Mar 22 2017 04:25 AM
Re: WBC 2017- Final Four
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WBC 2017- Final Four
| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 21 2017 01:45 AM |
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Beltran's beard: still weird.
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| MFS62 Mar 21 2017 01:55 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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Balentien has serious power. The announcer said he hit 60 home runs in Japan last year. The one he hit tonight went half way up the left field bleachers (of course, in LA they call it a pavilion).
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 21 2017 02:06 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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TJ Rivera (!) puts the P'uer in "Puerto Rico" with a solo shot. Ricans, 3-2 in the third.
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| Frayed Knot Mar 21 2017 02:38 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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That was such a ridiculous top of the 1st. The Nets got a single, a HBP, another single, then a HR in consecutive ABs and yet only wound up with 2 runs on account of twice getting their asses picked of bases by Yadier throwing behind runners.
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| Edgy MD Mar 21 2017 02:51 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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Well, let's spend 20 minutes reviewing this play, and then make up for it with an automatic no-pitch walk next week.
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| Edgy MD Mar 21 2017 02:52 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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I really don't know what the call should be.
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| Frayed Knot Mar 21 2017 03:07 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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Which means it shouldn't be changed.
I like how Smoltz & Vasgerian mentioned the mound conversations, ten for the two teams combined while still in just the 4th inning (and it's a large part of why they're just in top 5th two hours into the game). Loved it also how Vasgerian mentioned how last week's PR/DR game had more mound meetings than any game "since Jorge Posada was still playing". And, as I'm typing, Molina goes out to the mound again.
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| Edgy MD Mar 21 2017 03:08 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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The offense of this Dutch team all seems to come from the Dutch colonies in the Caribbean. The pitching staff seems half and half.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 21 2017 03:11 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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Nice two-out rally from the Wightin' Balentiens.
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| Frayed Knot Mar 21 2017 03:19 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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Which will this game see more of tonight?
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| Edgy MD Mar 21 2017 03:33 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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It's the night of bullshit slides.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 21 2017 03:38 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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I mean, they're really good bullshit slides, to be fair.
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| Edgy MD Mar 21 2017 03:47 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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Yeah, creative, and athletic, and aggressive, but strangely failing in the fundamental of acquiring and maintaining contact with the base. I don't really think anything was wrong with Pagan's takeout slide.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 21 2017 04:41 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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PR squanders a leadoff runner and a spate of Nederlander ow-ies in the 8th. Doesn't help that Yadi F. gets sac bunts down about as well as he makes tattoo-placement choices.
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| Fman99 Mar 21 2017 12:24 PM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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I stayed awake for about 3 innings. Fuck the left coast start times on a weeknight.
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| Frayed Knot Mar 21 2017 12:32 PM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Mar 21 2017 12:43 PM |
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What are you complaining about? It was over (slightly) before 2:00 AM! Although if it wasn't for the 'runners on' rule starting in the 11th inning, who knows when (or even if) it would have actually ended. I bailed after six.
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| Frayed Knot Mar 21 2017 12:41 PM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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The final answer to this one is almost certainly B) Mound Meetings (at one point there was a mid-AB pitching change on a 1-1 count for no apparent reason) although 'C' gave it a run for its money. In addition to their base-running follies of the early innings, the Netherlands managed to hit into four inning-ending GiDPs most notably to end the 8th, 9th, and 11th innings. That'll leave a mark in a close game! Both teams started the 11th inning off with a sac bunt to move the auto-runners up to 2nd & 3rd. Then both defenses IW'd the next hitter to load the bases and set up the force. Netherlands grounded into the inning-ending DP in the top half of the inning. PR got a game-winning Sac-Fly after their IW in the bottom half.
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| LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Mar 22 2017 01:00 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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Really? LASORDA's our first-pitch honoree?
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 22 2017 01:12 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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That's like a mountain of bad news right there
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| d'Kong76 Mar 22 2017 01:35 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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If I can stay up, I'm going for Japan... viva El Nippon!
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| 41Forever Mar 22 2017 02:21 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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They haven't had a rainout in LA in 17 years!
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| 41Forever Mar 22 2017 02:23 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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And McCutchen drives in the first run!
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| Frayed Knot Mar 22 2017 02:44 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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Freakin' climate change!!!
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| d'Kong76 Mar 22 2017 02:45 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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I haven't been glued to this, but it's kinda boring.
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| Edgy MD Mar 22 2017 02:48 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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I think every time I've tuned into a game in this tournament, a call is immediately blown by an ump.
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| Ashie62 Mar 22 2017 02:51 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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Joran Van Sloot his 65 in the Penal league.
