Sunday, June 15, 2025

I OWE HOWIE AN APOLOGY

By Bob Walsh

 

Norte v. Sur cricket match. Credit: Fernando Romero Núñez

 

I watched part of the Major League Cricket match on the television today.  Yes, it was televised.  There were AT LEAST 350 people in the stands at the Coliseum, there may have been as many as 500.  

I still have no idea how it is scored.  The score was 125-1 when I had to sign off and go over to my lady friend's.  Whether your bat is touching the ground or not when you are making the turns when you run is very important.  I did figure that part out.  And I could sort of understand the announcers.  They both spoke English rather than American, so I had to work at it.

I may have been able to understand it better had I been drunk, but I was out of Green Death, so that didn't happen.  Life is hard.
 
ADDENDUM: The Cricket Match at the Oakland Coliseum yesterday between the San Francisco Unicorns and the Los Angeles Knight Riders had a total attendance of 5,126.  The final score was 219/8 to 187 in favor of San Francisco.  I still have no idea how the scores are made so I have no idea how meaningful a win by 32 runs is, but there it is.  The spectators seemed to be enjoying themselves and that is at least 5,126 people in Oakland who were not setting fire to shit yesterday, so that is a good thing.  

(Weren't the Knight Riders what the Klan called their terrorists back in the day?  Or is that what other people called them?) 

1 comment:

bob walsh said...

There were actually slightly over 5,000 attendees. The final score was 219 SF and 187 LA.