WBC: Japan Defeats Korea 5-3 (10 innings)

[AlwaysaCub]

This is straight out of the Latroy Hawkins book of blowing a game from mr. Marmol.

[UMFan83]

Holy crap, the Netherlands is about to win with a decent ball put into play.

[UMFan83]

This looks like July 08 Marmol

[Sammys Boombox]

This is scaring me. I want Netherlands to win, but I don't like this being in Carlos' head.

[cubswin2009]

Holy crap, the Netherlands is about to win with a decent ball put into play.

And he swings at a pitch 20 feet outside.

[UMFan83]

Schoop strikes out for the 4th time in the game. 2 outs

[salukifudd]

I'll be glad if Marmol isn't the Cubs' closer.

[UMFan83]

The guy coming up has 3 K's on the day today as well, but he is their cleanup hitter so we'll see

[UMFan83]

Wow...come home in shame Carlos :(

[cubswin2009]

Netherlands wins

[UMFan83]

This is not good...Carlos wanted so bad to pitch for his country and took so much pride in it. He came in to close out the weak hitting Netherlands and advance his country to the second round. Instead he blew the game and got the DR eliminated. This is the kind of performance that will get in his head and stay there for awhile IMO

[AlwaysaCub]

I think the most hilarious result from this would be Randall Simon getting a major league job again.

[Sammys Boombox]

This is not good...Carlos wanted so bad to pitch for his country and took so much pride in it. He came in to close out the weak hitting Netherlands and advance his country to the second round. Instead he blew the game and got the DR eliminated. This is the kind of performance that will get in his head and stay there for awhile IMO

 

I just went back and watched and Marmol was punching in the dugout. Not good.

[Roast]

This is not good...Carlos wanted so bad to pitch for his country and took so much pride in it. He came in to close out the weak hitting Netherlands and advance his country to the second round. Instead he blew the game and got the DR eliminated. This is the kind of performance that will get in his head and stay there for awhile IMO

That or provide motivation for him to go on a tear and not give up a single hit all season while striking out every batter he faces on 3 pitches. I'm praying for that one.

[salukifudd]

To be honest, I'm not worried about Marmol at all.

[Illini Iceman]

This is not good...Carlos wanted so bad to pitch for his country and took so much pride in it. He came in to close out the weak hitting Netherlands and advance his country to the second round. Instead he blew the game and got the DR eliminated. This is the kind of performance that will get in his head and stay there for awhile IMO

 

If he is that mentally fragile he was not going to last long in the closer's role anyway.

[Guest]

This is not good...Carlos wanted so bad to pitch for his country and took so much pride in it. He came in to close out the weak hitting Netherlands and advance his country to the second round. Instead he blew the game and got the DR eliminated. This is the kind of performance that will get in his head and stay there for awhile IMO

 

Haha, classic UMF. It's not even the middle of March and you're panicking.

[Guest]

I just went back and watched and Marmol was punching in the dugout. Not good.

 

That's inexcusable. You can't be risking your pitching hand if you blow a game in the playoffs, let alone a game now.

[Derwood]

GO NETHERLANDS

[Vanilla Ice]

I was shamelessly rooting against Marmol. That was sweet.

[Cubswin11]

When the Cubs were on WGN on saturday Len & Bob were talking to Rothschild and he was saying that him and Marmol were working on stuff before he left for the WBC and that they didn't everything done that they wanted to before he left, sounded like mechanical stuff. So I will just, hopefully, attribute that to Marmol not quite being "right" yet. I want Gregg to win the closer job anyways as Marmol in the 6/7/8>Marmol in the 9th/closing, so maybe this will push Lou in favor of giving Gregg the, overrated, Closer role. Has Gregg even pitched in ST? I haven't heard much about him.

[SpongeWorthy]

This is not good...Carlos wanted so bad to pitch for his country and took so much pride in it. He came in to close out the weak hitting Netherlands and advance his country to the second round. Instead he blew the game and got the DR eliminated. This is the kind of performance that will get in his head and stay there for awhile IMO

 

Haha, classic UMF. It's not even the middle of March and you're panicking.

 

I think it's a fair point.

 

If he DOES struggle people will naturally conflate what happened in the WBC to his on field performance. Even if they're unrelated he'll be bombarded by the media asking if he has a hangover from what happened in the WBC and maybe then it gets in his head. There's no reason to panic but it sure doesn't help.

[SweetZombieJesus]

Wooohooo

 

now we have another excuse why the world baseball classic stinks. It ruins players psyches. I wouldn't be surprised to see Marmol completely out of baseball in a year. Fellow sportswriters celebrate!

[RedFlash]

To be honest, I'm not worried about Marmol at all.

[UMFan83]

This is not good...Carlos wanted so bad to pitch for his country and took so much pride in it. He came in to close out the weak hitting Netherlands and advance his country to the second round. Instead he blew the game and got the DR eliminated. This is the kind of performance that will get in his head and stay there for awhile IMO

 

Haha, classic UMF. It's not even the middle of March and you're panicking.

 

It's not panicking, its called an opinion.