Bloody hell, is this thread still going?

comment by fridgeboy (U1053)
posted 9 seconds ago
Bloody hell, is this thread still going?


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One of the better threads on this forum recently tbh.

comment by Alisson Becker, Liverpool's Number 9 (U3979)
posted 11 minutes ago
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 10 minutes ago
comment by Alisson Becker, Liverpool's Number 9 (U3979)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 20 seconds ago
Slips is easier than the covers in my opinion. The ball comes quickly but it's generally straight forward reflex catches. You just want the person with the safest hands there.

The most difficult place to field is point / backward point. When the ball comes at you there it comes off the face of the bat with no pace taken off it. It generally has spin on the ball too which you have to factor it. It's why the likes of Collingwood, Jonty Rhodes and Trevor Penny (the best fielder I have seen when he played for Warwickshire) all fielded in that position.
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I guess the difference in fielding positions is, close in once you've fielded it your job is basically done. Where as in baseball at third base for example off a right handed hitter you can take the ball at well over 100mph, field it, then you've got make a throw 127 feet to 1st base all before the batter can run there which is about 4.3 seconds on average.
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I think its similar in that you might have to have a shy at the stumps to run someone out. You also might have a chase on if it goes past you and there is no deep fielder. In cricket though you only really have two options on ends to throw it. Baseball I guess they have to process more before deciding where to go.

They all get gloves though, so the degree of difficulty on the first bit is reduced.
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Oh 100% I wouldn't pretend otherwise, having a glove is WAY easier.

But don't forget baseball players fire the ball at eachother at 90+ mph (the only cricket player that receives a ball like this s the wicket keeper who does wear gloves...), when I went to Lords I saw then looping the ball to eachother!
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You've never had to back up when someone is pinging the ball up the stumps for a run out. I broke my finger doing that once, stopping overthrows when someone missed.

Worst injury I saw was one game when I was fielding in the covers and my brother was fielding point. Our opening bowler came in bowling at about 80mph. The batsmen cut the ball straight at my brother. He stopped it and then came walking towards me leaving the ball on the floor. We were all shouting at him to throw it in and he just when 'I think I've broke my thumb'. He took his hand away to show me and the bone was sticking out the skin. Pretty horrific.

Luckily my parents had come to watch so could take him straight off to hospital.

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I've dislocated my finger in a game before as well. Fortunately, the umpire was a surgeon that game so he popped it back in for me.

I remember going out to bat without a box. Luckily I was out within a few overs before I got struck!

I've only ever been struck on the box once that I cam remember. It didn't seem to help much.

comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 23 minutes ago
I've only ever been struck on the box once that I cam remember. It didn't seem to help much.
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My pads were the part of accessories that normally got hit!

I remember playing catch with a nephew using a cricket ball once, i was amazed how much it hurt after a couple of minutes.

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comment by Cinciwolf---Wolves transfer strategy is brilliant, cautious, cautious, cautious, kid for 35 million, cautious, cautious, cautious. (U11551)
posted 20 minutes ago
I remember playing catch with a nephew using a cricket ball once, i was amazed how much it hurt after a couple of minutes.
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At the start of every season, it takes a few games for your hands to get used to catching again. The first outdoor training session your hands tend to sting pretty much every time you stop or catch something. Particularly as the weather hasn't warmed up yet at that point.

Have that to look forward to in April.

And Ice Hockey is the only sport which is tricky to follow the object to me, i don't have any issues in cricket or baseball.

comment by Cinciwolf---Wolves transfer strategy is brilliant, cautious, cautious, cautious, kid for 35 million, cautious, cautious, cautious. (U11551)
posted 15 minutes ago
And Ice Hockey is the only sport which is tricky to follow the object to me, i don't have any issues in cricket or baseball.
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went to an NHL game years ago in Tampa.. couldnt see a thing. was still fun though

Really? I find it super easy to follow the puck in person. On tv tho….might as well be watching rough figure skating.

comment by Two Balls, One Saka (U19684)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by GTWI4T- some people deserve to get trolled (U6008)
posted 4 minutes ago
comment by Two Balls, One Saka (U19684)
posted 9 hours, 15 minutes ago
comment by Alisson Becker, Liverpool's Number 9 (U3979)
posted 7 minutes ago
comment by GTWI4T- some people deserve to get trolled (U6008)
posted 5 minutes ago
comment by Two Balls, One Saka (U19684)
posted 1 minute ago
It's a complete mess but one of the most exciting sports I've watched is Australian Rules Football.

