Rodney Ulyate's Blog - Posts Tagged "red-sox"
Baseball
"Cricket," according to Robin Williams, "is basically baseball on valium." I'd always assumed this was true, and had been fond of invoking the American game to deride the twenty-over one, but after last night I don't think I'll be doing so again.
It was the first match of the Red Sox's home series against the Yankees, and I'm afraid I was dormant within the first hour. A more sluggish contest I have never witnessed (and I saw Australia's ninth-wicket stand in the second innings at Pallekele, where at least bat met ball from time to time). When finally there was a "hit," the commentator spoke as if it were the rarest thing in the world. Apparently it's even rarer: I find on checking the score this morning that there were only sixteen in the whole three hours and seventeen innings.
Those clichés about the American attention span turn out to be so much slander. Who knew?
It was the first match of the Red Sox's home series against the Yankees, and I'm afraid I was dormant within the first hour. A more sluggish contest I have never witnessed (and I saw Australia's ninth-wicket stand in the second innings at Pallekele, where at least bat met ball from time to time). When finally there was a "hit," the commentator spoke as if it were the rarest thing in the world. Apparently it's even rarer: I find on checking the score this morning that there were only sixteen in the whole three hours and seventeen innings.
Those clichés about the American attention span turn out to be so much slander. Who knew?
