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His voice gives me headaches. His partner thinks that teams will pitchout with runners on second and third. It's an embarrassing shitshow.
I wish they could find some non-Americans to do the USA games.
Large doses of Mariano Rivera in situations like these ...
So instead, you leave a vastly inferior pitcher in the game who might make it harder for you to tie the game.
Rick Sutcliffe 3/10/13
Well, at least he had enough interest to attend the game. Seems like more players could have done that, too.
Chris Robinson impressed yet again.
I'd like to have held it against the Americans, but Zobrist, Mauer, Lucroy, Wright, and Braun are just so damn likable.
29 year old rookie with the Royals in 2012.
Or is it like a fake college that does nothing but prepare athletes, like some of those basketball prep schools (Oak Hill Academy).
I am a community college professor and haven't heard anyone in academia use the term ever. Lots o football recruiting sites though...
Monterrey or a similar Mexican City: Mexico, South Africa, UK, France (Mexico should walk)
Regensburg, Germany (probably the best stadium complex in Europe outside of Italy and Holland): Germany, Spain, Israel, Czech Republic (only the Czechs have no shot)
Panama City, Panama: Brazil, Panama, Colombia, Nicaragua (wide open pool)
Sydney, Australia: Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, Thailand (Australia should walk but New Zealand is improving quickly so could give them some trouble)
Watching it on ESPN America in the UK was even worse. No commercials at all, just the same NCAA highlights every single break in play. Surely something other than TCU beating Duke has happened in the past 6 months!
I'd like to say "agreed" but Regensburg is the only European stadium I've been to. I'd probably be forced to agree on the Czechs as well, but I will say they put up a valiant fight against the Germans last autumn. Their 3B and SS even pulled off the classic Manny Machado-fake-throw-to-first-get-the-runner-rounding-third trick. (Unless it was Germany nabbing them on that play...which now that I think about it, it probably was). Either way, for a few innings it looked like they had a chance!
They also had a catcher named Peter Cech (I think), who was hitting baseballs with a hockey goalie stick before the game.
not really sure what else you could want from a ballgame.
I believe they still have a secondary (maybe 3,000 seats) facility left over from the Barcelona games, but I don't think it's aged very well, if I remember correctly.
Pakistan and Argentina are each ranked higher than New Zealand and France in the current IBAF rankings, so presumably they would be in the qualifiers. I would go something like:
Perth pool: Australia, Colombia, Philippines, Thailand
Rio pool: Brazil, Panama, Argentina, Israel
Monterrey pool: Mexico, Nicaragua, Pakistan, South Africa
Regensburg pool: Spain, Germany, UK, Czech Republic
Some schools have retained the name "junior college", but that does seem to be going away outside of athletics, afaict.
Assuming that the relegation was done in a way similar to how the WBC relegation to qualifiers worked, the "C-level" qualifier would look something like this (taking the other countries from IBAF rankings):
France (no clue): France, Sweden, Belgium, Switzerland
Czech Republic (I do remember seeing the Czech Republic has a pretty good baseball facility that, while not WBC quality, could probably hold a qualifier): Czech Repubic, Croatia, Greece, Russia
Nicaragua (Estadio Dennis Martinez): Nicaragua, Argentina, Ecuador, Honduras
Thailand (no idea): Thailand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Indonesia
Some of those qualifiers would be very, very ugly, and it'd get even uglier after that in a hypothetical D-level:
Switzerland: Switzerland, Austria, Ireland, Finland
Russia: Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Bulgaria
Honduras: Honduras, Peru, Chile, Guatemala
Indonesia: Indonesia, Hong Kong, Afghanistan, Guam (if you want to meld Hong Kong with China, then add in Palau)
And it'd get even worse from there...
Finland: Finland, Romania, Hungary, Georgia
Bulgaria: Bulgaria, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia
Guatemala: Guatemala, Iran (doesn't really fit anywhere else), Fiji (like Iran), Bahamas
Guam: Guam (actually, whatever happened to Hattig?), Palau, New Caledonia, Nepal
...
Yeah, I wonder why MLB isn't pushing India, even though Rinku and Dinesh would be the only two guys...
At least one.
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