Are standards of behaviour in the club game slipping? The League I play in certainly think so. For the 2009 season, they have introduced a football-style disciplinary system, with “yellow card” cautions and “red card” 8-day automatic suspensions and points deductions for more serious offences. This in addition to the regular disciplinary process. After 5 …
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Throwing a curveball – why not bowl one?
I nearly got to watch a live baseball game at the weekend…until persistent rain caused the game to be called. But I was thinking about what baseball pitchers do with a baseball – and it’s a lot more than just hurling it through at 100 mph. They use spin-swerve to get the pitch off straight, …
Acceptable in the noughties – sledging good, smoking bad?
How attitudes have changed. Two incidents from a game last weekend – one sledge, one health related. The sledge was actually quite tame, by the standards of what often passes between teams these days, but it certainly wasn’t respectful of the opposition – the sort of thing that you might share with a batting partner, …
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