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If I'm not mistaken (and I'm sure, if I am, tsuwm will let us know  ) The "World" Series comes from a now-defunct newspaper called the New York World. Back when NYC was the center of the universe.
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>...unaccustomed diffidence from the country that claims a World Series in which it's the only participant.
hey! not only are the Canadian teams eligible for the world serious, but Toronto won the thing in the first appearance by foreign representatives in our fall spectacle, in 1992.
-joe friday
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>If I'm not mistaken (and I'm sure, if I am, tsuwm will let us know...
in another time and place (or perhaps it was a parallel universe) I used the personna of the truth squad.
just the facts, ma'am.
-joe friday
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ah, but the truth is in the telling tsuwm. "The first appearance of a FOREIGN team" !?!? Now if it was really a World series nobody would be considered foreign, would they.
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"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum." -Arthur C. Clarke
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flags do not wave in a vacuumAn admission that baseball sucks? 
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>It's interesting to note that you do consider other countries as American. Generally, I have found United Statsians (I love that name) have adopted 'American' as their own and that they do not readily share it with others.
Some years ago I was cycling in Ireland, and ran into a couple on bikes, both of them wearing helmets, as was I. I immediately called out and asked if they were American (no one else seemed to wear helmets, particularly not the German cyclists, about whom more some other time.) They replied that indeed they were Americans, but they were Canadians, not US citizens. I got the feeling they had chastised a few others for their effrontery. During the rest of the trip I was always careful to identify myself as "a US citizen."
I wonder, though, how foreigners and US of A citizens feel about the term Yank. I've been called this in several countries and have personally never been offended by it. Of course I don't live in or come from any areas in the Southern United States where the term Yankee is to say the least pejorative.
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Really. Do you get called Yank a lot? I have never heard the term used here (in Québec).
As to the Canadian couple...it was probably just a protective reaction. Please please please do not take this as an attack, just as a bit of info. Canadians get treated much better when they say they are Canadians than when they let people believe they are Americans.
Unfortunately, there are still biases in this world. One of them is the belief that ALL Canadians are these self reserved individuals, sorta dull but all-around honest good people. Americans are often viewed as loud and self-serving. I have known several friends who were treated badly because people thought they were Americans (in France 2 and Italy 1) and the situation changed markedly when they let people know they were Canadian. I also have a friend from New Jersey who says he is from Canada when he travels overseas. He has noticed the same bias.
This is such a common situation that we are often told to wear Canadian pins or badges when we travel overseas and to let people know right away that we are Canadian.
I believe judging a person without knowing him is unjust, but not everybody does.
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please, please, please do not take this as an insult; it's just a joke:
"It's hard to tell Canadians apart from really boring white
people, unless they're dressed up to go outside."
- National Lampoon: "Foreigners and How They Got There"
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just a jokeI'm shocked - quoting from this and Simple Minds lyrics - or is this a further demonstration of polymath eclecticism? 
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