Big Brown? Big Deal!!
05-28-2008, 03:21 AM
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A wicket is an "out" to put it in baseball terms. Behind the batter are three vertical poles about 3 feet high with two horizontal pegs that connect them.
One of several ways to make an "out" or "take a wicket" to be correct, is to bowl the ball past the batter (the bat in cricket is called a bat) and knock the horizontal pegs off the vertical ones. If you hit the "stumps" but the pegs don't fall, you have the classic "sticky wicket". And finally, if you didn't know it, in India, cricket is way bigger than some brown nag with a broken shoe.
One of several ways to make an "out" or "take a wicket" to be correct, is to bowl the ball past the batter (the bat in cricket is called a bat) and knock the horizontal pegs off the vertical ones. If you hit the "stumps" but the pegs don't fall, you have the classic "sticky wicket". And finally, if you didn't know it, in India, cricket is way bigger than some brown nag with a broken shoe.
05-28-2008, 05:40 AM
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I think they still show Australian Rules Football, only now they call it "UFC" or something like that...
Good Sports
05-28-2008, 06:32 AM
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Of course I know that. I've watched cricket and rusting cars is about on the same par. I just thought you guys were a global company. You know, that gay guy with his white board..."it's not international shipping, it's international shipping with UPS". Cricket is huge in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, South Africa, the U.K., N.Z. and Australia. A brown horse is huge in a small segment of the USA for 3 particular days. That's the point I was making.
05-28-2008, 08:15 AM
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Of course I know that. I've watched cricket and rusting cars is about on the same par. I just thought you guys were a global company. You know, that gay guy with his white board..."it's not international shipping, it's international shipping with UPS". Cricket is huge in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, South Africa, the U.K., N.Z. and Australia. A brown horse is huge in a small segment of the USA for 3 particular days. That's the point I was making.
Good luck to Big Brown at the Belmont!
05-28-2008, 08:34 AM
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Wide World of Sports was AWESOME! I did enjoy that, particularly Cliff Diving. Sometimes I do miss the days of only three TV stations. You were forced to watch whatever was shown, but it gave you a greater world-view.
05-28-2008, 08:45 AM
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My favorite was Irish Curling (I think that was what it was called). Basically, a bunch of Mick's, with questionable sobriety, beating the cr@p out of each other with sticks. Hair, teeth and eyeballs mixed with copious quantities of blood. Then, off to the pub to sing profane songs and swill more stout. A beautiful sport by any measure and one where you needn't know the rules to enjoy. Cliff diving? Mexican's in Speedo's right?
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