"Tom" wrote in message
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Alright Ed, next time someone offers you a raise, shoot for 3%,
cos that's better than 9...:-)

If they offer me 3% of $34,000, versus 9% of $4,000, as with the US versus
China, I certainly will take the 3% of $34,000. It's an old mathematician's
trick. d8-)


As for baseball, not into minority sports, although I
had heard that some team was having to import talent
from Japan?

Hey, baseball is an international sport, pard'. The Yankees have two
Japanese players, a Venezuelan manager (who played for them until last
year), two players from the Dominican Republic and one from Panama. They've
had two Cuban starting pitchers over the last couple of years. Boston has a
Korean closer, somebody (maybe Boston again?) has an Australian relief
pitcher. There's at least one Frenchman in the Major Leagues, several
Mexicans, and so on.

And there are a bunch of American players playing in Japan.


What the NYYC spent on winning the Cup in the court rooms over
the years would probably have been greater than the GDP of many
countries..:-)


FWIW, there isn't a yachtsman in the world who fully trusts the Kiwis after
that escapade. It may be the greatest example of poor sportsmanship in the
annals of international sport.

Ed Huntress