21/10/2004, at 10:55 PM, Terry and Tracey wrote:
>
> >
> > What's baseball?
> >
> > Foxy
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >
> >
> > What a series! Some of the most intense baseball I have every seen!
> > Sorry, but I had to say something.
>
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