Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I had no idea! Douglas Sharp wrote: > Cricket is not a sport - it's culture ;-) > > Douglas - "often at Headingley in his youth" Sharp > > (from the home of all good cricketers - Yorkshire (e.g. "Fiery Fred > Truman", Brian Close, Sutcliffe, Tunnicliffe and many other historical > greats) > > Jim Hemenway wrote: > >> Adam, et al: >> >> I think that some have taken my comment too seriously. >> >> I was kidding Nathan because he, (in very good humor) objected when I >> wrote "He could change the way Americans ignore soccer!" soon after >> the announcement that said player was going to move to California to >> play for some LA team. >> >> Jim, "Cricket is really a sport?" Hemenway >> >> >> Adam Bridge wrote: >> >>> On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Frank Filippone >>> <red735i@earthlink.net> wrote: >>> >>>> <snip> >>>> BTW, there are a lot of various types of Latinos here, that seem to >>>> be the >>>> majority of soccer lovers... so as much as the US Domestics have no >>>> idea, >>>> there is a large resident population that really does care..... >>>> >>> >>> >>> Lots of the younger crowd know and follow soccer here also. It's >>> heavily played in my town and many of the others around here by kids >>> starting at age 5. High school soccer is very intense and pulls in >>> good crowds. >>> >>> Unless it's baseball I've sort of given up on pro team sports. I sorta >>> follow American-style football. Don't do the other pro sports at all >>> -- mostly I follow college and that locally. Probably I should get a >>> rivalry going with Frank since UC Davis is in the same conference as >>> Long Beach now....<grin> >>> >>> Curiously I'm quite detached about the Olympics this year. I'd like to >>> care, even about the swimming in which I was heavily involved in the >>> past as an official, but the money and the corruption and the politics >>> make me wretch. I wouldn't pay a dime to go to an Olympic event at >>> this point even if they were around the corner... >>> >>> Adam >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >