Cricket Has Arrived !

[Boom_70]

Thanks to Bill Simmons:

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6657523/so-cricket-maybe

 

[Kermit McManus]

This is great service to sport.

For huge sportsman like Simmons to get on board - only good days ahead for sport.

 

[terrier]

Connor, don't cut Bentley from your Reality Fantasy League team. Chris Harrison says we haven't seen the last of The Bachelorette's Johnny Fairplay wannabe by a long shot.

 

[YankeeFan]

The second I saw the headline on Grantland, I knew this thread would follow.

 

[Boom_70]

The second I saw the headline on Grantland, I knew this thread would follow.

And it's also a given that Cricket will soon appear on ESPN.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

Stopped reading here:

"It's as though the Yankees and the Red Sox had (a) nuclear weapons and (b) an enduring blood-feud over the disputed territory of Stamford, Conn."

I'm SO glad they threw in a reference to our 'Merican sports, so we great unwashed masses could understand the Cricket World Cup!

 

[YankeeFan]

Besides, Stamford is pretty solidly in Yankee territory.

You've got to get to New Haven or so before you reach disputed territory.

 

[rmanfredi]

Stopped reading here:

"It's as though the Yankees and the Red Sox had (a) nuclear weapons and (b) an enduring blood-feud over the disputed territory of Stamford, Conn."

I'm SO glad they threw in a reference to our 'Merican sports, so we great unwashed masses could understand the Cricket World Cup!

So you shouldn't use comparisons to things that Americans understand in an article whose purpose was to explain cricket to Americans who are unfamiliar with the sport?

 

[poindexter]

Stopped reading here:

"It's as though the Yankees and the Red Sox had (a) nuclear weapons and (b) an enduring blood-feud over the disputed territory of Stamford, Conn."

I'm SO glad they threw in a reference to our 'Merican sports, so we great unwashed masses could understand the Cricket World Cup!

So you shouldn't use comparisons to things that Americans understand in an article whose purpose was to explain cricket to Americans who are unfamiliar with the sport?

Its so ****ing played out.

 

[rmanfredi]

Shrug. There are a lot of concepts that are well-used that can still be enjoyable if done well. There are only so many guitar chords you can play, but I still buy rock albums.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

Stopped reading here:

"It's as though the Yankees and the Red Sox had (a) nuclear weapons and (b) an enduring blood-feud over the disputed territory of Stamford, Conn."

I'm SO glad they threw in a reference to our 'Merican sports, so we great unwashed masses could understand the Cricket World Cup!

So you shouldn't use comparisons to things that Americans understand in an article whose purpose was to explain cricket to Americans who are unfamiliar with the sport?

Its so ****ing played out.

Agreed.

Let it stand on its own merits. Explain it using your own literary skills, not through metaphor that treats the reader like they should only care if there's a reference to something they've heard of.

 

[Mystery Meat II]

Stopped reading here:

"It's as though the Yankees and the Red Sox had (a) nuclear weapons and (b) an enduring blood-feud over the disputed territory of Stamford, Conn."

I'm SO glad they threw in a reference to our 'Merican sports, so we great unwashed masses could understand the Cricket World Cup!

So you shouldn't use comparisons to things that Americans understand in an article whose purpose was to explain cricket to Americans who are unfamiliar with the sport?

Its so ****ing played out.

Agreed.

Let it stand on its own merits. Explain it using your own literary skills, not through metaphor that treats the reader like they should only care if there's a reference to something they've heard of.

Methaphor is a valid way to express juxtaposition and an effective way of making a connection to readers and allowing them to relate to something that would be distant and abstract otherwise. Maybe the use of the Yankees and Red Sox is cliche (though I certainly appreciate the image of them fighting over WWE headquarters), but I see nothing wrong with this approach.

Of course, any opportunity to sneer at the unwashed flag-waving Murricuns, right?

 

[YGBFKM]

Criminy! Or is it Jiminy?

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

Of course, any opportunity to sneer at the unwashed flag-waving Murricuns, right?

The use of such metaphors is absolutely sneering at the "'Mericans."

"Oh, you won't understand this or care about it otherwise, so we'll spoonfeed you!"

Of course, comparing India-Pakistan to Yankees-Red Sox is such a non-starter, it's not even funny. Maybe next they'll juxtapose the Hebrew-Muslim conflict with Packers-Bears?

 

[YGBFKM]

Nice comparison on comparisons.

 

[Bubbler]

Not judging the validity of the Red Sox-Yankees comparison, because its extremely dubious given the ramifications of the India-Pakistan blood feud, but I'm American, I love "world" sports and I don't get cricket whatsoever.

 

[YankeeFan]

Problems with cricket have begun already:

Police responded about 8:40 p.m. Tuesday to a report of a fight in progress in the 3400 block of Thornwood Avenue, said Sgt. David Sostak of the Glenview Police Department.

About 10 people were said to be involved, Sostak said. When police arrived, they learned that about five people had been playing soccer when a vehicle pulled up to the field.

“Some (verbal) references to a gang were made,” Sostak said.

Several people, two of whom were wielding a golf club and a cricket paddle, exited the vehicle and attacked the soccer players, Sostak said.

http://triblocal.com/glenview/2011/06/17/gang-references-made-before-attack-with-golf-club-cricket-mallet-police-say/

I mean, I understand the hatred of soccer, but I don't endorse beating them with cricket mallets.

This has to be dealt with now before it spreads.

 

[Matt Stephens]

Stopped reading here:

"It's as though the Yankees and the Red Sox had (a) nuclear weapons and (b) an enduring blood-feud over the disputed territory of Stamford, Conn."

I'm SO glad they threw in a reference to our 'Merican sports, so we great unwashed masses could understand the Cricket World Cup!

Can you blame them? No one understand cricket.

 

[Double Down]

Piotr, I know it's part of your gimmick to get all huffy whenever the lay person talks about international sports in a condescending, Americanized way, but it's a comedy piece written (in part) by a Red Sox fan who used to run a comedy site about baseball. It's not attempting to explain, or relate to cricket in any meaningful way. Just to make people laugh. It's one thing to voice displeasure about the ESPN E-ticket cricket piece that compared India/Pakistian to SEC football, since there something totally, purposefully absurd.

It was a touch too long, but as someone who once watched cricket with a Pakistani friend, I thought there was a lot to chuckle about.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

Piotr, I know it's part of your gimmick to get all huffy whenever the lay person talks about international sports in a condescending, Americanized way, but it's a comedy piece written (in part) by a Red Sox fan who used to run a comedy site about baseball. It's not attempting to explain, or relate to cricket in any meaningful way. Just to make people laugh. It's one thing to voice displeasure about the ESPN E-ticket cricket piece that compared India/Pakistian to SEC football, since there something totally, purposefully absurd.

It was a touch too long, but as someone who once watched cricket with a Pakistani friend, I thought there was a lot to chuckle about.

Gimmick?

Huffy?

Wow, really? That's how you describe the way I happen to look at how international or unfamiliar sports are covered? Like someone's view is some "gimmick"?

Then arrogant examination of writing, and equally arrogant (and often "huffy") defense of writers you've had a beer with are part of your "gimmick", right?

"Gimmick," indeed.

Anyway, if it was a comedy piece (I never finished it), then it really didn't need the Yankees/Red Sox line. India/Pakistan vs. Yankees/Red Sox isn't really fodder for humor. Read to me like one of those "apples to Muppets" comparisons.