GrizzWalds - Aussie Indoor/Outdoor - Choose Your Own Adventure

Yeah, that about sums it up Grizz. LOL

Although mine goes from -50 to +10. Wrap your head around that one.
 
Dennise said:
You should be from the USA and read one of you guys conversations... I'm not even sure your speaking english...:).....:circle-of-love:
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Try explaining cricket to an American! I once tried to explain it to a Swedish woman I was sitting next to on a plane.. Talk about grinding out 2-3 L-O-N-G H-O-U-R-S...

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PS Dennise Cricket is a bat/ball game that can go for 5 days, and still be a draw.....Is a religion in India. Actually has a cult following in the USA.. Is popular in all ex British colonies except the US and Canada, although both have national teams that play in the Cricket World Cup. Canada is not too bad.. Afghanistan was the surprise talent from last world cup...

Grizz.. So you're a Mexican... (south of the border for you non-Aussies). You got Bill Lawry and Warney! Awesome!
I grew up in FNQld; Aussie rules was popular, but not with everyone... League territory up there.. I can watch, tho'. Fit buggers! Big field to be running around non-stop for almost 2 hours! Gotta respect that.
 
Swedish, fair chance....I lived in port Douglas for a year, 2000...drove my boss 's car into a parked car, blind, thought I better leave, lol. 40 days if I go back. I need to find out when they have a fine amnesty, so I can pay them and take my daughter to the theme parks without stress, lol.... Aaron finch is from where I live now. Glen maxwell is from where I grew up...
Dennise, I'd say you guys turned cricket into baseball...
 
That baseball is based on English and Irish games such as cat, cricket, and rounders is difficult to dispute. On the other hand, baseball has many elements that are uniquely American. The earliest published author to muse on the origin of baseball, John Montgomery Ward, was suspicious of the often-parroted claim that rounders is the direct ancestor of baseball, as both were formalized in the same time period. He concluded, with some amount of patriotism, that baseball evolved separately from town-ball (i.e. rounders), out of children's "safe haven" ball games.[22]

"Certainly baseball is related to cricket and rounders, but exactly how, or how closely, has not been established. The only certain thing is that modern cricket is much older than modern baseball, and that cricket was very popular in colonial America and the early United States, fading only with the explosive popularity of New York baseball after the Civil War. There was also "wicket," a countrified form of cricket which retained the old-fashioned wide, low two-stump wicket, and in which the ball was rolled along the ground. Baseball also owes to cricket some adopted terminology, such as "out," "innings" and "umpires." " Wikipedia.


It's actually interesting history; Aussies and Yanks have the same origin, but turned out so similar and different at the same time..
The British originally planned to send convicts to America.. Australia (the continent) was known about, but very a very expensive option as it would start from scratch and was so far away; the Brits already had the good ol' US of A up and running and ready. But some of the locals dis-agreed with that idea: Convicts are expensive to keep, slaves are not....
 
And for the record, that wasn't meant as a dig at our American friends!!
That was all a long time ago!!

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History is just that isn't it, history... I forgot all about rounders, actually thought it was just a primary school game... 35 here today, taking the girl to the pools then she wants to go to a restaurant and have people bring us food. 4 years old, lol, all her plans....
 
Ahh to be young again and desire such easy to obtain luxuries! I like people bringing me food, but I don't like paying for it! Besides, the missus does it for free!
Cooler up here finally last day or 2; raining today(good excuse to bludge indoors), expected top of 29. Best news is overnight lows of 19, so can sleep for for once this week! I'm predicting another cold-ish winter (for us up here, last year was FREEZING..sometimes got down to 5 at my place) as I reckon we didn't get much of a summer; at least, not by Qld standards anyway. Esp. after last few years...
PS loving Maxwell at the mo. A year or two ago I thought 20/20 was gonna destroy test cricket.. I love to watch it but the batting style of swinging at everything was never gonna translate to tests... Good to see Maxwell and others maturing and realising that test matches are long-term tactical and not every delivery can be a six... I don't think I ever played rounders; was either cricket, or French cricket, or tipsy-run, or mini-cricket which was huge at my school (I'm almost 45yo) - same rules as tipsy but with tiny bats and tennis balls..
 
Mate I hated 20/20 up until this Big Bash took off. I'm actually loving it now. I can see that competition growing and having a proper season of it. They are getting afl size crowds at MCG and I think are getting later than league crowds at Sydney and Brisbane... Awesome for cricket Australia. Think what the biggest crowd would have been between state cricket before 20/20..I was at the mcg late 90's watching vic v w.a, five mates the scorers and lunch lady was the whole crowd, lol...
 
Crazy, right? 30-40-50 thousand at every game. They say you could fill the 'G for a game of marbles, you Vics love sport that much; but the other grounds are getting similar numbers so great to see. Love Freddie Flintoff commentating! Kids are actually into cricket again, which is great for cricket. CA will be loving things at the moment.. Different story 2 years ago! Are you a Clarke lover or hater?? I liked him, and feel bad in general about how they pushed him out. Bit of a black mark against CA for mine.. Maybe he is a bit of a wanker but christ; he knows cricket.. Besides, all the shit he supposedly did was trivial crap, when he was in early twenties... Not too many blokes I ever knew, including myself, were NOT a wanker at that age.... And I don't reckon he is a wanker. I reckon he's just serious. I like that he left school early to chase his career. And he made it to Captain of Australia. (A VERY BIG DEAL here, Dennise!). Then got run off due to misguided public opinion....
Sorry.. Bit of a rant..
 
Superbowl?
 
Just kidding. Go Broncos!!
 
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