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Nah. You wrong. Nothing happens in cricket. A bunch of dudes in identical outfits running back and forth down a straight line. They can't even throw the damn ball properly. And a single game of this monstrosity can and will drag on for fucking days!   
Especially damning is the fact that cricket isn't even fun to play. And I'm not just saying that as someone with a tendency to suck at sports, no, I always sucked at soccer, basketball, badminton, bowling and such as well, but they were at least still fun to play for the sake of playing.   

Test cricket is bananas, I will accept, because anything that lasts five days and can still end a draw is by definition stupid, hence my narrowing interesting cricket to limited overs stuff. The batsman having to hit the ball is infinitely more interesting than watching someone looking at a ball being thrown really hard at them, and sometimes he might swing at it.

Cricket is much more interesting than baseball because, at least in limited overs matches, shit actually happens. Though I say that as someone whose biggest experience of cricket has been video games.

Baseball is described as 30 minutes of action stretched over 3 hours, though I forget by whom. The odd thing is the game also goes by faster if nothing is happening.

He does have a good voice, he just... doesn’t do anything with it. He describes what’s happening, as any half-decent commentator can do, sprinkles in the odd stat like he’s just heard it from the state guy like he’s jamming that square peg into the round hole, and doesn’t inject any... I can’t think of a word here, mostly because I don’t know quite what I mean. Life? The kind of thing that if you left the room because you thought nothing was happening, but if you heard it you’d come running back in to see what happened.

Like there are good commentators, your Al Michaels’ and Bob Costas’. I would watch something I have no interest in just because they were commentating on it.

It seems baseball radio commentators are good at what I mean. Your Bob Uecker’s and Vin Scully’s of the world (Scully retired at 88 in 2016, Uecker is 86 and still broadcasts; both bring more to a game than Buck ever could) just bring what they’re talking about to life, they have such passion for it.

I probably shouldn’t try to explain what I mean this early in the morning when I’ve just woken up, but yeah.

Tl;dr Joe Buck is average, there are many better options, but he still gets the best jobs, I am confounded.

In my workplace, there are two Republican voters I’m aware of that appear to think Democrats want to tear newborns from their mothers’ arms and ritually sacrifice them in the name of pro-choice legislation.

On the one hand, I want to challenge them on this to see what they say (by asking them to name one politician who has said late-term abortion should be the law) but on the other hand, ignorance is bliss.

I really don't know if I'll ever be able to touch the highway without feeling bad about my performance afterward.

#tryingtodrivehomeandalmostgoingtoCanada

Considering you got off safely and presumably weren’t an idiot by talking on your phone, you did good.

You good a lot of the time.

(Double-post, as there's clear water, and nobody else yet said anything inbetween.)

Obama has finished his first book.

It's not out until just after this election, though, I suppose because (unlike some people) he knows to keep it classy.


I've also heard a rumour that Trump is about to finish a book he started just after his inaugeration. Something about caterpillars and hunger, apparently..?

Hey man, he aced those cognitive tests. Aced!

Yeah, apparently keeping people from getting sick is less important than getting everyone together to get them sick in the name of tradition.

The shape of that graph looks eerily similar to the Wisconsin graph.