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15 Jun 07
Originally posted by 1WhiteKnightRubbish
I like this post, however, basketball is just a rip off of netball, you know the game that 8-14 year old girls play at school! That’s where that comes from. The americans have no culture, they don’t have the history we Europeans have, so what they try to do is take what we have and make it their own ("american English" for example), in this case they ha ...[text shortened]... was great, your just playing catch up people. For once be humble and learn to live with it.
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20 Jun 07
Originally posted by 1WhiteKnightErm... nope. Basketball is the original, netball is the downgraded version. It was (or so it is said, anyway) devised to allow women to play the game, because in the 1890s (when both basketball and netball were invented), they wore hindering skirts which wouldn't let them dribble the ball.
I like this post, however, basketball is just a rip off of netball, you know the game that 8-14 year old girls play at school! That’s where that comes from.
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20 Jun 07
Originally posted by Red NightYes, you're quite right. England is far from representative. In the rest of the world, the data are skewed even more in the disfavour of basketball players' fame. England really is a lot closer to the USA here than to the real world.
The absolute major flaw in your convoluted arguments is the belief that somehow what happens in england is representqative of what happens in the rest of the world.
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20 Jun 07
Originally posted by Shallow BlueMore rubbish....Rounders, baseball, and cricket all evolved from earlier games called Towne Ball and Stoope ball.
No, I didn't. Baseball is rounders, as I wrote.
Richard
And there is very little evidence that cricket, as we know it today, is any older than baseball and a lot of evidence that rounders is the junior of the three.
20 Jun 07
Originally posted by Red NightYou really are a weasel Rednight.
More rubbish....Rounders, baseball, and cricket all evolved from earlier games called Towne Ball and Stoope ball.
And there is very little evidence that cricket, as we know it today, is any older than baseball and a lot of evidence that rounders is the junior of the three.
Such is your hatred for cricket you have to try and make out it has a similar history to your stupid Baseball. Cricket is a truly ancient and historical game, just because it has evolved you cannot discount it.
It ranks alongside your hilarious attempts to put Basketball alongside football as one of the two world sports.
"Baseball the origins
Developed from the British game of rounders which was played by colonist in North America on town meeting days.
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World Cup started in 1938 currently held every two years the first winners were Great Britain."
You should be grateful for us teaching you how to play. mind you its such a boring sport, I wouldn't expect much.
20 Jun 07
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Originally posted by petrosianpupilNew insights into why you fellows over there in the land of fog are so confused. You must have your own books & internet filled with all sorts of mistaken propaganda.
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World Cup started in 1938 currently held every two years the first winners were Great Britain."
The First World Cup was held in 1930 and won by Uruguay. (The US finished 3rd.) England only made it to the semis once, the year they won 1966.
The World Cup is held every 4 years, not every other.
Also, I hate to tell you, but Scott didn't make it to the pole first. Amundsen beat him. Scott froze to death.
20 Jun 07
Originally posted by Red NightSorry I realise that by World Cup you probably though I was talking about Football. It was pasted from a BASEBALL world Cup info site.
New insights into why you fellows over there in the land of fog are so confused. You must have your own books & internet filled with all sorts of mistaken propaganda.
The First World Cup was held in 1930 and won by Uruguay. (The US finished 3rd.) England only made it to the semis once, the year they won 1966.
The World Cup is held every 4 years, ...[text shortened]... ell you, but Scott didn't make it to the pole first. Amundsen beat him. Scott froze to death.
Next time try and read the post.
Further details as you clearly know little about this sport you championed.
I would not have to look up football facts, football is such a major sport that I know ALL the World Champs and the years they won. i also know that we didn't compete then, which was a shame as we would have had a great team.
"Tournament Results
1938 I
Host Country: Great Britain
Teams: 2
Gold: Great Britain
Silver: United States
Bronze: none awarded
1939 II
Host Country: Cuba
Teams: 3
Gold: Cuba
Silver: Nicaragua
Bronze: United States
1940 III"
I notice how the US came last twice in a sport nobody else cared about.
