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CORPUS CHRISTI - Two teens were arrested by Corpus Christi police for an outstanding warrant Saturday night.
Police said they received information that the two were at a home in the 5800 block of Horizon Drive. When officers arrived, they found one of the wanted teens outside and the other running into an apartment. Police met with the teen's mother at the door and she asked the teen to turn himself into police. When the teen spotted the officer, police said the teen ran and when the officer grabbed for him, he sung an elbow at his head. Another officer arrived to help detain the teen.
Robert Williams, 18, is being held in Nueces County Jail on the $25,000 bond for burglary of a habitation. A 17-year-old also is in jail with a similar bond and charge. He also is charged with resisting arrest with another $500 bond. Police believe the pair burglarized an apartment in their complex two weeks ago.
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Hours after Engadget picked up on a quote attributed to Steve Wozniak, the Apple cofounder has clarified his position. According to the original article, Apple's cofounder told Dutch paper De Telegraaf that Google's Android OS would soon overtake iOS because the former had more features. However, now Wozniak said his words were taken out of context.
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Woz says he gave the De Telegraaf reporter a lengthy demonstration of voice commands on iOS and Android, pointed out that Android offered the ability to say "Navigate to Joe's Diner," and suggested that Apple would catch up through its purchases of Siri and Poly9. According to Steve, that's about it — he says he'd "never" say that Android was better than iOS, and that "Almost every app I have is better on the iPhone." Woz did say he lightly prognosticated that Android would become more popular "based on what I've read," but that he expects Android "to be a lot like Windows… I'm not trying to put Android down, but I'm not suggesting it's better than iOS by any stretch of the imagination. But it can get greater marketshare and still be crappy."
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This fully revised second edition of Ian Maxwell's Tracing Your Scottish Ancestors is a lively and accessible introduction to Scotland's long, complex and fascinating story. It is aimed primarily at family historians who are eager to explore and understand the world in which their ancestors lived. He guides readers through the wealth of material available to researchers in Scotland and abroad. He looks at every aspect of Scottish history and at all the relevant resources. As well as covering records held at the National Archives of Scotland, he examines closely the information held at local archives throughout the country. He also describes the extensive Scottish records that are now available on line. His expert and up-to-date survey is a valuable handbook for anyone who is researching Scottish history because he explains how the archive material can be used and where it can be found. For family historians, it is essential reading as it puts their research into a historical perspective, giving them a better insight into the part their ancestors played in the past.
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Nancy O'Dell, Emmy Award-winning co-anchor of "Entertainment Tonight," will host the NAB Show Television Luncheon, held Monday, April 8 in Las Vegas.
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In addition to her work with ET, O'Dell has contributed reports to CBS This Morning, NBC's "Today" show and "Dateline." She is executive producer and host of "Celebrities at Home," which was recently picked up for a third season on HGTV. O'Dell was handpicked by Oprah and Mark Burnett to host "Your Own Show," one of OWN network's premiere primetime shows. Having over 20 years' experience, O'Dell is a go-to anchor for live TV specials including the 2011 national Emmy pre-show, "Countdown to the Emmys," and FOX's New Year's Eve Special ringing in 2011. She was a special presenter on CBS' 2012 Academy of Country Music Awards, as well as a host of Fox's American Country Music Awards. Previously, O'Dell served as the co-anchor of "Access Hollywood" for 13 years.
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Lecture Title: "British Soldiers, American War"
Lecturer: Don N. Hagist, historian & author
All lectures take place in the theater of the park visitor center, located at 2332 New Garden Road.
All lectures are free to the public, but reservations are required. Seating is limited. Call (336) 288-1776 for information and to register for each night's lecture.
The purpose of the Annual Guilford Courthouse Revolutionary War Lecture Series is to serve the educational and general interests of the community through the knowledge and insights of distinguished historians speaking on topics of Revolutionary War history.
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Spanish Omelets
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|Chopped onion
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|Chopped red bell pepper
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|1 Clove (5 gm), minced
|Sliced pitted manzanilla/Green olives
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Baseball Australia announce Craig Shipley's appointment as Head of National Teams.
Author: Trish Quayle ABF
Craig , an Australian native from Parramatta, has a long and successful history in baseball. A highly acclaimed Major League Baseball player, executive and current Arizona Diamondbacks Special Assistant to the General Manager Craig has also been on the national team and MLB Australian Academy coaching staff.
