Ohh, I just realized something! Sports history! Ohh, we could have so much fun here!
1903: Boston wins the first of its hundred consecutive world series.
What? Why're you looking at me like that?
Anyway, teams move to different places, get different names, different players get traded (Babe Ruth comes to mind, lets send him to Chicago), etc. But, more importanty, so much of sports is randomness. We'll obviously be dealing with different weather and such, due to the butterfly effect, which will change
every game played after a year or two. However, some stuff could still be in the cards:
- Black Sox Scandal, an analogue, or lack thereof. If not present, baseball might be integrated earlier, as it prompted the creation of a commisioner for baseball, the first of which, Landis, opposed integretion.
- for my own personal tastes, when Fenway Park is built (as I very much want it to be), the old Huntington Avenue Grounds are not torn down and are kept as an athletic field when Northeastern University buys it. I go to NU, and our outdoor athletic fields are pretty sketchy. Besides, the HAG is historic as the site of the first world series (assuming boston still is in it, or, for that matter, there is a world series)
- The New York Yankees remain the New York Highlanders. I don't like the sullying of the name yankee. New York's not part of New England, so they shouldn't be able to call themselves Yankees
- Ok, enough with baseball. Think of cricket. From what I understand, Britain and Australia have almost come to diplomatic blows over cricket games. This is AH gold- no, platinum.
On a related note (well not really, but bear with me), we could have some fun with pictures. For example, if we have porsche emigrating to the US, then we could take a picture of a panzer, and say its a US tank (lets hope we can avoid the swastika or iron cross).
