The "silly points"

A request from Â(c)hinaman

I found this on my comment box from jRod

Please sign the Save our Bill Lawry petition to keep the Corporate vultures from ending the career of our favourite excitable one.
Think of the children.

So reading between his lines, I realised,
since retiring Bill Lawry has been commentating on Channel 9.
That is when he not arguing, although in good humour,
with former English captain Tony Greig.

It seems Lawry and Greig have reached the final round of musical chairs –
it is but the one chair now between the two of them.

My Aussie blogging friends do not wish to lose Bill Lawry.
So they have launched a Save Our Bill e-petition.

Here is their plaintive cry for justice.

Save Our Bill Lawry email campaign

Spun by Jrod at about 20:04 Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Dearest friend,

A grave injustice is about to unfold.
Are you willing to put a stop to it?

Strangled whispers out of Bendigo St in Richmond say that either Bill Lawry or Tony Greig is to be dropped from the channel 9 commentary team. Now unless you were born slow, got hit on the head at a young age, or hate life, you will agree that it must be Tony Greig.

Tony Greig is, has and always will be a terrible commentator. He gets names wrong, he miss reads the game, he barracks all the time, and he talks hours and hours of dribble. Outside of Sri Lankan administracrats I couldnâ?(tm)t think of anyone who would like him.

Bill is a god.
If someone is boring, Bill will out them.
If something is exciting, Bill will orgasm over it.
He is passionate and one of the best cricket commentators ever.
Mark Nicholas told his commentators of the 2020 world cup to channel Bill.

Has anyone ever wanted to replicate Tony Grieg?
Greig had to stop his pitch reports from just before the game, because his microphone was clearly hearing the chants of Greig is a wanker from the stands. And he actually phones in his podcasts, poor form.

I do not disagree that Bill has slipped a little over the last few years, but even if he gets to 10% capacity, he will never be as bad as Tony Greig.

Sign up friend.
He is not a Victorian icon.
He is not an Australian icon.
He is a cricketing icon.

If we get 1000 responses I will send this to Channel 9.
Click here, http://www.petitiononline.com/SOBill/petition.html, and
Save Our Bill.

They are 981 short of their target at the last count,
so if you are reading this, please sign this petition for our friends.
It does not hurt or bite, I swear. I have signed it, and am still alive to write this.

The last time (er the only time)
I saw Bill Lawry was way back in 1969 at Eden Gardens in Kolkata –
I had to stand on the seat to see above the heads of the spectators.
I remember they had us 0/2 – before I could rub the sleep off my eyes
although I confess I quite liked the roundshape of the 0 on the scoreboard.
And they beat us by 10 wickets – I have been hooked on test cricket since.

But that does not stop me to lend support, so please,
do it for our friends
do it for justice.
And for Bill Lawry.

When he is not campaigning for Bill Lawry,
jrod can be found at cricketwithballs.com; saving the world, one cricket blog at a time.

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