Simon: ...lack of knowledge is only 'bad' in its relation to
cricket.
While I won't dispute that cricket has more complexity than
baseball, or seems to anyway, such being my ignorance of
team sports, I think the name is a definite turn-off.
In the depths of childhood, I first learned that there was a
game called "cricket." It was a horrible burden for a young
imagination without any visual reference. I imagined
lissome, chirping, hopping insects with long antennae,
muscular hind legs, and wings--engaging in some sort of
frolic with serious pith-helmeted men. The leather-skinned
men would pause for gin-and-tonics or quinine potions, while
the hapless crickets would exercise the song-producing
organs on their front wings. Then the final game action
would commence, the pith-helmeted men striking at the
crickets with the fervor of Zoroastrian priests. The
crickets would fly about the field, intent on evading the
bat-wielding cricketers. All of this would happen in some
tropical colony. There would be lions and tigers watching
from shadowy fronds.
After the game, World War II would start. Every time.
Yours in sports history, Eric
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