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Posted on 10/28/2025 8:21:12 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th
In the early, early morning Tuesday, in the aftermath of Game 3, Blue Jays manager John Schneider was quick to remind reporters that the defending champion Dodgers “didn’t win the World Series, they won a game.”
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I don't watch baseball, don't care about it, and my life isn't miserable. Been here almost 27 years, and been retired almost 23 years. Nothing miserable about that.
You’ve never made a typo....hmmm
Yes.
Note that I said I joked about that.
He is a once in a lifetime player.
“I am waiting for the “Debbie Downers”,
“rain on your paraders”,
“I hate baseball because”...etc.”
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And there you are!
Eh?
I’m Not sure miserable is right word
Just grumpy negativity
We’ve aged here and it shows
I feel your pain.
And don’t get me started about designated hitters!!!
“grumpy negativity”
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Thank you for sharing!
I think Canadian owned baseball teams are probably from a time before the corrupt liberals up here decided to destroy our relationship with America. I remember when our countries were good friends. Pierre Trudeau started us down the path to be more like European socialists, and the anti-American crap started spreading in Canada. Sadly, Canadians are very easily brainwashed.
It looks like you didn't get to my comment questioning why a foreign country's team is allowed to play American Baseball in America and participate in the World Series, which was created in America.
“...you didn’t get to my comment questioning why a foreign country’s team is allowed to play American Baseball...”
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Well, you said:
“I don’t watch baseball, don’t care about it”
So why should I comment on that,
and if you don’t care about baseball,
why are you commenting about baseball?
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Make up your mind.
Do you care about baseball or not?
Eh?
Playing the devil's advocate here for the sake of conversation, I doubt this would happen since there is much more of a language barrier. Besides that, the travel distance to any major Mexican city is too far. Also, I doubt Mexico could compete with the high salaries and other costs of fielding an MLB team. All their really good players come to America to play to get rich.
On the other hand, there are a lot of very good ball players in Mexico, so they might be pretty competitive in MLB.
Finally, do we really have a valid claim to the title "World Series" if we are not competing against the rest of the world? It's kind of like the old "Little Rascals/Our Gang" short where two of the kids were going to face off in a boxing match and they called it "The World Championship of Toluca Lake".
You are right.
Montreal tried and failed.
More foreign MLB players are from the Dominican Republic
than from any where else.
I remember that too Judy. I was born in Rochester, NY in 1947. My mother was born in Ontario, Canada and came here as a toddler with her old brother and their mother. I remember when you could go to Canada, all they'd ask you was "where were you born? what's your business here, and how long do you plan to stay. You didn't even have to show a photo ID, because photo ID licenses didn't start in New York until 2013. I remember when Canadian coins were accepted as equal exchange in New York State. Not long ago I asked a clerk at the restaurant at the Oneida Nation casino near me, if they still take Canadian coins. She said they don't.
In 1991, I visited Canada for the first time to do some family history. It was one of the best trips, because I found so much information on my mother's side of the family, stuff she never knew. I managed to make contact with cousins I didn't even know I had, and found out from them that we were second cousins of Tim Horton. They took me to a Tim Horton restaurant in the village. I'd never heard of him before, and of course I only found out after he'd already been long gone.
In the village my mother was born in, during my travels, I came upon a WWI monument with the usual dough boy figure, on the village green. I parked my car, and walked over to the monument. As I made my way around it, reading the names on it, I found my great-uncle's name. I can't tell you how that made me feel. He was real, and he'd been remembered. He had died in France just two months before the Armistice. Since then, I've learned that a whole lot of other men died in the weeks before the war ended...and even the day before.
As I was looking at the statue, a man came out of his house, came over to me and we started talking. I told him I'd just found my great-uncle's name on the statue. He was kind enough to tell me that I could write to the Archives in Ottawa, and request copies of whatever records they had on him. When I got back home, that's exactly what I did, and I got a quick response from them. They wrote me that I could also get a photo of his headstone if I wanted it. There was someone at the British Military Cemetery in France where he was buried, that would do that for me. I wrote them back, and made arrangements to get a photo, and for $5.00, they sent me a few copies. He's one of the fortunate that fell...he's identified, when so many other's names were never known.
Of course I never knew him, but my mother had pictures of him, one while he was still a civilian in a suit...1900 or close to it, and one of him in uniform, sitting bareback on a horse somewhere, either while he was still in Canada or in France. Nothing was ever written on the back. So now, I had his military records, and also a photo of his headstone. Online I found photos of file cards, with the detailed info of how, and when he was wounded by German machine gun fire while crossing the road, and they gave the name of the road. It also reported what number military hospital he had been taken to, and that he died from his wounds a few days later. It must have gutted his mother, my great-grandmother. He was the only son.
I subscribe to a British historian's YouTube Channel. He was a soldier, stationed in Ireland during the troubles, then became a Bobby. He's also an expert long bowman. One of the videos he did was about the battle my great-uncle was killed in. The video was about a specific medic who had removed many of the dead and wounded on the battlefield that day. I left a comment to him, saying that I'd like to think that Private So and So, was the one who removed my great-uncle that day. I told him where he was buried in France, and he wrote me back that one of his relatives was buried there too. Small world huh?
I never knew any of my grandparents. They had all died before I was born. I always felt like I'd missed out on a lot, not ever knowing them. Sorry I've rambled on. I hope you don't mind.
When I was a kid in the fifties, I don’t remember there ever being any Japanese players on our baseball teams. Do you know when Japan got into the sport? I’m female and didn’t watch baseball, but my father did. He was an Orioles fan, mainly because the Rochester Red Wings were the farm team of the Orioles. I know he hated the Yankees, and when I asked him why, he said “they win too much.” I do remember when Sandy Koufax broke the record for no hitters whatever year it was. I remember Joe DiMaggio, and Micky Mantle, Yogi Berra. I remember when the Dodgers and Giants were in New York. It was years later that I read Mantle suffered from osteomyelitis, which I found interesting, because my father had had it since he was a young boy. Back then they didn’t have any treatment for it. It wasn’t until my Dad was in his 70’s that they put him on an antibiotic for it.
It's called free speech. Ever hear of it? Most people have an opinion, even if you don't agree with it. Stop acting like a liberal, and trying to shut people down.
It’s called the “World Series” because it was originally created by the “New York World” newspaper.
“I remember when our countries were good friends.”
It ended when that Quebecker Socialist Pierre Trudeau took office in the 70s.
So interesting to read. Thank you for taking the time to relay such a poignant story. It really is a small world.
I have visited Rochester a couple of times. I think it was back in the day when Kodak was so big in the town. Was it Kodak? Lol my memory isn’t great sometimes.
What village was the dough boy WWI monument? Sounds like Stoney Creek, but I imagine there’s any number of them. I can’t imagine the pain of losing someone in war, especially days before the end of it all. So much sadness in this world. Very impressive that you were able to track your great-uncle and get so much history about him.
I’ve always lived just north of the Buffalo border - in the Hamilton area.
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