Americans grow up with baseball and even as the death of the sport has been foretold for decades, there’s work to do to grow the sport internationally.
The National Football League stages regular season games in London. The National Basketball Association has played regular season games in London, China and Mexico.
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has exported games to Europe and Asia.
Major League Baseball has experimented with this, as well, with the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks opening the 2014 season in Australia.
There have been openers in Japan, as well, and unlike the NBA, MLB was actually able to play games in Mexico without the stadium filling with black smoke.
But Ireland might be a tough sell for baseball, if this video is any indication:
The men were a bit baffled by some of the acronyms (I’ll be honest—I was looking up RISP for quite a while before committing it to memory) and the various numbers and doodads on the television screen were quite confusing as well.
On the other hand, if you were to plop some American guys in front of the flat screen to watch this, we’d probably be confused, too … intrigued, but confused.
For the record, the sport is hurling—lots of running, checking and swinging of big sticks. What could go wrong?
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