Old School Baseball. Incoherent foolishness.

I find it amusing, and less silly than the bow-and-arrow thing Rodney does. What is he shooting at? You can’t hit Jesus from here, silly, and why would you shoot Jesus with an arrow anyway? Hasn’t he suffered enough?

The beauty about last night was watching teams and fans being passionate about the greatest sport in the world. The tragedy in last night is that other countries are more passionate about OUR National Pastime than our players and fans.

I’ve watched more WBC baseball than the last 2 World Series combined. To me, WBC trumps the World Series by a wide margin!

I hope that MLB takes notice and we can get our best and brightest to play in these games. And I’m riveted because I don’t want ANYONE to best the USA, period! This IS the true WORLD Series- not the best in MLB.

I’m sure you don’t appreciate people telling you what you should and shouldn’t like.

In contrast, Battlestar Gallactica was a horrible abomination of a show with horrible writing that treated the characters and viewers as if they were idiots, with boring story lines, campy acting, an abundance of logical inconsistencies, and to top things off the show took itself waaay to seriously, which requires the viewer to do the same, making the errors unforgivable. If someone likes that show, it’ll definitely affect my opinion of their mental faculties.

Just get it right!

While I personally hate the lack of conversational volume at many any event, much less a dinner out, I love the enthusiasm, energy, color, and NOISE generated from the fans themselves. It is, well,, organic. The game in Asia, Japan and Taiwan have been my experience, is a full on group participation event. Each side takes turns in banging the drums and chanting and blowing horns. The energy and noise does not stop. “This energy and noise is sincere. It is fun and cool. The game has more urgency and tension batter to batter. It less cerebral and more immediate and emotional, primitive in a way. It is also very very different from our stadium experience. Different is not bad. I don’t think that the level of fan noise generated without prompt from scoreboards or PA directives, artificial, reaches the unpleasant level of decibels at an NBA game, yikes.

It is a different kind of night out for the fans in other lands folks, like or not. I like it a bunch. I find that the locals are more connected with the flow of the game and their team in a way that they are not shy about expressing. It isn’t tennis or golf, that is for sure.

Full disclosure, I own two of the horns now known as vuvulezas,,, spell that for me please,, one I bought in the late ’80s at the ‘Stick when the Giants were on a run, the other at the 2002 World Series in SF before the collapse. I have with me here in Taiwan the later one and am very much appreciated by fans and ballplayers when I can get to a game here and blow, and teach others to blow it. I look forward to getting it in Manny’s ear this season.

Finally, sorry for being wordy but this has struck a nerve,,, complaints about other nation’s fans showing their appreciation and joy in their own way, bringing their fans and ways along with their teams, sounds like, “get off my lawn, you damn foreigners, and give me back MY game!”

…unless you have some weird religion that eschews pie or something nutbag like that.

The DR beat Kimbrell, and I have to think he would be the closer no matter who else was on the US roster, but a lineup with Bloomquist, Arencibia and Hosmer as starters is not something to brag TOO much about besting.