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Bob Greece 
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 Topic: Prog and sport
Posted: August 25 2005 at 06:34 |
For our UK prog friends - do prog lovers normally prefer cricket to football because it's more complex?
For our US prog friends, do you prefer baseball to other sports?
And for the rest of us prog lovers, do you prefer a sport more complex than football?!
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spectral
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 06:36 |
cricket is as dull as dishwater; it is hardly that complex. the only complex thing about it is how to maintain your attention span when cricket matches can last 5 days and still end in a draw! 
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"...misty halos made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine."
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Blacksword
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 06:37 |
Tennis is my favourite sport! 
I like football (Soccer) but I'm not a fanatic, and I dont like Cricket, it bores me.
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Blacksword
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 06:38 |
 spectral wrote:
cricket is as dull as dishwater; it is hardly that complex. the only complex thing about it is how to maintain your attention span when cricket matches can last 5 days and still end in a draw! |
Yes, that sums up my attitiude to cricket. 
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Drachen Theaker
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 06:41 |
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I like cricket! In fact I'm going to the Test Match at
Trent Bridge this weekend.
Could have sold the tickets for a few hundred quid
on eBay but I want to see the Aussies getting a good
kicking!
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"It's 1973, almost dinnertime and I'm 'aving 'oops!" - Gene Hunt
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Blacksword
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 06:50 |
Drachen Theaker wrote:
I like cricket! In fact I'm going to the Test Match at
Trent Bridge this weekend.
Could have sold the tickets for a few hundred quid
on eBay but I want to see the Aussies getting a good
kicking! |
A good kicking??
Cricket used to be such a 'nice' game.. Now it's fallen into the jaws of hooliganism, encouraged by the likes of prog fans like Drachen Theaker!
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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jitu
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 06:51 |
bed-sport
my favourite
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Syzygy
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 06:54 |
Football is my preferred sport (note to Americans; if it was called soccer, the international governing body would be called FISA, not FIFA).
It's nice to see England (or indeed any UK team) perform well internationally, but I can't get my head around 5 day test matches so I'll just watch the highlights on the news.
When I was at school we had an American exchange teacher who taught those of us who weren't bothered about cricket how to play softball, and also explained about baseball. Many years later, living in Japan, I followed the Nagoya Dragons (my local team) and also got into watching sumo. American football, on the other hand, has always bored me to death.
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'Like so many of you
I've got my doubts about how much to contribute
to the already rich among us...'
Robert Wyatt, Gloria Gloom
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Drachen Theaker
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Joined: April 22 2005
Location: England
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 06:54 |
Blacksword wrote:
Drachen
Theaker wrote:
I like cricket! In fact I'm going to the Test
Match at Trent Bridge this weekend. Could have sold
the tickets for a few hundred quid on eBay but I want
to see the Aussies getting a good kicking! |
A good kicking??
Cricket used to be such a 'nice' game.. Now
it's fallen into the jaws of hooliganism, encouraged
by the likes of prog fans like Drachen Theaker!
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Just a turn of phrase Blackie old boy! 
I reckon cricket is tailor-made for prog-lovers - a
lengthy epic that can either end in thrilling fashion or
disappointing anti-climax.
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"It's 1973, almost dinnertime and I'm 'aving 'oops!" - Gene Hunt
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Citanul
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 07:16 |
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I like cricket, but I prefer rugby to cricket. In fact, those are
the only two sports that South Africa has really been any good at,
other than a few isolated incidents in things like swimming, athletics
and tennis.
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Be or be not. There is no question. - Yoda, Prince of Denmark
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Dragon Phoenix
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 07:18 |
Chess!
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Blog this:
http://artrock2006.blogspot.com
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Eetu Pellonpaa
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 07:27 |
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I líke monothonic and solitary sports, like swimming, running etc.
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Scrambled_Eggs
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 07:51 |
My favorite sport is easily hockey. It's very entertaining to watch and even more fun to play. Thankfully, there will be a season of the NHL this year. Last year, there was no sport to watch in the winter except basketball.
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And I am not frightened of dying, any time will do, I
don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying?
There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime.
I never said I was frightened of dying.
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RaphaelT
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 08:16 |
I simply love football (btw why Wisła had to defeat to Panathinaikos in Champions' League Qualifiers) and prog.
These two come together wery well nevertheless, because in book "Close To The Edge A Story Of Yes" by Chris Welch I saw a photo of Yes United (various members of Yes(Rick, Alan and Jon) and their staff, including famous manager Brian Lane making a football team). Since I borrow the book I can't send that picture, sorry.
About prog and football I shall quote Roger Taylor of Queen (I agree, it's not prog but good quote though) "Only football gives us thrills, rock'n'roll just pays the bills")
And about prog and cricket (the rules are really simple, as one of my English native speakers' once said) - look at the cover of Nursery Cryme by Genesis
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yet you still have time!
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Chipiron
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 08:18 |
Football (Soccer), Tennis, Skiing...
Not too complex at all...
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BaldJean
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 08:27 |
I am American by birth and lived in the USA for the first 24 years of my life, before I went to Germany bcause of a job offer. yet I can't understand why my former countrymen (and some women too) are so fond of the ABSOLUTELY BORING sport baseball! maybe it's because I'm a woman.
American football is fine though; I am a Raiders fan.
but my favorite sport is tennis (I was a huge fan of Steffi). Friede and I often play tennis, and it is anyone's match between us; we are both equally bad at it  . but we have fun playing!
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Citanul
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 08:41 |
BaldJean wrote:
yet I can't understand why my former countrymen (and some women
too) are so fond of the ABSOLUTELY BORING sport baseball! maybe it's because I'm a woman.
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I've only ever watched one baseball game, I found that boring. On
the other hand, I like cricket, and some people find that boring.
RaphaelT wrote:
And about prog and cricket (the rules are really simple, as one of my English native speakers' once said) - look at the cover of Nursery Cryme by Genesis |
That's actually croquet on the Nursery Cryme cover.
Some of you may have seen this before, but I'll post it anyway:
Cricket: As explained to a foreigner...
You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in
the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next
man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out
comes in and the side thats been in goes
out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still
in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him
out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out
and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the
time and they decide when the men who are in are out.
When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides
have been out twice after all the men have been in,
including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!
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Be or be not. There is no question. - Yoda, Prince of Denmark
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Drachen Theaker
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 09:37 |
Citanul wrote:
Cricket: As explained to a foreigner... You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!
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"It's 1973, almost dinnertime and I'm 'aving 'oops!" - Gene Hunt
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spectral
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 09:39 |
Citanul wrote:
Cricket: As explained to a foreigner... You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side thats been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out.
When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!
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 ...someone wake me when this is over!
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"...misty halos made visible by the spectral illumination of moonshine."
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Dick Heath
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Posted: August 25 2005 at 09:53 |
jitu wrote:
bed-sport
my favourite
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Do you change ends half-time?
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