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citizen erased
Joined: 06 Apr 2008
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 Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 7:50 am Post subject: Why Did Korea Win a Gold in Baseball? |
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| am i safe to say that MLB players arent allowed in the olympics? |
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i4NI
Joined: 17 May 2008
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:11 am Post subject: Re: Why Did Korea Win a Gold in Baseball? |
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| citizen erased wrote: |
| am i safe to say that MLB players arent allowed in the olympics? |
Did you watch a few years ago in the world baseball classic when there were MLB players playing on the US team? What's your excuse for that? |
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citizen erased
Joined: 06 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 8:15 am Post subject: |
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whoa
i have an excuse for nothing
i havent liked this boring az sport since i was 5. try to stay on topic.
or, you can always start ur own.  |
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Whirlwind
Joined: 03 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 9:18 am Post subject: |
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The MLB team treated the world baseball classic as a joke. They didn't take it seriously. The team was patched together and there was no continuity in anything they did(other than play bad baseball). Korea, on the other hand, took it seriously. As in national pride depended upon it. Plus the Korean team trained together and had more experience in being a cohesive unit rather than the US team. Honestly, if the US has been organized and had taken it seriously and had trained together, do you really think the Bad News Bears(ie Korean team) would have had a chance? They'd've gotten smoked.
Did you also notice how nobody in the US cared or cares now about the world baseball classic? It just isn't important and nobody really cares how the team does. Meanwhile, Koreans go bonkers if they win and the players get out of doing their military service. Big difference in what is deemed important in the US v. what's important in kimchiland |
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sharkey
Joined: 12 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Whirlwind wrote: |
The MLB team treated the world baseball classic as a joke. They didn't take it seriously. The team was patched together and there was no continuity in anything they did(other than play bad baseball). Korea, on the other hand, took it seriously. As in national pride depended upon it. Plus the Korean team trained together and had more experience in being a cohesive unit rather than the US team. Honestly, if the US has been organized and had taken it seriously and had trained together, do you really think the Bad News Bears(ie Korean team) would have had a chance? They'd've gotten smoked.
Did you also notice how nobody in the US cared or cares now about the world baseball classic? It just isn't important and nobody really cares how the team does. Meanwhile, Koreans go bonkers if they win and the players get out of doing their military service. Big difference in what is deemed important in the US v. what's important in kimchiland |
so youre saying usa is the best ? how refreshing |
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Thunndarr
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:07 pm Post subject: Re: Why Did Korea Win a Gold in Baseball? |
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| citizen erased wrote: |
| am i safe to say that MLB players arent allowed in the olympics? |
I think it's safe to say that major league baseball teams aren't going to allow their best players to head off to the olympics in the middle of a pennant race. |
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bede777
Joined: 26 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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| sharkey wrote: |
| Whirlwind wrote: |
The MLB team treated the world baseball classic as a joke. They didn't take it seriously. The team was patched together and there was no continuity in anything they did(other than play bad baseball). Korea, on the other hand, took it seriously. As in national pride depended upon it. Plus the Korean team trained together and had more experience in being a cohesive unit rather than the US team. Honestly, if the US has been organized and had taken it seriously and had trained together, do you really think the Bad News Bears(ie Korean team) would have had a chance? They'd've gotten smoked.
Did you also notice how nobody in the US cared or cares now about the world baseball classic? It just isn't important and nobody really cares how the team does. Meanwhile, Koreans go bonkers if they win and the players get out of doing their military service. Big difference in what is deemed important in the US v. what's important in kimchiland |
so youre saying usa is the best ? how refreshing |
We'll it is baseball. It is our game. I think possibly the only things us Americans can claim to be better than the world at is sloth, baseball and hoops. As a matter of fact we are so certain of it that most don't care and take it for granted. That is not arrogance but fact. We don't claim to be best at things like deplomacy, science, hard work and making kim chi. However, baseball and hoops, it is not in doubt. Example, did you watch our olympic hoops team when they put in half an effort. Same rule in baseball. |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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Look at the Koreans who have come to the US to play MLB. Hee Sop Choi, Chan Ho Park, Jae Seo, etc. Serviceable, but not gold medal quality.
I was at the Doosan/Samsung game and the closer hit 93 on the radar gun.
"와ㅏㅏㅏㅏㅏㅏㅏㅏㅏㅏㅏㅏㅏㅏㅏㅏㅏㅏㅏㅏㅏㅏㅏㅏㅏ"
Give me a break. |
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Ilsanman
Joined: 15 Aug 2003
Location: Bucheon, Korea
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Korea shut down their league so they could send their best players. Other countries didn't. That's why they won.
I find it funny that Korea prides itself on these players who went to the major league. Did anyone consider why they came back to Korea? Probably b/c no team wanted them. |
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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