Thursday 21 October, 2004
Boston in the World Series
Wow! What a match. It was difficult to stay awake, particularly as the late start (due to the other semi finishing late) meant that it didn't finish until around 11.30 (04.30 according to my body-clock), but it was worth it. Boston started with a roll, two home runs from Johnny Damon earning six runs, and never squandered the lead. (BTW, ESPN has to be the worst implementer of contextual links known to man.)
Chants of "Who's Your Daddy" to Boston's Pedro Martinez (his earnings this year totalling $17.5m, showing how big the sport is) confused me somewhat (at one point, I honestly thought they were questioning his parentage), until I realised he used to play for the Yankees, and had previously commented that they were his Daddy. The long-standing argument over the validity of the title of the World Series will continue, with very limited involvement from countries outside North America.
It's Boston's first World Series for 18 years, and it should be good.
Good to have you and your thoughts back. A couple of things:
I think, and maybe you could check this out pre-job, that "World" Series comes from the name of the newspaper that originally sponsored the event, not, as is oft suspected, from The US's desire for global dominance of all things.
Secondly, re you Iranian caviar point a while ago, read this:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/foodmonthly/story/0,9950,1145623,00.html
Very astute observation re. World Series, one which I'm reluctant to check due to the appeal of the thought that it's a reference to mis-placed dominance.
Even if your counter-argument is true, if the amount of coverage of world events in today's US news is anything to go by, then "The World" newspaper was inappropriately named, validating my argument by inference.
I deigned to do some research, and it appears that the claim may be untrue (see below).
http://www.snopes.com/business/names/worldseries.asp
It may in actual fact be down to misplaced perceived global dominance after all...
Next you'll be telling me that the world is flat after all.
USA! USA! There's no 'I' in Team America
