By Jon - 2-6-06
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**Online Host**  You have entered the "What If ESPN Were Around In 1943" chatroom.  
EXLXLXLXLPN: Here we are, at World Series XL!  This is certain to be an XL-sized event!
EXLXLXLXLPN: "XL", as you may or may not know, is a common abbreviation for "Extra Large"!  
EXLXLXLXLPN:  In other news, XLXLXLXLXLXLXLXLXLXLXLXLXLXLXLXL
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TheMusialSuspects:  What?  That doesn't make any sense.  You're creating an entire theme for this World Series from a word play.  How is this necessarily an extra large sports championship series?
EXLXLXLXLPN:  Why, we'll show you!  You there!  Come here!  What makes this World Series especially "X.L." (by that I mean "Extra Large")?
MyKleinOfGuy:  I have no clue.   My last name means "small" in German, which I guess might count for some points if it's opposite day.
EXLXLXLXLPN:  Oh.  Well, uh, you there!  What makes this particular series of games large to an extraneous degree?
tiny_bonham_carter:  I don't know, but way to interview the guy whose first name is Tiny.
tiny_bonham_carter:  Seriously, what the fuck is wrong with you people?  I know know you're proud of it, but there comes a time at which you just have to make yourself stop indulging yourself at the expense of the sanity of others.  Don't say "XL" in a context other than "the number 40" ever again.
EXLXLXLXLPN:  aw weaksauce
tiny_bonham_carter:  Don't say that either.
EXLXLXLXLPN:  aw man

All right, we've
now got 23 hours and 14 minutes' worth per day to fill.
EXLXLXLXLPN: Hey, in the year 1943 do you guys have handsomely-dressed women playing 9-ball to a standing crowd of 75 that applauds politely, or is that technology not yet in place?
TheMusialSuspects: Look, maybe you don't belong in the year 1943. 
EXLXLXLXLPN: I guess you're right.  The 2006 World Series will give us so much better material anyway.
EXLXLXLXLPN: CIII looks kind of like a gun bullet!