Why does no one care about the WBC?

Hey, baseball fan.

Are you jacked? Amped? Hyped? Psyched? Do any of these superfluous sports-isms describe your attitude toward the Second Coming of Bud Selig's Home Run Jesus, otherwise known as the World Baseball Classic?

I'm guessing no.

Are we done with big league baseball at this point? Is it the roids? The copious crotch adjustments? Or is it just overall fan malaise surrounding the precursor to what is a ridiculously long baseball season that leaves no room for excitement for the international baseball event that is, by the way, currently taking place.

I don't get any feeling that anyone cares about this thing. And baseball as a sport is not in a good place in general right now. A-Rod. Roger Clemens. Barry Bonds is still occasionally making news for being  a complete chowderhead.

The game's greats that today's 20-somethings looked up to growing up are, by and large, frauds. Does that doom the WBC to international anonymity? Or is it the MLB managers and owners who cringe at letting their big bat or ace hurler represent his country in competition that has the potential to rival the World Cup and the Olympics?

Will anybody ever care?

Personally, I'm following it. Come on - Netherlands 3, Dominican Republic 2, people. That's a great story. And this USA squad is really fun to watch as well.

They shelled a good Venezuela team 15-6 on Sunday and look to be on a mission after 2006's disappointing 8th-place finish. I implore all three of you reading this blog post to watch their next game, which will most likely be a rematch with the Venezuelans, who are currently abusing the Italian team 9-0 in the bottom of the sixth.

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