Thailand Needs Cricket

[tutsiwarrior]

'Please can you remind us what is the difference between baseball and rounders?... except that rounders requires bigger balls...

well....you know...one can be intimidated by 100mph fast balls fired from the pitcher when at bat...and that baseball players are badassed mofos with tobacco juice and hickory bats with attitude...and they never heard of a goddam cucumber sandwich...

...and all the fielders wear wicketkeeper's gloves so they don't break a nail when they catch the ball...

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well...with gloves you can field the ball quicker and that makes for a more exciting game...I remember Brooks Robinson a shortstop who was famous and he stopped an infield drive flat on his face and then managed to pick himself up and fire to first base to get the batter...tremendous and almost unbelieveable...never could have happened with cricket...

but then, there is no infield in cricket...

as a kid in america yer baseball glove is usually yer most prized possession...except for yer surfboard in California...

[harrry]

Maybe we will have to train the soi dogs to keep off the field.

[StreetCowboy]

uffice to say, for

Maybe we will have to train the soi dogs to keep off the field.

He should just let go of the leash.

SC

EDIT: I did a big consultancy job in Hong Kong, and we had specialists and experts from all over the world. It taught me all that I know about dog-sled racing:-

Make sure you're holding the reigns before you shout "Mush!"

yip! Yip Yip!

yip yip! yip yip

Edit: My apologies - the illustration does not come out very well, because the spaces get consolidated....

Suffice to say, for six months to follow, we heard "Yip! Yip!" from every corner of the tundra, as we tried to herd up the dogs

Edited June 21, 2012 by StreetCowboy

[brit1984]

Maybe we will have to train the soi dogs to keep off the field.

Maybe they can have their own league...

[brit1984]

'Please can you remind us what is the difference between baseball and rounders?... except that rounders requires bigger balls...

well....you know...one can be intimidated by 100mph fast balls fired from the pitcher when at bat...and that baseball players are badassed mofos with tobacco juice and hickory bats with attitude...and they never heard of a goddam cucumber sandwich...

...and all the fielders wear wicketkeeper's gloves so they don't break a nail when they catch the ball...

Sent from iPhone; please forgive any typos or violations of forum rules

well...with gloves you can field the ball quicker and that makes for a more exciting game...I remember Brooks Robinson a shortstop who was famous and he stopped an infield drive flat on his face and then managed to pick himself up and fire to first base to get the batter...tremendous and almost unbelieveable...never could have happened with cricket...

but then, there is no infield in cricket...

as a kid in america yer baseball glove is usually yer most prized possession...except for yer surfboard in California...

I have never noticed a silly mid-off, silly mid-on nor short leg in baseball.

To field in those positions requires big balls and steady knees.

I thought all American kids' most prized possession was their bible.

[StreetCowboy]

'Please can you remind us what is the difference between baseball and rounders?... except that rounders requires bigger balls...

well....you know...one can be intimidated by 100mph fast balls fired from the pitcher when at bat...and that baseball players are badassed mofos with tobacco juice and hickory bats with attitude...and they never heard of a goddam cucumber sandwich...

...and all the fielders wear wicketkeeper's gloves so they don't break a nail when they catch the ball...

Sent from iPhone; please forgive any typos or violations of forum rules

well...with gloves you can field the ball quicker and that makes for a more exciting game...I remember Brooks Robinson a shortstop who was famous and he stopped an infield drive flat on his face and then managed to pick himself up and fire to first base to get the batter...tremendous and almost unbelieveable...never could have happened with cricket...

but then, there is no infield in cricket...

as a kid in america yer baseball glove is usually yer most prized possession...except for yer surfboard in California...

I have never noticed a silly mid-off, silly mid-on nor short leg in baseball.

To field in those positions requires big balls and steady knees.

I thought all American kids' most prized possession was their bible.

They should take more care of their knees.

They can always read King James' bible, but they'd look daft trying to read his knees....

SC

TV Cricket

Remember, you go down on one knee to propose,

but you need both to do a runner

[kevjohn]

Maybe we will have to train the soi dogs to keep off the field.

Maybe they can have their own league...

Or a handler like this one

[David48]

but then, there is no infield in cricket...

Oh ... tutsi ... there heaps of positions.

On of the advantages with cricket in the longer form of the game is that there is almost totla flexibility in field position.

As opposed to Baseball (a game which I also like and have have played)

[kevjohn]

Here is something to debate whilst we wait for tutsiwarrior to entertain us with his rendition of 'take me out to the ball game'

Now moving along re "Thailand's potential" once cricket becomes the national sport.

The way I see it, with cricket being the National Sport, it will be integrated into the Thai way of life.

When this is achieved, then the Thai society will blend into "ONE BIG TEAM", thus eradicating all the negatives that exist now.

