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U.S. Wins World Cup

September 28th, 2009 Shinsano · 6 Comments

As expected the U.S. won the World Cup, winning its 14th consecutive game in Europe without all that stiff of a challenge. The victory gives the U.S. its second consecutive World Cup championship and fourth overall.

But I want to point people to the lede written by BA’s John Manuel in his game report….

Once again, America’s top minor leaguers succeeded where its big leaguers have failed.

He’s right. Why is that?

Tags: Baseball

6 responses so far ↓

  • 1 DJ // Sep 28, 2009 at 12:52 pm

    The lede could have also been written “Once again, Asia’s top minor leaguers failed where its big leaguers have failed.” And he’d be right. Why is that?

  • 2 Shinsano // Sep 28, 2009 at 4:53 pm

    Yeah, but his point is we don’t necessarily expect Korea and Japan to win or do very well in the WBC, but they do. We do expect the U.S. team to win the WBC and they don’t even get to the championship game.

  • 3 Fred Knows Best // Sep 29, 2009 at 6:45 pm

    I believe this points out in very obvious ways why it is that a March World Baseball Classic will never be something that the Americans compete well in.

    Not that they don;t have the talent to win it. They are just not willing to let it all hang out before their bodies say it’s ready to do so.

  • 4 DJ // Sep 30, 2009 at 3:28 am

    “Not that they don;t have the talent to win it. They are just not willing to let it all hang out before their bodies say it’s ready to do so.”

    I’m pretty sure the Americans who played for Team USA in the WBC would disagree with that.

  • 5 Fred Knows Best // Oct 1, 2009 at 2:51 pm

    One might be inclined to think that they would take the middle road in answering that question.

    It’s a perfect excuse for not winning.

  • 6 lephio // Oct 23, 2009 at 10:23 pm

    hi guys! here’s lephio, from italy. that’s a very interesting blog!! i worked as a volounteer during the world cup and i was attached with Team Japan. but i was on the field for the final too.

    here’s my fotoblog of the event: http://ominiverdi.tumblr.com

    i added your site to my feedreader, but anybody can contact me on my website or at gmail! :D

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