Top Ten Reasons To Watch The World Baseball Classic

#10 - To see if Jimmy Rollins and David Wright get into a fist fight after one calls the other off on a pop up behind 3B

#1 was awesome.

Just not sure I am enjoying this "classic".

IMO, glorified spring training games, how can outcomes really be determined when half these guys have a whole season of real important stuff in front of them? Pitchers really not in true form until later in season.

Good to watch some baseball on TV though....

#6 and #2 were great...

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Today's Canada/USA game was great! IMO

It is fun watching all the kids who we saw as young high school players now on this big stage. Over 70 on the combined WBC rosters.

Today's game had Votto, Davidson, Leroux, Weglarz, Lawrie for Canada and Wright, Braun, McCann, Thornton, Hanrahan, Howell, Putz for USA.

Joey Votto almost single handedly beat USA, 4 for 5 HR, double two RBI. Brian McCann hit a 2 run HR for USA and drove in another run with a sac fly. 6-5 USA win.

I do admit that the games got better as the day went on.

The WBC is a waste.

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The WBC is a waste.

I love it.
If you can't get fired up about National pride,
And Baseball?

EH

Reason 11

No Viagra commercials- they have been replaced with Rosetta Stone Learn a Language ads!

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Originally posted by theEH:

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The WBC is a waste.

I love it.
If you can't get fired up about National pride,
And Baseball?

EH

National pride worked years ago when U.S. ballplayers played for their country and foreign players played for their own.


Arod is a U.S born player and plays for the Dominican.

You're never gonna duplicate the national pride that was drawn from the US-USSR hockey game.

The WBC is a meaningless exhibition. No more no less.

As for the WBC, how can anybody get excited over games that don't count and mean less than spring training. Even spring training games, you got minor leaguers fighting for spots on rosters for when the games do count.

I agree with Zomby, they are exhibition games with players playing with whomever they want, almost.

Mike Piazza is the hitting coach for the Italian team for crying out loud. While it is his heritage, it is not his national team. Not too many players on ones national team need an interpreter. Same with ARod.

"Japan has one of them crazy robot shortstops"

I was rooting hard for Italy even though I'm not Italian.

re: Dominicans fall to Dutch

The port-city/coastal dutch-speakers, living in the 150km strip from Haarlem through Rotterdam, and (to a lesser degree) south to Antwerpen (Belgium)....can really play.

Tell the Japanese or the Koreans or the Cubans or the Venezuela
or Mexico it's meaningless.

Thats just an excuse why the US team did not win last time.

EH

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re: Dominicans fall to Dutch

Did he actually say "led off the match..." ???


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Did he actually say "led off the match..." ???

The Dutch are up 1 love
on the DR??

EH

'Jeter flips to Pedroia for the out, and the inning is over.' What more improbable thing to hear than that? It was worth watching tonight's game v. Venuzuela for that alone.

I'm enjoying it.

Watch out Australia just tied Mexico.

No (?) MLB players on the Dutch and they win?

Go figure that one out!

ive gota say they're a heck of a lot better than the awful spring training games that have no intensity and half the guys dont know how to track a flyball....
except for watching chinese tiape (spelling?) that was ugly

Aussie's up 10-7 over Mexico in the 6th

private joke for BobbleheadDoll:

The number one reason to watch the WBC --- No Blinky!!!



Umpires for 2009 World Baseball Classic announced

Number one reason to watch the World Baseball Classic.



Duh, it's March and baseball is on TV!!!!!!!

The Dutch have got a few guys from MLB and a number of MiLB players. Just no "names" other than Ponson...and he's interviewing. Lots from Aruba and the Antilles. Most play on professional Dutch clubs.

They've been impressive --- taking advantage against the DR, and hanging with PR (and look who all is on THAT roster!). Yeah, European baseball! (or, in this case, hooray honkbal!)

They certainly relaxed the national team rules for the WBC. In international play, you have to carry a passport of that country to qualify. Having an 'i' at the end of your name, for example, doesn't buy your way onto the Italian team....

WOW! WOW

#10. To watch the Netherlands beat the DR!!!!!

What an exciting game in extra innings. The little team that could

That was an awesome game.

Did someone say they didn't like watching this WBC stuff? Netherlands beats Dominican Republic twice! That is amazing and another reminder that anything can happen in a baseball game. Sorry, but this is a much, much bigger deal than spring training IMO.

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Sorry, but this is a much, much bigger deal than spring training IMO.

Yes it is a big deal, Every baseball fan should embrace this format of international baseball.

I love the underdogs.
Now go Australia beat the Cuban's.

EH