It was a hectic weekend, what with an embarrassment of college hoops riches, the Daytona 500, and Sentence of Dave's cooking adventures, so you're forgiven if you missed the opening few matches of the 2011 International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup.This year's cup is being contested in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and India after a nasty bit of business involving a 2009 terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team caused the ICC to strip Pakistan of hosting rights. Wisconsin's teacher's union should heed the lesson, lest Madison be stripped of next year's regional spelling bee.
2011 Cup Mascot Stumpy oversaw the weekend's first matches, as India topped Bangladesh by 87 runs, New Zealand prevailed by 10 wickets over Kenya, and Sri Lanka blasted Canada by 210 runs. Why are scores tallied in both runs and wickets? The fuck do I look like, Sachin Tendulkar?Cup action runs through April 2, mostly because each match (game? set? chukker?) lasts between 3 and 17 hours, under the One Day International rules. The Pakistanis are obviously highly motivated to restore their national honor, so smart money's been flowing strongly in their direction (note to Danimal). G:TB's experts really like the cut of Ottis Gibson's West Indies squad, however. Stay tuned for all the overs, googlies, and wicket-busting action as we track the results right through the final in Mumbai.
To keep you fired up, here's the official song of the 2011 Cup, as sung by De Ghumake. It's no Wavin' Flag, but it's catchy:
i wish i could settle down on the couch and watch a three day test, but we've got school today b/c of all the snow days and i have OBFT-esque dummies from the polar plunge . . . i am definitely making kids dumber today.
ReplyDelete3 inches of snow outside my front door. What the fuck, winter? Enough already.
ReplyDeleteCricket, eh?
ReplyDeleteUgh. Some Egyptian donk named his kid "Facebook"
ReplyDeletemy daughter atari is amused
ReplyDeletethe beach is bustling today (sorry tr) the young lassies have become yet even more aggressive with the size and placement of their bikinis.
ReplyDeletequite a few bikini clad college girls at the polar plunge this weekend . . .
ReplyDeleteI'm wearing a bikini right now.
ReplyDeleteit's 63 degrees in my office. i'm wearing mukluks.
ReplyDeleteYou can't muster another 6 degrees of heat?
ReplyDeleterob - just admit it. you're wearing uggs.
ReplyDeletei feel dirty. binoculars have been affixed to my face for half the day.
ReplyDeletewait, danimal - are you using binoculars to look out your office window?
ReplyDeleteummm....maybe
ReplyDeletestrong
ReplyDeleteyou can get action on the o/u for cam newton's combine 40-yard dash time at 4.60. if you're a degenerate.
ReplyDeletedave bait: clay shirky talking about social media's impact on the revolutions in the middle east.
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I'd take the under on Cam's 40 time. If gambling were legal, of course.
ReplyDeleteApproximately 2.5 days of work for me before I'm off for 2 weeks.
gambling is ILLLEEGAL at Bushwood Sir! Hmmmm....Hmmmm
ReplyDeletemark, the o/u was originally 4.51, but danimal's friends went hard at the over so the line moved.
ReplyDeleteA lot of confidence in the under, huh? I'd be really impressed if that happened. Not impressed enough to be okay with the Redskins selecting him, but...
ReplyDeleteIf memory serves, Tebow ran right around 4.6 and Newton is faster than Tebow. Newton is nothing if not impressive physically. As for the Skins, just hope that if they take a raw, athletic QB it's Newton and not TJ's boy Jake Locker.
ReplyDeleteI don't want a QB this year. But I certainly don't want Locker. I'm all for just being awful this year and landing Luck next year.
ReplyDeleteAnd according to Nfldraftscout.com, Tebow ran a 4.71 and a 4.78.
ReplyDeleteWell, according to www.timtebow40time.com, the answer is "Jesus".
ReplyDeleteSorry Mayhugh, Greg's right.
ReplyDeleteRece Davis: "Kansas won't have Tyshawn Taylor tonight but they will have Brady Morningstar."
ReplyDeleteWell fuck, why is Oklahoma State even bothering to show up?
Is anyone else sick of the Carmelo talk? i don't care where Melo and LaLa end up--and there's no way he'll ever live up to this hype. ENOUGH ALREADY!!
ReplyDeletei'm really hoping the rumored trade between the nuggets and nets that'll send gallinari and mozgov to new jersey happens. prokhorov is not to be trifled with.
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