I didn't know much about baseball before, but with the World Baseball Classic and it's international competition among 16 nations, it caught my attention. unfortunely I was late into watching the game as my I'd only started watching from the Japan-Cuba game, and not even the whole game, started watching the 2nd half.
The World Baseball Classic got me interested in Baseball, and Japanese baseball have alot to do with it, too. after a couple of days into baseball, I watched "Kokoyakyu: High School Baseball" a documentary about Baseball in Japan and it struck me straight in the heart.
needless to say, I'd began rooting for Team Japan from then on. And then I found out how good the Team is with Ichiro, Daisuke, Darvish, and other players. didn't know that both Ichiro and Daisuke was also popular on their current MLB team here in the US.
Congratulations to Team Japan for winning the 2009 World Baseball Classic, twice in a row and proved to the world just how awesome Asian baseball is.
They left quite a path of defeated foes. Team USA, who invented pro baseball; Cuba, who known to be the best baseball team; and Korea, their biggest rival in international events and whom had beaten them in the past several times.