There was a baseball league in Australia from 1989-99. It hemorrhaged cash, and was eventually bought by ex-Brewer Dave Nilsson. The league folded around then. I assume Nilsson still plays with it in his basement or something.
But now there’s a new one — also called the Australian Baseball League — that just debuted on Saturday. It’s styled more like a winter league a la Mexico, Venezuela and the Dominican Republic. It has Ryan Rowland-Smith and Peter Moylan in it, so it has to be legit. There are six teams: The Adelaide Bite; the Brisbane Bandits; the Canberra Cavalry; the Melbourne Aces; the Perth Heat; and the Sydeny Blue Sox. If it’s successful in its first year they expect to expand with the Maitland Midnight Oil and the Victor Harbor Vegemite.
Or maybe not, but I have to get my daily Australia bashing in somehow.
Anyway, this time around the ABL has extensive financial backing from Major League Baseball, so it may last a bit longer. Perhaps INXS of ten years this time.
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- BC - Nov 8, 2010 at 11:06 AM
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Hopefully the umpires dress like those refs in Austrailian Rules Football, and use the same awesome hand signals. They epitomize cool.
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- texasdawg - Nov 8, 2010 at 12:33 PM
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Great news. The more baseball, the better.
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- Utley's Hair - Nov 8, 2010 at 1:14 PM
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Hmm…INXS? Would that make Bud Light Michael Hutchence? So there’s hope for baseball now?
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- sdelmonte - Nov 8, 2010 at 1:35 PM
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Do they run the baseball in the other direction, being in the Southern Hemisphere?
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- Old Gator - Nov 8, 2010 at 4:46 PM
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Damn! You japped my Coriolus Effect joke! That leaves sheep….
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- JBerardi - Nov 8, 2010 at 5:14 PM
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I see you’ve played knifey-spoony before.
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- Old Gator - Nov 8, 2010 at 8:12 PM
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Q: Why did God invent women?
A: Because sheep can’t type.Q: What do you call an Australian shepherd with sheep and goats?
A: Bisexual. (A1: a bigamist)Q: Why do Australian shepherds herd their sheep to the edge of the cliff?
A: The sheep push back harder.See, you should have left my beloved Coriolis Effect alone, matey.
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