Hello kiddies! Our names are Kiki and Sassy. We are best friends/hetero life mates from Sydney. That’s Kiki with the pigtails, and Sassy is the one rocking the fro. No, it’s not a wig. She is a genetic mystery, don’t question it.
This is what Cricket Australia thinks cricket fans want.
What other game gives you an excuse to park yourself on the lounge for five days straight? It’s genius. We love all of cricket’s adorable little quirks. Like the umpires in their wide-brimmed hats and Madonna microphones, and the fact the way they graciously hold a players jumper while he’s bowling. It’s so … courteous.
Anyway, we are tres excited to be here with our heads up on cricket.com.au. It’s all green and yellow and Australian. It’s almost like being e-selected for the Aussie cricket team. Yes people, we now share an employer with Mister Ricky Ponting. We are assuming our baggy greens are in the mail.
This is proof of the apocalypse.
If you want to go over and look at the whole post, look at the comments as well.
They are clearly faked.
Badly.
Posted by Tracey at12/03/2009 10:41 AMI don’t know much about cricket, but hearing about it from your point of view has definintely made it seem fun. Not only are you hilarious, but you are great teachers too…I think this might actually get me interested in cricket!
First question is what the fuck?
Next question is are Kiki and Sassy actually Kiki and Sassy or are they actually a 105kg social media consultant who writes their posts wearing only underwear and Jack Daniels? Woah. This is mind blowing. Can’t. Quite. Process… Morons…
Seriously, it’s actually quite heartbreaking that this is the best they can do. With all the passionate cricket boggers out there that know their way around a keyboard, the CWB shopkeeper included, that the ACB are comfortable serving this shit up is just wrong. The best thing about cricket is the umpires’ hats and sitting on the couch for five days? Fuck off.
This shit is offensive, completely unnecessary and it shows the ACB are out of touch.
Everyone knows Iain O’Brien has the teenage girl demographic under his control.
I read this shit in the Age newspaper and was wondering whether Jrod would comment on it. Fuck me, the end of the world as we know it is near.
Bob, the age doesn’t have a rss feed for cricket, that I can find, so I’m a bit slow off the mark there.
Chris, that was priceless wasn’t it.
Comments are clearly faked. I tried to post a comment but no luck. I was wondering why 2 people with no interest in cricket who had never previously watched a game all of a sudden found themselves on ACB website reading a blog about cricket, and then were so moved as to comment. I also love the comment (and plug) by Baz, now I dont have to stay up all night watching on my 3 mobile.
Pathetic.
“was wondering why 2 people with no interest in cricket who had never previously watched a game all of a sudden found themselves on ACB website reading a blog about cricket, and then were so moved as to comment.”
Spot on, Chris.
The site is a complete fiasco.
Dear Kiki and whatever the fuck the other one with the genetic whatever it is is called,
Get the hell out of our blogosphere before I am forced to commit some girl-on-girl crimes.
Thank you.
I found their original site: http://www.oherrol.com/ Jesus, Australia obviously has a man drought too.
I’m thinking about piling into the comments on the ACB site and taking the piss – who’s with me? We need an angle though, so it’s not too obvious and we wind up getting banned…
Come to think of it, the SA tour is just abouut over., and there’s only one introductory blog? Someone must have attacked Sassy with some hair straightners.
RI, what angle should we try?
It’s making me stabby.
These lezzos are obviously still in the closest, denial is the first sign of flaming homosexuality.
JRod, you should show up to a park game in your WWI Swedish Jacket and make the umpire hold it when you bowl. Classy.
besides, if they’re after that market why not go to the source ?
“Anyway, we are tres excited to be here with our heads up on cricket.com.au.”
The ACA certainly have their heads up somewhere that’s for sure.
Sorry to butt into an Australian issue,
*smug smile*
but BCCI website has not sunk to such lows, yet.
*smug smile*
Hahahaha at Rahul.
@Rahul
BCCI? Really? any lows left for them yet?
Rahul, the BCCi hired 4 young Japanese school girls to do theirs, but one of them knew someone who had seen an ICL match, so they were fired.
The theological implications of this are huge. Shewagology has lacked a confirmerd enemy, an adversary, if you will. Whilst I doubt these media invoked bints have the Miltonian substance of Lucifer, they are surely harbingers.
What in the fucking hell was that? And they get paid for it?
Who is the Oz board thinking of attracting by writing such chick crap? Hell, no girl that I know of will write like this. It has to be some marketing whackjob trying to write like a girl.
You think this is bad? It’s nothing compared to Willow and Stumpy.
It’s pretty embarrassing that there are professional bloggers here, some bordering on actual journalists, devising a way to undermine someone else’s job. It’s disgraceful really. Especially for a progressive site like Crikey.
It’s hard enough writing for a living without this sort of petty, malicious action.
So is critique of other people’s writing not allowed now, Alex? Or is it just those writers who are fortunate enough to write for a living who should be exempt from any kind of critical review? Writing for a living is a privilege, and the writer should remember that they write for the people who read their work. Our opinion, as readers, matters, and deserves respect as it keeps good writers in business and should weed out the bad ones. If I were a professional writer I would be embarrassed to be seen to be suggesting that readers should not be able to comment critically on my work.
