So....my team is goin to the World Series......

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So....my team is goin to the World Series......

Postby Volais » Thu Oct 20, 2005 4:01 pm

(World Series=Final round of Baseball Championships for you non-Americans)

So...yeah.....Im in a rare good mood. Houston Astros have advanced to the final round of the MLB championship. Ok....time to go party.
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Postby Jpegg » Thu Oct 20, 2005 11:47 pm

Rounders with a bigger bat :P

Only joking ;) In UK, we don’t look much into baseball :(

Grats tho matey :)
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Postby trgeorge » Fri Oct 21, 2005 12:13 am

Always wondered about name "world series"....
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Postby HealerKat » Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:47 am

Im kind of confused.. Isnt the world series an Us thingy?? or are other countries allowed to enter? Not that i know of other countries that playes baseball.

Americans are wierd. just look at american football. How many times do they actualy kick the ball in that game? seems that they tend to pick up the ball and run more than they kick it.... :mrgreen:

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Postby MissCarmen » Fri Oct 21, 2005 8:39 am

HealerKat wrote:Americans are wierd.


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Postby furydemon » Fri Oct 21, 2005 11:21 am

Silly - America IS the world. There's just this other stuff around it.
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Postby Volais » Fri Oct 21, 2005 4:50 pm

furydemon wrote:Silly - America IS the world. There's just this other stuff around it.


True that.


No..World Series was used in the old days because the US was the only contry that did it, and the term stuck, even though America isnt the only nation nowadays that plays it (THe Japanese are HUGE baseball fans).



And I hate American Football. I like real football (Or, Soccer as its know here) hell of a lot more.
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Postby trgeorge » Sat Oct 22, 2005 1:09 am

Volais wrote:I like real football (Or, Soccer as its know here) hell of a lot more.


Americans are strange. What's so interesting about watching 22 grown men chasing single ball, hugging and slaping men's buttocks?
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Postby Jpegg » Sat Oct 22, 2005 2:16 am

Aye, if you wanna see men holding a ball and running with it, watch Rugby. If you wanna use the word football, then watch footie (or soccer).

American football is just a load of men with so much padding and protection, you cant even see they have arms and legs and all they do is move a few yards, have 30 minute break while the fans buy hotdogs, kick the ball, wait an hour for the cheerleaders to prance about, move a few more yards etc....
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Postby Selavi » Sat Oct 22, 2005 2:46 am

From what I have gathered, there is a lot of tactics going on in the playfield there (amercian football).
Coach:/g gather around! Now, this is what were gonna do *whisper...whisper...whisper* NOW GO GET THEM!
10 sec of running and pushing people about later.
Coach: /s TIMEOUT!
Coach: /t great guys, we got another 5 yards. Now were gonna do like this..*whisper...whisper...whisper*
(5 minutes later)
Coach: /t everyone get that?
Coach: /s NOW GO GET THEM!

and so on and so forth. Finaly some dude get to kick an eggshaped sack of leather between two bars. :shock:
This is a game where you get more points when you take the ball in your hands, and run from one end of the field, to the other. If you kick it, then you get only one point, and they call it football :P
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Postby Volais » Sat Oct 22, 2005 8:20 pm

^^

That about sums up what I know about American Football
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