Re: An American View of Cricket (longish)

Randy Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Richard R. Hershberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > Most people recognize that sometimes a better teams loses to a
> > lesser team.
> 
> No.  Most people recognize that the team they thought was better
> sometimes loses to a team that they thought was not as good.

So if I were to take a poll, asking people which was the better team
last season, the Yankees or the Devil Rays, most people would respond
by inquiring what exact day I meant?  Only in your version of reality.

  But
> only somebody totally arrogant would maintain that the team that
> they thought was better really was better even though it was just
> bested in competition.

Umm...  No, somebody who understands baseball would recognize that,
for example, a worse team's number one pitcher having a good day might
beat a better team's number five pitcher having a bad team.  Where
arrogance enters in is with the belief that one's personal pet
definition of "better team" is the only possible definition.
> 
> The whole point is to best the competition on the field.  Nobody
> cares what your spreadsheet says.

Gosh, did I mention having a spreadsheet?  That would be surprising,
since I have never had occasion to use a spreadsheet in a baseball
context.  Oh, wait:  you just made that up, and your record for
veracity is upheld.
> 
> Nobody cares what you say.  Go away.

Ooh, that hurts.  Oh, wait:  when you write "nobody" you mean yourself
and only yourself.  I can live with that.  Of course if you really
didn't care, you wouldn't respond.  Feel free to illustrate this
unconcern.

Richard R. Hershberger