2023 World Baseball Classic

[Fudge Nuggets 19,189]

Salvie ties it up. 

[Brisketexan 105,074]

Bard just broke Altuve’s hand. Mother fucker.

I swear to god, I think he really might have. Fuck.

[Valmy77 13,225]

Jesus Christ America. Get it together.

[cmontexas 3,270]

Fuck Bard and fuck DeRosa 

[Halohal 498]

Wake up Julia for an update

[Fudge Nuggets 19,189]

1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

I swear to god, I think he really might have. Fuck.

Altuve went straight to the clubhouse so yeah, it’s fucked up.  He didn’t go through the motions of having it checked out or claiming it was ok.  Just straight off the field.

[Updawg 2,266]

Fuck. Any update?

[WBT 20,561]

That was rather large

[Fudge Nuggets 19,189]

Looked like a BP pitch.

[VirginiaLonghorn 4,769]

The Nats let Harper and Soto get away … but, Turner was the biggest loss.

A 5 tool SS with a glove.

Edited March 19, 2023 by VirginiaLonghorn

[Fudge Nuggets 19,189]

Venezuela fucked up bringing Quijada back out after he showed his whole ass after K’ing Tucker.  He was way too amped to settle back in.

[Valmy77 13,225]

Holy shit. We can win this.

Let's go USA!

1 hour ago, Updawg said:

Fuck. Any update?

Grand Slam in the 8th inning puts the USA up 9-7!

[TonyTexas 10,508]

7 minutes ago, VirginiaLonghorn said:

A 5 tool SS with a glove.

Does the glove make him a 6 tool player?

[Valmy77 13,225]

Fuck. Lead off double for Venezuela

[Valmy77 13,225]

Come on Williams! Throw strikes!

[Valmy77 13,225]

Beautiful change to get the K!

Let's go!

[Valmy77 13,225]

Williams pitches out of it! On to the 9th!

[Valmy77 13,225]

Tim Anderson into 2nd! Let's go!

[Valmy77 13,225]

Ah that came to nothing.

To the bottom of the 9th! USA up 9-7.

[Beau Vine 54,208]

Has anyone put the stopwatch on Smoltz to total up the amount of time he spends each game whining about pitching restrictions?

[Fudge Nuggets 19,189]

America’s Closer coming in. 

[Valmy77 13,225]

1 down! Come on Pressly!

[Valmy77 13,225]

Goldschmidt caught it! Two down.

[Fudge Nuggets 19,189]

Throw the slider. 

[Valmy77 13,225]

USA! USA! USA! On to face the Cubans in the semi-finals!

[Fudge Nuggets 19,189]

Piece of cake. 

[cmontexas 3,270]

I wont be surprised if this is the last year for MLB players World Baseball Classic, despite its popularity in Japan and the Latin countries. ESPN has it at the bottom of the page after Women's college gymnastics and refuses to give a shit about baseball. Then you have complete garbage idiots like olbermann and cabowabo that want it cancelled and its just way too easy to influence morons

[Beau Vine 54,208]

5 hours ago, cmontexas said:

I wont be surprised if this is the last year for MLB players World Baseball Classic, despite its popularity in Japan and the Latin countries. ESPN has it at the bottom of the page after Women's college gymnastics and refuses to give a shit about baseball. Then you have complete garbage idiots like olbermann and cabowabo that want it cancelled and its just way too easy to influence morons

ESPN has been doing just about everything it can to ignore this.

BTW, this quote is gold:

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“I can’t believe anybody would rather stay in spring training than play in a game like that,” Realmuto said. 

 

[Huckleberry 32,848]

Yep ESPN is trying to fuck it over, I assume because Fox has the games. 

But this won't be the last one at all. It is growing in popularity and ESPN's bitterness won't be enough. 

[Helobious 9,450]

I wish they’d abolish spring training instead or cut it down to 2 weeks. All it has done EVERY year the past few years is injure half the Yankees starting rotation and give Aaron Hicks practice at how to be fucking terrible at baseball. One WBC every 4 years isn’t an issue.

[David Dennison 18,850]

7 hours ago, cmontexas said:

I wont be surprised if this is the last year for MLB players World Baseball Classic, despite its popularity in Japan and the Latin countries. ESPN has it at the bottom of the page after Women's college gymnastics and refuses to give a shit about baseball. Then you have complete garbage idiots like olbermann and cabowabo that want it cancelled and its just way too easy to influence morons

How could MLB stop them from playing? 

