"Soccer" is destroying America!

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

If America had taken baseball to Africa instead they'd all be well fat, chubby players with enough money to have a chewing tobacco habit.

[JStarr]

If America had taken baseball to Africa instead they'd all be well fat, chubby players with enough money to have a chewing tobacco habit.

And in the '80s, Africa would have developed a very acute appreciation of cocaine, too.

[mrmayhem87]

Someone a few pages back said that Baseball was invented in England. They are wrong. It has been proven that Baseball was invented in Pittsfield MA. In 2004 a law dating back to 1791 was discovered in the Pittsfield records that prohibits games of baseball within a certain distance of the town square.

You can have yor soccer but don't try to steal our sports from us.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/12/sports/b...-s-origins.html

[Zaz]

Someone a few pages back said that Baseball was invented in England. They are wrong. It has been proven that Baseball was invented in Pittsfield MA. In 2004 a law dating back to 1791 was discovered in the Pittsfield records that prohibits games of baseball within a certain distance of the town square.

You can have yor soccer but don't try to steal our sports from us.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/12/sports/b...-s-origins.html

Not only did you bring this travesty of a thread back into reading range, you bumped it with something that is completely wrong. Gonna go Wikipedia on your ass here, but all their sources are there.

'The earliest known reference to baseball is in a 1744 British publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, by John Newbery. It contains a rhymed description of "base-ball" and a woodcut showing a field set-up somewhat similar to the modern game—though in a triangular rather than diamond configuration, and with posts instead of ground-level bases.[5] English lawyer William Bray recorded a game of baseball on Easter Monday 1755 in Guildford, Surrey; Bray's diary was verified as authentic in September 2008.[6] This early form of the game was apparently brought to North America by English immigrants; rounders was also brought to the continent by both British and Irish immigrants. The first known American reference to baseball appears in a 1791 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, town bylaw prohibiting the playing of the game near the town's new meeting house.'

So go and disappear back into the hole you crawled into the last time you made a fool of yourself.

[Plubby]

Zaz, I wouldn't have done that...he's going to suffer CD so bad he's liable to flip out

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Someone a few pages back said that Baseball was invented in England. They are wrong. It has been proven that Baseball was invented in Pittsfield MA. In 2004 a law dating back to 1791 was discovered in the Pittsfield records that prohibits games of baseball within a certain distance of the town square.

You can have yor soccer but don't try to steal our sports from us.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/12/sports/b...-s-origins.html

Not only did you bring this travesty of a thread back into reading range, you bumped it with something that is completely wrong. Gonna go Wikipedia on your ass here, but all their sources are there.

'The earliest known reference to baseball is in a 1744 British publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, by John Newbery. It contains a rhymed description of "base-ball" and a woodcut showing a field set-up somewhat similar to the modern game—though in a triangular rather than diamond configuration, and with posts instead of ground-level bases.[5] English lawyer William Bray recorded a game of baseball on Easter Monday 1755 in Guildford, Surrey; Bray's diary was verified as authentic in September 2008.[6] This early form of the game was apparently brought to North America by English immigrants; rounders was also brought to the continent by both British and Irish immigrants. The first known American reference to baseball appears in a 1791 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, town bylaw prohibiting the playing of the game near the town's new meeting house.'

So go and disappear back into the hole you crawled into the last time you made a fool of yourself.

[EddieG]

Someone a few pages back said that Baseball was invented in England. They are wrong. It has been proven that Baseball was invented in Pittsfield MA. In 2004 a law dating back to 1791 was discovered in the Pittsfield records that prohibits games of baseball within a certain distance of the town square.

You can have yor soccer but don't try to steal our sports from us.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/12/sports/b...-s-origins.html

Not only did you bring this travesty of a thread back into reading range, you bumped it with something that is completely wrong. Gonna go Wikipedia on your ass here, but all their sources are there.

'The earliest known reference to baseball is in a 1744 British publication, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, by John Newbery. It contains a rhymed description of "base-ball" and a woodcut showing a field set-up somewhat similar to the modern game—though in a triangular rather than diamond configuration, and with posts instead of ground-level bases.[5] English lawyer William Bray recorded a game of baseball on Easter Monday 1755 in Guildford, Surrey; Bray's diary was verified as authentic in September 2008.[6] This early form of the game was apparently brought to North America by English immigrants; rounders was also brought to the continent by both British and Irish immigrants. The first known American reference to baseball appears in a 1791 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, town bylaw prohibiting the playing of the game near the town's new meeting house.'

So go and disappear back into the hole you crawled into the last time you made a fool of yourself.

Not even English.. but this.. HA! In your face non-europeans

Yes, English are still European

[METALMAN]

Someone a few pages back said that Baseball was invented in England. They are wrong. It has been proven that Baseball was invented in Pittsfield MA. In 2004 a law dating back to 1791 was discovered in the Pittsfield records that prohibits games of baseball within a certain distance of the town square.

You can have yor soccer but don't try to steal our sports from us.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/12/sports/b...-s-origins.html

WHy does such a thing as that even bother you? Even though you are wrong, of course.

[Cactus Drags]

What bothers me is that we invented it and didn't keep it around.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

We kept rounders though - the game where you only get one chance to hit the ball instead of three!

[Matt]

We did. We called it rounders.

[mikevandam]

Gave the article a read. Mostly because i was stunned that such an article could spawn a whole U.S.A vs the rest mentality.

Before anyone goes "hes european, he likes soccer" may i remind you that i havent been at a stadium watching a game for a full 5 years.¨

On the baseball player that wasnt a athlete. Well. you can't exactly call Jan Molby the most fittest player liverpool has ever had either, and yet the man has almost legend status in the club.

The debate can on and on without ever getting anywhere. Mostly because both parties are stubborn to stay on their claims. And yes. the MLS is boring as fuck. But theres some way to go to outdo the s***s that is the russian league. Quite frankly the most boring soccer games i have ever seen. (and i have seen FC Copenhagen play)

[HailtotheYo]

link

Not like soccer is English, or European to begin with anyway .... It's all the Asian's fault (going by the first semblence of the game argument)

Edited May 6, 2009 by HailtotheKing