WBC 2017- Final Four

[Frayed Knot]

Turned out to be a good move to hold Crawford, but you had to hold him there either way. He would have been dead.

Smoltz talked early on about how good Japan's infield defense is, but both USA runs have come via infield mishaps.

I gotta admit, I had to look up who US reliever Nate Jones was (ChiSox reliever since 2012)

[Edgy MD]

Wet surface robbed US of a run by slowing Crawford. (I was thinking that had he come around third at full steam, he might have wiped out.)

Then the wet surface gave them the run back when the thirdbaseman couldn't handle the ball.

Looking to build some insurance now.

[Frayed Knot]

One inning for the right to go to the final vs PR.
And Jackie Stewart doesn't drink and drive.

[Edgy MD]

If the US faces Puerto Rico in the final, AMERICA WINS EITHER WAY!

[Edgy MD]

[Edgy MD]

Opposing the US in the title game will be that filthy traitor Seth Lugo.

[MFS62]

The replay rule didn't seem to lengthen the game too much. Most of them (there had been 5 when I went to sleep) were settled in less than one minute, and one was in 61 seconds. Worth the time to get the calls right.

Later

[Edgy MD]

Adrian Gonzalez joins players spitting on the WBC.

It's amazing that the organizers can get so much so wrong. This can and should be great.

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

Edgy MD wrote: The offense of this Dutch team all seems to come from the Dutch colonies in the Caribbean. The pitching staff seems half and half. I wonder if Tim Tebow would play for the Philippines National Team.

Not colonies. Constituent countries of the Kingdom of Netherlands.

[Edgy MD]

Former colonies, if you will

[Benjamin Grimm]

Too bad Sweden doesn't have a team!

[Guest themetfairy]

Or Latvia!

[Guest d'Kong76]

How is Hawaii a state but not Puerto Rico?
(51 stars on the flag is probably too hard for the big heads to figure out)

Let's go Puerto Rico!!

[Lefty Specialist]

I had no idea Puerto Rico had a national anthem.

[metirish]

Golf Knickers commercial , for fucks sake

[Guest 41Forever]

Seth Lugo looking pretty good!

OE: Nevermind.

[metirish]

Something I learned from Matt, spin rates don't necessarily translate into wins

[Frayed Knot]

metirish wrote: Something I learned from Matt, spin rates don't necessarily translate into wins

And also that Marcus Stroman's hometown of Medford is in "upstate" New York.
He corrected himself a few innings later and placed the town back on Long Island where it belongs.

[Frayed Knot]

Edgy MD wrote: Adrian Gonzalez joins players spitting on the WBC. It's amazing that the organizers can get so much so wrong.

Gonzalez is mad about Mexico losing out on the tie-breaker procedure but I don't know that the suits that run this thing got anything wrong in this case.
Short tourneys like this with tight schedules (or, hell, like the entire NFL season) are going to need some sort of tie-breaker resolutions. So while Mexico might not like coming out on the short end of
one of them, the rules governing how it would work were spelled out ahead of time. And I'm going out on a limb here by guessing that I don't think AG would be complaining if Mexico wound up
benefitting from the same rule.

[Edgy MD]

d'Kong76 wrote: How is Hawaii a state but not Puerto Rico? (51 stars on the flag is probably too hard for the big heads to figure out) Let's go Puerto Rico!!

Fitty-one is easy, man. Thinks get tricky after we admit DC and Guam and Virgin Islands and American Samoa and the Marianas and stuff.
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[Guest Mets Willets Point]

Stroman, the New Yorker who works in Toronto, is pitching very well for the USA in a road game in Los Angeles.

[Frayed Knot]

Mets Willets Point wrote: Stroman, the New Yorker who works in Toronto, is pitching very well for the USA in a road game in Los Angeles.

Against the home country of this mother.

[Frayed Knot]

How is Hawaii a state but not Puerto Rico?

Among other reasons is that Puerto Rico doesn't want to become a state.
They've had the occasional (non-binding) vote on the issue before where voters are offered three choices: 1) statehood; 2) complete independence; 3) staying with the current Commonwealth status
Status quo tends to prevail in those polls.

[Guest themetfairy]

Our old friend Angel Pagan breaks up the no-hitter.

[Guest Mets Willets Point]

My former adoptee just broke up a no-no.

[Edgy MD]

And the US just gets angrier, paying that one hit back with two runs.

[Edgy MD]

Is there a mercy rule in the Championship Round?

[Edgy MD]

SHMERICA!!

[Edgy MD]

Great ovation for Long Island's Marcus Stroman. He looks like Tony Clark's kid out there.

[bmfc1]

How is Hawaii a state but not Puerto Rico? Among other reasons is that Puerto Rico doesn't want to become a state. They've had the occasional (non-binding) vote on the issue before where voters are offered three choices: 1) statehood; 2) complete independence; 3) staying with the current Commonwealth status Status quo tends to prevail in those polls.

Big Pharma is against it. This explains why: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceutical_industry_in_Puerto_Rico