Wbc??

[MaTH716]

Originally Posted by SniperSB23

Why are they doing this again this year? Once every four seasons start the regular season two weeks early, schedule some doubleheaders during the season, and start the next playoff series as soon as the two teams finish their previous one and you could shave a month off the end. If you play the WBC then, when everyone is actually in shape and guys can pitch complete games then people would actually care. Even if they don't want to do it after the World Series they should only do it once every four years if they ever want anyone to care.

The pitching part is the main reason/knock (for me at least). You have the teams number one's pitcher coming out of games after 2 or 3 perfect innings. How can this give this tourney any kind of meaning/creditability. The whole thing is non-sense.
It is kind of a shame for the Neatherlands. What they did is amazing. You would think that if anyone cared, the magnitude of the upset would almost be comparable to the U.S upset of Russia in the olympics. But since the tourney is pretty much a farse, it will just go down as a footnote.