Slow clap
http://www.cbc.ca/sports/baseball/mlb/ryan-dempster-won-t-play-for-canada-in-world-baseball-classic-1.1408482
With a brand new two-year, $26-million US contract, Ryan Dempster chose to stay with his new team this spring rather than make the trek to Arizona to join his countrymen on the international baseball stage.
"I'm going to be pulling for those guys [on Canada's national team] and hoping they do well, but this is what my situation is now," Dempster said Sunday after pitching three scoreless innings of one-hit ball against the New York Yankees.
"[Playing in the WBC] probably isn't the best thing for me to be doing physically while I'm trying to get ready for the season."