Saturday, March 23, 2013
Freeman was set to play for Canada
(www.torontosun.com)
But does he know the lyrics to ” Let’s Go to the Mall” or the “Beaver Song”?
“LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLA. - How many national teams can boast having a suitable replacement for an MVP winner?
Had Joey Votto’s knee prevented him from playing in this month’s World Baseball Classic, Atlanta Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman was ready and willing to wear the maple leaf.
“I told the players association to make sure they let the WBC know that both my parents were born in Canada,” Freeman ...
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Schoop, 2B
Bernadina, CF
Balentien, RF
Jones, An, DH
Bogaerts, X, 3B
Smith, C, 1B
Sams, LF
Ricardo, C
Pitching: Tom Stuifbergen
One of the interesting parts of the WBC is the chance to see fringe guys again. Wlad really hit well in Japan last year: .272/.386/.572 with 31 homers in only 106 games.
Het Nederlands honkbalteam heeft bij de World Baseball Classic voor een gigantische stunt gezorgd. Oranje versloeg in Taichung met ruime cijfers het sterker geachte Zuid-Korea: 5-0.
kinda likes the wonky double elimination pool deal from last time because I loathe tiebreakers. On the other hand, it was dumb that you didn't play everyone in the pool.
Taiwan advancing would be awesome.
The thing I don't like about double elimination is that sometimes the first game doesn't mean a whole lot, because most likely there will be a rematch. We saw this last WBC when Australia played Mexico. Australia won, but had to play Cuba, while Mexico won and got an essential freebie in South Africa. And so when Australia pulled off the upset, I just sort of shrugged and said "there will be a rematch anyway." Of course in round robin, you are often stuck with a situation where a team will have already been eliminated or clinched by the final game and has nothing to play for.
So, I think double elimination works better when the teams are fairly evenly matched, and worst when there is a clear best and clear worst team in the bracket. In that light, the round robin first round, double elimination second round makes pretty good sense.
Any team with Carlos Beltran and Yadier Molina remains dangerous.
I think more or less. A few guys were legitimately hurt and couldn't make it, I believe.
Judging from the footage from the WBC website stream... it is.
Nope, still Bert Blyleven. Sidney Ponson has seemingly disappeared from the face of the Earth, which seems physically impossible.
1. the MLB is in charge of the camera and everything, for some reason they choose not to use the CPBL camera crew but used another local channal's, which probably explain their spotty shooting.
2. the gun is off by a lot, the WBC gun is 5-6 mile slower than the stadium gun, so Wang was pitching around 88-90 while Yang and Kuo was more like 91-94.
3. there's some general grumble that the MLB crew is doing a hatch job in Taiwan this time around. there was also the silly warmup game scheduel where Taiwan played 0 games in the actual game stadium.
Agreed. Somebody really should try and, I dunno, get something together to do this on at least a small scale. Maybe revive the Royal Rooters or the Brooklyn Sym-Phony.
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