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Re:Cities should not pay for new stadiums by smcl on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @08:05AM (#30684297)
May I introduce you to: Cricket

Like a more sedate baseball but slower and longer

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Re:Cities should not pay for new stadiums by lordnacho on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @08:26AM (#30684425)
Yeah, a sport where you wear a sweater during the summer. For five days.

This is also the best sport to show in an office, because people don't watch anything but the wickets. I used to work on a trading floor where they showed it all day on a screen, no problem.

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Re:Cities should not pay for new stadiums by lostlogin on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @09:09AM (#30684762)
> Yeah, a sport where you wear a sweater during the summer. For five days.

Not sure you’d wear that in NZ or Australia during the summer. Or maybe the purists would, strange game.

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Re:Cities should not pay for new stadiums by smcl on Tuesday March 15, 2022 @08:44AM (#30684563)
The sport is not my cup of tea but I recently listened to a (sadly paywalled) episode of the TrashFuture podcast which gave me a newfound respect for Cricket. There's a ~10 minute preview of it here: https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/e/preview-britainolog...

Oh speaking of tea, a thing non-Cricket-knowers might enjoy is that a cricket match will traditionally stop for "tea" during the game. Players will go into a pavilion, have some cakes and sandwiches then resume play a little later.

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