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  1. Marco4
    As far as all-rounders, that's why I said "usually." But the basic point is that no cricket player will ever be denied a position if they can bowl or bat to an adequate degree. In baseball, there are only a few positions that you can play if you have no defensive skill, and at some positions defense is more important than offense. On the first bit, I'm as proud as any post I've read to see Wilfred Rhodes mentioned on NSBB. He was born, what, 10 minutes from me and his career arc is truly tremendous. Samit Patel springs to mind as someone whose 'mobility' issues have cost him a place in the England team, but he's unproven at international level to date. As for the main thread, I've never really 'got' any restricted cricket. I love the full form of the sport, its in my blood, but I can't deal with the 50, 40 and 20 over things.
  2. Marco4
    If you're playing football/soccer, it means you're playing on a pitch you know better than your opposition so any quirks you'll be better equipped for, and the non-regulation size can be in your favour, too. I know Grimsby play on a pitch that is terribly unbalanced (it looks, when you're stood behind the goal, like there's a body buried in one penalty area) and Shrewsbury's old ground used to retain water like nobody's business in random spots. Then there's the fans and their impact on players/referees. But that's a whole different story.
  3. Marco4
    I thought they were just Miami, and represented by unidentifiable reptile. :-k
  4. Marco4
    Foul and a booking for me. I thought it was worse the first time I saw it.
  5. Marco4
    We're live on interactive here. 3-3 in the fifth. Federer looks like he's in control, but del Potro's hanging in there.
  6. Marco4
    Rooney is often played out of his natural position for Manchester Utd, too (that second striker role) so his workrate doesn't bring the dividends it might otherwise do - compare his performances for England with those for his club and there's a vast difference.
  7. Marco4
    I had a bet on Hull going down when they were 6th, so I'm hoping the year's good news story goes pear-shaped. As for Liverpool; I'm not sure about things going right for them - some very big things went wrong. Torres was injured, Gerrard was injured (admittedly, they should have better cover, but that's not the issue here) and Robbie Keane was a flop. Add a more productive attacker - Tevez, they reckon, though I dream of David Villa going to link up with Torres, even though I'm no Liverpool fan - and a bit more versatility in defence, another year on Ryan Babel's experience, and Liverpool are getting better and better. Ronaldo leaving United would leave a massive hole - Giggs and Scholes are coming to the end of the piece, and Berbatov has disappointed. That leaves you with Rooney, really, and the bit part players around him (Macheda, Welbeck etc); all good, but not all brilliant. Its a worst case scenario, but I don't see United running away with it at all. (Cue :blush: when they do)
  8. Marco4
    Fire up the radios, boys, I'm gonna listen to Z; its worked out brilliantly, I've got tomorrow booked off work, too.
  9. Marco4
    I assume this is going to be Sunday? Any more word?
  10. Marco4
    This would be great for us MILB.com listeners; I miss Z.
  11. Marco4
    Cricket > Association Football > Baseball > Really, anything beyond that could be anything.
  12. Marco4
    If a place kicker was running up to a 25-yard field goal attempt and his ankle buckled under him so he couldn't kick the ball, he wouldn't get the points. Its just misfortune. Cruel; but that's the way the world works sometimes. Maybe if you in a friendly game with kids you could bend the rules, but for professional sports, that's how it is.
  13. Marco4
    Its the PECOTA one I've been looking at; I realise that projections of any kind are pretty useless this early on, but it seems to reflect (more accurately) what I expect to see for the rest of the season.
  14. Marco4
    April impressions? Never has waking up at three o'clock in the morning to check the Cubs score been less fun. I keep trying to gee myself into enjoying the season, but they ain't making it easy (yet).
  15. Marco4
    You needn't be so harsh in your judgements. I can well imagine myself using it on many occasions; aye, it'd be pronounced 'neen'', but it'd be there. Its - I guess - dying out like 'oughtn't' and 'shan't' and it saddens me. However, language is alive, and you've got to allow it to develop or it will become French. Having said that, I can imagine both sentences be used at different times. There's a subtle difference in meaning between the two.
  16. Marco4
    9.3. That is all.
  17. Marco4
    93. That is all.
  18. Marco4
    Does anyone check the Post-Season odds regularly? I've got a spreadsheet at work that I plug the results into and get a Pythag projection of where the Cubs should be, and where they are, but I like to check the post-season odds at BaseballProspectus, too. How worthwhile are they? The PECOTA one is pretty interesting at the moment, and certainly more favourable than the original. I just don't really know what to make of them.
  19. Marco4
    We see Tim Wakefield pitch a knuckleball, quite close up, then we pan out to the stadium and zoom in on people doing loads of different things - after each thing we zoom back out to the full stadium view again; people chatting, someone spilling mustard from a hot-dog, drinking some beer, squeezing to the end of the row of seats, swatting an insect, a couple kissing, ideally someone falling up some steps (I love people falling over) and then eventually back to the pitch crossing the plate as the batter swings at it and the umpire shouts 'strike three'. :hello:
  20. Marco4
    Today's Times half covers this; I say Brede Hangeland should have got it or, given how much Villa have flunked since his injury, Martin Laursen.
  21. Marco4
    I can't watch the games this season, and as yet, I'm not unhappy about this fact. It WILL get better, but whether it gets good enough early enough to make a difference is what I worry about. Will the bats heat up enough to start raking in the teams who are stealing a march at the moment? Will the starters perform well enough to back them when they do?
  22. Marco4
    :hello: I'm on mobile internet now - as of about a fortnight ago. Its a good time of year to come back, though I do feel a bit like a glory hunter. Its good to be back.
  23. Marco4
    Wayne Rooney
  24. Marco4
    That 0.11% scares me. Not as much as the 0.01% does. But the fact that its still there... I can't relax.
  25. Marco4
    I love it when teams get caught out not playing to the whistle. Can I gripe that Gerrard should never have had the ball because Modeste M'Bami shouldn't have given it away so stupidly, like he did five or six times? No, I can't, can I? Good finish. High quality game, too.
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