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02/08/2002 8:14 PM
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five bloody days
Arright!!! John Madden talking about blood pudding for five days!
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02/09/2002 12:08 AM
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Y'all've got me wondering: how, then, do announcers of cricket games fill the presumably long stretches of otherwise vacant airtime?If you come over here this (or next) Summer you will see how exciting cricket can actually be. Blink and you could miss some spectacular play!! There are very few stretches between play, btw. Usually fifteen minutes tea in the evening and half an hour lunch during the day. Afterwards, you, me and Faldage can retire to Mulligan's for scoops, as promised. 
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02/09/2002 6:03 AM
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Be fair, Rubrick. (a) Take them to a one-day game. They are not culturally attuned to five-dayers. And (b) take them to a one-day game in Zild or Oz. You may as well show them quality, as well.
Note that a rather weak provincial side in Zild, Northern Districts, walloped the English team this week ... [Shame, shame -e]
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02/09/2002 12:37 PM
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Note that a rather weak provincial side in Zild, Northern Districts, walloped the English team this week ...Well, that's not difficult!!!  As for one-dayers. We usually play evening Taverners (20 overs - no lbw, first ball free, retirement at 20 runs, two-overs bowling per player) games after work and the occasional 40-over (proper rules/laws) at the weekend against a GOOD side. The evening games usually last about three hours and can be watched from the pavilion bar - probably the best cricket grandstand in the world! Such is our standard that we usually win the cricket match but come second in the drinking competition afterwards!  We don't have the time for five-day tests, although it would be great to play in the odd one.!! 
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#55151
02/09/2002 1:11 PM
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And you people go on about us liking cricket ... Anybody notice that this thread now has almost as many cricket posts as football posts?
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02/09/2002 2:13 PM
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almost as many cricket posts as football posts
Ah, let us rejoice in our diversity.
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02/09/2002 2:52 PM
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Ah, let us rejoice in our diversity.
And a couple of baseball posts!
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02/09/2002 4:09 PM
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almost as many cricket posts as football postsAh, let us rejoice in our diversity.Anyway, they're stumps, not posts! 
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#55155
02/09/2002 4:14 PM
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And a couple of baseball posts!
"Are you posting? Yes, you are posting. There's no posts in baseball"
-Tom Hanks, A League of our Own.
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02/09/2002 5:11 PM
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common ground?Perhaps we can all meet on common ground, sometime, for a go at that cricket-to-baseball transitional hybrid, towne ball. But, then, how do we sneak the footballers into this contest?
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02/09/2002 5:34 PM
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Isn't there an Irish game (called "hurley", I think) which has elements of almost all other ball sports, plus total war, in it? Rubrick?
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02/09/2002 6:45 PM
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war?"Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, survival of the fittest." --Ty Cobb"Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill." --Leo DurocherFrom a site called Old School Baseball http://www.bcn.net/~erbiii/, a tantalizing, must-see surf for any baseball enthusiast! or baseball NUT like me Cobb also once said: "Baseball is war."
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02/09/2002 8:19 PM
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a couple of baseball posts
And they haven't been posts since the good old days of town ball.
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02/09/2002 9:27 PM
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Anybody notice that this thread now has almost as many cricket posts as football posts?
Is that football or football???
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02/09/2002 9:36 PM
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02/09/2002 9:42 PM
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Isn't there an Irish game (called "hurley", I think) which has elements of almost all other ball sports, plus total war, in it? Rubrick?Yep. It's called Hurling and the stick that it's played with is called a hurley so you were almost right. Hurling goes back millenia and was played by the high kings' clans as a martial art which evolved into a sport. The most famous tale told about the sport is the story of cúchulain who, as the young Setanta, slew two wild hounds with his hurley. Modern day hurling is played between two teams of fifteen and it is reputed to be the world's fastest team sport. To tie in with yesterday's word of the day the best hurling team in Ireland is Kilkenny (it's played between counties) otherwise known as the Kilkenny cats. I wouldn't know about it having elements of all sports, CapK. It uses a ball roughly the size of a baseball but the stick (hurley) is a unique shape. It is in no way like hockey as the ball is played in the air and NOT on the ground. The field is the same size as a soccer (football) pitch and you can score a goal just like in soccer but you can also score a point just like in rugby/American football by firing over the crossbar. The layout of the field is also unique and, apart from penalties and frees, there are no other similarities with other sports. I've seen a few games and the energy of the sport makes it a frenetic watch but I'd hardly be called an addict. Give me cricket and six nations rugby any day. We seem to be doing quite well in that at the moment, thanks to Wales being completely crap (Sorry, Mav). Bring on the All-Blacks!!!!! 
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02/10/2002 1:00 AM
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>what are the flippers for?
more germane to the issue at hand, which one's the Dummy?
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02/11/2002 2:00 AM
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Number of posts, in the last week, using the name of various sports: 25 cricket13 football (following the season's ultimate game) 10 baseball 3 hockey 2 basketball (which, it should be noted, involves "post play") 1 hurling 1 rugby Gentle sympathies today to poor Sparteye, who had an extemely conflicted day as her beloved MSU Spartans squared off agaisnt her beloved OSU Buckeyes in basketball.
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02/11/2002 4:09 PM
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Isn't there an Irish game (called "hurley", I think) which has elements of almost all other ball sports, plus total war, in it? Rubrick?
Yep. It's called Hurling
The first description I heard of Hurling was "two groups of mad Irishmen, armed with clubs playing a game with few rules."
Sounds like a fun afternoon to me! (said woman of Irish descent - with a big grin!)
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02/12/2002 4:34 PM
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no championship for a New England football team for 42 years!
That's just the period the New England Patriots (current champs) have been in existence.
Last prior pro-football championship for a New England team: Providence Steamrollers, 1928.
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