Baseball in the Dominican Republic is Truly Awesome
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- Creators: Matt and Zach
Baseball in the Dominican Republic is truly something special. Passionate fans, a plethora of talent, and a culture more intertwined with baseball than any other combine for something incredible. With the good though, of course comes the bad. Matt and Zach will discuss both sides of this debate in the second episode of their "International Baseball Odyssey".
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I'm Puerto Rican and was lucky enough to represent PR in a youth tournament in the Dominican Republic when I was like 12 or 13. One of the things they did was take us to a Dominican League baseball game. It was ELECTRIC. Miguel Tejada, David Ortiz and a couple other players were there and it was probably the best baseball environment I've ever seen. The fans are something else and absolutely obsessed, totally bought into every single pitch and the style and swag of the players is 2nd to none. I was lucky enough to hit a home run during my 1st game, which as a 12 year old it's a big deal, and they basically treated me like a king the rest of the time I was there. I hit .600 in that tournament and it's still to this day probably the funnest 2 weeks of my entire life.
I grew up playing baseball in Canada. I was a decent player. I represented my city of about 200,000+ people a few seasons. I wasn't MLB quality or anything, but I could play. In my 20's after I was finished my playing days I visited the DR with a friend of mine who also grew up playing competitive baseball. On the beach outside of the resort a group of 10 year olds were playing a pick up game on the beach and asked us to play. They were no joke. When I was 18 playing in the championships for my province I didn't meet talent that good. It was a serious wake up call. They were incredible.
For the record, Matt and Zach didn’t actually travel anywhere. Some have taken that opening bit a little too seriously.
Yes, LIDOM is pronounced "Lee-dom".
Stark raving sports As a Dominican I wanna say this is an amazing representation and video. I’d also love to see a video on international signings and recruitment works
It is a country
Puerto Rico is a country; it might not be an independent state, but it is a country. I mean, you wouldn't say that Puerto Ricans don't exist as a people...right? Words matter.
Ok el dijo Republica Dominicana mal pero ta bien
I had the chance to represent the USA in a tournament in the DR last summer called the Latin America Baseball Classic (LABC). This was the best baseball experience I have ever had, the players where some of the best kids I have ever seen playing, as we played games on a white socks academy field, right next to our game was the white socks and reds academy team playing a game as if it was a real profession game, they had drums and would sing and yell louder than any thing I’ve heard heard. It was cool seeing some of the fields I got to play in the video, and it is most true when baseball is considered a religion in the DR, it in a word, awesome
I was at that game DR vs Italy. Yes they are wild my god I loved it so much. It was almost a Marlins average crowd. It felt like a world series game with the electricity
Dont use God’s name in vain
@@skeped8797 how is that bad ?
You really forgot the key thing. Platano power
Yessirrrr dale con platano
PLÁTANO POWER SIEMPRE
Cubans is Colada Power lol
how do you talk dominican baseball and not talk about big sexy?
Because he’s a roid user who had 2 families and his jokes aren’t funny
Hahahah literally
I thought he was from Puerto Rico
John K because Bartolo sucks.
Substantial Seductive
Talk abt DR baseball and didn't mention Aguilas vs licey rivalry, probably next to Yankee/red Sox as the biggest rivalry in the sports.
Closely followed by Caracas - Magallanes in Venezuela for sure
Aguilas por siempre hermano
None of those are close to the biggest rivalries in all of sports
@@Zack_410 you correct and wrong at the same time. in terms of number of fans base without a doubt you right. but in terms of energy that comes with the rivalry. you couldnt be further from the truth
Lo escogidita somo lo mejore, pa k te claro
Y’all should do Puerto Rico, Mexico and Venezuela
Manuel Garcia Bautista i was always wondering about Mexican baseball culture, because I know it’s relatively popular there. But in the area I live in there is a large Mexican American and Mexican immigrant community, but many of my friends there and their parents much prefer soccer over baseball. Is baseball seen as like a high class or snobbish sport in Mexico and is relatively out of reach for lower middle class and low income people in Mexico?
RugbyRyan’s Reviews No,Baseball is not seen as a high class sport, of course soccer is more popular but baseball is more popular in the north of Mexico and soccer is popular in the south, and the reason why is soccer more important is due to the TV companies who prefer to broadcast they’re own soccer team so they can made more money for them, and another thing is that if we compare the North and South of Mexico is also a difference in the economic because in the North the economy is higher that in the rest of country, is just that in the north they are more closer to the US and is more easy to get influenced by the baseball
@@RugbyRyan yeah what Manuel Garcia said, and another factor is that baseball wasn't all that popular in mexico up until maybe a few years ago. Today there are a few more teams and the crowds are slowly getting larger and larger. So it's still a growing sport in mexico with A LOT of progress yet to be made.
Agreed!
Yes
If you hadn’t been in the “Estadio Cibao” in a match Aguilas Vs. Licey you don’t know what is noise in a stadium.
Puerto Rico has to be next for sure.
I went to Puerto Rico an it doesn’t seem like the biggest baseball area compared to the dr
they just like Roberto Clemente and javy Baez
They don’t care that much about Lindor for some reason
Quinn Saunders damn that’s kinda messed up 😂 what about pudge Rodriguez?
