I am, of course, referring to the inaugural world baseball classic
After near humiliation by a South African team whose outfielders' routes would have been out of place on a high school team, Corey Koskie did for Canada what he could never do in Canada when with the Blue jays i.e. hit a three run homer. We hang on to beat a US team that took us far too lightly causing interest in tthe competition to rise a hundredfold (yep 200 people watched the match).
Then after having already had in place a strategy to get through to the next round ie having our best(sic) starting pitcher face the beaners our knuckle-headed manger Ernie Whitt(less) failed to adapt once circumstances had changed All we had to do was agree with Mexico that they could win a low scoring game and we were both through.
You don't think the representatives of that country would be 'open to persuasion'? After all who would they rather be facing further down the line - us or the US. Come on
But oh no. He relied on his players and it was basically over after one inning
It's not as though the victory over the US of A is looking thatimpressive. They have subsequently lost to Korea and only defeated Japan thanks to a gross error by an American umpire (whats he doing in a game his country is playing in?) deemed not good enough for the major leagues
Oh well back to the Curling
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