Come anticipate the World Baseball Classic with me

what the hell is up w/ john miller's shirt + tie combo

I find your list feasible though I will agree to disagree....

-Chinese (Mandarin)
-Chinese (Hong Kong)
-Chinese (Cantonese/Other) <---I find this designation hairsplitting
-Japanese
-Korean (People eat dogs yet they make fine electronics)
-Chinese (Taiwan) <---but for the grace of the USA this country exists.
-Thai
-Vietnamese
-Cambodian
-Filipinos (the Puerto Ricans of Asia)

-Spaniards
-Cubans
-South Americans
-Central Americans
-Mexicans
-Puerto Ricans
-Dominicans
-New Yoricans

Let's not do this on this thread.

Yes father.

yeah sorry i didnt mean to bring this here - just talkin a lil shop with jtm - we'll take it to stormfront

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So, Steve Phillips is joining the booth on the Sunday night game this season? Judging from body language, J-Morgue would love to push Phillips down an elevator shaft.

goddamn mccann is amazing http://i40.tinypic.com/x0p6v5.gif

loljetor

Adam Dunn wtf

there was no one else in the nation of america to play RF apparently.

Let's not do this on this thread.

this and the two posts leading up to it make me (sort of) wish there was an ilb lolthread. i'm fucking laughing myself stupid here

"Jeter... HIGH AND WIDE, SAFE AT FIRST AND A RUN SCORES"

FORGOT HOW TO WIN

this is so fucking awesome to me - japan-korea is my dream matchup basically i love watching these furious hateful asians try to murder each other with baseball

Hey Team USA manager: sending in the replacement to pinch-hit and attempt to hit a home run into the wind with one out and a runner on third (with two left-handed options, one of whom was, uh, due up) was really intelligent.

so said Steve Phillips, even

ILB: We hate Davey Johnson for making Steve Phillips right

Runners in scoring position, 2008

Longoria: .241/.309/.474
Granderson: .299/.373/.536
Victorino: .271/.331/.424

Available hitters who had played competitive baseball during the last several months:

Granderson
Victorino

i sorta hate japanese baseball so much - their cleanup hitter is bunting, in the third inning

i think i hate Bud Selig a lot more.

haha yeah, when he walked into the booth my 'hmm i might have to mute this' impulse went from a kernel of an idea to scrambling-for-the-remote

web gems, nothing but web gems

I'm enjoying the hell out of this.

Really good game, f the usa

otm
busted helmet!

ah joe "i have said it all night, ichiro knows how to drive the ball..."

O snap!

What a game!

i hope Selig doesnt declare this a tie.

im also glad i woke up 10 minutes ago.

This game alone has been better than the 2008 World Series.

Ichiro is playing cricket out there.

jeeeez Joe Morgan making sense!

Seriously!

Korea is falling apart.

Yu Darvish looks great from the rear btw

He looks like a giant Japanese elf.

My friend calls him Regoras. :(

congrats Japanese overlords

Two outs, first base open, game on the line... why not walk Ichiro? (I had the volume down and could not hear the analysts.)

They were asking the same thing.

Asked about allowing Suzuki to hit with two runners in scoring position instead of walking him intentionally, Kim replied: "I don't know why the pitcher tried to pitch directly to Ichiro. I did not understand. In the end, it did not work out for us. The pitcher and the catcher did not communicate well in terms of their signs. And in the end, that led to the hit by (Suzuki). Of course I have a regret as to what happened."

Suzuki said he wasn't surprised he wasn't walked.

"There was (Hiroyuki) Nakajima (on deck), and he is a batter you wanted to avoid," Suzuki said. "So there was a possibility for the bases to be loaded, and I knew they would want to fight against that, so I wasn't at all surprised."

Perhaps the translation is not perfect here, but maybe Kim should have told his pitcher to either walk Ichiro or give him nothing but pitches out of the zone (preferably high and tight).

I've never, ever, been a fan of walking the bases loaded. Well done Korea!

Fidel's column:

http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2009/march/vier20/13reflex1-i.html

That is one awesome John Hancock.

mark yr calendars, NYC

@AdamRubinESPN
The Sept. 22-25, 2016 World Baseball Classic qualifier at MCU Park in Brooklyn will include Brazil, Great Britain, Israel and Pakistan.

Mets farmhands Champ Stuart and Blake Taylor will represent Great Britain and Ty Kelly, Tyler Herron and Josh Zeid will represent Israel in a World Baseball Classic qualifying tournament at Brooklyn's MCU Park Sept. 22-25. Ex-Mets Ike Davis and Josh Satin also will play for Israel. Brazil and Pakistan also are involved in the four-team tournament.

pakistani team is . . . interesting

the entire bichette family is playing for brazil, which is managed by barry 'barinho' larkin and pitching coached by latroy hawkins

one of our number is actually at this game!

what's the Fri night or Sat matinee action?

https://twitter.com/richardgin/status/779010620406530048