surprising espn article - Page 5

dogsballs · #41 05-02-2004, 01:54 AM

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I'm not surprised it isn't but I think cricket should be on the list ranked right with baseball. I thought cricket would be easier because the bat is flat while a baseball bat is round, but the bounce adds a serious degree of difficulty in batting.

Haven't really played cricket, just stepped in when a Jamaican friend of mine was bowling and I think that it was much harder to bat there than in baseball. He was taking it easy on me and there was pretty much nothing I could do but hope to get lucky.

Anybody actually played both?

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This just illustrates the flaw in this ranking setup - it's totally biased by those who picked and judged it. If you went ot jamaica and got their sports experts - or whoever it was at ESPN - to rank them, you'd find cricket way higher up - and no doubt, baseball way lower down...etc etc.

Basically, it's a pile of shite froth article.

PS: I don't like cricket; just for the record, but have played it and would say that the addition of the bounce combined with the seam on the ball would leapfrog it over baseball by a mile, according to the hand-eye coordination-skill set argument.

andyfox · #42 05-02-2004, 02:19 AM

Then we're 1-1 between the two of us.

Josh W · #43 05-02-2004, 06:41 AM

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Say what you will, but the bottom line is that I am a perfect 1-0 in my amateur boxing career.

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While that may be true, do I need to remind you that:

A.) Your opponent's name was "Suni"
B.) Your opponent DID A CARTWHEEL during round 3.

No. I'm not making this up.

jdl22 · #44 05-02-2004, 06:46 AM

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B.) Your opponent DID A CARTWHEEL during round 3.

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Wow that must have been one hell of a punch, I'm impressed.

J_V · #45 05-02-2004, 08:19 AM

The Cherokee word for pidgeon is "wallamie"

Kenrick · #46 05-03-2004, 03:11 PM

Rating golf more physically demanding than bowling is silly. I doubt anyone on the panel of judges has ever thrown a 16-pound ball 18+mph for 50 games while duplicating speed and rotation each time. Even the analytical ability score is in question since in bowling you can't see the oil pattern as it changes. At least in other sports you get to see the obstacles.

Also, going from this list, apparently Ultimate Fighting isn't considered to be a sport.