{"id":39589,"date":"2014-08-26T14:57:10","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T18:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=39589"},"modified":"2020-07-13T14:57:20","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T18:57:20","slug":"as-if-there-was-any-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=39589","title":{"rendered":"As if there was any doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For the past two weeks, teams from across the United States as well as several other countries in the world have been whittling each other down, to see who amongst them were the best of the best.\u00a0 Throughout the journey, there have been tears shed, hearts broken, nationalistic pride abounds, and agendas emerged and dissipated upon the wins and losses of the varying teams.<\/span><\/p>\n

And when the dust settled in Williamsport, Pennsylvania there was only one team that endured the journey without once tasting the bitter flavor of defeat: the South Korean team.\u00a0 The Koreans went a perfect 11-0 en route to the world championship, where they defeated the U.S. champions from Illinois in what was basically yet another rout, in spite of the final score.<\/span><\/p>\n

The best part is that this it was not in\u00a0League of Legends<\/em>.\u00a0 It was in an actual, physical sport; the best one in the world, no less \u2013\u00a0baseball<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sure, it was Little League baseball, but it\u2019s still a worldly sanctioned tournament, and they defeated Japan in the process;\u00a0twice<\/em>, en route to becoming the true champions of the world in 13-and-under Little League baseball.<\/span><\/p>\n

And I\u2019m okay with that.\u00a0 I\u2019ll take Korean wins wherever I can get them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the past two weeks, teams from across the United States as well as several other countries in the world have been whittling each other down, to see who amongst them were the best of the best.\u00a0 Throughout the journey, there have been tears shed, hearts broken, nationalistic pride abounds, and agendas emerged and dissipated … Continue reading As if there was any doubt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[62,103,15,52],"class_list":["post-39589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-baseball","tag-motherland","tag-og","tag-owned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39591,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39589\/revisions\/39591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}