― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 March 2006 15:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 March 2006 17:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 9 March 2006 18:00 (eighteen years ago) link
Veritek's grand salami:mms://a1503.v108692.c10869.g.vm.akamaistream.net/7/1503/10869/v0001/mlb.download.akamai.com/10869/2006/open/wbc/topplays/030806_canusa_stern_iphr_350.wmv
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 March 2006 19:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:20 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 9 March 2006 23:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 10 March 2006 00:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 March 2006 00:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 March 2006 00:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 10 March 2006 01:24 (eighteen years ago) link
Assuming that USA crushes SA and ends up with a great run differential:
-- if Canada beats Mexico, they're in-- if Canada loses to Mexico by one run (and USA beats SA by more than four runs, which is almost certain) then Mexico/Canada comes down to batting average (Canada is well ahead going into tonight's game)-- if Canada loses to Mexico by more than one run (Mexico 6 Canada 0 in the third, ugh) then Canada is fucked unless SA can keep it close against Clemens and USA
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Friday, 10 March 2006 02:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 March 2006 03:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 March 2006 03:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 March 2006 14:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 March 2006 16:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 March 2006 17:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― maura (maura), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link
Q: What are the pitcher use limitations of the tournament?A: A pitcher must:
* Not pitch until a minimum of four days have passed since he last pitched, if he threw 50 or more pitches when he last pitched; * Not pitch until a minimum of one day has passed since he last pitched, if he threw 30 or more pitches when he last pitched; * Not pitch until a minimum of one day has passed since any second consecutive day on which the pitcher pitched; and * Throw no more than: o 65 pitches per game in Round One of the tournament; o 80 pitches per game in Round Two of the tournament; and o 95 pitches per game in the Semifinals and Final of the tournament.
Note: A pitcher may exceed the maximum per-game limits in order to complete a batter's plate appearance.
― maura (maura), Friday, 10 March 2006 20:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 10 March 2006 21:34 (eighteen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 12 March 2006 21:36 (eighteen years ago) link
http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060312&content_id=1346635&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 13 March 2006 02:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 13 March 2006 04:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 13 March 2006 04:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― Milhouse is not a meme. But 'Milhouse is not a meme' IS a meme. (Adrian Langston, Monday, 13 March 2006 04:31 (eighteen years ago) link
That was a lame reversal.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 13 March 2006 05:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 13 March 2006 05:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Monday, 13 March 2006 07:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 March 2006 14:11 (eighteen years ago) link
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=ArhTyBfDUnt7wfDvHLr1TesRvLYF?slug=jp-wbc031206&prov=yhoo&type=lgns
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 13 March 2006 15:18 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3Xq9HgNZXE&feature=Views&page=1&t=t&f=b
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 13 March 2006 16:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― c(''c) (Leee), Monday, 13 March 2006 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 13 March 2006 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link
I didn't see it.
That call was bullshit. A completely routine tag-up.
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Monday, 13 March 2006 18:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 13 March 2006 18:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 13 March 2006 19:52 (eighteen years ago) link
Day when baseball endsBaseball to which umps authority is esteemedUmps authority was lost on this day.And, baseball ends.
This is a baseball birthplace.Tags // baseball : WBC
― Milhouse is not a meme. But 'Milhouse is not a meme' IS a meme. (Adrian Langston, Monday, 13 March 2006 19:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 March 2006 20:04 (eighteen years ago) link
TOKYO (AP) -- Japanese baseball fans were outraged over a controversial call in the World Baseball Classic that helped the United States beat Japan on Sunday.
With the score tied 3-3, Japan appeared to score the go-ahead run against Joe Nathan in the eighth when Akinori Iwamura flied to left with one out and the bases loaded. Tsuyoshi Nishioka tagged up from third and beat Randy Winn's throw home to give Japan a 4-3 lead.
Second base umpire Brian Knight ruled Nishioka safe but Team USA appealed the play, contending Nishioka left the base before the ball was caught, and plate umpire Bob Davidson overruled the call following a brief discussion with the other umpires.
It didn't appear Nishioka left before Winn made the catch on the television replay.
"It was a terrible call," office worker Shoichi Enomoto said a day after the game. "When you have the best players in the world competing, you should have better umpires. We were robbed."
Even Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi weighed in on the call.
"It clearly looked like we were going to win," Koizumi said. "It's a shame to lose on such a strange call."
Davidson is one of 22 major league umpires who lost their jobs in the 1999 labor dispute. He's now a minor league ump who fills in at the big-league level.
In the bottom of the ninth, Alex Rodriguez hit a bases-loaded, two-out single to give the United States a 4-3 victory in the opener of Round 2.
Several Japanese baseball commentators pointed out that Nishioka was shifting his weight to his front foot before the ball reached Winn's glove but that his back foot was still on the bag and Davidson might have been fooled by this.
Former New York Mets manager Bobby Valentine, who manages Nishioka on the Japan Series champion Chiba Lotte Marines, was quoted in the Nikkansports newspaper as saying "It was a bad call."
"I wanted to cry," former Hanshin Tigers manager Senichi Hoshin said. "(Sadaharu) Oh and his players did such a good job and to lose like that is devastating."
Japan will play Mexico on Tuesday before facing South Korea the following day in Anaheim.
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 14 March 2006 01:31 (eighteen years ago) link