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April 03, 2016
SportsFilter: The Sunday Huddle:
A place to discuss the sports stories that aren't making news, share links that aren't quite front-page material, and diagram plays on your hand. Remember to count to five Mississippi before commenting in anger.
That is some David Freese-level stuff right there.
posted by grum@work at 03:12 PM on April 03, 2016
posted by tommybiden at 04:33 PM on April 03, 2016
You can't compare it to Freese unless there's a Nelson Cruz out there jumping too early and sticking his arm towards the ball like a T Rex.
posted by rcade at 06:17 PM on April 03, 2016
Incredible ending for today's T20 World Cup.
Just shared this with my cousin in Trinidad who is quite excited about it. His father, my uncle, was a pretty fair pace bowler on Barbados. There has been some controversy over Brathwaite and others not wishing to play test cricket for West Indies because of money and a variety of other things, but I guess the limited overs game at the World Cup level suits them better.
posted by Howard_T at 08:45 PM on April 03, 2016
I'm English by birth, but I hate the ECB (and the RFU, but that's for another time), so I enjoyed that.
England's failure to win a world cricket title is now one of the great stories in sport. Long may it continue.
posted by owlhouse at 09:45 PM on April 03, 2016
Police have not said what her blood alcohol level was, but she appears extremely glassy eyed in her mug shot.
I hate that statement. You also get that glassy-eyed look if you were crying, and considering what had just happened to her, that wouldn't be all that surprising.
That said, she's an idiot.
posted by grum@work at 10:25 PM on April 03, 2016
How did the England bowler just serve up four balls in a row! like that?! I knew the outcome but when I saw West Indies needed 19 from seven I was wondering if I my memory was working.
posted by billsaysthis at 10:15 AM on April 04, 2016
Stokes wanted to bowl the last over, apparently. Mike Selvey is a first class ECB sycophant, but he generally has access to the England dressing room, and wrote this piece.
posted by owlhouse at 10:02 PM on April 04, 2016
Incredible ending for today's T20 World Cup. West Indies needed 19 runs for the final over and you'll never guess what Carlos Brathwaite did.