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Old 26 Jul 2002, 10:22 AM   #1
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Default Baseball writer calls our sport "football" instead of "soccer"

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/ne...725balls.shtml
It's my first time trying to post a link, hope it helps.

The article is about baseball teams using soccer-style spontaneous cheering, instead of following what he hilariously calls the Obey-O-Tron.

This is a baseball site for hardcore baseball geeks, and for the life of me, I can't figure out why the writer calls the game "football."

I'm not the kind of person who is going to go "Yippee!!" over this. A rose by any other name yada yada yada. But I do think it's an interesting thing.
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Old 26 Jul 2002, 11:54 AM   #2
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His use of the word "football" probably comes out of his having read Fever Pitch.

The guy seems to be an enlightened baseball fan. Kudos to him.

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What goes around, comes around.

Back in the old days of boresball before steroids and megabucks, there was Hilda Chester.

http://www.pubdim.net/baseballlibrar...ster_Hilda.stm
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Yeah, this sure is a big breakthrough, living up to the great standard of soccer fans - COUGH*Krazy George*COUGH
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