They announced the rosters.

Devine, Joey R/R5'11" (180cm)205lbs (93kg)09/19/1983 USA team baby!

1/20/2009 12:20:27 AM

Awesome Go State!

Plz to not give up grand slam kkthanksbye.

1/20/2009 12:22:20 AM

double thread!

1/20/2009 12:23:44 AM

double thread suspend!

1/20/2009 12:32:39 AM

lol baseball

1/20/2009 12:36:21 AM

ibtl

1/20/2009 12:36:29 AM

I only hit it once. Weird.

1/20/2009 1:02:09 AM

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1/20/2009 8:49:09 AM

how's this work?

1/20/2009 8:54:33 AM

suspend.

1/20/2009 9:05:13 AM

oh shit

1/20/2009 9:36:24 AM

Fuck Gay-Rod

He was born in America and should play with the Americans.

1/20/2009 1:02:43 PM

good game here!

too bad Larry Jones sucks. left the bases loaded in the 8th

3/7/2009 4:52:30 PM

wonder which country a-rod will decide to play for next time around?

3/7/2009 4:54:18 PM

Quote :

"too bad Larry Jones sucks. left the bases loaded in the 8th"

i guess david wright and kevin youkilis and dustin pedroia suck as well, correct?

3/7/2009 4:56:51 PM

So the US is the home team, but the game is in Toronto....ok

[Edited on March 7, 2009 at 4:59 PM. Reason : or are all the games there?]

3/7/2009 4:58:40 PM

^all the games in that pool are in toronto

3/7/2009 5:00:31 PM

ah ok thx

3/7/2009 5:01:58 PM

yay, 6-5 win for USA over CANADA

3/7/2009 5:04:18 PM

woot

3/7/2009 5:05:07 PM

Quote :

"i guess david wright and kevin youkilis and dustin pedroia suck as well, correct?"

nah, they've all proven that they can have success in big games while Larry has never been able to do shit (aside from meaningless regular season games)

3/7/2009 5:05:55 PM

^.288 batting average in 92 postseason games. with 13 homers and 47 RBI's. Not earthshattering, but i wouldnt say he "hasn't done shit"

3/7/2009 5:08:03 PM

maybe I should have said he didn't do shit in the World Series, where it truly matters

16 games...15 hits

3/7/2009 5:17:36 PM

Quote :

"maybe I should have said he didn't do shit in the World Series, where it truly matters 16 games...15 hits"

Is there a major problem with having a .273 batting average?

[Edited on March 7, 2009 at 5:20 PM. Reason : How many Sox player have even played 16 World Series games?]

3/7/2009 5:20:03 PM

you're right. i can't think of a single member of the current Red Sox roster who has played in 3 World Series, let alone lost 2 of them

3/7/2009 5:25:52 PM

You're a Red Sox fan?

3/7/2009 5:30:11 PM

isn't he a white sox fan?

[Edited on March 7, 2009 at 5:33 PM. Reason : i didn't read this thread, at all. SORRY]

3/7/2009 5:32:44 PM

No shit

3/7/2009 5:33:03 PM

no way. I'm a fan of the other Sox

...I'm just bustin' balls because I've never liked Chipper

3/7/2009 5:33:53 PM

It's cool man

You can hate his ass all the way to Cooperstown

Chip don't care

3/7/2009 5:34:52 PM

as a lifelong, diehard baseball fan, a little piece of me dies every time I hear Chipper and HOF in the same conversation

3/7/2009 5:38:17 PM

Is it his career .310 average, 400 homeruns, or MVP award that you think should be holding him back?

3/7/2009 5:41:10 PM

the .310 is his saving grace
the 400 isn't
the MVP is what it is (yes, I think Mac and Sosa got jobbed that year)

3/7/2009 5:48:18 PM

^400 homeruns, #3 ALL-TIME for switch hitters. thats not helping him? seriously??

what a joke......anyways, i don't wanna hijack this thread anymore than it already is. Carry on with the WBC

3/7/2009 5:54:41 PM

Third basemen with 400+ homers

1. Schmidt
2. Matthews
3. Darrell Evans
4. Chipper

Quote :

"yes, I think Mac and Sosa got jobbed that year"

You're just being intentionally stupid here, right?

McGwire was fifth in MVP voting

Sosa was ninth

[Edited on March 7, 2009 at 5:59 PM. Reason : Chipper got 29/31 first place votes!]

3/7/2009 5:55:56 PM

400+ was quite an accomplishment in the 60s-80s


you gotta come with 500+ clean homers these days to be a lock

3/7/2009 5:58:27 PM

Did you see the part where exactly 3 third baseman in the history of baseball have hit more homers than Chipper?

3/7/2009 6:00:07 PM

don't get me wrong, Chipper had a nice year in '99


but Mark and Sammy saved the game with their back and forth HR battle. that's about as valuable as you can get

3/7/2009 6:03:07 PM

Quote :

"clean homers"

Neither did anything but hit homers though

Their teams finishing in the cellar probably didn't help their cause, either

Either you're dense as fuck or I'm getting trolled like fuck

[Edited on March 7, 2009 at 6:05 PM. Reason : ]

3/7/2009 6:05:43 PM

not a braves fan at all

but you have to say that jones was one of the best 3rd basemen of his generation

3/7/2009 6:08:47 PM

^^ oh, i remember 1999 quite well

and I also remember what the Cards did in the NLDS the very next year

[Edited on March 7, 2009 at 6:11 PM. Reason : ^]

3/7/2009 6:10:48 PM

^the next year, so not '99

3/7/2009 8:21:18 PM

Charlie Steiner is calling the Cuba/South Africa game. I miss this guy

3/8/2009 2:34:14 PM

clean homers are overrated.

3/8/2009 2:39:31 PM

Galarraga has pretty sick stuff...

3/8/2009 8:15:21 PM

bad start

3/8/2009 8:19:16 PM

I really don't understand why so many baseball fans are so apathetic to this. The players absolutely LOVE it and the baseball being played is pretty high quality for March.

Give me this over a split squad Nationals-Pirates game any spring...

3/8/2009 9:05:40 PM

guess who, from Venezuela, is regarded as the best shortstop-turned-World Series champion manager?

3/8/2009 9:09:07 PM

lol at Ollie Perez.

He dominates Philly, Atlanta and the Yankees... but is getting clobbered by a bunch of fucking Aussies...

[Edited on March 8, 2009 at 9:18 PM. Reason : gee, could it be orestes destrades?]

3/8/2009 9:17:56 PM

I hate Ozzie

3/8/2009 9:21:27 PM