Seems that it takes a few more brains to play cricket than it does to play baseball;
As cricket was explained to me;
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's on the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!
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Seems that it takes a few more brains to play cricket than it does to play baseball;
As cricket was explained to me;
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's on the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!
Fred
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Seems to me all those popular home improvement shows are just that - watching paint dry! I like baseball except "pitcher's duels". I like to see lots of hits! What I find really boring is watching golf on tv.
I cannot comment upon baseball because I've never watched it, although from descriptions I've read it appears to be a bit like rounders played by teams who are taking steroids. Watching cricket is very much like watching TV (especially the commercial TV channels) - there is always something far more interesting to be done.
I think that depends who you're with at the game. When I went to Ebbets Field to see the Dodgers play when I was a little kid, I was caught up in his excitement and the energy of the fans. It wasn't a fast game, but it was fun to anticipate what was going to happen and hear the cheers when you're team did something good.
Now I think the game has changed and it's become a group of guys on steroids who make gazillions and don't particularly love the game and seem to treat it as just a well paying job.
Some of the games I went to had terrific 'teas' - that was about it.
I expect you would be in trouble for alluding to rounders, except probably most over here don't know what rounders is, or who plays it, and they are all away celebrating July 4.
I live a few blocks from Tradition Field which is the winter home of the New York Mets. As a matter of fact, we have to leave 15 minutes early later today to get to a local restaurant because there's a farm team game tonight and a fireworks thing that will make my dog bark and jump around wondering what's happening. Fromt he amount of cars going to the game, I guess people still like it.
We're always bumping into the players in restaurants and stores and like with most things, some of them are really nice guys and others act like big shots.
The minimum salary these days is six figures. With that as perspective, I'm sure you'll get just as big a laugh as I did out of one guy (who thought he was worth more than he was getting) complaining about having to play "for free".
Well, if he was working for "free", then just consider what the rest of us who don't make six figures could complain about having to do for "free".
Being a wordsmith, one of the things that amuses me between cricket and baseball is the word "innings". In cricket, innings is a singular noun; you play an innings. In baseball, innings is a plural noun; you can play half an inning.
A very boring game that schoolgirls play in UK. Sort of similar to baseball inthat you have to hit the ball with a stick, and run around bases IIRC.........it is a zillion of years since I played it at school!
I always enjoyed watching cricket, as long as it wasnot a test match, which went on for days! I used to go to Lords with my dad and watch Middlesex play. Also back in the dark ages! I remember having a crush on Denis Compton..........how time flies LOLOL
Gillian, now in beautiful, cool north-central New Hampshire!
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Hi there Gillian, glad all is well. I do remember Denis Compton, wasn't he the man with the bowler hat ?? I hated rounders, we played that in summer, also tennis and swimming. I did everything I could to concentrate and get picked for the tennis and swimming.
A game which is reputed to be more genteel than baseball. However, when I was at school it (and hockey) was played by some very, very scarey girls who probably thought Margaret Thatcher was a bit of a wimp.
That sounds a lot like what we called softball, which was a version of baseball but with a softer ball and supposedly easier rules. For some reason or other, maybe because I couldn't see the ball to hit it, I was always chosen last to play.
Let's face it English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend, that you comb thru annals of history but not a single annal? If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you have left - and odd or an end?
If teachers taught, why didn't preacher praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by car and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and wise guy are opposites? How can overlook and oversee be opposites, while quite a lot and quite a few are alike? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?
Have you noticed that we talk about certain things only when they are absent? Have you ever seen a horseful carriage or a strapful gown? Met a sung hero or experienced requited love? Have you ever run into someone who was combobulated, gruntled, ruly or peccable? And where are all those people who are spring chickens or who would actually hurt a fly?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which an alarm clock goes off by going on.
English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn't a race at all). That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this post, I end it???? >G<
Fred
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On the two occassions that I tried to play cricket the batter almost took my head off. Needless to say I was a fast learner and never tried again. Only mad dogs and englishmen ...........
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