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"UCLAN" wrote in message
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Leonard Caillouet wrote:

Any "dumb nut" can work out that to be a WORLD series it must have
participants from many different parts of the world ,
thus it is a US series NOT A WORLD SERIES
Arrogant Yanks!
But then again to Yanks there is no where else but USA.

Sure there is plenty outside the USA...you just don't matter when it
comes to baseball.

No one here would get bent if you claimed to have a world championship in
Cricket that only had teams from the UK. Who would care?

The other 103 countries that are ICC members?


Probably a few more than that in the International Baseball Federation.
That does not mean that there are any serious contenders that are being
dissed by not being part of the World Series. The Japanese are the best
outside of North America and their team would likely not make it far in the
playoffs. The point is, it really is pretty much an American sport and
most of the rest of the world does not really care. They couldn't even keep
baseball in the Olympics. The name has become a tradition in the sport,
regardless of how it arose, and like it or not, the winner of the Series
would not likely have trouble winning a game with any other team the World
might produce.

Leonard

Leonard Caillouet wrote:

No one here would get bent if you claimed to have a world
championship in Cricket that only had teams from the UK. Who would
care?

The other 103 countries that are ICC members?

Probably a few more than that in the International Baseball Federation.

Irrelevant. I was merely answering your question.

[BTW, the IBAF governs all levels of baseball, professional and amateur.
It currently has 112 countries as members.]

On Jun 26, 7:05*am, RickMerrill
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Brad VK2QQ wrote:
On Jun 15, 7:00 am, charles wrote:

in the same way that the US Baseball championship is called "The World
Series"?

It's called the World Series because it was originally sponsored by
The World newspaper.

sounds good, but not so:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_series

Yep, already retracted my comment and did the checking of facts.

"Leonard Caillouet" wrote in message
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"John H" wrote in message
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In answer to all the replies.
It's still one big ego trip on the Yanks part.
Could have changed it if the wanted, but they didnt want too as their
egos were too big.
John H


Do our egos really bother you that much, John? I thought such enlightened
and sophisticated societies such as yours would be beyond such concerns.


A lot of stupid lefty Brits are resentful of American success. They should
remember that if it wasn't for the USA's policies of selflessly supporting
freedom worldwide (at great cost to that nation) over the last 100 years,
we'd all be talking Geman now and living under the jackboot. The USA has
been a wonderful friend to Europe and to democracy.

Bill

On Jun 27, 8:11*am, "Bill Wright"
wrote:

A lot of stupid lefty Brits are resentful of American success. They should
remember that if it wasn't for the USA's policies of selflessly supporting
freedom worldwide (at great cost to that nation) over the last 100 years,
we'd all be talking Geman now and living under the jackboot. The USA has
been a wonderful friend to Europe and to democracy.

Bill

Please let us not confuse selflessness with self interest.

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
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"Leonard Caillouet" wrote in message
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"John H" wrote in message
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In answer to all the replies.
It's still one big ego trip on the Yanks part.
Could have changed it if the wanted, but they didnt want too as their
egos were too big.
John H

Do our egos really bother you that much, John? I thought such
enlightened and sophisticated societies such as yours would be beyond
such concerns.

A lot of stupid lefty Brits are resentful of American success. They should
remember that if it wasn't for the USA's policies of selflessly supporting
freedom worldwide (at great cost to that nation) over the last 100 years,
we'd all be talking Geman now and living under the jackboot. The USA has
been a wonderful friend to Europe and to democracy.
Bill

and then handed us the bill for WW2 in 1945 with their loans which have
only just been paid off, whilst giving money away to the rest of europe.

Steve Terry

"Brad VK2QQ" wrote in message
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On Jun 27, 8:11 am, "Bill Wright"
wrote:

A lot of stupid lefty Brits are resentful of American success. They should
remember that if it wasn't for the USA's policies of selflessly supporting
freedom worldwide (at great cost to that nation) over the last 100 years,
we'd all be talking Geman now and living under the jackboot. The USA has
been a wonderful friend to Europe and to democracy.

Bill

Please let us not confuse selflessness with self interest.

The USA could have stood back in 1939 and let Hitler take over Europe. It
would have been no detriment to them.

Bill

In article , Bill Wright
wrote:

"Brad VK2QQ" wrote in message
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On Jun 27, 8:11 am, "Bill Wright" wrote:

A lot of stupid lefty Brits are resentful of American success. They
should remember that if it wasn't for the USA's policies of selflessly
supporting freedom worldwide (at great cost to that nation) over the
last 100 years, we'd all be talking Geman now and living under the
jackboot. The USA has been a wonderful friend to Europe and to
democracy.

Bill

Please let us not confuse selflessness with self interest.

The USA could have stood back in 1939 and let Hitler take over Europe. It
would have been no detriment to them.

I thought they did stand back. They only became invoved after the
Japanese sank their ships at Pearl Harbour in December 1941 - over 2 years
after Hitler took over continental Europe.

Bill

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"Steve Terry" wrote in message
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"Bill Wright" wrote in message

and then handed us the bill for WW2 in 1945 with their loans which have
only just been paid off, whilst giving money away to the rest of europe.

They only asked for the loan money back. Not the vastly greater amount they
spend on their own account defending us.

Bill

On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:11:52 +0100, "Bill Wright"
wrote:

A lot of stupid lefty Brits are resentful of American success. They should
remember that if it wasn't for the USA's policies of selflessly supporting
freedom worldwide (at great cost to that nation) over the last 100 years,
we'd all be talking Geman now and living under the jackboot.

Britain stopped the German advance at the channel long before the USA
entered the war. Even if they had successfully invaded Britain it's
unlikely we would be talking Geman now, there was no attempt to
Germanise most of the territory they invaded. Only in Alsace Loraine
and a few bits of eastern europe they regarded as part of Germany was
there any attempt to replace the local language with Geman.