Have you watched cricket?
The sport looks pretty straight forward, I think...
A guy flings a ball to try to knock a stick down.
A dude with a canoe paddle tries to bat the ball away...
There is some running that happens when the batter gets a good whack on the ball.
When the ball gets hit, one of the guys in the field tries to catch it.
Jeebus Pete! Have you every felt a cricket ball? It's a heavy, firm ball with a hard cover and a line of exposed stitches...
The poor bastards in the field have to catch that little red bastard, and they have to do it barehanded... Yowza.
As I watch the whole process during the game it reminds me of the movie "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" and the explanation of the game Whackbat...
"There are 3 grabbers, 3 taggers, 5 twig-runners, and the player at whack-bat. Center tagger lights a pinecone and chucks it over the basket. The whack-batter tries to hit the cedar stick off the cross-rock. the twig-runners dash back and forth until the pinecone burns out and the umpire calls 'hotbox.' then find out out however many score-downs that adds up to and divide that by 9."
Damn, sounds just like cricket.
TBG- ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE
The sport looks pretty straight forward, I think...
A guy flings a ball to try to knock a stick down.
A dude with a canoe paddle tries to bat the ball away...
There is some running that happens when the batter gets a good whack on the ball.
When the ball gets hit, one of the guys in the field tries to catch it.
Jeebus Pete! Have you every felt a cricket ball? It's a heavy, firm ball with a hard cover and a line of exposed stitches...
The poor bastards in the field have to catch that little red bastard, and they have to do it barehanded... Yowza.
As I watch the whole process during the game it reminds me of the movie "The Fantastic Mr. Fox" and the explanation of the game Whackbat...
"There are 3 grabbers, 3 taggers, 5 twig-runners, and the player at whack-bat. Center tagger lights a pinecone and chucks it over the basket. The whack-batter tries to hit the cedar stick off the cross-rock. the twig-runners dash back and forth until the pinecone burns out and the umpire calls 'hotbox.' then find out out however many score-downs that adds up to and divide that by 9."
Damn, sounds just like cricket.
TBG- ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE
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