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Oh, the pitching matchups:
Andre Rienzo (Brazil) vs. Ismel Jimenez (Cuba)
Tom Stuifbergen (Netherlands) vs. Yao-Lin Wang (Taipei)
Xia Luo (China) vs. Kenta Maeda (Japan)
I'll probably stay up for the first two and then hit the sack... unlike Japan-Brazil, I doubt there is even the slightest chance of the PRC giving Japan a fight, especially after the Samurai got their wake-up call last night.
I think unless if they were going to have two games in Japan on day one (which would have led to even more overlaps and tape delays), there was going to have to be a team that this would happen to.
It'll be interesting to see how the attendance for the non-Japanese games will be in Tokyo. I mean, in Asia it seems like the attendance plummets without the "home" team far more than even in North America.
I mean, look at it:
Taipei-Australia: 20K+ (sellout)
Japan-Brazil: 28K+ (close to sellout)
Netherlands-Korea: 1K+ (would sellout a DIII ballpark)
I think Japan will have more in the non home-team games than Taichung will. In the '09 WBC, for example, the games without Japan had the crowds in the 12K+ range. Pretty small, but not the essentially-empty stadium that Taiwan has had in both the qualifiers and Netherlands-Korea. Although it is a little hard to compare between the round robin of the 2013 WBC round 1 and double-elimination of WBC '09 and the qualifiers....
I feel as if, in the future, whether it might be wise if the WBC has something like "dynamic pricing". Have tickets for non-marquee games be a bit cheaper than games featuring either the home team or big-name teams.
One would think so based on what happened in the last tournament, although who knows, it's possible they might change the criteria, especially if Korea, say, goes 1-2 and is last only due to tiebreakers.
Arruebarruena sounds like a magic word.
Or, what #13 said.
Huh? What do you mean?
That Miami-Duke game was good.
Probably, though it's almost impossible that they don't win the qualifier round, Taiwan won without even giving up a single run in all 3 game. Baseball is unpredictable if the two teams are within a reasonable margin of ability, but not if they're in completely different class
Yeah, the difference between Taiwan and Thailand was far, far, greater than the amount between Panama and Brazil... obviously.
What are the ticket prices? Seems like there should be a few more people there. Looks like less than a Marlins game.
I have no idea, but I think they should be having dynamic pricing or something.
I'm considering going to bed if Cuba scores a few runs here. That error doesn't help my will to stay awake.
And Barry Larkin unleashing his inner LaRussa is also not very helpful.
Simmons, SS
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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