Critiical review should always be allowed especially when such pearls of wisdom as this can be offered.
“These lezzos are obviously still in the closest, denial is the first sign of flaming homosexuality.”
I’ve been trying to think of a decent way to take the piss, but they’re giving it away.
We could go on there pretending to be dizzy fans, but others seem to have beaten us to it. There’s no need. It’s just sad.
Alex, for me this is the biggest wasted opportunity ever. The ACB could have appealed to their ‘target audience’ here in a much more mature, less obvious way. It’s our *duty* to point out that it’s shit.
Miriam: you’ll notice I didn’t use the words “reader” nor “critical review” nor “critique.” This is because it’s an entirely separate issue.
I objected to the fact that people are here devising ways to smear those ladies’ column on other forums. It’s morally bankrupt. Disliking the content is one thing, and perfectly valid, but scheming for no other reason than to undermine someone else is the domain of bitter shysters and small-poppy thugs. There’s a valid critical -and journalistic- response available and this isn’t it.
This is exacerbated by the fact that Jarrod up there exploited his role as a ’4th Estate’ Crikey blogger to achieve this.
Richard: If you don’t like it, that’s fine. It wasn’t the opinion I found offensive, as I’ve said above.
Alex, I did try to comment on Kiki and Sassy’s column itself but unfortunately my comment (and those of some others I know) didn’t seem to make it past the moderator.
If readers of Kiki and Sassy’s blogs are sufficiently influenced by the pieces written about it so that Kiki and Sassy’s blog is undermined (rather than benefiting from the free publicity – I bet CA didn’t expect quite as many hits), I would suggest that their writing isn’t strong enough to start with. If, though, Kiki and Sassy (and I know at least one of them has read this blog) note the fact that their work is wildly missing the mark for at least some of their target audience, then I would submit that commentary on their work, in whatever form, wherever it is placed, is a good thing.
Oh Jesus. Lighten up would you? And maybe do some actual research first before you post such ignorant bile.
It’s not missing the mark. That’s the point. It’s actually exactly what a ridiculous amount of readers want to read.
They’re filling a need, providing an informal, vibrant voice in a cricket world dominated by the kind of traditionalist freaks who have soul-wrenching nightmares about the 20/20 format.
You’re clearly not their target market. That’s okay. ‘People with cat pictures next to their internet posts’ probably isn’t the demographic Cricket Australia is trying to nail.
Miriam:
Reader reception and the role of the critic is a very interesting issue. I recently wrote a paper on it. However it has almost nothing to do with my point.
I objected to the motivation here. Someone who has a professional forum and a certain influence canvassing ways of exploiting it to undermine Sassy & Kiki’s piece, for no other reason than spite and, I’d venture, envy. It’s foul agenda-journalism, and is far more odious than its target, which is merely what seems to be perceived as just bad writing.
I’m the Tracey who commented on their Blog.
After reading the article in the age, I thought I would support these girls and go and take a look.
I found myself laughing at their humour AND I understood everything they had to say about cricket.
It was valid, current and a perfect introductory post which is why I blogged and said that their style of writing had the ability to get me interested in cricket.
I even watched some Women’s WC!
To try and drag these girls down; when they are doing such a good job of changing the direction not only of sport commentary, but of how the sporting world views women, is a joke.
Support them. Stop being so jealous.
I’m very proud that we’ve got a healthy debate going, and loads more hits for this website, not to mention the extra hits and great publicity for Kiki and Sassy, and a great demonstration about how you can’t please all of the people all of the time as Jessica is asking me to lighten up but apparently my cat pictures aren’t really doing it for Anton. This is all good thing, surely, and one of the beauties about a public, unmoderated forum.
For those of you who want to read some more about this, here’s a link to Patrick Kidd’s blog in the Times, on which no-one has commented yet.
http://timesonline.typepad.com/line_and_length/2009/03/tokenism.html
Tracey, good to hear from you, I hope you enjoyed the womens’ world cup. I’ve been watching quite a bit of it when it’s been aired here. I wish it had been better publicised so that there were bigger crowds; perhaps this is something Kiki and Sassy could get behind which would be even more valid and current. There’s an interesting article in Cricinfo here:
http://blogs.cricinfo.com/tourdiaries/archives/2009/03/is_there_a_worl.php
I”m just worried Miriam that is going to glass someone.
PS Won’t be involved in the live burning of the original poster. More than happy to piss on the ashes though, schedule permitting. Name a time and a place. Will we YouTube the moment and post it on Cricket With Balls?
LOL Anton. I have problems with pissing in front of other people, but I’ll gladly contribute some pre-arranged urine to the festivities!
