World Baseball Classic 2017: China vs. Cuba Pool B Gamethread

WBC Round 1 Pool B action

Venue is the Tokyo Dome Tokyo, Japan.

10:00 EST

Chen v Banos

Lineups will follow (maybe)

Other urls found in this thread:

strawpoll.me/12485619
chinesebangqiu.com/
vipboxtv.me/baseball/294437/2/mlb-network-stream.html
youtube.com/watch?v=Fco83e124FE
twitter.com/SFWRedditGifs

Oh, and the records thus far are

Cuba (0-1)

China (0-0)

>one and a half hours early

Cuba is shit but can they really lose to China? If China wins is this the biggest meme tournament?

Israel has made these threads so fun. I hope this game will be half as fun as the jew ones.

fucking communists

China usually finds to win a game somehow, so wouldn't surprise me

this is always the biggest meme tournament though, a single game of baseball is practically a coin flip

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Are you implying that they are the Asian Jews then??

>reading the comments on some wbc article
>nothing but people saying they don't care about this shit and they don't want their precious players getting injured in some meme bullshit tournament

Pisses me off. Imagine how dominant the US could be if our players and organizations weren't such faggots.

I could having that attitude if this was every year or two, but once every 4 years? Come on!

trips confirm our players should stop being pussies

can't wait for some player to get injured probably for some bullshit reason like sliding into a bag badly and everyone blames the WBC for it and calls for it to be cancelled

Is there a better time to set these up? Everyone bitches about how spring training is dumb and too long, so why does it matter if they choose to play in a tournament that happens once every four years?

Even if they play WBC at like 80% to protect themselves, then that is cool too.

strawpoll.me/12485619

China memes a victory in 11 innings

I like China's hat desu

Yeah they are pretty nice. I like the red and yellow.

>yfw the WBC killed Korean baseball
>mfw

gooks btfo

who??

RF Lu Zhenhong (Jiangsu Pegasus; CHN)
1B Xu Guiyuan (Baltimore Orioles; GCL)
3B Ray Chang (Free agent) Spent last year split between AA and AAA for the Reds
LF Meng Weiqiang (Guangdong Leopards; CHN)
CF Yang Shunyi (Tianjin Lions; CHN)
SS Joey Wong (Perth Heat; AUS) Spent last year in AAA
C Wang Wei (Beijing Tigers; CHN) Former Mariners prospect
DH Na Chuang (Guangdong Leopards; CHN)
2B Du Xiaolei (Jiangsu Pegasus; CHN)
SP Bruce Chen (Retired) Former pitcher for 11 different MLB teams


CF Roel Santos (Alazanes de Granma; CUB) Also played for Quebec Capitales in Can-Am
SS Alexander Ayala (Toros de Camagüey; CUB)
DH Frederich Cepeda (Gallos de Sancti Spíritus; CUB) Former Yomuri Giant
LF Alfredo Despaigne (Fukuoka Softbank Hawks; NPB) Also plays for Alazanes de Granma in Cuba
1B William Saavedra (Cocodrilos de Matanzas; CUB)
3B Yurisbel Gracial (Cocodrilos de Matanzas; CUB) Also played for Quebec Capitales in Can-Am
2B Carlos Benítez (Alazanes de Granma; CUB)
C Frank Morejón (Leones de Industriales; CUB)
RF Yoelkis Céspedes (Alazanes de Granma; CUB) Brother of Met Yoenis; Will most like defect
SP Bladimir (or Vladimir?) Baños (Ciego de Ávila; CUB)

im watching quite possibly the dumbest show i have ever seen on NHK right now. Some lady is dramatically narrating people eating food.

ha ha time for communists

would it be weeb of me to buy a japan hat if im only half japanese?

no

How badly would China get BTFO if no Cubans defected?

good to know, too bad the one hat they arent selling is the japanese one. fucking mlb

mercy rule

With that shit cuba team, I could see some meme win though by the chinks

reminder muh big bad cubans are still only like the 6th best baseball country with their defectors

in 2013 Cuba won 12-0 in 7 innings
in 2008 Cuba won 17-1 in 7 innings

comfy youtube stream when

>some white guy coaches China

>china's manager is an american

>be american
>coach china
>lose
>get shot

>represent Panama
>lol nah I wanna play for China now

That's one issue with the WBC. It should be like soccer. Once you declare and play official matches for one country, it should be extremely difficult to switch.

