I would absolutely proudly name that team.
Here is a selfie of me at Angel Stadium a couple months ago to prove my bona fides.
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Hi there again threearruda. Hope this doesn't get too long here...threearruda wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2017 7:23 amJWatcher,jwatcher16 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2017 3:17 am Hi there threearruda -
Glad you're aboard here! Hope you're enjoying "Lyrical Ballads"
I came here today to note I think there have been quite a few categories lately involving poets and/or poetry. Very cool for me as I write poetry and very much enjoy such categories even though I probably haven't read much of it at all after no longer being "in school."
BTW, do you follow the Wordsworthians? They (the Wordsworth Trust) tweet all kinds of things about all the Romantic poets - quotes, articles, blog posts, what happened on that date sometimes, and even PICTURES! One of the best pictures was of the actual engagement ring Keats gave to Fanny Brawne. You might enjoy their tweets.
And yes, I couldn't believe "backstop" was a ts and they couldn't come up with those NFL hall of famers - although to be honest, I had to really think on at least one to get it right...ya know, these "mature" brain cells sometimes take their time making connections.
I am enjoying Lyrical Ballads, lot of interesting and thought-provoking pieces so far (though we have not gotten to Rime of the Ancient Mariner just yet). Wordsworthians are new news to me but I'll definitely have to check them out - thank you for informing me!
Still being a student myself, in the last two years or so poetry has become a category I feel much more comfortable with -- for J! watching purposes that's a very good thing. I owe a lot of that to my high school English teacher.
Now that I've had a little more time to think about it.. I suppose if the NFL players in question were Brett Favre, LaDainian Tomlinson or other recent stars of note, the success rate might have been a little higher. For the non-sports fan who studies sports based off current events and not an almanac or something, there isn't much of a chance to come across someone elected 25 years ago. Whereas with Favre and Tomlinson, they both played ten years ago and were elected within the last two years; thus are more likely to come up in current events research. Food for thought I suppose.
Or how about Colorado Rockies for Dale Murphy?
twelvefootboy wrote: ↑Tue Sep 26, 2017 10:01 am My this game has generated the most chatter in a while I think.
It's nice to see the kindness toward Annapurna from the boardies. I can name exactly two cricket players, so I felt her helplessness when she buzzed in with her "Colorado Rockies" answer. I wonder if her reflex to buzz in was deliberate or just a desperate attempt?
I agree with the newbie Threearuda that the NFL players were rather YEKIOYD coming out of the Baby Boomer era. Mean Joe Greene is more famous for the Coke (?) commercial than his NFL career. Michael Irvin is not Jerry Rice famous unless you know him from his broadcast career. Marcus Allen is not OJ Simpson or Barry Sanders famous, and I might have been negged for my "Oakland Raiders" (they've never been LA Raiders to a Chiefs fan) answer.
I went with preemption, channeling our famous Iraq war blunder. The only redemption for the writers is that it was a triple stinker, and it saved the show a few bucks.
I thought Ivan might have some legs, but he got an ideal board on Friday for his cosmopolitan background, and got in trouble Monday.
I couldn't make out the details of the statue, except the rope. It didn't matter, I know exactly one poem about the sea, and it is a fave from high school that we were forced to memorize long sections of - "Day after day, Day after day, .... as idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean", blah blah..
I can't speak as to the intent of the original comment, but surely most Indians find cricket as unwatchable as most everyone else. Basically a tea party that can stretch onward of five days where people occasionally fire deadly missiles at each other. Even the game's designers subtly wanted cricket to disappear - featuring a tiny red ball on green grass so a good percentage of men (far more likely to be colorblind) can't even see what's going on.CasketRomance wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2017 3:17 pm
so you are saying because she is indian she is guaranteed to have a vast knowledge of cricket players?
I'm not sure if some racism is implied but all I meant to do was compliment her for trying to handle an American football question.Anachronism wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2017 5:12 pmI can't speak as to the intent of the original comment, but surely most Indians find cricket as unwatchable as most everyone else. Basically a tea party that can stretch onward of five days where people occasionally fire deadly missiles at each other. Even the game's designers subtly wanted cricket to disappear - featuring a tiny red ball on green grass so a good percentage of men (far more likely to be colorblind) can't even see what's going on.CasketRomance wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2017 3:17 pm
so you are saying because she is indian she is guaranteed to have a vast knowledge of cricket players?
