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Old 11-08-2007, 03:45 PM
Kneel B4 Zod Kneel B4 Zod is offline
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I told a Japanese girl said that Japanese baseball players come to America "to play against the best players in the world".

boy she got pissed. the Japanese are very proud of their baseball.
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Old 11-08-2007, 03:48 PM
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That is probably what they said to Americans back when Cecil Fielder went there. lol.
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Old 11-08-2007, 04:10 PM
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I told a Japanese girl said that Japanese baseball players come to America "to play against the best players in the world".

boy she got pissed. the Japanese are very proud of their baseball.

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Japan has pretty much given us a run for our money in the summer olympics:

#1. Cuba
3 gold, 1 silver medals (4 total)

#2. USA
1 gold, 1 bronze ( 2 total )

#3. Japan
1 silver, 2 bronze ( 3 total )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basebal...ummer_Olympics
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Old 11-08-2007, 04:44 PM
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Default Re: Little Cultural Mistakes ....

ed: didn't want to sidetrack thread
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Old 11-08-2007, 04:52 PM
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Default Re: Little Cultural Mistakes ....

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I told a Japanese girl said that Japanese baseball players come to America "to play against the best players in the world".

boy she got pissed. the Japanese are very proud of their baseball.

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Japan has pretty much given us a run for our money in the summer olympics:

#1. Cuba
3 gold, 1 silver medals (4 total)

#2. USA
1 gold, 1 bronze ( 2 total )

#3. Japan
1 silver, 2 bronze ( 3 total )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basebal...ummer_Olympics

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MLB players don't play in Baseball Olympic Events.

EDIT:

After some more google-searching, it appears that Baseball and Softball were removed from the Olympics. Possibly comming back, but Selig doesn't want MLB players halting mid-season for the Olympic games. We would pretty much destroy any team that played us. Dream Team, anybody?
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Old 11-08-2007, 04:59 PM
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Thats because the olympics does real drug tests lol.
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Old 11-08-2007, 05:51 PM
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We would pretty much destroy any team that played us. Dream Team, anybody?

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Kind of like what happened in the World Baseball Classic?
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Old 11-08-2007, 06:55 PM
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We would pretty much destroy any team that played us. Dream Team, anybody?

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Kind of like what happened in the World Baseball Classic?

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ya 3 game series definitely determines the best team in a low variance sport like baseball.
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Old 11-08-2007, 07:13 PM
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er guys take the baseball crap to sporting events
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Old 11-08-2007, 07:16 PM
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My wife and I were in Paris. We are stopping for drink and crepe . She walks up and orders a coke and lemon crepe . Well , this was a big no no. The guy in the stand gives her a lecture on saying bonjour first !!!

It totally ruined his day .

I did all the ordering from that point on..
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