NYCPHP Meetup

[David Krings]

David Mintz wrote:
> Ah, not just in North America. Baseball is popular in Japan, Central 
> America, the Carribean, etc etc because people like it, because it's 
> /good/. One of those exports the US can feel proud of, unlike, e.g., 
> McDonald's.
> 

Well, maybe the overpaid, pillpopping, spitting players got their big bellies 
from McDonald's food? Being a foreign kid I find baseboll excruciatingly 
boring, but I guess that can be said about any event of the entertainment 
industry that borrows heavily from sports. Same with soccer in Germany, games 
are now played at noon just so that more pay TV channels in Asia will pay big 
bucks.
That said, there are semi-professional baseball leagues in Germany. See the 
current standings for the first league here:
http://www.baseball-softball.de/bundesliga/index.php?id=00000105
Nice to see that they have playdowns like a real sports league. Apparently, 
the Richrath Saints from my hometown are no longer playing. But we still got 
the Longhorns (http://www.langenfeld-longhorns.com/index.php?id=11) and the 
now independent Cheerleaders (http://www.cll-cheerleader.de/index.php) who are 
the new German Champions!
Also, the DEL (German Icehockey League) started today and there are plenty of 
US players (see here: http://www.del.org/). But me being a soccer guy I rather 
stay with my favorite club (http://www.borussia.de/de/home,2,0.html), which 
signed Michael Bradley, son of the coach of the US men's national soccer team. 
Borussia Mönchengladbach was also the club where Kasey Keller played several 
seasons.

OK, now what has that to do with a PHP mailing list? All these sites use PHP, 
which is probably an even more spectacular export than baseball.


Happy PHPing,

David