This means that the person at the bottom of the ladder will be able to climb to the top, thus, relegating the person at the top of the ladder to the bottom of the ladder.

Having achieved these higher positions, these people will in turn, raise the people in the positions below them to higher positions.

Again, this in turn, will relegate the people who have risen to these higher positions back to the lower positions.

Now, this rotation of people rising from the lower position to the top positions and then being relegated back to the lower positions, will create a steady stream of people wishing to raise themselves from these low positions to the top positions and in so doing will create a constant desire to better oneself both financially and in self-esteem, which will eliminate the problem of "Losing Face" as everyone will have suffered this "Losing Face" due to the fact that they have been relegated from the highest position to the lowest position, at some stage in their life.

So, having analysed this information, I believe that this would be one of the great potentials achieved by Thailand once cricket has become Thailand's national sport.

Just my thoughts........

A very good and positive post.

Thought-provoking and insightful.

You are a master visionary.

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Boss, I have great visions for Thailand and these visions will be achieved through this noble game of cricket, making it necessary for cricket to be Thailand's "National Sport".

This, therefore makes the reason why "Thailand Needs Cricket" one of the most important reasons that can change Thailand's future for the good of its people and I'm sure that you, me and all our team would be humbled by the fact that our team accomplished these positives.

Here's for "Thailand Needs Cricket"

Edited June 22, 2012 by kevjohn

[tutsiwarrior]

but then, there is no infield in cricket...

Oh ... tutsi ... there heaps of positions.

On of the advantages with cricket in the longer form of the game is that there is almost totla flexibility in field position.

As opposed to Baseball (a game which I also like and have have played)

hooray for an improved cultural understanding! like cricket, baseball has a profound cultural significance...when kids you guys played cricket, I played baseball and same, same..(until I started to surf when 12 y.o. then the baseball glove went on the shelf and I withdrew from Little League...but I never got rid of it...)

however, baseball can be uncivilized with players brawling on the field (announcer: 'both benches emptied and gawd what a mess!!!)...tobacco juice and hickory bats and all that...which is a significant departure from the elegance of cricket...

oh...and I forgot to mention that bats aren't allowed in the brawling and that would get a suspension...barehanded fisticuffs only...sorta like 'gentlemen'...

Edited June 22, 2012 by tutsiwarrior

[kevjohn]

Never thought that a game of cricket could change a person's way of thinking, so much

Edited June 22, 2012 by kevjohn

[harrry]

but then, there is no infield in cricket...

Oh ... tutsi ... there heaps of positions.

On of the advantages with cricket in the longer form of the game is that there is almost totla flexibility in field position.

As opposed to Baseball (a game which I also like and have have played)

hooray for an improved understanding! like cricket, baseball has a profound cultural significance...when kids you guys played cricket, I played baseball and same, same..(until I started to surf when 12 y.o. then the baseball glove went on the shelf and I withdrew from Little League...but I never got rid of it...)

however, baseball can be uncivilized with players brawling on the field (announcer: 'both benches emptied and gawd what a mess!!!)...tobacco juice and hickory bats and all that...which is a significant departure from the elegance of cricket...

oh yeh

[harrry]

Never thought that a game of cricket could change a person's way of thinking, so much

I thought it was golf that had birdies

[kevjohn]

but then, there is no infield in cricket...

Oh ... tutsi ... there heaps of positions.

On of the advantages with cricket in the longer form of the game is that there is almost totla flexibility in field position.

As opposed to Baseball (a game which I also like and have have played)

hooray for an improved understanding! like cricket, baseball has a profound cultural significance...when kids you guys played cricket, I played baseball and same, same..(until I started to surf when 12 y.o. then the baseball glove went on the shelf and I withdrew from Little League...but I never got rid of it...)

however, baseball can be uncivilized with players brawling on the field (announcer: 'both benches emptied and gawd what a mess!!!)...tobacco juice and hickory bats and all that...which is a significant departure from the elegance of cricket...

Hey tutsiwarrior, still waiting to hear you rendition of "take me out to the ball game"

[kevjohn]

Never thought that a game of cricket could change a person's way of thinking, so much

I thought it was golf that had birdies

That one is a special cricket on, like this one

[kevjohn]

Here is something to debate whilst we wait for tutsiwarrior to entertain us with his rendition of 'take me out to the ball game'

Now moving along re "Thailand's potential" once cricket becomes the national sport.

The way I see it, with cricket being the National Sport, it will be integrated into the Thai way of life.

When this is achieved, then the Thai society will blend into "ONE BIG TEAM", thus eradicating all the negatives that exist now.

This means that the person at the bottom of the ladder will be able to climb to the top, thus, relegating the person at the top of the ladder to the bottom of the ladder.

Having achieved these higher positions, these people will in turn, raise the people in the positions below them to higher positions.

