2009 World Baseball Classic official thread of baseball classics
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Damnit, ESPN cut off the broadcast. Any streams working for the Mac? This stream is the only one I could find and it's not loading.
vas_a_morir
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Fuck Team Japan. In anticipation for next year, I'm working on how to explain in Japanese why Team USA doesn't have the best talent available playing for it. Fuck, CC's fat-ass was sitting in the stands eating a damn hot dog.
LiveFromKyoto
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vas_a_morir said:
Hey, that's on America, that's no excuse. The Japanese owners let their guys go, and all their players had enough pride to show up.
Found a stream: http://nbasoccerlive.info/live1.html
I think I just saw Daisuke getting the MVP award.
I think I just saw Daisuke getting the MVP award.
DevelopmentArrested
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vas_a_morir said:
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you had Jeter playing Shortstop and Adam Dunn in RF. I repeat you had Jimmy Rollins at DH, Derek Jeter at SS and Adam Dunn in RF/1B.
The Frankman
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Since apparently people like baseball now:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=15212454&postcount=1186
Need 1 more player for the league.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=15212454&postcount=1186
Need 1 more player for the league.
vas_a_morir
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LiveFromKyoto said:
Yeah. True enough. There needs to be better incentives. Oh well. 2012 here we come.
DevelopmentArrested said:
You? Oh boy.
Do I sense some non-Japanese bandwagoners in this thread? Some of you guys seem a little too happy for Team Japan. Just because you live there doesn't make it okay to turn on the home team! That's like a Yankees fan becoming a Red Sox fan just because he moved to Boston. You see, me? I'm what is known as a "hater." I don't like to see others have joy and success, and thus, I "hate" on them to make me feel better. Some of you guys are "bandwagoners," who see those having joy and success, and say "I will pretend like I'm them because it makes me seem like a winner. Even though, deep down, I know I'm a complete fraud."
Still, I have hope for the future. The talent level was far better this year than last time. I can only hope it gets better next time. Also, do you guys NOW see why I'm glad Adam Dunn is gone? He'll break your heart 10 times for every time he does something good.
DevelopmentArrested
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vas_a_morir said:
Puhlease. 90% of Red Sox and Yankees fans are bandwagoners.
JP Ricciardi was right. Dunn has no heart.
The Frankman
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Is the Korean manager staying out there as form of penance? OMG this is nuts... quite literally suicide-watch.
Holy crap vas I gotta say that's an epic post. Now go back to being the main Reds mouthpiece, switch to an anime avatar and let us rock bitches in the OT MLB thread.
Holy crap vas I gotta say that's an epic post. Now go back to being the main Reds mouthpiece, switch to an anime avatar and let us rock bitches in the OT MLB thread.
Stopped reading after that. Every team has bandwagoners. Your percentage is hilariously wrong though.DevelopmentArrested said:
vas_a_morir
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DevelopmentArrested said:
Fuck yeah. Dunn will always and forever break your heart.
Anyway, enough hate, I must congratulate a country that still loves baseball and has amazing talent that my team can never afford. Congrats team Japan!
juicyfruitas
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WTF? Yu Darvish looks like he was designed by Square-Enix
I was watching the last two innings in Little Tokyo L.A. Everyone at the bar I'm at went crazy when Darvish struck out the last batter. Congratualtions to Japan, they deserved it. I was at the Japan v US game yesterday, and even though Jeter through the game away, Japan was the better team.
Now l'm just waiting for the flood of Japanese from Dodger Stadium to infiltrate the bar I'm at. Should be fun.
Now l'm just waiting for the flood of Japanese from Dodger Stadium to infiltrate the bar I'm at. Should be fun.
Jamesfrom818
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El Papa said:
Sigh...
Ah well. I was feeling tired anyway.
C- Warrior
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juicyfruitas said:
So true. :lol
I'm shocked that half Iranian half Japanese works. Figured the genes would clash and the child would self destruct in the zygote stage.
C- Warrior
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From an article @ worldbaseballclassic.com / mlb.com
I actually believe the Korean manager on this. The situation was basically "pitch to him, but don't give him a strike, you walk - so be it." But apparently there was something lost in communication and the pitcher actually -pitched- to him. Sad.
mlb.com said:
I actually believe the Korean manager on this. The situation was basically "pitch to him, but don't give him a strike, you walk - so be it." But apparently there was something lost in communication and the pitcher actually -pitched- to him. Sad.
jamesinclair
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Mirimar said:
It really should be every 2-3 years. 4 is way too long.
