WomBBLing Free

For those of you who secretly wish I'd spend more time talking about cricket (come on, you know you do), this is your lucky day. The 2016 Women's Big Bash League (WomBBL) starts tomorrow. I had a chat on the phone with the nieces & nephews the other night, and everyone is looking forward to it—although—I noticed the boys were quick to point out that it's not as good as the blokes' tournament. Oh well, the women's league is only in its second year, and most of the players aren't even fully pro yet, so I'd say we've still got a fair bit of room for improvement. … So long as it generates enough of a following to sustain itself.

Last year, I bitched about the level of coverage the WomBBL got. While the tournament received plenty of hype, only about half a dozen matches actually got televised—which is a bit fuckin' disappointing when you consider that Network Ten has two secondary channels that appear to play nothing but repeats from the main channel and old Yankee shit from the 1980s. But the most egregious part is that they didn't even bother to stream the non-televised matches over the internet. Come on—in this day and age, any tit with a phone and an internet connection can run a HD broadcast online for zero dollars. Virtually unforgivable.

Anyway, I'm pleased to say that this year they've rectified this outrage. For the 2016/17 season, all non-televised WomBBL matches will be streamed live (and presumably free) through Facebag, and the cricket.com.au website. Well, thank fuck for common sense, 'ay.

For the sake of readers' sanity, I'm going to put a link up in the right-hand column, and I will then endeavor to keep the majority of WomBBL talk confined to a single page. No guarantees though, okay.

And on a related note, I'd also like to mention how much the niblings are looking forward to the start of the women's AFL next year. One of the cousins is supposed to be playing for one of the Melbourne teams, so Aussie Rules is very chic around our neck of the woods at the moment. Interesting, since it's all pretty solid Rugby League territory up here.

I have it on good authority from The Terra that the Sydney Sixers are the best girly team, 'cause dey have pink shirts wiv sparklies on dem.