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Don't know if anybody here cares about this. I never have so far and could imagine not watching a second of it this time around.

But it does have its ardent fans.

Baseball is back in the Olympics now BTW. It will be there in Tokyo 2020. Given that, I would have guessed the WBC would just evaporate - but maybe they were already too far along with the planning to cancel. Then again I don't even remember what an Olympic baseball tournament is like. Are they able to get the best of the best? Does MLB shut down for it? Maybe the WBC is better.

I don't know.



Here's what I know: I heard some chatter about Canada's team today, and there is good news and bad news.

The bad news is, Russ Martin and Michael Saunders will not be on the team. But the good news is: Eric Gagne and Ryan Dempster will be.

Excuse me, what I meant to say was, there is bad news and bad news.
 
The Netherlands made it to the semi-final last WBC. Their best pitcher was some guy who pitches in the Turkmenistan league.

No I made that up about Turkmenistan - but it's true about Netherlands. Their pitcher was some guy who never played in MLB.


I heard some chat about the Dominican Republic's roster. It's a frikkin' all-star team.
 
WBC has been great for the 10 years it's been around. The target audience is not shut ins. More of the have fun watching a high intensity international baseball tournament crowd kinda thing.

I'll be at Colombia v Estados Unidos.
 
The Venezuela/Mexico controversy explained:




WBC: Tiebreaker confusion for Mexico and Venezuela

Pool play was supposed to wrap up for the first round on Sunday, but we actually have a tiebreaker being played Monday with a hint of controversy.

Mexico 11, Venezuela 9

Mexico jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the second on this Esteban Quiroz three-run shot:
The lead would grow to 8-1 on a three-run Brandon Laird home run in the top of the fifth. Venezuelas loaded lineup would push Mexico, but the closest it would get was the final score, 11-9.
Of course, that was too many runs allowed by Mexico. By way of this result, Italy, Mexico and Venezuela all went 1-2 in the pool while Puerto Rico was 3-0. The three-way tiebreaker calls for the two teams with the lower runs allowed per defensive inning play a head-to-head tiebreaker game while the other is eliminated.
Venezuela allowed 1.11 runs per defensive inning while Mexico allowed 1.12 (Italy was much better). So Mexico is out while Venezuela will play Italy in a tiebreaker Monday night. Mexico allowed five runs in the ninth inning to Italy in a walk-off loss, but hadnt recorded an out in the inning, so the runs counted but the inning did not, which Mexico argued skewed the calculation and protested. WBC officials ruled that the rule was the rule.




The Italy v Venezuela tiebreaker is on RIGHT NOW


:italia:
 
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