No Olympic Baseball today. So Instead I'l quickly post up that Australia's basketball team took a loss to the USA over night, going down 89-79. Shane Heal led the Australians with 17 points. The USA take on the match is here. The Australian take on it is here.
I think these USA DreamTeam-Boomer stoushes have come down a long way since the heady 1996 Atlanta showdown; Our Aussies were never really in it to win, but we had our best squad at their peak then and there, facing off against the genuine Dream Team guys led by Charles Barkley. I'll never forget the bit of riffing between Shane 'Hammer' Heal and 'Sir' Charles. Commented Sir Charles at the time: "Doesn't he know who I am?"
But then Sir Charles said a lot of funny things, full of 'attitude'. That was fun and excitement. This time around, Team USA is more of a Sunday afternoon snooze than a dream, and Australia in a minor decline is still fielding an aged Shane Heal.
'Today's Moronic Commentary' Corner
Also, there is this really idiotic commentary on baseball in this article here:
Perhaps that is because cricket is an Australian game; baseball isn't. Tot up the numbers and you might even find that cricket has a bigger fanbase and playing base around the world that baseball. But that is not important. The Olympic powers, governed by those twin towers of corporate beneficence Coca-Cola and MacDonalds, not to mention the NBC, have deemed baseball to be worthy of Olympic status. Hence the peculiar sight of Aussies doing all the basics wrong.Unforgivably idiotic. If an American gave a commentary like this about, say, Cricket you can trust the hacks to come out screaming.
Cricket basics that is.
- Art Neuro
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