JonStephen Posted March 15 Report Share Posted March 15 its also a very short tournament and anything can happen on any given day. on any given day the devil rays can beat the yankees, but at the end of the season, they end up 50 games behind.thats why baseball is a complex game and thats why there are 7 game series' at the end of the seasongawd i love baseball....if it just werent for the money grubbing players union Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonStephen Posted March 15 Report Share Posted March 15 agreedserious question, whats your team? tigers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicman Posted March 15 Report Share Posted March 15 thats why baseball is a complex game and thats why there are 7 game series' at the end of the seasongawd i love baseball....if it just werent for the money grubbing players unionplus, how long have the koreans and japanese been in training together? you cant throw a team together 2 days before a competition and expect everything to go smoothly - and that might explain a lot of the inconsistency in PR, US, DR and Venezuela. Pitching, hit and run, fielding, running the bases - it all takes time for players to get used to playing together. I wouldn't be surprised if PR get eliminated today and the US tommorow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonStephen Posted March 15 Report Share Posted March 15 plus, how long have the koreans and japanese been in training together? you cant throw a team together 2 days before a competition and expect everything to go smoothly - and that might explain a lot of the inconsistency in PR, US, DR and Venezuela. Pitching, hit and run, fielding, running the bases - it all takes time for players to get used to playing together. I wouldn't be surprised if PR get eliminated today and the US tommorow.seriously....that'd be something if korea or japan acutally won it.....or at least it'd send a strong message Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wallflour Posted March 15 Author Report Share Posted March 15 if Japan wins, USA can still advance if Japan scores 8 or more runs, but that will be a tall order against a Korea pitching staff that has a 1.40 ERA for the tournamentI don't know about Korea, but Japan started its spring training on Feb 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonStephen Posted March 15 Report Share Posted March 15 if Japan wins, USA can still advance if Japan scores 8 or more runs, but that will be a tall order against a Korea pitching staff that has a 1.40 ERA for the tournamentI don't know about Korea, but Japan started its spring training on Feb 1here's the thing about Japan......their team is comprised of players mostly from the Japanese league which is the top league in the world outside of MLB. Korea is a tough team thoughanother thing thats gotta be taken into consideration.....those asian teams just go for the win instead of racking up the score so if they are up by five or so runs late in the game its a good bet the bench warmers are coming out to seal it up.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wallflour Posted March 16 Author Report Share Posted March 16 Cuba advances to the semis with a 4-3 win over Puerto Rico, avenging their loss in Round 1Seemed like an exciting game, from what I followed online Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wallflour Posted March 16 Author Report Share Posted March 16 Just like in the 2002 soccer World Cup, Korea bails out USA, with a 2-1 win over JapanNow USA has to do its business and beat Mexico Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolahotass Posted March 16 Report Share Posted March 16 Thank you Korea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wallflour Posted March 17 Author Report Share Posted March 17 USA doesn't get it done, and loses to Mexico, 2-1They're eliminated by the narrowest of marginsJapan moves on instead, and must be very thankful of the Mexicans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
majinbuu Posted March 17 Report Share Posted March 17 that no home run call was terrible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolahotass Posted March 17 Report Share Posted March 17 booooo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghhhhhost Posted March 17 Report Share Posted March 17 lets Go Cuba!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vicman Posted March 17 Report Share Posted March 17 mexico got eliminated when they scored their first run - they could have gotten to the semi's if they would've won the game 1-0 in 13 innings. wtf?!?btw, the US could've qualified for the semi's even by loosing 2-1 yesterday . . . .if they would have been the "home" team.these tie-breakers are whack! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaysersoze Posted March 18 Report Share Posted March 18 ..... for the next wbc, they should do a better job of hiring/assigning neutral umps.....some of the calls that went for the US were blatant robbery.....disgraceful..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wallflour Posted March 18 Author Report Share Posted March 18 Cuba beats DR, 3-1 for its second revenge win, and advances to the final Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghhhhhost Posted March 19 Report Share Posted March 19 lets Go Cuba!!!!!!!!!!!!BUMP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wallflour Posted March 19 Author Report Share Posted March 19 third time a charm for Japan, as they beat Korea, 6-0 to advance to the finalByung Hyun Kim gave up a big home run that broke the scoreless tie and probably brought back memories of the 2001 World Series Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolahotass Posted March 19 Report Share Posted March 19 JAPAN vs. CUBA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wallflour Posted March 21 Author Report Share Posted March 21 Otsuka strikes out Gourriel for the final out, as Japan beats Cuba, 10-6 to win the WBCIt was a pretty exciting game until Japan blew it open in the top of the 9th Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calebdead Posted March 22 Report Share Posted March 22 It was a pretty exciting gameSike.The whole WBC was fucking boring. Give me a fucking break. Start the season already. I'm getting sick of reading about Larry Brown and Marbury. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolahotass Posted March 22 Report Share Posted March 22 I'm getting sick of reading about Larry Brown and Marbury.i'll see them both at MSG on friday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomembername Posted March 22 Report Share Posted March 22 a date with the angry, old black man? tough tickets for him to get...wonder how he managed to score those Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pookie23 Posted March 22 Report Share Posted March 22 a date with the angry, old black man? tough tickets for him to get...wonder how he managed to score those~ZINGER!!!~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lolahotass Posted March 22 Report Share Posted March 22 a date with the angry, old black man? tough tickets for him to get...wonder how he managed to score thosedude, he's got the hook ups when his homeslice from south florida is in town Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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