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TEARING LIFE CROOOOPS ASUNNNNNNNNDEEEERRRRRRRRR

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USELESSSS BLACKENED



REMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIINNNNNSSS

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STILL PYRE SMOLDERINGUUUUUUUUUUUUUUHHHHH

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...growl...

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metal thread - check

bigpleb quoting growls in full caps - check

someone else playing along like a lil gay squire - check



whats new sputbitchmusic

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Nutin much Curtley Ambrose

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glad to see cricket still lives in this yank swamped sparring ground of wits and cumfuckery

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I wouldn't say it still lives, since there are probably only a handful of cricket fans here. But even one person knowing of it is a big deal imo



You're a West Indies supporter?

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oh yeah nah i'm aussie born and bred grew up on the golden era of ponting, waugh, gilchrist, langer, hayden, martyn (my childhood hero), hussey, warne, mcgrath, gillespie etc. etc.

but i love the olden days of the west indies, brian lara hands down my favourite batsman, an absolute fucking artist, same with viv, michael holding still makes me cum and curtly was just unparalleled.

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Ah yeah, that team was invincible, that's why it won so many consecutive world cups. It was always going to be an impossible task to fill the massive void left by so many legends retiring in quick succession. Oh man Martyn was a supreme timer of the ball, and a very underrated part of that team.



Yeah man the old West Indian team was fearless and invincible as well. Sad to see how far they've fallen thanks to their board's corruption.

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martyn had the most beautiful off side play in the game

i heard ponting say he was the most talented he had seen and also clarke saying if training was non compulsory he wouldn't even go ahah, he did have that gower/waugh-esque "lazy" elegance quality for sure. Underrated as hell, would be considered one of the "great" batsman in another era in another team, given that he had to share the spotlight with the likes of ponting, gilchrist and hayden smashing medium pacers around all day. I would kill to have him in our current middle order and would easily pin him up there as good as williamson, root and smith.



what about you man where do your loyalties lie?

Album Rating: 4.5

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZBLa7e5_4Y



pure elegance, i jack off to this once a week minimum

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Cricket conversation on Sputnik? Woah! I haven't even heard this Opeth yet & but this deserves some recognition.



The Ambrose/Walsh combo still remains the best I've ever seen Piglet, Ambrose was so damn accurate, he complemented Walsh's slightly more aggressive bowling perfectly. I do recall Atherton carrying his bat once vs them & it felt like the greatest achievement of his career, considering all the other England players were falling like skittles around him.

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yeah that's a pretty famous innings isn't it? 180 not out or something like that, or am i mixing that up with another one? I always liked Atherton, always came across as a really gritty batsman trying desperately to fend off the dismal tide of 90's english cricket against the likes of McGrath and Ambrose. Him and Nasser are also best commentary duo i've ever heard. So incisive, witty and dry, perfectly complimenting each other.

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Something like that yeah, underrated player when you consider the era he played in.



I love their commentary, those little humorous moments really add something & they're both so eloquent & analytical. I know it's a completely different beast but listening to football analysis in this country is often a somewhat depressing affair, it's usually just a collection of meaningless clichéd comments & a complete lack of true insight. Nas & Athers put them to shame.

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Nas and Athers put all other commentators to shame to be honest (exceptions to their compatriots david gower and bumble, in fact the whole SKY team makes watching english cricket an absolute joy tbh, easily my favourite coverage.)

Everyone else is like you say, ex-players flouncing around, expelling the most exhausted platitudes in an endless symphony of hackneyed shit. Makes sport unbearable if you've got half a brain for it.

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It was tempting to declare them as the greatest but I couldn't say that for definite as there's a lot of sports I simply don't watch. Definitely the best I've witnessed and as you say the whole team is excellent. It's a shame I don't get to watch much cricket these days.



Unfortunately if football found it's Nas & Athers equivalent I get the impression it would be completely lost on much of their would-be audience anyway, perhaps there just isn't the market for it. Thierry Henry's alright I suppose, at least he's charismatic.

Album Rating: 4.5

I'm ready to declare this second best opeth

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I think Richie Benaud is up there. Maybe Tony Cozier.



Cricket definitely lends itself to more personality than Football simply by way of the breaks between balls. There's a lot of empty air; just like golf, probably why there's so many iconic commentators in that sport as well (excluding the crappy American NBC-USPGA coverage, there is no excuses for commentators being that bad, but hey American commentators are almost unanimously bad and obnoxious anyway.) But I digress

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Richie Benaud was a great commentator. Maybe, I guess you need those breaks for in-game commentary to really flourish but my thoughts were extending a little (with regards to studio analysis), although I didn't make that particularly clear.



I'm not a huge fan of American football commentary either, that's possibly because of the style more than the content though as I'm not exactly an aficionado when it comes to the gridiron (I just know barely enough to appreciate some of the nuances & the majority of the rules).



I know VERY little about golf, don't really watch it much.