Night Owl Cards

Right now the baseball buzz on social media is the World Baseball Classic. While I'm happy to see people talking about more baseball, I can't get into the WBC more than periodic glances. A few reasons just to make sense of how I feel:   1. We just had two weeks of an international sports event. I'm tapped out. 2. March has enough chaos and energy -- March Madness, right? I don't need more. 3. The WBC seems to run on star power, which really isn't my focus in baseball (Yes, I know the Dodgers have a ton of stars, I do feel conflicted about that).   For baseball all I need is the Dodgers and the other MLB teams that play the Dodgers. I have a difficult time getting invested in any other kind of baseball, whether that's Olympic, collegiate, Banana Ball or any of the many, many non-MLB leagues through history. I've found where my heart will reside forever -- as corporate as MLB may be now.   My collection reflects that -- in the pursuit of MLB-themed sets and, o...

The World Baseball Classic may have its detractors. Ichiro Suzuki may have his detractors. But there is no one that can dispute this statement: Ichiro really wanted to win the World Baseball Classic. For all but the few of you who watched the championship of the WBC, it went 10 innings and ended about 10 minutes ago. Ichiro had a whale of a game, and drove in the winning runs in the top of the 10th inning to give Japan the WBC title again. They won 5-3 over Korea. I'm not sure how I feel about the WBC. I've watched a little of it, but obviously if I really cared, I would have watched a lot more of it. I just have a hard time watching my country's team when I'm not even sure how much they care. I do think the players on the team care. Most of them anyway. But the restrictions on the pitching and the comments about how an injured player could have played if it was an "important" game makes me wonder why anyone should be paying attention to this. So, in my eyes...