Ireland beats England...in baseball

Earlier this year on blogging.la, I posted about The Emerald Diamond, a movie about baseball in Ireland. I didn’t have a chance to see the film, though I’m hoping to soon.

A couple of days ago, the related blog The Irish Baseball Season 2006 posted the great news that they had beat England in a 3-game “friendly” series — for those unfamiliar with the teams, this is definitely an Underdog Wins story.

So what next for Team Ireland? Well, tonight, there is a high possibility there might be one or two beers downed in celebration of a truly excellent achievement, tomorrow we travel to Belgium, Monday we work hard on the training ground and Tuesday we have game one of the 2006 European Championships against Slovakia.

For tonight though, we celebrate beating the UK, in London, in front of a hostile crowd, against the best the Uk could throw at us, 2 games to 1, with passion and in style, like only Ireland can.