I wasn’t going to respond to this, but I just want to say a few things.
a) you are NOT our target market. you weren’t sposed to like it. the people CA are trying to attract are not trawling existing cricket blogs. i think you have all missed the point completely.
b) this actual post is okay….you don’t like us, that’s fine. but the writing petty, bitter stuff like the cat post isn’t exactly going to endear you to the commercial world. it seems the premise of the backlash against us is that we are unworthy and you guys/Miss Field should have been hired instead.
you are deadset kidding yourselves if you think THIS is the way to go about getting a public profile. i like Miss Fields’ blog, but why would Cricket Australia want to pay her to write for them when she publicly slags off Lara Bingle and Michael Clarke’s spending habits/personal lives?? I mean really.
that’s all. carry on.
one more thing.
i think you guys haven’t thought about the fact we are working under strict guidlines for CA right?? we can’t just choose our content and we can’t say whatever we want. which is what commercial writing is all about.
we have free reign on http://www.oherrol.com and our writing is alot different. have a look at some of our league posts and you will see that.
Hi Alex,
I’m Crikey’s production coordinator and run Crikey’s Sports blog and asked Jarrod to start a gig with us for his deep insight to both the on and off field aspects to the wonderful game of cricket.
I think Jarrod’s stance is fair criticism. And it’s more directed at CA than Kikki and Sassy.
The comments, which can be suspected to be blatant plugs for CA’s commercial partners are embarrassing.
And I think that Jarrod’s criticism (which he did tone down for Crikey) is absolutely fair.
If you have an issue with what we’ve done at Crikey I’d encourage you to let us know on Jarrod’s Crikey blog post too.
Are you kidding me? The ONLY thing that makes cricket interesting in the LEAST is the way these two lovely, gorgeous, and funny girl explain it. They are not one fat guy on his computer or whatever, they are two girls who love to have fun and enjoy thier sport!
I am not a cricket fan, never will be, but I am a fan and friend of these two girls and they make us (their fan base) laugh. They are interesting, quirky and funny and they have a way of saying things that makes you want to read more. Oherrol is the only blog I’ll ever read.
For those of you, which is most of you, that don’t see this, then fine. You obviously don’t have a personality. But do not go criticising these girls for their fabulous work just because you find it stupid because a lot of other people like it. I find their work much better and more exciting then this website.
When these two ladies become famous and get their own show, I will be laughing very hard at you and saying “I TOLD YOU SO”.
OH ERROL FOR LIFE -high kick-
Speak for yourselves, losers, I managed to get a comment on.
Could Alex please strangle himself with that pretentious scarf
Gosh, it’s all getting a bit lemonlyman.com here, but thank you everyone for your comments. it’s always good to have new people saying whether they do or don’t like this site, and it’s good to know that there’s something for everyone out there so that people can choose what content to read, whether they like the insights, sharp humour and occasional cat posts of CWB, or whether the only thing that makes cricket interesting for them is Kiki and Sassy. As someone with no wish for a commercial writing gig on account of being extremely gainfully employed as a lawyer, I personally am very flattered by all the attention.
Kiki, we apologise that your comment did not appear straight away. The system apparently thought it was spam, and required us to approve it, and it arrived in the middle of the night here. We welcome all points of view and do not moderate comments.
One minute you are a cat.
The next minute, you are a lawyer.
This is why this blog has absolutely no credibility.
Haha!
Leigh: appreciate the response. Tried logging into the Crikey blog at the time but wordpress had some issues. Without wanting to reignite things, I think it’s disingenuous to suggest that CA was the target and attempt to substantiate that by pointing to about 3 comments which could be construed as advertising. A real story would be in the proof of that, which wasn’t, and probably won’t be, found.
Ben: please ignore the first part of this comment. It has big words in it too.
Seems surprising why JRod didn’t spot this.
If Kiki and Sassy were a single person, their blog would be called KIki and SASSy’s blog.
Here is the difference between the corporate writing world and the real world:
Kiki you can go fuck yourself you conservative cunt.
See? I got published saying that. This is not the corporate world here. This is not cash for comment baby. This is not a bunch of fuckwit conservatives who could not find the paradigm even if they wanted to question it.
And I’m not even talking about the ACA post, lame (and cynical) as it may be. I am talking about Oh fucking what an original thinker Errol.
I can’t even explain why but Oh Errol just reeks of conservative values. Its a fuckin sad state that being a yobo skank actually makes you part of the mainstream, but Jesus is it ever raising my hackles. And clearly I’m not the only one (even if Nimby is the only one here that actually has hackles).
I have spent nearly forty years trying to think radically without following any socialist party-line agenda, but man, I would wave the red rag if Oh Errol was the first against the wall !!
Sorry, Kiki, sorry, Sassy, I’m sure you are lovely people in real life, I just wish death on all conservatives.
Cheerio.
This comment has nothing to do with anything, but what cricketer wouldn’t take up the opportunity to score a fifty? Fiftieth comment! *I am half-raising my bat and dipping my cap in faux-humility, carefully noting which one of you bastards on the sidelines isn’t applauding my magnificent deed.*
You’re almost 40?? That’s TERRIFYING. I hope you haven’t reproduced.
Ned…… that was pretty far out.
@David – yep.
You all know that ‘batting in ned kelly’s helmet’ isn’t my real name, right?
Not even actually my real personality (well, created by, but not actually …)
Hello?