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Originally Posted by Airbornelawyer
Back to the WBC, during the earlier rounds in Asia, I just thought the MLB announcers were being politically correct by kow-towing to Communist Chinese sensivities and always referring to Taiwan by the Olympics-approved name of "Chinese Taipei" . Apparently, they are just ignorant, as Matt Vasgersian, the game announcer at the Netherlands/Puerto Rico game, just asked why the professional league in Taiwan was called Chinese Professional Baseball, and resident World Baseball Classic expert Jon Paul Morosi couldn't answer. Apparently neither has heard of the Republic of China.
Also, Vasgersian later was discussing the inspirational speech by one of the veteran Puerto Rican team players and mentioned how important it was to that nation. I am guessing Matty V. watched those commercials in the game from the Puerto Rican tourist board and couldn't figure out why Americans don't need a passport to visit Puerto Rico.
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Humorous if it wasn't such a poor testimony. Blocks as a child that make into a map, or things not taught in Jr. High... he was long gone then before heading to USC. Sad.
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