The Red Sox won the World Series!!!!!!!!!

[gforce422]

Let there be much rejoicing!!!

[Doc Sigma]

Truly an awesome series. The Sox just outclassed the Rockies in every possible way.

[Steve the Pocket]

I'm actually kinda grateful the Indians didn't make it to the Series this year. Can you imagine how embarrassing that would be for the Cavs, who had just made it into the #2 spot in their league last spring thanks to LeBron "the new Michael Jordan" James, to have another local team do the exact same thing without a major (and expensive, IIRC) superstar.

[Bocaj Claw]

I couldn't care less even if you cut my corpus collusum.

[Svix]

Why is it called the World series?

[Richard K Niner]

Why is it called the World series?

Because America is the world (Or at least, they seem to think they are.)

[Tom Flapwell]

My dad's the real baseball fan in the family. I was surprised to learn that he wasn't rooting for the Red Sox this time, as they've been one of his favorite teams. He felt compelled to support the new underdog. But not with his usual great excitement, which is why I didn't hear about this before reading the thread title.

I'm actually kinda grateful the Indians didn't make it to the Series this year.

I'm grateful whenever a politically incorrect team name doesn't get top honors. And coming from the hometown of the Redskins, that's saying something.

[Zaaphod]

Why is it called the World series?

Because America is the world (Or at least, they seem to think they are.)

Yep, there aren't any major-league baseball teams outside the US. Except of course the Toronto Blue Jays, 2-time winners of the World Series.

Anyway, the first postseason championship series was played back in 1884. This series was quite sensibly billed as the "championship of the United States." However, after said series was over, some over-enthusiastic sportswriter dubbed the winner the "world champions." Not surprisingly, the winning team liked the sound of that, so since then the series has been called the World Series. (There's another explanation that when the Series started the best players in the world were all in the United States, so the US's best team could be considered the world champs; as no other country was playing at such a high level of skill.)

Of course, everyone has always known it's a silly and grandiose name. A later sportswriter, Ring Lardner, mocked the event's self-importance by always calling it the "World Serious."

[Arloest]

Why is it called the World series?

Because America is the world (Or at least, they seem to think they are.)

Yep, there aren't any major-league baseball teams outside the US. Except of course the Toronto Blue Jays, 2-time winners of the World Series.

Thank you for saying what I wanted to say.

I honestly don't know how to vote in this poll. I cared about the World Series, but I also think I was impartial towards who won. That is saying something since I come from a family of Bostonians.

[Doc Sigma]

Why is it called the World series?

Because America is the world (Or at least, they seem to think they are.)

Yep, there aren't any major-league baseball teams outside the US. Except of course the Toronto Blue Jays, 2-time winners of the World Series.

And except for Japan, which has multiple baseball leagues.

[Rikirk]

Why is it called the World series?

Because the term was created way back when baseball was young...and as someone said....Baseball was only played in the USA. So the term generally refers to the Baseball World....series.


And anyway we thought of it before Canada.


Bleah!

[osprey]

Damn, I wanted the Rockies to win and complete the Cinderella story. Oh well...

[TyVulpine]

Why is it called the World series?

Because America is the world (Or at least, they seem to think they are.)

Yep, there aren't any major-league baseball teams outside the US. Except of course the Toronto Blue Jays, 2-time winners of the World Series.

And except for Japan, which has multiple baseball leagues.

But, the U.S. champ and Japan's champ don't meet to determine a "true" champion. Of course, you'd also have to include a European champion, an African champion, a South American champion, and so on. And that doesn't include any "regular season", much less playoffs.

[Doc Sigma]

Why is it called the World series?

Because America is the world (Or at least, they seem to think they are.)

Yep, there aren't any major-league baseball teams outside the US. Except of course the Toronto Blue Jays, 2-time winners of the World Series.

And except for Japan, which has multiple baseball leagues.

But, the U.S. champ and Japan's champ don't meet to determine a "true" champion. Of course, you'd also have to include a European champion, an African champion, a South American champion, and so on. And that doesn't include any "regular season", much less playoffs.

That's my point, pretty much. Calling it the "world" series makes little sense. Maybe it did at one time but other than for tradition it no longer does.

[Tom Flapwell]

Baseball is popular in parts of Latin America as well. Do they have championships, I wonder?