Re: only Yanks can revitalize world cricket
Chandu-
Wow...$100 million "golden pot"? Now we're talking! Why are you comparing Oreck vacuums and Vegemite to the sports industry here in the US? Those are 3 totally different industry markets here. And yet you want to continue to badger me about my background in business. Now who is losing credibility? My use of poker in my post was to show the mentality of Americans when it comes to making a sport more competitive in the US market and producing high caliber players from people who probably never would have thought to want to learn how to play because now there are incentives to want to be good at it. You may think that poker is not a "sport" but it is competitive nature, just like cricket, and not like vacuums and Vegemite. But you're right, we should just sit and watch cricket grow at the organic/grassroots level here in the US using..."baby steps"?? So we should see cricket at a decent competitive level here in the States in the year...what...3006...if that? Cricket will not grow if you leave it to grassroots level of growth because to the majority of Americans, cricket is long, boring, and complicated, and there is no incentive to learn how to play. My point is not to sell cricket here, but to give it national exposure and give people more of an incentive to learn to play cricket and increase the competitive level than what it is today. The bottom line here is that we are trying to get the US to be more competitive in the cricket world. You're not going to produce decent World Cup level cricket players at a grassroots level here in the US, when there are no incentives.
Stamislav-
You are right, the infrastructure and fields to play on are crap. But once you gain national exposure to the sport and give incentives to be good at playing cricket, people here will want a decent infrastructure to keep the sport going here and with that infrastructure, they will push for better playing fields. But I think we can do with the fields that we have, if we give everyone incentives to play the sport. Take a look at Puerto Rico, Mexico, Cuba, etc. with respect to baseball. Have you seen the fields they play on? Yet they use what they have because there are incentives to be good at the sport because one day they could play in the MLB here in the States, and make millions of dollars. Lacrosse and field hockey are popular in high school and universities because there are incentives...college scholarships.
OK, so once again, "market the crap"..."show the money."
Chandu-
Wow...$100 million "golden pot"? Now we're talking! Why are you comparing Oreck vacuums and Vegemite to the sports industry here in the US? Those are 3 totally different industry markets here. And yet you want to continue to badger me about my background in business. Now who is losing credibility? My use of poker in my post was to show the mentality of Americans when it comes to making a sport more competitive in the US market and producing high caliber players from people who probably never would have thought to want to learn how to play because now there are incentives to want to be good at it. You may think that poker is not a "sport" but it is competitive nature, just like cricket, and not like vacuums and Vegemite. But you're right, we should just sit and watch cricket grow at the organic/grassroots level here in the US using..."baby steps"?? So we should see cricket at a decent competitive level here in the States in the year...what...3006...if that? Cricket will not grow if you leave it to grassroots level of growth because to the majority of Americans, cricket is long, boring, and complicated, and there is no incentive to learn how to play. My point is not to sell cricket here, but to give it national exposure and give people more of an incentive to learn to play cricket and increase the competitive level than what it is today. The bottom line here is that we are trying to get the US to be more competitive in the cricket world. You're not going to produce decent World Cup level cricket players at a grassroots level here in the US, when there are no incentives.
Stamislav-
You are right, the infrastructure and fields to play on are crap. But once you gain national exposure to the sport and give incentives to be good at playing cricket, people here will want a decent infrastructure to keep the sport going here and with that infrastructure, they will push for better playing fields. But I think we can do with the fields that we have, if we give everyone incentives to play the sport. Take a look at Puerto Rico, Mexico, Cuba, etc. with respect to baseball. Have you seen the fields they play on? Yet they use what they have because there are incentives to be good at the sport because one day they could play in the MLB here in the States, and make millions of dollars. Lacrosse and field hockey are popular in high school and universities because there are incentives...college scholarships.
OK, so once again, "market the crap"..."show the money."