Again, this in turn, will relegate the people who have risen to these higher positions back to the lower positions.

Now, this rotation of people rising from the lower position to the top positions and then being relegated back to the lower positions, will create a steady stream of people wishing to raise themselves from these low positions to the top positions and in so doing will create a constant desire to better oneself both financially and in self-esteem, which will eliminate the problem of "Losing Face" as everyone will have suffered this "Losing Face" due to the fact that they have been relegated from the highest position to the lowest position, at some stage in their life.

So, having analysed this information, I believe that this would be one of the great potentials achieved by Thailand once cricket has become Thailand's national sport.

Just my thoughts........

A very good and positive post.

Thought-provoking and insightful.

You are a master visionary.

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I understand now we should push over all the ladders we find so the people can get to experience the change in position until they are all the same.

Man the battlements troops.

Can't have em all the same harry. That would stop the desire for improvement.

[tutsiwarrior]

tutsi's baseball story...here is tutsi minding his own business at Brennan's Bar in Berkeley and pulls up a bar stool and orders a vodka tonic...then the bartender Pat sez quietly and nervously: ' tutsi, look who yer sittin' next to...' and it was Billy Martin, manager of the Yankees and one of the most violent men in the sport but acknowleged as being one of the best managers...he was a local lad having grown up in west Berkeley where Brennan's bar is located...

and I said: 'hmmm...' and nodded to him and then sat there in companionable silence...and then Lucy the bartender who was a tart with a spectacular backside came up behind the bar and displayed her stuff to the local celebrity and then I saw Billy check her out and I felt like I was in the big leagues already...

Edited June 22, 2012 by tutsiwarrior

[kevjohn]

tutsi's baseball story...here is tutsi minding his own business at Brennan's Bar in Berkeley and pulls up a bar stool and orders a vodka tonic...then the bartender Pat sez quietly and nervously: ' tutsi, look who yer sittin' next to...' and it was Billy Martin, manager of the Yankees and one of the most violent men in the sport but acknowleged as being one of the best managers...he was a local lad having grown up in west Berkeley where Brennan's bar is located...

and I said: 'hmmm...' and nodded to him and then sat there in companionable silence...and then Lucy the bartender who was a tart with a spectacular backside came up behind the bar and displayed her stuff to the local celebrity and then I saw Billy check her out and I felt like I was in the big leagues already...

Is that, when you broke out in that husky voice of you singing, "take me out to the ball game"?

[harrry]

If it is good enough for Mannie......

But someone will have to tell him not to throw his bat away. Edited June 22, 2012 by harrry

[tutsiwarrior]

tutsi's baseball story...here is tutsi minding his own business at Brennan's Bar in Berkeley and pulls up a bar stool and orders a vodka tonic...then the bartender Pat sez quietly and nervously: ' tutsi, look who yer sittin' next to...' and it was Billy Martin, manager of the Yankees and one of the most violent men in the sport but acknowleged as being one of the best managers...he was a local lad having grown up in west Berkeley where Brennan's bar is located...

and I said: 'hmmm...' and nodded to him and then sat there in companionable silence...and then Lucy the bartender who was a tart with a spectacular backside came up behind the bar and displayed her stuff to the local celebrity and then I saw Billy check her out and I felt like I was in the big leagues already...

Is that, when you broke out in that husky voice of you singing, "take me out to the ball game"?

check it out...bet you never got a crowd like that at a cricket match...

all races, all creeds in the melting pot of America...

including 'ol Fidel...

http://www.google.co...IQ9QEwBQ&dur=38

Edited June 22, 2012 by tutsiwarrior

[harrry]

tutsi's baseball story...here is tutsi minding his own business at Brennan's Bar in Berkeley and pulls up a bar stool and orders a vodka tonic...then the bartender Pat sez quietly and nervously: ' tutsi, look who yer sittin' next to...' and it was Billy Martin, manager of the Yankees and one of the most violent men in the sport but acknowleged as being one of the best managers...he was a local lad having grown up in west Berkeley where Brennan's bar is located...

and I said: 'hmmm...' and nodded to him and then sat there in companionable silence...and then Lucy the bartender who was a tart with a spectacular backside came up behind the bar and displayed her stuff to the local celebrity and then I saw Billy check her out and I felt like I was in the big leagues already...

Is that, when you broke out in that husky voice of you singing, "take me out to the ball game"?

check it out...bet you never got a crowd like that at a cricket match...

try that one....and it isn't a piddly back yard like yours.

[harrry]

Has anyone noticed the references to Cricket have increased in the other topics. Some must be reading...one day they will draw up a chair and stay a while.

[kevjohn]

Has anyone noticed the references to Cricket have increased in the other topics. Some must be reading...one day they will draw up a chair and stay a while.

Noticed the same thing, myself, many times.

