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I maintain that this will shake itself out but it will probably be a painful learning period. It's only spring training and not only are pitchers and batters still adjusting but the umps and clock operators too. I don't believe the end result will be clock violations swinging games the way it is now early on - everyone will learn the new rhythm and I think we'll go games without seeing a clock violation. You can easily watch a football game and never see a delay of game penalty, but the play clock has existed for decades. If they tried to introduce it this year we'd see delay of game penalties constantly and people would claim it's the worst thing ever too. If it were up to me baseball games would stay a cozy 3+ hours but I really just don't think this is the end of the world.
 
I have no problem with this pitch clock, for now. I'd rather not see it become permanent, but too much time gets wasted between pitches, both on the pitchers and batters side. This will push these guys to stop fucking around between pitches. Remember Nomar Garciaparra's bullshit prepitch routine in the batters box? If this rule ends that type of nonsense, I can get behind it.
 
Australia beat Korea in the WBC. Australia has 120-1 odds to win it all compared to Korea’s 12-1. Love a good upset and it was a pretty good game too. Australia also has a mostly Australian team with just a few that aren’t, from South Africa and New Zealand. I hate these international competition teams where most of a team isn’t even from the country they say they’re from. Italy for example has like less than 5 actual Italian guys on the roster, the rest are New York/New Jersey guidos. I think the rule for the WBC is that one of your parents or you has to have been born in the country of the team you want to play for. Cuba is down with 2 losses against fucking Italy and the Netherlands so Cubans are probably fuming right now.

Also, Freddie Freeman is playing for Canada.

Fleetwood said:
Clevinger is buddies with Trevor Bauer, so that is not all that shocking. Maybe he's a bad guy, or maybe MLB wants to destroy these guys over some spicy vlogs.
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The same chick that accused Bauer is the one accusing Clevinger iirc
 
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NGL love seeing my Phillies hit a grand salami on the first spring training day.
 
Team China is probably going to face death by firing squad after a 22-2 stomping courtesy of a Korean team with nothing to play for.

Meanwhile, USA has come back angry with a 9-spot in the first inning against Canada.
 
Local Fed said:
Trevor Bauer is heading over to Japan for this season. He's signing a one year, $4 million deal with the Yokohama BayStars of the NPB (Japan's highest professional league.)
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Both Korea and Japan have pretty good professional leagues, probably close to the AA or AAA level. They should do a true World Series one year, USA team vs one of their teams in a best of 5. In the 20s and 30s, it was common for American players to barnstorm in Asia, it's how baseball got popular over there.
 
They still occasionally do offseason exhibition all star games with MLBers vs NPB all stars. The 2014 and 2018 series were MLB vs Samurai Japan.
 
Edwin Diaz, the best closer in baseball, finished out the game for Puerto Rico and then afterwards immediately blew out his knee during the celebration

This will be the end of the Baseball Classic for any MLB player if he is out for the year for the Mets.
 
Dirty Harry said:
This will be the end of the Baseball Classic for any MLB player if he is out for the year for the Mets.
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You mean next time around? Yeah it would be smart for teams to write restrictions on WBC into contracts. Like if you injure yourself jumping up and down, contract void. Lolmets gonna lolmet.
 
Dirty Harry said:
This will be the end of the Baseball Classic for any MLB player if he is out for the year for the Mets.
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They announced earlier today that he is indeed likely out for the season; he's going to be undergoing surgery for a torn patellar tendon. Mets GM Billy Eppler said today that the timeline for this kind of injury is about 8 months.
 
What's the over-under for the amount of Cuban defections during that game in Miami??

Too bad they can't play a best of 3 or 5, 1 game elimination in baseball doesn't prove much.
 
Dirty Harry said:
What's the over-under for the amount of Cuban defections during that game in Miami??

Too bad they can't play a best of 3 or 5, 1 game elimination in baseball doesn't prove much.
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What a coincidence, the guys of American Thinker posted an article about the USA/Cuba game.
March 21, 2023

Cheering for Team USA against Cuba​

By Silvio Canto, Jr.


Team USA beat Cuba rather easily to move to the WBC Title game. It was over when the Cuban team could not score with the bases loaded. They got a run on a walk, but nothing more.
Once upon a time, communist Cuba dominated amateur baseball in much the same way that the old USSR beat up college kids in hockey. "No mas"!
This weekend’s game may have been the clearest example that this is not much a rivalry at all, as Tom Verducci explained:
By a 14–2 score that understates the talent gap, Team USA waxed a Cuban team loaded with cast-offs, 30-something Mexican League hangers-on and post-glory-days veterans who filled their all-red uniforms the way burly Boog Powell did those similarly monochromatic 1975 Cleveland unis, which were so bad the players back then offered to buy blue jerseys themselves.
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It's funny, but I had the same thought about Boog Powell and those horrible uniforms. The only good thing about those uniforms is that they were still called Indians rather than this silly "woke" Guardians.
Another point made by Verducci:
The Cuban offense was no better. The starting lineup included two players released by the Dodgers -- five and seven years ago -- a right fielder who hit .225 in indy ball last year and Boog-like 36-year-old Alfredo Despaigne, playing in his 20th season. The Cubans made it to the semifinal largely by getting through an easy pool as a runner-up, squeaking by Australia by one run.
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The contest brought home some realities.
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That Trout vs. Ohtani at bat is going to go down as one of the greatest moments in sports history. Shit is going to be talked about for the next 100 years.
 
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