Lovely old myth in there.

World Series for baseball isn't a reference to The World newspaper. It's a contraction of World's Championship Series from the time when baseball was pretty much exclusively North American and not played by international and therefore the statement was true.

Posted By: Johnny Comecardiff on August 28th 2008 at 11:19:30

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2012 Poll (Other Football) - mike_the_sphinx, Aug 28, 10:39:12
- Footie shouldn't even be in the Olympics (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Aug 28, 10:48:48
  - I rather enjoyed much of what I saw of the Beijing Olympics, but they do need to weed out (Other Football) - Arizona Bay, Aug 28, 10:55:11
    - Isn't the bmx-ing more exciting than riding round a wooden oval though?? (Other Football) - malkybarkid, Aug 28, 12:29:28
    - Was BMXing really in the Olympics? (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Aug 28, 11:06:29
      - t'was BMX racing rather than BMX jumping around and doing tricks (n/m) (Other Football) - blindasabat, Aug 28, 11:10:21
        
        Oh. Well what's the point in that. Might as well just get a faster bike. (n/m) (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Aug 28, 11:11:10
        
        i tried that with my racer at my local BMX track (Other Football) - blindasabat, Aug 28, 11:12:53
        
        Guess you should probably have used a mountain bike. (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Aug 28, 11:14:35
        
        Yes. (Other Football) - Johnny Comecardiff, Aug 28, 11:20:29
        
        this was before everybody had to own a mountain bike as that's all that shops sold (Other Football) - blindasabat, Aug 28, 11:20:14
  - ww2 (Other Football) - blindasabat, Aug 28, 10:53:08
    - Oh right. Was there a wrath consensus that footie shouldn't be there? (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Aug 28, 10:56:59
      - i don't think anybody tried making a case for it (Other Football) - blindasabat, Aug 28, 11:00:24
        
        Lovely old myth in there. (Other Football) - Johnny Comecardiff, Aug 28, 11:19:30
        
        that's ww2 n'all (Other Football) - blindasabat, Aug 28, 11:21:48
        
        Read it again. (Other Football) - Johnny Comecardiff, Aug 28, 11:23:57
        
        d'oh, sorry, my 'bad' (Other Football) - blindasabat, Aug 28, 11:30:46
        
        poi, poi, poi flippin' poi (n/m) (Other Football) - malkybarkid, Aug 28, 11:38:49
        
        Afraid not. (Other Football) - Johnny Comecardiff, Aug 28, 11:32:15
        
        Right. (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Aug 28, 11:04:51
- I'd give that Other bloke a go, he must be good as he is always mentioned in connection (Other Football) - jafski, Aug 28, 10:44:59
  - Agreed - give the other bloke a break! (n/m) (Other Football) - Muddyfunster, Aug 28, 10:48:20

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