The newly created role will see Craig assume responsibility for delivering the performance outcomes of all national teams; guiding all national coaching and support staff, including Jon Deeble and Simone Wearne who remain Managers of the national men's (Southern Thunder) and women's (Emeralds) teams respectively.
Baseball Australia CEO, Brett Pickett, said Craig will bring a wealth of experience and intimate knowledge of the game to the BA management team, while continuing his international role with the Arizona Diamondbacks:
"While Craig will still reside in the USA, his unique international position will afford the opportunity to maintain personal contact with our young professional players throughout the gruelling professional season, as well as attend international tournaments Australia participate in."
Speaking of his appointment, Craig explained why he has taken up this position to support the national teams program in a voluntary capacity:
"Having seen the game first hand throughout the world I can truthfully say Australia's baseball community is as passionate as any baseball playing country. I look forward to assisting the many dedicated coaches, administrators and players who have worked tirelessly to help our national teams become as competitive as possible."
Henning's Aussie Baseball Musings is well worth the read
It wasn't all plain sailing for Aussie legend Graeme Lloyd it seems. He tells much about his career in Nicholas Henning's latest literary offering, Aussie Baseball Musings, but perhaps the most surprising thing was to learn that in his early days with the Yankees he tells of seeing himself on the back of the local press as "The Blunder from Down Under" and "The Graeme Reaper". Clearly he wasn't pitching so well for the Yankees at that stage when the playoffs were just starting in 1996 and in typical NY fashion he was earmarked for abuse. It says a lot about the man that he overcame those initial misgivings to pitch in four games in the 1996 World Series and not give up a hit.
Nicholas has written about the two ABL's and also focusses on many of the players who have left Australia for the MLB, 'chasing their dream'. He explores their trials and tribulations in the 'slave labour' environment of the minor leagues. His conversations with and about players range from those who were in the vanguard of our attempts to get an Aussie into the big leagues like Phil Dale, Paul Elliott, Matthew Gourlay, Brendan Kingman, Craig Lewis, Mark Marino, Brett Roneberg and Adrian Meagher up to the youngsters who are currently plying their trade in the minor leagues and independent leagues like James Beresford, Daniel McGrath, Ryan Searle, Lewis Thorpe and the Kennelly clan.
Australia has experienced mixed results on the world stage including the Olympics and Nicholas outlines the problems faced by teams over the years including when ex pros were excluded from selection by the then anachronistic rules of the International Baseball Federation up to our unexpected but more than welcome Silver Medal at the Athens Olympics in 2004. The description of the bombing at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996 by Aussie Jason Hewitt is personal, descriptive and dramatic.
Of course our former and current Aussie Major Leaguers are mentioned but there are also many players who have slipped under the media radar that Nicholas has tracked down, Players like Matthew Fawcett, Alex Johnson, Richard Olson and Trent Schmutter talk to Nicholas about their personal journeys through college and/or the ABL which has, among other things, become a fertile field for ex pros to get another opportunity; players like Steve Kent and Todd Van Steensel for example. It's the personal stories that Nicholas has obtained that makes his book such interesting reading as he clearly has personal access to many of the players and his passion for the game permeates every chapter.
It's well worth the read. The only criticism is the lack of an index making it hard to pinpoint the sections on individual players.
- Please refer to this link to purchase a copy of Aussie Baseball Musings.
Jon Deeble is famous everywhere but here in Australia
By Josh Spasaro/thesatellite.com.au
TEAM Australia's senior head coach Jon Deeble is barely recognisable in his home country.But that is a vastly different story when he goes to Japan or Boston.
Australia's "Mr Baseball" also has a role as Asia-Pacific talent scout for the famous Red Sox club.
When Deeble goes to Japan on scouting missions, he gets mobbed by reporters who hammer him with the same question … "Just how did Australia beat superpower Japan twice at the 2004 Athens Olympics?"
That was on the way to the underdog team winning an historic silver medal.
Beating Cuba in the final would have been one of the great team upsets in Olympic history.
It has been almost 10 years since Deeble's team shocked the baseball world.
Deeble also took the time to chat to me about some other fascinating stories.
Some of those included the covert missions he went on in far-flung areas of Japan, as the only westerner in town, in his efforts to scout and sign star Red Sox relieving pitcher Junichi Tawaza.
Somehow, he and fellow scout at the time, Aussie baseball legend Craig Shipley, pulled that one off.
