Subj : Re: Yay!!!! England win the Ashes.
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Nick
Date : Tue Sep 13 2005 14:10:10

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

weirdwolf wrote:

> Nick <nickSPAMMENOT@snurcher.com> wrote in
> news:Xns96D05064132CDndtcm@204.153.244.170: 
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>> weirdwolf wrote:
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>>> Nick <nickSPAMMENOT@snurcher.com> wrote in
>>> news:Xns96D04EC6F8D20ndtcm@ 204.153.244.170:
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>>>> weirdwolf wrote:
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>>>>> Nick <nickSPAMMENOT@snurcher.com> wrote in
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>>>>> 
>>>>>> 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
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> There are no Blue Jays in basketball.
>>>> (Football either for that matter)
>>> 
>>> Well I was originally joking about baseballs not so world series.
>>> Do they call the NBA championship something along those lines as
>>> well then? I don't follow basketball at all, never interests me.
>>> But just for you I will alter the comment to:
>>> <coughs>Raptors</coughs> 
>> 
>> No, they don't call the championship by that name but they always
>> refer to the winners as "World Champions". 
> 
> BWahahaha, I've seen no end of people that have won a competition
> within their own group,(not style but group), of various martial arts
> and then claim that they are world champions. A lot of them couldn't
> stand up to a fart, it makes you wonder where they get the nerve to
> do it. 
>   I'm actually surprised that the raptors are still playing in
>   Toronto 
> what with the American habit of moving team franchises
> around,<mutters> stoopid yanks moving the bloody Expos </mutters>


If the multi-millionaire owners think they can squeeze another dollar out 
of a team they will move them in a second.  The New Orleans Saints 
actually get a several million dollar a year stipend from the state and 
the owner has been threatening to move if he can't get some more revenue, 
I suspect his children are having to re-wear their underpants or something 
from hearing him talk about his financial woes.  Personally, I think they 
can get the hell out.

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