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2 months ago

LOL. Curt Smith is awesome.
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swathorne said...
What the fuck is that? Are they going to start a Team Ireland for all the Americans with Irish last names? A Team Poland stocked with Dundalk natives? Italy has Brian Sweeney playing for them....with a name like that he should be Captaining Ireland with Ryan Flaherty,

Pretty sure if Israel had qualified guys like Ryan Braun and Kevin Youkilis said they would play for them.
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2 months ago

There's a 7'1" guy pitching for the Dutch, bottom 9th up 6-2.
I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It's all in the game though, right?
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swathorne said...
What the fuck is that? Are they going to start a Team Ireland for all the Americans with Irish last names? A Team Poland stocked with Dundalk natives? Italy has Brian Sweeney playing for them....with a name like that he should be Captaining Ireland with Ryan Flaherty,

Given the lack of baseball in Europe they'd have a tough time filling out a 16 team bracket if they only allowed Italian citizens to play. Hopefully in 8-12 years the roster will start being filled out with more and more players who were born and grew up in Italy.
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2 months ago

We need someone in here like ftn in O's threads with starting line-ups, tweets, etc... It's game day. Someone be that person for this thread re: USA.
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2 months ago

Taiwan and Japan going to extras.
In related news, I have no legal way of streaming the games, even as a subscriber to MLB.TV, because I have Comcast. Way to build the tournament, butthats.
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Lineupes haven't been posted but tonight's starters are R.A. Dickey vs. Yovani Gallardo. Mexico is facing elimination.
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Japan and the Netherlands through to the winners' bracket.
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jsh said...
Given the lack of baseball in Europe they'd have a tough time filling out a 16 team bracket if they only allowed Italian citizens to play. Hopefully in 8-12 years the roster will start being filled out with more and more players who were born and grew up in Italy.

Italy and the Netherlands have semi-legit national leagues and some professional players, Holland more than Italy but Italy did win the 2012 European Baseball championship with mostly native Italian players. Germany has started to produce some minor league players and has a academy for baseball. Outside of that baseball is pretty non-existent in Europe but Italy could probably fill out a decent team with Italian born players but probably not to compete at this level.
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As someone who enjoyed the tournament in past years I have forgotten about this. MLB has completely buried it
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jkrterp said...
As someone who enjoyed the tournament in past years I have forgotten about this. MLB has completely buried it

Seriously? Have you not followed baseball at all in the last month or not tuned in to MLBN?
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2 months ago

March is a tough time to have this because of college hoops, but there really isn't another time it could be held.
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2 months ago

i have zippy confidence in dickey starting tonight
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jkrterp said...
As someone who enjoyed the tournament in past years I have forgotten about this. MLB has completely buried it

It's pretty much all MLBN is talking about now. I'm not sure how you can make that claim.
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2 months ago

Yeah, not to pile on but it's been pretty hard to miss WBC stuff. Anyhow, was skeptical but just having legit baseball to watch is great. Haven't really been following but I guess Mexico assumed they could beat Italy with legit ass pitcher Rodrigo Lopez and saved Gallardo for us?
I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It's all in the game though, right?
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Omar Little said...
Yeah, not to pile on but it's been pretty hard to miss WBC stuff. Anyhow, was skeptical but just having legit baseball to watch is great. Haven't really been following but I guess Mexico assumed they could beat Italy with legit ass pitcher Rodrigo Lopez and saved Gallardo for us?

I would think so although strategy wise I wonder if it would've been smarter to punt the game against the US and go all out against Italy and Canada.
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Is this game on TV? Also, where is it being played?
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strOterp said...
Is this game on TV? Also, where is it being played?

MLBN. Pool D (US/Canada/Italy/Mexico) is playing in Arizona and pool C (Venezuela/D.R./Puerto Rico/Spain) is playing in San Juan.
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2 months ago

Is Italy really going to advance? That's absurd.
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2 months ago

"Mine eyes have seen the glory" the Italian Jack Edwards right now after that 4 run inning.
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chris colabello is a god, whoever the hell he is
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2 months ago

Pretty sure this rule applies to the olympics too.
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2 months ago

Italy mercy rules Canada, all but guaranteeing them a spot in the next round.

This post was edited by jsh on 3/8/2013 at 4:35 PM
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Not that it will matter, but I don't understand how you can have a mercy rule when one of the tiebreakers is run differential.
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Where would Italy have ranked out of the 16 teams? 12th?
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