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Tangle Member Posts: 9516 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 5.1 |
7 down. Put the bubbly on ice.
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Tangle Member Posts: 9516 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 5.1 |
8 & 9. Broad has 10 in the match - wife thinks he looks lovely.
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Tangle Member Posts: 9516 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 5.1 |
All out, England win. Series won. Job done.
Stop panicking now.Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
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Straggler Member (Idle past 96 days) Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: |
Panic over. Rain dance turned into victory jig. When wickets started tumbling I made a hasty exit from work to catch the action in the pub. Just back home now. What a game! Fluctuating tense cricket. Even I think Broad looks lovely at the moment!
Hic
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Straggler Member (Idle past 96 days) Posts: 10333 From: London England Joined: |
I shall be at The Oval in sunny South London for day 3 of the fifth ashes test tomorrow.
Sun cream and sandwiches at the ready. Beers will be consumed. Comedy headgear will be worn. Runs will be scored. England have it all to do after Aus batted for two days to make a score of 500. Bring it on!!!!
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Tangle Member Posts: 9516 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 5.1 |
I'm jealous - have a great day.
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Tempe 12ft Chicken Member (Idle past 365 days) Posts: 438 From: Tempe, Az. Joined: |
You gotta know what a crumpet is...
Honestly, I do have no idea about Cricket, but from what someone said earlier in the thread not getting the jargon makes sense. I have spent quite a bit of time trying to explain the rules and the language of baseball to individuals who did not understand it well. If I were to say someone after a play who had not watched baseball, "Wow, that was a sweet 6-4-2" they would have very little idea that I was discussing the fact that the ball was caught by the shortstop, thrown to the second basemen for out number one, then thrown to the first baseman for the second out, or better known as a 6-4-2 double play. However, with someone who knows baseball and its lingo, I would not have to explain the double play part, they would already understand it. Plus, there are the signals being given from the management staff at all times, trying to decode those is tough even for someone who watches it a lot. These guys are talking simply through pre-planned hand gestures and tapping. Try to figure that out without the understanding of the game. Lol. On that note, is there something similar in Cricket to the hand signals used in baseball to tell a batter whether to bunt, swing, aim for a walk, crowd the plate, or any other option required at the time? *Could not get the video to load in message, you will have to follow the link for the awesomeness contained therein.*The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity. - Richard Dawkins Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. - Issac Asimov If you removed all the arteries, veins, & capillaries from a person’s body, and tied them end-to-endthe person will die. - Neil Degrasse Tyson What would Buddha do? Nothing! What does the Buddhist terrorist do? Goes into the middle of the street, takes the gas, *pfft*, Self-Barbecue. The Christian and the Muslim on either side are yelling, "What the Fuck are you doing?" The Buddhist says, "Making you deal with your shit. - Robin Williams
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xongsmith Member Posts: 2587 From: massachusetts US Joined: Member Rating: 7.0 |
Straggler notes:
England have it all to do after Aus batted for two days to make a score of 500. See? That's just a ridiculous kind of magnitude for a score. - nate - xongsmith, 5.7d
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NoNukes Inactive Member |
"Wow, that was a sweet 6-4-2" they would have very little idea that I was discussing the fact that the ball was caught by the shortstop, thrown to the second basemen for out number one, then thrown to the first baseman for the second out, or better known as a 6-4-2 double play. Actually, nobody would get it because you've bollixed up the numbering system. I doubt you've ever seen a 6-4-2 DP. The first baseman is '3' not '2'. The catcher is '2'.Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. Thoreau: Civil Disobedience (1846) I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.Richard P. Feynman If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. Frederick Douglass
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Tangle Member Posts: 9516 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 5.1 |
Tempe writes: On that note, is there something similar in Cricket to the hand signals used in baseball to tell a batter whether to bunt, swing, aim for a walk, crowd the plate, or any other option required at the time? No. There are always two batsmen at the wicket all the time so they just walk up to each other and have a chat. Instructions are also sent out from the dressing room when drinks are taken.Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
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Tempe 12ft Chicken Member (Idle past 365 days) Posts: 438 From: Tempe, Az. Joined: |
NoNukes writes: Actually, nobody would get it because you've bollixed up the numbering system. I doubt you've ever seen a 6-4-2 DP. The first baseman is '3' not '2'. The catcher is '2'. You are correct, and I feel slightly dumb for making that mistake. I knew something looked wrong in it and kept looking trying to figure it out, but I think my mind was far too much on the work I was supposed to be doing. Lol. My fault, I intended to say 6-4-3...correction made! The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity. - Richard Dawkins Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. - Issac Asimov If you removed all the arteries, veins, & capillaries from a person’s body, and tied them end-to-endthe person will die. - Neil Degrasse Tyson What would Buddha do? Nothing! What does the Buddhist terrorist do? Goes into the middle of the street, takes the gas, *pfft*, Self-Barbecue. The Christian and the Muslim on either side are yelling, "What the Fuck are you doing?" The Buddhist says, "Making you deal with your shit. - Robin Williams
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Tangle Member Posts: 9516 From: UK Joined: Member Rating: 5.1 |
Looks like you're having a nice day in terms of weather, but batting is sloooooow.
Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
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1.61803 Member (Idle past 1534 days) Posts: 2928 From: Lone Star State USA Joined: |
So game 6 at Fenway. Sox and Cards to end the series in Beantown. What a great world series this has become, especially since Boston is up. So any baseball fans out there?
Can you believe the pitching on both sides? Gotta love that baseball. "You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative" William S. Burroughs
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9202 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.4
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This is going down as one of the great series of all time. I am a huge baseball fan and a huge Red Sox fan.
Now Victorino and Stephen Drew are hitting. Things are looking good.Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.
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Theodoric Member Posts: 9202 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: Member Rating: 3.4
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Great series.
Great pitching. Lots of clutch hitting.Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness. |
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