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The Tabletop league that I started 22 years ago is having its annual draft today. I am no longer an active player, but am League treasurer so I will be attending. I may liveblog the draft today.
We started with Status Pro Baseball, back in 1987, we then played one season of Strat-o-matic (that was the season that I won it all) and we now play Dynasty baseball. An awesome game.
…for such a big game.
1:09 p.m. Do you really want to be bunting on the very first pitch?
1:14 p.m. When you don’t have much of an offense you can’t be first pitch swinging constantly.
1:18 p.m. This is what happens when you look at a few pitches instead of just swinging. Also these guys have seen Ponson.
1:19 p.m. I was hoping we had escaped the Bellefonte chant.
1:21 p.m. I disagree, if you play with the infield in with no out in the bottom of the first you tell your offense that they aren’t any good.
1:22 p.m. Reynolds makes the point that I did about these guys having seen Ponson before.
1:30 p.m. The wife just got home and wants to go to lunch so we will likely be scooting and the man is nailed at the plate.
1:32 p.m. The first out is at the plate but the next batter drives in the run. What did Reynolds say about not scoring?
1:34 p.m Strike 3 two down. Kenley up.
1:36 p.m. 2-3 on a 2-2 pitch and we are knotted after 1 1/2 and I’m off to use up some Friendly’s free ice cream cone coupons.
3:33 p.m. Just came in to see that Venezuela won 3-1. Darn.
The 2nd Round of the WBC begins Saturday. Here is what we see.
Hugo’s boys play the Dutch at 1 p.m. They will be facing the Dutch A team. I don’t know they they are going to take the Dutch lightly or not. Bobby Abreu is likely going to walk every time at bat. Hugo’s boys have to be considered the favorites in this one. However with the relationship between Hugo & Fidel and the game being in Miami you’ve got to believe that the Dutch is going to have the crowd with them.
US vs Puerto Rico. This is going to be a pretty solid game. All these players know each other and have likely faced each other. In my opinion the significance of this game is it’s potential to setup a 3rd Dutch vs. PR game. It is very hard to beat a team 3 times in a row. Because of this I think this game is much more important for the Puerto Ricans to then the US. They would much rather face the Dutch again in a non-elimination situation.
You have to favor US and Venezuela in this round but I actually wouldn’t be surprised to see anything happen.
I find the seeding games boring because they don’t mean anything.
Japan and Korea was interesting since the two teams hate each other.
Cuba and Mexico first meeting of the tourney is today, that might have some interest because of that but I likely won’t watch it.
Dutch vs Pureto Rico. Puerto Rico won 5-0 It was the worst pitching performance of the tourney for the Dutch as they played their B pitchers and their B catcher. The PR team seems to have taken the Dutch much more seriously than the DR did. However I’d still be a bit worried. It is very hard to beat a team 3 times in a row. Remember the 62 Mets did win 40 games about 1 out of 4.
Hugo’s boys beat us 5-3 in a pretty good game. That earns them the Dutch and I’m hoping they have the same luck the Dominicans did.
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