The WBC Begins

by Craig Calcaterra
March 5, 2009

The WBC has begun, with Japan beating China 4-0 in the opener. For those of you who shut down the computer at 5 yesterday and didn’t see my last post of the day, here are the reasons why this is about as expansive as I’m likely to get with respect to the World Baseball Classic this year.

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Sal Paradise

15 years ago

Reactions from the Chinese (interview in Yokohama’s Chinatown from the morning news):

Interviewer: Did you know that Japan is playing China in the WBC tonight?
Chinese Woman: I had no idea. Does it really matter? It’s not like China will win. We don’t care about baseball.

In other news, the Chinese placed first and second in female ski jump trick stuff. Clearly they care about that sport.

BAL	CHW	LAA
BOS	CLE	OAK
NYY	DET	SEA
TBR	KCR	TEX
TOR	MIN	HOU

ATL	CHC*	ARI
MIA	CIN	COL
WSN	MIL	LAD
NYM*	PIT	SDP*
PHI	STL	SFG