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I am also 2-0 this season and have won 4 in a row dating back to last season. 22-12 in my Orioles fan career now Anybody else keep track of all the games you’ve been to and your career record?

Hunter was on campus today. Hope Cooley can bury that hatchet. Gtown needs to keep the local boys home to get back to where they want to be.

Cooley will make us relevant again in short order.

Agreed. No shot whatsoever. Zero, zilch, nada. Baseball is very easy to predict, and we just can’t win this one. Also, my Hoyas have no chance at getting Hunter Dickinson in the transfer portal.

This just reminds me of when somebody here said Adley was going to OPS below .500 or something ridiculous like that when he was struggling last year

Im just upset that I spent $35 on that chain last year and now it’s been retired

I think Opening Day was gustier

Please Mike Saw him pitch in the WBC, he had filthy stuff. Started in the wbc, but was one of the best relief pitchers in NPB

I see folks on Twitter pretending that it makes absolutely no baseball sense to do this but it’s a very understandable decision in my eyes. Tyler Wells has shown us how good he can be as a starter. To pretend it’s clear cut that Grayson would outperform him early in the season is being pretty obtuse.

They are playing a bunch of guys who fled the country though. For the very first time they invited certain guys back. Others weren’t invited for various reason or, like Cionel Perez, wouldn’t accept an offer back even if they got one.

Well everything sure has broken Cuba’s way since their 0-2 start. It now appears that they will end up winning Pool A, assuming Italy holds on to this 6-1 lead over The Kingdom is the Netherlands. This would be huge as it would mean avoiding Japan in the quarterfinals. Netherlands does have the bases loaded with no outs though. I’m a happy man either way. Go and

I believe it is runs allowed divided by innings played Cuba is in good shape, having allowed the second least amount of runs behind Netherlands

Italy losing to Panama leaves the door wide open for my Cubans to sneak into the quarterfinals if they can beat Taiwan tonight. Taiwan just beat the brakes off The Kingdom if the Netherlands though. Pool A is still wide open.

Ah gotcha. I get defensive about the WBC lol. It is probably my favorite brand of baseball.

I hope Grayson gets the chance to play for his country if he so chooses. He’s just as likely to get hurt in spring training as he is in the WBC. I know pitchers get babied more than any other athlete, but I wonder if fans of Messi’s club team wish he would just sit out the World Cup. Would that team dare encourage him not to play for Argentina?

I dream of a day when international baseball means that much to fans in our country

Ask the players

Very possible. He has over 2500 hits and 350 homers in his career across all leagues. Keep in mind he was playing in 90 game cuban seasons for a long time

Very. Everything with Cuba is political.

Maybe Yuli at second at his age would be a bit of a stretch but he's Cuban royalty so I had to include him lol. Now looking back there are many other options for the squad that I didn't even mention like Arozarena or Jorge Soler

Since a vast majority of the talent has left the island in recent years, they had no choice but to invite players back so that they could field a competitive team. However they had some stipulations. Nobody who left the national team during competition was invited. This includes guys like the Gurriels, our own Prieto, Yoelqui Cespedes, Oscar Colas and plenty others I can't think of off the top of my head lol. I'm also assuming they didn't invite anybody who has openly expressed negative opinions about the regime. Maybe this poor performance will cause even more change and they'll field a better team next time around. Imagine the lineup they could have thrown out there. C- Grandal 1B- Abreu 2B- Yuli Gurriel 3B- Moncada SS- Jose Iglesias, Aledmys Diaz LF- Lourdes Gurriel CF- Luis Robert RF- Adolis Garcia DH- Yordan Alvarez They would be a bit thin with pitching compared to the top teams, but still might have enough to get far in a short tournament.

Cuban here. This team has disappointed me greatly. Wayyyyyy past time to de-politicize baseball in Cuba and give the Cuban people the team they deserve to see. They could be one of the best teams in the tournament if they had their full arsenal. Although Moncada and Robert have been pretty terrible so far in the 2 games.

A tweet to me in 2015. Things change I suppose.

Is nothing sacred anymore?

Garrett Stallings?!?! No offense Garrett you’re a great guy lol