Dr. Walsh ,'Potential'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
What's weird about that list to me is that the book is about the 50 most overhyped things in history, which is total different than overrated in my opinion.
And baseball doesn't even come close to football as a world sport, even in Latin America (with the except of the Caribbean).
baseball doesn't even come close to football as a world sport, even in Latin America (with the except of the Caribbean).
Baseball's not *that* big in the Caribbean. The English speaking countries, of which there are a ton, would rather be playing football and/or cricket.
And baseball doesn't even come close to football as a world sport, even in Latin America (with the except of the Caribbean).
That's not the point. His argument was that the World Series was lame and misnamed because it doesn't involve world participation. However, participation by foreign born players in the Majors is at about 29%.
The Dominican Republic had the most with 88. It was followed by Venezuela (52), Puerto Rico (29), Japan (16), Canada (14), Mexico (11), Cuba (eight), Panama (five), Australia (four), Taiwan (three), Colombia, Curacao and South Korea (two apiece), and the Netherlands, Nicaragua and the U.S. Virgin Islands (one apiece).
participation by foreign born players in the Majors is at about 29%
That's really not the same as playing for your country. And how many of those players are Americans?
Baseball's not *that* big in the Caribbean. The English speaking countries, of which there are a ton, would rather be playing football and/or cricket.
Sorry, I meant the Latin countries (it's bigger than football in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the DR).
That's not the point. His argument was that the World Series was lame and misnamed because it doesn't involve world participation. However, participation by foreign born players in the Majors is at about 29%.
Actually, he said it didn't involve teams from more than two nations, not players.
His argument was that the World Series was lame and misnamed because it doesn't involve world participation. However, participation by foreign born players in the Majors is at about 29%.
But that wasn't the case when the World Series was named, I think. And it's still not a "world" series the way the World Cup is. It's the two winningest U.S. major league teams, is all.
Correct. There was no ITV fire.
Ah, clearly, I am too literal for David's writing. Sorry to be a buzzkill. (Insert wry grin of your choice.)
It's the two winningest U.S. major league teams, is all.
WHO DOMINATE THE WORLD.
I am now waiting for my husband to call me back so we can go get lunch. If he doesn't call in five minutes, I'm devouring Tokyo and calling it a day.
Trudy, be advised that there's a storm bubbling up in the Caribbean that may go to tropical storm, and most of the projected storm paths have it going straight up Florida. When do you do your drive?