My two favourite pitchers to watch on a random summer night are Yoshi Yamamoto and Logan Webb, but they are really testing my nerves lately.
How many pitchers are there in Korea? I guess we’re about to find out.
Vlad’s OPS in the WBC is now 1.717. The man likes a big stage and a bright spotlight.
Also, Carlos Febles is a mad man.
Vlad is the one who knocks.
There’s a Tony Fernandez card in this year’s edition of MLB The Show. It makes me happy.
This opinion was formed before the 2023 tournament, which I think was a turning point for its profile.
Yeah, I think it would probably detract from the spring tournament, and leave things on a cliffhanger.
On the other hand, you would have some first-half narrative about players playing their way onto the teams in WBC.
This was the reaction from Genevieve on Survivor last night to Jeff Probst’s unfortunate dad-rapping. She is the One True Queen of Canada.
(Cade Smith, where ya at, bud?)
My long-standing position is that the WBC semi-finals and finals should be held mid-season in the place of the All-Star Game.
It would be higher profile, being the only thing happening in the sport. And a better chance of truly best-on-best.
This guy is such a dork, so needy to be liked by the most loathsome people, unaware that everyone sees through his desperation.
You should respect the man’s wishes. Having the Expos cap on his plaque forced on him was an insult to him.
It might make a difference to you, but it doesn’t to him.
I know that there are some Canadian baseball fans who are upset about this, and see it as further erasure of the Montréal Expos.
But remember that when Dawson reached free agency in 1987, the Expos offered him a PAY CUT, and actively colluded with other teams against him.
(I’m actually too dumb to be a stat nerd, and own so many khakis and quarterzips.)
I’m not one of these khakis-and-quarterzip stat nerds, so can you tell me if this is good?
It’s just going to be a shame that the nicest uniforms in the WBC will be going home.
I guarantee you that very few Italians really care about the WBC, and none of them can pronounce the name “Kyle Teel”.
I feel very strongly about this since Freddie Freeman is not on Team Canada this year.
I know everyone is having fun with the espresso shots and the kissing in the dugout, but if Italy wins the WBC, that’s gonna be some bullshit.
I had such high hopes.
I generally kinda like Mark DeRosa, in the way that you can like an affable baseball himbo. But I kinda hope he’s crapping his pants tonight.
BIG MAPLE SO BIG
Fine outing by Cal Quantrill.
They had to explain the pitch clock to the Cuban starter and manager twice, and then an extended discussion over a fielder interfering with the runner in a rundown. All for nought for Canada, as it turns out.
Josh Naylor is an absolute villain. He might as well be twirling his moustache between every pitch.
