Caribbean Series kicks off today
ByToday is Day One of the Serie del Carib, which runs through the end of the week. MLB Network is carrying the Venezuela-Dominican Republic game at 5pm Eastern, as well as the Mexico-Puerto Rico matchup at 10pm, so if you’re yearning for some live baseball action, here’s a nice little hold over. Maury Brown at The Biz of Baseball has the rest of the broadcast schedule, including the announcers.
There are no current Yankees (minors or majors) playing this year, but there are some notable ex-Yanks in the event, namely Felix Rodriguez, D’angelo Jimenez, Ruben Rivera and Jackson Melian. By far the best big leaguer playing is the Padres’ Adrian Gonzalez, who’s suiting up for Mexico and will be a teammate of Bill Pulsipher. Yes, that Bill Pulsipher. Jorge Aranguare Jr. of ESPN took a deeper look at each team’s roster.
Enjoy the games if you’re going to watch.
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Ooh, F-Mart and Bonificio are playing. F-Mart should be fun to watch.
This is like an appetizer for me, i’ll be watching
This spanish commentator is killing meeeeeeee
Felix Rodriguez, D’angelo Jimenez, Ruben Rivera and Jackson Melian
Bad memories…
The old reports in Baseball America almost portrayed Jackson Melian and Bronson Sardinha as the new versions of Mantle and Maris. The list of smoke-blown/failed Yankee prospects is too numerous to contemplate.
Rudy Guillen, Anderson Amador, Deivi Mendes, Jason Arnold, Ed Yarnall…
Good Lord. That’s quite a start. Thanks! (feeling ill for some reason).
I almost threw up thinking about it. Just wanted everybody to share these feelings.
int’l reporting has gotten alot tighter since then ..
Well this is okay but in another month we got the WBC to watch. That will be better but at least this is baseball.
Yup, when does the WBC start?
March 4th or 5th I believe.
LIVE BASEBALL FTW.
Bill Pulsipher… so I take it citizenship isn’t a requirement.
…and Ramon Ortiz continues to be a bust. So how come the Yanks can’t hit against him? :confusing:
doesnt arod own this guy i think he has like 5 or more homeruns against ortiz
That was like one game where they couldn’t hit Ortiz. He’s got a 4.17 ERA and 1.39 WHIP against the Yanks in 14 career appearances against them (10 starts).
Line ups for those who are interested.
Venezuela
Medina LF
Maza SS
Gimenez, H 1B
Chavez, R DH
Langaigne CF
Melian RF
Ugueto 3B
Delgado, A
Castro, R 2B
Knox P
Dominican Republic
Aybar, E SS
Hernandez, A 2B
Aybar, W 1B
Paulino C
Cazana LF
Perez, T DH
Bautista, J CF
Belliard 3B
Nanita RF
Ortiz P
Surpised there’s no interesting Dominican prospects for the Yankees.Hopefully the Caribbean will get back to it’s glory days when Willie Mays,Mickey Mantle,Roberto Clemente, Josh Gibson and Pedro Cepeda played.
Some Puerto Rican players were gonna play but because of the WBC there aren’t to many players in the Caribbean series.
Melvin Croussett isn’t playing? Can someone go to the DR and find him? or at least take a picture of him. I’m picturing a lefty Edwar Ramirez
You could take a picture of his face of course, but modern photography equipment cannot record his arm in its pitching motion. His arm speed is just too fast.
This guy Brad Knox has a great hammer curve, I’m surprised to see his 5.00+ ERA in the minors for the A’s AAA affiliate.
Heh, I love how there’s absolutely no sign of plate discipline in this game. What’s the old saying, you don’t walk off the island?
I just want to say one thing:
All you people who get MLB Network and can watch real live baseball suck and I hate all of you.
Thank you. Carry on.
if u have espn deportes u can watch it
OMG, Next Sunday is going to be High 54 degrees. Dumbass groundhog doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
Im watching it…only because its a baseball game that I dont already know the outcome to!!
I NEED baseball!
No-no bid through 6
thats end tha no no what a bomb
felix rodriguez is in the mound wow what team does he play for i havent seen him since who knows i think i saw him wit the phillies but wow hes hittin 96 on the gun
Is it really that hard to break your thoughts up by hitting ‘.’ after each?
Or even a return would be welcome. Just something.