"Yeah... the World Series is sorta silly, but if it were renamed NOW, who'd know what they were talking about?"

er, who'd care in the REST of the WORLD? ... :-P


Well, they renamed the Aussie Interstate Cricket Comp from something called "The Sheffield Shield" (nearly a century of tradition) to the highest commercial bidder (currently a milk company! - who will it be when they go broke?), and _I_ didn't know what they were talking about...

Funnily enough, the ABC (public FTA radio & TV) has a policy of not using commercial names, so they started calling the comp the Inter State Cricket Comp.... :-)