Quote from danowat :

I went to the hospital, thinking they would just chuck a stitch or two in it, but they didn't stitch it, they bloody superglue'd it together!!!!

I wish the geniuses at the hospital here had thought of it instead of having this fresh-out-of-medschool doc try to do 3 layers of stitches on me once. By the time he managed to get to the second layer the anesthetic had worn off and he learned a new word every stitch he sewed in.

Quote from niall09 :

Don't you mean hurling?

nah thats what the Irish play, what with the dodgy goalposts and all that. However when the two disciplines meet, it is fun to watch.

Never played shinty, but try and watch it when ever there's a game nearby in Inverness.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

I didn't know we had an ice hockey league. We're a bit too busy having one of the best football leagues in the world to notice ice hockey really. We tend to leave that to the americans and canadians who prefer to play sports that nobody else plays and then declare themselves world champions.

Oh BTW:

Hockey is Stanley Cup Champions, Football is Superbowl champions. I never did understand why the baseball championship was determined by the "World Series". So, you've got it right in baseball terms.

Quote from mrodgers :

Hockey is Stanley Cup Champions, Football is Superbowl champions. I never did understand why the baseball championship was determined by the "World Series". So, you've got it right in baseball terms.

Maybe it's just commentators getting carried away. I've heard Superbowl winners being referred to as world champs numerous times, and I remember when the NJ Devils won the Stanley Cup they were called world champs on more than one occasion too.

Quote from mrodgers :

Hockey is Stanley Cup Champions, Football is Superbowl champions. I never did understand why the baseball championship was determined by the "World Series". So, you've got it right in baseball terms.

Urban myth is that it was because when they started, they thought that all of the world would be interested in playing Baseball, and there were plans for a World series, however it never took off, and as a result they just left it as it is. Baseball was played in the UK around about the 1930's, and was gain popularity until the war, the proposed league in Britain never really got a chance to develop.

Quote from Mackie The Staggie :

Urban myth is that it was because when they started, they thought that all of the world would be interested in playing Baseball, and there were plans for a World series, however it never took off, and as a result they just left it as it is. Baseball was played in the UK around about the 1930's, and was gain popularity until the war, the proposed league in Britain never really got a chance to develop.

To go from Wiki

Quote :

The title of this championship may be confusing to some readers from countries where baseball is not a major sport (or even where it is), because the "World" Series is confined to the champions of two baseball leagues that currently operate only in the United States and Canada.

The explanation is that when the term "World's Championship Series" was first used in the 1880s, baseball at a highly-skilled level was almost exclusively confined to North America, especially the United States. Thus it was understood that the winner of the major league championship was the best baseball team in the world. The title of this event was soon shortened to "World's Series" and later to "World Series".

The United States continued to be the only professional baseball country until some decades into the 20th Century. The first Japanese professional baseball efforts began in 1920. The current Japanese leagues date from the late 1940s. Various Latin American leagues also formed around that time.

By the 1990s, baseball was played at a highly skilled level in many countries, resulting in a strong international flavor to the Series, as many of the best players from the Pacific Rim, Latin America, the Caribbean, and elsewhere now play on Major League rosters. The notable exception is Cuban nationals, due to the political situation between the USA and Cuba (despite that barrier, over the years a number of Cuba's finest ballplayers have defected to the United States to play in the American professional leagues). Players from the Japanese Leagues also have a more difficult time coming to the Major Leagues because they must first play 10 years in Japan before becoming free agents. Reaching the high-income Major Leagues tends to be the goal of many of the best players around the world.

Early in 2006, Major League Baseball conducted the inaugural World Baseball Classic, to establish a "true" world's championship in the way the term is normally used for other international sports. Teams of professional players from 16 nations participated, and Japan won the first World Baseball Classic championship. Olympic baseball was instituted as a medal sport in 1992, but in 2005 the International Olympic Committee voted to eliminate baseball, and it will be off the Olympic program in 2012.

The World Series itself retains a US-oriented atmosphere. The title of the event is often presented on television as merely a "brand name" in the same sense as the "Super Bowl", and thus the term "World Series Championship" is sometimes used. However, the origin of the term lives on, as with these words of Frank Thomas in the Chicago White Sox victory celebration in 2005: "We're world's champions, baby!" At the close of the 2006 Series, Commissioner Bud Selig pronounced the St. Louis Cardinals "champions of the world". Likewise, the cover of Sports Illustrated magazine for November 6, 2006, features Series MVP David Eckstein and is subtitled "World Champions".

A recent myth has arisen that the "World" in "World Series" came about because the New York World newspaper sponsored it. There is no evidence at all supporting that hypothesis.[3]The annual publication called the World Almanac was originally published by the New York World. Its ambiguous title and U.S.-centric content may have inspired the World Series myth, either facetiously or naively.

Humorist Ring Lardner, when writing columns about ongoing World Series in the 1910s (including the infamous 1919 Series) mocked the pomp surrounding the games he covered (as well as his own persona) by calling the event the "World's Serious".

Quote from thisnameistaken :

Maybe it's just commentators getting carried away. I've heard Superbowl winners being referred to as world champs numerous times, and I remember when the NJ Devils won the Stanley Cup they were called world champs on more than one occasion too.

Hockey I think that World Champs is more reserved, becuase of the fact there's these stupid things called "Olympics", which determine who's the "world champ", then theres the World Juniors every year, and a bunch more. I think you've been drinking too much Guinness again Kev.

Just by reading your stories makes me squint.

Quote from dawesdust_12 :

I think you've been drinking too much Guinness again Kev.

I live in Yorkshire, we have more interesting things to drink brewed right here.

Quote from thisnameistaken :

I live in Yorkshire, we have more interesting things to drink brewed right here.

Plus there is the little list of larger and bitters knocked out by Oakwell Brewery, quality drinks.