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. Neutral Milk Dotel (Dan Lee) posted on March 06, 2012 at 07:43 AM # hit 0 | hit 0My inner Beavis is currently in the midst of a laughing fit.
There is nothing to do there but drink and hike the same mountain over and over so I can see why you might resort to doing something real stupid if your job wasn't in session.
Issuing a first inning walk is the kind of thing that a crooked bookie could sell to a player as being highly unlikely to have any impact on the result, and therefore qualifying as "not really throwing a game" (the cricket cases have focused on the rough equivalent of wild pitches with no men on base).
If you can find enough people who are stupid enough to bet on such a thing (and they are reportedly legion in Asia), it's a genuinely difficult problem to address.
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