And chawing and spitting -- which I did. But baseball is the most demanding and
difficult of all sports -- at least the ones where you are allowed to use all
your evolved and useful body parts. Except maybe motocross, though which
doesn't last nearly as long. I've done both, and have the body damage to prove
it.
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "James N. McBride" <jnmcbr@xxxxxxx>
>
> You forgot fondling or scratching balls........their own. /jmac
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Andrew Fildes
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 10:05 PM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: Macro work
>
>
>
> Ken Burns' doco made the point that murkins invented baseball so they
> wouldn't have to play cricket. In those days, games lieterally went
> until they finished - up to nine days sometimes.
> It also allowed them to avoid real international contests and to
> enjoy a game where ungentlemanly behaviour like spitting, disputing
> decisions, all-in brawls and roughing up umpires was the norm rather
> than the career-ending exception.
> Ho hum.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 23/02/2007, at 7:00 AM, Scott Peden wrote:
>
> > Oh come one, I have some Cricket pics...... leaf back crickets,
> > they must be
> > somewhere....... and I have pics of slugs that look like baseballs!
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Americans know nothing about Cricket, English or otherwise. Nobody
> > seems too
> > upset about the lack of that knowledge as the game is considered to be
> > boring. I've never been able to watch it long enough to know. I know
> > baseball is boring, most of the time. /jmac
>
>
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