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Say it ain't so! The United States has been eliminated from the World Baseball Classic. Great news for George Steinbrenner, bad news for US baseball. Last night in Anaheim (or Los Angeles as the Angels would have you call it), Mexico defeated the US, 2-1. In the loss, the US team only managed three hits off 8 Mexican pitchers. If you're scoring at home, that's a single by Junior Griffey, a double by Chipper Jones and another double by Jeff Francoeur. The loss put the United states at 1-2 in 2nd round play and in a three-way tie with Mexico and Japan. But the same International Baseball Federation rules that put the US into the 2nd round, sent Japan to the semi-finals where they will play South Korea. Cuba will play the Dominican Republic in the other semi-final matchup.
With the loss yesterday to Mexico, Gothamist has to wonder, can the United States win a world title at any level in baseball? The last refuge seems to be Little League. Even then, the United States seems to be guaranteed a team in the finals. Not so in the World Baseball Classic.
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With the loss yesterday to Mexico, Gothamist has to wonder, can the United States win a world title at any level in baseball?
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Sure! The "World" Series.
um, the US *is* guaranteed a spot in the Little League championship game because the bracket is set up so one half of the bracket is American teams and the other half is International. And yet, we don't even seem to win that as often as you'd think.
Anyway, I love baseball, but I'm perfectly happy for another country to win. If the US had won, it wouldn't have been nearly as big a deal as it will be for the Dominican Republic, Korea, Japan, etc.
yeah, i said seems. i didn't really have time to read all the rules. i wonder what if any american teams would make it if they opened that up.
i'm kind of pulling for cuba now. for some subversive reason.
Steinbrenner must be quite happy now.
Regarding the LLWS - when you have a district or county all-star team competing against a national team (as in the case of the International teams), the US side is going to lose more often than not. Throw in the rampant cheating by those dirty foreigners, and we're lucky to have won as many as we have.
cheating by dirty foreigners? Are you talking about steriod shots those foreign kids take before a game?
Who cares about the World Baseball Classic? We know America will win the World Series.