Actually I do know some things about baseball and how it is played, which is completely obvious in every post I've made. Your statement is literally an exaggeration.

/corrections mode.

:lol:

Corrections, you are too funny. You're like a spell checker. You pick up all mistakes but have no sense for when they're intentional.

Of course I know very, very little about baseball. I don't follow it, never have, never played it etc. I've watched the odd game and themed movie or documentary on tv so I know the basics of the game, a little of its history and how it works but that's it. Almost everything I've written that you've seemed to take to task has been said in jest and is intentionally quite ridiculous. I believe I've made this completely obvious so your effort in 'correcting' it is very funny. If you can't tell that my bringing up Dave Nilsson's stats at one olympic games, and then randomly trying to compare that with Babe Ruth's record at the olympics (which I obviously know is both non-existent and unimportant) is in jest, then I just don't know what to say. It's just a laugh mate. Still why do you have to put a downer on the great man Dave dominating at the olympics? He stepped up at an important time. That's what good players do...or do you believe all streaks are random and basically down to luck? He actually quit MLB so he could play in that Olympic games too, so he sacrificed a lot to represent his country.



The fact any single baseball game can be won by a vastly inferior team is what would make a one off game very exciting, don't you get that? It's the same with soccer. The bigger the game, the more pressure to perform, the more interesting to watch. What player's going to have greater glory, the one who plays well throughout a world series, or the one who plays average but pulls off the match winning play in game 7? Of course a teams quality or a player's quality is judged over their long term performance, but one off matches that mean a lot is one of the things that makes sport so compelling.

Cheers...that was the part I was genuinely curious about and no I didn't know how olympic hockey used to work. Congratulations on successfully correcting me on one thing I actually didn't know. I just figured all the best Cuban players would play in MLB and still represent their country when possible. So would you have a rough idea of what percentage of their players who could make it in the MLB decide not to go so they can play for Cuba?

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/sport/more-sports/the-aussie-triple-play/story-e6frey6i-1226336580405
Oakland Athletics ... the Major League Baseball team has three Australians on their roster (24 April)

Now there's a team that would dominate baseball. If anyone would have put that team together it would have been like Moneyball * 1000. The 1998 yankees wouldn't have a chance against that side.

Any good players ever come out of the UK or New Zealand?

The only "New Zealander" is Scott Richmond who was actually born and raised in Canada (his father is from NZ), and who isn't of any significance. (Further evidence that New Zealand is the worst fucking country in the world.)

There were a fair number of ballplayers born in England during the 19th century, the most notable of whom was Harry Wright - son of a cricket pro! - who along with his brother George (born in the US) founded the Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first pro baseball team, in 1869. There have been only six born after 1900, though. The most notable of those by far was Danny Cox, a starting pitcher for the Cardinals and Blue Jays among others from 1983-95 (but I don't know if he was English, per se; he went to college in Alabama).

I direct you to the cracked.com article on foolish grammatical mistake corrections (literally is hyperbole).

It's also on the list of sports England invented but are rubbish at.

One game in baseball can be very exciting but only with context. Baseball must be played in series to have real meaning (and even then it doesn't). As far as hot streaks yes most hot streaks are randomness.