BS: World Series

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 05:46 PM

"this has made Florida into a major Latin American "country."

Not really, but it has made Miami into a major Latin American city.

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: 53
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 05:45 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 03:32 PM

McGrath, several Latin American countries have good players, some of whom are good enough to play in the USA major leagues and do play there. They have leagues in their own countries, but smaller populations, other major interests such as soccer football and lack of the millions-billions of dollars involved in American baseball, would prevent them from competing on the American level.
Baseball is big in Japan, and a few players have made it to the American major leagues.

The Cuban situation is amusing; the players "defect." Every Cuban, in fact, who defects and makes it ashore can stay in the USA; this has made Florida into a major Latin American "country."

Mentioning the obvious, many of the top Latin American soccer players work in European leagues and only play for their country in competitions outside of league play. The same with ice hockey; top players come to the American leagues to get big money, sometimes in the millions, but play for their country in the Olympics, etc.

Forgive me the remark about "other team sports," soccer football is very popular in American schools and in not too many years, I think professional soccer will be as big in North America as it is elsewhere.

All of which comes down to the fact that big sport is big business. In the first days of baseball, before the farm systems, many teams were local, and rooting for the "home team" meant something. It is, I think, a big joke today. I watch professional sports sometimes (tem minutes of Monday Night Football on TV is usually a prelude to two hours of napping in the easy chair) just to marvel at the ability of top players, but I can't get serious about them.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: GUEST,chimmusic
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 03:28 PM

Hey, Jerry, I was in high school when that 1960 Pirate-Yankee World Series occured. I was not a Bucs' fan, persay, but anybody beating the Yankeees warmed my heart. You had to be mighty strong to hit a homer out of Forbes Field in the alleys in those days. Also, I remember how sad it was to see Willie Mays(perhaps the greatest all round player of our time)stumble in the outfield, trying to catch a fly ball when he was with the Mets, that he would have put in his back pocket years ago. Ah, Father Time catches up to us all, it's just that being on the world's stage(sports and entertainment particularly) makes it very sad to watch. Jerry, being from Toronto, I was able to catch some Pirate games on the radio, and listening to Bob Prince was such a treat. A homer, to be sure, but such fun to listen to. Those were the days, my friend.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 02:55 PM

So Seamus, am I to believe you are not a Barry Bonds fan? LOL.....I tend to agree but I'm also sure that with or without it, his place in the Hall of Fame is waiting. I have grown to hate the Hall of Fame in recent years. When I look back upon the numbers who are deserving of the recognition and yet are not there, it pisses me off no end. Anymore MLB pisses me off as well........Why am I bothering to post here?

Funny thing.....It used to be we had good baseball and shitty movies about baseball. Nowadays we have some exceptional movies and some pretty unheroic baseball. Maybe during the Series I'll watch Bull Durham, Major League, Field of Dreams, A League of Their Own, Eight Men Out, and the incomparable 61*, Billy Crystal's excellent work.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Mad4Mud
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 02:38 PM

McGrath, the "World Series" which as you mentioned is just presently between North American baseball teams pits the winner of the National League against the winner of the American League. The Angels just won the AL yesterday and the Giants and Cardinals are still playing to see who will win the NL. Cuba does not have a team in either the AL or the NL.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 02:23 PM

Are Cuban teams allowed in to play? What about when they have a home game against a USA team? Or doesn't it work that way?

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Seamus Kennedy
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 02:22 PM

I hope the Angels win, and I hope Barry Bonds goes through his entire career without a World Series ring.

Seamus

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 02:19 PM

I'm rooting for the Giants (if they make it..) I still remember hearing the radio broadcast of Bobby Thomson's World Series winning home run when I was in high school. I went to see the Mets their first year (not because I'm a Mets fan) but because I wanted to see the Polo Grounds before they tore it down. With Willie Mays playing center field, using a walker...

I would have cracked up if Minnesota had won the championship series. What sweet revenge that would have been. My ideal World Series? That's easy. The Twins and the Pirates. I came to New York City in the fall of 1960, and was the only Pirate fan in my dorm. They had a common tv that everyone watched, and I had bets going against many loud-mouthed, self-deluding Yankee fans. When Mazeroski hit the home run, I went balistic, in a room stuffed full of angry Yankee Fans. Ah, to be young, brave and stupid again...

Jerry

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 02:18 PM

Heaven is in Anaheim this year!

Hope to see Cuban, Mexican and Dominican Republic teams should not be forgotten. They have furnished superb players to the major leagues for years.
I suppose they play other team sports over there across the pond. Can't think what they are, right now.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: 53
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 01:40 PM

I've often wondered why they call it the World Series too.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Mad4Mud
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 01:33 PM

McGrath, Canadian teams can play in the World Series but, of course, you are right in a way. It should be called the "North American Series" at least for now.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 01:13 PM

Do they allow teams from outside the USA to play in the "World Series"?

Ireland should maybe call the All-Ireland Hurling and Gaelic Football championship a "World Series". Or Japan could have a World Series Sumo competition...England could go for Conkers. (But the trouble for the English is that all the daft local games the English come up with get taken up by other countries that beat them at it.)

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Peter T.
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 01:10 PM

Are they having baseball again this year? I stopped noticing. yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Mad4Mud
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 12:38 PM

It's gotta be the ANGELS! Especially since I'm only fifteen minutes from Anaheim Stadium.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: mmm1a
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 11:24 AM

ANGELS

:) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

OK CAN YA TELL    I AM JUST A LTTLE EXCITED THEY FINALLY MADE IT.

       mmm

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: 53
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 11:17 AM

Good answer.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: GUEST,chin music
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 11:16 AM

It looks very much like a Giants-Angel World Series. The Angels seem to be a team of destiny, while Dusty Baker's guys should provide a good series. With all the turmoil in the game this season, baseball desperately needs a shot in the arm, but I'm only sorry we could not have seen 'Budlite' present the trophy to the Twins. It will come down to pitching, as it always does in the game of baseball, and the clubs are very close in that dept. with Nen and Persival being great closers. This time around, Barry Bonds has risen to the occasion and should be a big factor in the series. Somewhere in that big roundup in the sky, Gene Autry is smiling down as the former owner of the Angels, gets to see his club in the big dance. In closing, I think that the game of baseball has done the youth of North America a great disservice in starting the playoff games so late that the next generation of fans are snug in their beds by the start of the games. This is a subject for another thread. I like the Angels in six.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Amos
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 10:33 AM

The Belorussians have a team?

They don't even drive Chevies.

What's their win/lose?


A

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: 53
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 10:01 AM

Baseball, Chevy, and apple pie all go together.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: 53
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 09:47 AM

Sports are a good pastime.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: mack/misophist
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 09:30 AM

Try Belorussia. I don't much care for sports either.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Watson
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 09:19 AM

Well I hit the translate button, and that still doesn't mean anything to me.

Subject: RE: BS: World Series
From: Pied Piper
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 09:18 AM

Belorus.PP

Subject: BS: World Series
From: 53
Date: 14 Oct 02 - 09:14 AM

Who Are you pulling for in the World Series?