Have you been watching the World Baseball Classic? Why not?!?!?!
The games have been dramatic, joyous, tense and about a billion times more interesting than watching the Padres and A’s in Peoria. Examples? Sure, we have a few:
• Italy stunned Mexico with a five-run rally in the ninth inning off Blue Jays closer Roberto Osuna.
• Israel went 3-0 in pool play and then defeated Cuba in its first game in the second round.
• Venezuela and Italy played a wild 11-10 game that went 10 innings.
• We had two games go into the 11th inning, instituting the “runners on first and second to start the inning” rule that was actually kind of fun to watch, creating some strategic options in a sport that has lost some of that in recent years.