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[Hastur]

Floorball is the gayest team sport. No competition.

[Ex-California]

False.

Just because you can find video of gay men playing volleyball doesn't mean that sport is gayer than cricket.

You could just show squids doing anything, or actors playing squids, and anything literally looks gay as shit because squids are doing it. Foul ball, Iceman.

The song makes this scene all the gayer

[Ex-California]

There's a reason the batsman wear helmets, cricketers die.

A bouncer is a ball that comes in at head height at around 90 mph

Baseball hasn't killed anyone since 1932

[SuburbanFarmer]

Floorball is the gayest team sport. No competition.

Is that hockey without skates?? I could totally play that.

[SuburbanFarmer]

It's pretty simple, the batsmen score by hitting the ball over the boundry. If it goes over without hitting the ground it's a 6. If it hits the ground first it's a 4. You can also score by running between the wickets before the fielders can knock the stumps off.
You get a batsman out by bowling him out (knocking the wicket over), catching him out, stumping him as he is running between the wickets or hitting his legs if they are in front of the wicket (LBW or leg before wicket)
A bowler gets 6 balls (an over) then another bowler bowls from the opposite end (there are 2 wickets).

Ok, so one team is batting, the other is fielding, like baseball? How many outs do they get?

What does it mean to “knock the stumps off”?

“Catching him out” means catching the ball in flight?

“Hitting his legs”, with the ball?

Ok, there are 11 players but they go out 2 at a time (one each end) so you get 10 outs (wickets) the best batsmen come out first (the openers) and the weakest batsmen, usually the specialist bowlers come out last (the tail end). If you are good at both batting and bowling you are known as an ''all rounder''. Genuine all rounders are rare with the best ones occurring only once or twice in a generation.
The stumps (or wicket) are what the bowler is targeting. If the batsman hits a ball and it doesn't make the boundry he can run between the wickets. Think of it like running around the bases. If the fielders can hit the stumps before either batsman gets back to one of the wickets into the ''base'' or crease as it's known the batsman running to that end is out, this is known as a ''run out''. The wickets are a chain or 22 yards apart. You have to knock the bails off the top of the stumps.


The hitting his legs thing is to stop the batsman just blocking the stumps with his legs when the bowler (pitcher) bowls at them. It is often a contentious decision because the umpire (referee) has to first decide whether the ball hit the leg and then judge that it would have hit the stumps if it hadn't hit the leg all with the ball travelling at 90 mph.
A catch is the same as in baseball, ie if the ball makes contact of any kind with the bat and is caught before it bounces.

An over(6 balls) is bowled at each end then another bowler gets 6 balls from the opposite end rinse and repeat. If the batsmen run once between the wickets then the other batsman faces the next ball. If you hit a 4 or a 6 or run an even number of times the same batsman faces the next ball.

Alright, so the 2 batsmen from each team hit, then the teams switch?

When does the game end, first to 1000?

[Hastur]

Floorball is the gayest team sport. No competition.

Is that hockey without skates?? I could totally play that.

Kind of. A lot less physical. When I was a kid it was played in schools during PE. Some people refused to quit as they grew up and now it's a big sport. Popular among MAMIL type people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floorball

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[SuburbanFarmer]

Floorball is the gayest team sport. No competition.

Is that hockey without skates?? I could totally play that.

Kind of. A lot less physical. When I was a kid it was played in schools during PE. Some people refused to quit as they grew up and now it's a big sport. Popular among MAMIL type people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floorball

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floorball ... mpionships

That would be super fun with hockey rules.
(I never learned to skate)

[Montegriffo]

Alright, so the 2 batsmen from each team hit, then the teams switch?

When does the game end, first to 1000?

10 of the 11 batsmen have to get out to comlete an innings.
In test matches each team has 2 innings.
If 2 innings on each team are not completed due to bad weather or an inability to get both teams out twice over 5 days the game is a draw. If both teams end up with the same score it is a tie but this is very rare.

A Single day of test match consists of three sessions, each of two hours. The cricket council states that the minimum average over rate should be nearly 15 overs per hour. So doing the calculations 15*6=90. If 90 overs cannot be completed in 6 hours of play, then an additional 30 minutes is played.

You can bowl more overs per day if you wish but you will wear out your bowlers. So on average over 500 balls are bowled per day.

1000 runs per side is almost unheard of. In the last Ashes in England Australia were bowled out for 60 before lunch on the first day (under 2 hours) the average score for 2 innings is probably closer to 4 or 5 hundred on a reasonable batting pitch.
The greatest single score by a single batsman in first class cricket was 501 by Brian Lara from the West Indies in 427 deliveries but the game ended in a draw because there was not enough time to bowl out the opposition.

[StCapps]

(I never learned to skate)

[Speaker to Animals]

Central Florida in the 80s was all about the skate rink, not fucking ice.

You motherfuckers don't even know.



That's why you millennial betas are so fat. You don't do anything.