The Grumpy Editor's guide to HDR with Linux

Posted Mar 17, 2007 13:49 UTC (Sat) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]

> not being familiar with baseball, I can't make out if the comment on
> baseball in the previous paragraph to this one was also tounge-in-cheek

Baseball is to baseball-playing countries what cricket is to cricket-playing countries. It is marginally faster (games tend to start and end on the same day), but there is a comparable amount of careful rearrangement of fielders between balls.

If cricket is also unfamiliar, you are blessed.

Posted Mar 17, 2007 15:59 UTC (Sat) by hingo (subscriber, #14792) [Link]

There is a Finnish flavor of baseball (pesäpallo, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pes%C3%A4pallo) which is the nr 2 summer sport in Finland and I also enjoy playing and watching it myself occasionally. With this background, when 7 years ago I for the first time visited the US, I was excited to see some of your baseball too. Luckily for me, there was a huge game on TV that night, NY vs Boston or something like that.

Apparently this was supposedly a great game too. The commentators were wild about the fact that the pitcher had thrown so many balls without a single batter hitting once and that he was about to break his personal best. Halfway through the game I fell asleep. Next day I read in the papers the game had ended 1-0. (Ok, so jet lag may have played a part too.) I must say, it did not quite live up to my expectations :-)

Next day my Finnish friend confirmed: Yup, this was a typical game and he has no idea why Americans are so excited about it.