Hants
As I was about to celebrate this bit of good news, I saw the scorecard of the second inning of Barbados vs the Leeward Islands
29, 27, 3, 0, 0,1, 0, 2, 0 8, 1
Let rearrange them
0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 8, 27, 29 (sum=78)
Mean 78/10=7.8
Let’s look at different averages since the arithmetic average (mean) can be influenced by extreme values (29 and 37)
Most frequent (mode) = 0
Number in the middle (median ) = 1
Would you want to see Barbados bat?
Romario Shepherd fireworks, Alzarri Joseph five-for seal series for West Indies
West Indies won by 7 runs
I can be rightly accused of making negative comments about the level of WI cricket and soccer. I cannot retract those statements but let me add the following…
It cannot be refuted that performance of the young Barbados CARIFTA team was stellar. Go youngsters. Keep on aiming high and trying to reach the stars.
Life can be cruel.
I was in the positive zone and then I read Barbados junior hockey team was “hammered 20v-v0v by Chile in their opening game”?
Talk about mood change.
Where was the coach? That idiot should have been fired during the game. He should have not allowed the young team to take the filed after the half-time score was 9-0.
It is time Barbados make use of a mercy rule and abandon games before the score reaches 100-0. Somebody needs to tell these coaches/players. It’s not just a hotel and a plane ride… it’s national pride.
Suggestion: Change ” Barbados National Team” to “Barbados B Team” and keep the “A Team” off the field.
For consistency, the “A guy” has now been demoted to the “B guy”. 🙂
Why non-competitive sports can be beneficial for your kid
Barbados should engage more in non-competitive sports like yoga
This attitude of contentment is called Santosha. Derived from two Sanskrit words, “Sam” which means complete, altogether, entirely and “Tosha” which means content, satisfaction, acceptance, being comfortable. As such, Santosha means completely content with, satisfied with, accepting and comfortable with.
https://barbadostoday.bb/2023/04/12/suki-holds-slender-lead/
I consider myself an aficionado and an expert at the game of checkers. I have four or five good checkers books in my possession and a very strong game on my computer,
I play a game against the computer every now and then. I would not mind having a game with Suki. I can promise you, the score would not be 20-0 or 11-0. Perhaps, I should start training …
Headlines
Computer trained Citizen Challenges and Chomps Checkers Champion
This sports report is brief.
Female cricketers from Barbados ended a tournament unbeaten.
A surfer guy representing Barbados in a competition turned his back on the island though was NOT eliminated in that competition and went off to participate in a different competition
National pride/representation: tek de money, show up, barely go through the motion of competing and leave early
I just bought a surf board… I wanna represent
former Coleridge and Parry student DeSean Boyce
https://www.nationnews.com/2023/05/21/boyce-joins-sub-45-club-qualify-worlds/
Proposed National Stadium
I love soccer. I was watching this CONCACAF tournament when I saw the names T&T, Jamaica, St kitts and Nevis and Qatar.
Qatar? That has to be a flipping typo. How could anyone make such a mistake?
I looked at my keyboard to see the relative position of the Q and the B. Then I count the number of letters on Qatar and those in Barbados. Then I got out a map and looked at the countries in North America, Central America and the Caribbean and as I expected there was no Quatar.
Google, here I come… I read that Qatar was invited. Does Barbados soccer suck so much that they would invite strangers after knocking us out of the competition.
2)
Oh! A few days ago there was a big match between Mexico and the USA. Would you believe that Barbados and Honduras had the nerves to schedule a match at the same time? Where? In the USA.
Needless to say, that game was postponed. Also, these two loser nation had some expensive tickets.
Can you imagine Barbados playing a home match against a next nation and Grenada and St Vincent scheduling a game here at the same time. Can you see the ignorance.
3)
I hear a group of CARICOM islands are planning to celebrate July 4 as a holiday.
Well, we lost Halloween
Thanksgiving day is being stolen.
I hear them talk of Founding fathers giving them a constitution…
Jesus! I give up. I will no longer try to understand the thinking of the Caribbean man… Jenkins, here I come.
@Hants
The PM has been quoted as saying that all big projects must past through her, so while most people would think that details about a new stadium would be under the purview of the Minister of Sports the PM would beg to differ.
@TheoG
Forget Sports Center and watch CBC, yesterday Randy Harris the President of the BFA was on the local channel explaining why the match was cancelled with Honduras something about the condition of the field and accommodation. At least that was his explanation but football in Bim is in a sorry state and leadership is part of the problem.
The Barbados versus Honduras match was postponed because the Honduras officials complained about the conditions.
“The Barbados versus Honduras match was postponed because the Honduras officials complained about the conditions.”
I give up. I have invested time and effort in making you an independent thinker but you continue to fall for these petty excuses. This is the last time I will translate for you.
Translation: the idiots in Honduras realized this was a big mistake before the idiots in Barbados did. Field conditions was cited as the reason . Other reasons considered were weather, the smoke in Canada, sargassum in the Caribbean sea and distance from China.
I give up. You are on your own.
Don’t get it wrong.
I love, respect and admire the blogmaster, but I also love trying to mangle his comments and taking a cheap shot. That’s my nature. I am who I am.
👍🏿blogmaster👍🏿
Oops!
Where did Al Jazeera go?
It seems some of you believe the Blogmaster should not have an opinion.
Maloney is no baloney.
“Of course, it is an amazing result to finish P2. I really had to work hard for it. Starting P7, it was always going to be a difficult race.”
