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I have watched many Cricket video games at this point and Downton Abbey. I still have no idea how Cricket works. What a weird sport.
 
It's a pretty simple sport in its fundamentals really. Bowl the ball, hit the ball, run between the wickets to score runs etc. etc.
 
Xater said:
I have watched many Cricket video games at this point and Downton Abbey. I still have no idea how Cricket works. What a weird sport.
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its like baseball but with two bases and its not a wedge its just a circle and youre in the middle

the pitcher bounces the ball off the ground once and you go through the whole batting order every inning

at least thats what i remember from my sri lankan co workers
 
Also as to why bowlers have to run, it's because you're not allowed to bend your elbows so you can't actually generate enough speed from a static position.

Also cricket bowling is so much more interesting than baseball pitching.
 
Antiwhippy said:
Also as to why bowlers have to run, it's because you're not allowed to bend your elbows so you can't actually generate enough speed from a static position.

Also cricket bowling is so much more interesting than baseball pitching.
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That's just crazy talk. Baseball is one of the worst crimes against man in history (mostly because it leads to baseball on the radio, and that shit should be illegal because radios are in cars and I could down a fifth of rum and be more aware and awake than after three minutes of radio baseball), but the amount of skill involved in pitching and the fine control a pitcher has over the ball is amazing.
 
Archaix said:
That's just crazy talk. Baseball is one of the worst crimes against man in history, but the amount of skill involved in pitching and the fine control a pitcher has over the ball is amazing.
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So is cricket bowling.

The fact that you have to bounce the ball means that not only can you manipulate what the ball does in the air (by making it move mid-air), but also manipulate how it behaves when it bounces as well.
 
SteveWinwood said:
its like baseball but with two bases and its not a wedge its just a circle and youre in the middle

the pitcher bounces the ball off the ground once and you go through the whole batting order every inning

at least thats what i remember from my sri lankan co workers
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I learned the fundamentals of Baseball by just watching it happening in films in stuff. Cricket seems more obtuse.
 
ThreePiMatt said:
Didn't they already do a QL of this cricket game? I know they did Ashes, then they did a second game, is this a third cricket QL?
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They played this game during UPF a bit (10 mins), but had no idea what was happening that whole time.

They actually figure stuff out decently well in the QL.

The game is really well made.
 
Archaix said:
That's just crazy talk. Baseball is one of the worst crimes against man in history (mostly because it leads to baseball on the radio, and that shit should be illegal because radios are in cars and I could down a fifth of rum and be more aware and awake than after three minutes of radio baseball), but the amount of skill involved in pitching and the fine control a pitcher has over the ball is amazing.
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This post is a crime against humanity. Baseball has united the United States in ways that sports like football wish they could!

Liamc723 said:
Unfortunately not, Derbyshire. The "erb" should be pronounced like "arb", such as in marble. I don't know why Americans pronounce it literally like "errrr".
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Because when we pronounce things like the Kentucky Derby we pronounce it derrrrr
 
Dragon said:
This post is a crime against humanity. Baseball has united the United States in ways that sports like football wish they could!
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Minor league baseball on the radio has directly lead to more deaths on the road than Saddam Hussein. Look it up. It's true.

And football has united the country more than baseball ever did.
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See that? The entire country is unified in its opinion that the guy running the NFL is a jackass.
 
I always find Americans mispronouncing Anything-shire funny, considering we have New Hampshire and that never, ever gets pronounced Hamp-shire.
 
Cricket is so dumb. Its the baseball of the civilized world.




Also Brad mentioned a documentary about people stranded eating people on a recent bombcast. Anyone got a name for it?
 
This cricket QL is fucking fantastic. Almost cured my hangover. Almost.

Tomorrow should bring two great QLs as well, the background picture for the TMNT QL alone...

Good times.
 
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