On Friday, Bernie Williams told reporters that he may not be ready to call it a game just yet. My first reaction to this news is a pretty definitive, “Oy.” As someone who loves Bernie, who cares about his well-being, it is important to me that he not play fast and loose with his dignity.  [...]

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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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In an article inside the World Baseball Classic program-a publication as noted and respected as the one inside the front pocket of an airline seat-Derek Jeter is quoted as saying, “The last three years, all you hear from the players, everyone’s asking [each other] if they’re going to play in the Classic.” Oh, Jeet.  That’s [...]

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I know mine may not be the majority opinion on this one, but I love the World  Baseball Classic. Maybe it’s that I sort of like nationalism when it’s being expressed by countries that aren’t international superpowers.  (Ever notice how it sounds festive and spirited for a group of people to chant, say, “Venezuela” whereas [...]

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My boys in Korea are off to a good start. They won a 9-0 victory in tonight’s game against Taiwan at the Tokyo Dome.  And I don’t just know that because I’m prescient.  It’s that whole international dateline thing.  I know; had you going for a second. As if the shutout blowout win occurring several [...]

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As you have probably heard by now, Frost Tip has a hip injury that is threatening to keep him from the Classic.  I’m no doctor, but if I had to guess, I’d say that the injury was probably the result of overuse-if there’s one thing that’s sure to cause a strain on the hip, it’s [...]

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