However, I believe he changed over to US citizenship last year... So that it would be awkward for him to play either for his new country or his old country. He needs to sit out for diplomacy, or to avoid getting lynched.

Tucson will probably lose its place in spring training over the next couple of years. Why? Because our investment in new facilities was not good enough to hold the White Sox. These flowers of the baseball world are too delicate to ride a bus between Tucson and Phoenix.

A pox on them all.

I didn't say he was a weak middle infielder. I said my team is a little weak in the middle infield. We have Polanco and the ringer Furcal, but the only backup at either position is the dubious Luis Cruz, who I don't think I'd ever heard of before he pulled out of the WBC, and I've heard of almost everybody, though I do forget some marginal types over the winter.

I doubt Polanco's citizenship has anything to do with his declining to play. Lots of U.S. citizens are playing for other countries, even ones they have only ancestral connections to. Check out the Italian roster, or ask Mark Teahen how it was to grow up in the Canadian province of California.

like to watch the actual games on the field, I'll watch and enjoy the games while you guys enjoy your whine.

Off to the gym.

"Good riddance, baseball. You won't be missed. Major League Baseball runs its own quadrennial international tournament now, the World Baseball Classic, which does attract the world's best players."

-- King Kaufman, Aug. 2008

http://www.salon.com/sports/olympics/feature/2008/08/13/baseball/

heh. Maybe the WBC isn't so attractive after all. :-) Not that I care about Olympic baseball, either.

It's a bunch of exhibition games. Why should professional ballplayers be interested?