International Sporting Karma Evens Out

In the very likely event that you missed yesterday's stunning upset by Canada at the World Baseball Classic (8-6 over the Americans!), I thought it represented the most telling proof that baseball is clearly the most statistically based of the major sports, and thus the sport that requires the largest sampleset in order to truly determine who is the better team. In short, one game in baseball is as meaningless with regards to the relative skill level of the team as one at-bat is to the skill of a single player.

Just as the best players can strike out and looked bad in any given at-bat, every top team loses games they shouldn't. The beauty of baseball is in its 162-game season which evens all these things out, and so the best teams are the best teams, and after hundreds of at-bats, you can tell who the good players are.

That said, I stand by that yesterday's result was karmic intervention for Canada losing in hockey to Switzerland at the Olympics.

On the World's Stage, everything's even now...