Who's Down With The WBC??

[sheetskout]

http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/ma ... 67377.html

I for one am super excited. Any predictions?

The Dominicans look to be a stacked team again.....

 

[KC37]

Yeah, you know me.

 

[thenumberonemetfan]

http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/majors/international-affairs/world-baseball-classic/2009/267377.html

I for one am super excited. Any predictions?

The Dominicans look to be a stacked team again.....

YES!!!
Im rooting for D.R. but will cheer for P.R. because any team with Endy Chavez and Carlos Beltran is a team I will root for.

 

[thefasterblade]

Yeah, you know me.

Perfect post.

 

[KC37]

Yeah, you know me.

Perfect post.

I'm glad someone else put the two together

 

[sheetskout]

Yeah, you know me.

Perfect post.

I have to say that at first, for like the initial 2.5 seconds, I was like "What a *******". Before it clicked.

Then I remembered Naughty By Nature. Agreed. Perfect Post.

 

[abncollectsautos]

im down, hope usa does better this time. great oppurtunity for players from around to the world to show off their talents

 

[sheetskout]

im down, hope usa does better this time. great oppurtunity for players from around to the world to show off their talents

True. Sorry for the rapidfire posts, but I am totally looking for the WBC to become a very prestigious event to win. I do think it'll need some decades of seasoning and history but it would be sweet if this were as big as the Olympics.

(Yes, I know they have baseball too).

I hope the media gets all over this....

 

[KC37]

im down, hope usa does better this time. great oppurtunity for players from around to the world to show off their talents

True. Sorry for the rapidfire posts, but I am totally looking for the WBC to become a very prestigious event to win. I do think it'll need some decades of seasoning and history but it would be sweet if this were as big as the Olympics.

(Yes, I know they have baseball too).

I hope the media gets all over this....

I continue to tell the story, but..
My dad and I got tickets to the first one, for the games in Orlando. We happened to be there that week, and got a strip of tickets for the week.
Game 1 was Venezuela vs. DR. Hands down, THE greatest game I've ever been to, in terms of atmosphere - and I was at the 86 World Series and the 99 All-Star Game. The fans were unreal. It was like the World Cup (which I also went to in 94), but since it's a smaller stadium, it was more concentrated. We had an absolute blast - so much so that we gave away the rest of the tickets, because we knew no other game that week was going to be that good; somehow Italy and Australia didn't strike us as being that intense.
If anyone has a chance to go, I highly recommend it.

 

[P_Manning 18]

Hopefully soon we see some stuff on the MLB Network. I know they will televise about 16 games of the WBC.

3 days til launch!!

 

[Autismic]

My wife bought the family 8 packages for all the games in Toronto..Sweet seats down the 3rd base line behind the dugout...8 rows up...can't wait. Gonna be a great chance to get some real nice auto's and pictures and maple syrup.

 

[sheetskout]

What's sort of discouraging is the stigma that maybe the Major League athletes involved aren't going all-out at the request of their teams. I don't want to believe this, but you have to think that the Yanks said at least SOMETHING to A-Rod voicing an injury concern.

Think of it, what if A-Rod broke his leg in Game 1 of the WBC?

Just another way money is taking over the game......

 

[Bob Loblaw]

Call me the grinch, but personally, I hate it. It takes so much away from spring training.

I don't care about other country's baseball, I care about MLB. And I worry about my players getting hurt.

 

[Pete14Rose]

I'm not a fan of the WBC at all.

 

[KC37]

Call me the grinch, but personally, I hate it. It takes so much away from spring training.

I don't care about other country's baseball, I care about MLB. And I worry about my players getting hurt.

Both are legit concerns. I think it could potentially hurt pitchers, too.

But seeing players play with more emotion than any MLB game, playoff or otherwise, is pretty cool.

 

[wmb1289]

i cant wait and im praying bernie plays for puerto rico

 

[Guest]

Yeah, you know me.

Who's down with O.P.P

 

[Bob Loblaw]

Call me the grinch, but personally, I hate it. It takes so much away from spring training.

I don't care about other country's baseball, I care about MLB. And I worry about my players getting hurt.

Both are legit concerns. I think it could potentially hurt pitchers, too.

But seeing players play with more emotion than any MLB game, playoff or otherwise, is pretty cool.

I find it difficult to believe that a Phillie would play harder and with more emotion for Team USA in the WBC, during spring training, than they did in Game 5 of the 2008 World Series.

PLayers dream of playing for a world championship, not to win a relatively meaningless international tournament.

 

[kentuckyderby]

Yeah, you know me.

Perfect post.

I have to say that at first, for like the initial 2.5 seconds, I was like "What a *******". Before it clicked.

Then I remembered Naughty By Nature. Agreed. Perfect Post.

Naughty by Nature not cause I hate 'cha

WBC how can I explain it? I take it frame by frame it...
W is World, B is baseball, the last c well, that's not so simple

 

[KC37]

[quote="Jeff N.":2248n5hq]Call me the grinch, but personally, I hate it. It takes so much away from spring training.

I don't care about other country's baseball, I care about MLB. And I worry about my players getting hurt.

Both are legit concerns. I think it could potentially hurt pitchers, too.

But seeing players play with more emotion than any MLB game, playoff or otherwise, is pretty cool.

I find it difficult to believe that a Phillie would play harder and with more emotion for Team USA in the WBC, during spring training, than they did in Game 5 of the 2008 World Series.

PLayers dream of playing for a world championship, not to win a relatively meaningless international tournament.[/quote:2248n5hq]

Americans? No.
The international teams? Absolutely. Again, the emotion I saw from the DR players and the Venezuelan players in person (I have no idea what the broadcast did or did not show) was greater than anything I'd seen them do in MLB. To wit, I've seen David Ortiz win 2 World Series here in Boston. I saw him hit a 450' bomb in a "meaningless" WBC game. He was more excited about the WBC home run.