Maybe later today or this weekend depending on the weather.Q @Qat
here's a documentary on the most dominant pitching performance I've ever seen.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWbQyRAvZRc
give it a shot and see if it draws you in
A friend and I have an in joke with each other. Any random moment one of us will say, "Remember: the shape shifter could be anyone- or anything."Yeah that was trash, was prolly the closest towards "it might be" when it comes to actual superstition in ST. Meanwhile Q would wipe his ass with the prophets.
I watched David Wells' PG at broadcast. Dominant.Q @Qat
here's a documentary on the most dominant pitching performance I've ever seen.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWbQyRAvZRc
give it a shot and see if it draws you in
If you were in a Commonwealth country, would you attend a cricket game and learn about strategy? Cricket doesn't have managers as such, on-field tactics and strategy are left to the team captain and senior players. Field placements and bowler (pitcher) rotation are crucial.Impossible to explain it all.
By no means am I saying the players are all smart. Some are dumb as shit and are there strictly because they have the unique skill of hitting a 98 mph fastball thrown from 60'6" away.
But the battles between pitcher/catcher and hitter are fascinating to watch. Every at bat is a game of cat and mouse.
And managerial decisions from defensive positioning or when to execute substitutions or hit-&-runs. Double switches. Each game has 5 or 6 butterfly effect decisions that can change who wins and who loses.
If you watched a game with me you'd understand. Or you'd just yell "Shut the fuck up" at me like my wife does.
100%If you were in a Commonwealth country, would you attend a cricket game and learn about strategy? Cricket doesn't have managers as such, on-field tactics and strategy are left to the team captain and senior players. Field placements and bowler (pitcher) rotation are crucial.
For instance, here is a highly aggressive field placement, with everybody crowded around the defensive minded batsman who is struggling to survive:
And here is a more standard placement.
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There's no way to say it without sounding like a massive prick...... but everything you like about baseball, cricket has dialed it up. The best form of the game is the Test match. A two-team series generally lasts five matches. Each match is scheduled for five days, and will last for between three and five days. About 20% of matches end in a draw, and a 5 day draw can be a legitimately dramatic, thrilling and satisfying outcome.100%
I've watched some of that sport on TV. It isn't on very often over here, and I didn't understand what the fuck was happening - but it still held my interest.
You lost me there.About 20% of matches end in a draw
Ah, see, you don't know. ?You lost me there.
There should never be ties in sporting activities.
So what is a draw if it's not a tie?Ah, see, you don't know. ?
A draw is not a tie. A tie is a possible result in a cricket Test match, but it has only happened twice in over 2,000 Tests and almost 150 years.
Think of it like a cagefight. You can have one guy wins a decision 4 rounds to 1, and it can still be a classic fight if one guy wins the first 4 rounds, then gets dropped hard early in the 5th and spends the rest of the round desperately trying to survive to hear the decision.
A Test cricket draw is often like that. One team has been outplayed over five days, but they fight hard and show grit and determination. It can be straight up thrilling when the game is 4 and a half days old, there's two hours left and only three batsmen left, and they have to batten down the hatches and survive - scoring runs becomes meaningless and irrelevant, the task is simply to survive and run out the clock while the bowling team desperately throws everything at them against the background of a ticking clock.
A five-day draw can be very satisfying if one team played better cricket, but the other team fought harder. And Test cricket is a real test of endurance and grit and mental resilience. ?
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Nope, just one game. ?So what is a draw if it's not a tie?
How is a draw different than a win?
Or are you talking like a series? Like the Reds played the Cardinals 4 games over 4 days. Reds won 2 games with scores of 6-3 and 10-1; the Cardinals won 2 games with scores of 3-2 and 1-0
The series was split as each team won 2 and lost 2.
This was deep into the Reds vs Cubs game last month.Fake news.
Game hasn't started.
Okay I watched it till the end.Q @Qat
here's a documentary on the most dominant pitching performance I've ever seen.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWbQyRAvZRc
give it a shot and see if it draws you in
Fake news.This was deep into the Reds vs Cubs game last month.