2013 World Baseball Classic Thread
 

Yep, it is back!! WBC starts off today and goes through out March!

Pool A
Japan (The defending champion, shit loads of top NPB players)
China
Cuba (shit loads of great "amateur" players who haven't deported yet)
Brazil (good mixes of minor-level MLB and NPB roster)

Pool B
South Korea (The runner-up, also shit loads of top Korean league players)
Netherlands
Australia
Chinese Taipei

Pool C
Venezuela (Miguel Cabrera, Sandoval, Andrus, K-Rod, etc)
Puerto Rico (Beltran, Pagan, Molina Brothers, etc)
Dominican Republic (Cano, Reyes, Ramirez, Cruz, etc)
Spain

Pool D
USA (Still mediocre with Teixeira, Mauer, Braun, Stanton, Dickeys etc)
Mexico (Adrian Gonzalez leading)
Italy (Could be decent for a European team)
Canada (Votto, Lawrie, Morneau, Axford etc)

The tournament starts in the Far East first for Pool A and B in Japan and Taiwan respectively, then Pool C and D starts in the following week.

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baseball is turrible.

no athleticism, no excitement, no skills.

hit ball with bat, run. hope your ball went far enough to get you to a base.

EVERYONE ELSE, stand still and see if the ball goes to you.

play ball.

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Then I'm assuming you've earned a better career and you're making millions of dollars a year assuming you think baseball takes no skill?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBE8xjUvZso
yeah none of that took any athleticism at all... let alone throwing a ball at 100mph making it drop and curve all different types of directions. or hitting a ball that it traveling 100mph over 400'. just because your father never taught you how to throw or catch like a man doesn't mean baseball takes no athleticism or skill.

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I just hope that none of the Jays playing in this get hurt. I honestly don't give one damn as to who wins this. Bring on the regular season.

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Yeah, that is the worst part for Jays fans. Jays players are mostly with Dominican Republic, which is in a very competitive pool. Things might go sour if they had to push harder to qualify for the next round.

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I tried to look into tickets for the finals in SF, but they were a tad too expensive for me. Ken Rosenthal had a column about the WBC today addressing some of the detractors, I believe he said the finals were the 6th most watched television event worldwide during the last tournament.

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Hope the Dominicans don't come out lazy again:(

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Well, Taiwan is destroying Australia so far.

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US on lock to win with stanton.

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LINK

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Chien-Ming Wang pitched well last night, but again he pitched against Australia. I think he will find the way back to MLB again.

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Might go to a few games out in Scottsdale or Chase field, not sure yet.

Not a big baseball fan, but if the tickets are cheap, why the hell not.

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They're not showing this on ESPN? :facepalm

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LINK