20 Jun 07
Originally posted by petrosianpupilHow silly of me to think of soccer when you said World Cup! Of course what you meant was a now defunct amateur baseball tournament put togther in England. I've seen that before..there isn't much information about that 1938 tourney. but, I recall something about it actually being played later, in 1940 perhaps?
Sorry I realise that by World Cup you probably though I was talking about Football. It was pasted from a BASEBALL world Cup info site.
Next time try and read the post.
Further details as you clearly know little about this sport you championed.
I would not have to look up football facts, football is such a major sport that I know ALL the Worl ...[text shortened]... States
1940 III"
I notice how the US came last twice in a sport nobody else cared about.
In any event, that 1938 tournament is almost as important as England's lone cricket gold medal in the olympics. I think it is 1924 when the all-england team defeats the only other competitor, a team of clerks from the british embassy in paris "representing" France, to capture the gold.
Are you familiar with the 1874 baseball tour of England when Cap Anson and a team of Yank baseball players utterly and repeatedly humiliated the finest cricketeers England had to offer at their own game? Now that's a story. Apparently those bloody yanks kept whacking the ball a coutry mile and running round the wickets like giddy school boys as the Englanders frowned and sniffed "that's just not cricket," between dainty sips of tea.
21 Jun 07
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Originally posted by Red NightThe Americans had an 18 man team and the hosts had 12, The American team were playing local clubs, not county cricket teams (which are the actual teams that people follow and go to see) or the national team. It was a showcase to try and get people in the UK interested in baseball.
Are you familiar with the 1874 baseball tour of England when Cap Anson and a team of Yank baseball players utterly and repeatedly humiliated the finest cricketeers England had to offer at their own game? Now that's a story. Apparently those bloody yanks kept whacking the ball a coutry mile and running round the wickets like giddy school boys as the Englanders frowned and sniffed "that's just not cricket," between dainty sips of tea.
I don't think you can really compare the two sports.
21 Jun 07
Originally posted by Red NightYou do make me laugh Rednight.
How silly of me to think of soccer when you said World Cup! Of course what you meant was a now defunct amateur baseball tournament put togther in England. I've seen that before..there isn't much information about that 1938 tourney. but, I recall something about it actually being played later, in 1940 perhaps?
In any event, that 1938 tournament is al ...[text shortened]... e Englanders frowned and sniffed "that's just not cricket," between dainty sips of tea.
Your ability to notice how Parochial England is, which has some truth. Yet deny all evidence of the most parochial nation in the world (thats the US in case you still don't get it) is astounding.
Your jealousy of the stupid sport of cricket make you criticise it in ways that your beloved and equally stupid sport of Baseball can also be criticised.
So one of your heros came to Britain to play Cricket and you have ti lie about it in order to down grade Cricket.
Take down your Arnold palmer poster, stop dreaming of the US winning the world cup and get in touch with the real world.
21 Jun 07
Originally posted by petrosianpupilI was recently surprised to find that cricket is the second most popular sport in the world.. I guess what with the Indians being totally nutty about it that I shouldn't have been though.
You do make me laugh Rednight.
Your ability to notice how Parochial England is, which has some truth. Yet deny all evidence of the most parochial nation in the world (thats the US in case you still don't get it) is astounding.
Your jealousy of the stupid sport of cricket make you criticise it in ways that your beloved and equally stupid sport of ...[text shortened]... mer poster, stop dreaming of the US winning the world cup and get in touch with the real world.
21 Jun 07
Originally posted by WheelyOh no, don't post anything like that with rednight around.
I was recently surprised to find that cricket is the second most popular sport in the world.. I guess what with the Indians being totally nutty about it that I shouldn't have been though.
He will spend ages telling you that Volleyball is no 1 in the world, way ahead of football. He will go on to say that Dragon boat racing is almost as popular as football and Cricket is only played by 5 people in the world and 4 of them only do it because they have lost their baseball bat.
Also you will have to read about the great Arnold Palmer??? and how he is way more famous than Ali, Maradona, tiger woods etc etc etc.
The fact that India plays cricket will only score 1 point with rednight, whereas he will mention Guam and lower umbongo land play Baseball.