The World Baseball Classic Finally Makes Sense

Call us baseball purists, but we’ve been a little harsh on the World Baseball Classic. But since we’re also open to experimentation, we were all set to commend Major League Baseball this morning for at least trying it, ESPN for televising it, all while hoping 2009’s Classic will live up to its name.

Then we opened the Wall Street Journal:

In the end, baseball had an answer for all the haters: total attendance of nearly 740,000 and solid TV ratings in the U.S.

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