I tried to watch a bit of this yesterday during the superbowl, but yeah it was slow and boring. Not knowing spanish doesn't help either. And those PR pitchers were ridiculously bad. It seems like every time I flipped over a pitcher was giving up two hits and followed by a walk.
― Stuh-du-du-du-du-du-du-denka (jingleberries), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:14 (seventeen years ago) link
I watched a couple innings of DR/Venezuela after work tonight with a bunch of Dominican guys in the bodega across the street. Julian Tavarez looked really good! I'm not sure what the Red Sox are going to do with him this year, exactly, but his late 2006-early 2007 form is promising.
― govern yourself accordingly (dayan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 03:47 (seventeen years ago) link
"Julian Tavarez looked really good!"
Was he sucker punching someone? Julian Tavarez...honestly. The Red Sox are going to trot him out to the mound and watch him get the snot kicked out of his "tailing" fastball and garbage change up.
― PodFlixWilly (PodFlixWilly), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:05 (seventeen years ago) link
one year passes...
eleven months pass...
three years pass...
nine months pass...
Dan Evans in BP:
"One of the best ways to get your off-season baseball fix is by attending the week-long Caribbean Series, featuring the champions of winter ball in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela. Held in the first week of February, the annual series is a great sporting event, highlighted by numerous major-league players on the rosters of the four participants. The contagious atmosphere is surprisingly equivalent to college basketball's Final Four, as the ballpark rocks an hour before the first pitch and continues through each day's final pitch. The games have intensities similar to MLB playoff games, laden with strategy and suspense. The Dominican Republic's Escogido team is the defending champion.
The 2013 Caribbean Series will be played in Hermosillo, Mexico, and the plan is to play at a new facility named Sonara Estadio, which is scheduled for completion in time for the event. Famed Hector Espino Stadium would be the fallback option. Venezuela's Margarita Island will host the event in 2014, which is already on my calendar."
Oh maaaan, I wd love to go to Venezuela in '14.
― saltwater incursion (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
seven years pass...