So are they going to play The Internationale instead of the usual national anthems?

Just dug out my fathers old bat, thinking of applying to my local baseball team tbqh we watched some baseball last year which he seemed to be really into which was nice.

streams?

>captcha ave ayrton senna

rip brazil, they should be here instead of Israel

That's cool. Baseball is fun to play, although beer league softball is comfy as shit too.

>losing to fucking China
Nope

please play our sport

but brazil lost to fucking britain in the qualifier


>this chinese music
wew

what are >we eating?
ive got some fried mandoo and a fanta orange soda

I had a bowl of oatmeal

>MLB Network choosing the most stereotypical music for each lineup

>the chinese orioles 'prospect' isn't even good enough to make the starting lineup for China

We don't have "softball" here, we have "rounders" which is basically softball but with a one handed bat. There's a decent amount of amateur baseball leagues though, this bat is from Canada and is 20+ years old, I guess he played it during his travels in the army.

I made some tuna salad, but the Tuna had yellow spots on it when i opened the can and now it kinda tastes funny.

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RIP in pieces, bro

liking both these uniforms

what's it mean?

You should start up your own softball league. It is fun.

Cool about the bat man!

>Cuba music
[trumpets intensifies]

>China

Fucking perfectly done

chinesebangqiu.com/

Hey some information about Chinese baseball

>This thread is busier than the dual thread this morning

So, what's with the 65 pitch limit shit that I heard about in the first Israel game?

>Commieball
Literally whichever team loses this game will be killed by a firing squad tonight.

Dude the Jew and Taiwan thread reached 500 posts

Has Based Vasgersian called any games yet?

Why the fuck is it so quiet in the stadium too?

stream lads?

>needing a translator to talk to your catcher

Go back to play for Panama, Chen.

vipboxtv.me/baseball/294437/2/mlb-network-stream.html

well in all tbf fairness those jews really kicked the shit out of those chinks

>that fucking chink music

KEK

why would the japs show up to watch two commie teams play.
they mightve only showed up to root against china, plus it's wednesday morning and they got work

>Martinez struggling to pronounce the Chinamen names
kek

>This fucking music

Jesus christ, we need the WBC every year

>That bat flip
lel

because its like noon there and people have to work bro. That is why Japan always plays at 7 pm local.

Fuck, I completely forgot about the time difference. That makes sense.

>bat flips on a double

>tfw no Xiao Mei Mei

youtube.com/watch?v=Fco83e124FE

Is this Buck Martinez on the play by play?

Where is based Nippon-kun?

>bat flips against China

Stop sucking his dick you cunt

He's there, I think he might be doing color

if china wants to win they have to score more than they give up

How cucked do you have to be to be an American managing for China? Only thing worse might be for Israel.

>bruce chen
looks like this game is going just 5 innings lads

Rude

>John McLaren
>Dave Bush
>Jimmy Johnson
quintessential Chinese

God damn, Chen goes fucking deep inside

Comedy gold already

At least there's muh heritage for Israel. These white people coaching for China were probably forced to do it at gunpoint.

Ump's face was priceless.

>muh heritage

fucks sake, please no more visits to the mound

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>halfway through his pitch limit already

I want to see how shit their other pitchers are

MLB has a bunch of shit going on in China right now also, it's their focus country

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>Last name is literally bathrooms
wew

kek

>MLB/WBC is inconsistent whether his name is Bladimir or Vladimir

who is this cute boy

living dangerously there