The World Baseball Classic is Amazing and You Should Watch It 

What more do you want? The USA to pick up another tab so we don’t feel so bad about ourselves? These teams don’t play because they can’t afford it. It’s nothing to do with respect.

@@whiteknob7944 Weird You missed it completely He means respect in The US It’s actually bigger in the other countries

@@whiteknob7944WTF are you even talking about?

I always watch it! Great place to catch talent you normally wouldn’t see! Always watch the LLWS too! Never know who will be the upcoming star in the next 6-8 years!! Baseball is Life!

​@@whiteknob7944 You're an idiot l. He meant respect in the U.S

I also love both. Really great to witness this WBC. Hope it helps grow the game, even here in Europe.

The 79k Great Britain baseball gets a yr will no doubt increase. They will not only get better uniforms but increase participation and it will be ground breaking for years to come.

Venezuela is a baseball country bro

Remember how international football was looked down upon by English football before Pele came around? The WBC almost feels like it could fit this pattern.

Hahaha love your comment! Those GB jerseys were so trash, even the letters came off. But I was really happy to see you guys in the tournament. As Dominican, I’m hoping this tournament keeps growing and getting more popular because the international stage is where the most competitive games come from.

Mexico 🇲🇽??

@@kikekatmurillo4370 yea I’m rooting for Mexico this tournament. They let me down in the World Cup tho

The MLB has held regular season games in London before, and I think are doing so again this year. I'd love to see them take some games to the MCG in Melbourne. I've seen an AFL game there and the atmosphere is fantastic. Australia has a professional league, too.

@@neffersonjickel3901 Yes, London in June.

Being a realist,its a bad idea,financially.Being not a big MLB fan,I don’t care whether it happens/not.

The World Series is the World Series. The world baseball order might not be as America-centric as it was, but the name should remain for the sake of legacy, as long as the World Series Champs are regarded as such and not WORLD CHAMPIONS.

It sucks that the World Series is already called that tbh. They can’t really change it at this point but it is kinda ironic that there is a literal worldwide tournament but the name “world series” is just the championship of one country’s league lol

That’s pretty cool. Wasn’t alive for the 2006 Classic

That's a crazy story. I feel like the Dodgers always turn something out of nothing. Well-run organization.

Who were the 2?

You should post a link to the show at social web sites,if you can.

It was crazy just to watch it on TV!

IDK they were both great crazy games

atmosphere was better at pr vs dr but taiwan was the loudest. it was a small stadium but was mostly filled by a one sided crowd

Now Japan and Mexico did it!!

Now Japan vs Mexico topped it!! What a crazy tournament!! Mexico vs Colombia RD vs PR PR vs Venezuela PR vs Mexico USA vs Venezuela Mexico vs Japan One of the most exciting/best baseball games I’ve ever seen or attended .

everything is there. The hard thing going against the WBC is that they need the MLB to be complacent to them. With the need for the MLB to side with them comes the influence of the owners and the idiotics in part of the media. It's not an easy road, but with more great players going against the wishes of their teams and playing no matter what, things are looking good for the future. This will be bigger, not only because things are getting done right, but because now many fans are siding with it. If Artie Moreno stomps his feet about not allowing Ohtani and Trout to play in 3 years time he will not hear the end of it

this video was before the final: Japan had 97+% of share in the final, that's a whole country watching. I'm brazilian and we don't get those numbers when we play the World Cup final. Our last in 2002 the share was 91%. Only idiots like barstool, the bald Mets fan that I don't give a damn about the name and Mad Dog say this doesn't matter. As the late George Carlin would say, if you think the WBC isn't good, GTFOH

well, if the british left any heritage to many in America was the sense of "insularism" (I don't even know if this term exists, but it's the sense of being the means and ends to everything). England had the same in the earlier years of the FIFA World Cup, they did not played in the first three editions because they thought nobody was better than they were, they were the creators of the sport, etc. They came for the 1950 World Cup here in my homecountry of Brazil, and the US of A showed England that the World meant business with the World Cup, and the best team would be crowned there and being the best wasn't a divine right (a 1x0 win for the US)

Did those games have licensed player appearances on the game’s rosters? That’s mostly where that statement you’re talking about was leaning

@@StarkRavingSports It had, at least the 2009 used to have, but it was still in Japan Only so the fact a actual american game studio did still is a good fact

Those are good baseball games too.

yes. For it to be truly great and with no advantages it should be held in one country. Ex: the next edition in Japan (I would love to see games at Koshien Stadium in Osaka with that infield). But there are more things to consider, even politics. Especially the situation of cubans, which was very poorly managed by the organizers

We are spoiled in LA , stop sharing.

unfortunately it can happen in any game, it can be even a freak accident like Edwin Diaz. But it's a fair trade, an event held every 3 or 4 years, with a growing amount of fans watching, I'd rather take the risk there than in Spring Training

agreed with everything but that last part. It's the nature of MLB and the 162 games. Its simply not proper and even doesn't make sense to get hype for a random game in May you feel me?? These games all mean so much that a regular MLB game can't match cus the stakes aren't there when there's a hundred more games to play.

