Throwing Aang at the catcher does rise quite a few questions, of course.
For one, there’s the physical question – how could Injun throw Aang that easily, given that he weighs at least 230 times as much as a regulation baseball? Plus, Aang would surely have struggled. Plusplus, how did he even get hold of Aang? I’m sure that Sokka, Katara and Toph wouldn’t have let him just take Aang and run off with him. And where did he keep him? He can fit a spare ball or two into his pockets, but Aang would have been quite a squeeze. Questions over questions!
Questions that don’t matter, however. Right now, out on the playing field, with the pitch already have happened, all these questions pale in comparison to the questions that the situation poses with regards to the rules of cricket. Is it legal at all to pitch a human being instead of a ball, even if he is smol and an airbender? Are there regulations weights and dimensions defined for airbenders? How does an airbender interact with the strike window? Has all of the airbender to pass through the strike window? How much can be outside? One limb? Two? Is it determined by the center of gravity? How do you determine the center of gravity of a flailing airbender in motion?
The rules of cricket are overly complicated and obtuse at the best of times, confronted with such a complex situation they must be an absolute nightmare. And, accordingly, even old-time-legend Yogi and the chief umpire need to look long and hard into their rulebooks if they want to have any chance of divining an answer. But they are pros, and have undergone a long process of exposure therapy to inure them to the nature of cricket rules…for Gregory, who lacks all that, the result is pretty much the same as with the first time he tried to confront the rulebook…
More on Thursday.