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DaeguKid



Joined: 09 Dec 2006
Location: Daegu

PostPosted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:11 am    Post subject: OLYMPIC BOUND!!! Reply with quote

Canada just beat Korea 4-3 in baseball...Canada qualified for Beijing.
I was at the gym earlier and all the dudes were around the tv watching it. My treadmill was parked right in front! They were not liking me..they were making a point to let me know everytime Canada got an out.
Oh well, Korea did well and I think their record still gets them in. Canada is in....felt good to watch!
Good job Canuck boys!
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Tiberious aka Sparkles



Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!

PostPosted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:20 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sadly, everyone's penis stayed the same size. So, really, there were no winners this day.
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the_beaver



Joined: 15 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote:
Sadly, everyone's penis stayed the same size. So, really, there were no winners this day.


Good one.
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santafly



Joined: 20 Feb 2008

PostPosted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Canadians play baseball?
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crusher_of_heads



Joined: 23 Feb 2007
Location: kimbop and kimchi for kimberly!!!!

PostPosted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

santafly wrote:
Canadians play baseball?


Canada beat Korea 4-3 in baseball.

Canada is better than Korea.


It's true.
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PEIGUY



Joined: 28 Mar 2004
Location: Omokgyo

PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 1:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

crusher_of_heads wrote:
santafly wrote:
Canadians play baseball?


Canada beat Korea 4-3 in baseball.

Canada is better than Korea.


It's true.


I loved how every game they won got a huge column in the Ktimes. but when they lose to Canada it's just a meaningless game that gets a sentence worth in a column about how Korea is a world baseball power. True, it was a meaningless game, but now that we beat them once we have the edge mentally. Besides, they were playing countries that aren't exactly known for baseball.. It'll be interesting what the spin will be when they play the big players (US, Japan, etc) how well they'll do..
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Natalia



Joined: 10 Mar 2006

PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 1:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Aren't they taking baseball out of the Olympics after this year?

Nobody much plays it.




(And I don't blame them.)
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BRawk



Joined: 14 Oct 2007

PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 2:10 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

PEIGUY wrote:
crusher_of_heads wrote:
santafly wrote:
Canadians play baseball?


Canada beat Korea 4-3 in baseball.

Canada is better than Korea.


It's true.


I loved how every game they won got a huge column in the Ktimes. but when they lose to Canada it's just a meaningless game that gets a sentence worth in a column about how Korea is a world baseball power. True, it was a meaningless game, but now that we beat them once we have the edge mentally. Besides, they were playing countries that aren't exactly known for baseball.. It'll be interesting what the spin will be when they play the big players (US, Japan, etc) how well they'll do..


Yeah, its interesting how they dismissed this loss as meaningless...considering how the day before the manager of Korea was saying how important this game was as they would likely meet Canada in the olympics, and how they would use thier best starter and start thier best players.

Even with Korea's best, they failed to beat Canada's lesser players. Korea is using thier best players from the K-League and the J-league. Canada's best players are all in Spring training right now in the MLB.

Its fun to watch the Olympics baseball tourney, but the Fall classic is a much better test of a nations true baseball prowess.
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pkang0202



Joined: 09 Mar 2007

PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 2:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

BRawk wrote:
PEIGUY wrote:
crusher_of_heads wrote:
santafly wrote:
Canadians play baseball?


Canada beat Korea 4-3 in baseball.

Canada is better than Korea.


It's true.


I loved how every game they won got a huge column in the Ktimes. but when they lose to Canada it's just a meaningless game that gets a sentence worth in a column about how Korea is a world baseball power. True, it was a meaningless game, but now that we beat them once we have the edge mentally. Besides, they were playing countries that aren't exactly known for baseball.. It'll be interesting what the spin will be when they play the big players (US, Japan, etc) how well they'll do..


Yeah, its interesting how they dismissed this loss as meaningless...considering how the day before the manager of Korea was saying how important this game was as they would likely meet Canada in the olympics, and how they would use thier best starter and start thier best players.

Even with Korea's best, they failed to beat Canada's lesser players. Korea is using thier best players from the K-League and the J-league. Canada's best players are all in Spring training right now in the MLB.

Its fun to watch the Olympics baseball tourney, but the Fall classic is a much better test of a nations true baseball prowess.


And America's Minor league players would destroy Canada's MLB players. Now I have the bigger *beep*. MWAAHAHAHAH!!!!
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Newbie



Joined: 07 Feb 2003

PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 4:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

pkang0202 wrote:

And America's Minor league players would destroy Canada's MLB players. Now I have the bigger *beep*. MWAAHAHAHAH!!!!


Yet Canada's MLBers were able to beat America's MLBers... strange.

I know, it was just a fluke. And unlike some wacked out Korean netizens I'm not about to go off into fantasy land and claim my country is a better baseballing nation than the US becuase of one game. But, Canada ain't all that bad. Mourneau, Bay, Bedard, Francis, Harden, Martin: Great players. Definitely better than anything Korea could serve up.
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ajgeddes



Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan

PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 5:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yeah, Canada had all AAA, AA and even single A players. How many times did Lee Seung Yeop strike out? At least twice. It's too bad we couldn't field better players, but beating Korean and Taiwan is pretty big.
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I-am-me



Joined: 21 Feb 2006
Location: Hermit Kingdom

PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 5:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

After the ongoing massacre in Tibet some countries might start to pull out of the games... Question
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Typhoon



Joined: 29 May 2007
Location: Daejeon

PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 5:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It would be the right thing to do as China is about as opposite the Olympic ideal as you can get (aside from Dafur and North Korea). I guess this is what happens when the IOC chooses the host nations based on who gives the biggest bribe. Another nightmare for the IOC.
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Cheonmunka



Joined: 04 Jun 2004

PostPosted: Sun Mar 16, 2008 3:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe not the biggest bribe but a huge country (the most populated in the World) that came out into the spotlight. On the one hand it's a country that we can't ignore, on the other it's so diverse with rich and poor, technocrats and subsistence farming, growth and development of its citizens and mass deaths of students. It really is a dichotomy.
Hang on, doesn't this sound like the country that we all got to love in '88?
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PEIGUY



Joined: 28 Mar 2004
Location: Omokgyo

PostPosted: Tue Mar 18, 2008 10:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Japanese aren't likely to allow their big slugger to go to the olympics.. it'll be interesting to watch like i said..
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