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Baseball is an extremely regional sport in terms of popularity tbh. Even aside from the fact that its popularity is declining. It’s very northeastern + St. Louis and Chicago in terms of where it’s popular. Also California because of all the northeasterners who moved there. There aren’t many teams in the south or west because it’s just not popular in those regions
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Florida doesn't deserve teams and the Braves are a criminal human trafficking team. What I'm saying is the south doesn't deserve teams. Give Montreal their team back cowards.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Baseball is an extremely regional sport in terms of popularity tbh. Even aside from the fact that its popularity is declining. It’s very northeastern + St. Louis and Chicago in terms of where it’s popular. Also California because of all the northeasterners who moved there. There aren’t many teams in the south or west because it’s just not popular in those regions I think the south is more about Foosball
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Atlanta loving dominates the MLB though. Acuna is better than Ohtani btw
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Apr 13, 2024 20:18
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Regular season champs.
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Minenfeld! posted:Regular season champs. Burn. I guess you are a Yankees fan? How is that working out? 
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Apr 13, 2024 20:46
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Ferdinand the Bull posted:Burn. I guess you are a Yankees fan? How is that working out? Saban retired and Calipari left so most Yankees fans are having it pretty rough
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Apr 13, 2024 21:11
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Ferdinand the Bull posted:Burn. I guess you are a Yankees fan? How is that working out? Whoa let's not say anything we can't take back. Harsh accusations.
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Baseball is an extremely regional sport in terms of popularity tbh. Even aside from the fact that its popularity is declining. It’s very northeastern + St. Louis and Chicago in terms of where it’s popular. Also California because of all the northeasterners who moved there. There aren’t many teams in the south or west because it’s just not popular in those regions Maybe in the pros, but take a look where all the college champs are
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Apr 13, 2024 22:51
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:There aren’t many [baseball] teams in the south I assumed it was because doing outdoor sports during the summer in the south is... unpleasant. Much more likely to be fans of winter sports like college football, or indoor sports like basketball.
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Apr 13, 2024 22:54
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The better rationale is teams go wjere the market will make them the most money. Historically wealth-producing centers arent in the souts. The area historically has been agriculture-heavy. The north is (was) factory and financial institution based.
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Sometimes teams are moving to get public funding for stadiums. There's no reason for a team to be in Las Vegas instead of Nashville.
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rip malta, claimed by the sea and moved a couplea km's north-west
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rip China, annexed by Burma.
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Apr 17, 2024 12:04
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Really remarkable how much of the world emphatically doesn't want the British government in charge
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Apr 17, 2024 12:52
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Some of them got a little lazy and forgot to remove the Union Jack from their flags.
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Phlegmish posted:Some of them got a little lazy and forgot to remove the Union Jack from their flags. can't believe Laser Kiwi didn't win the referendum
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Phlegmish posted:Some of them got a little lazy and forgot to remove the Union Jack from their flags. Technically still part of the Empire, but the Canadian province of Ontairo has among the worst of those:  We've got the Union Jack, sure, but then we've ALSO got the flag of England. Just, you know, hanging out next to each other.
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Apr 17, 2024 13:29
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Meanwhile, in Hawaii..
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kiminewt posted:Meanwhile, in Hawaii.. that's just because the king thought it looked cool, which i respect
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distortion park posted:Really remarkable how much of the world emphatically doesn't want the British government in charge This also includes britain.
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distortion park posted:Really remarkable how much of the world emphatically doesn't want the British government in charge it's fine, everyone replaced them with the US but they didn't make anyone change their flags
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OwlFancier posted:This also includes britain. The Northumbria independence movement is not as strong as the Scottish or Northern Irish, or even the Cornish or Welsh, but yeah. Probably the place with the biggest support for letting the UK government run stuff is the Falklands.
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How are things going down there, anyway?quote:“I want to reiterate our unwavering claim for the islands, and I commit that during our government we will be able to have a clear roadmap so that the Malvinas return to Argentine hands,” Milei said Tuesday, using Argentina’s preferred name for the islands, whose sovereignty is the source of a long-running dispute with the United Kingdom. quote:Milei, who was sworn into office in December, said the “best tribute” for those who died during the conflict was to “defend the unwavering claim for Argentine sovereignty” over the islands. lmao
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BonHair posted:The Northumbria independence movement is not as strong as the Scottish or Northern Irish, or even the Cornish or Welsh, but yeah. Probably the place with the biggest support for letting the UK government run stuff is the Falklands. I don't even mean that, just that I don't think people in the UK actually like the government they just don't do much about it.
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Being a goon I know that you are not only slothful but also a ravisher of butter so stop this pretense
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Platystemon posted:How are things going down there, anyway? The thing about the Falklands is that it's stupidly hard to immigrate there even for British citizens, which greatly helps in keeping it very WASPy.
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Is it? I thought many of them were of Scottish descent. However, does that mean they're not Anglo-Saxon? I've always wondered about this. If the Lowlands have mostly spoken a form of English for as long as Scotland has existed, which I think is the case, then surely they were settled by Germanic tribes at around the same time that England was. Angles? Saxons? Some other group? Englishmen after they had already coalesced into one? Or were they mostly natives assimilated by a Germanic elite? I need one of you history nerds to shed some light on this, Scotland with its dual nature has always been fascinating to me.
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I think that the general thought is that 'Anglo Saxons' were a much more diverse group of merchant traders than first thought, spanning everywhere from southern Denmark to the north of France to as far away as Mauritania and using a common language for trade and culture, but genetically the inhabitants of Britain are pretty much the same as they were during the Romano-Brittonic era, they just started speaking English and adopting Anglo customs instead of Brythonic ones. Except for some isolated areas like the Fens, the West of Cornwall, and the Scottish Islands, who were all still speaking Brythonic languages long after.
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It'd be a bit odd if there was a knife edge at the Tweed and everyone on one side was wearing full highland dress and everyone on the other side was dressed like Churchill and doing street violence while drunk.
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OwlFancier posted:It'd be a bit odd if there was a knife edge at the Tweed and everyone on one side was wearing full highland dress and everyone on the other side was dressed like Churchill and doing street violence while drunk. Everyone in this scenario would be doing street violence while drunk
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I mean yes both sides did go on expeditions to do drunken street violence in each other's cities. And that is why I am supporting better together.
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Papua New Guinea gained independence from Australia in 1975, not the UK.
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Phlegmish posted:Is it? I thought many of them were of Scottish descent. Scotland’s right up against the Danelaw and not too far from Yorkshire. I would imagine they shifted to Germanic Scot’s due to trade and cultural exchange with the much richer lands to the south compared to the highlands which didn’t have as much to trade for
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Phlegmish posted:Is it? I thought many of them were of Scottish descent. However it worked, at some point between the 5th century and the 19th, the Anglo Saxons and their general influence had spread enough that their weird assimilated language became dominant through all parts of Britain and none of the pre-Anglo Saxon languages really spread much to the New World (ironically the largest community may be the Welsh in Argentina). There were a lot of peoples moving around Europe during the dark ages I think even now scholars haven't fully sorted out what happened. And among the general population, the relative lack of understanding of what was going on with all that is a central pillar of modern nationalism.
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SlothfulCobra posted:There were a lot of peoples moving around Europe during the dark ages I think even now scholars haven't fully sorted out what happened. And among the general population, the relative lack of understanding of what was going on with all that is a central pillar of modern nationalism.
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I've heard plenty of people claim that Scots isn't a real language
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