i don't like cricket

I have never played cricket. I still don't understand it I don't think. But as someone who has played Magic: the Gathering as a novice and quit playing it seriously after someone decided to just end the game for me [third game I've ever played at this point] on turn 2, I KNOW the kind of sniveling wretch Jardine is and honestly, the fact that he didn't get beaten to death on the field in front of his family and then sent back home in a sardine can is a travesty.

Yeah, y'all, are you really going to force the Jewish man to go kill Hitler?

Before this episode, I didn't understand cricket. After this episode, I came to understand cricket as "what if baseball had murder?"

Late comment but Mitchell Johnson was there for scaring the shit out Englishman and the occasional South African.

Dude on the right at 32:23 looks like he should be in a coffin in an Old West tintype.

unfortunately Bradman was actually racist https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17430437.2015.1011882

I’m just going to put it out there — legit request for Rocz feet pics. 😝

so no vember?

It would be cool if you covered Great Chicago Fire in 1870 the night Chicago died.

So the ball is something similar to a lacrosse ball?

Justin talking about his mic stand reminded of Judd Hirsch from Independence Day talking about how the plane can go “up, down, side-to-side…” 😂

not Alice making me like cricket

If your getting all sporty, you need to cover the history of the disaster that is video refereeing. From NFL to Premier League, ruining spectator sports since the 80s.

i'm not usually someone who provides episode suggestions, as i imagine you are inundated but i recently learned about the grounding of the frigate méduse in 1816 and several hundred deaths that went along with it it has a captain so utterly criminally negligent (a bourbon allied émigré elevated to command because he was an aristocratic exile despite having little of the required experience) that he makes schettino look like a paragon of naval virtue/competence + its the subject of several books in english so there'd be a good amount of materials i believe

Pod is very helpful for understanding the world, tyvm

Now do a video on the insane Australian blood sport that is Australian Rules Football. The crazy thing aussie cricketers came up with to stay fit in the winter

You keep being you, Milkshake!

I just moved next to a cricket pitch in a Chicago park and this helped me understand what the heck is going on

"And that's why I don't like cricket." --Bob Fossil

This ain't about Cricket, but I don't comment on YouTube or anywhere public. I've had a long week and the Berlin Wall episode that just dropped, from the coal check, through TGDM ( especially Alice's offhand summary of "beyond the pale") to Devon sounding off in the best way around the 25th minute mark is already more than the usual treat. Thank you all. I'll go finish the episode now.

As an Australian this is why England is the enemy , not the whole transporting my ancestors thing .

The Joy of Alice also knowing that cricket is indeed the greatest sport on earth brought a glow to my heart

tragedy has struck: I can't watch your patreon supported videos because youtube hates my adblocker

On behalf of your Australian supporters - there is a reason that the English, to this day, are known as Whinging Poms. Bodyline was a major factor in that.

I just wanna respond to one thing Liam said: I knew exactly what I was paying for damnit

Hello Activate Windows watermark, my old friend

If you want esoteric sport anglovibes, you could do an episode on Bloodgate. Possibly the stupidest sport scandal I’ve ever come across

now I care less about cricket than I did before. Love Y'all:)

The Active Windows thing always bugged me. Do you guys not know about massgrave.dev???

I love the way that Alice tells these sort of historical-yet-interpersonal stories. Would do unspeakable things to hear her take on F1's Spygate.

My dumb brain is unable to hear the word “bodyline” and not think “Jump In The Line” by Harry Belafonte.

I know so much more about cricket, now!

New cricket fans, feel free to be mean to the Australian cricket team. They have a long history of being incredibly bad winners. Having an Australian passport, I make it a point to support anyone playing against the Australian cricket team.

Thank you! I like the show!

i can't wait to watch, and all of you are lovely

Only a brief mention on the pod by Liam, but I'll add that the No Use For A Name cover of Fields of Athenry is a total banger.

My Favorite Pod and My favorite sport together?? Hell yeah! 😂😂

bowler? I barely know 'er!

