As some of you might already know I have the oppurtunity to live in a baseball fan’s heaven.  Nowhere else in the US do you have the oppurtunity to see so many prefessional games so close.  Soon I will have the opputunity to watch national teams compete as well. 

On July 31st most of you probably missed the anouncement for the venue of the semi-finals and finals for the World Basball Classic.  This will be the second such tournament that has been put on by Major League Baseball.  The first was won by Japan in 2006.

That tournament the semi-finals and finals were held at PetCo park in San Diego and I had the distinct pleasure to attend the tournament with my dad, brother and brother’s friend.  I have been to a few hundred professional baseball games in my life but that experience was definately a first for me.

The final four teams left in the tournament were Cuba, Dominican Republic, Japan, and Korea.  The electricity in the stadium was beyond anything that I had ever seen or felt.  The support the national teams recieved from their fans was simply amazing and they had the entore stadium rocking from before the first pitch all the way through the last out.

The fans weren’t the only ones going all out.  The games were absolutely amazing, the players went all out the entire game.  Japan beat Korea and Cuba beat the Dominican in the semi-finals and then Japan beat Cuba in the finals.

My brother and I are already planning for March 21st and 23rd of next year to be at Dodger Stadium.  Hopefully we will be cheering for the US team but regardless of who is playing we will be there watching some really great baseball and having a great time.

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