Mar 23, 2017
The World Baseball Classic is nearing the finals and this has
Chip and Cern excited.
Both Chip and Cern were pissed when baseball was cut from the
Olympic sports which is where the WBC idea came from.
Japan won the first two WBC titles, and the USA has not even
made the final game.
Cern likes the WBC, but doesn’t get too hyped about it. It
feeds his need for early season baseball.
Both Chip and Cern like that the players can play with their
chosen country even if they weren’t born there.
Again from Wikipedia:
A player is eligible to participate on a World Baseball Classic
team if any one of the following criteria is met:[10]
- The player is a citizen of the nation the team represents.
- The player is qualified for citizenship or to hold a passport
under the laws of a nation represented by a team, but has not been
granted citizenship or been issued a passport; in this case, the
player may be made eligible by WBCI upon petition by the
player or team.
- The player is a permanent legal resident of the nation or
territory the team represents.
- The player was born in the nation or territory the team
represents.
- The player has one parent who is, or if deceased was, a citizen
of the nation the team represents.
- The player has one parent who was born in the nation or
territory the team represents.[11]
Quickly Chip and Cern get pulled into a stat worm hole whilst
looking for Dontelle Willis’ stats.
Cern has a grudge against Michael Saunders because he hit a
grand slam when Cern had him beached on his fantasy baseball
team.
Jose Reyes did have a domestic incident against him which
caused him to be suspended for a few games last season. This
incident took place in Hawaii, so Chip and Cern thought this would
be caused by him looking for some “Maui Beaver” and was caught by
his wife.
Chip and Cern played with someone in high school who was on
the Israel World Baseball Classic team.
Chip and Cern dig deep into Chinese Taipei team, what country
it actually is and they just get more and more
confused.
Looking through teams rosters to see what players they knew.
Some teams had nobody knew.
Japan and Puerto Rico are undefeated and looking very strong
there.
Both Chip and Cern think that the USA team doesn’t have the
same sense of pride that the other teams seem to have. Some really
big names are absent from this WBC.
The horns, chanting, bells and other soccer type noises really
have been annoying.
Overall Chip and Cern like the WBC, but don’t like the United
States chances.
Update: The United States will face the undefeated Puerto Rico
team Wednesday March 22nd in the WBC finals.
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