[tutsiwarrior]

tutsi's baseball story...here is tutsi minding his own business at Brennan's Bar in Berkeley and pulls up a bar stool and orders a vodka tonic...then the bartender Pat sez quietly and nervously: ' tutsi, look who yer sittin' next to...' and it was Billy Martin, manager of the Yankees and one of the most violent men in the sport but acknowleged as being one of the best managers...he was a local lad having grown up in west Berkeley where Brennan's bar is located...

and I said: 'hmmm...' and nodded to him and then sat there in companionable silence...and then Lucy the bartender who was a tart with a spectacular backside came up behind the bar and displayed her stuff to the local celebrity and then I saw Billy check her out and I felt like I was in the big leagues already...

Is that, when you broke out in that husky voice of you singing, "take me out to the ball game"?

check it out...bet you never got a crowd like that at a cricket match...

try that one....and it isn't a piddly back yard like yours.

well...there is a distinction between a 'back yard' and a 'back water'...and why aren't they at the beach surfin'?

[kevjohn]

Is that, when you broke out in that husky voice of you singing, "take me out to the ball game"?

check it out...bet you never got a crowd like that at a cricket match...

try that one....and it isn't a piddly back yard like yours.

well...there is a distinction between a 'back yard' and a 'back water'...and why aren't they at the beach surfin'?

The spectators at the cricket, were the people that could not get onto the beaches to go surfin, as the beaches were all packed out.

[harrry]

In 1961 people didn't go surfing too much in Melbourne.....maybe because wetsuits had not been invented and it can be really cold there. But they did go swimming....as a past prime minister did who drowned. Rather ironic that a Swimming Pool can be named after someone who drowned isn;t it.

Of course some, those who could not get into the ground went to the beaches of Sydney and Queensland to surf that day.

Edited June 22, 2012 by harrry

[tutsiwarrior]

In 1961 people didn't go surfing too much in Melbourne.....maybe because wetsuits had not been invented and it can be really cold there. But they did go swimming....as a past prime minister did who drowned. Rather ironic that a Swimming Pool can be named after someone who drowned isn;t it.

Of course some, those who could not get into the ground went to the beaches of Sydney and Queensland to surf that day.

yeah...the water conditions are something to consider...better conditions in NSW than in Melbourne and cold water without a wetsuit can be dangerous; ye wanna stay out in the line up but then ye get cold and then the trouble comes when you get cold with reduced blood circulation...I've seen it before in northern California...

[harrry]

In 1961 people didn't go surfing too much in Melbourne.....maybe because wetsuits had not been invented and it can be really cold there. But they did go swimming....as a past prime minister did who drowned. Rather ironic that a Swimming Pool can be named after someone who drowned isn;t it.

Of course some, those who could not get into the ground went to the beaches of Sydney and Queensland to surf that day.

yeah...the water conditions are something to consider...better conditions in NSW than in Melbourne and cold water without a wetsuit can be dangerous; ye wanna stay out in the line up but then ye get cold and then the trouble comes when you get cold with reduced blood circulation...I've seen it before in northern California...

Actually some did. After all the Bells Beach thing started in 1961

[kevjohn]

In 1961 people didn't go surfing too much in Melbourne.....maybe because wetsuits had not been invented and it can be really cold there. But they did go swimming....as a past prime minister did who drowned. Rather ironic that a Swimming Pool can be named after someone who drowned isn;t it.

Of course some, those who could not get into the ground went to the beaches of Sydney and Queensland to surf that day.

yeah...the water conditions are something to consider...better conditions in NSW than in Melbourne and cold water without a wetsuit can be dangerous; ye wanna stay out in the line up but then ye get cold and then the trouble comes when you get cold with reduced blood circulation...I've seen it before in northern California...

As we all know, harry is our medicine man, but it is nice to know that if harry is not available or we need a second opinion, we can call on tutsiwarrior.

Edited June 22, 2012 by kevjohn

[tutsiwarrior]

In 1961 people didn't go surfing too much in Melbourne.....maybe because wetsuits had not been invented and it can be really cold there. But they did go swimming....as a past prime minister did who drowned. Rather ironic that a Swimming Pool can be named after someone who drowned isn;t it.

Of course some, those who could not get into the ground went to the beaches of Sydney and Queensland to surf that day.

yeah...the water conditions are something to consider...better conditions in NSW than in Melbourne and cold water without a wetsuit can be dangerous; ye wanna stay out in the line up but then ye get cold and then the trouble comes when you get cold with reduced blood circulation...I've seen it before in northern California...

Actually some did. After all the Bells Beach thing started in 1961

I saw some fotos of Bells Beach and them mothers were crazy...no way out and you would always get smashed...sorta like The Wedge at Newport in soCal but they were body surfers...no sane person would take a board out in that madness...