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G-Snarls Cooperstown

G-Snarls

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85% plus of Gringos spell Columbia like this- That is wrong. Laika got it correct - ColOmbia

 

Just think of how Sophia Vergara says it

 

Ok

 

Now I can't stop thinking about her saying it

 

Dammit

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Just think of how Sophia Vergara says it

 

Ok

 

Now I can't stop thinking about her saying it

 

Dammit

 

My wife gets so pissed off when I call her Sophia Viagra. I mean, she works just the same.

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My wife gets so pissed off when I call her Sophia Viagra. I mean, she works just the same.

 

I'll let you know my wifes reaction! But if its a severe reaction you may not hear from me!

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If you go by birth country Mexico has a ton of guys not born in Mexico. Most of their best players aren't born there. Not fair if you ask me.

 

Canada only has a handful but they seem to be pretty legit. Freeman's mom was Canadian and Otto Lopez (aka Captain Canada after yesterday's home run) spent a large portion of his childhood in Canada. Palmegiani was born in Venezuela and I'm not sure what his story is. The rest of them were all born in Canada. I'm surprised we couldn't get more USA born players with connections to Canada to pitch for us. Some career AAA guys would have been nice.

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If you go by birth country Mexico has a ton of guys not born in Mexico. Most of their best players aren't born there. Not fair if you ask me.

 

Canada only has a handful but they seem to be pretty legit. Freeman's mom was Canadian and Otto Lopez (aka Captain Canada after yesterday's home run) spent a large portion of his childhood in Canada. Palmegiani was born in Venezuela and I'm not sure what his story is. The rest of them were all born in Canada. I'm surprised we couldn't get more USA born players with connections to Canada to pitch for us. Some career AAA guys would have been nice.

 

Yeah there HAS to be more USA players who have no shot of making that team, but have a half-Canadian step-mom or something.

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Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Palmegiani moved to Surrey when he was six years old and grew up playing with Cloverdale Minor Baseball until he was 13. Years later, he moved to the U.S. to play junior college baseball at the College of Southern Nevada.
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One cool thing about the WBC is the tournament aspect of it and the strategy that brings. Reminds me of my high school tournaments.

 

Seems like the manager's pitching decisions are more important in this kind of format than they are over the long slog of an MLB season.

 

For example, I was slamming Whitt for starting the 15-year-old Mitch Bratt against Team USA.

 

But we probably weren't going to beat them anyway so sacrificing Mitch Bratt's mental psyche and career was a brilliant move that allowed us to wax the Colombians yesterday and then set us up for a do or die game with a decent pitcher on the hill against Mexico. Ernie is playing 4D Chess out there.

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If you go by birth country Mexico has a ton of guys not born in Mexico. Most of their best players aren't born there. Not fair if you ask me.

 

Canada only has a handful but they seem to be pretty legit. Freeman's mom was Canadian and Otto Lopez (aka Captain Canada after yesterday's home run) spent a large portion of his childhood in Canada. Palmegiani was born in Venezuela and I'm not sure what his story is. The rest of them were all born in Canada. I'm surprised we couldn't get more USA born players with connections to Canada to pitch for us. Some career AAA guys would have been nice.

 

I think the WBC just needs to tighten up the # of generations it takes to be able to play for a country.

 

Like Austin Barnes plays for Mexico because his grandparents were born in Mexico on his mothers side. But at the same time, would Barnes ever have a chance to play at a WBC for the USA? unlikely. So im pretty torn on how strict the rules should be on who you can play for.

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I think the WBC just needs to tighten up the # of generations it takes to be able to play for a country.

 

Like Austin Barnes plays for Mexico because his grandparents were born in Mexico on his mothers side. But at the same time, would Barnes ever have a chance to play at a WBC for the USA? unlikely. So im pretty torn on how strict the rules should be on who you can play for.

 

I think it's ok to allow the loose connections. If MLB wants to grow the game in GB and Italy I think the loose connections allow them to field decent teams which will better showcase the sport in those countries.

 

I think Canada just needs to get better at finding and recruiting these guys. Gotta be shitloads of American players in AA, AAA and even on the MLB level with a connection strong enough to play for Canada. You'd think they could field an entire team of MLB and AAA talent.

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Let's f*** these guys up!

 

I think we have a chance. Zastrynzny seems to have had some sort of talent change last year. His K's spiked big time. Probably added a sweeper or something.

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Mexico is in a weird spot, win and they are in and probably the 1 seed of the group. Lose and they are out. So it's either #1 or go home.

 

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