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Its performance in the World Baseball Classic didn't seem to provide a satisfying answer to that question. After playing a competitive game against powerhouse Japan, then pulling off a big-time upset of rival Chinese Taipei (Taiwan), China got housed by Korea, 14-0.
American-born Ray Chang, who plays for the Pittsburgh Pirates' farm team, was the hero of the Chinese Taipei game, with his eighth-inning homer. WBC rules allow him to play for China because both of his parents were born there.
China beat Chinese Taipei in the Olympics as well. The 8-7 victory was China's only in the Beijing Olympics. China also gave Korea a good game in the Olympics, taking it to 11 innings before losing, 1-0. So why does China keep beating Taiwan, a country where people actually play and follow baseball, and losing to everyone else? Even with China playing pretty competitively against Japan and Korea, it is starting to look a little fishy.
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Everyone knows baseball is far from China's national past time. The fact that they lost to Korea by 1 run and 4 to Japan, both giants in world baseball, goes on to validate the stunning progress of Chinese baseball. It shows that beating Taiwan is no fluke. If I remembered rite, The Chinese were masscred in the last WBC, at least now they are holding their own against the mighty Japanese and Koreans.
1. It's Taiwan, not Chinese Taipei.
2. Japan plays by "mercy rules", apparently S. Korea does not, especially when shit bird China lays claim to their land.
3. Knowing the KMT, the Taiwanese team is probably under pressure to lay down as well.
We'll see how China fares against the US, Canada and Latin America.
What a load of crap. The Japanese hammered the Koreans 14-2 on Saturday and lost to the Koreans on Monday. No such thing as mercy. Mercy or not, The Chinese team did extremely well. It's like Hong Kong holding Germany to a 1 nil win in soccer. If China loses to USA or Canada, it is normal, because China are minnows in baseball and hardly anyone plays it there. If you take the Blacks out of the USA sports scene, the US will bomb out big time in any sport. A Yao led team China will whip an all white USA team. LOL!
The Koreans in Korea will also not harass/attack Japanese citizens and businesses if they lose and lose badly. China on the other hand is a bunch of snotty thugs with low skills, a quick temper and thin skin.
Yao is a good player but still hot or cold, a team of white Americans will still take chinky chong China to school on the court, the pitch, the pool and the fighting ring.
BBC1, just shut it. I'm so sick of people saying, "if you take the blacks out." We're just as American as anybody else, WE BUILT THIS! Why should we be taken out unless you're coming from some black racial superiority stand point in the realm of sports. If that's the case, that's where you lose all credibility with me. So, once again, keep your idiotic ranting to yourself.
Nan, you're such a racist. The very same thing you accuse the 1.4 billion Chinese out there to be. "Chinky chong china?" Sounds like the countless assaults my Chinese American friends had to endure on a constant basis both verbally and physically. The Chinese team did alright considering the fact that they were facing off against the best of the NBA. You have no idea how an all white American team would fare against the Chinese team. I would think the all white team might win just because basketball is such an institution in the U.S from our high schools to our colleges.
But, on to why I'm going off on you. I see you EVERYWHERE with your mindless ranting and raving about how China sucks and how irrelevant the country and it's people are. It's funny, you talk about thin skin but it seems though during your short stay in China, you were hurt so badly that you have to dedicate hours everyday to sift through the Expat blogosphere looking for bad news in China so you can wallow in it. Or to just engage in flame wars with others, meanwhile ignoring all the injustice and corruption going on in our own country. You proved that you're no political activist just through that.
What happened to you in China? Were you made to wear a dunce cap all during the while, peasants pelted you with garbage? Or did people look at you funny and you were made to feel like an outsider? That's a cakewalk for me compared to living in the U.S.
I bet you just expected to be treated like how you think a white man should be treated. Chinamen and women kowtowing and shuckiin' and jivin' to you. But that didn't happen, did it? and with that your house of white privilege came crashing down. Did it hurt that bad?
The sad and ironic thing is the people and country that you consider so low, inferior and irrelevant still have you waking every up every morning HATING or trying to find more reasons to hate them. Really, take a look at that.
Your racist, sexist and homophobic postings just ooze inferiority complex. Take a good long hard look in the mirror. You might even be outta shape just from all the hate posting you do. Hate is no good brother.
And with that zit popped and long winded post off my chest. I'm out! I hope we don't cross paths again but if we do, I do hope you took that look in the mirror.
I'm a baseball fan, and I really don't care where the players come from. I want good baseball! If China develops a competitive team, fantastic!
Baseball is one of the easier sports for an underdog to win, however. You can't take one game--or even several games--as an indicator. MLB champions nearly always lose at least 1/3 of their games, and usually quite a few more than 1/3 (last season's champs won less than 57% of their games).
Errrr, S.K. came close. Korean amateur leagues sometimes have to drive an average of 3 hours just to get to a decent field to play/practice at. Just a little more investment into the game at home will most definitely help secure a 2013 victory.
Rainbow, don't sweat resident pussy boy nanheyangrouchuan. He probably gets up, argues online all day, rubs one out of his mini rocket and cries himself to sleep. Most people here ignore him.