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| Edgy MD Mar 22 2017 02:53 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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Balentien is a big meat ball, too. And I don't feel particularly confident that's all legit bigness.
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| Edgy MD Mar 22 2017 03:22 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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I wonder if this field even has good big-league drainage.
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| Edgy MD Mar 22 2017 03:42 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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Double off the wall by Kinsler. I thought Crawford was scoring but he was held.
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| Edgy MD Mar 22 2017 03:43 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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USA takes the lead on a wet ball bobble.
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| Frayed Knot Mar 22 2017 04:00 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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Turned out to be a good move to hold Crawford, but you had to hold him there either way. He would have been dead.
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| Edgy MD Mar 22 2017 04:11 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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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.)
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| Frayed Knot Mar 22 2017 04:17 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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One inning for the right to go to the final vs PR.
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| Edgy MD Mar 22 2017 04:19 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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If the US faces Puerto Rico in the final, AMERICA WINS EITHER WAY!
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| Edgy MD Mar 22 2017 04:25 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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| Edgy MD Mar 22 2017 04:26 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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Opposing the US in the title game will be that filthy traitor Seth Lugo.
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| MFS62 Mar 22 2017 01:20 PM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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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.
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| Edgy MD Mar 22 2017 03:39 PM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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Adrian Gonzalez joins players spitting on the WBC.
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| Mets Willets Point Mar 22 2017 07:27 PM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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Not colonies. Constituent countries of the Kingdom of Netherlands.
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| Edgy MD Mar 22 2017 07:46 PM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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Former colonies, if you will
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| Benjamin Grimm Mar 22 2017 08:17 PM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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Too bad Sweden doesn't have a team!
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| themetfairy Mar 22 2017 08:35 PM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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Or Latvia!
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| d'Kong76 Mar 23 2017 12:50 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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How is Hawaii a state but not Puerto Rico?
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| Lefty Specialist Mar 23 2017 01:26 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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I had no idea Puerto Rico had a national anthem.
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| metirish Mar 23 2017 02:00 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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Golf Knickers commercial , for fucks sake
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| 41Forever Mar 23 2017 02:02 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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Seth Lugo looking pretty good!
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| metirish Mar 23 2017 02:12 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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Something I learned from Matt, spin rates don't necessarily translate into wins
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| Frayed Knot Mar 23 2017 03:03 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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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.
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| Frayed Knot Mar 23 2017 03:10 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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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.
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| Edgy MD Mar 23 2017 03:24 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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| Mets Willets Point Mar 23 2017 03:30 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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Stroman, the New Yorker who works in Toronto, is pitching very well for the USA in a road game in Los Angeles.
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| Frayed Knot Mar 23 2017 03:31 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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Against the home country of this mother.
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| Frayed Knot Mar 23 2017 03:47 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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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.
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| themetfairy Mar 23 2017 03:57 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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Our old friend Angel Pagan breaks up the no-hitter.
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| Mets Willets Point Mar 23 2017 03:58 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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My former adoptee just broke up a no-no.
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| Edgy MD Mar 23 2017 04:07 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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And the US just gets angrier, paying that one hit back with two runs.
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| Edgy MD Mar 23 2017 04:13 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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Is there a mercy rule in the Championship Round?
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| Edgy MD Mar 23 2017 05:00 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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SHMERICA!!
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| Edgy MD Mar 23 2017 05:10 AM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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Great ovation for Long Island's Marcus Stroman. He looks like Tony Clark's kid out there.
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| bmfc1 Mar 23 2017 12:45 PM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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Big Pharma is against it. This explains why: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharmaceu ... uerto_Rico
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| MFS62 Mar 23 2017 01:27 PM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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I watched some of the game on ESPN2, It had Spanish speaking sportscasters doing it. When I tuned in, they were interviewing Commissioner Manfred and he talked about moving the next WBC to other countries. He also talked about using the replay in earlier rounds. The only reason they hadn't was lack of technical capabilities at some of the venues but that can be addressed by the next WBC. Later, (i'm not sure if it was on MLB TV or ESPN2, they mentioned that Stroman is quite an interesting person. He went to Duke, then left when drafted into the pros. When he tore his ACL, during rehab he went back to Duke and finished up his degree. Since then, he has gone into music (with his own group) and has a clothing line. One of the announcers called Stroman a "Renaissance Man". Later
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| Mets Willets Point Mar 23 2017 02:18 PM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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The home field advantage did not help Puerto Rico in the slightest.
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| John Cougar Lunchbucket Mar 23 2017 04:08 PM Re: WBC 2017- Final Four |
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It kept them out of those fugly road jerseys, don;t overlook that.
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