Deeble recently ran a Major League coaching academy for Australia's brightest young talents on the Gold Coast, and spoke glowingly about the sport's future, after Team Australia's resounding success back in March.
Then, they pulled off yet another big upset, shutting out big-league team the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-0, just before the historic Opening Series in Sydney that also featured the LA Dodgers.
Here is Jon Deeble's story …
How has the MLB Australian Academy camp gone?
"It's been fantastic. We've had 78 kids in, we've had up to a dozen girls who are going away to the world championships, and we've had some kids preparing for the under-15 world championships.
"We've had a mixed bag, but we've had three teams and it's worked like clockwork. The kids have been phenomenal.
"I would say it's been the best camp we've ever had."
With these camps only getting better, is this where we're going to start to see hopefully MLB or high-level players going to America?
"We got 28 kids signed out of here 18 months ago for a total of $4.5 million.
"(Melbourne teenager) Brandon Stenhouse signed with the Yankees at this camp in January.
"This year we're probably going to get a million dollars worth of kids signed between now and Christmas.
"We've got some really good kids coming through this system.
"The coaching staff have been amazing. We've got a lot of (former) Major League guys here and they've worked fantastic with our coordinators."
How does this facility get the best out of the players?
"It's great because we've got access to batting cages. It's all astro turf. We're getting a third field put in. We're able to work with 90 kids here, and there are not many other places you can do that."
What do you think of the Australian Baseball League and the way it's growing and continuing to develop Major League talent?
"It's fantastic, and it's fantastic for our kids. They can see a pathway and they're saying 'these guys played here, so it's achievable to go over to the States and play'.
"We've got a lot of good rookie ball kids. There are a lot of good 18 to 20-year-old kids."
What's coming up for the senior Australian team?
"It's a good question. We did so well in March. I think we're looking at some Asian games towards the end of the year.
"We've got to get ourselves into the top 12 for a premier tournament next year.
"There's a lot on at junior level, and not so much for the seniors. But we've got to start pushing these kids through the system."
How well primed is Australia to capitalise on its Opening Series success from back in March, after beating the Diamondbacks and going so close against the Dodgers?
"It's hard because you've got to keep playing. But we got a lot of publicity, and hopefully we'll get some more kids playing.
"If we can keep broadening our base, there will be more kids to pick from.
"It's always hard because you've got the AFL, rugby, cricket. Everyone's fighting for the same players.
"But we're one of only a few sports that has had increases over the past five years with our participation.
"We really need to get some more kids playing more games. That's what we're working on – broadening our base at the bottom.
"The University of Hawaii was in here (on the Gold Coast), San Diego and a few other colleges, and 23 of the 30 Major League teams have been here."
Team Australia – Time For A Name Change
Team Australia?
Australia has many great names for national sporting teams across many codes which includes Rugby League's Kangaroos and Rugby Union's Wallabies just to name a few.For years the Australian National Baseball Team was simply Australia but over the last few years they have officially adopted Team Australia as their competition name. For some this name appears to be an unoriginal North American spin off and with the New Zealand National Baseball Team calling themselves the Diamondblacks it seems the Kiwis have come up with a more original team name.Hopefully the Australian Baseball Federation may consider a name change or a return to just Australia, but with so many unique Australian animals, landscapes and interesting history surely we can do better than a mimic name.
Should Jon Deeble be coaching an ABL team?
The news that the Adelaide Bite have made a managerial change and not renewed Tony Harris' contract has sparked more discussion on the why it is that our National Coach does not coach at the ABL. This question gained some traction following the disappointing results of Australia's involvement in the World Baseball Classic and the inevitable debate on where the fault lay – with the selection or the management of the team.
This is one such comment as a result of our announcement of Houston Astros scout Charlie Aliano's appointment as the Bite's head coach [see post below]:-
"One day I look forward to reading a posting which confirms changes to the management and coaching staff of the Australian National Team. Charlie Aliano now has his chance to shine in Adelaide and the question I have is why doesn't Jon Deeble manage an ABL team? Athens 2004 was a long time ago and frankly Deeble should prove himself against all the ABL field managers as I think competition is a good thing for him and to prove his skills. Kevin Jordan did a lot with a thinly stretched Bandits team last year and perhaps Deeble might show his stuff managing Melbourne, but achievements a decade old are exactly that".