I think the real irony of this story is that only fatality (that I'm aware of) to result from short pitch fast bowling was a freak accident in Australian domestic cricket a few years ago. The bowler was aiming for the batsman's armpit and he ducked into the ball, taking it on the back of his head.

What is the WTYP batting order?

The class character of cricket is fascinating. Posh boy sport in England, sport of the masses in Australia and new Zealand. Which is the complete reverse of rugby union (only 30 private school wankers play union in Aus]

Enjoying the truth of "racist cunts to indigenous people" when we go to the polls tomorrow to see if indigenous people should get as much of a say as Clive Palmer and Gina Rinehart (mining magnates who lobby parliament).

https://youtu.be/FeG8hqQw1U8?si=RMxU1ZhrYEzAs_bS A folk hero

Alice you could have grabbed the footage of Piers Morgan getting slammed by Brett Lee for an over to show what fast bowling is. Everyone likes Piers Morgan getting a broken rib for entertainment! Should happen more often.

This one was great! Thanks, Alice! And thanks, Devon, for increasing the dwell time on your comments. You’re the Zeppo here!

This podcast has done something that was previously considered beyond all scientific possibility according to the thermodynamic laws of the universe: make me remotely interested in cricket.

i think that if they had embargoed australia over this canada could have supplied the required amount of racism (unfortunately)

alice drop your tumblr i need to know it

Honestly, as an American who read Don Bradford's wikipedia page as a teenager in awe and who still doesn't quite understand cricket, thank you, I loved every minute of this

Everyone should read CLR James' "Beyond a Boundary", certainly the best cricket book ever written, likely the best sports book and maybe the best book. Also shout out "The Social History of English Cricket" by Derek Birley

Fun fact News limited was founded in Adelaide and where a little family called the Murdoch have their start.

Talking about the dangers of cricket - the father of a kid I went to school with had brain damage & became epileptic from being hit in the head by a ball while playing cricket. He was lucky he didn't get killed.

I’m gonna get called weird and entitled but I’d really appreciate it if you could go back to also posting the bonus episodes as audio-podcasts in the patreon rss feed

Sports ball - lets goooo!!!

meowwww I’m a cat(as you can tell) but woohoo this episode was good. Time to go hunt some hair ties

This must be that baseball thing Liam keeps talking about. How the Phillies doing this year?

"I podcast better when I'm drunk" something I heard Liam say in my mind

I highly recommend "Fire in Babylon". It's a doc about the West Indies cricket team and it's amazing

No idea if you mention it in the episode or not, but I laughed when I read the 10cc joke. People should look up the song.

Liam, the people want to know; who was your Commander? -Kyle

Cricket? Nobody understands cricket. You gotta know what a crumpet is to understand cricket.

the largest cricket complex is in a cow pasture outside Prairie view TX.

I couldn't learn how to play cricket, when I was on the actual cricket team in high school

Man you guys are going to be jazzed when you learn about the World Baseball Classic, where a team of Americans got our asses handed to us by team Japan last year.

listening this while playing system shock as god intended

So it's WTYP that's going to teach me how to play cricket

How can the uninformed spectator tell when anything... happens?

ODI World Cup is going on and I'm able to watch the start of a match, go bed and get a full nights sleep, and the match is still going on when I'm going to work in the morning

... is this the episode that gets everyone killed?

More sports should be played in knit sweaters

Plz upload to private rss feed for audio. Pretty please. With a cherry on top?

Alice posted about maybe doing this as an episode and I posted back saying it was a good idea, I feel like this one's all thanks to me.

Everything I know about cricket I learned from Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy. If I'm remembering correctly it's basically a horrific racial slur you play as a game and it exists to offend every living being in existence. The two times I've tried watching confirm that.

I prefer getting the Guppy Items in isaac personally

I'm a British guy living in Belgium and am constantly asked to explain cricket... so I hope I can unleash this upon them.

Anyone have the unofficial official discord link so I can talk about cricket with y’all nerds after

What are the Philadelphia Phillies of cricket?

the bazball episode we deserve?

YES