yaaay baseball

so whats happened. A's got o-cab an nomar. nothin to really get excited about i guess, but they came so cheap that it is pretty cool. Our infield actually looks fairly decent, strong devensively at least and some upside offensively with barton an nomar. I do like this nomar signing, feel like the guy should be able to hit if he can stay on the field. kinda funny the a's of all people signed cabrera an nomar. pair of hackers. as long as they make us better though, I don't really care about the method. not much else to say about those guys. I've always like cabrera's swing, think its really smooth and round looking for some reason. honestly, I haven't seen nomar swing a bat since he was good and a redsox (seriously now, what's singular redsox? redsock? doesn't seem right, otherwise theyd just be redsocks. retarded bostonians and their incomprehensible naming conventions). so iono where i get the idea that he can still hit, he was just so talented before, an its not like hes old old old, just kinda old. injureis can be brutal i guess.

on to wbc! japan owns! I was worred after the china game and being absolutely dominated by that sidewinder, but holy shit if they didnt stomp the shit out of korea. Almost felt bad for the so called "japan killer" kid who started. yea not really, but almost. Murata is my hero right now. Hits the ball hard, makes a good amount of contact, and has some pretty good hands at third base. Not all that sure about his range, but he cathes everything hit his way so far. was a ton of fun watching darvish pitch. never seen before. wasn't exactly dominating like I was hoping, but it is only spring so I'm hoping he improves a tad as the tournament goes on. daisuke just sucked yesterday. walking everyone, falling behind in counts, wasnt gettin anyone to bite on his splitters, which he threw a ton of it seemed. that homer he gave up on a 3-0 count was so embarassing. I mean that shit was annhiliated. other than those two tho, the pitching staff seems really deep. they got some really good arms in there. forgettin particular names at the moment, but it looked good. gives me hope, cause I do not expect another offensive game like the last one. team just has no power. murata is it. I crack up everytime I see aoki at the plate, that dudes swing is just ridiculous. works for him though, so whatever. ummm what else. The shortstop is fun to watch, seems like a all around kind of player. Wondering what happend to nishioka, he was crazy in the last wbc. from what i can tell, he had a bit of a breakout season last year, kinda dissapointing not seeing him on the roster. haha though now I look at it, Nakajima is just straight better, in all offensive categories at least. 937 OPS from your ss is pretty fucking sweet. Iwamura is probably a better player still too, so alrite, maybe next time nishioka, keep developing that power an we'll talk I guess. So now that I'm looking at NPB stats, I'm noticing something. They all walk like 50 times a season. It's weird. The slap happy weak guys walk about 50 times, the sluggers walk about 50 times, everyone walks about 50 times in a season. Though you know now that I look at funny swing aoki (42 walks last season), he was fucking awesome. 400+ on base an 500+ slugging. how the fuck did he generate that much power with that swing. 31 for 31 on stolen base attempts too, the guy is some kinda ball player. alrite i'll wrap this up. wbc has started, started well, an lookin good goin forward. tryin not to get my hopes up considering how meaningless this tournament style format is, mixed in with the fact that no one has any kind of timing down yet, but still excited about a run at a repeat world title.