Gig 601XL Builder wrote:
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Gig 601XL Builder wrote:

The same goes for the NBA

Judging from the past couple of Olympics I'm not sure a really good
European team couldn't beat our hothouse orchids.

Look back at the year we sent our really GOOD NBA players. And that was
basicly a pick-up team. Take one of the teams any any of the big three
sports that has been playing an practicing together all year and many the
foreign ass will be waxed.

What year was that, 1992? The quality of the game has gone down a lot
and the ferners are doing a much better job of finding big guys so it's
not like we could depend on overpowering them.

As for baseball, we could smash Japan like Godzilla for the most part,
but Cuba and the DR already account for what, 1/4 of our MLB players?
They could definitely field excellent teams if they weren't all playing
here. Just wait until Fidel croaks and we have an MLB franchise in
Havana.

Football is a bad example because it's really only played here. It will
be interesting to see whether US soccer really starts to crank
internationally as it becomes the sport more and more people grew up
with. Now that will be some great jingoistic mayhem when that happens.

-cwk.