I watched quite a bit of it while I was in the States
Didn't get a lot of choice, if there was a game on, it was on telly. I tried to like it, I really did. I just never once felt like I understood it. It just looked like a confusing and fractured game where the object seemed to be to inflict as much pain as possible on the opposition, and incidentally move a ball around a bit.
Baseball on the other hand, I took to in a way that probably only a cricket fan could.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 21 Sep 2012, 22:16,
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Cricket is easy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEH4ahCCrJo
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 21 Sep 2012, 22:49,
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That's easily explained.......
One team is in and one's out. The team that's out tries to get the team that's in out. Then the team that's out go in and the team that's in goes out and tries to get the the team that was out but now in, out.
The one with the most runs, wins.
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NooShmoo It's a fantazmagorical pile of ultra bollocks, Fri 21 Sep 2012, 22:56,
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What if one of them is offside?
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Fri 21 Sep 2012, 23:01,
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Usually, about half of them will be offside at any one point
The other half will be leg side. This only goes for the team that aren't 'in', as most of them will be inside, either out or not out.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 21 Sep 2012, 23:15,
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Of course...
..it's so simple!
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Fri 21 Sep 2012, 23:17,
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Just like rugby then
I have NO fucking clue what's going on in a rugby match
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I bloody love baseball
It is basically what cricket would be if you wanted people to watch it.
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gaijintendo Regular Member, Sat 22 Sep 2012, 15:40,
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