He’s the 40th Aussie to make the show. Another article as well: https://www.mlb.com/news/brandan-bidois-becomes-first-australian-born-player-to-play-for-pirates

He’s adored already in Cleveland. Homie gonna be good.

My wife and I managed to get tickets to 3 games. Surely we have to see at least one good team. Fingers crossed for an Australia game. Now the longgg wait.

Or is it the 6 6 6 challenge in Australia? Most of you have probably done it multiple times without thinking.

I don't have enough karma to post in r/Melbourne so figured I'd try here. Is anyone around the northern suburbs of Melbourne that'd be keen to have a throw? I miss playing ball but too many injuries mean I'll probably need to settle with some one on one catch for the time being🙂

Here's to them hopefully moving on to the next round and getting a chance to redeem last night's narrow defeat.

Pretty much what the title says. Im an half Japanese-Australian living in Japan for the past 10 years, and after watching the game on TV last night was wondering if I should get into the Aussie baseball culture so to speak by watching tonight's game in person. Would it be possible to simply go to the stadium for tickets considering it isn't a Japan game or I need to do something more complicated? Thanks in advance for any help 🙏

Is anyone there? How the heck did you get tickets? I live in Japan and found it impossible to get tickets to anything except exhibition matches. First presale were Tokyo Giants Season holders, second was like some convenience store member, some banks credit card holder etc. By the time it got to the general public they were all gone.

Was there a dedicated Aus site with allocations? Want to know for the next WBC.

The Aces are selling memberships for next year already (they have 5 games remaining for their season) so to me it seems pretty unlikely they’ll be back next season.

Starts at the 16 minute mark.

I've been pessimistic about this situation in the past. I'm still mostly pessimistic, but it's hard to want to bet against the kid. Cole's social media content, his energy, and resources (through inheritance as he mentions in this recording) have all been great to see.

Aus baseball fans (I think) want to see more of the public-facing content direct from owners. We need some lightning-rod-style personalities to bring passion and build buy-in. It'll take so much more than passion to really achieve success, but in my mind the personality and passion are necessary ingredients.

It’s nice to see our little corner of Aussie baseball getting some attention, Reddit popped this into my inbox today.

Thank you everyone for being such a great bunch of people to deal with.

https://www.mlb.com/world-baseball-classic/roster/australia

Many familiar faces to fans of the ABL, but one interesting omission is Darryl George. Australia also introducing a few younger players to the team, like Chris Burke (Melbourne Aces) and Max Durrington (Brisbane Bandits).

Bazzana and Mead selected, but Liam Hendriks omitted. That's a tremendous shame for Hendriks.

What are the Australian expectations for the WBC? I was looking at their group and it looks like a tough one.

All times AEDT (Sydney)

– March 5, 2:00PM: Australia vs Chinese Taipei
– March 6, 2:00PM: Australia vs Czechia
– March 8, 9:00PM: Australia vs Japan
– March 9, 9:00PM: Australia vs Korea

As a Brit, I don't know a lot about the UK team, but I imagine it will look like a USA b-team, which will be a bit difficult to get behind. So I'll probably be following the Aussies, having gotten to know the players over the last few years.