Absolute disgrace

[GIMH]

*life

[silentstriker]

Originally Posted by Jono

SS you're wrong about that. There is sledging in heaps of contact sports where fights and punches can be thrown, yet they're not thrown. Why? Because people understand it's done to throw them off their game, and if they react, then they lose.

Your view that cricket is the only sport with such sledging because fights aren't allowed is one of your stupidest theories. Honestly.

Hell, at club level some absolute filth is thrown around on a cricket field and there's no ICC rules preventing someone from throwing a punch. It's just an accepted part of the sport. Of most sports really.

Err, I don't remember saying that cricket is the only sport with such sledging?

In contact sports it's different. I was talking to a friend of mine who was a physical trainer for the Vikings in the NFL, and I asked him about this, and he laughed. He said that if any player said something about another player's mother or wife, the next play he'd be lying on the grass without a functioning knee. It's self-policing that way.

Anyway, I don't want to harp on this issue. I just find the whole thing funny, especially the faux-toughness that's shown when yelling insults while hiding behind the rules of the game.

[GIMH]

Well if you can't take an insult without responding with violence, you've got small dick syndrome

[slowfinger]

Originally Posted by GeraintIsMyHero

Well if you can't take an insult without responding with violence, you've got small dick syndrome

Probs uses Miracle Gro on it... GROW BABY GROW!

[silentstriker]

Originally Posted by GeraintIsMyHero

Well if you can't take an insult without responding with violence, you've got small dick syndrome

IMO if you throw insults about people knowing that you can hide behind the rules and won't face any retaliation and that same insult outside the cricket pitch would likely turn your mouth into a chiclet container, that's a much surer sign of that syndrome.

[Jono]

They don't do it because the guy won't throw a punch. They do it because the guy won't throw a punch but will be pissed off and swing at a wide one and edge it.

[benchmark00]

You're a girl scout, SS.

[Jono]

Just so ridiculous SS that you believe in "winning at all costs" but are anti-sledging. It makes no sense.

[wpdavid]

Originally Posted by Jono

Just so ridiculous SS that you believe in "winning at all costs" but are anti-sledging. It makes no sense.

Depends how literally you mean 'at all costs'. But the idea that non-sledgers aren't as competitive as those who can't keep their mouths shut has always been lost on me. Or that generations prior to the widespread arrival of sledging were less competitive than those from 1980's onwards. And I still remain unconvinced that it happens in most sports.

[Jono]

I'm not a fan of sledging for the most part, especially when it goes over the top. Hence my well known hate for Watson. But SS has constantly promoted cheating in sports if the umpire doesn't catch you as a thing sportsmen shoudl do. So to criticise sledging is laughable when you hold such a view imo

[wpdavid]

Originally Posted by Jono

I'm not a fan of sledging for the most part, especially when it goes over the top. Hence my well known hate for Watson. But SS has constantly promoted cheating in sports if the umpire doesn't catch you as a thing sportsmen shoudl do. So to criticise sledging is laughable when you hold such a view imo

Fair enough - I'm not familiar enough with SS's works to comment.

[silentstriker]

Originally Posted by Jono

Just so ridiculous SS that you believe in "winning at all costs" but are anti-sledging. It makes no sense.

Err, no. I've explained this numerous times.


If I was a player, I'd be sledging left and right, saying whatever came into my mind, progressively worse, until someone told me not to do it. Then I'd try to find a way around it because of the slap-on-the-wrist type punishment you get anyway. It works. I don't have a problem with players doing this. If the administration is allowing you to behave like that and it helps you win, go for it.

I have a problem with allowing it (e.g, the administrators of the game). But you can't blame the players at all, as they are merely taking advantage of the lax enforcement of rules - and obviously they want to win, so they'll take any advantage they can.

[benchmark00]

Originally Posted by silentstriker

Err, no. I've explained this numerous times.


If I was a player, I'd be sledging left and right, saying whatever came into my mind, progressively worse, until someone told me not to do it. Then I'd try to find a way around it because of the slap-on-the-wrist type punishment you get anyway. It works. I don't have a problem with players doing this. If the administration is allowing you to behave like that and it helps you win, go for it.

I have a problem with allowing it (e.g, the administrators of the game). But you can't blame the players at all, as they are merely taking advantage of the lax enforcement of rules - and obviously they want to win, so they'll take any advantage they can.

So why do you want to blunt the players' competitive instincts?

[silentstriker]

Originally Posted by benchmark00

So why do you want to blunt the players' competitive instincts?

My competitive instincts may mean I want to block the batsmen when they are running between the wickets. But I can't because it's not allowed. It'd just be another rule. To imply that the West Indies team (for example) of the 70s/80s didn't have competitive instincts (or it was 'blunted') because it didn't sledge is ridiculous.

[benchmark00]

Originally Posted by silentstriker

My competitive instincts may mean I want to block the batsmen when they are running between the wickets. But I can't because it's not allowed. It'd just be another rule. To imply that the West Indies team (for example) of the 70s/80s didn't have competitive instincts (or it was 'blunted') because it didn't sledge is ridiculous.

You believe the Windies didn't seldge?

Either way, if you openly acknowledge that sledging heightens the competitiveness, why would you want to take it out?

If you outlawed sledging, surely it is less competitive than if sledging is allowed by your reasoning alone (the fact that you would sledge).