Jon Deeble replaced Mike Young as the National manager in 2000 for the Sydney Olympics and was again the Olympic manager in 2004 in Athens when Australia won the Silver medal. Australia did not qualify for the 2008 Olympics. Jon has also managed the Australian team at the 2006 [finished 13th], 2009 [12th] and 2013 [16th – last] World Baseball Classics.
So the question is – should the National Manager coach an ABL team and so pit himself against other Managers in the country for the right to manage the national team?
Joe Torre says baseball belongs back in Olympics
Joe Torre, left, MLB Executive Vice President of Baseball Operations, speaks alongside St. Louis Cardinals teammate Bob Gibson, Wednesday, April 10, 2013, in La Vista, Neb. Torre said his experience as manager of Team USA in the World Baseball Classic has convinced him that the sport belongs in the Olympics. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
By Eric Olson
LA VISTA,— Joe Torre's first experience in international baseball convinced him that the sport should be back in the Olympics.
Torre managed Team USA in the World Baseball Classic last month and said he was impressed with how invested the players were in the games even though they had to leave spring training to participate.
The Americans lost in the semifinals of the 16-nation tournament. The Dominican Republic defeated Puerto Rico in the championship game.
"The World Baseball Classic has showed you the three times it's been played that other countries have caught on and done a pretty good job of playing baseball," Torre said.
Torre was in the Omaha suburb of La Vista for a banquet celebrating the unveiling of a statue of his St. Louis Cardinals teammate and Omaha native Bob Gibson. Former Cardinals Tim McCarver and Bill White also were on hand.
The statue of the Hall of Fame pitcher will stand at Werner Park, the home stadium of the minor league Omaha Storm Chasers.
Torre is a Major League Baseball executive vice president but not directly involved in MLB's efforts to return the sport to the Olympics.
Baseball and softball have been out of the Games since 2008 and have merged in a bid to return in 2020. They are competing against seven other sports for a single spot on the program.
The IOC board will meet next month in St. Petersburg, Russia, to select one or more sports to submit for final consideration to the IOC general assembly in September.
"I'm a realist. I'd like to believe it will happen," Torre said. "The reason I can't give you better than that is because I'd like to be sitting across the table and trying to make a case for it, and I'm sort of on the sidelines. That's not a criticism. That's the way we're set up in MLB."
Torre said that while Japan, Cuba and Taiwan along with the United States, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic are the elite baseball-playing nations, the Netherlands and Brazil are among the nations improving rapidly.
"To me, it's really disappointing if we don't get people's attention by what's been going on in the world and how many more countries are getting interested in promoting the game of baseball," Torre said.
Though the WBC was overshadowed by spring training and the NCAA basketball tournament in the United States, WBC organizers said the event exceeded global broadcast and ticket sales targets.
"You look at how they filled the ballparks in Puerto Rico and Japan when they were playing there," Torre said.
Torre said there probably isn't a better time of year to play the WBC, which will next be held in 2017. He said it would be too much to ask major leaguers to play the WBC late in the year after many of them had played 200 spring-training and regular-season games and playoffs.
"Right now, unless somebody says something to me that sort of strikes a chord, we're just going to have to keep doing this," he said.
Torre said he would not be in favor of eliminating the All-Star Game and putting the major league season on hiatus for three weeks at midseason in years when the WBC is played.
"I've heard rumblings of that," he said. "You can't stop baseball for three weeks. I know they do it in hockey (in Olympic years), but we really can't do it. There's a rhythm to our game."
Australian presence in the Major Leagues improves interest in baseball in Australia
by Tony Capobianco/TucsonCitizen.com
The World Baseball Classic enjoyed its finest edition in 2013 and a lot of countries have benefited from it. Italy's competitive run to the second round have boosted interest in the sport. Despite being driven by players from Curacao, the Netherlands' semi-final success is also expected to boost interest.
"Any success you have on the world stage will definitely help baseball in their country," said Australian Trent Oeltjen of the Los Angeles Angels. Like in Italy, I hear they're going crazy over there for the Italian team."
Even in Australia, where the former English colony have cricket as a popular sport, the sport of baseball is slowly growing there. The national team went winless in Pool B but their success in the past, along with a growing number of Australian Major Leaguers has allowed baseball to grow.
"It is getting a lot better," Oeltjen said. "When I won the silver medal in Athens and more and more people making the Major Leagues out of Australia, there's more of a following in Australia."
