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[kalimbablue]

So yesterday, my friend/co-worked calls me at 1:45pm, "Yo D, you're not going to believe this.  I have two tickets to the WBC Championship
game that I can't use.  Want 'em?"

Mind you, the game is at 6pm.  It would take me a good 2 hours to get down there.  I have two hours to find someone to go with me and
get down there.

It's Cuba v. Japan

Comments

[kataklypse]

Lucky you. My coworkers went on Saturday and they were both great games from what I heard. I'm glad Taiwan beat China. TAKE THAT! ;p

[kalimbablue]

hahaha...a lot of my students also got a kick out of taiwan beating china. lots of them also got a kick out of korea beating japan twice, but quickly changed the subject when japan beat korea to get to the finals.

[momotar0]

awesome man. im hella jealous. i was watching parts of the replay on espn, but that's about as close as i got to the wbc this time around.
you shoulda seen my mom (japanese) and my grandpa (korean) talkin shit to each other on st. patrick's day.
that was kinda hectic.

anyway, yea, i was thinking about all the nationalism that is associated with these things and wondering how that would play out. sorry you got called some foul shit. im glad nobody got hurt though....that doesn't mean someone didn't deserve a good beatdown tho...

[kalimbablue]

yeah, the nationalism is an interesting aspect to all of this. but what i was seeing/hearing/feeling at the game wasn't so much nationalism, but just unadulterated racism -- by americans toward anyone not american/white.

there were a lot of cuban fans/supporters, but i didn't hear any foul stuff coming from them. same thing with the japanese fans/supporters. i'm sure it existed, i just didn't see/hear any of it.

what's interesting is japan wins the wbc, won the little league world series, yet japanese and japanese americans still won't be associated with great baseball play. know what i mean?

the racist stereotype: a black male on a college campus: must be a basketball player.

the racist stereotype: a japanese american male on a college campus: not a baseball player, but a computer science major.

mmmm

[momotar0]

yea, i hear what you're saying.

....even after the US lost, the guys on espn were saying that the wbc could never happen anywhere else besides the US, because nowhere else do you have "such great diversity"...and besides when it comes down to it, "baseball is still an AMERICAN sport."
god, i almost threw my tv out the window.

i'm still wondering when we'll see JA's playing in the wnba or nba. i know there's been some good guards on ncaa women's teams....but that's all i can think of.

what ever happened to onan masaoka? :p

dope

[apafella]

those are some dope pictures ... u should try and blow one up ... that's dope to like have on your wall or something.

Re: dope

[kalimbablue]

i was surprised my camera had that kind of zoom. i might print/blow up the picture from the mound.

[lilunghwa]

crazy! man, i was torn about to cheer for, because i blame the japanese for destroying the american economy, but i also love freedom!

yeah, even cheating in two separate games couldn't keep the americans in the WBC. ha ha. ha.