USA vs DR in 2017 was awesome too, that Adam Jones catch robbing Machado was something else

well, as someone that hails from the soccer culture originally, the wait makes it even more special. Some are lobbying for the World Cup to be every two years, but the majority of fans are against it. Try to understand it as a cycle of things. You have this or that every year, another thing going on every other year, but for the WBC you need a bit more patience. If the quality remains the same or get better (likely the second option) the added years are worth, believe me. Also, it goes fast

I agree.

Then you'd be getting in the way of the winter leagues

@@Tu_Padre31 Not really. 90% of the players, and defenitly all of the ones for the contenders, aren't going to be playing winter ball. The winter leagues would still have virtually all of their players available to them. And even if it did, so what? This is an MLB tournament. MLB should run it to allow the most MLB level talent to compete.

The time it’s at now is not perfect but optimal. If you have earlier, players off-season gets shortened. If you have it later not everybody is still playing some teams are eliminated from playoff contention so you’d have players sitting around waiting for it. Why not just shorten spring training by a week and keep the tournament the same. Credit the idea from: BrodieBrazil 💡

March is literally the only time of the year where no baseball league is in the regular season.

@@ISLAVERDE29 The smaller leagues on the Carribean and Latin America produce amazing players, but the players will 100% take time from that for the WBC and the benefit of the international attention those players get will 100% be worth it to those leagues to have those players there for most of the season even after missing a chunk of it.

Agreed

Agree with the first part, but USA, DR, and Japan already dominate it. They have the only WBC championships divided among them. This year unless mexico can upset, it looks like Japan will get their 3rd, or the US their 2nd.

@@Tu_Padre31 yea but these 3 still don’t care as much yet… I would say Japan probably is the only one who feels honored to play for their country. DR won it with a bad roster.. this years DR would beat anyone on paper but choked up with all their stars. I can see wbc improving in every aspect.

@@Tu_Padre31 if Mexico will win it, it will be like Uruguay winning the World Cup when they first started. First and last. If Mexico don’t win it will be impossible in the future.

there are some similarities. FIFA built the World Cup to be huge, so it could take the image of football, or part of it, out of the Olympics, they always had a massive rivalry with the IOC. It was a project conceived for over 20 years. FIFA was created in 1903 and the World Cup had it's first edition 27 years later. First edition was in Uruguay, the dominant force of football at the time and two time defending olympic gold medalist (Paris 1924 and Amsterdam 1928). This is still very remembered in Uruguay, the nation team nickname is olympic skyblues. Their national stadium, built for the 1930 World Cup which was the year of their centennial as an independent nation and is duly named Centenario, have the stands named Coulombes (for the 1924 olympics), Amsterdam (1928 olympics), Olympic (due to both medals) and America (due to the fact that Uruguay is the biggest winner of Copa America, the continental south american competition). There was disdain by the nations of Great Britain. Due to them creating the game, they thought they were the best and even were out of FIFA during the first three editions. They got humbled by the US in 1950, the first edition they played. Every other sport has tried to emulate the success of the World Cup, but it's hard due to some factors: relying on the good will of leagues like the MLB, NHL, etc to even get a competition going and the time. The World Cup has been around for 93 years. And the call for national football teams on FIFA friendly dates and international competitions is MANDATORY. If a club doesn't allow a player to play the hammer comes down heavy on them, no one even dared, this is a rule as old as time, because the competitions that were first formed were international competitions, not club ones. Even in England that has a league for almost 150 years. And even the player will side against the club he plays for. The World Cups is, for player, a DEFCON 1 event. The lifetime priority and dream. Before the Champions League was even thought, the World Cup was already big. If the WBC wants to be big for baseball, the organizers should take the event with half the priority of the World Cup, it's more than good enough. If they mean business to go all in, it's all but assured.

@@willm3027 and Uruguay has two World Cups. It's a miracle that they form a big amount of players being a nation of barely 4 million

thing is, the baseball calendar is not like the MLB calendar everywhere. There are winter leagues, caribbean series... march is the only window possible, literally