The party’s over.  Life as we know it can resume.  And I’m sure that those of you who are Korean are glad that I was never able to successfully convince anyone to make last night’s game a competition for the rights to Dokdo. In both an amazing game and a crushing blow to Korean national [...]

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Brace yourselves.  It happened. The baseball gods (in whom I don’t believe–See Principle of Separation of Church and Sports) have graced this Classic with just the kind of drama and intrigue that was necessary to make it deeply compelling to people everywhere.  Well, Korean and Japanese people everywhere.  Not to mention me.  Though, I am [...]

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For those of us hoping to make the WBC final a Japanese-Korean battle for Dokdo, we couldn’t have hoped for a better outcome to last night’s game.  You see, despite my loyalty to team Korea, I think Japan’s 6-2 victory works to everyone advantage.  Having evened the score, we can now treat a potential Korea-Japan [...]

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First the Dutch, now the Puerto Ricans. What an upset. That’s right, while you were busy ogling pictures of A-Weird ogling himself, Team U.S.A. was busy dogpiling to celebrate their 3-1 victory over Puerto Rico.  That is, according to David Wright, anyway, who was the hero of last night’s game.  Dee Dubs commented, “I never [...]

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Today marks the beginning of the second round of the WBC. Anyone else psyched? The matchups are as follows: Venezuela will meet the lean mean Dutch machine in Miami.  And may I just offer them (the Venezuelans) my sympathies in advance.  I mean, don’t get me wrong.  The Venezuelans aren’t TERRIBLE.  They have a few [...]

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