It's a DREAM of a World Series!!!

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I love the way you guys all call it a 'World' series, when nobody else competes in it

[El Kabong]

I love the way you guys all call it a 'World' series, when nobody else competes in it

....sooooo somewhere there's a baseball team that can compete with the MLB teams?!?! Quite the assumption really. Also it isn't as if the players are only from the United States either plenty of players from the Dominican, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, there are Aussies who play baseball....if you're a great player you play in the MLB, you haven't "made it" in baseball until you play for the MLB.

There's a reason Sadaharu Oh isn't considered the greatest Home Run hitter of all time....sure he had 868 of them and Barry Bonds only had 762(steroid induced of course), and Hank Aaron only had 755, but those are in Japan and not in the MLB ergo Sadaharu Oh is seen as great in Japan and if you mention him to an American we're like "Oh....well good for him, what did he do in the MLB?"


It's the World Series because the team that wins is the best in the world....you think a Japanese team or a Korean team or whoever could beat the World Series champs? I mean maybe you'd have a case if we're talking Cuba, but again Cuba's best players come to the United States to make it and some of them fall flat.

[TitoFan]

I love the way you guys all call it a 'World' series, when nobody else competes in it

....sooooo somewhere there's a baseball team that can compete with the MLB teams?!?! Quite the assumption really. Also it isn't as if the players are only from the United States either plenty of players from the Dominican, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, there are Aussies who play baseball....if you're a great player you play in the MLB, you haven't "made it" in baseball until you play for the MLB.

There's a reason Sadaharu Oh isn't considered the greatest Home Run hitter of all time....sure he had 868 of them and Barry Bonds only had 762(steroid induced of course), and Hank Aaron only had 755, but those are in Japan and not in the MLB ergo Sadaharu Oh is seen as great in Japan and if you mention him to an American we're like "Oh....well good for him, what did he do in the MLB?"


It's the World Series because the team that wins is the best in the world....you think a Japanese team or a Korean team or whoever could beat the World Series champs? I mean maybe you'd have a case if we're talking Cuba, but again Cuba's best players come to the United States to make it and some of them fall flat.

It's the World Series because baseball was invented in the U.S. and they're free to call their championship whatever they want. Of course, the World Baseball Classic has now come along to test global baseball supremacy. In the latest version (2013), little ol' Puerto Rico (which you failed to mention Lyle... ) took 2nd place, losing the championship game to the Dominican Republic. Along the way, P.R. dispatched the U.S. and Japan.

Baseball may have been invented in the U.S., but we all know the best baseball is played by Caribbean players.

[TitoFan]

I love the way you guys all call it a 'World' series, when nobody else competes in it

....sooooo somewhere there's a baseball team that can compete with the MLB teams?!?! Quite the assumption really. Also it isn't as if the players are only from the United States either plenty of players from the Dominican, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, there are Aussies who play baseball....if you're a great player you play in the MLB, you haven't "made it" in baseball until you play for the MLB.

There's a reason Sadaharu Oh isn't considered the greatest Home Run hitter of all time....sure he had 868 of them and Barry Bonds only had 762(steroid induced of course), and Hank Aaron only had 755, but those are in Japan and not in the MLB ergo Sadaharu Oh is seen as great in Japan and if you mention him to an American we're like "Oh....well good for him, what did he do in the MLB?"


It's the World Series because the team that wins is the best in the world....you think a Japanese team or a Korean team or whoever could beat the World Series champs? I mean maybe you'd have a case if we're talking Cuba, but again Cuba's best players come to the United States to make it and some of them fall flat.

It's the World Series because baseball was invented in the U.S. and they're free to call their championship whatever they want. Of course, the World Baseball Classic has now come along to test global baseball supremacy. In the latest version (2013), little ol' Puerto Rico (which you failed to mention Lyle... ) took 2nd place, losing the championship game to the Dominican Republic. Along the way, P.R. dispatched the U.S. and Japan.

Baseball may have been invented in the U.S., but we all know the best baseball is played by Caribbean players.

Ahh.... case in point. Game 1 just ended. I'm still rooting for the Cubs, but I won't be too upset if the Indians win. They both deserve it.
Let's take a look at the box score:


F. Lindor: 4-3, 1 run scored
R. Perez: 4-2, 2 home runs, 4 RBI (out of the team's 6 runs)

Big day for my "Boricua" compatriots.


J. Ramirez (D.R.) added another 3 hits for Cleveland, so basically 8 out of the 10 hits for the Indians tonight came from Caribbean players.
Not bad.

[Kirkland Laing]

I wonder what Cubs fans are going to do if they actually win. Half of being a Cubs fan is being a lovable loser. If they actually win the World Series all their mystique goes.

[TitoFan]

Good question. But the Red Sox had something similar until about a decade ago. Since then, they've become quite the winning franchise and the fans seem to have handled the transition well.

[Kirkland Laing]

Good question. But the Red Sox had something similar until about a decade ago. Since then, they've become quite the winning franchise and the fans seem to have handled the transition well.

It's different for Red Sox fans though. No matter what happens in life they're resigned to the fact that they'll always be losers. They'll always be in the shadow of the 27 time World Champion New York Yankees.