Da Techguy's (no longer backup) Blog

Last week I posted the following:

It will take a real miracle for Cuba or Mexico to fail to get to the 2nd round sharing a bracket with South Africa and Australia. Australia would like to think otherwise but sorry that’s the way it is.

Looks like nobody told Australia as they had to invoke the Mercy rule as they crushed Mexico 17-7 after being down 7-3 after 4.

Tim Blair didn’t post on it, a shame as its a huge win.

I was about as wrong as I could be, even more wrong then my prediction that Panama would beat Puerto Rico. Not only did they not win but than managed to go scoreless for the entire tourney!

On the Bright side Hugo’s boys were spanked by us. That was nice.

Japan has qualified for the 2nd round of the WBC with a 14-2 spanking of Korea. And China has bounced Taiwan with a 4-1 win.

Tomorrow morning we will see if Korea can get China out of the tourney or if the Chinese can begin their climb into baseball respectability.

If you didn’t catch my liveblogging your eyes are not deceiving you.

The Dominicans combined overconfidence and key errors with bad base running and some bad first pitch swinging to sink themselves.

The Dutch only managed 3 hits but played excellent defense, and clutch pitching. The Dutch closer Boyd walked two but had one man thrown out trying to steal 3rd and stuck out the last man standing.

If this isn’t one of the biggest upsets in baseball history I’d like to know what is. The only thing that could be bigger is if Italy beats Hugo Chavez’s boys tonight.

I can’t believe David pinto was stuck on a Panel somewhere and missed it.

Update: The headline at the classic website says it all: International incident: Dutch stun Dominicans. There should be dancing in the Netherlands tonight! (except in the parts where Imans won’t allow it.)

Update 2: More headlines David Just Beat Goliath In The First Round Of The WBC, As The Netherlands Defeated The Domincan Republic