Haha, forgot Gyan played for Ghana. This game will be like the final fight in Highlander " THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!!!!!!!"
MATCH THREAD - United States Vs Ghana - Group G - 6PM Eastern, 11PM UK - Monday June 16th
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Haha, forgot Gyan played for Ghana. This game will be like the final fight in Highlander " THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!!!!!!!"
yea, but teams from only two countries compete for the top prize in these three sports. Last night the commentators were proclaiming San Antonio as the world champions. If you count N.Ireland as a separate country, teams from four countries compete for the Gaelic title. Sure, lots of people play american sports but the arrogance is a bit much. It would be like the Champions league winners calling themselves the world champions.
Oh and go USA and Timmy!!
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Can't take the arrogance? Get out of the kitchen.
WHOS THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD?!? USA
Oh, I'm not saying that the leagues aren't ridiculous for pretending that their winners are the best team in the world - but my response was in regard to the idea that Americans don't have the best basketball, hockey, or baseball.
I don't pay a huge amount of attention to those sports, so couldn't tell you who wont the last WBC or Winter Olympics for hockey, but the US did win the gold in basketball, and therefore can honestly say we have the best basketball team.
I've always found it funny that the Super Bowl winner is declared 'world champion'. I mean...it's technically true, it's not like some team of Tahitians are going to turn over the Seattle Seahawks, but it's a bit silly. I don't even know of an equivalent...it's weirder to me than the CL thing, because no one even plays the sport. It's like me making up a game and declaring myself world champion. It's complete madness. It's not even arrogance, it's full on hallucinatory delusions.
The other leagues is more just an obnoxiousness perpetrated by the media machine. If they declare San Antonio 'world champions' then it seems like the Finals are a bigger event than they are and more people tune in. And no one does media machine like the house of mouse.
Regarding other sports, I believe the term World Series was coined by a baseball journalist in the the early 20th century. And handball is a great sport. In primary school, my gym teacher was Dutch and he had us playing handball all the time.
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On the club level, I think it's fair to say that the talent for baseball, ice hockey, basketball, etc are pretty centralized here in the US (with sometimes clubs in Canada).
I'd agree that the title is still arrogant and unfortunate, but I don't know I there's much of a question who's better, the LA Kings or the KHL champs.
I watched handball for the first time at the olympics. It is honestly superb spectator fair.
Probably the biggest sport to never catch on at all in the english speaking world, like. It's proper huge on the continent but there's no interest at all in it over here.
johnnydawg68
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johnnydawg68
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There's so much pressure on both teams to get 3 points...this could be a classic. It's good to see the CONCACAF teams doing well...Costa Rica's result was a nice rep for the teams in the region.
COME ON YOU YANKS
COME ON YOU YANKS
johnnydawg68
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For the record it's called the World Series because it was originally sponsored by the World Newspaper group. It has nothing to do with global domination. There's plenty of other things to poke fun at the US for stuff like that, but baseball isn't one of them. When it was named the World Series, there were literally no other countries that played the sport.
Even Honduras did well at what they do best, kicking the crap out of the opposition
johnnydawg68
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The work on it 2 hours a day in training.
Snopes says that's not true.
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum concurs, a 1999 article noting that:
[O]thers have asked that question of the staff at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. in recent weeks. "There's no evidence suggesting it was ever sponsored by the New York World newspaper," said Hall of Fame researcher Eric Enders. When the World Series between the National and American leagues began in 1903, the owners borrowed the name from the world championship series held in the 1880s between the National League and the American Association. Enders concludes the name didn't originate from the name of the long-defunct newspaper. It sounds like an urban myth
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/business/names/worldseries.asp#xARU8Fbo33sgcmeX.99
Yes, but the winner of the World Series is touted as 'World Champions'.
And other nations do play the sport now, so World Series seems sillier. Baseball is all about tradition, so I wouldn't expect them to change it, but it's also fair that other nations consider it a bit arrogant, even knowing the origin of the word.
Still think American Football is the worst offender of this.
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