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From: lor@ucla-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: World Champs??
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Date: Mon, 22-Oct-84 04:55:43 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 22 04:55:43 1984
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*     Would someone please explain to me how the Detroit Tigers (or any Major
*  League Baseball team) can claim that they are the World Champions?
*     Unless I have been asleep for a few years I didn't see any teams
*  from, say, Japan, Italy, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Mexico, etc. at the World
*  Series.
*     How then, if there is no international tournament to determine the
*  "world" champions, can the Tigers (or a fan of theirs) claim they are
*  the best team in the world??
*     The Detroit Tigers are the champions of Major League Baseball, just
*  as the Los Angeles Raiders are the champions of the NFL, NOT THE WORLD!
*  					  Martin at UCSD.


	This is certainly sour grape. If the Padres had won the World
Series, they would have been called the World Champions too.
Honestly, which country can beat American's baseball teams. In a seven game
series, I bet you the Mexicans, Cubans, or Japanese, will never beat the 
Tigers. Everybody knows our baseball, basketball and football are so many
levels above the others, that's why our teams are called world champions.
The other countries do not even play American football.

	You know why soccer and hockey are not popular in America. It's
because we are not the ultimate powerhouse in these sports. They are
considered as foreign sports. Even through the Islanders had won 4 Stanley 
Cups during their dynasty, they dare not call themselves the
"World Champions". They knew if they played the Soviets, they would
have got whipped. So were the New York Cosmos soccer team.

	I really hope the other countries take a big leap on their baseball
and basketball so they can challenge our supremacy. It's exciting to see
our great players, like Mike Schmidt, Eddie Murray, Dale Murphy, Larry
Bird, Julius Erving and company, playing for U.S.A. in some world championship
tournaments with no guarantee to win it all. The recent Canada Cup (hockey)
was such a tournament. All countries fielded their best teams (amateur
or pro) and died to win it. However, the American public totally ignored
the tournament. With no guarantee to be number one, they considered 
hockey as a non-American sport. There was no TV coverage, not even in
the national cable channels.

	Only players like Wayne Gretzky, Mike Bossy, Pete Peeters, etc., who
beat the best teams in the world in the Canada Cup, are proven "all-world".
Larry Bird, Randy White, Moses Malone, ..., are only "all-world" on paper.

					Eddy Lor
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					lor@ucla-cs


P.S. I am not a Tiger fan. I hate them because I root for the Orioles.