Comments on: Play of the day: what a snag in center left field! http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/ Baseball. Baseball. And then a bit more baseball. Sun, 19 May 2013 01:26:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: deadeyedesign23 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/comment-page-1/#comment-438051 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 13:49:18 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=295595#comment-438051 “Cricket?! You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket!”

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]]> By: blacksables http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/comment-page-1/#comment-438010 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 08:04:01 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=295595#comment-438010 Kevin Mitchell says he’s not impressed.

]]> By: blacksables http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/comment-page-1/#comment-437884 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 23:55:22 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=295595#comment-437884 What most people don’t realize is the incredible scouting that went into that. 11 players on a field that goes 360 from the stump.

Great play.

Great scouting to have him there. They knew where the batsman hit to.

]]> By: cur68 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/comment-page-1/#comment-437868 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:56:36 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=295595#comment-437868 Hmm. On the graphic it bounced. Not used to such good replay, what with watching all this baseball. I was unprepared for the Hawkeye angle and I declared an erroneous full toss. My bad.

Dear Bud Selig: See how this is done?

]]> By: cur68 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/comment-page-1/#comment-437866 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:54:03 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=295595#comment-437866 Dear Dog in Heaven. Full toss, right to the kisser. Tough kid.

]]> By: kiwicricket http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/comment-page-1/#comment-437851 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:38:23 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=295595#comment-437851 Yes!

]]> By: kiwicricket http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/comment-page-1/#comment-437849 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:36:31 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=295595#comment-437849 Depends on how old the cricket ball is.
I am with you with regards to catching a baseball bare handed. It makes a strange slapping sensation no matter how experienced you are at catching it. Different outer cover makes the difference I think.

It is real popular now days to warm up using a mitt. Get your practice catches in obviously, but the mitt comes out for menial stuff. The pain of the ball slapping directly on the palm of the glove is not desirable! Dear Dog I hate that feeling.

]]> By: rvnc http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/comment-page-1/#comment-437848 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:36:30 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=295595#comment-437848 @stlouis.
It’s essentially nonsense, but as a cricket fan the fact he’s managed to combine Star Wars with the rules of cricket to a predominantly american audience who have absolutely no idea what he’s talking about is hysterical.

]]> By: kiwicricket http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/comment-page-1/#comment-437844 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:29:33 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=295595#comment-437844 When the dude is bowling, the batter not hitting should prob stand on the other side of the wicket from which he is bowling. Just to avoid confusion…

I am not explaining the ‘Handled Ball’ rule on here, sorry. Just pump ‘handled ball’ into google, it will come up instantly with the cricket def. Promise!!

]]> By: rvnc http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/comment-page-1/#comment-437841 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:22:42 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=295595#comment-437841 Jimmy Anderson aka ‘The Burnley Express’!

]]> By: kiwicricket http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/comment-page-1/#comment-437822 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:08:27 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=295595#comment-437822 Can I mention that the ‘Left field’ and ‘Right field’ ‘SS’ and ’2B’ definition swap sides accordingly depending on the batsman being left or right handed.

]]> By: kiwicricket http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/comment-page-1/#comment-437806 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:00:46 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=295595#comment-437806 New Zealand getting owned by our former Colonial masters…

]]> By: stlouis1baseball http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/comment-page-1/#comment-437805 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:00:19 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=295595#comment-437805 Paint:
With all due respect…I have no idea what you just stated.

Kiwi: Please decipher Paints post.

]]> By: umrguy42 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/comment-page-1/#comment-437804 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 22:00:03 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=295595#comment-437804 I found this a damn useful guide to cricket from one of my favorite webcomic makers, with attempts to relate things to baseball.

http://www.dangermouse.net/cricket/

]]> By: cur68 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/comment-page-1/#comment-437761 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:21:44 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=295595#comment-437761 Bring. It. On.

]]> By: sportsdrenched http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/comment-page-1/#comment-437756 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:14:29 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=295595#comment-437756 This is what happens at NASCAR races, except you start 8am.

]]> By: rvnc http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/comment-page-1/#comment-437752 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:09:27 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=295595#comment-437752 ‘Circling the airport’ comes from a wonderful story involving the late Boris Yeltsin. Scheduled to arrive a Shannon airport in Ireland his plane didn’t land and continued to circle the airport for several minutes before landing. It later emerged that Yeltsin had been drunk when the plane intitally made its approach to land, and had to be given time to sober up before meeting the Irish Premier on the tarmac.

]]> By: hep3 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/comment-page-1/#comment-437749 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 21:07:27 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=295595#comment-437749 My favorite cricket reference was an underground sound bite of an angry Tommy Lasorda at a postgame clubhouse interview in the early 80′s when Steve Garvey did not have a good day in a clutch situation. It went something like,

“Garvey! Garvey! He’d a made a great bleepin’ cricket player; trying to hit the ball on one bleepin’ bounce!”

Nobody was safe from fatso’s wrath.

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circling the airport

I’m definitely going to have to work this into my repertoire.

]]> By: andrewproughcfe http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/comment-page-1/#comment-437730 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:49:59 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=295595#comment-437730 He almost had to skip over that 4-inch bump to catch that ball. And you’ve got to love the way he rolled the ball back in the general direction of the pitcher. What an arm.

]]> By: rvnc http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/comment-page-1/#comment-437728 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:46:57 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=295595#comment-437728 Yeah lets just get pissed instead cur…

]]> By: rvnc http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/comment-page-1/#comment-437727 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:46:04 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=295595#comment-437727 Actually the ‘wall’ is not the edge of the playing surface. The little purple markers behind designate the boundary. So what makes the catch really impressive is that he didn’t overbalance and step over those markers, as that would have voided the catch and made it an equilvalent of a home run.

]]> By: rvnc http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/comment-page-1/#comment-437723 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:42:28 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=295595#comment-437723 I tried to come up with a reggae star wars once. It was to be known as ‘Jar Wars’. We had the names for four of the six (allegedly) movies
The Revenge of the Spliff
A New Dope
The Empire Smokes Black
Return of the Dreadi

Alas suitable names for the first two movies eluded us. Perhaps the HBT community could take up the baton.

]]> By: paperlions http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/comment-page-1/#comment-437721 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:41:10 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=295595#comment-437721 I think you misspelled “Toof”.

]]> By: rvnc http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/comment-page-1/#comment-437717 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:35:32 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=295595#comment-437717 ‘Sozzled’: A colloquilism used by Englishmen to describe a state of happy inebriation-other terms include ‘merry’ ‘bit pissed’ ‘tipsy’ or ‘relaxed’.

Not to be confused with the more severe states of drunkeness such as ‘well away’ ‘three sheets in the wind’ ‘smashed’ ‘circling the airport’ or ‘tired and emotional’.

If drinking continues it eventually leads to an utterly inebriated individual incapable of anything except vomiting, which is known as ‘wasted’

]]> By: kiwicricket http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/comment-page-1/#comment-437713 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:29:54 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=295595#comment-437713 That settles it. I am going to start bombarding ‘HBT Feedback’ with cricket highlights until the Baseball season starts.

]]> By: paint771 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/comment-page-1/#comment-437706 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:20:49 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=295595#comment-437706 @Roger Moore: You, sir, do not know your cricket!

]]> By: churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/02/06/play-of-the-day-what-a-snag-in-center-field/comment-page-1/#comment-437704 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:20:07 +0000 http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/?p=295595#comment-437704

You start off about 11am, are nicely sozzled by lunch,

Bullet Tooth Tony: A bookie’s got blagged last night.
Avi: Blagged? Speak English to me, Tony. I thought this country spawned the fucking language, and so far nobody seems to speak it.

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