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Pleeese think beyond the US of A
The " Doyen of PR blogging" thinks that a baseball
analogy works for an intelligent discussion about blogs and linking.
I'm going to confess right now - I haven't read Steve Rubel's post.
There is absolutely no point.
How the heck is a baseball analogy meant to work for blogging? Blogging
is a global phenomenon. It happens in hundreds of languages.
Geographically countries like Korea and France are right up at the top
of the global blogosphere.
What can you say about a 'sport' that thinks a World Series
normally involves the USA v. USA? Athletics has global reach. Soccer
has global reach. Tennis has global reach. Rugby has global reach. Tiddlywinks
probably has more global reach. Baseball doesn't even reach out to the
English speaking world, let alone the global blogosphere.
Am I right in thinking baseball is rounders for boys?
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To date 16 Comment(s)
TrackBack-URL
(19.10.05 22:01)
While clearly not having the global reach of football, or (the world's second most popular sport) basketball, I think you're over-ranting a bit. First, you perpetuate the solecism that the "World Series" aspires to be a championship of the world. The World Series is in fact named for the newspaper which sponsored the first such series, between the champions of the two rival US baseball leagues. Second, baseball is wildly popular not just in the US but across North and Central America, including the Latino Caribbean, and in vast tracts of Asia. The only truly parochial US sport is gridiron.
None of which changes the fact that baseball is a mind-numbingly dull spectacle, sustained as an object of suporting enthusiasm solely by an endless spiel of inane statistics which enrapture the ranking- and competition-obsessed American (and Japanese, etc) male. And it's not rounders for boys - it's softball for men.
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steve baker
(20.10.05 19:21)
Consider British colonialism. It exported English throughout much of the world, and contributed the development of British-born sports such as football (soccer) and rugby (as well as tennis, which reached Britain some 500 years ago). The British in the colonial era, naturally enough, wanted to speak their language and play their games wherever they went. Now those Koreans and French you write about, how are you communicating with them, in their language or in yours? And which sports do you consider global? Most of them, again, yours. Perhaps your point is that, at least in the domain of sport, the British were more effective colonizers than the Americans.
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steve baker
(20.10.05 21:38)
Consider British colonialism. It exported English throughout much of the world, and contributed the development of British-born sports such as football (soccer) and rugby (as well as tennis, which reached Britain some 500 years ago). The British in the colonial era, naturally enough, wanted to speak their language and play their games wherever they went. Now those Koreans and French you write about, how are you communicating with them, in their language or in yours? And which sports do you consider global? Most of them, again, yours. Perhaps your point is that, at least in the domain of sport, the British were more effective colonizers than the Americans.
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Lee Hopkins
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(21.10.05 13:43)
"Am I right in thinking baseball is rounders for boys?"
Brilliant! Made me chuckle to myself for quite a few minutes; nice one, Stu.
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Bassett
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(24.10.05 20:28)
It's clear you don't pay much attention to sports... there are more people with the last name Gonazlez, Martinez, Rodriguez, Hernandez playing baseball than names like Thomas, Green, Brown or Smith...
Keep trying there, chuckles....
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Jeremy Pepper
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(25.10.05 16:22)
Am I right to say that some people are unable to take criticism? That some people are so insecure and immature that they have to respond to criticism with puerile attacks?
As for baseball, I prefer getting my teeth cleaned to watching games. But, as I learned in middle school, I live in an ethnocentric culture - well, everyone does - and we think like we live.
As for me, I'd go with the hockey analogy.
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resimtr.com
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(11.1.06 09:27)
Perhaps your point is that, at least in the domain of sport, the British were more effective colonizers than the Americans.
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