I think that just about covers all the bases. In the left corner, "It's a circus!" (frowny emoticon). In the right corner, "It's a circus!" (smiley emoticon).
I went to the circus on Wednesday. Sydney Sixers vs Hobart Hurricanes at the SCG. First, the setting. Bewdiful!
And not a bad game either, the Sixers turning around what looked to be a comfortable chase by the Hurricanes (getting to almost 100 of a 180 chase without losing a wicket) with a rain of wickets in the last few overs. There have been lots of good games this season, even though they all blur together a bit. There was the really high total one that was beaten and the really low total one that was defended, but don't ask me who was playing.
I find my team allegiances fluctuate a great deal during the course of a match depending on individual players: I will support Katich or Hilfenhaus in the moment regardless of whether I want their team to win, though last night in the Scorchers v Adelaide game I was gunning for a little more pressure on Katich in the field just to see his captain cranky face.
Conversely, no one much likes Brad Hogg in this house, with varying degrees of intensity. I think I've identified the problem. He looks like the brother of Tom Cruise who didn't get the looks but shares the disturbing enthusiasm, with an admixture of Graeme Swann annoying clown vibe.
Wednesday was a cricket-packed day. In the afternoon I was at the establishment formerly known as the Bradman Museum and which is now the International Cricket Hall of Fame. I wonder if that name change has something to do with evolutions in content: one of the largest sections of the museum is devoted to the Packer World Series revolution and is all praise. It's impressively up to date: a height chart on the wall had Chris Tremlett at the top of it and they had Michael Carberry's broken bat from the Sydney Test on display. There's lots of colour and movement and touch-screens and I learned more from one interactive display demonstrating the different balls and shots in a few minutes than I have in the last ten years.
Two Ads of the Ashes
KFC
I know people wearing a KFC buckethead haven't actually upturned an empty greasy KFC bucket with bits of batter still in the bottom on their head, but the suggestion is there and it's unpleasant. As a hat it offers inadequate sun protection and would obstruct the view of those behind. Moreover, "the lampshade on the head has come to symbolize the obnoxious drunk trying to be funny—and failing".
A good thing then that it doesn't seem to have caught on. I saw one twelve year old wearing one at the T20, and he took it off half way through the game, presumably because he felt foolishly alone.
KFC is a guilty pleasure of mine and I was up for doing a taste test of the "Australian burger" vs the "English burger". I suggested it to a visiting 9 year-old but he pointed out that the burgers at KFC are crap and indeed I have always found them disappointing.
But isn't it good Mitchell worked his way up from fresh-testing duty in the locker room?
Bet365
These have been on Fox for a while. Samuel L Jackson sells his soul in every sense of the word and beams in a betting ad from Hades.
Bats,
ReplyDeleteAll summer I have imagined those poor Orstralians having greasy chicken fat on their heads when they wear those dumb buckets. But you're right - they are probably clean ones.
On a bigger issue, I think you are harsh re KFC burgers. I celebrated the 5-0 Test result with a KFC visit and ordered the Australian burger, as you do, then when I unwrapped it at the park it was the English burger. I was mortified, but here's the thing: it was tasty as hell. I think the 9 year old is wrong. I think their burgers are frighteningly good!