Baseball live is similar to cricket, it's like watching a puppet show of sport because you can't see the ball most of the time. I get people are often there just to get drunk and have fun with friends while the sport is on in the background but the sports themselves are probably better on TV (and they're still often only exciting about 5% of the play time, if you're lucky).

Tennis can be excellent although you often get very one sided games which isn't great. It suffers from not being a team sport as well, people do follow certain players but even with the current goats having all played in one era it feels like it's barely got more popular. The women's game is excellent in comparison to other sports and seems to provide a lot more upsets which can add to the entertainment.

As cheesy as it is the Netflix F1 program has done wonders for the sport by showing how it's not all about winning. Due to budgets, just like in football it never can be but in F1 you get a better feel for how much it means for a lesser team just to score a few points during an entire season. That side of sport is definitely missed most of the time and maybe other sports could learn from telling the story of the sides who aren't necessarily winning but are fighting just as hard and may even be significantly out performing everyone else in terms of relative performance.

Sport and excitement can be found in almost anything though, especially/particularly if you can muster up some sort of emotional interest in one or both of the competitors
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You can't see the ball most of the time at cricket? Only time you can't see it is when the bowler is running in. You can see it the whole time it is in "play".
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You can also see it in baseball other than when the pitcher is concealing it from the batter.

Feel like this guy has never watched either sport...
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I've watched both on TV and live in stadiums. Watched the Boston Redsocks and the England Cricket team FFS

For the cricket we were close to the pitch and could still hardly see the ball unless it came our way (or eventually slowed down somewhere) or was bowled by a spinner.
Baseball was so rubbish though, the crowd did nothing bar the "here we go" song and despite not being in terrible seats you couldn't see feck all most of the time, just a swing and a miss.
Being behind the wickets/pitcher would help I guess but most of the crowd isn't.

And no I wasn't drunk... At the beginning at least!

Like I said in the original comment you can get into anything with some emotional attachment, even cockroach racing, chess or something as dross as baseball
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You not being able to see the ball probably says more about you.
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Assume you've never actually watched these sports live. I was not alone in this issue, loads of people around us were saying the same thing (we were all surprised), the regulars just said it was normal
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You're lying.unless you're blind. How can you not see a baseball at a baseball game.
Can you see the football in a football match?

comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 2 hours, 29 minutes ago
comment by Cinciwolf---Wolves transfer strategy is brilliant, cautious, cautious, cautious, kid for 35 million, cautious, cautious, cautious. (U11551)
posted 20 minutes ago
I remember playing catch with a nephew using a cricket ball once, i was amazed how much it hurt after a couple of minutes.
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At the start of every season, it takes a few games for your hands to get used to catching again. The first outdoor training session your hands tend to sting pretty much every time you stop or catch something. Particularly as the weather hasn't warmed up yet at that point.

Have that to look forward to in April.
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You're lucky with April, baseball winter training starts in January for us

The catching is mostly fine unless you catch it on the thumb (glove barely provides any protection for that) but the hitting in January is like being stung by a pack of wasps

Winter training has started. Starts in January too but it's indoors and mostly batting and bowling in the nets and technique stuff. It never prepares you for the proper outdoors stuff, with the high catches and ball being hit hard at you.

I've recently moved to Somerset and am about to go training with a new team for the first time this week. I'm in my 30s and still get proper nervous about training with a team for the first time.

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comment by GTWI4T- some people deserve to get trolled (U6008)
posted 3 minutes ago
comment by Tamwolf (U17286)
posted 16 minutes ago
Winter training has started. Starts in January too but it's indoors and mostly batting and bowling in the nets and technique stuff. It never prepares you for the proper outdoors stuff, with the high catches and ball being hit hard at you.

I've recently moved to Somerset and am about to go training with a new team for the first time this week. I'm in my 30s and still get proper nervous about training with a team for the first time.
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I've been with the same team since I was 8 so very much part of the furniture... I can imagine how nervous I'd be going to a new team. It's tough when you move leagues too, difficult to gauge the ability levels.
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Yeah, I played for the same team from 8 years old till I was about 29 in the Birmingham League. Then moved to Sussex and had to find a new team which was difficult enough, but they only had the Sussex League so it was quite easy to gauge ability. I found it difficult to break into the clique at the club I played for in Sussex though (anyone who play cricket knows its the cliquiest sport going), despite being in the first team and opening the bowling most weeks. They had a core that had been at the club forever.

This will be my third ever team. This time I have no idea how good they are going to be because there are about 3 different leagues in Somerset.

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