Mar 18 2009
The WBC Recruits Me!
In a past post, I was quite critical of the recently formed World Baseball Classic and the thought of it actually meaning something. I still have to be honest and say it just isn’t that great, but last night my thoughts became a bit scrambled on the event.
As most countries do not play the sport of baseball, unlike soccer, most of the major competition comes from North and South America. If you look at most of the rosters, some of the best and current great players are from this region of the world.
My answer came, and has come, in the past week; You see, the bad teams are filtered out of the process in the first round. The second round is a double elimination round and the teams become much more competitive, and thus the games become much more exciting.
Which brings us full circle to last night, the United States and Puerto Rico were playing a game against eachother in a win or go home scenario. Puerto Rico, was leading the game entering the 9th inning by a score of 5-3 with just 3 outs left.
That is where the US began their rally in which the team would score 3 runs to win the elimination game in dramatic fashion to say the least. It was hard to change the channel on this game, even as the first game of the NCAA Mens Tournament was also airing.
To say the WBC has won me over is an understatement and as the years progress the teams will continue to improve on a world wide platform. So here, on my own page I will take back my harsh words for the WBC, it is a great tournament that is starting to resemble October Baseball here in March.
J.M.Saucedo
