titanmaster_race said:

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I must have missed it, what's all the bad blood about?

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Street_Cred_Norm said:

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So P.R. already had a parade planned..Adam Jones calls them out.

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However, the Puerto Rican team planned to fly home and celebrate its WBC performance, win or lose.
Third baseman Carlos Correa did not deny the team's plans to go to Puerto Rico after Wednesday's game but denied it was because the players were confident they would beat the United States.

"It's funny because they have been talking about that, but it's all about the country; it's not about our team," Correa said. "Our country has been behind us since we have started [the tournament]. When we were in Mexico, we told the governor in Puerto Rico that if we made it to the finals, we need to plane to get back and celebrate with our people."

Baseball fans in Puerto Rico have been head-over-heels excited about their team's run in the WBC. Puerto Rico was a perfect 7-0 before running into a determined U.S. team, led by starting pitcher Marcus Stroman.
Stories have been written about how Puerto Rico stores have run out of hair dye as citizens have rushed to get the bleach-blond look the players have been sporting the past few weeks.

Correa said civic pride, born of the tournament, has been unifying for the people in Puerto Rico.
"There were no crimes, there were no assassinations back home while we were playing in this classic," Correa said. "Everybody was dyeing their hair blond, so we had our whole nation behind us that is going through tough times right now."

Correa suggested the weight both teams placed on the WBC might have led to the misunderstanding.
"It's as simple as this: If you ask Angel Pagan, if you ask Yadi Molina if it feels better than a World Series, they would say yes," Correa said. "If you ask one of the American guys, they will say, 'No, not even close.' So that just tells you the way we play when we represent our country is a lot different than when they play. A lot of their guys say no to the baseball classic. None of our main guys say no to the baseball classic."

Of course, the United States had WBC champion T-shirts and caps at the ready too, but the difference might have been that those did not become public until after the game.

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