From: "Robert MacIntosh" <macbuccfo at msn.com>
To: WSFAlist at WSFA.org
Subject: [WSFA] Re: 2007 Worldcon
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:33:13 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

>From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
>Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
>To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
>Subject: [WSFA] Re: 2007 Worldcon
>Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 21:29:38 -0400
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Robert MacIntosh" <macbuccfo at msn.com>
>To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
>Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 9:01 PM
>Subject: [WSFA] Re: 2007 Worldcon
>
> > >From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
>[...]
> > >
> > >Despite it being called "the World Science Fiction Convention" or
> > >"Worldcon," it's mostly American (the majority of attendees -- even in
> > >foreign locations) and analogous to baseball's "World Series," which
>has
> > >*never* left the USA.
> >
> > The last I heard, Toronto is in Canada, not the United States, and it
>has
> > held World Series Games two or three times in the ancient 1990's.
>
>I stand corrected.  I've never followed baseball that closely, and I was
>unaware that the World Series was played in Canada.    When do you think it
>will be played in Japan?
>
>--Ted White
>
You've stumbled upon Baseball's secret plan to move the Montreal Expos to
Japan. There can't be a World Series game outside North America until the
Majors expand into those territories (either by moving a team and
incorporating some of the Japanese talent into a major league team - there
are some 10 full-time Japanese players in the majors right now - I believe
it is 5 position players and 5 pitchers - so it could happen).

Bob MacIntosh