Off Topic Sport Other than Football - formerly the Ashes Thread

I quite enjoyed last night's venture into The Hundred. It was competitive up until the last 10 balls or so. It's not cricket though. Kids doing Mexican waves and people whipping up the crowd aren't really me...I'm too old and grumpy.

The major impression was what a massive money spinner the whole thing is. The Oval was PACKED! As it's impossible to park and public transport is so good, the bars were doing major business, as were the food stalls. The drinks were ****ing expensive too - I paid £14 for a pint of IPA and an underwhelming pint of cider. I settled for a bag of peanuts for m'dinner.

The best bit of the evening was meeting an old mate in the bar beforehand. He always had a 'major thing' for Mrs B...and despite putting some time and effort into impressing her, never got anywhere. Eventually he packed up his disappointment and married a child 13 years his junior...who is now divorcing him and taking him to the cleaners

Do the Germans have a word for schadenfreude?

 

Yes, it's epicaricacy.

 

I wonder what the Ancient Greeks call it?

 

My big problem with the hundred is way that a number of cricketing words and terms have been discarded to apparently help those new to cricket understand what's going on - despite the fact that this leaves cricket followers confused.
Not a problem if you're watching live. You need to be more concerned about where Will Jacks is hitting the ball so your £7 pint doesn't get spilled

 

I did not know that. Am I too old to remember it...











...what was I saying?

 

It's modern day 'Bread & Circuses'...
Watering down for the hard of understanding with a short attention span!

 

Are you not entertained?

Therein lies the problem. It's 'entertaining'...but lacks any depth or meaning. For me, all of the glitz, pyrotechnics and show are there to cover up the void at the centre of it all.

...How punk is that?

 

It seems that I'm not the only one to have this very strange memory...

"My wierdest non-Palace memory of SP was a four team, 7-a-side, 10-over cricket competition there under lights in the very early 80s. I think the teams involved were Kent, Surrey, Sussex and probably Middlesex.

I don't remember too much about it, except for Chris Tavare knocking five 6s and a four off the same over. Kent still lost, though."

https://www.cpfc.org/forums/archive/index.php/t-42144.html

...he must have been on the same drug regimen as me.

 

Had a great day in the sunshine at Old Trafford.
The other one.
Watching England bat most of the day before declaring. Stokes & Foakes 100s. Bloody expensive though

 

The tickets or the refreshments?

 

Both
But £6 for a pint of warm lager in a plastic cup

 

In (well, near) Manchester?! I thought the Premier League was bad.

 

What was that weird yellow thing in the sky over Manchester ?

 

A flying saucer

 

Jimmy Anderson just two short of The Devil’s number going into the final Test

 

The Lambert and Butler cup.

 

Cheers!

 

Bairstow injured playing golf and out of 3rd Test and T20 World Cup
Damn

 

Bollox , just our luck

 

This week has mostly involved reading the latest updates to the latest updates about the backstage punchup at AEW's pay per view on Sunday night...