@@fluffynoses I'm a huge baseball fan too. Your sports are really good with great plays etc, but why are your sports so.......short? I went to the baseball here in Sydney Australia in 2014 and while I loved it, I was disappointed. I just wish it went longer so I'd have more of it to enjoy. Maybe that's why they play so many games each season. The all too brief time they're at a game is never really enough so you want to come back again. The strength of test cricket is that each day is an actual day whereas some movies are longer than some baseball games. I'd need to catch a whole Home Series before I could say I'd seen enough. Two and a half hours? Hmm. I'd really want more.
This is SOO much funnier if you watch or at least know both the sports well! "Yankees 47 for no wickets" "Boston 24 for no wickets" had me on the floor!
To Tripple: On the contrary: This is perfect case of "ignorance is bliss." This will serve to promote irascibility more expeditiously for the connisseur of both sports -- ironically, with the British babbling detracting from the dignity of the game. This is a Monty Python type of scenerio where their material is perfect for retorting, but not for the sports purists.
I love the plastic bag comment, because some cricket commentators really do that. "There's a magpie at long off. That reminds me of the summer I spent in Vancouver (loads of magpies there, you know) and I was sitting in the park enjoying a pastry..."
HAHAHA .. FBI AGENT signals a wide :D Gordon levitt :D 47 for no wicket ... 24 for no wicket .. tough day for the bowlers :D :D Cracked me up.. !!! His cricket references are really funny :)
This is a work of genius... I particularly love "That's a wide"... exploiting the fact that baseball and cricket use the same arm gesture to denote something completely different (Safe signal in Baseball identical to "Wide bowler" signal in cricket).
I'm actually a big baseball fan but I do love watching cricket too. It's not as big in Canada for some odd reason but with so many people coming in from the Caribbean and South Asia, it's starting to pick up. I thought this video was pretty funny. I was just playing baseball with a few buddies a few hours ago and there was a cricket match going on next to our field. It was interesting exchanging knowledge with the cricketers. They seemed to be genuinely interested in baseball as well.
crixxxxxxxxx Actual "smart" people won't be sitting down for 5 hours in the middle of the night watching steroid-fuelled men hit balls with little wooden sticks..
***** As opposed to what?Other steroid-fueled men beating the s*** out of each other, giving them brain damage to move a ball down a field? And FYI, the average baseball game runs just under 3 hours. A football game runs just OVER 3 hours with commercials after every freaking play.
crixxxxxxxxx "Other steroid-fueled men beating the s*** out of each other, giving them brain damage to move a ball down a field?" Hey dude you wont see me arguing with you about that. American football is quite literally the worst sport ever invented. There is no need for it to exist at all......as boring as baseball can be, it's nowhere near as boring or pointless as gridiron....
Those who say "now explain soccer/cricket" (cough, football) really? Football, the ball goes in the net = goal, ball goes off pitch = throw-in. Not exactly hard :p
Ridiculous! What numbskull doesn't understand proper football? There's nothing to explain! It's exactly as you said: the ball goes in the net, it must stay in bounds. Haha! Now cricket is another story. I don't think I'll ever understand cricket!
only two things wrong in this commentary: 1. it wasn't midwicket. it was extra cover 2. it wasn't mid-off, it was mid-on. come on, don't you know your fielding positions, man?!
Oh oh... I remember a video along those lines actually... Ah. Try searching RU-vid for "How cricket looks to Americans". A different breed of crazy, but great too.
+Blaine Nay there are two teams. a coin toss decides which team is in and which team is out. the team that's out tries to get the team that's in out, then the team that's out becomes the team that's in and the team that's in becomes the team that's out. now the team that's out tries to get the team that's in out. then they do it again to see who wins.
+Blaine Nay "One team is in and one is out. The team that's in goes out And the team that's out goes out And tries to get the team that's in out. When the team that's in is out they go in And the team that was out is in And then it's time for tea." Esra Slobock
+Marc Evans we must make a law enforcable in the hague: no north american must ever, EVER be allowed to do commentary on football matches where someone might be in danger of hearing him. EVER.
I'm so amazed how quickly someone's life can change. This guy was getting 7-8k views per video now to over 1 million in one video. Thats just surprising to me. One does not simply make a video go viral.
This British commentary should’ve announced at the MLB London Series. And get this, this game featured the Yankees and the Red Sox, and those were the exact two teams that played in London earlier this year. This British guy could’ve replaced Joe Buck.
Rounders (baseball, as it's called in the 18th century English children's book "A little pretty pocket book") is an English children's game. It was invented as a pastime for English children to improve physical health and circulation. It was never intended for grown ups in pajamas as seen across the water! (I'm Irish, hence 'across the water').
ojideagu I think it's more accurate to say that Baseball is an American game based on rounders. Like American football is an American game based on rugby.
This is NOT "Bad British Commentary", this is Awesome British Commentary; I lost it at "says the FBI agent with the best view of all" and "and he's thrown it the wrong way! Confusion!" lol
You do realize a line-drive can reach up to 150 mph right? Most MLB players probably have the skill to catch it without the glove, it would just be the last time they ever did because every bone in their hand would be shattered. Get a clue.
Really, and cricket balls DON'T travel that quickly?! Yet, the only player on a fielding team in cricket who can wear gloves is the wicketkeeper, who can sometimes take around 400 catches a day! There are things called technique and skill, which is what sport should be about, there shouldn't be all these performance aids to take away from that!
hbkdfw cricket balls are harder than baseballs and they can still be hit close to those speeds. gloves take away all skill involved. btw i dont know any cricketers who've broken their hand catching so it obviously wouldnt 'shatter every bone', maybe just break your finger about 1 in 500 times
+Richard Sharp It's completely true though. I know it because I'm not American. There's a reason why these games are not popular anywhere outside the US, they're just too damn complicated.
tFighterPilot asia= japan korea taiwan latin america= dominican rep. Venezuela, peurto rico, cuba. Now i know you are biased because u live in a country that doesnt player baseball, but that is no excuse of deliever false speech. Baseball is played all around the globe. It is not hard to know the rules unless you are a complete jackass who dont care to know the game. You think americans are the only country that lnows baseball? You are dead wrong
Fuck baseball is so confusing! Seriously i gave baseball a chance but it's ridiculous and dumb. Coming from an Cricket guy that made it more difficult to decipher. P.S once you get the cricketing references and some football references you will be rolling on the ground laughing!!!!
Cricket: As explained to a foreigner... You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay all out all the time, and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game!
This is what I like about youtube comments, it's like separating the wheat from the chaff. You go through the 90% of idiots to find the 10% of genuinely nice people. You are a credit to your country.
