The Good Oiler and IPL - Part Deux
"It was just blokes playing for big cash and, yeah, whatever the result at the end was the result at the end" - Doran
Oh, don’t cover how un-Australian and yobboish Shane Warne was this time in India, what, embracing their culture in ways such learning to speak some Hindu, and indulging in Indian cuisine instead of his beloved baked beans. And how dare this womanising has-been show empathy for the people of Jaipur during his winning acceptance speech. Doctor Turf even had a crack about that. Just doesn’t fit the “disrepute” theme that Doran would have pursued with enthusiasm and gusto. C’mon, say it one more time: “Bad Boy” Buddy. If anyone heard DD last week try and justify to a irate caller his recurring use of that reference to Franklin, you know what I’m on about. He thinks he’s sneaky, saying there’s really nothing in what Franklin has done, but then pushes it endlessly - “Bad Boy Buddy.” A listener called him on it, too.
The IPL owners and sponsors donated about $1 million to the victims of the Jaipur bombings. WHAT, those robber barons? Surely untrue. What a great lift for the residents of the Pink city from the sport they love. The Dorans of the world that complain about "blokes playing for big cash" never take the risks and turn the wheels of commerce but the Murdochs do. Lachlan is part owner of Warney’s champion Jaipur team. This league expects to break even in around three years while it targets 8 to 14-year-old boys and girls to build long-term brand/team loyalties like in the EPL. Test cricket’s future is in the hands of fans, not sports bureaucrats.
I think it was Mr. downloadme who pointed out the lack of coverage during some nights before SEN went to their replays. You know, giving people righteous stuff such as scavenger hunts (dropping the content to RRR or JJJ credibility) to in inspire sports loving fans to tune in and be thrilled. Oh joy. Must have been a Brett Phillips off-night that there were no scores because he’s always pretty good.
The IPL was not to be outdone by the NHL’s biggest trophy in sports, the players were also playing to win the most expensive trophy in sports. A trophy incrusted with diamonds, opals, rubies, and different coloured sapphires. The Super Bowl rings of the New England Patriots last win each had 124 diamonds valued at around $30,000 a piece (finally some trophies that chicks can dig). The Ashes - how great, we win ’em and the loser keeps ‘em.
Why shouldn’t there be an opportunity for the Shaun Marshs, Geeves’, Thornleys, and Rochis, to set up their families’ future the way Jonathon Brown will his next year, by making some decent money in the Australian off-season? But people say they may get hurt like Matty Hayden and not be available for Australia. So what. I must of missed what Doran thought of MacGill turning up for the last two Test series hurt and unfit while also doing an award winning television show about wines. Marshy is gonna financially make out like a bandit and Pomersbach when given a chance in the IPL wielded his bat like a flame thrower, and they’ll both be paid for it next year. Don’t expect any tax-payer funded gold medal Olympians that Doran’s going to slurp over to turn down too many offers to line their pockets, either. I wonder how the Double D feels about that profiteering.
How about if Doran had’ve stopped whining about things like the size of the boundaries (ICL 70mtrs, IPL 60mtrs) and considered the wonderful opportunities the sport now has to keep players instead of losing them. The next generation of terrific young cricketers may not be totally lost to the sport the way Neal Danaher, Greg Williams, Bill Brownless, Gary Lyon, Chris Judd, Brad Green, Marc Murphy, and Brett Deledio were - just to mention a few from a massive AFL list.
Doran chose to not bother catching any of Shaun Marsh’s performances including his majestic 115 off 69 balls. Rarely in sports has a performance left four commentators in total awe referring to “the next big thing in cricket.” Hit and giggle be stuffed. It was magic to see Marsh motionless, one leg in front of the other, standing perfectly balanced with his bat horizontally in line to the point of his nose, frozen for moments watching the ball disappear over mid on into the rapturous crowd. Right out of the batting manual. I now remember hearing a talkback caller (owning Doran) challenging some of Doran’s comments to do with something about Marsh not being a next-level player based on IPL. Remember, the marvellous one didn’t see any of the performances but still professed an opinion. Marsh will be in all Aussie teams as fast as you can say SOS. Be very afraid Phil Jaques.
