[/quote]So why has the nation forsaken it for the jumped-up form of rounders that is baseball?[/quote]

:rolleyes2 There are so many references to the existence of Baseball long before rounders, but nobody ever considers it possible that rounders was taken from Baseball, do they? I'm not talking about who invented what here, just which came first. Not that it matters. At school, I know of only one boy who got excited when we played cricket, and yet most of the class was very happy to hear rounders was the order of the day.

Oh, and the reason Americans don't play cricket?

Americans are (at least very slightly) discriminating and don't like playing really, really, really terrible games.

But anyways, the article is so full of misinformation and stereotyping that it has to be satire. However, he's also pretty bad at satire, which means the blatant innacuracies and impossible viewpoints are the only real key to it.