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WBC IGT: Bread for the USA Sandwich - Can v Mex 3/9/06

Willets Point Mar 09 2006 08:19 PM

Mexico up 3-0 in the first. This is good from the perspective of Team USA.

metirish Mar 09 2006 08:30 PM

How many times do we have to hear a TV announcer when talking about Clemens say "this might be his last ever start", who freaking cares.

Yancy Street Gang Mar 09 2006 08:43 PM

He's had more last starts than Cher has had final concerts.

metirish Mar 09 2006 08:46 PM

So true Yancy, Mexico is pounding Canada.

Yancy Street Gang Mar 09 2006 09:15 PM

That means that the U.S. and Mexico advance if the U.S. beats South Africa, right?

Rotblatt Mar 09 2006 09:19 PM

Yup. Which kind of sucks for Canada, since, after all, they did beat Team America. Not that it would be any fairer to send Mexico (who beat Canada) or Team America (who beat Mexico) home, I suppose . . .

Elster88 Mar 09 2006 09:21 PM

Interesting that they placed more importance on runs allowed than runs scored.

Nymr83 Mar 09 2006 09:27 PM

ah, the "joys" of 4 team pools everyone loses out when you have an 0-3 team... the better way is a double-elimination round robin as follows: Game 1: Team A vs Team B Game 2: Team C vs Team D Game 3: Loser of game 1 vs Loser of game 2 (loser is 0-2 and eliminated) Game 4: Winner of game 1 vs. Winner of game 2 (winner is 2-0) Game 5: Winner of Game 3 vs Loser of Game 4 (loser is 1-2: eliminated) Game 6: Winner of Game 4 (2-0) vs. Winner of Game 5 (2-1) Game 7 (necessary only if the 2-0 team loses) compared to the current method: Advantages: nobody goes home without 2 losses, no need for any tiebreakers Disadvantages: a team could potentially play 5 games (compared to 3 now, this isn't a disadvantage in my mind but it is to the organizers), a team could go home after 2 games (but they'd be 0-2 so who cares?) on edit: this would take 4-5 days since games 1&2 and 3&4 could be played on the same day any comments?

Johnny Dickshot Mar 09 2006 10:05 PM

It's how I'd try and settle the best song with 'One' in the title, that's for sure.

metirish Mar 09 2006 10:13 PM

To be honest I have enjoyed this thing more than I tought I would, I think in 10 to 20 years this could be a huge event with some tweaking, bold prediction, Ireland to win WBC in 2018.

metirish Mar 09 2006 10:55 PM

I have said it before but I will say it again, Rick Sutcliffe is the most annoying colour guy in baseball, in his world everyone is a great guy,he was just now talking aobut what a great guy Jeter is, and Griffey....I really hate hearing him.