The World Baseball Classic...

sportsbettingman · Post by **sportsbettingman** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 4:44 pm

The more I watch...the more I get sick inside at those healthy players not willing to suit up for Team USA.

The selfishness, and commitment to money contracts...I guess I understand they get nothing but pride for playing for this country...but it should be enough.

It is embarrasing how the players had a snowball of denials to join the team it seemed (but many turned out to bed indeed hurt)...and I give much credit and respect to the players who were healthy that were proud to play.

Watching the fans and players get into it from the carribean...it is a contagous enthusiasm that you can see and feel in their eyes and body language...we seem to force emotion, rather than just releasing it.

The way the wimp press hyped this event...they acted like it should be something that didn't interfere with this sport of MLB...and threw all other leagues and timeframes under a bus to say the games should conform to the MLB season...not the game of BASEBALL in general.

The general feel was...How can they do this to us...he have a strict regimen of getting our fat asses into shape and lollygagging during March...we don't want to get worn out for the "real" season.

It's not like everyone playing in the WBC will make the playoffs...it's not like this is gonna be every year.

I think the players here should have more pride in this country and the game we invented, and be fighting for a roster spot.

I agree that it could be placed into the all-star break if need be...but that's biased toward the MLB season.

I sure hope the next one...if there is one (I hope) is even bigger and much better hyped. The USA press in general is becoming too me, me, me...money, money, money, anti-war, anti-country, anti- everything we used to be.

Just my buzzed opinion.

~Lance

Return of the Aces · Post by **Return of the Aces** » Thu Mar 09, 2006 5:16 pm

Bud Selig must have been holding his breath before the Mexico-Canada game. If the wacky tie-breaker rules would have eliminated the US before its next game, the WBC would have had zero momentum and very little chance of ever being repeated. The WBC needs a big showdown in the finals with the US against Cuba or Venezuela. (Would Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez be sitting at opposite sides of the stadium from Bush?)

[ March 09, 2006, 11:17 PM: Message edited by: msamuels ]