2009 World Baseball Classic official thread of baseball classics

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Japan Korea live now.

Also, ratings news:

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* Round One attendance in 2009 surpassed the attendance from Round One of the 2006 World Baseball Classic by approximately 38%. More than 450,000 fans attended Round One games in 2009 compared with just over 326,000 fans for the inaugural World Baseball Classic.

* The Tokyo Dome recorded three sellouts in the first round, selling out each of the three Japan games on March 5th against China, March 7th against Korea and March 9th against Korea.

* Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico drew a sellout crowd of 19,483 on March 9th for the game between Puerto Rico and the Netherlands, and duplicated the feat with 19,501 fans in attendance for a rematch between the teams in the Pool D championship game on March 11th.

* Saturday’s game between the United States and Canada drew 43,000 fans to the Rogers Centre. Only three games between the Blue Jays and Yankees, and three games between the Jays and Red Sox had a higher attendance at the venue over the last year.
* Toronto’s Rogers Centre set a single-day merchandise sales record for a non-World Series baseball event on March 7th, during the opening day of Pool C which featured the United States taking on Canada and Italy vs. Venezuela.

* The game between the United States and Canada on ESPN on Saturday, March 7th drew a 1.4 rating with 1,850,000 viewers tuning in. It was the third-most watched sports telecast on cable last week.

* Sunday night’s game between the United States and Venezuela posted a 2.0 rating with 2,645,000 viewers tuning in, ranking as the most watched World Baseball Classic game ever, eclipsing the 2006 second round game between Mexico and the U.S. which was seen by 2,458,000 people. In addition, it was the most watched sporting event on basic cable for the week.

* Saturday night’s game between Japan and Korea delivered a 37.8 rating in Japan, topping the 28.2 for the tournament opener on Thursday to rank as the highest-rated sports telecast in that country since the 2006 World Baseball Classic Final between Japan and Cuba (43.4), including the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

* Domestic television ratings for the 2009 World Baseball Classic Round One games broadcast on ESPN averaged a 1.3 rating, up over 40% from 2006. The four games averaged 1,745,000 viewers, up almost 90% compared to 2006 Round One games.

* Five of the 2009 World Baseball Classic Round One games were the highest-rated non-soccer events ever broadcast on ESPN Deportes, including the March 10th contest between Cuba and Australia which posted a 3.3 rating, the station’s highest-rated Round One game.


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Mercy rule game for Korea vs Venezuela? :lol 5-0 first inning, Korea leading.
Venezuela has already made some terrible errors. Let's see if they can hold Korea down to just those 5.
 
Ahh, well I guess we can look forward to a possible blow out. Then again, Venezuela's doing much better now, so it may not happen.
 
just came to post these:
Y2Kev said:
the entire korean team looks like JRPG characters
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Y2Kev said:
the korean pitcher:

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yes... grow to hate us!
 
So I met this Japanese kid who was talking mad-crazy shit about the Koreans and their baseball team.

So much fuckin hate :lol You guys are ethnically/genetically/racially the same exact shit. Make love, not warcraft.
 
Man, the commentary on US ESPN sucks for some reason. The streaming HK version is much better. Why is that, different casters?
 
Tie Game! My stream is about 4 minutes slow though, but I can't stand the commentary on the actual television :lol
If anyone is watching the HK/CH stream, do you know who is doing the commentary?
 
Mirimar said:
He's doing the US commentary? Then who is doing the other?
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Not sure.

Wow, almost forgot Philips. I think I blocked him out mentally. I just literally listened to Joe Morgan talk for 10 minutes and not say a damn thing.
 
KHarvey16 said:
Lol 4th inning. 6 won't be enough tonight.
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Why not? I'm pretty sure Japanese pitcher can handle major league lineup pretty well.
I agree that 4 runs are not much but is not like they're facing minor league pitching.
 
Astros suck.

Although a Japan/Korea final would be cool. They have played each other four times this tournament and it's tied up 2-2. Best of five!
 
That pitch to David Wright was WAAAYYYYYYY outisde. He caught a humungeous break, Wright was on all of his pitches.

C'mon, Adam. Make defense irrelevant with your power!!
 
clemenx said:
Why not? I'm pretty sure Japanese pitcher can handle major league lineup pretty well.
I agree that 4 runs are not much but is not like they're facing minor league pitching.
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Even if we consider Japanese pitchers to be equal to MLB pitchers in their ability to handle the lineup(an arguable point), it's very early spring and none of them have had much work. That favors hitters on both sides.
 
The Frankman said:
That pitch to David Wright was WAAAYYYYYYY outisde. He caught a humungeous break, Wright was on all of his pitches.

C'mon, Adam. Make defense irrelevant with your power!!
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Gotta protect with 2 strikes. The last pitch he swung at and fouled off was more outside than that.
 
KHarvey16 said:
Even if we consider Japanese pitchers to be equal to MLB pitchers in their ability to handle the lineup(an arguable point), it's very early spring and none of them have had much work. That favors hitters on both sides.
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I'd consider the Japanese pitchers on this team to be ML level, they're supposed to be the aces of Nippon Baseball.
And IIRC the Japanese team had a real preparation to the tourney, so did the Koreans, i think thats the main reason of the success of both teams. Neither the latins nor the Americans had a real preparation for this.
 
clemenx said:
I'd consider the Japanese pitchers on this team to be ML level, they're supposed to be the aces of Nippon Baseball.
And IIRC the Japanese team had a real preparation to the tourney, so did the Koreans, i think thats the main reason of the success of both teams. Neither the latins nor the Americans had a real preparation for this.
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Japan began training a couple days after pitchers and catchers reported to spring training in the MLB. Barring personal preparation on either team I'd say they're pretty equal.
 
Sadaharu Oh almost killed edit: Sutcliffe with a line drive up the middle.

Anyway, it's close to worrying time now. Need to capitalize on our chances...I'm looking at you, Mr. Wright.
 
Man, I'm at work so I can't be seeing this, but if Japan holds on I'm going to be sending congratulatory emails to a lot of deliriously happy people. 日本頑張れ！
 
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