I Hate Dialysis Message Board
Off-Topic => Off-Topic: Talk about anything you want. => Topic started by: ChickenLittle56 on October 24, 2010, 06:40:12 AM
-
On Wednesday oct.27 at 7:58 pm the Texas Rangers visits the S.F. Giants. This is the first time in franchise history for the Rangers and its been 56 years for the Giants. Everyone here in Texas are very excited about the game.
-
Go Rangers!
:cheer:
-
I was listening to an interesting chat on The Score here in Chicagoland last night about "the demise of baseball". Someone said that the ratings for a Rangers v Giants series would be in the proverbial toilet because there are no "superstars" or some such nonsense. I thought to myself that that is precisely why I'm going to watch...two teams who are not regulars to the playoffs! I can't wait. I really don't know a thing about either of these teams, and I am eager to learn. It will be nice to watch a series without the Yankee butt-kissing and how Joe Girardi is God's Right Hand Man.
-
:yahoo; :yahoo; :yahoo; go giants
-
I was listening to an interesting chat on The Score here in Chicagoland last night about "the demise of baseball".
You'll always have baseball. How else can the Yanks be world champions other than with a game no-one else in the world plays? :boxing; :yahoo;
-
Stoday, I lived in the UK for almost 20 years, and I discovered that there were at least three occasions during which it was really hard to be a sports-loving septic, and they were duriing the Olympics, the Ryder Cup and the World Series. I was always a fan of Radio 5 Live's Saturday morning programming (my favourite show was when they had a popular female opera singer in the studio singing football chants!) So, I would hear the whingeing every damn year..."Why do the Yanks call it the 'World Series'?" That's a good question, and the answer comes clearer once you realize that not only Americans play baseball in the American Major League. Baseball is fantastically popular in Latin America; there are many players and coaches from Venezuela, the Dominican Republic and other such nations. And nowadays it seems that every team has to have a Japanese player. Indeed, many teams have scouts that set up farm teams in Central and South America. So it is true that baseball is probably exclusively an American sport, but "American" in this case means not just the US but the rest of the Americas.
I don't know why the Brits get their knickers in a twist every year in October about the World Series.
And omg, the Ryder Cup! I think that's when the Yank bashing is at its peak. I remember one year when the wives of the American players all got matching outfits, and the British media went absolutely ballistic!! :rofl; The funniest thing was, though, that these women DID all look alike! All very toothy and blonde and tall. I don't know what they were thinking. It wasn't "Footballers' Wives" (what a great garbagey show!!), but it was "Golfers' Wives". Great stuff!
And there always seemed to be a fair amount of vitriol thrown at American basketball players and track members at the Olympics. It was a bit cringe worthy.
If it makes you feel any better, we've been hearing all about Wayne Rooney over here...
-
I actually live in Phila so of course I'm a long time Phil's fan. As you can guess, I have nothing to say *sigh*. My home is suffering a great depression lol.
-
The first game of the 2010 Wprld Series is in the history books and the Giants take the first game with a 11-7 victory over the Rangers. Oh, no that stings a little bit but the Rangers will recover and win today. They need to come with at least a win.
Go Rangers!
-
Well here in Jersey (parts of the state) our cable company is in a fistfight with Fox chanel. So i havnt seen the playoffs-or football and now i cant watch the world series. And we are not getting any kind of refund/rebate
I quess i will look into directTV or verizon tv and tell my cable company thx for nothing.
The good news if any is i cant see Dallas losing or the Phillies losses.