I'd just like to take this moment to say that the baseball card coverage of the WBC really sucked. There was a crummy 50 card box set from Upper Deck that did no team justice (and didn't even include Cuba), then a bunch of inserts for Upper Deck sets that would cost a fortune if they could all be tracked down. As far as I can tell, there were no Japanese sets at all, certainly not a cool team set like the 2003 BBM Japan National Team box set. Hoepfully, things will be better in 2009. But I'm not counting on it.
I'll try to get a post on Hiroki Kuroda up later this week.
Oh, I agree. I even ought the WBC set and then said "Dear god, this royally sucks". It's still in a box in America, it wasn't even worth bringing here. Seriously.
ReplyDeleteI was also irritated by the lack of an English language highlight DVD. It kind of looked like once the US got eliminated, MLB figured that no one would care.
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