With the announcement of the World Baseball Classic rosters, MLB fans everyone collectively begin to hold their breath. the WBC, ostensibly, serves to spread the appeal of baseball more globally in a format as close to soccer as they can make it without making it unwatchable. So the best baseball players in the world will represent their respective countries in a tournament to decide the answer to an age old question: Are the best baseball players those that learned to play with aluminum bats and overpriced tee ball gloves, or with balled up socks and broken fence posts?
The best part of the Classic, though, is the injury roulette that every team plays.
Its sounds unfair and irresponsible for players to compete in exhibition games when their respective teams pay millions of dollars for their services, but they're fighting for their countries! Eat that, NFL, we have dozens of Pat Tillmans! Oh, the heroism. It is fair though, when one thinks about it. The more good players a team has, the better chance they have that they could lose money and games because of an injury during an exhibition game. So, sure, your team has seven future hall of famers. That's one hell of a treat. It's only right, by my estimation, that you should have more to worry about. It's the only situation where fans of the Baltimore Nick Markakises have an advantage.
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Now we all just have to hope and pray that the US gets to play the Dominican Republic. I can't wait to hear about A-Rod vs. Jeter. No other teams have teammates playing against each other. ESPN wouldn't allow them to cheapen this great story of friendship and unity.
ReplyDeleteWorld Baseball Classic. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
ReplyDeleteAll that is, is something to tie me over until the real baseball season begins.
Several issues that I would like to address about it.
1. Alex Rodriguez should be playing for the American team. Him playing for the Dominicans would be like Tom Cangelosi playing for the Italians.
2. Owners everywhere should not be pleased with their players playing in this piece of garbage tournament before their bodies are ready to endure a full major league season. It's a severe injury risk.
3. Can we get Kosuke Fukudome to get hit by a line drive as he's running to second base or perhaps hit by a vehicle on his way to the game? Please, God, help me out this one time. PLEASE? OH, THE HUMANITY!