It would be fascinating to show this to a blue-haired wokester and ask she/it/they if they plan to protest the introduction of Kings into America. If not, why not?!
It would be fascinating to show this to a blue-haired wokester and ask she/it/they if they plan to protest the introduction of Kings into America. If not, why not?!
The Oakland A’s “abandoned” the Ghetto Coliseum in the high crime Hegenberger corridor. Why? It’s that oldest all-in-one non-baseball only stadium in MLB. Fans weren’t going.
https://sfstandard.com/2025/06/18/major-league-cricket-oakland-coliseum-series/
Not to worry! Cricket will play in the Ghetto! Cricket fans are used to living in criminal squalor. Funny thing … nobody ever said the SF Giants “abandoned” Candlestick Park when Willie Brown got them a new baseball-only downtown stadium. And nobody shed a tear when THAT Ghetto (Hunters Point) stadium was torn down.
What continues to baffle me is how anyone in his right mind could actually enjoy watching cricket.
Old joke:
Somewhere in the United Kingdom a teacher turns up for class in the afternoon three sheets to the wind after having a bottle of cheap whisky for lunch on news that corporal punishment has just been abolished.
He knows he won’t be in shape for teaching the rest of the day, so to keep the rotters out of trouble (because he can’t cane them any more if they act up) he orders them to write a story about “A Cricket Match,” due when the last bell rings, while he pretends to do paperwork, actually starts drafting his resignation, and tries not to pass out.
“Sir, if I am not permitted to maintain order in my class using tried and true methods, may I humbly suggest you take your progressive approach to education and shove it up your—”
“Please sir?”
The class clown is suddenly at the teacher’s desk.
“What is it, lad?”
The class clown hands his copybook to the teacher, and asks, “Please sir, can I go home early?”
The teacher looks at what the boy has written in the copybook. It’s all of three words:
“Rain stopped play.”
The London businessman had business in the country on a Sunday afternoon. Business done, he had some time before his train home so he went down to the village green, to find a cricket match in progress. He settles in, watches for a while, and then a player is thrown out, and his side goes out.
There’s an immediate commotion, the crowd gets all excited, people come running in from all over the village, bottles of champagne are popped, people start dancing and singing. The fellow asks a local, “Why all the excitement?” The local replies, “Why, that side just went out.” The guy asks, “Is that a big deal?” And the local replies, “Why, I should say! They’ve been in since 1992!”
Ah, cricket! and the thrilling slap of wood on leather, as another bored spectator kicks a tree…
Kansas City Royals
(although, that name comes from The American Royal livestock show…but, it doesn’t explain why the Royals chose a crown as their logo…draw your own conclusions)
I’m very glad I did not buy a house in Frisco in 2016, but instead bought out in Tarrant County close to DFW airport. Now I’m really glad I left DFW completely in 2020. Frisco North Plano, Proper, and McKinney are all Brampton twenty years ago.