Dodgers’ first
baseman Adrian Gonzalez told the Los Angeles Times, “It’s good to be out of
that [World Baseball Classic] Tournament.
They’re trying to be the World Cup.
But they’re not even the Little League World Series.”
Gonzalez was
upset because Team Mexico, which he played for, was eliminated from competition
via a tiebreaker. Think sabermetrics’
formula tiebreaker, as in Mexico came up 1/100th of a run
short. I’m supposed to get all excited
about a tournament with that kind of rule?
Sorry, ain’t gonna happen.
Ever since they started
playing the game of baseball with an American and a National League, tie games have
been decided by extra innings and a tie in the final standings by a playoff
game/series. But the WBC is a creation
without rhyme or reason or enough time—or the pitchers needed to do things
right—to settle ties with more games. In
that case, just toss a damn’ coin.
That, or make the tiebreaker formula an official part of the regular season. I'd love to see how that goes over.
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