Yeah, the All-Star game was a fiasco, but at least it doesn't last for days and days of boredom, like Cricket.

That and soccer. soccer blows.. Lets kick a ball for 90 minutes. How exciting.

In American sport, as in American life, there are only winners and losers.

And it is normally very clear - presidential elections and wars in south-east Asia being the only exceptions to this rule.

*snorts coffee all over monitor* weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Limey bastard. Like I really care what he thinks. Winning is everything. Coming in second only means your the first one to loose.

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What the hell is "orange squash?" And why would anyone throw "dustbins" of it at anyone?

Methinks this writer spent to much time getting b.u.g.g.e.r.e.d. with produce at whatever public school he attended.

Stinkin' Beeb.

Sounds like this guy still thinks we're a colony.

Wake up, Red Coat... we won... and you more than likely have bad teeth.

Let me be the first to remind this guy that if it were not for us he'd be speaking German right now.

"And draws are something worn by women, or perhaps Dennis Rodman. "

WTF does that mean???

Stay out of it.

Hehehe, the venom is in it´s tail:

" Now that is more like it. If only we could get them to give up the boring bit with bats and gloves beforehand, the rest of the world might show some interest too. "


So true in most aspects....

...uh...I mean...WERE IT NOT...D'OH!

If only we could get them to give up the boring bit with bats and gloves beforehand, the rest of the world might show some interest too.


This, coming from a country that televises dart tournaments.

Highly amusing

and herein lies the difference between Americans and British. The British people know how to take a joke! Americans only know how to puff up their chests and sue. The all star game was a farce; might as well laugh at it...

WHO GIVES A FLAMING RAT'S ASS HOW THE GAME ENDS?

IT IS AN EXHIBITION GAME. FOR THE LOVE OF PETE!

GET OVER IT.

What do I care about uninformed opinions? Are you gonna post this guy's opinions on dental hygiene too?

grivas runs.

I liked Konerko's idead for ending the game.

"You want to see 1-1 draws, go to Russia...well, Cuba then."

Yes, but baseball is the most popular sport in Cuba. So why would we go there to see footie?

I'd like to go to Cuba

"The losers trudge off looking gutted"

I wonder if that's what the British soldiers looked like when we were kicking theit butts out of colonial America.

Zchamu: 'herein lies the difference between Americans and British. The British people know how to take a joke!'

I assume they take it up the poohole, like they take everything else?

limey wanker. the only good thing to come out of the UK was Austin Powers and underneith it all, he is an american. Take your Oasis, Radiohead, Margret Thatcher, Cricket and Fish and Chips and bugger off. You should be kissing the ground we walk on. silly wankers, america is for the free.

Oh I don't think americans would like going to play baseball in Cuba, after all they might actually lose.

Unbrchain:- pun on drawers as in knickers.

Ballastpants:- Bins of Kool-Aid occasionally get thrown over coaches in American Football games don't they? Something like that anyway. I don't watch it - we have mens sports in the UK like Rugby.

Chemmie:- Mike Myers is Canadian, and grew up partly in the UK.

Jeez you people are sad. It's humor. You poke fun at the English all the time. The instant they do it back you act like a 4 year old who got called a poopie-head.

The second I saw this link I knew the obligatory "bad teeth", "colony", and "speaking German" comments would come flooding.

/me yawns.

Zchamu, well said.

Marantz.. you got it. They can dish it out, but they don't know how to take it...

Jay_vee:

Kool-Aid? No sir, it's Gatorade or some such that the coach gets doused with if the team wins, and football (U.S.) is the only sport I've ever seen in which a coach receives said dousing.

Rugby rocks.

Yes. Jay_vee, but where does he reside now? and why?

Marantz310 YOU'RE the poopie-head. Poopie-head.

Why is a british paper giving an editorial about the All Star game? I do not see too many editorials about cricket, rugby, etc. in US papers.

If they don't care, then why are they writing about it?

I can't speak for the rest of my American friends here but let me say that I am only kidding. Just a little harmless ribbing. So who is it that can't take a joke?

I like it when Americans get upset.

They always start to go on about freedom...(You should be kissing the ground we walk on. silly wankers, america is for the free.) FREAK!

Oh and.. errr... baseball sucks.
Ha ha

The All-Star game was a farse, but to make a connection with that and everyday life for Americans?? WTF?? There are plenty of people who work hard for a year for what these guys make in an at-bat.

Win or lose attitude??? Yeah, that's why we're the worlds only superpower left! If anything ever goes down in that hole in the earth, Pres. Bush would be the first one to receive a call to bring our win or lose arses on over and clean house.

Brits get jacked about high scoring soccer matches?? Too many avenues on that one...I don't have the time to start.

"I was in a no-win situation," Selig added without a hint of irony.

Say what you like, but that was a great line.

Raging:

Harmless ribbing is a good thing, however, the American Revolution was over 200 years ago. It's no longer funny nor relevant to anything.

I'm with Marantz310 -

by the way, every country in the world makes fun of the good ol' US - the only difference is, we both speak English in this case - grow up - without humility, everyone would just be assholes all the time.

Q> What's the difference between America and Yoghurt?
A> Yoghurts have culture.

"If only we could get them to give up the boring bit with bats and gloves beforehand, the rest of the world might show some interest too. "

Who the hell cares what a british journalist thinks about baseball? And personally, we don't care whether the rest of the world likes our sport or not either..

The rest of the world should just be glad that the US doesn't care about soccer (oops..sorry Futbol), because if we did...that would just give everyone another reason to be resentful of America after we started dominating that sport as well.

It's interesting how British English and American English become more and more different. I think by "dustbins" full of "orange squash" he means Gatorade, which is in a cooler, not a trashcan. And I think when he says something about American women wearing "draws" he must mean "drawers," or panties. However, my dearly-departed Great Aunt is the only person in the world I've ever heard refer to undergarments as "drawers." Weird Brits and their weird ideas about American life.

Serious question. What freedoms do Americans think they have that people in the EU don't have?

Ok. I'll give you that the American Revolution was over 200 years ago and it may not be funny but I think it still means a lot to many Americans. But if you want something more relevant how about Northern Ireland? When will England end their occupation? If winning doesn't mean anything to the British then they could just pull out of the area and allow the Ulster counties to unite with the rest of the Republic of Ireland. Of course thos would lead to more bloodshed.

Orioles won 3-2 in the 11th inning when they went to Havana. The Cubans didn't have all of their best players because of their championship series was still going on, but then again the O's didn't exactly have the cream of the crop players.
And I believe the Cubans beat Baltimore when the Cubans went to Baltimore.

The limey bastards have no idea. It's all about American football and basketball over here anyway, not baseball.

I don't think that he is suggesting that the English don't like to win, of course they do, everyone does. But Americans like to determine a winner so much that the idea of sharing victory seems to disturb them. You guys just take it to a whole new level.

If winning doesn't mean anything to the British then they could just pull out of the area and allow the Ulster counties to unite with the rest of the Republic of Ireland.

Sure. It'd also open the floodgates on the holy wars. Great idea.

Oh, and I understand that the revolution is still important to your country, but making fun of today's English population about it makes less sense than blaming you for slavery in the late 1800's south US.

Ragingleonard:- Most Northern Irish actually want the British to stay. We are a democracy.