THE DUTCH WIN!!!! THE DUTCH WIN!!!
In a baseball shocker of biblical proportions, The Netherlands ousts the Dominican Republic from the World Baseball Classic by defeating the Dominicans not once, but twice, last week.
Are you kidding me? Once was a shocker. Everyone was scurrying to find out who was on the Netherlands roster? How could they do this? But I don't think anybody would have given the Dutch a snowballs chance in hell of accomplishing what they did in eliminating one of the tournament favorites.
Think about it, this is like the gym weenie going up to the gym muscle-head and punching him square in the face and knocking him down. I guess you could do that once and live to tell about it, provided you never went back to the gym or ever faced the victim again. But the Dutch had to face the Dominicans again, IN AN ELIMINATION GAME.
No excuses for the Dominicans. This is not on the level of the Miracle in Lake Placid, or the Puerto Rican basketball team beating the Americans a few years back as the hyperventilators at ESPN would lead you to believe. Sadly the WBC is not considered that big of a stage yet. I will give you that generally speaking it does seem as if the Latin American countries DO take the event more seriously than the Americans, which adds to the shock factor.
There goes my WBC tournament bracket. I had the Dominicans advancing further.
Netherlands coach Rod Delmonico sprints to the front as an early March candidate for coach of the year.
DAVID SLAYS GOLIATH
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