[OT] Completely off-topic and useless celebrating re: World Cup

Well since the story ran in the Space Gamer in the 1980's.  Toronto had
not 
won the World series yet.

Oliver Dewey Upshaw III
 
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Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 07:00:57 -0700
From: Tony Christney <tchristney@telus.net>
Subject: Re: [OT] Completely off-topic and useless celebrating re: World
Cup

Actually, Toronto has won the World Series twice, in 1992 and 1993. Its 
just
that no Americans watched it those years ;-)

On Tuesday, June 18, 2002, at 10:37  PM, Michael Llaneza wrote:

> It theoretically has a Canadian team eligible for it anyway. I don't 
> think Toronto has ever come close to the World Series, except for a 
> mention in a short story from Space Gamer detailing a Stealth Ogre
(the 
> cybertank kind).
>
> We'll see a Japanese team in the Series first :-)
>
> Allan Goodall wrote:
>
>>> be participating in a "World"
>>> something-or-other that actually INCLUDES the rest of the World,
isn't
>>> it.....?   <BIG GRIN>
>>>
>>
>> In the Americans' defense, baseball's "World Series" was named after 
>> the
>> sponsoring newspaper, the New York World, that originated it.
>>
>