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Maybe you saw jubilation, the pile of humanity in the infield, the joy of Team USA rallying in the ninth inning and advancing to the semifinals of whatever event they're pretending to stage. Me? I just sighed Tuesday night, like others who realize the World Baseball Classic is a contrived farce that compromises the major-league season ahead, the only baseball that matters to the game's true cognescenti.
Ever seen an event so blindly self-important expose so many flaws, cracks and detriments in the big picture? As if the WBC wasn't diluted enough by mass player defections before the tournament, the predominant theme this month has been injuries -- and how they ultimately could hamper or ruin the seasons of 30 franchises impatiently waiting for this ill-timed marketing nonsense to end. The messages are mixed and the priorities askew, hardly a surprising development when the architect of the event is none other than Bud Selig, who told a thin U.S. media contingent that things are going wonderfully.
Save Baseball as We Know It: Kill Off the World Baseball Classic
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