It’s happening again…IT’S HAPPENING AGAIN! As the famous football chant goes, once again, expectations are on the rise in Orange County. Any listener to Halfway Around The Halo, the LAAngelsUK podcast, would know about the range of emotions we go
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The 2023 World Baseball Classic was a roaring success; there’s no other way to really describe it. It had upsets, thrilling knockout games and had an ending, which if scripted, would have been called too much. It’s not to say
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Cast your mind back to Monday 13 March. GB faced the star-studded Colombian team in the World Baseball Classic. Having been run-ruled by Canada the previous day, our optimism had taken a hit, but Drew Spencer’s team pulled off a
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For the fourth straight game, Drew Spencer kept faith with the same starting nine, albeit with a slight adjustment to the order, dropping hitless Matt Koperniak down to sixth. The difference between the two starters was extraordinary. GB’s Joseph King
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Well… what can we say about yesterday? Those of us that were here can now say, “I was there when GB shocked the world and won their first game in the World Baseball Classic!” And you know what, if we
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The Canada defeat was history. All attention was on Colombia, and GB manager Drew Spencer stuck by his pre-tournament assessment and kept the lineup unchanged. It would have been easy to tinker with the spluttering infield, and perhaps if the
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I had branded this holiday as “the trip of a lifetime”, sometimes that can be a tough billing to live up to – but so far, every expectation that I’ve had has been exceeded. Honestly, what a rush this whole
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Despite the narrative that “all of the games are winnable”, everyone knew that the meeting against Canada was, on paper, the most winnable. Manager Drew Spencer kept faith with the lineup that did him proud against the USA, and he
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When Drew Spencer, Great Britain’s dynamic manager and mastermind of qualification to GB’s first ever appearance in the World Baseball Classic, sat down to develop a gameplan, it probably didn’t include the dream scenario of a first-inning bomb off Adam
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The big day is finally here!!! Great Britain will make their debut at the World Baseball Classic. It’s a moment I’ve been waiting for my whole life, and somehow I’m going to get to be there to see it. The
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