missing hockey

hockey season is over. i wish it was all year long. some may say it is considering there are exhibition games played in september and the playoffs end in june. that still leaves two and half months of that empty hockeyless feeling.

basketball and football arent even on either. baseball is gaining a bit more popularity in my books but there are like 200 games a season, way too many to follow. watching baseball is sometimes just as fun as watching artificial turf grow.

i recently tried to fill the hockeyless void in my life by watching cricket. pakistan and sri lanka were in the finals of the "twenty20" or T20 finals. World Cup finals apparently. surprisingly the game started on time and by the time i started watching sri lanka had already batted. they got 180 runs or something like that but all of the players were 'out' so they couldnt score anymore. this meant that team pakistan had to get more than 180 within 20 overs. an over is like 6 pitches, i think.

so i sat there and pakistan was doing well. when the guy with the paddle hit the ball over the fence for a home run, he gets 6 points or runs, something like that. and when he hits it and it rolls/bounces to the fence before the outfielder guy stops it, he gets 4 points/runs. otherwise you just hit the ball and run back and forth between the bases... er the wickets. the wickets are these skinny sticks that make up the strike zone per se.

if the pitcher hits the sticks and they smash into a thousand peices then consider yourself out. or if youre dumb enough to stand in front of the sticks and the pitcher (aka baller pronounced bowler) hits you, then youre out. it would probably hurt anyways.

i watched and the uncles enjoyed every moment, especially the home runs. i started getting into it a bit too. then pakistan finally got more runs then sri lanka (hahaha losers) and won the world cup!!! yay pakistan!

it was a great time. i miss hockey