Subj : Re: Yay!!!! England win the Ashes.
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : weirdwolf
Date : Tue Sep 13 2005 13:42:08

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Nick <nickSPAMMENOT@snurcher.com> wrote in news:Xns96D04CD8C32FEndtcm@
204.153.244.170:

> Tyler Trafford wrote:
> 
>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in
>>> news:Xns96CFADE3576BB3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
>>> 
>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Jim Larson <larsonjmR.E.M.O.V.E.@gmail.com> wrote in 
>>>>> news:Xns96CFABF07B48F3v234oiwofui3284af93@130.133.1.18: 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Kath wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Yay!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> (?)
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> I was saying to Claire, for all the excitment it brings and the
>>>>> fame of the competition it must be the smallest trophy in sport. 
>>>> 
>>>> If by "small" you mean "totally irrelevant to anyone outside my
>>>> benighted island and its former penal colony" then yes. Yes it is.
>>>> 
>>>> (I kid. I kid because I love. Or loathe. Take your pick.)
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Well at least the world cup of cricket is a true world cup, unlike a
>>> certain baseball competition. Maybe that's because you are worried
>>> that as American baseball team would do as well as the basketball
>>> team. It would be amusing though if you lost to say Cuba, could you
>>> imagine the fun Castro would have pissing off Bush. 
>> 
>> Re: Olympic Basketball
>> 
>> What the US needs to do is send a team that has actually played
>> together, then tell them they only get fed when they win.
> 
> I would like them to go back to sending college players.
> But I agree with Ted.  It isn't right for us to claim we won a "World 
> Championship" when we are the only ones who play.

<coughs>Blue jays<coughs>
 Mind you with the influx of central American, and East asian players 
I'ld be interested to see what percentage of players are of US descent.
Ted

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