This reminds me of how the first world war was called a ‘world’ war even though there were only 6 countries fighting, Europe in those days considered themselves to be the entire world. It looks like its happening to america now. Whatever they think and do seems to be what goes. Get your facts and statistics right, consider the rest of the world before you come up with more stuff like this.”

Why do I come across so many raving diatribes on this subject? Nobody is disputing that soccer is the most popular sport in the world. After seeing all these pointless debates on whether soccer or football is the “correct” word, I am convinced that people will argue just about anything along nationalist boundaries. Believe or not, they’re both correct, so there’s no reason to get bent out of shape because somebody uses a different word than you.

I cannot verify the article’s claim that baseball is the world’s most studied sport, but I certainly wouldn’t count it out. There has been pretty massive research done not only on the physics of the game, but also involving statistical analysis. The last several years, baseball has really innovated the use of extensive advanced statistics, and that has started to spread to other sports including soccer as seen below.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/osm/story/0,,2002909,00.html

It is also in baseball where fantasy sports originated and various medical procedures have been pioneered.

For the record, there is such a thing as a rising fast ball. It only takes getting hit by one to make a beleiver out of one.

I think a physicist ought to have time to his or her diversions, just like everyone else. After all, perhaps those physicists are not fond of gardening or cooking, and need something to do in the evenings. During the day they cannot because they are far too busy trying to find that Theory of Everything.”

Actually, there is funding for studying things like this from the sporting goods industry. My college’s aerospace engineering department had a contract to study aluminum baseball and softball bats. They built a gun to fire balls at bats and developed ways to study the impacts.

As for the point the world revolves around, that would generally be the point where the speaker is standing. To each person (in a broad, general sense) the world revolves around where they live. The exceptions are the people who are trying to accomplish things in parts of the world where they are not present. In India, I imagine the world halfway revolves around India, and halfway around the U.S., considering how many phone tech and customer support centers have been outsourced there… they are on the phone with the U.S. for a huge part of their waking hours (the people working those jobs there, not all people in India).

Likewise, there are parts of China where the world revolves around Japan.

To be quite honest, there is very little in your original post that can be considered intelligent and definately nothing original. Your whole post was nothing but anti-ameriacn sentiment peppered with the occasional ignorant statement. Your post was practically begging an American to say something. I wasn’t being harsh I was simply answering.

Stick to the topic? Intelligent conversation? Your post was nothing but self righteous ramblings about how dumb Americans are. I thought that I WAS sticking to the topic. Carcer made a good point but I would have responded reguardless. Just reading over your first post makes my blood boil with how blindly ignorant everything you said was. There was not a single sentence in that paragraph of dejecta you call a post that isn’t some how condesending. Get YOUR facts and get YOUR statistics right before you’re made to look as foolish as you seem again.

There, my rant is complete and I am past your stupidity. Now we can move on…

Oh and for the record, you would not want to have this conversation with me. If your opinions are even as half concocted as your post, I’d tear you to shreds.

The First World War was considered a world-war because it involved soldiers from all over the world. The British Empire alone involved troops from Australia, Canada, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan,Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa, England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participants_in_World_War_I

That looks to me like a global involvement. The fighting wasn’t just in Europe either. Northern Africa and the Middle East had battles fought in them (the Gallipoli campaign being an example) and there were battles fought in the colonies of the European countries. At least do some research before you make comments like this. It only makes you a hypocrite for accusing Americans of being ignorant to world events.

Wouldn’t it be the coolest if this results in Everyman having a real shot at making the Show?