Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Looking into Classic’s future, MLB sees growth
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posted on March 20, 2013 at 02:48 PM by Gamingboy to international, wbc, world baseball classic
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Read More...The tournament drew a record 781,429 fans since it began in Asia on March 2, played to huge international television audiences, and Brosnan said it will certainly be back for its fourth running in 2017.
“The Commissioner is 1,000-percent committed,” Brosnan said.
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Mainstream baseball countries Mexico, Canada, Venezuela and Korea were all knocked out in the first round, but only Mexico will have to qualify for the tournament in 2017.In that matter, Brosnan promised more teams and more ...
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1. Morty Causa posted on March 14, 2012 at 06:19 PM # hit 0 | hit 0Wait, what? Gunman is singular, right? Is Mexico like the movies, where cops just indiscriminately shoot at crowds as the bad guy storms away?
That's probably a dumb question.
I guess it's a plurality mixup, even such a badly written story as this would probably have noted if the police had mowed down civilians.
Mexican gunman is a long way down on my list of dream jobs.
The life insurance premium would be a #####.
They borrowed an idea from soccer and have a shootout.
See, I didn't think that at first, knowing that Mexican journalists are smarter than that. But then I saw the piece was from the New York Daily News, so you're probably right.
Rim shot!
You think he was kidding, they really did borrow the idea from soccer.
I presumed that as well from the title, since I'm reasonably certain more than one player ran for cover.
DB
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Did you not see the picture at the top? Clearly only one player actually ran. The rest decided running was for pussies, and went into an impromptu breakdance routine!
All my life, I have been waiting to see a catcher do the Worm.
Its not that they are smarter, but if you can't cover a shooting well, you have no business in the Mexican news.
Too bad Soria wasn't here.
A rare occurrence, since that's the name of the local drug lord who considers it a mocking act punishable by running shootouts.
He's not even flinching! And the old woman next to him seems to be leisurely strolling for cover.
I guess they're used to it, but they kind of make the players look like wusses.
Haha, if Kenny Powers was still pithcing in Mexico this season I'd say this was a scene for the show.
So this was nowhere near Mexico City. Painting with a pretty broad brush there. I heard a politician was shot in Arizona last year. We'd better move spring training out of Phoenix.
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