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Good luck to the US. I don't want Tha DR playing South Korea in the finals. It's tough to pitch to a team where half the guys are unknowns.
USA has to beat Mexico then needs Korea to beat Japan
Good luck to the US. I don't want Tha DR playing South Korea in the finals. It's tough to pitch to a team where half the guys are unknowns.
Korea will beat Japan, and USA will beat Mexico.
Roger Clemens pitching, no problem.
If the game between Korea and Japan is won by Japan though, it has to be more than 7 runs scored.
Tie breaker and what not...
i live in the dominican republic.. and would love nothing more than to see us kick the out of puerto rico!!
GO DR GO!!
I think Japan will beat Korea leaving the USA out of the final round.
Japan won't score more than 7 runs so that is out of the question. USA just has to hope Korea beats Japan.
Korea can and will beat Japan.
GO US.
USA! USA! USA! USA!!!!!!
Jim Caple is the man. Check out his article onPage 2 My hate for the yankees is stronger then my love for USA!GO JAPAN!
1) Korea will NOT beat Nippon
2) I will be able to solve for pi before I figure out that frigging formula for the final four! SHEESH!!!
3) USA goes home, oh wait...I mean stays home...oh wait...uhhhh..i dunno
Moderator material.
P.S.
What city?
Korea wins. of a game. Go USA.
The Dominican Republic versus Cuba up next.
!@#$ Cuba and !@#$ Fidel
Nice. Korea beat Japan 2-1
All USA has to do is beat Mexico
Hopefully USA can knock out Mexico and then get some more home field officiating to help them beat Korea. Then Tha DR can destroy the US.
It's going as planned.
I don't know how Korea's pro leagues run but they look like they are in midseason form.Hopefully USA can knock out Mexico and then get some more home field officiating to help them beat Korea. Then Tha DR can destroy the US.
It's going as planned.
BTW, I don't know how anyone can even hit on Japan or Korea with those bizarre deliveries. There was one guy who was practically throwing grounders.
US vs. DR in the final. USA has a lead in the ninth, all the American fans are full of cheer and glee, one out to go, all Brad Lidge has to do is get one out. Two Dominicans get on base.
And up comes Albert Pujols.
...and he chokes...just like in the playoffs!
USA doesn't even make it.
The overpaid spoiled es can go back to being pampered by their teams.....
They must have lost to Mexciopiece of ing Mexico!
They said there was a chance they could still get in with a loss to Mexico but I don't know how.
I don't know that the fact that the players are paid well is what made the difference in that tournament.
I do think, though, that the tournament exposes an inherent problem in American sports -- the lingering effects of the Sports Center mentality. Team USA struggled in the WBC because it couldn't do little things well: they didn't run the bases well, they didn't catch the ball well, and they couldn't advance runners. I think that is the result of having a generation of players who have seen that s om comes not from doing those sorts of things, but from doing spectacular things -- hitting the ball out of the park, in particular. When Team USA couldn't get the long ball, they had no short game, so to speak, to carry them through. Couple that with some poor defense, which made the pitchers get extra outs, and with pitching that was pretty shaky on a number of occasions (paging Dontrelle Willis), and the Americans just couldn't do the things that must be done to win. The Koreans, by comparison, do those things extremely well and haven't yet been beaten.
I don't think it helped Team USA to have Buck Martinez at the helm. I found some of his managerial decisions, particularly with regard to putting together lineups and making subs utions, to be highly questionable.
I think the Dominicans win this thing.
So you guys lost to Canada, Mexico and Korea?
Everyone hop aboard The D.R. Bandwagon. Nobody wants to see Cuba, Korea or Mexico win this thing.
All aboard.
or Japan.Everyone hop aboard The D.R. Bandwagon. Nobody wants to see Cuba, Korea or Mexico win this thing.
All aboard.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and call this shot:
I'm willing to guarantee that Mexico will NOT win the World Baseball Classic.
(politely reminding timvp that the Mexicans have already been eliminated)
U.S. eliminated from WBC with 2-1 loss to Mexico
Associated Press
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Roger Clemens was a loser in what might have been the final start of his outstanding career, and Mexico eliminated Team USA from the World Baseball Classic.
Oliver Perez and seven relievers combined to pitch a three-hitter Thursday night as Mexico beat the Rocket and the United States 2-1, giving Japan another shot at Korea in the WBC semifinals.
The outcome was a stunner, considering Team USA fielded a lineup loaded with All-Stars even without Derrek Lee and Johnny Damon, sidelined with sore left shoulders.
Korea had a 3-0 second-round record in Group One, with Team USA, Japan and Mexico all going 1-2. Japan earned the second semifinal berth from the group by allowing the fewest runs in games between the tied teams.
Japan, which has already lost twice to Korea in the Classic, faces its archrival in Saturday's opening semifinal game at Petco Park in San Diego, with the Dominican Republic meeting Cuba on Saturday night. The winners play Monday night for the championship.
Clemens, who has won 341 games and struck out 4,502 batters in his big-league career, has said he's leaning toward retirement after the Classic. He wasn't at his best against Mexico, allowing six hits and two runs in 4 1/3 innings with no walks and four strikeouts. He threw 73 pitches -- seven below the maximum for the second round.
Perez allowed only one hit in three scoreless innings, and the Mexican bullpen later retired 12 straight batters until Chipper Jones drew a one-out walk off Jorge De La Rosa in the ninth. Luis Ayala then walked Alex Rodriguez, but David Cortes needed only one pitch, getting Vernon Wells to ground into a game-ending double play.
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