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    Quote Originally Posted by bobbin View Post
    meh its just rounders with funny clothes.

    Ps why is it called the world series? as far I'm aware its only US and Canadian teams that play in it.
    Why is it called "Great" Britain?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro View Post
    Why is it called "Great" Britain?
    It's the name of the island not the country.
    After the Old English period, Britain was used as a historical term only. Geoffrey of Monmouth in his pseudohistorical Historia Regum Britanniae (c. 1136) refers to the island of Great Britain as Britannia major ("Greater Britain"), to distinguish it from Britannia minor ("Lesser Britain"), the continental region which approximates to modern Brittany.
    Quote Originally Posted by Hosakawa Tito View Post
    Quite a few of MLB greatest players aren't from North America.

    For those that don't appreciate or like the game there's no need to post disruptive spam comments and ruin the conversation for those that do like the sport.
    Half the premier league in the uk is from other countries but we still don't call it the world league,.
    You make a fair point about spamming the thread though so I'll be shutting up now, i was a bored, accept my apologies
    Last edited by bobbin; 03-01-2010 at 15:56.


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