any baseball fans?

[alasdairm]

red sox crush the yankees

 

and football season starts here tomorrow. this is my favourite time of year in US sports

 

alasdair

[Chris Hutchinson]

dont know why Baseball has never taken off over here tbh.... all we have is rounders - the same game played by kids @ school

[Mr Happy]

cant really bost a knowlage of baseball. but i am a fan of baseketball

 

tis a good film

[Tresh]

I don't mind a bit of American style Rounders especially when the World Series comes round.

 

Saw the Florida Marlins play The Philadelphia Phillies when I was out there a few years back. Had a wikid day out!!

[Blink]

OK, firstly it is called cricket.

 

And secondly, the football season started last month.

[Tresh]

Blink said:

And secondly, the football season started last month.

 

I think he means the American version, where they chase eggs.

 

A bit like Rugby really except they can pass the ball forward and wear lots of padding.

[Blink]

Tresh said:

I think he means the American version, where they chase eggs.

 

A bit like Rugby really except they can pass the ball forward and wear lots of padding.

 

You mean Rugby League? Oh hang on, they may wear loads of padding, but I don't think you can pass forward in that!

[Tresh]

Blink said:

Tresh said:

I think he means the American version, where they chase eggs.

 

A bit like Rugby really except they can pass the ball forward and wear lots of padding.

 

You mean Rugby League? Oh hang on, they may wear loads of padding, but I don't think you can pass forward in that!

 

No, we don't really play it here. It's some crazy "sport" that they invented over the pond.

[jon_m]

american sports are shite!! theyre glorified versions of our [censored] sports!! i.e ice hockey = hockey, baseball=rounders, basketball=netball, gridiron=rugby

fuckin yanks!! wankers!!

[Tresh]

jon_m said:

american sports are shite!! theyre glorified versions of our [censored] sports!! i.e ice hockey = hockey, baseball=rounders, basketball=netball, gridiron=rugby

fuckin yanks!! wankers!!

 

But rumour has it they do make a very big bomb.

[Blink]

Tresh said:

But rumour has it they do make a very big bomb.

 

I believe they throw these in their game of "American Rules Football", and I believe they have shotguns in the game too. And I think if someone throws lots of bombs, the defence have a Blitz, I think

[Tresh]

Blink said:

Tresh said:

But rumour has it they do make a very big bomb.

 

I believe they throw these in their game of "American Rules Football", and I believe they have shotguns in the game too. And I think if someone throws lots of bombs, the defence have a Blitz, I think

 

I always thought there was one called a "nuke"??

[Blink]

Tresh said:

I always thought there was one called a "nuke"??

 

Never heard of it, you sure it isn't the name of some steroid they take?

[Tresh]

Possibly, Hiroshima had summat to do with it as well methinks

[alasdairm]

i see the usual NIH [censored] hitting the fan...

 

i was a football (in the 'jimmy hill) fan for the longest time in the UK. when i moved here i thought that baseball was slow and uninteresting and american football was contrived and didn't flow.

 

then i started watching the game and i realised an appreciation for both. they're just different. and if i've learned one thing after all this time at clubtheworld, it's that some people love to hate something else just because it's different

 

also, cricket has no 'crickets' in it. plus anybody who can try to argue that foreign sports are stupid by bringing cricket into the argument, needs therapy badly. if you can't see why, you need therapy badly?

 

alasdair