lostinube Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 (edited) Please listen to a better call than the one we did! Edited March 21 by lostinube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubbymark Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 (edited) 49 minutes ago, Cobra Commander said: The only thing missing from that was LARIATOOOOOOOOOOOO! And Keith Olbermann wants to tell me the WBC is meaningless. Edited March 21 by cubbymark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 My favorite part of that clip is that the team Ohtani's on actually wins the game. I am shock Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raziel Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 This will be the only way you see Trout and Ohtani in a title game. At least until next year when Ohtani gets the fuck out of Anaheim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted March 21 Share Posted March 21 Trea Turner once again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supremebve Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 I hope you all are watching this with your rally caps on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoBaltimore Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 I am rooting so hard for Japan. Don't wanna jinx anything but my goodness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 Over? Who said it's over? Was it over when the Ge..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 Ohtani's warming up... Trout is set to bat 3rd next inning... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nice Guy Eddie Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 11 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said: Ohtani's warming up... Trout is set to bat 3rd next inning... Nothing to do with the WBC, but I always really liked everything about Limp Bizkit, aside from Fred Durst. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikoBaltimore Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 Holy fuck you can't ask for a better ending. Congrats, @lostinube! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supremebve Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 Ohtani vs. Trout was a great ending. There is a very good case that those are the two best players in the world right now, and Ohtani flat out blew him away. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 Go down the list and Japan was the better team in this tournament. The toughest team the US beat in the WBC was Venezuela. Japan basically cut through everybody they played. Japan sent a Japan series winning manager to handle this job. The US sent a TV talking head. The Angels are gonna be even more screwed when Ohtani leaves them and they're back to Trout as their cornerstone guy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John from Cincinnati Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 (edited) Trout vs Ohtani was a great main event. Think the WBC has a chance to win the Best Booking award this year. Edited March 22 by John from Cincinnati 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 That was awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 Maybe, Mike Trout is The Man Called Sting of Baseball. On the surface, Trout and Sting are really awesome, but they could both get dinged for things that he's not entirely responsible for (The Angels not building around Trout, WCW being a mess for most of Sting's times on the top) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dolfan in NYC Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 Best in the world, indeed. God damn. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt925 Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 She was on tv all night with tozawa. Wonder if they were as excited to be on tv as I was at dynamite. Jk. That was very fun to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubbymark Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 3 hours ago, Cobra Commander said: Go down the list and Japan was the better team in this tournament. The toughest team the US beat in the WBC was Venezuela. Japan basically cut through everybody they played. Japan sent a Japan series winning manager to handle this job. The US sent a TV talking head. Health problems aside, would Terry Francona have been the best pick to manage Team USA if we were really going to take this seriously? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Commander Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 (edited) 23 minutes ago, cubbymark said: Health problems aside, would Terry Francona have been the best pick to manage Team USA if we were really going to take this seriously? I would be shocked if an active MLB manager went off to manage any WBC team. It would be asking for trouble at home if his actual team struggled during that season. The US managers before DeRosa were Buck Martinez in 2006 (who managed for the Blue Jays in 2001-02), Davey Johnson in 2009 (two years before he spent 3 years with the Nationals), Joe Torre in 2013 (three years post-Dodgers), and Jim Leyland in 2017 (four years post-Tigers). Of those four, Buck Martinez was the only one that wasn't in his 60s/70s during the tournament. Your best unemployed managers in baseball right now are, in no particular order, Joe Maddon, Joe Girardi, and then the name recognition of available managers probably drops unless you're up for "Ned Yost, Team USA Manager" or you think that Tony LaRussa isn't a total fossil (he is). Paul Molitor and Don Mattingly are two of the most recent winners of Manager of the Year awards who are unemployed. Mike Shildt also won that award and got bounced from his job anyways. (edit: just realized there's a butterfly effect from the Astros scandal to the 2023 Team USA manager.. Astros Scandal meant Beltran never managed the Mets, instead Rojas managed the team for 2 years, and he was replaced by Showalter. If Showalter was unemployed, he seems like exactly the type of ex-manager who would fit in with Leyland/Torre/Davey) Of course I leave out one elephant in the room which is "if you're bringing in a former manager, it better not be a guy who'll drive off any potential players" (Maddon managed Trout, Shildt managed the eleventy billion Cardinals on the roster, Girardi managed some of the Phillies before getting fired, who knows how fond stars are of their recent ex-managers) Maybe DeRosa got picked because he didn't have enemies, and that approach might work for political candidates but DeRosa just seemed clueless once things got rolling. Like he needed someone on the coaching staff with more managerial chops than Jerry Manuel to help him through his first 7 games as a manager of anything. Edited March 22 by Cobra Commander 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostinube Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 I was at work when the game was going on but keeping track on Amazon Prime and the WBC site. Couldn't really cheer but when Ohtani struck out Trout a shiver went through me. Every single Japan WBC so far scored a 40 plus in the TV ratings in Japan. The semi-final "only" got a 42.5 (with a high of 47.7) due to it being in the morning even though it was a national holiday - had it been during prime time (or golden time as it's called in Japan) - it probably would have gained the highest baseball rating ever (a Yomiuri Giants/Chunichi Dragons game at the end of the 94 season that determined the league champion that got a 48.8). The quarterfinal with Italy got close with a 48.0. And this is not including the numbers from Amazon Prime so it's very likely that half the country was tuning into the games. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travis Sheldon Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 And here I was thinking Ohtani buzz couldn't get any bigger. Hopefully he stays healthy and surpasses Babe Ruth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greggulator Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 That was some Ken Burns stuff last night. The whole tournament was an absolute blast. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobbyWhioux Posted March 22 Share Posted March 22 Both teams hit two solo homers. The difference ended up being that RBI groundout in a bases loaded situation. Not a big grand slam, but the correct fundamental approach. I am deeply pleased by this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubbymark Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 I was flabbergasted every time I saw Jerry Manuel in the Team USA dugout. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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