"So , tell me bazwillrun
What is so exciting about watching 22 blokes kicking a bag of wind across a field ?"
Must be some tribal thing I just don't get....but then again NOTHING is as boring and silly as softball for adults...'baseball'. I went to my first game last year...New York Yankees stadium, playing some other team or other. All that happened was that they kept playing the national anthem (and sung it badly), scoffed their faces with loads of fatty food, people proposed in the crowd, the captive audience was then bombarded with Advertising for another new V8 Ford truck whilst they kept on saying prayers for all their 'fallen' (read dead) comrades in Iraq. Then every 30 minutes or so someone with a goatee and a stick, sporting a pair of pyjamas and a plastic hat would run around in circles. Most queer behaviour. ;o)
Now cricket....(flame suit on!)
PS, I don't know why this thread is in the Science section?