Author Topic: Around Baseball  (Read 421679 times)

JR

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Re: Around Baseball
« Reply #20535 on: March 16, 2023, 02:03:21 pm »
What really stinks about it is the WBC could actually be a really great event at some point.  I was watching a tiny bit of the Japan-Italy game this morning, and the Japanese fans sold their stadium out and were really enthusiastic about it.  For it to ever really be great, though, it needs to be held in season and not be treated here as glorified spring training.  An injury like Diaz in spring training is just the kind of thing that will keep it from ever happening and might even actually kill it off.  It's literally the biggest nightmare scenario teams have when they send their players off for it.  It especially stinks when it happens in an event most of us consider a glorified exhibition instead of a major international event.