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Hunter/Jumper wrote:
Tho clearly some here are dense. Most English speaking people know baseball basics, the terms and American slang pretty well, am I not correct ?

99% of the world don't know shit about baseball

i can say it is played by like 1% of the population here

you vastly overstate your sporting cultural significance

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2010-10-24 10:28:02

#81

eleven bravo: Member; +1,399|5648|foggy bottom

baseball is big in countries that the US military has had an extended presence in. Japan, Latin America, getting popular in Iraq.

Tu Stultus Es

2010-10-24 10:30:18

#82

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6859

same thing with cricket after the Raj and british empire

pretty funny that baseball is just a shittified working-class version of cricket

just like your empire is a shit clone-attempt, too

BOOOOONG

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2010-10-24 10:32:41

#83

eleven bravo: Member; +1,399|5648|foggy bottom

least we still have an empire oh yeah

Tu Stultus Es

2010-10-24 10:36:41

#84

RTHKI: mmmf mmmf mmmf; +1,745|7126|Cinncinatti

and we can use our bats to beat up other people

2010-10-24 10:37:19

#85

eleven bravo: Member; +1,399|5648|foggy bottom

cricket bat would fuck someone up

Tu Stultus Es

2010-10-24 10:37:48

#86

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6859

cricket bat is much better for breaking limbs than a baseball bat

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2010-10-24 10:38:05

#87

RTHKI: mmmf mmmf mmmf; +1,745|7126|Cinncinatti

more than a metal bat?

2010-10-24 10:38:12

#88

eleven bravo: Member; +1,399|5648|foggy bottom

baseball bat is much better at collapsing skulls

Tu Stultus Es

2010-10-24 10:39:34

#89

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6859

RTHKI wrote:
more than a metal bat?

you ever held a cricket bat?

they're fucking heavy and have thinner surface areas on the side... they're wedge shaped

i know which i'd rather be taking to the shins or forearm

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2010-10-24 10:44:06

#90

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5747|London, England

I always see Indians in white uniforms playing cricket in the park near my apartment. They look so cute

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
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2010-10-24 10:49:28

#91

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6859

yeah.

also cricket bats on average weight 0.5k more than a baseball bat. that and thin wooden edge...

like bringing a baseball bat to a cricket fight

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2010-10-24 11:06:14

#92

RTHKI: mmmf mmmf mmmf; +1,745|7126|Cinncinatti

do cricket bats break as easily as baseball ones

2010-10-24 11:34:36

#93

Uzique: dasein.; +2,865|6859

not if they're broken in properly. willow wood is very strong when it has been treated.

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2010-10-24 12:21:52

#94

Jay: Bork! Bork! Bork!; +2,006|5747|London, England

I'll stick with my composite softball bats.

"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat

2010-10-24 12:22:26

#95

RTHKI: mmmf mmmf mmmf; +1,745|7126|Cinncinatti

whiffle ball bats

2010-10-24 12:25:07

#96

jord: Member; +2,382|7067|The North, beyond the wall.

I'll stick with my tacky samurai swords.

2010-10-24 19:12:29

#97

Turquoise: O Canada; +1,596|6794|North Carolina

jord wrote:
I'll stick with my tacky samurai swords.

I thought the UK banned those.

2010-10-25 00:59:17

#98

Spark: liquid fluoride thorium reactor; +874|7064|Canberra, AUS

RTHKI wrote:
do cricket bats break as easily as baseball ones

Goodness me no.

A proper cricket bat, you don't have to really swing very hard and the ball can travel a long, long, long way. Heavy ball too.

The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
^{~ Richard Feynman}

2010-10-25 02:13:25

#99

jord: Member; +2,382|7067|The North, beyond the wall.

Turquoise wrote:
jord wrote:
I'll stick with my tacky samurai swords.
I thought the UK banned those.

I think ebay just removed them, I don't know nor do I particularly care. I'm not about to hand in 4 swords in some kind of amnesty, lol.

2010-10-25 17:56:03

#100

Hunter/Jumper: Member; +117|6743

Uzique wrote:
Hunter/Jumper wrote:
Tho clearly some here are dense. Most English speaking people know baseball basics, the terms and American slang pretty well, am I not correct ?
99% of the world don't know shit about baseball

i can say it is played by like 1% of the population here

you vastly overstate your sporting cultural significance

I didn't state my " sporting cultural significance " at all. But I would venture baseball is more widely known than you think. Asia and South America come to mind.

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