The World Baseball Classic is well underway, and soon a single winner will emerge from the teams of 16 countries. Then, they will go on to represent our planet in an intergalactic baseball tournament to establish dominance over some neighboring exoplanets recently announced by NASA. (This article has been written by someone with only a vague grasp of recent news).
Pool A is finishing its first round games with a rousing Korea-Chinese Taipei match-up that started at 4:30 this morning, but the World Baseball Classic’s very first phase is near completion. Israel dominated the division, taking down the Netherlands last night in Seoul and becoming early undefeated tournament darlings.