World Baseball Classic

Hi Tony and Darcy - I agree.  I also loved seeing the games and it gave me the feeling that spring is just around the corner.  However, I must admit that I also got excited when I saw our local courses putting out golf carts and the "other boys of summer" out on the course playing.

Tony, sorry, I don't like it. The concept is a good one but I just don't like the timing of it. Spring training is an important time for teams to mesh while getting prepared for the regular season. The WBC is a major interruption to the "team" aspect of spring training and I believe is counterproductive to the main product of major league baseball. I'd rather see this played during the winter ball season. Just my opinion.

I thoroughly enjoyed watching all the games, except when the U.S. lost, of course. I got to go to one of the games in 2006 for the first World Baseball Classic, and although some of the second round games were here in San Diego, I didn't get to go.

I do think it's interesting that so many foreigners come to America to play baseball and make millions of dollars and then go home to play for their country when it comes time for the Olympics and events like the World Baseball Classic. I've always wondered what kind of immigration status foreign athletes have to have to "work" in the U.S., especially since we obviously have a good pool of baseball players from the colleges.