Then that means that baseball feats accomplished in professional leagues in Canada, USA, México, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, República Dominicana, Panamá and all other countries IN América should be counted.

Unless Craig is another one of those misinformated persons who think “America” comprises only the USA, while in fact it is the whole continent (not two as the USA and UK educational systems say it is, besides them, every country in the world knows it is one whole continent).

Yeah that’s NOW! How do you explain the time when the Canadian currency was at a 20% or 30% discount to American money. The same argument would mean that a very good player on Canadian soil would only be average in the important part of North America.

Splain yourself!

Cur I’ve been to RI, .. and Wyoming. Both are there and Wyoming is there and beautiful. Evan a Canuck like yourself would love it. Nebraska, .. haven’t been there so I can’t be sure!

Besides, .. what America really got from the War of 1812 was the understanding for the need of a full time Army and Navy.

Check it out, .. it’s a really interesting 2 hours.
http://video.pbs.org/video/2089393539

And it was common to see the sight you described. Maple Flag was an annual exercise running from mid-May to the end of June, with participants from all over the world, and not a year went by when it didn’t snow at some point in those 6 weeks. As amusing as it was to see the poor guys from Tyndall AFB, FL and Luke AFB, AZ freezing on the flightline, it was usually the poor folks from the Indonesian Air Force that arrived totally unprepared for spring in the tundra and invariably bought out Wal-Mart’s entire stock of jackets and toques.

Raysfan, it would indeed be more comfy in Gander, especially in winter. Temps of -40 (Celsius or Farenheit, it matters not) were common just about every year. But, as the saying goes, it’s a dry cold.

Cur–I spent many happy hours on C-130s, C-17s (my fav), C-5s, and KC-135s; but I would have arrived in Cold Lake in a F-16.

Anyhow, glad you made it out of there. Just think: but for mere chance you could have been joined by someone from Tamba Bay, Florida. He’d have been easily identifiable, too. The frozen solid man with the “What the fu-!!!” expression on his face halfway down the ramp of a C-130 (or whatever the US Military flies its itinerant physicians around in).

Raysfan, you may have gotten off lucky by going to the Sandbox instead of Cold Lake, depending on the time of year. Summer is beautiful there, and if you get lucky, it falls on a weekend and you can go camping with the mosquitos (which would rival your Jolly Greens in size and lifting capacity.) Mostly though, it is cold and desolate. It isn’t the end of the world, but you CAN see it from there. (take it from one who knows…I was stationed there for 17 years, but I’m slowly recovering)

and, sorry raysfan, it’s idaho’s politics that are crazy-ass to me. it used to be filled with traditional conservatives, who left you alone so long as you left them alone. now, nto so much. i mostly agree with the politics of wa and or, at least,their western sides. mostly. so you and i can stick to talking baseball.