"Five sucks" says baseball fan
 

"J G Miller" wrote in message ...



PS Is the dog from that film you saw, the dog from
A Boy and His Dog (1975)?



it isnt!



--
Gareth.

that fly...... is your magic wand....

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R. Mark Clayton explained :
"Paul D.Smith" wrote in message
...

Baseball and American Football (and to a lesser extent Rugby) are both games
that do not flow. Both require constant referee / umpire intervention and
adjudication. In baseball the game hinges around the decision of whether
each ball passes over the plate at the right height (cricket has wickets and
adjudication is only needed if the ball strikes the batsman's legs and the
other team claim). Three base umpires are required as well.

In American Football play rarely proceeds for more than a few seconds without
the whistle being blown and another set piece.]

Contrast soccer where adjudication is limited to offside, foul play and
occasionally who last touched the ball. A friendly football match often
proceed without a referee (e.g. both sides normally know and agree the next
move if the ball goes out of play).

There's no such sport as soccer - it's football !!!!!

In the paragraph above you refer to Rugby;..why did you not call it
rugger ?
Are the England RU home fixtures played at Twickers ?

The BBC would not even think of using these slang/cant terms to refer
to RU, and yet they denigrate the World's game ( football ) by not
calling it by the name used by the people who play it.

Alan P

"Five sucks" says baseball fan
 

"R. Mark Clayton" wrote in message
...
:
: Cricket can take up to five days, and some tests between the wars were
: actually untimed. OTOH crickets laws, whilst complicated, are generally
: easibly interpreted by the players. The middle stump was introduce ~150
: years ago to remove doubt about when a player was out. Very obviously in
: baseball, whether a ball passes over the plate is very subjective and even
: MLB umpires are frquently wrong.

we've had baseball games last 16 hours.

"Five sucks" says baseball fan
 

On 2008-10-27, J G Miller wrote:
On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:38:43 +0000, The dog from that film you saw
postulated:
if they ever did hold a baseball competition with non american
countries participating they'd have to call it the universal cup.
It would appear that you are not aware that baseball is a major
sport in Japan
that there are numerous teams in Cymru
and even teams in Liverpool

None of which are eligiable to play in the World Series.
(The significant international competition is called the
World Baseball Classic)

"Five sucks" says baseball fan
 

"Paul D.Smith" wrote in message
...
"soup" wrote in message
om...
Paul D.Smith wrote:

And for those who don't know, the World Series is named for the defunct
"World News" newspaper .

Oh no it isn't
http://www.snopes.com/business/names/worldseries.asp

I live and learn! But sadly not the final score if I watch the World
Series recorded from Five and rely on them setting the "end recording
tags" correctly ;-).

Paul DS



You may learn not to do that again. ;-)

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"Alan P" wrote in message
...
R. Mark Clayton explained :
"Paul D.Smith" wrote in message
...

Baseball and American Football (and to a lesser extent Rugby) are both
games that do not flow. Both require constant referee / umpire
intervention and adjudication. In baseball the game hinges around the
decision of whether each ball passes over the plate at the right height
(cricket has wickets and adjudication is only needed if the ball strikes
the batsman's legs and the other team claim). Three base umpires are
required as well.

In American Football play rarely proceeds for more than a few seconds
without the whistle being blown and another set piece.]

Contrast soccer where adjudication is limited to offside, foul play and
occasionally who last touched the ball. A friendly football match often
proceed without a referee (e.g. both sides normally know and agree the
next move if the ball goes out of play).

There's no such sport as soccer - it's football !!!!!

In the paragraph above you refer to Rugby;..why did you not call it rugger
?
Are the England RU home fixtures played at Twickers ?

The BBC would not even think of using these slang/cant terms to refer
to RU, and yet they denigrate the World's game ( football ) by not calling
it by the name used by the people who play it.

Alan P



These are Americanisms

Soccer = aSOCiation football
Rugger = RUGby football.
football = american fotball

"Five sucks" says baseball fan
 

Paul D.Smith wrote:

" Well done Five for ("Freeview auto") ending Game 1 of the World
Series at the "estimated" time instead of at the end of the game - which
was somewhat later! "


It could be worse. You could have turned on last night to watch the
rest of the game like me. I saw that Five were in the bottom of the
fourth whilst NASN2 on Setanta was in the top of the fifth. I thought
'Five are about 2 minutes behind' so continued to watch NASN2 for about
ten minutes until I realised that I was watching a repeat of game 3
instead of game 5 on Five. To my defence the score was 2-1 in both
games at the time, so I have some excuse, or maybe not.

"Five sucks" says baseball fan
 

R. Mark Clayton wrote:
"UnsteadyKen" wrote in message
m...
Paul D.Smith wrote...

Well done Five for ("Freeview auto") ending Game 1 of the World Series at
the "estimated" time instead of at the end of the game - which was
somewhat
later!
That makes a change, usually it overruns by 30 mins or so leavings us
Indycar/Nascar fans twiddling our thumbs and watching rounders. But;
good for Five at least they do show these "minority interest" sports.

Nearly all US motor sport broadcasts are in 4.3, don't they have
widescreen over the pond? Or are we losing something in the conversion?

As with a lot of films, I think the deal is that 5 only get 4:3 and have to
fill in during various bits with their own presenters.


Five's NFL studio presenters have a widescreen TV
behind them, even though the programme is 4:3. I
suspect the feed gets stretched. Do they need to pay
extra for WS?

I don't think Five supports the accurate recording
feature for Freeview recorders. Some other channels
seem able to delay ending a recording when a sports
event overruns.

"Five sucks" says baseball fan
 

Jim wrote:

R. Mark Clayton wrote:
"UnsteadyKen" wrote in message
Nearly all US motor sport broadcasts are in 4.3, don't they have
widescreen over the pond? Or are we losing something in the conversion?

As with a lot of films, I think the deal is that 5 only get 4:3 and have to
fill in during various bits with their own presenters.

Five's NFL studio presenters have a widescreen TV
behind them, even though the programme is 4:3. I
suspect the feed gets stretched. Do they need to pay
extra for WS?

IN the US, widescreen, high-def, and DTT are bundled as a single new TV
standard, unlike the haphazard mess that we got over here. So I suspect
that US providers charge extra for widescreen feeds because they'd be
primarily high-def feeds which would be wasted on Five.

--
Dave Farrance

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"R. Mark Clayton" wrote in message
...
:
: These are Americanisms
:
: Soccer = aSOCiation football

not really..

It's true that the game known as "football" in most of the world (not just
the UK) is known as "soccer" in the US, but we didn't just pull the word out
of the air so that we could call our quasi-gladiatorial extravaganzas
"football." In fact, you Brits actually invented the word. "Soccer," when it
first appeared in the 1890s, was spelled "socca," which was short for
"association" or "association football," meaning football played according
to the rules laid down by the British Football Association. It was also
called "socker" until the current form "soccer" appeared around 1895.

http://www.word-detective.com/121800.html#soccer