Come anticipate the World Baseball Classic with me

Yeah I know, but earlier they were talking about it like this was on in a load of pubs and we were laughing

This bottom of the 3rd has been going how long

Two hours to play three innings

Lol they just said this game has been going on so long it might jeopardise bp for the US-Mexico game

Lmao what

This is brutal. Someone get Fergie Jenkins in there to end this fucking thing

“A reminder: this is only the top of the 4th”

wow, 16-8 in the 5th inning. potential contender for the mercy rule in a couple more innings

We are all praying for mercy at this point.

every once it's a while it's good to take in a horrible game of baseball

typos but just going to roll with that for now

Hopefully Canada can get some more runs here, the mercy rule is needed very badly

Ok. We’re mercy ready. Just need a clean 1/2 inning here.
Was good seeing Axford out there.

P. Aumont (W, 1-0)

the Venezuela team looks pretty good. surprised Puerto Rico is the favourite for the second seed over them
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Wow - US getting spanked now!

it's a beatdown

I mean, it’s not 18 runs. Yet.

The lads behind the plate are a lot of fun and they should beat the shit out of the baldhead who comes and gives them crap for having fun

i like the guy who impersonates the umpire turning to the right and pointing while calling a strike

was korea/china the first mercy rule game?

literally, just yesterday. the Canada/Britain game. i think there was another before that one too.

If I'm reading this right, unless Canada or Great Britain upsets someone, the US basically needs to beat Colombia by eight runs on Wednesday to advance out of the first round of the WBC. https://t.co/8aAlJPUh0o

— Stephanie Apstein (@stephapstein) March 13, 2023

^^

i haven't listened to too many smoltz-called games, but it struck me last night how wrong he often is. he kept saying throughout the game that the US basically had nothing to worry about, that they just needed to win their last two games, no need to panic. i kept thinking about the tie-breaker rules, which smoltz would describe as "an algorithm" or as some sort of mysterious advanced machine that was of no concern. dude, the tiebreaker is amount of runs allowed per inning played - getting your ass kicked by mexico was clearly a problem

tbf, beating Colombia by 8 runs doesn't feel unreasonable given the last few days worth of scoring!
also: don't dismiss the Canadian juggernaut!

Great Britain leading Colombia 7-4 in the top of the 9th, wtaf

1) how did this team win
2) the fucking shirt, I cannot

https://i.postimg.cc/Z5H4R5G8/9-A647-EC7-F2-F6-43-C7-9-B8-C-4-AC5-EDAB18-F1.jpg

omg!!!

a: GB winning?!
b: the shirt as pictured is an improvement
c: Canada has a chance!!!
d: omg!!!!

The T is upside down!

unlike literally everything else about their jerseys, it's actually interesting. they should run with it

lol, wait when did the T go upside down? i guess costs had to be cut somewhere to make ends meet

the 19-year-old canadian pitcher had to pay for the disappointments of the last few US games. feel bad for the kid

Not going well for the 19 year old starter Canada’s got going for them… and holy shit John smoltz is intolerable

"salutes galore in the first inning for team usa"

lol, they also just mentioned a "team cycle" in the first inning

i think of morbs now for how much he would hated all of this lol

I must be channeling him because I am still seething about how awful smoltz was to listen to

12-1, 2nd inning. this might be a 15-run/5-inning mercy candidate

smoltzy

I would have happily watched Canada get smoked for another 3-5 innings, but I just cannot take any more of this this clown that the broadcast is apparently centred around.
Goodnight!

looks like puerto rico threw a combined no-hitter against israel

combined perfect game, rather

john smoltz does not know the words to a single song. i like that about him though

two scoreless innings in the Canada/Colombia game so far - unthinkable!!

excited to see this Edouard Julien kid make the bigs. some seriously great looking ABs these last three games.
Young, Caissie and (to a lesser degree) Robson all look promising too.

and how could i forget future Blue Jays legend, Otto Lopez!!!

welp. unless the US loses by 12 runs tonight, Canada is out.

big game between Puerto Rico and Dominican Republican tonight, with the winner advancing. wish i could watch!

venezuela was the only team besides japan to go 4-0 in "pool play" (still having trouble saying or thinking "pool play")

I enjoy the atmosphere of WBC but please sir i beg you bring on the pitch clock

PR/DR game was great. still not sure how/when diaz fucked up his knee, appeared to be after the game ended