If not for Shane Watson winning the man-of-series, which I sure Doran now knows about, it would have a laugh to hear him say, “gee, it’s been a bit of a drought for Watson between successes ” upon his return to the Aussie ODI team. Twenty/20 has forced Watson to develop a change-of-pace ball and use the short ball wisely, as was the case with the once-erratic Sreesanth.
Or maybe it was the talk of smokin’ hot cheerleaders like the Redskinettes that so delighted analyst Ryan Campbell, yet the thought probably repulsed our traditional and politically correct Good Oil hero, even though there’s clearly no moccasin sloth in this troupe below.
Can you say Hail to the…just part of the reason the NFL’s Washington team has its 91,000-plus tickets for every home game sold out in perpetuity. $Ch-ch-cha-ching. Welcome to privately run pro sports, Doranites - giving the people what they want, regardless of what a bureaucracy says is best for everyone. If you don’t build it - someone else will! Listen for the wind whistling through the stands at a Pura Milk match next season, SENers. I know what you’re still thinking by the way, which one of those gals is the hottest? Fuhgetaboutit fool - there is no correct answer!
So much of the IPL was more than creating a show and spectacle to fill often-empty stadiums, it was a breaking of ground in regards to culture clashes, racial differences, and evidence of the rising middle-class in India. Doran should have embraced it, not given it the 1970’s World Series Cricket treatment. Aussie cricketers’ exploits do have some appeal with the station’s targeted demographic. SEN are culpable, too. All Mr. downloadme wanted one night was a simple score FFS.
It will be interesting to see if Doran’s exciting coverage at a bunch of Olympic sports that we can watch at a decent time on TV works for SEN (read: faked excitement like at the Aussie Twenty/20 game where Doran was a commentator). But then again he probably loves diving and the shot put. It seems the station has a lot of faith in him as an opinionated broadcaster. Let the cards fall where they may but I reckon Doran is the joker hand.
Now with time due to my dodgy hammy I’m gonna see if Dasher39 or Steve Salisbury is right about the varying sport coverage on SEN.
"It was just blokes playing for big cash and, yeah, whatever the result at the end was the result at the end" - Doran
Oh, don’t cover how un-Australian and yobboish Shane Warne was this time in India, what, embracing their culture in ways such learning to speak some Hindu, and indulging in Indian cuisine instead of his beloved baked beans. And how dare this womanising has-been show empathy for the people of Jaipur during his winning acceptance speech. Doctor Turf even had a crack about that. Just doesn’t fit the “disrepute” theme that Doran would have pursued with enthusiasm and gusto. C’mon, say it one more time: “Bad Boy” Buddy. If anyone heard DD last week try and justify to a irate caller his recurring use of that reference to Franklin, you know what I’m on about. He thinks he’s sneaky, saying there’s really nothing in what Franklin has done, but then pushes it endlessly - “Bad Boy Buddy.” A listener called him on it, too.
The IPL owners and sponsors donated about $1 million to the victims of the Jaipur bombings. WHAT, those robber barons? Surely untrue. What a great lift for the residents of the Pink city from the sport they love. The Dorans of the world that complain about "blokes playing for big cash" never take the risks and turn the wheels of commerce but the Murdochs do. Lachlan is part owner of Warney’s champion Jaipur team. This league expects to break even in around three years while it targets 8 to 14-year-old boys and girls to build long-term brand/team loyalties like in the EPL. Test cricket’s future is in the hands of fans, not sports bureaucrats.
I think it was Mr. downloadme who pointed out the lack of coverage during some nights before SEN went to their replays. You know, giving people righteous stuff such as scavenger hunts (dropping the content to RRR or JJJ credibility) to in inspire sports loving fans to tune in and be thrilled. Oh joy. Must have been a Brett Phillips off-night that there were no scores because he’s always pretty good.
The IPL was not to be outdone by the NHL’s biggest trophy in sports, the players were also playing to win the most expensive trophy in sports. A trophy incrusted with diamonds, opals, rubies, and different coloured sapphires. The Super Bowl rings of the New England Patriots last win each had 124 diamonds valued at around $30,000 a piece (finally some trophies that chicks can dig). The Ashes - how great, we win ’em and the loser keeps ‘em.
