Friday 28 December 2012

Ode to the silly - season: cricket et al



I write  an  article herein about the vagaries of cricket and other sports. TO BE CONTINUED: this is written without apprprite editing,
Geoff Seidner

Kindly note that the Australian Football League has under it's socialist AFL football operations manager ANDREW DEMETRIOU made a parody of itself when even the leftist newspaper The SMH recognizes AFL and socialism in disparate realms! 
[see items at end of this scribble]

I continue the parody at partly AFL expense  hereunder.
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On resting players: see the below pair of excellent letters.

I further add that if my comments about the inevitable injuries to fast bowlers were heeded, then this 'resting' of trained athletes would not be necessary! [see links here]


http://socialistdystopia.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/fast-bowlers-crippled-australian.html

Furthermore if appropriate sharing of bowling duties was encouraged by authorities who should have pointed out to them that the arcane game of cricket is essentially unique in retaining  for 160 years the strange idea that all the skills are not needed by all the players!
Surely this is unique in international sports!

To wit - that batsmen do not have to bat and vice - versa.

I recall with wry humour Shane Warne's classical put down:
''Can't bat, can't bowl'' [in a semi - related context]
POOR ALL ROUNDERS!! Seemingly they are not expected to excell in all their endeavours!

Furthermore, it is simply a pathetic insult when the flannelled people cannot find say, soccer players who do not have to head the ball, or dribble the ball. Soccer has a number of problems - the sheer idiocy of the offside rule [Hockey years ago vitiated this idiocy] and the brain /  head damage of heading a wet, heavy ball: but at least the brain injuries explain why no - one has had an original thought and done away with former!

Soccer has an additional problem: no one can understand how imbecilic the offside rule is!
I will one day write an analytical article devoted to the mathematically informed, erudite  - someone may understand. Sigh!

But I digress now -  all sports have idiosyncrasies. Tennis and the wet - bulb measurement of debilitating heat barely compares with having a 'let' point - with all the adjudication problems. 

Tennis officials have so much money on their hands that they have to spend millions on an error - prone  Hawk - Eye system when a simple video camera would be devoid of problems.
Who has not seen distortions in the mega - expensive computer - based Hawk - Eye?

Aussie Rules with deliberate out of bounds should use psychiatrists: with appeals to a board of 'shrinks': NO , umpire - I did not mean it - I did not mean to put  it out of bounds - deliberately!
I will swear a Statutory Declaration to the Chief Leftist / post modernist Demitreou - and appeal it to his bunch of his socialist board - just do not rule it deliberately out of bounds.
I promise and so declare.

If the AFL had enough non - socialist nous to copy soccer - then the viewers would not have to put up with constant ball -ups and throw - ins. [do not get me started about AFL deliberately forcing the umpire to learn useless error - prone  skill of ball - up!
Oz rules has a socialist policy with rules on the draft: compare with the sarcastic 'failures' of World Soccer - say the Premier League. Those millions do pervert, non comrade D?

Cricket: The front - foot rule
Mathematically, the idea of trying to glean say, 0.00000001% advantage by going for a centimetre or two advantage is an insult to the intelligence of those who understand numbers.
The essential disaster of giving away a run and a free hit  to the batsman is way out if the risk - reward ratio.
Coaches - who may be able to bat, bowl and perchance did elemental maths - and kept away from heading a soccer ball on a wet days -  should have told their bowlers that they should make sure that they are at least 10 - 30 centimetres behind the safety zone.

It is understood that the reason these flanneled fools try to encroach is to give the batsman 0.00001 sec less time to sight the ball: it is time that coaches told players that this is the futility of futilities! Inequitable!

Kerry O'Keefe - ABC radio on Wednesday 26/ 12/2012 [at 10. 10 am] rambled on about the front foot rule.
But no!
He did not say anything sensible!
No this sniggering entity mentioned an absurd idea that the front foot rule causes injuries!
So - no - one can glean any semblance of wisdom from KO - who must have headed the cricket ball in his spinning days!
This vainglorious asinity was stunning - in that his  co - commentators were obviously carrying injuries from their sporting days! No comments from them!

Ultimately - it is the stupidity of bowlers that fascinates me!
We all know that the All mighty has rarely granted disparate / multi talent /  insight /  and intellectual skills to sports people. 
But there must be someone who understands these notes that will be continued during what is known as 'the silly season?


I have seen too many asinine  articles on sports, written by intellectuals and sportsmen.

I am certainly neither.

It is hoped this quickly - written scribble finds favour with at least  those who have been disproportionally blessed.



Geoff Seidner
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Starc missed

SINCE when was Test cricket a round-robin selection affair? The Australian selectors have made a fundamental mistake in leaving out Mitchell Starc.
At every level of serious cricket, teams are picked on form and the best side is chosen. No one gets dropped just to have a rest.
And this, after all, is Test cricket. It takes years to get there and your selection is safe when you do all that is asked of you in the previous games. Even when you have a lean trot, you are retained for a time once you have made the grade.
The selectors have been unfair to Test cricket, Mitchell Starc and the fans who pay and love to watch the best in the world.
Will the selectors have the guts to reverse this ill-judged decision and return to picking sides based on commitment to playing for Australia?
Neil Bach, Forest Hill, Vic
THE rotating of Test bowlers is Australian cricket's global warming -the attempt to influence the future by punishing the present.
Steve Moore, St Peters, NSW



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