WBC post!

It's not popular or well-viewed or particularly interesting. But the WBC is still baseball.

And I have to say, the U.S.'s 6-5 victory over Puerto Rico was the first time the tournament ever really hooked me in. I like corny subplots in baseball (sue me, I'm an old-timer), and the United States coming from behind in the ninth to topple the same dudes that killed them 11-1 a few days ago just felt kind of cool. Like the 1980 hockey team, which lost to loaded Russia 10-3 in a pre-tourney exhibition and then, of course, beat them 4-3 later on in the "Miracle on Ice." This wasn't really even close to that in terms of significance, but it was still very fun to watch, and I'm sure that it'll help the ratings for the finals next weekend.

I do have to point out one little flaw, since I'm kind of in an FJM-zone posting-wise. Your scene: bottom of the ninth inning, U.S. trailing 5-3, one out, runners at the corners, Jimmy Rollins up. The MLB.TV announcer (dunno his name; shockingly, though, it wasn't Harold Reynolds, who I actually thought was pretty good) says:

"If Rollins can get ahold of one here, he could definitely hit one deep enough for a sac fly."

He conveniently forgot to add, "Which would leave a runner at first with two outs and the United States still trailing 5-4, which would mean that they would basically need a miracle to win." Hence my repeated statements of: "What the fuck good would a sac fly do?"