The controversy that has rocked Oz is:
Australia is currently in a meltdown of a kind seen in America only when a president is impeached. The captain of its cricket team, Steve Smith, on Saturday confessed publicly to cheating. One of his players had been caught on camera scuffing up the cricket ball in a game against South Africa. This is done to get the ball to change trajectory in the air on the way to a batter when bowled at high speed, making it harder to hit.
Mr. Smith confessed that it had been his idea to tamper with the ball, the worst form of cheating in cricket. "Say It Ain't So, Steve," the headlines wailed. It was so. Mr. Smith was denounced publicly by Australia's prime minister, even as grizzled retired players joined in a chorus lamenting the tarnishing of Australia. Mr. Smith faces severe punishment, possibly a lifetime ban.
And no US baseball scandal has ever rocked your country the same way.... ::)
It's kinda hard to get scandalized by a scuffed baseball or underinflated football when we have a POTUS who likes to do the horizontal oompaloompa while getting spanked with his own face on a magazine.
I say, that last statement wasn't quite 'Cricket' Old Boy. :2funny:
this is akin to the Soviets... errm, Russians were caught doping with their olympic curling team.
curling.... who the fucks needs steroids for Canadian driveway sweeping?
Quote from: Staggerwing on March 28, 2018, 07:09:22 PM
"horizontal oompaloompa"
Since I'll never get that phrase or image out of my head, I now officially hate you. :wow:
*snicker*