Why shouldn’t there be an opportunity for the Shaun Marshs, Geeves’, Thornleys, and Rochis, to set up their families’ future the way Jonathon Brown will his next year, by making some decent money in the Australian off-season? But people say they may get hurt like Matty Hayden and not be available for Australia. So what. I must of missed what Doran thought of MacGill turning up for the last two Test series hurt and unfit while also doing an award winning television show about wines. Marshy is gonna financially make out like a bandit and Pomersbach when given a chance in the IPL wielded his bat like a flame thrower, and they’ll both be paid for it next year. Don’t expect any tax-payer funded gold medal Olympians that Doran’s going to slurp over to turn down too many offers to line their pockets, either. I wonder how the Double D feels about that profiteering.
How about if Doran had’ve stopped whining about things like the size of the boundaries (ICL 70mtrs, IPL 60mtrs) and considered the wonderful opportunities the sport now has to keep players instead of losing them. The next generation of terrific young cricketers may not be totally lost to the sport the way Neal Danaher, Greg Williams, Bill Brownless, Gary Lyon, Chris Judd, Brad Green, Marc Murphy, and Brett Deledio were - just to mention a few from a massive AFL list.
Doran chose to not bother catching any of Shaun Marsh’s performances including his majestic 115 off 69 balls. Rarely in sports has a performance left four commentators in total awe referring to “the next big thing in cricket.” Hit and giggle be stuffed. It was magic to see Marsh motionless, one leg in front of the other, standing perfectly balanced with his bat horizontally in line to the point of his nose, frozen for moments watching the ball disappear over mid on into the rapturous crowd. Right out of the batting manual. I now remember hearing a talkback caller (owning Doran) challenging some of Doran’s comments to do with something about Marsh not being a next-level player based on IPL. Remember, the marvellous one didn’t see any of the performances but still professed an opinion. Marsh will be in all Aussie teams as fast as you can say SOS. Be very afraid Phil Jaques.
If not for Shane Watson winning the man-of-series, which I sure Doran now knows about, it would have a laugh to hear him say, “gee, it’s been a bit of a drought for Watson between successes ” upon his return to the Aussie ODI team. Twenty/20 has forced Watson to develop a change-of-pace ball and use the short ball wisely, as was the case with the once-erratic Sreesanth.
Or maybe it was the talk of smokin’ hot cheerleaders like the Redskinettes that so delighted analyst Ryan Campbell, yet the thought probably repulsed our traditional and politically correct Good Oil hero, even though there’s clearly no moccasin sloth in this troupe below.
Can you say Hail to the…just part of the reason the NFL’s Washington team has its 91,000-plus tickets for every home game sold out in perpetuity. $Ch-ch-cha-ching. Welcome to privately run pro sports, Doranites - giving the people what they want, regardless of what a bureaucracy says is best for everyone. If you don’t build it - someone else will! Listen for the wind whistling through the stands at a Pura Milk match next season, SENers. I know what you’re still thinking by the way, which one of those gals is the hottest? Fuhgetaboutit fool - there is no correct answer!
So much of the IPL was more than creating a show and spectacle to fill often-empty stadiums, it was a breaking of ground in regards to culture clashes, racial differences, and evidence of the rising middle-class in India. Doran should have embraced it, not given it the 1970’s World Series Cricket treatment. Aussie cricketers’ exploits do have some appeal with the station’s targeted demographic. SEN are culpable, too. All Mr. downloadme wanted one night was a simple score FFS.
It will be interesting to see if Doran’s exciting coverage at a bunch of Olympic sports that we can watch at a decent time on TV works for SEN (read: faked excitement like at the Aussie Twenty/20 game where Doran was a commentator). But then again he probably loves diving and the shot put. It seems the station has a lot of faith in him as an opinionated broadcaster. Let the cards fall where they may but I reckon Doran is the joker hand.
Now with time due to my dodgy hammy I’m gonna see if Dasher39 or Steve Salisbury is right about the varying sport coverage on SEN.
