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cricketerik.bsky.social

@cricketerik.bsky.social
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Trent Bridge stalwart, Chris Read fanboy, last man out of Lauderhill. Lifelong Seattle Orcas fan. For E.M. Petersen, read Petersen, E.M.

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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 20h
When I first moved to Nottingham, Raleigh's UK corpse was not long in the earth and the city's fast-growing corporate presences were Capital One and Experian. Those freaky little Games Workshop guys were the dam keeping Big Credit from swallowing the city's street cred entirely.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
My boy, you've got a future in politics.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When the headline cutoffs on your Robert Jenrick news search beget more questions than answers. (For 1, I'm going with "ground into a suet that meets British Horseracing Authority dietary standards." For 2, "sentient pug anus pus boils.")
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Here's a remarkable piece of writing about baseball, a version of which also could easily be written about cricket. howardbryant.substack.com/p/baseball-t...
howardbryant.substack.com
Baseball: The Original MAGA
For what and when, exactly, do you yearn?
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What's Robert Croft been up to? The answer may surprise you.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I remember when he was the comms guy and both him and Broad looked like they were doing their A-levels. (This is a fantastic hire/promotion.)
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Posted something on FB asking men in particular to say something about what we need to do re: rape and sexual assault culture. Been up for a day. Has one (1) comment from a man, and it gets into a time he says he was falsely accused. I'm fucking sick of this. Dudes, stop being worthless assholes.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Folks said not to order this eyeball bleach but I knew it would come in handy.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I mean, '97 and '03 go a long way towards making up for a lack of division titles, but they were also a long time ago. So yeah, it's not great.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
If baseball can't be played, the M's can't get runners to the corners with nobody out and then leave them there. *Man pointing at brain meme*
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Paul, let's be honest. Does baseball being played ever actually work out well for people like you and me?
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Mustn't complain etc., but The Weather owes us one next year.
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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No she’s not.
TLS: Mary Beard on the Bayeux Tapestry.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
*Sips cocktail, raises eyebrow* The Beatles, eh? Can I just shock you and say: pedestrian. Moderately interesting pop at best.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Didn't he go to the Naval Academy?
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You'll lie and tell everybody that of course you saw it. But you'll know. You'll always know.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
(I love that @jonmarthaler.com liked my Van Morrison in Pizza Express nonsense. There are few places on this planet where Van Morrison has stayed away from Pizza Express more than Minnesota. And yet still, somehow, they believe.)
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
True. I reckon we can give Carter honorary SEC points though, on account of all the outlaw country/southern Rock/Allman stuff.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Sport fandom, at its core, is sitting in a Pizza Express thinking maybe tonight's the night Van Morrison walks in. That's my theory.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And that's where we're at here. I've looked at the table. I've run the numbers and done the points. I know that Notts winning the Championship is at Van Morrison in Pizza Express levels. But who cares? Why would I even watch sport in the first place if I didn't think it might happen?
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If you're in a Pizza Express and it suddenly swings into highly specific action because the only singer in the world who won't perform Brown Eyed Girl has just walked in? My friend, you dine on Pizza Express pizza for an evening, but you will dine out on that story forever.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
But like Muider himself, you *want* to believe. If you believe and you're wrong, what's the downside? You get some pleasant enough pizza and a continental lager. But if it happens? If it happens and you're there?
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Does that make you an idiot? Does that make you someone who believes everything you hear about chain restaurants and old rockers? Could somebody tell you The Legend of John Otway at Harvester and you'd take it at face value? Of course not, you're smart and discerning.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Now, this is where you and I come in. Let's say Van Morrison is playing the local concert hall/arena/antivax rally in your area. Let's say you've heard the legend of Van Morrison in Pizza Express. Don't tell me you don't head over for some midrange chain pizza on the evening.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pizza Express, not wanting to upset a legendarily prickly rock icon, tries to oblige. And so, according to legend, every single Pizza Express has on its premises a set of instructions for what to do if Van Morrison comes in.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So then, the Van Morrison at Pizza Express Theory. There's a story/urban legend/nonsense I heard in a pub once that says the following: Van Morrison loves him some Pizza Express but, perhaps unsurprisingly, he has highly particular wants.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Normally I invoke the Van Morrison at Pizza Express Theory during a single match - the massive second innings chase that you watch even though you know. You know full well, and yet there you are, watching it.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Looking at the County Championship table going into the final matches, I am reminded of the Van Morrison at Pizza Express Theory, which I have never explained on this platform. (I got into it on the old one back when it was good.) Friends, this is prime VMaPET territory.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Can we convince the police they're all SOAS students demanding trans rights so they kettle the shit out of them or
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is lowkey why Virginia is never getting their dumb flag back.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The guys from The Rest is History were on US radio recently chortling about how the UK could never do something like Trump because those fash strongman tendencies don't exist in the UK.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
FIU is currently in the middle of getting its backside handed to it in court over a genuinely moronic violation of students' free speech rights at an anti-ICE protest. It's got too-stupid-to-be-effectively-evil vibes that Liz will *love*.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Istanbul: perhaps a dance-off will stop this Rome-Chicago knife fight.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Come on, Canada. Push for Test status or nothing.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
People are asking questions about my "I am not complicit" t-shirt that are clearly answered by my "I am not complicit" t-shirt.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Only Cricket Fan In the Office, Vol. 127: An important contact at my new job goes by JC. Briefing me on him, a colleague told me it stands for Juan Carlos, "like the king of Spain." Let me tell you, when you follow that up in the Miami suburbs with an Ashley Giles joke, it does not hit big.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Listen people. The end of this Champo season is incredible. If there was ever a time to go full evangelical to our friends who don't care about county cricket or cricket in general, this is it. This is what us sad online cricket nerds have trained for.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Heathrow sitting there like Tony Montana with the blow mountain.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Fella doesn't accept replies, but nothing I could say would be worse than spending almost $360M to still be worse than the Marlins.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Imagine paying $357m and the biggest thing you've got to show for it is that you can help make the Marlins almost as irrelevant as you are.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Every time I think the mainstream media in America can't get any worse, their counterparts in the UK pop up to remind me, oh, yes it can. It's like an entire ecosystem run by the Mean Girls clique
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Cannot be done.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Thing is, county cricket, you could just skip the whole light-jogging-in-shorts-for-70-minutes warmup when there's been a delayed start. Limbering up the ol' hammies is something you can do indoors, it really is.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Well, good job, eventually, I guess?
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Well, this is gross. I remember when "controversial Hampshire overseas signing" just meant Warne getting lots of time in England before an Ashes series.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Become ungovernable*. (*Unable to move runners over.)
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Earlier this month, a group paid almost $10 billion for the NFL team in one of the cities US conservatives like to say is an ungovernable hellscape because of progressives.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I know it's an old, dull complaint, but 13 points for Notts and 10 for Warks doesn't strike me as an accurate reflection of what happened in the match.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Heliotrope Bon Marche.
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cricketerik.bsky.social @cricketerik.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Me normally: publish the ICE guys' addresses, let them live in fear. Me today: GET CORDEN TOO, PUT THE FUCKERS ON THE SAME PLANE.
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