Go ahead and scream racism you f*&cking Pinheads.
Okay, It’s not really much of a manifesto. We(yea, we’re adopting the royal “WE”, cuts down on the feeling of personal culpability WHEN something stupid is inevitably said) just re-read our last post and realized we have an affinity for repeating ourselves.
But Oh well:
WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC :
If you aren’t watchin this then FUCK YOU.
So far we have seen:
The Dominican Republic and Carlos Marmol get kickf*&cked right out of the tournament by The Dutch.
That’s right, a lineup consisting of this:
Arredondo, Jose 66
Cueto, Johnny 46
Jimenez, Ubaldo 38
Manon, Julio 20
Marmol, Carlos 49
Marte, Damaso 43
Martinez, Pedro 45
Pena, Tony 58
Perez, Odalis 57
Perez, Rafael 53
Tavarez, Julian 51
Viola, Pedro 44
Volquez, Edinson
CATCHERS
Brito, Juan 25
Castillo, Alberto 33
Olivo, Miguel 21
INFIELDERS
Aybar, Willy 16
Cano, Robinson 24
Ortiz, David 34
Ramirez, Hanley 2
Reyes, Jose 7
Tatis, Fernando 14
Tejada, Miguel 10
OUTFIELDERS
Alou, Moises 18
Bautista, Jose 23
Cruz, Nelson 15
Guillen, Jose 11
Taveras, Willy
were sent packing by this.
Check the birth-dates on the major league affiliated players.
At one point during the Puerto Rico/Netherlands game a 19 year old Red’s prospect, who had never pitched above the high school level, struck out Ivan Rodriguez and induced Carlos Beltran into a weak ground out to first, working his way out of a bases loaded jam and preserving the lead.
His catcher was a twenty-one year old Double AA ball player.
YU DARVISH made eighteen game winner for Boston, Daisuke Matsuzaka, look unpolished, nervous, and overall extraneous as he showed that tossing a shitload of junk amidst some gems isn’t dominance. Everything hurts in a hurricane Daisuke. Even alliteration.
Not that that really illustrated the point( see–make a muddled metaphor, go ahead and cling to the cliche, alliteration-an inside look at the mind of a tipsy hack)
Chipper Jones and his N.L. batting title pull an oblique muscle(now reported to be healthy enough to play in RD. 2) Don’t do these things major league stars. If anything is going to kill this tournament it’s going to be injuries/poor seasons from Big Money players.
Canada eliminated.
Joey Votto looked spectacular though. Cinci fans have a reason to go to their beautiful park.
Puerto Rico is the anti-island of misfit toys for catchers. Here is their depth chart:
AND they have been using a DH in their pool, so guess who has been filling in? Numbers one and three(Eat a D**ck number two…..guess what team he plays for?)
We’re not a fan.
Puerto Rico is 3-0 and 6-0 in overall WBC first round play.
CHINA A baseball program built from the ground up by American Ex-pat’s(Jim Lefebvre, Terry Collins) China may be gone from the tourney after a loss to Korea, but it boasts very few MLB players, the only notable I can name from watching is Ray Chang, their shortstop who played well despite their losses, and is an American born player from Kansas City. The growing Chinese baseball program is just one among the many reasons that this tournament IS IMPORTANT, especially considering the lack of Olympic support for the sport.
SOMEONE needs to throw their support behind this tournament. Someone with a national audience and the credentials/passion/eloquence to make people understand that for FIVE FUCKING OUTS of an “EXHIBITION” game 19 year old Juan Carlos Sulbaran(he doesn’t have a pro stats link, not fucking one) pitched his brains out against the stacked P.R. team. It was so goddamn electrifying. Watch the replay you nay-saying pissants.
Henry Blanco finally Cubs related, hit an 0-1 fastball into the seats to give Venezuela their eventual 5-3 lead over the USA today. Who’d Hank White own? Ted Fuckin Lilly.
Lilly went four, giving up that one run. Ted being Ted.
I know, this blog was weak with factual information, but we promise daily blogging and pertinent, Cub related information from here on out.(Okay, maybe once S.T. is over)
Today was the first Cub day off since the beginning of spring training. Someone goes tomorrow against someone. Oh, shit, I just remembered, it’s the CUBS VS. THE JAPANESE NATIONAL TEAM.
AWKWARD?
