The Mexicans are a good team..

And the Aussies were overmatched today. Too bad too because they had the Cubans on the ropes yesterday. Had they won that one, they were through to the next round.

But they didn't and it's back to their professional club spring training now. A fine showing though and Australia clearly deserves to be taken seriously on the world baseball stage.

The Americans were beaten by the Venezuelans and next up is Puerto Rico. Look, the US would take a best of 7 series against PR. But one game? Who knows, let's see how they go. The Dutch face off against the Venezuelans. Will Holland's ride continue?

Fantasy baseball drafts and auctions ramping up now. First is the Boston AL only league with Barry, Smedile, Nick, Dooher, Matty P and others. It's a good league and the AL only, auction format is fun. The A Rod injury hurts my squad; I should have known better than to trade for him... serves me right!

Also this weekend is the draft with Alex M and his buddies. This is a standard 5X5 format with both Al and Nl players. Head to Head format though, I'm thinking luck plays a much bigger part in this format. We'll see.