BIGGY STARDUST

The Sumptuous Gaylord, Mark Nicholas, has been known to unleash the odd compliment, and the occasional Big Statement, but his latest "That's a Biggy!" takes the buttered confection:

For a cricket-crazed teenager at the time it was a seminal moment, as big in its way as the Beatles, and as much fun as the record that changed the seventies, David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust.

Then again, maybe it did, just not for me. Exile on Main Street came out the same year as Ziggy Stardust and the Stones' majestic sloppiness smashes Bowie's concept waffle for a DLF Maximum.

For those of you who always thought Tony Grieg's "contract for life" was apocryphal, but nevertheless ground your teeth every time Tawny blathered yet another tedious piece of nonsense in the Nine commentary box:

"Kerry, money is not my major concern. I'm nearly 31 and probably two or three Test failures from being dropped by England. Ian Botham is going to be a great player and there won't be room in the side for both of us. England captains such as Brian Close, Ray Illingworth and Colin Cowdrey lost the captaincy before they expected. I don't want to finish up in a mundane job when they drop me. I'm not trained to do anything. I went straight from school to playing for Sussex. My family's future is more important than anything else. If you guarantee me a job for life working for your organization, I will sign."

Tawny delivered the Cowdrey Lecture to prove yet again that Nine's LCD modus operandi sells the viewers short. The Nine coverage could be so much more interesting if Tawny, Bull, Chappelli, and the rest were encouraged to speak their minds rather than burst out with aggravating cheerleading and simplistic so-called analysis.

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[m0nty]

Mr President, My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen,

I have nothing to say, I just wanted to start a comment with that.

[Tony]

The Shorter Tawny: "Money is not my major concern, but I want a job for life."

[Tony]

Will Biggy Rammers think the headline is about him?

[Tony]

Sumptuous is, to be fair, a bit of a tosser:

The Chappells, Lillee, Thommo and Rod Marsh were so damn macho and so bloody good. The South Africans - Richards, Le Roux, Mike Procter, Clive Rice - irresistible, explosive. John Snow, Javed Miandad and Richard Hadlee were stand-ins, for goodness' sake. And there was Viv. Swoon. And Gordon, Clive and Mikey and the colossals, Wayne Daniel and Joel Garner. These were superheroes who formed the dreams of a generation.

[Cameron]

"If you guarantee me a job for life working for your organization, I will sign."

Fuck, he coulda just gone into Government, got a similar deal and left the rest of us alone.

[Cameron]

Amendment:

...left the rest of us alone to a degree.

[Big Ramifications]

Will Biggy Rammers think the headline is about him?

I did. The shame. "What awesome thing have I done, now?" was my exact thought.

Old people lose their muse.

Old people who have lived for the last 30 years in a celebrity bubble REALLY lose their sh!t.

Even if they did speak their minds, I'm not sure if it would be anything more enlightening than aggravating cheerleading and simplistic so-called analysis.

[Cameron]

'Even if they did speak their minds, I'm not sure if it would be anything more enlightening than aggravating cheerleading and simplistic so-called analysis.'

On that note check out this debate from ESPN:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv2jqFd2-qI

At first I was with that Cuban guy (the billionaire in the horrible t-shirt,) but after thinking about I thought "fuck, 'proper' analysis ad infinitum? That'd be boring".

Slightly similar to the old 'moneyball' nerds vs. the rest debate. I get the sense the moneyball analysis has flamed out a little in the US but we're gonna see it grow and grow down here for a while.

[Tony]

Balance. Analysis, hype, "generalities" as Cuban calls them, etc. All have their place, but I lean to the analysis side of things with a hint of unplanned humour. After all, I'm 50 now, and I have barely heard or read a solid piece of "yeah, that's on the money" for a long time. Heard it all before.

[The Don has Risen]

I like both albums but Ziggy changed things Exile didn't.

both good albums. Lillee and Thommo were both great fast bowlers but they were different bowlers. Thommo the fastest of all time. Lillee went on to the best fast bowlers of all time.

to me they were the best fast bowling combination of all time.

Having said that I could not listen to both albums one after the other.

mind you in these Ipod times I do not listen to any albums now.

[Big Ramifications]

// NTTAWWT

[Tony]

That's so good I put it on Twitter.