• yesman@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    That’s why we’re invading Cuba: to teach them baseball! We might even share our American love of classical cars.

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    That’s what happens to colonies. Look at how popular Cricket is in Commonwealth countries.

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      Most Commonwealth countries, Canada is different because of our close connection with the US.

      There’s a group of Indians near me who play cricket every weekend so sometimes I’ll go by and bother them. “You’re playing the game wrong, you know. Have you guys never watched baseball before?” They’re always super nice and will spend ages explaining everything about the sport. They have a level of zeal for the sport which cannot be matched by even us hockey fans. Last summer we went down to the Galapagos and our group was mostly Brits and I would wait until late in the evening after they had started drinking and ask if they play soccer over there, and that is just as much fun to me.

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    Who cares though? Rednecks care and who cares what they care about.