In terms of Major League presence, having Australians making it to the Major Leagues help build the interest of baseball in that country more than anything else. Since the beginning of the 21st century, 21 Australians have made it to the Major Leagues. 16 of them are pitchers.
"We have a lot of lefties," said Australian pitcher Travis Blackley of the Oakland Athletics. "It seems like a lot of lefties always sign out of Australia. What position do lefties normally sign as?"
In this era of baseball, pitchers are like quarterbacks. It is actually easier for pitchers to make it through the minor leagues in into MLB than other positions. Why pitchers go from Australia to the Major Leagues is sometimes because of the lack of pitching mileage that Aussie pitchers have compared to American pitchers.
"We also don't throw as much as you guys so when its gets to the point where we come over here," said Australian pitcher Peter Moylan of the Los Angeles Dodgers. "We throw half as much as you guys. So I feel like our arms haven't been through as much. Kids in high school, kids in travel-ball teams over here, they throw every day. I didn't throw every day until I was signed and that was when I was 17 years old."
There's not that many power hitters coming out of Australia, nor is there many position players in general coming out of Australia. They haven't been conditioned to face and beat top level pitching like those in the college and minor league system here in America.
"You guys see live pitching from a real young age over here," Moylan said. "We don't see live pitching until we turn 11 or 12 years old. So the whole development you guys get is the key what makes guys better hitters."
However Blackley believes that because many pitchers have made it to the Major Leagues and even in the minor leagues, they'll better prepare the Aussie hitters to follow the trend. But it will take some time.
"You'll see that number start to get better," Blackley said. "They're starting to get a lot more young good hitters coming through because they're facing a lot these pitchers now that have made it pretty deep into their careers in America where there's Double A, Triple A. That just makes the hitting better. Even if they get dominated at first, they start to get better."
Baseball interest in Australia has recently grown to the point to where Major League Baseball helped found the Australian Baseball League, which goes on during the MLB offseason. Major Leaguers like Blackley would go back to Australia to pitch in order to stay in shape. But players there have a different look at Blackley when he pitched in the ABL.
"I noticed that I pitched in Australia this offseason and guys were pretty pumped up in the box looking to get a hit off me," Blackley said. "There's a little bit more pressure on me pitching over there. Everyone watching expects you to strike them out, everyone. They definitely hold me to a higher standard if I'm out there pitching even though I'm out there throwing offseason. They expect me to dominate and it's not realistic."
Their profiles have grown as professional athletes in Australia, some more than others. Their presence in the sport has truly helped grow baseball there. Trent Oeltjen has a little league near his home where teams there replicate the MLB teams that Oeltjen played for such as the Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Dodgers.
"I did a few more TV interviews and radio interviews but still to the general public," Moylan said. "I was still just a regular guy walking down the street."
"This didn't happen in the past," Blackley said. "It wasn't a big deal at all. The people in my sport tried to make a bigger deal out of me. I think they were trying to promote the sport."
"It's funny because there's a band in Australia that's one of my favorite bands and the main guy out of that band is a huge baseball fan. And we got along like a house on fire. I hung out with him almost every week. I went on tour with him. He's a massive Oriole fan. But he's now an A's fan as well but he says, 'I can go for you against the Orioles if your pitching.' Now he's like, 'I'm an O's fan and an A's fan, BUT, if they're head to head I'm an O's fan. If you're pitching I'm an A's fan.'"
There are many more Australians playing professional baseball in the minor leagues now than before so it's only a matter of time until their presence makes a similar impact in Major League Baseball as Latin America has over the year, whether or not that impact grows Australia's interest in baseball remains to be seen.
"I think it lifts the profile of baseball amongst people who are interested in baseball," Moylan said. "It's not going to make adventure to people who are Aussie Rules Football fans and have not watched a baseball game. It's not something that people grew up on."
Australia drop in World Rankings
With the conclusion of the 2013 World Baseball Classic, which saw the Dominican Republic winning the title in the championship game over Puerto Rico, the International Baseball Federation (IBAF) has updated its Men's Baseball World Rankings.
As a result of Australia's poor showing it has been dropped from 10th to 13th.
Eric Bynum/BaseballdeWorld reports the following:-
With the update the results from the 2013 World Baseball Classic are replacing the results from the 2009 World Baseball Classic in the Men's Baseball World Rankings.
New WBC and IBAF World Champion Dominican Republic made the biggest leap, going from 13 to 7, as the team of manager Tony Pena replaced 55.02 points from 2009 with 300.00 points for winning the title. The Dominican Republic has not been in the top 10 of the year-end rankings since its introduction in 2008.
