Even more wow...

Last night was the finals for the first season of ProCricket, and I was there.

The New Jersey Fire were facing the San Francisco Freedom on their home ground, and calling the CommerceBank Ballpark a Free(dom) Fire Zone would not have been at all inaccurate.  Both sides displayed some amazing batting, and some amazing fielding to go with it - but at the end of it all (and I do mean the end, the fifth ball of the twentieth over for San Francisco), San Francisco got to take the ProCricket trophy home with them.

( Game stuff ... )

Why I got messed up on the scoring: I think I've been Noticed by the league and TV people.  National Public Radio does a show where unusual sports with 'highbrow' images are spotlighted, and they were at the match - and were brought over to *me* to interview.  I ended up explaining the basics of the game to the interviewer, and also what was going on 'real-time'.  This was almost certainly going 'into the can' for later broadcast, but I don't know when.  I was also offered the opportunity to do 'guest commentary' on TV, but I turned that down - for some reason, the idea scared me a little bit.  At any rate, that's when the scoring went to the wayside.

Tomorrow (Sunday) it's back to Staten Island for the last ProCricket game this year - the All-Star game, the best players from the Covers (eastern) Division against those from the Midwicket (western) Division.  And yes, I'll try to score it.