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1. Your team doesn't make any moves
2. You find out your star player is out for 2-3 weeks:
http://basketball.realgm.com/src_wireta ... ree_weeks/
3. The biggest trade is for Skip To My Lou... (unless a late trade is announced )

4. Wendy's said they were out of fries. WHAT!?

When the hell did 99 cent chicken nuggets become $1.39?

5. When instead of actually paying attention the the trade rumors, you watch a cricket match.....
Ugh.

chatard5 wrote:When the hell did 99 cent chicken nuggets become $1.39?

When they serve near a college. All fast food prices near colleges are around $.40 more for just about every item.

I would normally make fun of cricket, but did you see #7 in sportscenter the other night? It was a sweet cricket play and a really slow sports day, clearly.

About Wendy's... I have noticed they're more around colleges, but when I was at home and went to the Wendy's near my house they raised the prices. They didn't make the junior bacon cheeseburger any cheaper, they just made it half the size.

6. The Office (my favorite series along with Entourage) isn't new. STUPID!

Cricket is like the equivalent of Baseball to you, but without all the entertainment value. Its practically one guy bowling to batsmen. Repeat for 9 hours.

- Two teams of 11 players. One takes a turn at batting, while the other bowls.

- A complete round of batting is known as an innings, this is completed when all batsmen are dismissed or a declaration is made. In shorter forms of the game and innings can also consist of a certain number of overs (20 or 50).

- An over is 6 balls long.

- Scoring is tracked in "runs". That is each time you run to the other end of the pitch, you score a run. Boundaries consist of 4 runs, or if you clear the fence (home run style) you get 6 runs.

- There are many modes of dismissal for batsmen. Leg Before Wicket (lbw), bowled, caught, run-out, hit wicket etc.

-When bowling if you run passed the bowling line and overstep you will be declared for a "no ball" and have to bowl it again. The same can be said if the ball bounces twice before reaching the batsman, or you bowl too high or wide for the batsman to reach it. (the latter is simply known as a wide)

- Test matches run for 5 days with two innings from both teams. There are also 50 over games and 20 over games.

- The team that accumulates the most runs wins the match.

7. You know it's a bad trade deadline to take the time to explain cricket.

8. You know it's a bad trade deadline when you take the time to read an explanation about cricket.

Ouch....

9. You know it's a bad trade deadline when your green font goes unnoticed, prompting a poor Australian to type a riveting. adrenaline-pumping, thrill ride of an explanation about a sport that, while related to baseball, is potentially long-running, though at least it wasn't a Quidditch explanation.

Thanks, Gremz. It's good to be knowledgeable about more than one sport, although if you made cricket analogies, they would be lost on me.

Really? You didn't catch the replay of the AUS/NZ One Day game where Ponting was caught out off a no ball making it invalid, then he persisted hitting boundary after boundary as the NZ captain had decided to invoke the power play phase far too early. They also chose to use a terrible bowling attack including two medium pacers and a left-arm chinaman. They bowled too much from around the wicket and not nearly enough over the wicket. Vettori also failed miserably with his arm-ball and went for about 6 RPO.

Wow. Can't say I understood any of that. I did see the word "pacers" in there though. So that's a plus.

Gremz: I didn't mean to come off sounding like a jerk. My apologies.

Oh no don't apologize. i meant ouch for cricket, you actually had a valid point.

I'm Chinese. Would that make me a good chinaman?

Brad Hogg is not a chinaman. What the hell? Simon Katich? Who are these non-Chinese cricket players doing trying to pass themselves off as chinamen?

I know why cricket hasn't caught on in America. "Chinaman" is a word that would get kids in trouble at school, but I only think it's bad when the discussion also involves either railroads, kung fu, or laundromats.

Research Michael Bevan, he was a great left arm Chinaman.

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Michael-Bevan

I was two lines in and realized I had no idea what that mess was all about.