I know none of you care but ........ (the Baseball thread)

[UK Redsox]

Well done to the Dutch team from Holland in the Netherlands. They only went and beat the Dominican Republic again last night, knocking their opponents out and booking themselves a surprising place in the next round.

Highlights

[pmarachi]

Well done to the Dutch team from Holland in the Netherlands. They only went and beat the Dominican Republic again last night, knocking their opponents out and booking themselves a surprising place in the next round.

Highlights

It is so odd that this is going on.  They don't talk about it on the radio the tv or anything.  It's like it's not even going on.

[cdbearsfan]

Well done to the Dutch team from Holland in the Netherlands.

That line makes me chuckle!

Where were they from again?

[cdbearsfan]

Well done to the Dutch team from Holland in the Netherlands.

That line makes me chuckle!

Where were they from again?

Haarlem I think.

Ah, where the Globetrotters come from.

[UK Redsox]

Well done to the Dutch team from Holland in the Netherlands.

That line makes me chuckle!

It makes just as much sense as "The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim", which is a real Major League Baseball team.

It's like Wolves becoming "The Wolverhampton Wanderers of Birmingham"

[pmarachi]

Well done to the Dutch team from Holland in the Netherlands.

That line makes me chuckle!

It makes just as much sense as "The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim", which is a real Major League Baseball team.

It's like Wolves becoming "The Wolverhampton Wanderers of Birmingham"

But the LAA is a weird situation.  They were the Anahiem Angels, and Anahiem is like 30 minutes or less from LA (which in the US is very very close), and then the city of Los Angeles sued them to put the LA in (I am pretty sure), because they accepted money from the city of LA.

It is stupid, and it is weird.

Not as weird as the New York Giants and New York Jets, who both play in New Jersey.

And keep in mind, the Tampa Bay Rays don't play in Tampa...

[pmarachi]

Actually, I was wrong.  It is actually much dumber than I thought...

An expansion franchise, the club was founded in Los Angeles in 1961. Then the Los Angeles Angels, the team was based at Los Angeles' Wrigley Field (not to be confused with Chicago's stadium of the same name). The team has gone through several name changes in their history, first changing to the California Angels in 1965 to emphasize their status as the only AL team in California. When The Walt Disney Company took control in 1997, it extensively renovated Angel Stadium on the condition that both the stadium's name and the team's name contain the word "Anaheim." Disney was hoping to capitalize on the proximity of nearby Disneyland to enhance the tourism in the area, and thus the team became the Anaheim Angels.

In 2005, new owner Arte Moreno wanted to include "Los Angeles" in the team's name, in order to better tap into the Los Angeles media market, the second largest in the country. In compliance with the terms of its lease with the city of Anaheim, the team changed its name to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. Hotly disputed when initially announced, the change was eventually upheld in court and still stands as of 2008, though the team usually refers to itself as simply the Angels in its home media market.

[UK Redsox]

And keep in mind, the Tampa Bay Rays don't play in Tampa...

The Rays do play in the "Tampa Bay Area", its just that they play in St Pete rather than Tampa.

If they were the "Tampa Rays" it'd be wrong but I think "Tampa Bay Rays" is technically correct.

[pmarachi]

And keep in mind, the Tampa Bay Rays don't play in Tampa...

The Rays do play in the "Tampa Bay Area", its just that they play in St Pete rather than Tampa.

If they were the "Tampa Rays" it'd be wrong but I think "Tampa Bay Rays" is technically correct.

Oh, I thought Tampa Bay was the actual town.

[ADVILLAFAN]

On a smaller note:-

Rushden & Diamonds don't play in Rushden, they play in Irthingborough...

[cdbearsfan]

I thought they played in Diamonds.

[UK Redsox]

Oh, I thought Tampa Bay was the actual town.

Da Wiki is all knowing

[joe_c]

I thought they played in Diamonds.

No, that's baseball...

They were formed through a merger between Rushden Town and Irthlingborough Diamonds hence the name and location. I dimly recall that they are popularly known as The Murderers in non league circles on account of this but I may be wrong.

[pmarachi]

there is no sort of oraganized baseball at all in England?

Nothing?
In the states if you looked, you could find a cricket match, a rugby match, even a curling facility.

I didn't realize that there was nothing.

That actually makes UK redsox knowledge of baseball even more impressive.


I am a big baseball fan and consider myself pretty up to par on baseball, but this guy, from England blows me out of the water...



(too bad he likes the redsox)

[cdbearsfan]

There is some baseball in UK but it seems to be just ex-pats on US military bases playing.

http://www.trymysport.co.uk/baseball_softball.htm

When Villa signed Archie Hunter, wasn't he originally signed as a baseball player?