Fresh off an appearance with Team Mexico, Dodgers' first baseman Adrian Gonzalez is none- Brett Gardner Jersey too-pleased with the World Baseball Cla sic.The 34-year-old, whose Mexican team was eliminated after losingtwo of its three games in group play, said the event has delusions of grandeur, according to the Los Angeles Times' Andy McCullough.MORE:Tell me, are you watching the World Baseball Cla sic?"They're trying to be the World Cup," Gonzalez said."But they're not even the Little League World Series."Gonzalez hit .143 in the WBC, going just 1 for 12. He said he won'tparticipate in the tournament again.His complaints stem from Mexico's elimination from Thurman Munson Jersey the WBC,as Mexico and even the World Baseball Cla sic's Twitter account believed that the team would play Italy in a tiebreaker for the right to advance to the single-elimination stage.Because three teams Mexico, Venezuela and Italy were all tied in Group D with a 1-2 record, the event's tiebreaker for a three-way deat heat states that the tied teams would be ranked based on fewest runs allowed per defensive inning in the games the team played against one another.Mexico believed it had allowed 19 runs over 18 innings played, which would edge out Venezuela's mark. ButbecauseMexico gave up five runs in the bottom of the ninth inning in a lo s to Italy last Thursday without recording an out, that inning did not count, despite that Mexico was in the field that inning.The Men Aaron Judge Cool Base Jersey subtraction of the inning allowed for Venezuela to surpa s Mexico. Mexico is protesting the ruling on the grounds of vague wording.The Dodgers first baseman saidhe also reached out toMLB officials to complain, andhe told the league, "You have no integrity. Everything you guys are doing is a bunch of BS."Gonzalez is not actually mad. In fact, he is actually laughing."It's good to be the hell out of that tournament," Gonzalez said.
