Puerto Rico Shows USA Mercy (by Rule)

For the record, the World Baseball classis is a joke. The entire event is a glorified exhibition that most sports fans are not paying any attention to. Some the attention the WBC garnered and comparisons made this past week after the Netherlands eliminated the Dominican Republic was highly comical and not even worth debating. However, just to be clear, a competition where participants are allowed to choose what team they would like to play for, there are limitations put on how pitches a player can throw, puts runners on base if the game goes a certain amount of innings, and features a mercy rule cannot be cannot be taken seriously.

Getting back to the mercy rule for a second, apparently the big, bad, humungous United State of America played itty, bitty Puerto Rico sometime today, somewhere. This is like all the other states in the U.S. ganging up against and challenging Delaware to a game of baseball. Only, all the good baseball players would have had to reside in Delaware because Puerto Rico got the best of the U.S. today. In fact, Puerto Rico dismantled Team USA 11 - 1...in seven innings even though games in the WBC are in fact supposed to last nine innings.

That is correct, a country that is not even a real country, but a U.S. territory, beat down the entire United States so badly the game had to be stopped after seven innings. Team USA was mercy-ruled by a country that doesn't even have their own currency because they use the U.S. dollar. The game of baseball has forever been known as America's "National Pastime", a game invented, played, and beloved across the country for ages. In the present day, however, there aren't even enough quality players in the entire United States to compete with a country the size of Connecticut.

If whoever is responsible for the WBC is insistent on continuing with this nonsense in the future it would be in the best interest of the U.S. to upgrade the talent on their roster. In the interest of preserving United State's reputation as the home of baseball and avoid future embarrassment, it may be about time to officially make Puerto Rico the 51st state.