S word? soccer?
if it really is soccer......i understand y

- Wolf_Demon - aka wolfy, wolf, king of odd, king of spam, and twonk

*shudders* I don't believe it! After the number of times everyone has been been told not to say it, what happens! *shakes head* Some people will never learn...

My gap year in Borneo

Ok i was wrong to use the "S" word. Sorry for what i have created here. Ill use my second language im learning and it shall be known as Fussball whenever i speak it.
As for the Man U question. I live in the US but ive been a fan of Man U for a long time. Its not one of those i like them because they won the premiership kinda things.

well sooorrrry! i just wanted to know what 'S' word, and retardball was the only 'S' word there.
(my brother and sister both play it)
*shudders at the thought of going out of town to watch their games*
whoever came up with that sport should have been inprisoned
and whoever came up with wine and beer should have been stoned to death
and the first Native American that smoked tobacco should have been run off a cliff
and all the cigarret factories should be condemned

- Wolf_Demon - aka wolfy, wolf, king of odd, king of spam, and twonk

I'm sorry I used the 'S' word I didn't know it was
bad! Its just was we call it over here...

Cricket is only enjoyable to play if your good at it 'cause
if your not then you hardly bowl and bat way down the
order. Backyard cricket is fun though

Its not a bad game to watch except test matches get abit
boring.

Edited by - dark_reaper on 1/29/2004 8:34:00 PM

but y is that word "wrong" to say?

- Wolf_Demon - aka wolfy, wolf, king of odd, king of spam, and twonk

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Its not a bad game to watch except test matches get abit boring

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will someone explain to me this fascination about cricket? its the most boring sport ever invented....in fact, I RESENT calling it a sport. If a player moves quickly for 30 seconds every half hour does that constitute a sport? Next you'll be trying to convince me that you have to be fit to play it.

Cricket, shhmicket....what a load of ****.

ok grom I will tell you,
you do need to be fit to play cricket.

Take bowlers for instance, a fast bowler have along run up
of about twenty meters or so and they bowl at speeds of
over 100kph six time a over for ten overs would get pretty
tiresome. You don't need to be as fit as you would be for
other sports, bet a decent level of fitness is required.

Cricket is hardly a great spectator sport though is it? I guess you get value for money in terms of how long you are "entertained" for, but the game is played so slowly and without any fluidity, making it completely boring. I mean sure its kinda incredible to watch the ball fly real fast like that, but if you want that, watch tennis or squash or something like that. The batsman make attempts to hit the high spped fast ball, then trot up and down a short length in thick armour. Meanwhile the fielders do about the only exciting bit ie running after the ball and trying to catch it and get it back as soon as possible, but even then, that only really gets interesting on the few occasions the batsman manages a good hit.
It's similarly boring to play unless you're a bowler and get to throw the ball regularly. As a fielder you stand around, hoping the ball will actually come your way sometime. As a batsman you get to try and hit the ball and hope that you don't get the ball in your crotch, because no matter how well padded it is its still gonna hurt.
I gotta hand it to the Americans, baseball is a perfect substitute, at least the batters have the objective of the home run urging them to make a very speedy long distance run. There are more tactics involved doing things like loading the bases and stuff like that. Plus no-one trots around and spends an age wiping the ball and taking tea-breaks.

how can anything be called a sport that DOESN'T have tea-breaks? All civilised societies and activities have tea-breaks, which also involve sauasage sarnies, pies, cakes and crumpets. And lemonade for the kids. And Bovril if it's winter.

Baseball is very much an in-stadium spectator experience. The whole game, for a spectator, is a tea break.

Now days, each venue has special foods representative of the best the local cultural influences available. All kinds of great germanic and slavic sausages in Chicago and Milwaukee, neat Hispanic and Mexican inspired foods in Houston and Miami, etc. etc.

The players don't need tea breaks because when the other side is on the field, they all sit in the dugout to await their turn at bat. While waiting, they can slip back into the locker room, get a rub down or just sit in the dugout and chew on stuff, tobacco, beef j-e-r-k-y, pumpkin seeds, hot dogs, anything .... depending on the team coach's edicts.

Edit> Hmmmm the automated censor seems to have a problem with a type of food I am trying to describe.

Edited by - Indy11 on 1/30/2004 10:38:41 AM

where's the scones, the butter, the jam? where's the sugar lumps and silver-plated tongs? that's a day out in some plasticky mall you're describing, not a sunny afternoon on Wolstanton Marsh, at Porthill Cricket Club (oddly enough a whole 30yards away from my house) during wasp-infested summer..

Cricket is to "baseball" as crown green bowling is to "bowling" as rugby league is to "american football " and it's not the winning, it's the taking part.

The only sport I have ever watched, if you want to call it a sport, is auto raceing, paticularly the Winston Cup series.

Finalday

Until that final day. /Keith Green
Edited by - Finalday on 1/30/2004 11:16:54 AM

"Winning isn't everything. It's the ONLY thing" - Vince Lombardi, former American Grid Iron Football coach and National Football League Hall of Famer.