More World Baseball Clasic....
There's something about this trainwreck that has me interested. I mean it's clear that this gimick is much more Goodwill Games than the Olympics (not that the Olympics are anything to be proud of).
I was just looking at the brackets and I love how it's set up. For the US to get to the finals it has to get past Mexico, Canada and South Africa. The Mexican squad isn't as good as you might think (you can see the rosters here. It's a list of players have agreed to play if selected not who are going to play. Hard to imagine Mexico playing without Karim Garcia!). Canada? Again, some good players but there's not depth. Not even enough for a 3 game series. Oh, I almost forgot South Africa. Thier roster isn't on the website but I think we can take them.
Why not just be honest and make this a US, Dominican Republic, Japan, S. Korea thing? Those are the only teams with any chance to win. Puerto Rico too I guess but since it's a part of the US I don't think they should have thier own team. Yes, some of the other countries have great, great players but not whole teams worth.
One thing I loathe...Mike Piazza is playing for Italy! WTF? It's nice that it's where his family comes from but dude was born and raised in Pennsylvania. I guess he was worried that he wouldn't make the US team or something? And A-Rod...he says he won't play because he can't choose between the Dominican Republic and the US. Again, heritage is nice but Alex, you were born in NY and grew up in Miami. Have a little partiotism.
I was just looking at the brackets and I love how it's set up. For the US to get to the finals it has to get past Mexico, Canada and South Africa. The Mexican squad isn't as good as you might think (you can see the rosters here. It's a list of players have agreed to play if selected not who are going to play. Hard to imagine Mexico playing without Karim Garcia!). Canada? Again, some good players but there's not depth. Not even enough for a 3 game series. Oh, I almost forgot South Africa. Thier roster isn't on the website but I think we can take them.
Why not just be honest and make this a US, Dominican Republic, Japan, S. Korea thing? Those are the only teams with any chance to win. Puerto Rico too I guess but since it's a part of the US I don't think they should have thier own team. Yes, some of the other countries have great, great players but not whole teams worth.
One thing I loathe...Mike Piazza is playing for Italy! WTF? It's nice that it's where his family comes from but dude was born and raised in Pennsylvania. I guess he was worried that he wouldn't make the US team or something? And A-Rod...he says he won't play because he can't choose between the Dominican Republic and the US. Again, heritage is nice but Alex, you were born in NY and grew up in Miami. Have a little partiotism.
posted by Ferris at 5:55 PM
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