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

Baseball has long been Utterly OT for me for a very long time.

ODUPSHAW3@cs.com wrote:

> 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
>
> odupshaw3@cs.com
>
> "Ms. Wolversham, you are authorized to return fire!"
> David Weber	The Short Victorious War
>
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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.
> >>
> >
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