Dear America,
Only two nations are represented in the NBA and MLB, only one nation is represented in the NFL. Hence, winning said leagues hardly constitutes as a "world" championship, but then again... logic is hardly your strong suit. In any case, please cease with the sensationalist dribble, plzkthx.
Signed,
The sporting world.
Corrected again.
A great deal of Japanese players are suited up in major league baseball uniforms. Dominican Republics (Albert Pujols, David Ortiz, Pedro Martinez) provide us with some of the biggest superstars in the sport. There are several really good Canadian players. Justin Morneau for example just won the MVP a few years back, and is still quite a good player.
It's the major leagues, not the American leagues. It's where the best players go to succeed and make money. Just because the sport is based in the USA doesn't make it any less of a world sports than soccer or tennis.
If the best MLB team (All-Stars) played against a Japanese team, or a Canadian team, or a DR team without their players on that team the MLB team would win. I'm not talking World Baseball Classic because thats the World Cup of baseball, and it clearly shows that the USA is not the strongest country for putting out players to the very major league we stand venue in. The Japanese team anchored by Hideki Matsui, Ichiro Suzuki, and Dice-K kicked ass. Dice-K was found and scouted at the WBC in 2006. So was Kosuke Fukudome who just signed with the Cubs this year. And now they're playing in MLB, go figure.
So to say the MLB does not reflect international countries is a lie, and one I take offense to. When a team wins the World Series, it reflects beating the best players on the best teams, and thee
best players gathered from all around the globe. It does not matter if they play in the States or not.
It's a Worlds Championship, because if another country sent their best, that's not already playing the majors, they'd lose to the majors best as previously stated. And that's something you can not dispute as the MLB tours in the off season playing other teams from all over the world and destroys other teams.
And let's not even get started about the NBA. If the Raptors won the NBA Finals this year, they'd become the first team in NBA history to have a starting five born outside of the US. They weren't called the Euro-Raptors for nothing. The NATIONAL Basketball Association is the widest diversity of collected athletes from other countries
THAN ANY OTHER SPORT IN THE WORLD. So to say you beat the worlds best to win the championship is something easily accepted in the NBA.
Again, it comes down to comparing a leagues top stars, and a countrys best stars to claim "World Champions". The best players in the NBA would most likely be half or more, international stars already. Pau Gasol is from Spain. Vladimir Radmonovic from Bosnia, Sasha Vujacic is from Slovenia, Ilunga-Mbenga is from the Republic of the Congo. And three of them were BIG parts of the Lakers run to the NBA Finals. Mbenga served his purpose in the regular season, but was shunned for Gasol after they acquired him.
Dirk Nowitzki, Steve Nash, Manu Ginobili, Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Sasha Pavlovic, Hedo Turkoglu, Darius Songaila (OH two Lithuanians! LOOK AT THAT!), Zaza Pachulia, (The Raptors starting five as already mentioned), Mehmet Okur, Andrei Kirilenko, Linas Kleiza, Eduardo Najera, Yakhouba Diawara, Nene Hilario, Leandro Barbosa, Boris Diaw, Raja Bell, Peja Stojakovic, Luis Scola, Dikembe Mutombo, DeSagana Diop, and..Samuel Dalembert all helped teams in the playoffs in big spots, or big games. And if they didn't help in the playoffs, they helped their team get there to give them their chance.
And by that standard you can add in Yao Ming. Even though they played better without him.
I'm counting almost three foreign players per top 8 per playoff team.
But hey Dylan, sorry no one in these American sports didn't beat the world's best.
But, if you'd like to see an American team whoop up on these international players, wait until the players I just listed go to their home countries this summer and let laid out by Team USA in basketball. When Dirk Nowitzki wishes he was on the Mavericks, when he has no help on his German team because he's the only star that can handle Team USA. Or when Pau Gasol takes Spain, and realizes I wish I was playing in the NBA Finals because these guys aren't cut well enough to play at the NBA level.
Beating an NBA team rich with international flavor is harder than beating individual national teams. But, if you need proof just watch the Olympics.
"World Champion" means you beat the best the world talent, in which the Celtics did in the regular season and playoffs.
In other words? Get the fuck out of here with international countries are not given enough recognition so the teams that call themselves world champions should not be called so, because we do not beat other countries. I don't want to hear that ignorant garbage from a person who I thought was much smarter and tolerable like you.
