World Champions?

[oenophile]

Considering the disappointing performance of the USA basketball "Dream Team" which was selected from the creme de la creme of the NBA, can the NBA Champions be rightly called "World Champions?" How about baseball? Wouldn't be interesting to see a real World Series between the MLB champion and the Cuban national team? My money would be on the Cubans.

What do you think?

Edited September 9, 2004 by oenophile

[simonzelotes]

Good question,Oenophile....Athough,I wonder how many Cuban-born Major leaguers would choose to play for Cuba instead of the Major League team they play for...

I think the difficulty in playing a 'World Cup' type of tournament in baseball is the long b-ball schedule is so demanding for Major Leaguers,and especially pitchers...Face it,their allegience is going to be where the money is,just like the foreign-born players who choose to play in the U.S. Majors...It works in Little League because there's no money involved-only pride and sportsmanship...

[Zshot]

You are correct.

The NBA, NFL, NHL and MLB are basically North America (the U.S. and Canada).

North American or U.S. Champions, I could understand that. World Chanpions... I don't think American teams can claim that title.

[simonzelotes]

'Course,have you seen an NHL game,lately? Some of the last names of the Russian players won't even fit on the back of the uniforms....

[Raf]

quote:

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John Cleese

John Cleese was recently asked on American TV what he thought the

differences between the English and the Americans were.

In reply he said that there were three differences:

1. We speak English and you don't.

2. When we hold a World Championship for a particular sport, we invite

teams from other countries.

3. When you meet the head of state in England, you only have to go

down on one knee.

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[Steve!]

Okay, Raf, now I have coffee all over my monitor! Thank you SO much!