The World Baseball Classic!!


I'm loving this so far. These are going to be some AWESOME teams facing each other, like 16 All Star teams.....well....nevermind, as far as I know Andruw Jones is the only "big" name playing for Holland, but you get my drift.


Lets see who the teams will be....ESPN has been showing them all day....




Australia =========

Adrian Burnside Trent Durrington Justin Huber John Stephens Glenn Williams

Canada ======

Jason Bay Erik Bedard Rheal Cormier Jesse Crain Jeff Francis Eric Gagne Steve Green Aaron Guiel Shawn Hill Corey Koskie Pete LaForest Adam Loewen Russ Martin Cody McKay Justin Morneau Pete Orr Paul Quantrill Chris Reitsma Matt Stairs Scott Thorman

Dominican Republic ==================

Antonio Alfonseca Ronnie Belliard Adrian Beltre Eude Brito Juan Brito Daniel Cabrera Robinson Cano Alberto Castillo Jesus Colome Bartolo Colon Francisco Cordero Pedro Feliz Franklyn German Vladimir Guerrero Pedro Martinez Jose Lima David Ortiz Wily Mo Pena Neifi Perez Placido Polanco Albert Pujols Manny Ramirez Felix Rodriguez Duaner Sanchez Alfonso Soriano Julian Tavarez Miguel Tejada Robinson Tejeda Salomon Torres

Italy =====

Frank Catalanotto Mark DeRosa David Dellucci Mike DiFelice Tony Fiore Mike Gallo Jason Grilli Matt Mantei Frank Menechino Doug Mirabelli Val Pascucci Mike Piazza Joe Vitello Pete Zoccolillo

Mexico ======

Alfredo Amezaga Luis Ayala Rigo Beltran Jorge Cantu Vinny Castilla Juan Castro Elmer Dessens Gerardo Garcia Karim Garcia Luis Garcia Edgar Gonzalez Edgar Huerta Esteban Loaiza Rodrigo Lopez Miguel Ojeda Antonio Osuna Oliver Perez Roberto Ramirez Dennys Reyes Ricardo Rincon Oscar Robles Ismael Valdez Oscar Villareal

Netherlands ===========

Andruw Jones

Panama ======

Bruce Chen Carlos Lee Jose Macias!!Carlos Ruiz

Puerto Rico ===========

Sandy Alomar Jr. Carlos Baerga Carlos Beltran Kiko Calero Alex Cintron Jose Cruz Jr. Carlos Delgado Jose Hernandez Ricky Ledee Felipe Lopez Mike Lowell Luis Matos Joel Pineiro Ivan Rodriguez J.C. Romero Rey Sanchez Jorge Sosa Andres Torres Javier Valentin Javier Vazquez Jose Vidro Bernie Williams

United States =============

Michael Barrett Lance Berkman Craig Biggio Barry Bonds Mark Buehrle Eric Chavez Roger Clemens Chad Cordero Carl Crawford Johnny Damon Adam Dunn Brian Fuentes Ken Griffey Jr. Eddie Guardado Roy Halladay Jason Isringhausen Derek Jeter Chipper Jones Todd Jones Derrek Lee Al Leiter Brad Lidge Joe Mauer Jake Peavy Andy Pettitte Juan Pierre Jimmy Rollins B.J. Ryan C.C. Sabathia Brian Schneider Ben Sheets John Smoltz Huston Street Mark Teixeira Chase Utley Jason Varitek Billy Wagner Vernon Wells Dontrelle Willis David Wright Michael Young Barry Zito

Venezuela =========

Bobby Abreu Edgardo Alfonzo Henry Blanco Miguel Cairo Giovanni Carrara Freddy Garcia Carlos Guillen Melvin Mora Tomas Perez Francisco Rodriguez Johan Santana Carlos Silva Omar Vizquel Carlos Zambrano Victor Zambrano

Undecided =========

a- Alex Rodriguez b- Marco Scutaro

a- eligible to play for both the Dominican Republic and the United States b- eligible to play for both Italy and Venezuela.








Well, there's ten teams. I know Ichiro agreed to play for Japan, and somebody Korean said they'd play for Korea, but I don't remember who it was. Not Hee Seop, though.

Geez, just look at that Dominican infield....and outfield....not that team USA is a slouch. They'd better hope Dusty doesn't manage the Dominican team. Could you see Neifi starting over Tejada? LOL!


My money goes on either the Dominican, or USA.


The list of countries participating this year....

Australia
Korea
Canada
Mexico
China
Netherlands
Chinese Taipei
Panama
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Dominican Republic
South Africa- didn't know they played baseball over there.
Italy- I've seen Europeans try to play baseball...professionally...this is going to be funny.
USA
Japan
Venezuela

Jose Macias will lead the Panama team all the way!

I gotta go with Jose Macias leading Panama too.

Get your Macias Panama Jerseys now!!


I will pay a ton of money to watch the Domincans V.S. U.S.A.

The chico

I'm looking forward to this...does anyone know if these games will be televised? Seems like something ESPN could pick up and hype the hell out of...

This will be interesting to watch. In addition to the Dominican and US teams, the Venezuela pitching staff could be frightening with Santana, Carlos, Freddie Garcia, and Frankie Rodriguez.