WBC Games / News - 3/8

[ELEVEN]

More embarrassing than your avatar picture?

My avatar is a tribute to my fellow Canadians.

[Wallerrrr]

already 1-0 Puerto Rico..Carlos Beltran w/ the RBI in the 1st

[gotbeer]

Italia the cinderella story for the WBC?  2-0 in pool play already.  

[Homebrewer]

USA

Here we go.

[gotbeer]

Dang.  the stadium looks packed.

[gotbeer]

R.A. Pinata so far

[Tyler]

Trout should be playing smh

[gotbeer]

Now we got something cooking.

[gotbeer]

Too bad we couldn't trade for Wright, he would fit right in with the Halos.  

[gotbeer]

Now that was a play by Wright.

[mancini79]

Fantastic play by Wright.

[gotbeer]

Oh boy.  

[bloodbrother]

Lol 4-0 MExico whooping the US.

[Lou]

I think he actually did that in the past but he faced a switch hitter and they kept switching on eachother so they made a rule where he had to finish an inning depending how he started the inning.

 

Is the guy you are talking about in the Yankee's org? If so I believe they only allow him to pitch left-handed now.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/espnmag/story?id=4145587

 

 

"Minor league umps now have the Venditte Rule: At the start of an at-bat, the pitcher must declare his throwing arm, then the hitter can pick his side, with each man able to switch once."

[gotbeer]

So are the Mexican fans behind the plate deliberately trying to bother their pitcher?

[gotbeer]

Wow.  What was Mauer waiting for there?

[Chuck]

meh..... 5-1 Mexico. What the heck? Too bad Verlander, Weaver, Kershaw or Price didn't join up, or Prince Fielder instead of Hosmer. 

[AngelsandChiefs25]

That was an angels- esque inning first two walk the rest swing at everything.

[The Ghost of Bob Starr]

Slap and Judy team USA.

[jshep]

Kind of surprised Romo is coming into the game for Mexico.

 

There was an article earlier today where the Giants seemed less than thrilled with the idea of him pitching again tonight after throwing 26 pitches yesterday.

[moccasin]

Wow. US baseball is becoming an embarrassment.

[bloodbrother]

I wouldn't go that far. These are glorified spring training games to most of these guys

 

would be funny if Italy beat them next

[gotbeer]

pretty much, the US has to win against Italy and Canada now.  And hope that Mexico can't win against Canada.

[moccasin]

You may think so, but the rest of the world doesn't seem to.

I hear the "MLB is overrated" all over twitter in Japan.

[moccasin]

I dunno. It's as weird as how 100% of USA's all stars sucking in international games.