I'm told all the kids these days are into Twenty20 cricket, which eliminates some of these objections.Anachronism wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2017 5:12 pmI can't speak as to the intent of the original comment, but surely most Indians find cricket as unwatchable as most everyone else. Basically a tea party that can stretch onward of five days where people occasionally fire deadly missiles at each other. Even the game's designers subtly wanted cricket to disappear - featuring a tiny red ball on green grass so a good percentage of men (far more likely to be colorblind) can't even see what's going on.
Okay now I have to ask: who's the other cricket player you can name?twelvefootboy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2017 8:52 pm I don't know what that means, but it is my favorite sports line ever when I first read it in a British tabloid talking about their famous player Ian Botham (Sir Ian Botham).
I was surprised to see India's top t20 league among the world's 25 top revenue-generating leagues (the top 10 is America's "big four", plus the world's "big five" soccer leagues - Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain - plus Japanese baseball). Those are the only billion-dollar annual leagues in the world. India's t20, though, at $378 million for 2016, is no slouch. By many measures, cricket is a top ten sport in the world. It spread among the Commonwealth like some sort of cultural plague. I've lived in England at times, and have seen a couple of matches. More-or-less understand that sports line (bowled for a duck means you went to bat and failed to score a run - which is the sort-of baseball equivalent of the golden sombrero).twelvefootboy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2017 8:52 pmI'm not sure if some racism is implied but all I meant to do was compliment her for trying to handle an American football question.Anachronism wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2017 5:12 pmI can't speak as to the intent of the original comment, but surely most Indians find cricket as unwatchable as most everyone else. Basically a tea party that can stretch onward of five days where people occasionally fire deadly missiles at each other. Even the game's designers subtly wanted cricket to disappear - featuring a tiny red ball on green grass so a good percentage of men (far more likely to be colorblind) can't even see what's going on.CasketRomance wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2017 3:17 pm
so you are saying because she is indian she is guaranteed to have a vast knowledge of cricket players?
Of course it's fun to bash Cricket, but it is the 4th most popular sport on Earth.
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American Football is the favorite sport in exactly one country with 315 million people, and Cricket in 5 countries with 1.3 Billion people. I think that Indians find Cricket quite watchable, and I'm sure there are many bowlers and batsmen that are household names. Even if Anu is 2nd or 3rd gen Indian-American, I'm sure the household males keep up with the Test matches and their respective superstars. (yes that is sexist, but we are dealing with a legacy of misogyny that India needs to move past).
I believe that you Cricket naysayers just got caught slogging in mid-silly and got bowled for a duck . I don't know what that means, but it is my favorite sports line ever when I first read it in a British tabloid talking about their famous player Ian Botham (Sir Ian Botham).
Unless memory fails, I believe Graham Gooch was the up and comer as Ian was fading. If that isn't a real player, I still want to believe it is. The sportswriting (at least in the 80's) was very similar to our Golden era of sports in the 1920's/1930's with Ring Lardner. Very flowery prose.dinghammer wrote: ↑Mon Oct 02, 2017 4:06 amOkay now I have to ask: who's the other cricket player you can name?twelvefootboy wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2017 8:52 pm I don't know what that means, but it is my favorite sports line ever when I first read it in a British tabloid talking about their famous player Ian Botham (Sir Ian Botham).
I can also name exactly two, and he was one of them. The other isSpoiler
Andrew "Freddie" Flintoff.
i enjoy cricket...not a fan of ODI though...i prefer t-20...3.5 hrs to play vs the all day afairs ODIs requireAnachronism wrote: ↑Sun Oct 01, 2017 5:12 pmI can't speak as to the intent of the original comment, but surely most Indians find cricket as unwatchable as most everyone else. Basically a tea party that can stretch onward of five days where people occasionally fire deadly missiles at each other. Even the game's designers subtly wanted cricket to disappear - featuring a tiny red ball on green grass so a good percentage of men (far more likely to be colorblind) can't even see what's going on.CasketRomance wrote: ↑Fri Sep 29, 2017 3:17 pm
so you are saying because she is indian she is guaranteed to have a vast knowledge of cricket players?