WBC? I'm into it.

You know it's been a while since I wrote a blog when Goody's written several since my last one. And it's been a week since he wrote one.

Let's see. Boring ass weekend. The GF has a bad case of the "holy shit I'm so sick," so we didn't do to much. Caught up on sleep, watched a game here or there, read some more Lincoln. I'm getting into the World Baseball Classic or whatever it's called. I was skeptical, but I'm getting over it. The biggest drawback as far as I was concerned was the pitch counts. What that seems to have done though, is force pitchers to throw more strikes. Starters are still going deep into games in general, hell a guy from the Netherlands threw a no-hitter! (Of course the other team got run-ruled in the seventh, but whatever.)

No, the WBC has actually been pretty fun to watch. I expected the caribbean teams, and the asian teams to take it seriously, but the US players seem to be busting their asses. Also, it's an awful lot of fun for me to watch the gf try not to root for any of the Yankees on the team. Fun times.

Yesterday during the US/Japan game, there was a bit of a controversy, that of course the announcers wouldn't let drop. A Japanese player tagged up and scored on a fly ball to Left, only to be called out for leaving too early when the US appealed. On replay, it looked like a bad call. Don't really care about that though, my point is more this. If the games weren't mattering at all, could there possibly be an umpiring controversy?