This is overdue, but let's tip our caps to the Japanese baseball team. With two major leaguers on its roster, the team won the inaugural WBC. Who would have thunk it? Not me. I would have picked the Dominican, the US, Venezuela, and Cuba to be better than Japan. They weren't.
It's a weird thing. We watched the Japanese celebrate their biggest victory on American territory since Pearl Harbor, but at least the damn commies didn't win it.
Japan now reigns as the king of the baseball world. As the English always said in situations like this one, "the king is dead, long live the king."
Friday, March 24, 2006
Credit where credit is due.
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Vinny,
I second your congrats to the Japanese team. I was sort of rooting for them ever since they got absolutely screwed by the umps in the 8th inning of the game against the Americans.
On the other hand, I can't get too depressed about the outcome of Bud's Folly. The WBC was a farce -- it isn't like the Nippon Ham Fighters won the World Series.
The fact that the Winning team only had a winning record in the WBC because it made the finals shows you how dumb the tournament format is for a sport like baseball. There's a reason they play 162 games, and there's a reason that the ALCS and World Series is best of seven. It's just how baseball works.
The guys running MLB don't care about things like the integrity of their sport, and when you get right down to it, that's the biggest problem with the World Baseball Classic.
But then again, what'd you expect from the people who gave us a tie in the All Star Game?
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