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Originally Posted by Pelican
Your postings are great. Thanks for sharing.
As an aside, I was once in a pub in New Zealand, a Yank walking in on a cricket match with Australia. The mood was intense, even though the match was playing out over hours and hours. Once they realized I was clueless as to the rules, guys (I mean blokes) tried to explain, as play unfolded. But the best advice I got was from a bloke who advised me to stop trying to see cricket in baseball terms. "Mate, forget about your baseball. The games are too different. It will only confuse you." I think that was wise, for me at least. Cricket was easier to grasp as a whole new game, not as an odd variant of baseball.
Probably that is not helpful to you. You're way beyond that in your grasp. But it does reflect how hard it is to fully comprehend a new sport in terms of history and strategy and metrics.
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100% mate, and this is exactly what i was trying to get across with that table comparison. It articulates the reasons why i needed to leverage GPT (more acceptable than kidnapping a baseball-file to answer my obvious and dumb baseball questions over and over). It's helped me bridge a divide i knew was there (given the level of complexity and nuance I knew from cricket) in 'game knowledge'.. If I couldn't close that knowledge gap, then i think its a high likelihood that i don't get anywhere near the amount out of OOTP26. The help of GPT in this has been super frustrating (2 steps forward, one step back) hence why its taking me months to now start getting some of this stuff ready to share.
Oh I bet in that Kiwi pub you no-doubt got the sob story of Trevor 'f$^#ing' Chappell's underarm delivery....boo-hoo.......
they may have a valid point..
That would've been an awesome experience...I'm gearing up for the big one for us Australian and English cricket tragics. The Ashes... Aust v England. Its a 150 yr sporting rivalry, and we managed to get tix to day 1 (its goes for 5 days!) for the 1st of the 5 Test Matches in the Series. First Test in Brisbane, and its my 12 yr old son's first experience - it's a truly amazing and unique sporting experience. And one I think hardcore baseball fans would come to grips with. Its got all that quirkiness as well as stats, plus a whole lot else. It's the classic pub sport to have on and spend hours arguing with mates on pointless trivialities..
