My grandparents live in Boring OR. Most Accurate. Name. Ever.
Every one of those positions can be answered with âthatâs what she said!â
The reason baseball is better to watch is because itâs:
1.) Generally comprehensible.
2.) Simple enough that it could be explained to a retired pugilist.
3.) Thereâs no chance of a game lasting six weeks. (although I have sat through a 7 hour game with 20 innings. By that point it should have just been called a tie. Itâs inhumane to the players and the crowd.)
But Iâm not much of a fan of baseball anyway. Itâs too boring and slow paced, and full of breaks. I like soccer a lot better.
Nobodyâs ever been able to successfully explain the rules of Cricket to me. Even people who love it. Thatâs itâs biggest strike against it to me, and why I think itâs an unintelligible bureaucracy simulator.
Iâm guessing you wouldnât have enjoyed this game, which was abandoned after 10 days because England were going to miss their boat homeâŚ
http://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/engine/match/62657.html
The way I see it, a cricket match is more like a baseball series than a single game.
So, what, like spectators just drop in, and take off whenever they feel like it? Is cricket low-key enough that a match lasting five days is more like an exhibition rather than an event?
Pretty much. Unless youâre retired I donât know how youâd have the time to go to multiple days (not to mention the cost). Normally a day lasts from 11am to 6pm. Lots of people show up, get totally rat-arsed and leave early (but not the real cricket fans - theyâre recorded every ball in their scorebooks, just like baseball fans doâŚ)
Hence the popularity of the shorter formats. i.e. 6 hours or so.
I really should try to get to more Sounders games though. Went to the friendly against Tottenham last year, that was pretty good.
I went to the Sounders season opener last year. Was a little disappointing, but I did get to spend some nice time with my old man. We donât hang out much any more since I started working nights. He and I disagree on a lot of stuff and have some fundamental oppositions to each other, but sports are still valuable common ground, even though we arenât super fans so much as casual observers.
Iâve done all 5 days of Ashes Tests. Book a week off, treat it as a holiday. 
Sheffield Shield matches (domestic first-class long-form) are usually free entry and are pretty decent competition with players who have just retired from International duties, are coming back from injury or hoping to be picked again.
I did go to an international Twenty20 in Florida a few years back 
Last game I got to was England Lions vs Sri Lanka at the County Ground in Derby. Most other games I saw were at Grace Road. Not the greatest sporting arenas. Youâre spoilt over there. Free entry??
Yep. The Gabba will hold about 42,000 and when itâs full, the atmosphere is incredible if youâre supporting the home team. Itâs a big concrete bowl with no charm whatsoever.
Shield matches typically attract crowds that can sometimes number upwards of three figures. Which is weird considering Iâve seen dead-set legends play.
LOL @ Wats-a-ton. #ICCWorldCup
I donât generally watch cricket. I canât do it much now that I need to think about my work, but growing up Iâd always listen to the reporting on the radio while doing other stuff at home. Play was slow enough and fielding positions are descriptive enough that the commentators could give you a good idea of what was going on (and the BBC commentators were generally fun to listen to anyway). Cycling seems to work in the same way if youâre able to watch something in the background but canât listen to it. In both cases, It doesnât take long to catch up on what actually changed if youâre away for a couple of hours half way through.
In that sense, I suppose theyâre other countriesâ versions of Norwegian slow TV.
That makes sense. I also meant to qualify that statement to confine it to Americans, but that mustâve slipped my mind.
Anyway, Iâm sure cricketâs very enjoyable if you understand it and were raised in the culture, but no matter how hard Iâve tried to understand it, it just looks like partial integrals in a non-commutative algebra to me compared to Baseballâs Euclidean trigonometry.
ICHIRO! Maybe the best player, ever. Sure never misses a game.
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