Unbeknownst to me, the World Baseball Classic began last night in the Far East. Korea beat Taiwan, 2-0, and Japan committed the baseball equivalent of the Rape of Nanking, beating the the real Reds 18-2.
Right now I'm sitting in the library computer lab sharing earphones with my classmate Lim Sup and watching the broadcast at Yahoo Korea. Unlike at the official WBC site, the broadcast is free. It's also in Korean, which is just another example of how foreigners are underpricing American producers, but the product isn't *quite* the same. For example, the broadcast has background music instead of crowd noise, and it's a high-pitched kiddie-techno sound that makes me feel like I'm playing a computer game or watching early anime.
9:50 Did I mention it's in Korean?
9:58 OK, so back to baseball. The Koreans scored on a sac fly in the first and just got their third hit to open the bottom of the third. They have four guys named Lee in the order. The fielding has been good, and it looks generally professional. The Koreans have put a crooked number up in the third. After Kim singled to open the inning, the Lees bunted him to third, doubled him home and then hit a two-run homer.
10:01. The library is closed!
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