World Baseball Classic runner up Puerto Rico also moved into the top 10 of the Men's Baseball Ranking, climbing from 12 to 8 (2009: 82.98 points for WBC; 2013: 240.00 points for WBC).
At the top of the standings Cuba, USA and Japan maintained their positions. However Cuba and the United States both will lose 250 points during the 2013 season, as tournament results from the 2009 cycle (IBAF Baseball World Cup, IBAF 16U Baseball World Championship) will be taken off in the fall.
Chinese Taipei, which already led all teams in points for 2012, moved from 5 to 4 thanks to their qualification for the second round at the 2013 World Baseball Classic.
Surprise semi-finalist The Netherlands climbed from 7 to 5, their best position in the Men's Baseball Rankings since their year-end 5th position in 2011.
Canada remains in 6th, followed by the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Korea and Venezuela, which round out the top 10. With Cuba, USA, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Venezuela, COPABE/IBAF America is represented with five countries in the top 10 of the Men's Baseball Rankings.
Korea suffered the biggest drop, losing 184.98 points due to their ninth-place finish at the 2013 WBC. In 2009 Korea had reached the championship game, which they had lost to Japan.
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Puerto Rico now America's Team in WBC
By John Paul Morosi/foxsports
After Team USA was eliminated from the World Baseball Classic, we heard the usual lines about the inability of Americans to meet expectations in the tournament.
That's not entirely accurate.
After unexpectedly eliminating Venezuela in the first round and the U.S. in the second, the Puerto Ricans pulled off an even bigger upset Sunday night. Behind starting pitcher Mario Santiago, who spent last season with SK Wyverns of the Korean Baseball Organization, Puerto Rico stunned twice-defending champion Japan, 3-1, to earn a spot in Tuesday's championship game.
The Puerto Ricans will meet the winner of Monday's semifinal between the Dominican Republic and The Netherlands. Considering they were enormous underdogs when the tournament began, the Puerto Rican players could say that they don't care which team they play.
But that would be a lie.
"Of course, we'd like to play the Dominican," Puerto Rican shortstop Mike Aviles said of their Caribbean rivals, who won the teams' first two meetings in this WBC. "Everybody knows that."
The Dutch have had most-charming-story status in this WBC, but it might be time to reevaluate. While The Netherlands claimed the IBAF World Cup as recently as 2011, Puerto Rico hasn't won an international baseball championship since the 2000 Caribbean World Series — a yearly event to which its winter league champion has an automatic bid.
Last week, the Puerto Ricans were five outs from elimination against Team Italy before rallying to win. Sunday, they beat the WBC's preeminent team even though three of their first four pitchers — Santiago, Jose De La Torre and Randy Fontanez — have never thrown a pitch in the major leagues.
"I hope they root for us in the championship game," Aviles said. "We're the underdogs. No one picked us to leave the Puerto Rico (first-round) pool. Everybody thought the Dominican and Venezuela were going to leave. Throughout the whole thing, we believed in ourselves."
Aviles, who was born and raised in New York, is a U.S. citizen. So are his teammates who were born on the island, by virtue of Puerto Rico's status as a U.S. territory. Debate persists in Puerto Rico over how seriously the commonwealth should pursue statehood. No one knows how a divided U.S. Congress would handle the matter if it reached Washington.
In sports, though, Puerto Rico operates as a nation unto itself. Puerto Rico has its own baseball federation and, thus, its own team in the WBC. Aviles and manager Edwin Rodriguez each referred to Puerto Rico as a "country" during interviews Sunday. After such an historic win, that was appropriate. The "small little place of about 4 million people," as Aviles described it, is the first team to eliminate Japan in WBC play.
U.S. fans in search of a rooting interest should note that every Puerto Rican run in Sunday's game was driven in by a player born on the mainland: Aviles delivered a tone-setting RBI single in the first inning, and Alex Rios — the native of Coffee, Ala. — struck the clinching two-run homer in the seventh.
"My mom and dad were born in Puerto Rico, my grandparents were born in Puerto Rico," Aviles said. "I've always said, if I had an opportunity to play for the USA or Puerto Rico, I'd always pick Puerto Rico. It's my heritage. It's who I am. It's what I've been my whole life. I've been Puerto Rican. Regardless of whether I was born and raised there, it's my identity."
