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Post ID	Date & Time	Game Date	Function
#45962	02/23/2017 8:54:06 am		Ignore
Squiddcatt Joined: 02/25/2016 Posts: 375 Inactive	Italy won game one and almost won game two go Italy.
#45963	02/23/2017 11:17:47 am		Ignore
Philliesworld Joined: 10/17/2014 Posts: 787 Pierre Jacobins III.3	Mexico loses twice to PR for their first two losses in 2031 WC. C'mon Mexico' hit that ball over the "wall"
#45964	02/23/2017 12:12:34 pm		Ignore
Garnash1970 Joined: 08/07/2014 Posts: 199 Inactive	I have to say, as the WC is formatted right now ... BORING. There is literally no competition until the very last round and even then there's like 10 to 1 odds the US will win. What about an age cap of 25? Any other ideas?
#45969	02/23/2017 1:36:00 pm		Ignore
Jason2327 Joined: 09/02/2014 Posts: 718 Abilene Patriots III.2	+1 to the age cap idea
#45970	02/23/2017 1:39:44 pm		Ignore
brentswagger Joined: 03/22/2016 Posts: 265 Lakeville Bears IV.2	For me the world cup is boring anyway so I see no need to change. I wouldn't care if it went away completely but I do understand it gives some time for allowing teams to adjust rosters before the next season.
#45971	02/23/2017 2:28:43 pm		Ignore
g10rsh Joined: 02/05/2016 Posts: 170 Champaign Suzumebachi VI.2	I don't see an age cap taking away America's huge advantage. They'll still have way more players of quality under that age than any other country. A possible interest would be making it double elimination, losers go to a loser's bracket at play again against other losing teams, with a final face off between a team never lost and a team that only lost one series. More games, more chance to see your national team players, and more quality games and close series. EDIT: I just did a search of position players under 25 with over 115 sp. America has 20 position players. Japan was the next closest team with 4 Updated Thursday, February 23 2017 @ 2:33:36 pm PST Updated Thursday, February 23 2017 @ 2:35:50 pm PST
#45978	02/23/2017 4:28:35 pm		Ignore
Tiger504 Joined: 06/17/2014 Posts: 1314 Kalamazoo Bloody Tigers III.4	The World Classic is not extending the off season. The days it is played on used to be days with nothing going on, at all. So even if it's boring, it's still interesting too. More so than it used to be. Just FYI.
#45981	02/23/2017 5:38:45 pm		Ignore
Seca Joined: 05/05/2014 Posts: 5199 Waterloo Dinosaurs Legends	I thought it was a good tournament this year. The U.S. had a tough opponent in 4 of the 5 series. They played every top tier team aside from Puerto Rico and Cuba. Well earned title. Cheers to the surprising Italy team with the run to the semis. Good fortune? Efforts of Team Italy paying dividends? A little of both? Edit: Pat Booth lowered his career WC ERA to 0.23 this season (over 25 games). Not too shabby. Updated Thursday, February 23 2017 @ 6:00:43 pm PST
#45987	02/23/2017 8:27:27 pm		Ignore
Dcmrulz Joined: 02/14/2013 Posts: 588 Inactive	T-Rod finally breaking out of the World Classic funk with a .311/.358/.500 line, and 121 hits all-time. Real nice!
#45989	02/23/2017 9:44:00 pm
admin Joined: 01/27/2010 Posts: 4985 Administrator	Wow...USA clobbers Mexico in the final. Steve

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