With luck we may be able to designate it the 'Keith Miller Memorial
Thread.'
AndrewF
On 23/10/2004, at 8:39 AM, John Wheeler wrote:
>
> 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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