2017 World Baseball Classic: America's Caribbean Island vs Toothpaste's Caribbean Island Semi-final

It's the semi-finals of the World Baseball Classic

Puerto Rico, on fire right now at 6-0, look to make their second WBC final while the Netherlands come in and spoil the party

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>no dutch flags have posted in these threads all tournament

thought we'd get some desu

SS Andrelton Simmons (Los Angeles Angels, MLB)
3B Xander Bogaerts (Boston Red Sox, MLB)
CF Jurickson Profar (Texas Rangers, MLB)
RF Wladimir Balentien (Tokyo Yakult Swallows, NPB)
2B Jonathan Schoop (Baltimore Orioles, MLB)
C Shawn Zarraga (Cincinnati Reds, NRI) Last Played AA/AAA
1B Yurendell DeCaster (Tigres del Chinandega, NCA)
DH Curt Smith (Lincoln Saltdogs; AAPB) Former Cardinals prospect; 2011 Baseball World Cup MVP
LF Kalian Sams (Capitales de Quebec, Can-Am)
SP Rick VandenHurk (Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks; NPB) Former Marlin, Orioles, Pirate

They only care for Divegrass.

We only care for Divegrass.

The battle of the Caribbean colonies.

This will be kind of sad bants desu

still figured a few random anons would follow it since they're pretty good

We had that one dutch who didn't even know they had a baseball team back at the beggining of the tournament.

Once upon a time there was a toothpaste baseball poster

reminder that this semen slurping tournament will never happen again.

the starting pitcher today, their best starter, was born and raised in Europe

>inb4 empty stadium


fans will turn up for USA-Japan at least

Who do I root for lads?

Colgate
>Muh heritage
>Major upset
>Better USA matchup

Rich Port
>USA lite
>Those players
>Intense finals guaranteed

Royals

Would help if they broadcasted it on television.

rain is in the forecast next couple days, what happens if the games are rained out

The answer is pretty simple. If you're a American, you root for your fellow Americans.

USA wins by default cause we're #1

For me, it's Puerto Rico

But I don't wanna lose to you in the finals...

They couldn't put this on Fox Sports 1?
When are you gonna be in a semi for a while?
What the fuck is natafelen?

This desu. I want to see a Puerto Rico - Japan final or USA vs Little USA. Netherlands in the final won't be as fun.

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GO! GO! Balentien!

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Is Nippon afraid to play against us once again?

give name pls Haru

''The Kingdom of the Netherlands''.

Interesting choice of name.

true, though if the Netherlands were to win the whole thing that would be hilarious

LF Ángel Pagán (Free Agent) Former Cub, Met, Giant
SS Francisco Lindor (Cleveland Indians, MLB)
3B Carlos Correa (Houston Astros, MLB)
DH Carlos Beltrán (Houston Astros, MLB)
C Yadier Molina (St. Louis Cardinals, MLB)
2B Javier Báez (Chicago Cubs, MLB)
RF Eddie Rosario (Minnesota Twins, MLB)
1B T.J. Rivera (New York Mets, MLB/AAA) Born in The Bronx
CF Reymond Fuentes (Arizona Diamondbacks, AAA/MLB) Born in Florida
SP Jorge López (Millwaukee Brewers, AA)

It's cause all your players are from Curacao
calling it "Team Netherlands" would be wrong and immoral

You fucks aren't even American though

evenly matched teams on paper
losing Didi hurts the dutch though

>its another molina gets strikes called from the opposite batters box episode

I'm just saying it's interesting, since Curacao isn't partially independent or autonomous or anything. It's just 100% part of the Netherlands. We have plenty of players in other sports coming from Curacao as well, but baseball is the only sport where they add ''The Kingdom of'' to our name.

and the first bait of the night goes to user
74797010

here's your (You)

Where my Colegio bros at?

Only 14 of the 36 players were born in the mainland, compared to 16 from Curaçao

Plus Curaçao has their own soccer teams

No one from Aruba or Saint Martin?

I know, I'm just saying.

Anyway, do we have a chance, or what? I've never watched a single baseball match in my life.

Here we go

14+16 is 30, user

Fuck Port of Rico
Least likeable team in the tournament

t. Dominican user from leaf land

Do you guys get to vote for president?

ICOM reporting in

Is you serious??

6 from curacao, 2 from aruba, 2 from europelands

didi who would be the DH was also born in europelands though he was mostly raised in curacao

Only in Primaries like every other territory.

I is

No. We only get one representative in the senate, he can't vote on projects either. We get citizenship, that's it.

4 from Aruba

From the roster actually makes it I'm not even gonna bother

But there is an American born and a DR born player

I disgreed, fan

>these pitchers

Yeah y'all have a chance.

That's fair

Battle of the shortstops

>1 game series

Jesus this stadium is empty

Y no double elimination?

Is it still a series if it's just one game????

And the nba gets 7 matches

>The Netherlands can start their ace while Puerto Rico has to wait to Wednesday

Imagine if Mexico was playing.
Fuck Mexico, port of rico is the 2nd least likeable team now

>Didi back in yankees camp
>not even there with the team to celebrate when they win
that sucks

dodger stadium holds like 60k tbf, hard to fill up

also it's LA there will be more people by the 5th inning

International finals are 1 game
Still, a good Baseball World Cup would do at least best 2 of 3

Why aren't we likeable? We're the underdog.

is the entire dutch team black?

Why is doyer stadium always so empty?

It's mostly yadier and baez

Los Angelesians are empty

Natafelen is what you do after dinner. When you stay seated at the table with a glass of wine/something else and talk basically

LA isn't even on this list

Idk about Mexico
Mexicans over here ironically care less about baseball than those in Mexico
The 3 US-Mexico games weren't sold out

And we're off to a bad start

But what is talking about?

>simmons

CHOKE INCOMING

>netherlands """""""""""baserunning""""""""""""""

LOL WTF IS HAPPENING?

MVPLINA

>celebrating while letting the runner advance
>celebrating and getting out at first

This was a mistake

>Kangdom's baserunning

>when you get all the privalages of being american but get to call yourself a solitary country

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>profar

TOP KEK

>rags

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>Trying to steal on Molina

it should be 4-0 kek

>The city of me

burbank here

the traffic is the worst in the union

I'm serious a simple 30 minute or less ride from long beach to say downtown LA can take up to an hour and more

>THAT BAT FLIP

wew


could have been 4-0 with no outs

ha ha this fucking inning

yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS GAME

THAT FUCKING BAT FLIP

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Why don't they let Yadier pitch?

What the fuck is this inning?
What the fuck is Japanese baseball?