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deano
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Damn, I though I was going to get an apprentice to train up.
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Palimpsest
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Well Putin has announced his own Eurasian version of the Eurovision contest with wholesome family fare. I hope Desert Daughter gets to watch a lot of it.
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orfeo
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A contest controlled by one country. Yeah, that's going to be a perfect replacement...
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Matt Black
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Like the USA's 'World Series', eh?
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mousethief
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Originally posted by Matt Black:
Like the USA's 'World Series', eh?
It's not the USA's World Series, it's MLB's World Series. Shove your pond-war synecdoche up your nether hyperbole.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by mousethief:
quote:
Originally posted by Matt Black:
Like the USA's 'World Series', eh?
It's not the USA's World Series, it's MLB's World Series. Shove your pond-war synecdoche up your nether hyperbole.
And there's a Canadian team. Sort of.
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Wasn't it named for a newspaper originally? Wikipedia isn't helpful about that.
It must be admitted that it is odd that a sport championship for a single nation (albeit with one team from that most American of Canadian cities) is labelled "world". Hence the question.
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Moo
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Originally posted by no prophet:
Wasn't it named for a newspaper originally? Wikipedia isn't helpful about that.
I thought that also. It was either the World Series or the World Almanac that was originally sponsored by The New York World. I couldn't find more information.
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orfeo
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Whatever. I look forward to seeing Russo-vision, where men are real men, women are real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri are real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.
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Ariston
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Originally posted by no prophet:
Wasn't it named for a newspaper originally? Wikipedia isn't helpful about that.
It must be admitted that it is odd that a sport championship for a single nation (albeit with one team from that most American of Canadian cities) is labelled "world". Hence the question.
*sigh* I can't believe I'm feeding this tangent, but:
1. There used to be the Montreal Expos. They even won a series once, if memory serves me correctly. Now they've moved to DC, where they may never win a series because no DC sports team can. It's like a law of nature or something.
2. Technically, the only major pro baseball teams are in America's National League and Japan's Central League. I don't know what they play in the American League, or anywhere else that doesn't make pitchers step up to the plate and do their part, but it isn't baseball.
3. Isn't there a baseball thread in the Circus or something? It's not my demesne anymore, so I don't know. Would somebody mind checking for me? Ta muchly.
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mousethief
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Originally posted by Ariston:
I don't know what they play in the American League, or anywhere else that doesn't make pitchers step up to the plate and do their part, but it isn't baseball.
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Thankfully for National League assholes, this is the only rule that ever changed in the history of baseball.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by mousethief:
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Originally posted by Ariston:
I don't know what they play in the American League, or anywhere else that doesn't make pitchers step up to the plate and do their part, but it isn't baseball.
Thankfully for National League assholes, this is the only rule that ever changed in the history of baseball.
Yes, there really is a baseball thread. It's in the Circus although any discussion of the place of the DH* will have to be in Hell. Just not on this thread; a Pond War is one thing, another dividing the USA could be a lot nastier, especially over such a crucial issue.
*Designated Hitter, not Dead Horse. Although it probably is a Dead Horse issue.
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Matt Black
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Originally posted by mousethief:
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Originally posted by Matt Black:
Like the USA's 'World Series', eh?
It's not the USA's World Series, it's MLB's World Series. Shove your pond-war synecdoche up your nether hyperbole.
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Ariston
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
A Pond War is one thing, another dividing the USA could be a lot nastier, especially over such a crucial issue.
Speaking of which, did you know that my home state has the only barbecue worth the name in the whole entire country, and therefore the world?
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lilBuddha
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You are from Jamaica?
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Matt Black
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Alaska myself
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orfeo
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Get out. The lot of you.
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Sioni Sais
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Are you lot getting as bored with this thread as your hosts are? Be warned, we're watching.
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Palimpsest
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Originally posted by Ariston:
sigh* I can't believe I'm feeding this tangent, but:
1. There used to be the Montreal Expos. They even won a series once, if memory serves me correctly. Now they've moved to DC, where they may never win a series because no DC sports team can. It's like a law of nature or something.
I think it's a divine law rather than a natural one. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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