World Baseball Classic 2026 GDT

[sliderguy35]

10 hours ago, Brownie19 said:

You give us a ton of very detailed, analytical posts. Some of the very best from anyone in this board.  

But I love this raw emotion post too.  I'm with you!!!

whether you think batting average is king or are building a machine learning model to calculate swing acceleration at the point of contact

at the end of the day, were all just emotional, delusional sports fans 

[Laika]

Wait maybe runs don't matter for the Olympic tiebreaker since Canada won their pool and PR/Ven did not?

[philly30]

Why did freeman not play?

[Laika]

51 minutes ago, philly30 said:

Why did freeman not play?

All I saw was "personal reasons"

[Jays24]

4 minutes ago, Laika said:

All I saw was "personal reasons"

Weird considering hes been playing 1B with the Dodgers this entire time and needed to just DH for us.  Probably didnt give a s*** this time around tbh.

[G-Snarls]

Regardless, imagine being so confident that this lineup could beat the USA (essentially an MLB all star team) that you hold back on your pitching options in the semi finals to "save it up" to play the Dominicans. 

[Laika]

2 minutes ago, G-Snarls said:

Regardless, imagine being so confident that this lineup could beat the USA (essentially an MLB all star team) that you hold back on your pitching options in the semi finals to "save it up" to play the Dominicans. 

Qualifying for the f***ing Olympics was on the line and Ernie Schlitt left like four of their better pitchers on the bench. Lol! 

[Laika]

Dang. PR out to a quick lead 

[Stangstag]

This is some garbage pitching on both sides lol. Could be a double digit score on both sides

 

[BTS]

Anyone know where we stand vs. Puerto Rico for Olympic qualification? Doo we need to root for Italy to pile on runs?

[Laika]

4 minutes ago, BTS said:

Anyone know where we stand vs. Puerto Rico for Olympic qualification? Doo we need to root for Italy to pile on runs?

Nobody knows but speculation is that Canada has the tiebreak against PR due to head to head and the runs thing only matters for Venezuela (but may not matter at all if winning the group is considered finishing higher)

[Laika]

Well well well. Looking good for Canada in this one. 

[ComeTogether]

Italy will win it all. 

[Laika]

Oh s***...

[Jonn]

[Laika]

Phew

[philly30]

I am rooting for Italy to win it all I think i am allowed since I am Italian

[Jonn]

Canada should be where Italy is right now.

[BTS]

So if Venezuela loses, Canada probably qualifies for the olympics, and if they lose big Canada almost definitely qualifies?

[Laika]

So Japan needs to win and score what, 4+ runs? 

The Olympics will be easy to make 

[Jonn]

We need Japan to win by 4.

And as many Americans as possible claim their free Canadian citizenship they were just granted.

[mphenhef]

4 hours ago, Laika said:

All I saw was "personal reasons"

I think they either just had a baby or are about too.

[Angrioter]

Japón easily 

[Stangstag]

Ok so we need to trade for Acuna

[Jays24]

2 minutes ago, Stangstag said:

Ok so we need to trade for Acuna

Haha literally came here to say the exact same thing.  

[Jays24]

Ok f*** that Ohtani guy lol

[Stangstag]

Uh oh, injury alert Seiya Suzuki

[Stangstag]

Why did we just run into mythical juiced up Yamamoto in the WS

[Jays24]

It upsets me so much seeing Venezuela tee off on Yamamoto.  Like part of me is happy hes getting hit but another part that we made him look like god lol

[max silver]

2 minutes ago, Jays24 said:

It upsets me so much seeing Venezuela tee off on Yamamoto.  Like part of me is happy hes getting hit but another part that we made him look like god lol

I don't think the Blue Jays "made" Yamamoto look like god, he brought god mode stuff+command into the world series.