However, I can get excited about the World Baseball Classic.
For two reasons actually. One, the International Baseball Federation is headed by a Citadel grad:
Dr. Harvey Schiller is trying to turn one of the greatest double plays in baseball history. As president of the International Baseball Federation, the Citadel graduate essentially is presiding over a World Baseball Classic he hopes you embrace as much better than the inaugural WBC of 2006. Schiller also wants to parlay the progress into getting baseball back into the Olympics for the 2016 games, ideally in Chicago or Tokyo.
And two, they have some damn good baseball games.
Don’t say that to Tommy Lasorda though:
“Can you believe this? Look at the score. I feel so bad about this,” Tom Lasorda, Hall of Fame manager and WBC global ambassador, said from his seat behind home plate.
“I’m very, very disappointed. We had high hopes. This is the second time we were supposed to win. We taught these people the game.”Instead, Japan gave the lessons on American soil.Matsuzaka sent his country into Monday night’s title game against South Korea, a 10-2 winner over Venezuela in Saturday’s semifinal. Japan won the inaugural tournament in 2006, defeating Cuba in the final.
As of this writing Japan was ahead 2-1.
Gambare Nihon!
UPDATE!: Nihon wins! Nihon wins! HOLY COW NIHON WINS!
Details here.