Dodgers beat Giants 2-1 in the Game 5 decider and advance to NLCS. Julio Urias only came in as reliever in the 3rd inning (most pundit & fans expected him to start) and Max Scherzer got the save after Cody Belinger drove in the go-ahead RBI in the top of the 9th.
Man... I can't get a break with those tough games. First chargers on Sunday gave me a heartattack. And then dodgers in a very tense ending
Baseball is a niche sport when it comes to Olympics. I don't see how MLB stops their season to have players involved.
Wishful thinking due to it being set in Los Angeles. Besides if not they will have hard time making sure they will be able to use Angel and Dodger stadium during the games, those will be some long away trips
Pitchers: Shane Baz, Anthony Carter, Brandon Dickson, Anthony Gose, Edwin Jackson, Scott Kazmir, Nick Martinez, Scott McGough, David Robertson, Joe Ryan, Ryder Ryan, Simeon Woods-Richardson
Outfielders: Tyler Austin, Eric Filia, Patrick Kivlehan, Bubba Starling
Utility: Jack Lopez
As expected, it's a mix of former MLB players and top prospects. As a Blue Jays fan, it's great to see Simeon Woods-Richardson make the team.
Also of note is that Eddy Alvarez was on the short track speed skating team at the 2014 olympics and he joins the list of people who have competed in both a summer and winter olympics.
Edwin Jackson threw a no hitter once, Scott Kazmir had quite a few great years in Tampa, David Roberts was a yankees closer. Not a bad team, hopefully though they will be able to have an agreement for LA2028 to send the majors players since it will be in Dodger Stadium
So i'll be the Optemisitc one.., we have a group of players that most of them are playing together since 2016 or so, some of them has an MLB expireince and were at the top (Ian kinsler for example) so i don't see why not
Any word of how the groups will work? first time i have actual investment in a team tournament (hard to be invested in american teams when there are so many of them)
Still depending on whether or not The teams decide to give the players the option or keep them on the roaster, hoping that in LA 2028 it will be possible that all MLB players Could and would be in
it will still be hard because of the majors going on in the same time, they need to stop it, i wish , but i'm skeptical
Yep. Apparently a mix of cocaine and EPO was good enough to keep your cool
I don't remember what happened then.... refresh my memory? ( I just remember being hurt bad the year before because i was a big AC Milan fan back then)
Well if we end up with a team composed of Americans who happen to be Jewish taking up one of only six Olympic quotas in baseball I'd say this would be a public relations disaster for those arguing for the ongoing inclusion of baseball in the Olympics .
The big question is how many of the team learnt the sport in Israel ?
I remember that there was a story that Greece toyed with the idea of fielding a ( field ) hockey team comprised of persons from the Greek diaspora who knew the game ( which is largely unknown in Greece ) for Athens 2004,
Fortunately it went nowhere . Somebody will always throw these ideas up, They should be ignored for the integrity of sport
The answer is 0, but how exactly is it different with Chinese table tennis players playing for every possible country, there are were way more then 3 chinese table tennis players. And what about Qatar and their handball team? there are plenty of examples of athletes who go on to represent another country , if we stop israel we should stop everyone.
yes, at the Olympic Games they could play, but of course they won't because the owners of the MLB teams won't give them permission to leave and play elsewhere in the middle of their season (nor they have any intention to stop the majors for a couple of weeks or so)...
no, because MLB players can't play at the Premier 12 by rule...
it's gonna be mainly triple- and double A players, with Japan, Korea and Chinese Taipei using their own main leagues to fill the spots on their respective rosters...
still, US depth chart is beyond imagination, so, if Girardi can put on a good staff to help him selecting the right players in the perfect spot, USA can easily be a top contender in any case (like it happened 4 years ago)...
But by rule they are allowed in the olympics? (i know they wont be in tokyo, but i'm hoping for LA2028 there will be a break and MLB will play)
I have much respect for what this man can do with a team. It should be interesting to see how much he improves the national team.
The question is, can we expect any prominent MLB names since it will be after the playoffs (mike trout comes to mind since the angels are god awful but he's amazing)
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Karate obviously has lots of problems with officiating. and WKF itself is not a great organization either (most of their rule changes are dumb) but the scoring basic is very simple with only 1 or 2 rare situations.
I know in past IOC (under previous IOC presidents not the current dictator) asked WKF to find a solution, using helmets or something like that to avoid situation like the last Olympic final. and I remember WKF used it for few tournaments around 2000 (1998 Asian Games for example) but nobody (specially the athletes) didn't like it, they dropped the idea.
I totally understand Kata looks very very boring, (as boring as Surfing in my opinion) but that's the heart of karate. even if WKF is allowed to pick 1 event for the Olympics, they will pick Kata (team kata is much better though)
Cross-country is a long standing WA ask. Handball was never going to get Beach, Gymnastics would defo want tumbling, but possibly prefer double mini or trampoline synchro to acrobatic. High diving SHOULD get in and Archery would be better looking at field events, but may be satisfied with the five it has.
Worth noting that MMA was once more or less known as 'no holds barred', the most brutal form of combat sport....but almost immediately, certain holds and techniques were barred! Eye gouging, fishhooking and, more important for this discussion "small joint manipulation" - i.e torture submissions based on breaking fingers and toes. Holds that work in te real world...but are unacceptable in the sport. Any martial art that becomes a sport compromises - what do you think boxing gloves are?
My problem with karate is following the scoring and understanding what scores and what doesn't. The action itself looks interesting, but its hard to read a context.
Under no circumstances whatsoever should we see fierce growling and staring at invisible people - Kata - ever return to the games - the only event more shambolic that B-girl Raygun. What next, Haka?
That was never a controversy for anybody who has watched this sport for an hour.
in Judo you can win by strangulation or something but you can't break the neck I assume.
that's the same with kicking (or punching) to the head in Karate, you can kick but you can't kick with maximum force. that's the first thing they teach you in Karate. the very first thing.
I have now increased the width of the view so there is more space in the right and left borders.
Table with width 1000px are still too wide
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but it also depends on the size of your screen and of your font. If a table is too wide you can zoom out (ctrl+mouse wheel) and see the missing columns in the right.
On my screen, a table with width 900px and zoom 100% works fine:
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The judging systems for kata and breakdancing were actually both completely changed specifically for the Olympics, so they were both as old as one another.
And karate might have had many decades of development but that doesn’t mean the end product was any good as a TV sport, and it also had arguably the most controversial officiating decision of the entire Tokyo Olympics.
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Man... I can't get a break with those tough games. First chargers on Sunday gave me a heartattack. And then dodgers in a very tense ending
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