[Murad]

Originally Posted by ZeeshanM
Handing down the key? You gotta be kidding me. This is what happens when Lord of the Rings meet Cricket. It's an online forum for Christ sakes(!) which of course doesn't entail posting of utter garbage but at the same time doesn't mean we have to give a SPORT- yes, S-P-O-R-T an air of textbook pedagogy and and a makeover of geekfest.

I mean sure some of us feel that since Bangladesh cricket needs rescuing and we should do something about it and since playing for the league and moving up the ladder is a far cry, the next best thing we should do is get down and dirty with our e-wizard wands and engage in some lengthy monograph and pedantic iDebate with someone whom we have never even met face to face thinking somehow it should send a ripple of wave down the Cosmic Consciousness to change the astrocharts of Bangladesh cricket board and patting oneself on the back for "All in a day's work" for saving the civilization from the brink of destruction before a peaceful night of sleep, but let's just not delude ourselves.... The players, the board, the coach can give a flying frack to what we do,think or say living in our little universe eating cheetos on futon in front of the pc screen as if we have the whole universe figured out.

So at the end of the day it is what it is and enjoy it for what it is. A sport which we watch for entertainment's sakes and for fun and not some intellectual exercise that somehow needs to be 'solved' by a guild of ivory tower theoreticians who feels the need of a sense of belonging beguiled that somehow they have one-up of Shakib for being able to conjure up theory with data manipulation.

Tamim, Shakib, Ash-- these guys don't need us. We need them. And we solely need them so that we have something to do between the time of picking right nose and left nose. Some may HATE them feeling disillusioned that what do these 'morons' have achieved in life to deserve this celebrity status whilst all your life you worked towards your post-depression Keynesian economic theory but truth of the matter is such is life. So yeah y'all go ahead and feel as good as you want and giggle at Mushy or cuss the f out of Ash for his illiterate English but at the end if someone clubs Gillespie for the biggest six he is in the ultimate zone of life as an immortal while you will die a rotten corpse. THEM? : Middle finger to us. US?: Banging on keyboard at 193 wpm with our podgy thumb fixing our glasses thinking we own them.

And as for the fans. That's exactly what makes BC a BC. "I" come to BC because of the eclectic members ranging from little Antora to genius like Sohel bhai. If all the codgers came to this place to form some nerdy Internet Brotherhood to engage in paragraphs of armchair theories it would be the MOST BORING place ever. It's precisely the diversity of the FANS that makes this such an exciting place. To shoehorn the natural course and dictum of the forum into some cookie cutter mould of what it should or should not be shows utter disrespect for others. And way to go by culling out some handful of members and making others feel insignificant and no I don't give a rats arse that my name is not included. Even guys like Shakibrulz and Matinsux with whose views I disagree maintains the checks and balance of the forum. And as for the other members who don't feel that the standard went down and lost the drive to post- well sorry to burst your bubbles cuz no one gives a damn; it's not as if cybersky will collapse.

Well Said, Zeeshan.