This quote is even weirder.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:33 (eighteen years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Thursday, 16 March 2006 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link
But here's what else we know:
If USA scores, MEX is eliminated. MEX can only advance with a 3-0 or 4-0 win in 13 or 14 innings. If MEX scores more than two runs (before the 13th), JPN will advance unless USA wins. If MEX scores more than three runs, JPN advances unless USA wins (or MEX wins 4-0 – see above). If MEX scores exactly two runs – and makes fewer than two out in bottom of ninth – JPN advances unless USA wins. If MEX scores exactly two runs – including the winning run with two out in the bottom of the ninth – USA and JPN are tied with 5 runs allowed in 17 2/3 innings. One of JPN's runs is unearned (ERA is the next tiebreaker). So: • If both MEX runs are earned, JPN advances. • If both MEX runs are unearned, USA advances. • If one MEX run is earned, then JPN and USA must break tie with batting average in games between teams. JPN is 20 for 65 (.305). USA was 12 for 36 (.333) vs. JPN.
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 17 March 2006 01:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 March 2006 02:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 March 2006 03:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 17 March 2006 03:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 March 2006 03:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 17 March 2006 03:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 17 March 2006 03:31 (eighteen years ago) link
JPKOR
DRCUB
Oh my god!! I mean that is just awesome. Especially given the two games already played btween KOR and JP. That humiliated arrogance on Ichiro's face.
And DR vs CUB!!! The victory cigars will be pretty sweet regardless of which clubhouse is smoking them.
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 17 March 2006 03:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 17 March 2006 03:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 17 March 2006 03:53 (eighteen years ago) link
Japan got another shitty call when a fan intefered with a foul ball close to the stands. The next pitch was the game wining single.
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 17 March 2006 04:44 (eighteen years ago) link
Mexico took a 1-0 lead off Clemens in the third on a leadoff double by Mario Valenzuela and a two-out single by Jorge Cantu.
But it wasn't that simple.
A television replay showed Valenzuela's fly ball hit the right field foul pole at least 10 feet off the ground and bounced back onto the field. However, first base umpire Bob Davidson didn't see it that way, and Valenzuela wound up at second.
It was Davidson, umpiring behind the plate, who ruled that Japan's Tsuyoshi Nishioka left third base early in the eighth inning Sunday to negate a sacrifice fly that would have snapped a 3-3 tie in a game Team USA eventually won 4-3.
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 17 March 2006 04:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 March 2006 06:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 17 March 2006 14:28 (eighteen years ago) link
They should alter the jersey to read "US OF A" just like Sutcliffe the Talking Dog kept saying it.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 March 2006 15:49 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruK3uvGMg1U&feature=Views&page=2&t=t&f=b
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 17 March 2006 15:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 17 March 2006 15:52 (eighteen years ago) link
wrt team usa, i'd say: i like buck martinez in the booth okay, but he wasn't such a hot mgr. would it make more sense to tilt the roster towards dudes that play in offseason leagues or try to do more international comps? clearly, there were some issues in the field.
― jonathan quayle higgins (j.q. higgins), Friday, 17 March 2006 15:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 17 March 2006 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 March 2006 17:40 (eighteen years ago) link
i went to korea/japan the other night and it was more fun than i've ever had at a baseball game. i really wish i could get down to san diego tomorrow.
― dan (dan), Friday, 17 March 2006 17:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― jonathan quayle higgins (j.q. higgins), Friday, 17 March 2006 17:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 17 March 2006 18:04 (eighteen years ago) link
Cuba's postseason is in March. And as G3r4rd asked in CSTB, are there Japanese winter leagues? How come they're not rusty?
Part of the US' problem was treating it like the All-Star Game, ie, pulling 'regulars' in middle innings (related to the players' teams queasiness about the whole affair, obv).
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 17 March 2006 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― dan (dan), Friday, 17 March 2006 18:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 March 2006 18:51 (eighteen years ago) link
His WBC performance (0W-2L, 12.71 ERA, 2.82 WHIP, 6BBs vs. 4Ks) was the 3rd least-effective to date, trailing only Calvin Maduro of the Netherlands and Barry Armitage of South Africa.
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 17 March 2006 19:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 17 March 2006 19:35 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 17 March 2006 19:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Milhouse is not a meme. But 'Milhouse is not a meme' IS a meme. (Adrian Langston, Friday, 17 March 2006 22:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Friday, 17 March 2006 23:49 (eighteen years ago) link
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=nationalsayala&prov=st&type=lgns
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Saturday, 18 March 2006 05:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Panayotis MitsiopoulosPresident of the Hellenic Amateur Baseball Federation
http://www.athens2004.com/athens2004/page/legacy?lang=en&cid=63ca470429149f00VgnVCMServer28130b0aRCRD
WHERE WAS GREECE MAN
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Saturday, 18 March 2006 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 19 March 2006 04:58 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 19 March 2006 05:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Sunday, 19 March 2006 05:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 19 March 2006 05:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 19 March 2006 07:45 (eighteen years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ety10zpiZY
For a team that the commentators have noted as "small ball", Japan really knocked the ball around (and out of) PetCo Park (#1 or #2 pitcher's park in MLB).
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 19 March 2006 16:55 (eighteen years ago) link
That's funny cuz this was the final I most wanted to see. I would have been okay with Korea too, but really Japan is probably the better team. I'm really excited for Monday night.
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 19 March 2006 17:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Sunday, 19 March 2006 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link
It's strange, if you'd told me before the tourney started that Japan vs Cuba would be the final, I'd have been thrilled. But now, Korea was the biggest story of the WBC, so wanted to see them try to go undefeated. And I don't think that Cuba has looked *that* impressive.
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 19 March 2006 19:27 (eighteen years ago) link
I slept thru almost all of the night game.
Did you see Lazo take off his warmup over his head, on the mound, when he entered? So cool -- like he just got up from the BarcaLounger.
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 19 March 2006 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link
NEW YORK (AP) -- South Korea pitcher Myung Hwan Park has tested positive for a banned substance and is disqualified from the World Baseball Classic, Major League Baseball said in a release Friday.
Park tossed two shutout innings in one appearance with South Korea, striking out three and walking two.
South Korea is undefeated heading into its matchup with Japan in the WBC semifinals on Saturday night at Petco Park.
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Monday, 20 March 2006 00:23 (eighteen years ago) link
japan's up 4-0 in the first inning!!
― Milhouse is not a meme. But 'Milhouse is not a meme' IS a meme. (Adrian Langston, Tuesday, 21 March 2006 02:44 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 21 March 2006 02:50 (eighteen years ago) link