Amid hopes that the WBC will grow the sport in non-traditional baseball countries — Brazil, China, Italy, The Netherlands — Puerto Rico needs this tournament, too, and will benefit immensely from what has occurred over the past week. Major League Baseball already treats Puerto Rico as a state for the purposes of the amateur draft — which generally works against young players on the island. Rather than enjoy (lucrative) free-agent rights like their peers in Venezuela and the Dominican Republic, signing bonuses for Puerto Ricans are more tightly controlled through the draft system.
The appeal of other sports, such as basketball, also has limited the number of Puerto Rican players arriving to the big leagues. The end result is that just five Puerto Rican-born pitchers — starter Jonathan Sanchez and relievers Javier Lopez, J.C. Romero, Xavier Cedeño and Jonathan Albaladejo — appeared in the majors last year. Of that group, only Romero and Cedeño are pitching in the WBC.
(That said, it's not as if the Puerto Ricans have deployed a semipro lineup in the WBC. Leadoff man Angel Pagan just signed a $40 million contract, Carlos Beltran is one of the elite switch-hitters of his time, and Yadier Molina is, in the words of Rodriguez and Santiago, "the best catcher in the world.")
Rodriguez said he addressed the state of baseball in Puerto Rico during his first team meeting. "The last 10 or 15 years, Puerto Rican baseball had been a little bit down," Rodriguez said. "I think that a good performance from the team in this tournament will put Puerto Rican baseball back on the map — and I think we already accomplished that.
"Everybody talks about the draft, which started in 1989 in Puerto Rico. If you had told me five, seven years ago — right after the draft started in Puerto Rico — that that was part of not having more big leaguers, I would say yes. But that was more than 20 years ago. We haven't been able to make adjustments. I don't blame the draft. I have to blame the system in Puerto Rico. We have to take responsibility. We have to make adjustments. This game is about adjustments. We have to make that happen."
Winning has a way of doing that. The young eyes in San Juan, Carolina and Ponce must be mesmerized by the sight of their countrymen humbling the world's biggest baseball stars.
"What we're doing here is starting to give the little kids more hope that good things can happen, good players can come out of that small little area," Aviles said. "It's a small little island, but that doesn't mean it has to be forgotten about."
One more win, and they'll be telling stories about this team for generations. And if it's against the Dominican … well, that will make the fairytale better. Only in America, indeed.
Australian Umpire in WBC Finals
Australian Umpire Paul Hyham (left) has been appointed to the World Baseball Classic Semi-Finals and Championship Game.
By Trish Quayle/ABF
Following his successful performance through WBC Exhibition Games (Florida), Round One (Puerto Rico) and Round Two (Florida), Paul has been appointed the following games for the finals series this week at AT&T Park, San Francisco:
First Semi Final: Sunday 17 March 6:00pm, Puerto Rico v Japan, RIGHT FIELD.
Second Semi Final: Monday 18 March 6:00pm (Tuesday 19 March 12noon ADST) The Netherlands v Dominican Republic, THIRD BASE.
Championship Game: Tuesday 19 March 5:00pm (Wednesday 20 March 11:00am ADST) TBD, FIRST BASE.
The ABF and the umpiring community are very proud of Paul's achievements and we congratulate him on his international success.


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INDIANAPOLIS -- Last year it was Kevin Zeitler and Peter Konz who represented the Wisconsin Badgers offensive line in the NFL Draft. Two years ago, it was Gabe Carimi and John Moffitt. Carrying on the Badgers tradition of solid NFL offensive line prospects in 2013 is Travis Frederick and Ricky Wagner. "Wisconsin has prepared me quite a bit well for this jump," Frederick said Thursday at the Combine. "I wouldn't have made the jump as a junior had I not been in a perfect spot to do it. Wisconsin has prepared me to do that. Spending four years there and learning under three different offensive line coaches, I learned a lot of different things and I was able to put those together and I think that's helped me a lot." There was some buzz surrounding Frederick this week for a couple reasons. From a football perspective, the 6-foot-4, 338-pound lineman from Sharon, Wisc., is expected to be the first or second center selected in April's draft. From an appearance perspective, Frederick's scra...
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A new Michigan law that will tax many forms of retirement income, depending on when a taxpayer was born, generally continues to exempt Social Security. But the workers covered in the legislation passed Tuesday aren't in the Social Security system and would have much or all of their retirement income taxed if the law weren't altered.
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