West Indies won by 6 wickets (with 80 balls remaining)
Wow… drew with Brazil and knocked them out!
What a change taking place in women’s soccer … Canada also knocked out and US scrapped through by literally a few inches.
I can just hear the Jams now; Messrs ICC we want our OWN cricket team too! 😎
Why do I have to clear cookies, change my location and come up with a fake id.
Too much censoring Mr blogmaster.
“These difficulties resulted in Jamaica receiving support from fans through crowdfunding due to inadequate support from their federation. Nearly USD $100,000 was raised for the team through two fundraisers.”
What does clearing cookies have to do with the blogmaster? Always willing to learn.
Well, if your posts are not appearing it is quite possible the site is recognizing you in some way.
A cookie is a piece of data from a website that is stored within a web browser that the website can retrieve at a later time. Cookies are used to tell the server that users have returned to a particular website.
So I clear my cookies, pretend I am from Mars and give myself a new name
@ Kiki
Get ready for AI in your donkey.
No one needs any cookies to recognize your posts…. the smell is detectable from afar.
..and don’t blame the Blogmaster, ask Bushie how he doing it… LOL
You know how long the bushman was gunning to put a ban on your donkey…?
Instead of changing your name and pretending that you are from Mars, …why not just write something coherent, – and ADMIT that your donkey is indeed Martian….
LOL
Murduh!!!
Don’t make me draw a card like a black magician
The battle get hotter than the egyptian sun
and the battle we a shotter we have to weigh by the gram
Somali runner sets record for ‘slowest ever’ 100m after taking over 20 seconds to complete
It appears that the Somalia select its sprinters using the same criteria our folks use
Who ya know
Who knows ya
Who is ya fadda
Who is ya mudda
Can you move without assistance?
WEST INDIES WIN THE SERIES
Jaiswal to Hope, SIX runs
Shai Hope finishes it off in style! Jaiswal tosses it up just outside off and Hope gets low to mow this down the ground. West Indies have done it! They have won the decider and the series!
Paramount Prince has won the King’s Plate to earn the first jewel in Canada’s triple crown.
It was the third win for jockey Patrick Husbands BSS
At last!
We have a competitor who has demonstrated excellence for at least the past three years. It makes my old heart sing when I can support a Bajan who is performing at the highest level.
This achievement is not something that can be faked or won by a popularity vote; this is Sada lining up against the best of the very best and emerging triumphant. She did it not once but twice.
I have been following the different races of this young lady and admiring the increasing level of her performance. Indeed, she can be a model for all of our children as she demonstrate what dedication, application, training and belief in self can do.
Go Sada, all true Barbadians are behind you.
You go girl, blaze your name across the world.
Am excerpt. Let me comment.
Keep them off the national teats. They are free to pursue on their own, but what we are seeing here is mainly self interest and self promotion. Barbados or local organizations should not put a dollar in this.
Don’t let 555 silence you.
Excerpts
“Currently, we are working with the Skateboard Association of Barbados as we identify individuals who would be interested in transitioning from ground to ice. The BSA is in the process of seeking membership in the International Skating Union (ISU). One of the requirements is to build your team of skaters who may just be starting out, or have been skating for many years,” said Tracey.
“There is no need for skaters to relocate or change what they are doing now. It’s about seeking out those individuals, and helping them with a journey. Given the lack of diversity in the sport of ice skating, this is a great way for Barbados to get the exposure and bring that diversity to the sport, just as similar to the Jamaican bobsled team (1988 Winter Olympics). We plan on doing the very same thing to put Barbados on the map as being represented in the winter sports,” she said.
The Florida Panthers are a professional ice hockey team based in the Miami metropolitan area.
The BTMI could do a study to see if an ice rink can be built and used as a training camp for Canadian hockey teams.
I disagree.
I don’t think the base (audience or players are there). Florida will attract people from all over including Canada, northern states and migrant from other countries.
For Barbados, tow or three players with parents as audience. Money could be invested in shoring up other established ports.
We need to stop catering to a special few and invest in the many.
We should never lack the courage to call self serving BS when we see it.
Everyday is typo day.
Sundays seem to be more blessed. I gave you five or six instead of the usual one or two typos.
We cannot take every model and apply it to Barbados. Population, size of nation, cost of project, just who is benefiting have to be key variables in the model.
Americans don’t have the upbringing knowledge skills from playing football as a national sport from school days but they make up for it with their level of fitness and players abroad have improved their standards greatly
Not sure what Geezer 2 is on about again but don’t care anyway.
This vid is dedicated to my brethren Ngoni of Misty in Roots
I just realised he died in 2021
Jah, Jah
Jah, Jah
Jah
Deliver the poor and needy, out of the hands of the wicked.
Deliver the poor and needy, out of the hands of the wicked.
Jah, Jah
Foundations of the earth are out of course
Man so blind, they neither see nor understand
They walk in darkness
They walk in darkness
Jah, Jah
Deliver the poor and needy, out of the hands of the wicked.
Deliver the poor and needy, out of the hands of the wicked.
Jah, Jah
Jah standeth in the congregation Jah rules among the gods.
How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked?
Defend the poor and fatherless,
Do justice to the afflicted and needy.
Jah, Jah
Deliver the poor and needy, out of the hands of the wicked.
Deliver the poor and needy, out of the hands of the wicked.
Jah, oh Jah
Jah, oh Jah
disgusting
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