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It has to be up there in baseball history (ok, not counting stuff like high school or little league), because the organization of high level baseball is such that there hasn't been a significant spread in talent in over a century. If you put all of the WBC teams in a league and had them play a season the Americans and the Dominicans and the Cubans would win 100+ games, and the Dutch and the South Africans would be lucky to get into the 30s or 40s. Last time you had pro baseball teams in the US with matchups like that was in the 1880s and 1890s.

The Dominican team might be a favorite to win any of the current MLB divisions. The Dutch team would be right at home in the Atlantic League, or probably a pretty good Carolina League squad.

In other sports, notably college, this kind of thing happens pretty frequently. Maybe on the level of a 15-2 seed in the basketball tourney. Or Appy State over Michigan.

It's the beating them twice part that really takes the cake. Sure any one can beat anyone else on any given day, but to do it twice... that's where it starts to get impressive.

And I get what you're saying Drungo, but the Netherlands pitching has been great the entire series. Just 3 games, yes, but they have faced 3 extremely potent offenses and held them to just 6 runs in 3 games. It's their offense that's pretty bad. Scratch that, terrible.

So I guess we'll have to agree, but I think they might be better than we're giving them credit for, since their pitching has been tremendous.

I guess we'll just have to wait and see how they do the next round.

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I am guessing Boom Boom Dixon is still sulking? :P

Surprised (like everybody), but not sulking. First and foremost, I like to see good games.

I hope Eugene Kingsale & company keep playing solid ball.

One stat for the DR: Their team ERA in the WBC was 0.31 and they're already out.

Felipe Alou sounded worried about the offense even before the tournament started. Let's just hope a Yankees lineup without A-Rod struggles as badly as the DR.

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