If you squint you can see Cubs/White Sox here too. Cubs fans being the rich, white North Shore types and Sox fans being the working-class South Side Irish or Black/Hispanic. Obviously, there's tons of exceptions and reality is far far far more nuanced, but who ever lets reality get in the way of a narrative?
Into the Cincoverse - The Cinco de Mayo EU Thread and Wikibox Repository
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It retains the name European Cup, at least; I can flesh out some details there too!
This easter egg has had me thinking about East and Southeastern Asia for the past few days. Considering the lack of a pacific theatre of WW2 ITTL, will we perhaps see a slightly more authoritarian Japan with lèse-majesté laws like those of OTL Thailand?
Probably more than slightly. I think Thailand is a good comparison.
Nope.
I’ve got a Hawaii update for 1920 in docket, but I can do something in this EU thread for it too
Maybe Alaska too, I sometimes forget that Alaska is part of Cincoverse America ( I assume it's like TL 191)
And something about Germany if possible,that‘d be great.
And maybe some tv shows from the Cincoverse.
Perhaps something like “The Sopranos but in Sequoyah” or my sitcom suggestion that I learned from @traveller76 that is a lot like some Indian sitcom, that the Ottoman state definitely did not heavily supported as a good example of cohabitation between different ethnic groups in the Empire.
Refresh me it’s been a minute since read (half of) TL191
I’ve got a rough idea of what I could do, there’s some moving parts I still want to figure out there.
Same goes for Europe writ large. There’s a reason so many of my posts are about Canada lol
Ah yes I’d forgotten this one in particular
2024 PRA Postseason Preview - First Weekend
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It is the first weekend of May, which means it is now the PRA postseason. As such, it is time to preview the Championship Finals Playoff, the Championship Play-In, and Sunday night's US Open Cup Final.
US Open Cup Final - Buffalo Bison v. Chicago Bears
For the first time since 2013, no Playoff team is appearing in the Open Cup Final, making this year's edition much more than just a potential landmine game for a team needing to heal up before the meat of May. Bears, having narrowly missed the sixth position, now get a chance at silverware as they face off against Buffalo, the first Second Division club to appear in the Open Final since 2011. We'd rather be Bears in this matchup - the Bison didn't make it into the Play-In, after all, and Bears looked sound all throughout the fall - as the winningest club in PRA history adds yet another Open Cup to their trophy case.
Play-In
Friday night also sees the first Play-In game, with Chargers RFC - who took the 14th position in the table for the second consecutive year - will hope that Pete Carroll, brought onboard in the winter break, can keep them up out of the Second Division through the Play-In once again. They will face off in the first Play-In match against fourth-placed Second Division Los Angeles Aztecs, making a short trip down the highway; while we'd probably rather be Chargers after they escaped the guaranteed drop, Aztecs are no slouch.
Saturday afternoon's matchup will be a very different affair, as Seattle heads out east to Boston in a rematch of the 2015 Championship Final. Redskins narrowly evaded the permanent drop and bid adieu thus to Green Bay, but if we're being honest, we'd probably rather be Seattle here. The Redskins look tired, old, and gassed, and a thirty-year run in the top division for a storied club looks to be drawing to a (hopefully for them, brief) end; Seattle supporters, meanwhile, will be ecstatic at a chance to face off against West Coast rivals Chargers the following weekend for a chance to return to the first flight after the humiliation of "First to Worst" two years ago.
US Open Cup Final - Buffalo Bison v. Chicago Bears
For the first time since 2013, no Playoff team is appearing in the Open Cup Final, making this year's edition much more than just a potential landmine game for a team needing to heal up before the meat of May. Bears, having narrowly missed the sixth position, now get a chance at silverware as they face off against Buffalo, the first Second Division club to appear in the Open Final since 2011. We'd rather be Bears in this matchup - the Bison didn't make it into the Play-In, after all, and Bears looked sound all throughout the fall - as the winningest club in PRA history adds yet another Open Cup to their trophy case.
Play-In
Friday night also sees the first Play-In game, with Chargers RFC - who took the 14th position in the table for the second consecutive year - will hope that Pete Carroll, brought onboard in the winter break, can keep them up out of the Second Division through the Play-In once again. They will face off in the first Play-In match against fourth-placed Second Division Los Angeles Aztecs, making a short trip down the highway; while we'd probably rather be Chargers after they escaped the guaranteed drop, Aztecs are no slouch.
Saturday afternoon's matchup will be a very different affair, as Seattle heads out east to Boston in a rematch of the 2015 Championship Final. Redskins narrowly evaded the permanent drop and bid adieu thus to Green Bay, but if we're being honest, we'd probably rather be Seattle here. The Redskins look tired, old, and gassed, and a thirty-year run in the top division for a storied club looks to be drawing to a (hopefully for them, brief) end; Seattle supporters, meanwhile, will be ecstatic at a chance to face off against West Coast rivals Chargers the following weekend for a chance to return to the first flight after the humiliation of "First to Worst" two years ago.
I don't believe I tipped my hand one way or another on it falling or not falling, just that 1957 can be considered the end of an era that the book is covering - for whatever reason.
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(Although given what we've talked about there's a very real chance that this timeline's version of me is a Chicago Cardinals fan - the Bears feel like the Liberal team in Chicago.)
True, though the sport as a whole is (or was at one point) a hair more Lib coded. Sort of like how the vast, vast majority of NBA fans are Democrats, disproportionately, compared to say the NFL