[TonyTexas 10,508]

1 hour ago, Helobious said:

I wish they’d abolish spring training instead or cut it down to 2 weeks. All it has done EVERY year the past few years is injure half the Yankees starting rotation

That would be a good way to injure the remaining half of the rotation. 

[Dutchrudder 11,135]

US vs Cuba tonight at 6pm CST! Winner goes to the Final on Tuesday night. 

Great comeback win for the US last night! It looked a bit grim as they kept bleeding runs all game, but they pulled ahead with a grand slam and kept the lead. Fun game, although seeing Altuve injured is a shame. Stuff like that is going to kill participation by MLB players in the future

[David Dennison 18,850]

42 minutes ago, Dutchrudder said:

US vs Cuba tonight at 6pm CST! Winner goes to the Final on Tuesday night. 

Great comeback win for the US last night! It looked a bit grim as they kept bleeding runs all game, but they pulled ahead with a grand slam and kept the lead. Fun game, although seeing Altuve injured is a shame. Stuff like that is going to kill participation by MLB players in the future

Maybe I'm missing something, but I just don't see it. This tournament seems to be wildly popular with the players.

[Valmy77 13,225]

1 hour ago, Dutchrudder said:

US vs Cuba tonight at 6pm CST! Winner goes to the Final on Tuesday night. 

Great comeback win for the US last night! It looked a bit grim as they kept bleeding runs all game, but they pulled ahead with a grand slam and kept the lead. Fun game, although seeing Altuve injured is a shame. Stuff like that is going to kill participation by MLB players in the future

I don't buy it. These were freak injuries, a weird hand injury and an injury partying after a win. It's baseball, not football, injuries are not that common and this is what? Seven games max every three years? If it was likely to be injured in such a small number of games all of MLB would be on IR by May. 

[tx 3 putt 76,873]

Wtf no Tucker ???

[cmontexas 3,270]

Wainwright's "crafty" 85 mph bullshit has no place in this tournament against teams that are glad he's throwing 85 with the tight zone these umps have called all tourney 

[Beau Vine 54,208]

Boomshakalaka!

[Surly Bevo 24,908]

Turner just hit that to almost the same spot as last night

[tx 3 putt 76,873]

Wainwright needs to be kicked in the dick 

[Scraps 13,561]

Smoltz rambling

[Fudge Nuggets 19,189]

5 hours ago, Dutchrudder said:

US vs Cuba tonight at 6pm CST! Winner goes to the Final on Tuesday night. 

Great comeback win for the US last night! It looked a bit grim as they kept bleeding runs all game, but they pulled ahead with a grand slam and kept the lead. Fun game, although seeing Altuve injured is a shame. Stuff like that is going to kill participation by MLB players in the future

Good thing no one ever gets injured in spring training. 

[Valmy77 13,225]

This is awesome. We are kicking their Cuban asses.

[Valmy77 13,225]

Turner does it again! 12-2 USA!

[Valmy77 13,225]

USA! USA! USA! 

On to the finals against Samurai or El Tri baseball edition. Should be awesome!

[956 Worldwide 34,702]

Been following this really closely because the Czech Republic qualified and actually won a game, which is amazing for their baseball scene.  The Czech society got started after WWII when GIs liberated the west part of the country, but then the Commies actually cracked down on baseball as a capitalist, Western form of influence. 
 

A Czech pitcher, who is by trade an electrician, struck out Ohtani and earned a bar story for life.  Ohtani later wore a Czech baseball cap to Miami and now they are sold out completely.  
 

All around great story. Hoping to see U.S.-Japan square off but also would love to smack El Tri when it counts. 
 

 

[tx 3 putt 76,873]

😂😂😂

[Huckleberry 32,848]

Everyone knows bullpen catcher is one of the greatest jobs in the world. Just one more piece of evidence. 

[tx 3 putt 76,873]

1 minute ago, Huckleberry said:

Everyone knows bullpen catcher is one of the greatest jobs in the world. Just one more piece of evidence. 

he also doubles as the glove repair / medic. So he better have skills 

[Dutchrudder 11,135]

23 hours ago, Valmy77 said:

I don't buy it. These were freak injuries, a weird hand injury and an injury partying after a win. It's baseball, not football, injuries are not that common and this is what? Seven games max every three years? If it was likely to be injured in such a small number of games all of MLB would be on IR by May. 

Those big $$$ contracts the MLB teams give out isn't for playing for the US in the WBC. I think we may see teams add clauses to protect against this in the future. Injuries do happen, but if you're going to get injured to the point where you can't perform your job, then you should be getting injured on company time.