Friday, November 21, 2008

World Baseball Classic

When they had the first World Baseball Classic, I was admittedly pretty excited. The thought of the United States playing for their country with actual major league players was sweet. Everyone had matchups galore planned in their heads, Arod hitting against Pedro, watching Vlad take his hacks against United States' best among many others. But then Andruw Jones is playing for the Netherlands, Mike Piazza was able to play for Italy if he wanted, and Arod could have played for the U.S. or the Dominican Republic, it became a circus. To add insult to injury theU.S. team was clearly flat, not being able to get to the finals with the best roster. This wasn't a case of an even playing field, the U.S. just didn't care enough and wasn't prepared in March to play some good sound baseball. Maybe things will change but at this point I don't really care about the next World Baseball Classic and I'm wondering who does, Cuba?

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