The Bad News Bears

I do love the jacket on their 1st base coach

A swing and a miss

I'm a big fan of Mongolian BBQ as there is a place in my neighborhood where a big group of us go to have dinner every few months or so. That's my extent of knowledge of Mongolia minus a few jokes from an old South Park episode. When I saw they had a baseball team here at the Asian Games, I was confused. Baseball in Mongolia just wasn't something that sounded right. When I looked at their roster and realized they only has 12 players (a MLB roster has 25 as do most of the Asian Games teams) I knew they were in trouble. When I saw them warming up and they couldn't throw the ball from third to first I knew their Asian Games experience would be short-lived. Well after three games they have lost 15-0 to China, 25-0 to Thailand and 24-0 to Japan's amateur teaam. To think it could have been worse if there wasn't the salughter rule after five innings. That's a total of  64 runs allowed in just 15 innings. Plus, in those 15 innings, they managed a meager three hits, all of which were singles. Looks like the Mongolians should stick to the BBQ and let the other countries play baseball.