18-04-2005 19:14									#31
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quote: Originally posted by MikeH Cricket is about drinking in the sun, there's no actual sporting interest.

Certainly not for spectators- if there was one thing worse than playing, it was watching.

Oddly enough, when I was in Melbourne they actually thought I cared about England being beaten by Australia at cricket. They seemed unwilling to believe I had zero interest in something as profoundly stultifying as cricket.

	18-04-2005 19:23									#32
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quote: Oddly enough, when I was in Melbourne they actually thought I cared about England being beaten by Australia at cricket. They seemed unwilling to believe I had zero interest in something as profoundly stultifying as cricket

First you abandon Singapore, making us sitting ducks for Japanese... then you abandon Commonwealth Preferences for the European Market... and now you're denying us the pleasure of kicking your pale arses at a game of your own invention??? Bastards!

... but we get the last laugh. I quote from the book of Bill Hicks:

"Let me get this straight; you keep the shitty weather and the shitty food, and we get the Great Barrier Reef and lobsters the size of canoes............ I'm Jack the Ripper!!"

	18-04-2005 19:28									#33
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quote: Originally posted by Dracon II First you abandon Singapore, making us sitting ducks for Japanese... then you abandon Commonwealth Preferences for the European Market... and now you're denying us the pleasure of kicking your pale arses at a game of your own invention??? Bastards!

I attribute it to my having had Irish parents- when I had to field out near the boundary, I used to pick a suitable tree or shrub, sit down and read. Useful way to spend three hours of a summer afternoon (after deliberately getting myself out first of course).

	18-04-2005 19:31									#34
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At KFC probably, or maybe buying or stealin a Cadillac Escalade.






Spec.

	18-04-2005 20:03									#35
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quote: Originally posted by molly bloom Certainly not for spectators- if there was one thing worse than playing, it was watching. Oddly enough, when I was in Melbourne they actually thought I cared about England being beaten by Australia at cricket. They seemed unwilling to believe I had zero interest in something as profoundly stultifying as cricket.

I know... there's so much sport in Australia you think they'd have grown out of Cricket too.

	18-04-2005 23:59									#36
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Cricket's history is a proud one. It evolved as an opportunity to give peasants a legitimate excuse to throw very hard missiles at the Squire's head.

	19-04-2005 00:30									#37
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quote: then let every city who wants in the league get a team that way there'd be no more blackmail and the games likely won't cost as much.

Yeah, because that has worked for the NFL. Face it, when you remove the anti-trust exemption you get MORE blackmail of cities. In baseball, Montreal was the first time to move cities since the last Washington team left in 1971 (or abouts).

In football, since 1980, you've had the Raiders move from Oakland to LA and back. You've had the Rams move from LA to St. Louis. You've had the Colts move from Baltimore to Indianapolis. You've had the Browns move from Cleveland to Baltimore (and then an expansion in Cleveland because the owners felt bad about it, but couldn't stop it).

The NFL has been guilty of far more city blackmail than MLB.


Oh, and baseball is the greatest sport on Earth. All else pales.

	19-04-2005 00:58									#38
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*cough*girl's game*cough*

	19-04-2005 01:00									#39
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Funny, I always thought cricket was played by men

	19-04-2005 01:54									#40
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Maybe they're not going because they don't want to support a team that wants a stadium paid for by the D.C. government for the benefit of whitey that will be put in black neighborhoods and gay red light districts which will eventually lead to gentrification of that part of SE DC?

	19-04-2005 02:00									#41
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Black people scare me.

	19-04-2005 02:04									#42
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Are you a shut-in or something?

	19-04-2005 03:36									#43
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It is official; Netcraft confirms: *Baseball is dying

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *Baseball community when IDC confirmed that *Baseball market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *Baseball has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *Baseball is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict *Baseball's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *Baseball faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *Baseball because *Baseball is dying. Things are looking very bad for *Baseball. As many of us are already aware, *Baseball continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

FreeBaseball is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time FreeBaseball developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: FreeBaseball is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

OpenBaseball leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of OpenBaseball. How many users of NetBaseball are there? Let's see. The number of OpenBaseball versus NetBaseball posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 NetBaseball users. Baseball/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of NetBaseball posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of Baseball/OS. A recent article put FreeBaseball at about 80 percent of the *Baseball market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 FreeBaseball users. This is consistent with the number of FreeBaseball Usenet posts.

Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBaseball went out of business and was taken over by BaseballI who sell another troubled OS. Now BaseballI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

All major surveys show that *Baseball has steadily declined in market share. *Baseball is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *Baseball is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *Baseball continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *Baseball is dead.

Fact: *Baseball is dying

	19-04-2005 06:50									#44
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Baseball died for me when they revealed the Isotopes' secret plan to move to Albaquerque.... or however you spell that godforsaken slum....

	19-04-2005 17:19									#45
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quote: Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp *cough*girl's game*cough*

Own goal of sorts.


First played in Great Britain- in 1798, Jane Austen gives a mention to base-ball in the Gothic parody, 'Northanger Abbey'.