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Column: USA Needs To Win; US Needs To Be Serious About WBC
Topic Started: Saturday Mar 7 2009, 11:30 AM (326 Views)
WeatherManNX01
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The Yanks are coming!

This is a good column from ESPN's Jayson Stark about the state of the World Baseball Classic.

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So Mike Krzyzewski and the Redeem Team thought they felt pressure, huh?

What their little Olympic basketball ensemble faced in Beijing last summer was a Caribbean cruise compared to the pressure facing Davey Johnson and Team USA this month.

We're not asking them merely to win the World Baseball Classic.

We're asking them to save the World Baseball Classic.

Oh, Bud Selig wouldn't agree with that assessment. We know that. We know, in fact, because we've asked him.

The commish would tell us -- and has told us -- that this event was a humongous success around the globe three years ago, and it's going to be a humongous success around the globe this year, no matter who wins.

He's right, of course, on many levels.

But what about this portion of the globe?


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Cougar
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Facing Canada today...we have offense...no pitching.
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WeatherManNX01
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The Yanks are coming!

One game won and done. B)
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