English victory!

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Originally Posted by InsaneApache

We do play baseball in the UK, except we call it rounders. Oh and it's a game played by little girls. :disguise:

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No, thats not baseball. Here we call that Softball, and it is also only played by little girls.

So there :crowngrin:

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Originally Posted by miotas

Meh, we already know how to play it. There's no point trying to make it popular in Australia though since no one will care. We have cricket in summer and depending on your fancy either NRL or AFL in the winter. What else do we want?

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Soccer :smash:

Though Australian Soccer league is getting pretty good.

Rounders is quite often played in primary school, and is the ancestor of baseball, which as far as I can tell is identical to softball.

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Originally Posted by Beefy187

Soccer :smash:

Though Australian Soccer league is getting pretty good.

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Ah yes, I forgot soccer. Those who aren't good enough for NRL or AFL play soccer, but all of this is just a distraction during the winter when cricket isn't on.

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Originally Posted by miotas

Meh, we already know how to play it. There's no point trying to make it popular in Australia though since no one will care.

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I beg to differ. I played for 9 years and umpired junior baseball for 4 years. My father is a level 2 qualified coach (Second highest qualification) and actively coaches representative teams. My mother is scoring coordinator for the local region association and my brother plays at a representative level. Lots of Australians enjoy baseball and it is quite popular, especially at a youth level - it is just that it doesn't get coverage.

For the record, I now hate the game because I hear about it at least an hour every day.

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Originally Posted by miotas

Ah yes, I forgot soccer. Those who aren't good enough for NRL or AFL play soccer, but all of this is just a distraction during the winter when cricket isn't on.

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Bollox.

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Originally Posted by miotas

20/20's not real cricket, how can you have a proper match in just 3 or 4 hours? Even a bit of backyard cricket usually goes longer.

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I did put in the priviso that civilization may "start" to grow; flashy, quicky, cheerleader cricket isn't much, but its a step in the right direction.

AlexanderSextus...What can I say, Australia, England & Wales are infact so good at baseball already that we now demand more from our sportsmen, otherwise we would have invented "rounders"...Oh sorry, I forgot, WE DID!

As a post scriptum Australian rules football, (and that really is a weird game), was started to keep cricketers fit off season and in the good old days, in the motherland, there were documented cricket matches that included; one armed men against one legged men & a match played at night by candle light. Ahhh those were the days.