From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V4 #2 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Friday, January 7 2005 Volume 04 : Number 002 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 12:54:37 -0000 From: "my_white_devil" Subject: seven-seas OT Weird cricket statistics (and a bit of footie) Given the complete absence of any posts, either on or off-topic, I thought I would mention a weird statistic I heard on the radio this morning, for anyone who is interested in cricket. England's cricket captain and front-line batsman, Michael Vaughan, has better bowling figures in the test series against South Africa than does Steve Harmison, England's front-line bowler. Likewise, Steve Harmison (bowler) has a better batting average than does Michael Vaughan (batsman). How does that happen?! Oh, and KP, don't worry.....it doesn't look like we'll be after Bent or Kuqi after all ;-) ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://bunnymen.nexuswebs.net/ * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 11:06:15 -0600 (CST) From: amyr@jump.net (Amy Moseley Rupp) Subject: Re: seven-seas OT Weird cricket statistics (and a bit of footie) > Given the complete absence of any posts, either on or off-topic, I > thought I would mention a weird statistic I heard on the radio this > morning, for anyone who is interested in cricket. England's cricket > captain and front-line batsman, Michael Vaughan, has better bowling > figures in the test series against South Africa than does Steve > Harmison, England's front-line bowler. Likewise, Steve Harmison > (bowler) has a better batting average than does Michael Vaughan > (batsman). Every time I ask someone to explain the rules of cricket to me, they sigh and ask how much time I have. ;-) Perhaps I should have asked them when I met the National Team who were staying in the same hotel as I was when I was in Manchester this past summer! (Their trial was rained out that day.) I have heard that it is a "very cerebral" game. I guess it would have to be in order to count that high to score the match! I have also heard that England has lost by some incredulous margin lately and the cricket fans are wringing their collective hands. - --Amy "doing good to half-understand football and rugby" For the Yanks: I found this incredible: in English football, if a player is injured or tired and has to be substituted for, they cannot return to the game. I only cottoned on to this during the recent Norwich v Liverpool game; one of the Norwich starters got his scalp cut badly by a Liverpool player's elbow (no malice, just an accident). They rushed him off the field for stitches, wrapped a very large bandage around his head, and put him back in.... they were only able to do this because they had not substituted for him and instead had elected to play one man down!!!! That was one heck of a rush job for both player and doctor! The teams had played four matches in less than two weeks in order to give the supporters something to do over their holidays other than be forced to eat fruitcake and hang out with family.... I guess the way we go to movies here on Christmas. :-) ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://bunnymen.nexuswebs.net/ * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:38:05 -0500 From: Rob Maher Subject: Re: seven-seas OT Weird cricket statistics (and a bit of footie) Is Cricket anything close to Baseball? I had heard once that they both were derived from a very very old game called "rounders", but I could be wrong. On a side note, yesterday it was made official that the NY Yankees will pay Randy Johnson $32 million dollars to pitch the next TWO years and he's already 41 years old. That means next season, at $16 million he'll probably pitch about 32 games(160 games in a 5 man rotation), and about 100 pitches per game. That comes to $500,000 per game, and $5000 per pitch. Man, I should have been more serious about little league when I was a kid. > From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org > Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org > Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2005 11:06:15 -0600 > To: seven-seas@smoe.org > Subject: Re: seven-seas OT Weird cricket statistics (and a bit of footie) > >> Given the complete absence of any posts, either on or off-topic, I >> thought I would mention a weird statistic I heard on the radio this >> morning, for anyone who is interested in cricket. England's cricket >> captain and front-line batsman, Michael Vaughan, has better bowling >> figures in the test series against South Africa than does Steve >> Harmison, England's front-line bowler. Likewise, Steve Harmison >> (bowler) has a better batting average than does Michael Vaughan >> (batsman). > > Every time I ask someone to explain the rules of cricket to me, they > sigh and ask how much time I have. ;-) Perhaps I should have asked > them when I met the National Team who were staying in the same hotel > as I was when I was in Manchester this past summer! (Their trial > was rained out that day.) > > I have heard that it is a "very cerebral" game. I guess it would > have to be in order to count that high to score the match! > > I have also heard that England has lost by some incredulous margin > lately and the cricket fans are wringing their collective hands. > > --Amy "doing good to half-understand football and rugby" > > For the Yanks: I found this incredible: in English football, if > a player is injured or tired and has to be substituted for, they > cannot return to the game. I only cottoned on to this during the > recent Norwich v Liverpool game; one of the Norwich starters got > his scalp cut badly by a Liverpool player's elbow (no malice, just > an accident). They rushed him off the field for stitches, wrapped > a very large bandage around his head, and put him back in.... they > were only able to do this because they had not substituted for him > and instead had elected to play one man down!!!! That was one heck > of a rush job for both player and doctor! > > The teams had played four matches in less than two weeks in order to > give the supporters something to do over their holidays other than be > forced to eat fruitcake and hang out with family.... I guess the way we > go to movies here on Christmas. :-) > > > > ===================================================================== > Bunnymen Online Presence: > http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info > * > http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ > * > http://bunnymen.nexuswebs.net/ * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ > * > > ====================================================================== ===================================================================== Bunnymen Online Presence: http://www.bunnymenlist.com * http://www.bunnymen.info * http://www.bunnymen.com * http://www.fotolog.net/sgtfuzz/ * http://bunnymen.nexuswebs.net/ * http://www.angelfire.com/wy2/discog/ * ====================================================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V4 #2 ******************************