From: nyamane@nyx.cs.du.edu (Norm Yamane)
Subject: Re: What the $%#!@& are you talkin' about?!? (was Re: boo jays)
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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 92 12:54:43 GMT

In article <Bw6CrG.GJE@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> kjmcrae@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (insert name here) writes:
>In article <Bw5CIK.69u@mach1.wlu.ca>, bellswor@mach1.wlu.ca (bob ellsworth s) writes:
>> let me count the ways i hate you boo jays:
>> 
>> reason 792: jays fans insist on waving the canadian flag at home/away games
>> implying (somehow) that this is a canadian baseball team. WRONG. it is
>> an american team. please don't wave my country's flag at you fuckin'
>> dome no more.                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
>      Huh? 
>
>	Gee, I guess since no Blue Jays are Canadian, then it is wrong for 
>any Canadian to cheer for them.  Yeah, sure....
>
>	Listen, the only reason that the Blue Jays fans wave those Canadian
>flags at games is because there is only 1 Canadian team (and yes, it really 
>IS Canadian!) in the AL.  Perhaps if there were more Canadian cities in the
>majors, then the Blue Jays (or the Expos in their prime) would not be labelled 
>"Canada's team", as I've quite often heard in the media.
>	Is there an "America's team" in baseball?  No, because all but 2 of the
>teams are based in U.S. cities.  
>	And another thing, if I'm at a game, I can wave any damn flag I want
>to!  As a matter of fact, the next Toronto game I go to, I think beforehand 
>I'll go out & buy the biggest Canadian flag money can buy so I can wave it
>during the TV broadcasts just to spite you!
> 

  If you ask me, any fan can wave any flag that they want to at the games.
  It is a competition between two teams based in two different countries
  after all.  I mean, after watching the Olympics this year can you deny
  the sense of pride that it gives when you see a countryman do well??

  Sure, the "Canadian content" of the Jays might be low but that doesn't
  mean the team isn't Canadian.  After the Pittsburg Penguins won the 
  Stanley Cup last year I didn't see anyone complaining about the lack
  of player representation from the States.  The Penguin fans were happy
  that their team won.  Since many Canadians see mostly Blue Jays games it
  would make sense that many would be Blue Jays fans.  And whats wrong
  with cheering on the club you like?

  The only thing I didn't like when I was watching the ALCS was the series
  of Labatt's beer commercials that went something like "Somewhere there's
  a fan waiting on the edge of his seat waiting for his team to win the
  greatest prize in all of major league baseball.  But not this year because
  he lives in <insert city name here>".

  The first time I saw this I thought it was cute.  Then, as teams started
  being eliminated it seemed to be in poorer and poorer taste.  The day the
  Jays clinched the city name was Milwakee (sp?).  On Wednesday the commercial
  aired with Oakland as the city during the 7th inning!  It just seemed to
  be the heigth of poor sportsmanship to rub salt in the A's wounds.

  Just one persons opinions.

  Norm
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