At least with soccer you have the euro, gold cup, copa america etc.
AbortedWalrusFetus
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C- Warrior said:
You would have thought that after eight pitches the catcher would have done SOMETHING to signal to him that he should be walking him. I'm not sure what was going on there.
Welp, the users at Nicovideo got a hold of Ichiro's game winning double :lol
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/video/niconico/sm6532680
Captured the Korean manager's reaction perfectly.
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/video/niconico/sm6532680
Captured the Korean manager's reaction perfectly.
And here are highlights from the game. The play from left field to 2nd base for the out by Japan is at 2:30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ7pmG3gSts&fmt=22
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ7pmG3gSts&fmt=22
LiveFromKyoto
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C- Warrior said:
I believe him too, just because giving up 2nd to the runner didn't make much sense unless they were just going to put Ichiro on 1st anyway.
To be fair, it kind of didn't matter. Even if they walk Ichiro, Aoki's up right behind him, and he's not much less of a threat - you don't want him up there with the bases loaded any more than you want Ichiro batting with 2 on.
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cvxfreak said:
Because the Internet would explode with Korean arrogant boasting and anti-Japanese slurs if they had won. Nothing against the Korean team, but that country is a bit too fanatical when it comes to international events.
Brofist
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I actually really wanted Japan to lose the final, until I saw my coworkers breaking out their 1segs and watching the game during work. I was so shocked to see an otherwise reserved group actually ditching work for half an afternoon to watch the game that I found myself rooting for Japan as well :lol
Kinda surprised at the Korean hate in here though, seems to be coming most from other living in Japan. Has the Japanese brainwashing completely set in on you guys
Kinda surprised at the Korean hate in here though, seems to be coming most from other living in Japan. Has the Japanese brainwashing completely set in on you guys
mrnorush said:
There is a reason for their low amount of Baseball teams, they are very hard to get on, they also get training from pro players.
Korea doesn't mess around when it comes to baseball. (Neither does Japan, but they do take a more open approach to it)
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Blackace said:
Aso is an idiot. What's new? I think he has a quota or something where he has to say something retarded at least once a week.
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mrnorush said:
They did amazingly well. If they had walked Ichiro instead of pitching to him like normal at the end there, I wouldn't have been surprised in the slightest if they had won.
Didn't they only have one MLB player on their team, too? There is definitely something to be said about the dedication and motivation of a team that consists of players who aren't making millions every year on the MLB and are still trying to prove themselves to the world.
Once massive amounts of money get involved it seems like all motivation is lost for events that don't necessarily involve a large sum of cash.
Blackace
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sprsk said:
Both Japan and Korea are graceless winners.. just in different ways.
When they win they do love to gloat about it. Nothing is wrong with some pride in your country. But you know it can be a little over the top sometimes..
However when Japan loses they just go into pity mode... I would have loved to see them lose just to see how they would spin it. If it were to a western country they would just blame it on the fact that westerns are "strong"...
C- Warrior
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Does anyone have stats/ratings on the Korea/Japan game. I'm betting a tv rating of 45+ in japan and/or korea.
Aruarian Reflection
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sprsk said:
Agreed. As I posted earlier in this thread, there are no better fans than Koreans and they electrify any event, but they can get obnoxious when they win. One of my all time sports memories is watching the archery events at the Beijing Olympics. A Chinese lady beat the #3, #2, #1 archers in the world (all South Korean) to win the gold medal. Absolutely thrilling matches with the best crowd I've ever seen at a sports event. The disbelief by the Koreans when China kept winning was amazing
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Blackace said:
This pisses me off too. There is no, "too bad we lost, but what a great game!" Or, "our guys did good out there, but the other team just played better." It is all "I hope they try harder next time." or "Too bad. I wished they tried harder!" or as you say with western countries "the Japanese just can't stand up to xxxx."
I really hate watching the Olympics on Japanese TV because of their announcers.
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C- Warrior said:
I doubt they are released yet, but the 4th game between Korea and Japan got around 40% so I bet this last match was even higher.
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