Yeah, if you’re the color commentator, it’s good to be able to pepper up your monologues with interesting statistics every now and then. Not necessarily meaningful statistics…that would be asking too much. It would barely ever happen. But they should be interesting on the level of a factoid, at least.
And they don’t have to be terribly interesting, either. Just not less interesting than the game itself. Which usually isn’t a big hurdle.
Still, Yogi had no relevant statistical factoid for cricket at hand. So, naturally, he took one from a different game. All games are games, after all, so it’s safe to assume there’s some fundamental similarity there. A 9.6% swing is nothing to sneer at – so if going first helps you that much in Warhammer 40k, isn’t it very likely that it’s at least somewhat helpful in cricket, as well? Probably likely. At worst, it could be the opposite. But ultimately, one team will win, so there’s that. Yogi is a relaxed kind of bear, he’s not taking his job as color commentator overly serious. Let’s call it part of his charm, since we can’t change anything about it, anyway.
Snuka, meanwhile, is not trying to delay the start of the game. He’s got no reason to do so. He just can’t help himself when free money is flying around. He’s gotten better at controlling his snatch-impulse, and he’s surprisingly frequently capable of restraining himself from snatching money out of the purses of people around him. But snatching money out of purses can be a bit hard, even for him. Snatching it out of mid-air is fricking easy. The lower threshold makes maintaining self-control that much harder.
More on Thursday.