Quinn Saunders I’m Puerto Rican and love baseball
No I’m not saying they don’t love baseball but it’s just less people that love baseball in Puerto Rico than the dr
Having 5 teams doesnt help.
Canada! So much history there with the Jays and Expos.
THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS, as a dominican it makes me proud to see videos on dominican baseball.
Puerto Rico, im from Vietnam but I have an undying love for PR and the Molina Bothers
Vũ Tùng Lâm That’s awesome greetings from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷
Would love to see a Netherlands/Curaçao/Aruba video. The amount of players from curaçao and Aruba currently in the bigs is astounding for two islands with a combined population of 270,000 people. They even propelled the Dutch team to the semis in the WBC in 2013 and 2017
I'm half Dominican and half boricua !
So i vote for P.R. next . Great videos 🇩🇴🇵🇷
Cuban/Dominican here and would like to see the Caribbean trinity completed.
@@adeptrk7394 That'd be awesome!
I’ve been to the Dominican Republic and it’s a different world for baseball there.
You should do Puerto Rico next
Mark Bowlin Puerto Rico isn’t a country, it’s apart of the US
Michael Petilli it is a country on its own, We are just US citizens imposed
Michael Petilli but PR has its own culture and international baseball teams, like in the WBC, Olympics, Premier12, U23, U18, U15, U12, Little League World Series, etc. It'd be fun to learn about the rich Puerto Rican baseball culture. I live here.
Michael Petilli, Puerto Rico is a country that’s a colony.
When you mentioned The "Buscones" I immediately went: Holy shit this guy REALLY did his research.
Dont use the Holy Spirit’s name in vain
For real!! I was like damn he really did a good research 😂
I was born in dr, and when I came to the USA at 5 years old the only sport that existed to me was baseball and I saw kids playing soccer and football and I was so confused as to what they were doing
The Caribbean Series took place at Puerto Rico also Edwin Encarnacion said if there is no baseball played this year many Dominican and others players from other countries will play for the LIDOM, keep in mind many superstars agreed to play
You can ask me questions about the baseball culture in Canada, I coach the Canada Ripken team and work at a facility here
How popular is baseball in Canada? Is it a major high school sport there?
That crowd taking absolute crumbs in attendance and making it a feast for the ears is nothing short of magical. Well played, DR fans.
Dude that was Tigers del Licey vs Toros del Este. If you ever see a series of T igres del Licey vs Aguilas Cibaeñas you will see the real excitement. W e the fans go nuts when we have those two teams playing.
On god! the competitivity of the fans about these two teams is absolutely mad, proud to be dominican
You can’t rip on WBC attendance @ Marlins Park because well it’s Marlins Park
I thought the same. I've never seen it so full outside other WBC games
Binyamin Dickman when dr played usa they broke the attendance record
Do both! I want to hear about Puerto Rico and Canada!
RyanAA56 Now now you can’t have your cake and eat it too. All in due time
Canada ⚾️🍁⚾️🍁
Damn, I'd like to see Cuba
Mexico or Puerto Rico. My logo has a ton of Mexico flags.
Si mi mano que le dehen con mexico
Pepito Cuentos And I have a Puerto Rico logo!
I would like to see the Mexican/Baseball culture also.
You gotta do Venezuela next. They got the 2nd most international players, playing in the majors right now. 🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪🇻🇪
The political climate pretty rough there right now though
@@kurtzurad8703 yeah, but baseball is still being played, and to be fair, it's pretty good.
Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 my home country
Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 Cuba 🇨🇺 & Venezuela 🇻🇪 would be very interesting videos as well...
I wanna play baseball too but sadly I live in the Philippines where baseball is not that popular
Zuko Cheese go to japan since it’s closer to you and Japanese love their baseball the nippon league is not so bad
That is when you create your own league
Do Cubaaaa pls
Do cuba pls
Went to an Aguilas game a few years ago. Awesome atmosphere inside and outside the stadium.
Cubaaa
now i want to see canada. because im curious but without a doubt. you gotta do DR (as a dominican) Next rival Puerto Rico next
Puerto Rico! No question!
Do Puerto Rico next! I live there and we are passionate about baseball. We have a lot of culture and history from baseball. 🇵🇷⚾️
Also do Mexico, Cuba, Canada, Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela, Taiwan, Australia, Netherlands & South Korea.
Serox M. BORICUA
Definitely Puerto Rico
I’m from the blue team that was in the championship! 🇩🇴🇩🇴🇩🇴
Do Cubaaaa
You should do Cuba pls
and by the way there was a semifinal game in lidom this year that was crazier than anything in the final. another great addition to the aguilas-licey rivalry that went deep into extra innings and had to be played over two separate days
you could feel the country tensing up over it overnight
Tremendous video, thank you!!!! ❤️ ⚾️ 🇩🇴
I remember going to the Yankees-Red Sox game in 2014 where Papi hit what was nearly a 500-foot home run to dead center. Being a 10-year old Yankees fan at the time, I didn't like it so well, but now, (especially considering that the Yankees won 9-3), I think it's really cool.
Cubaa
LIDOM( pronounced Lee dawm) stands for Liga DOMinicana ( Contraction of the two words). Do Puerto Rico, next. They're really good.
Puerto Rico next and I hope after that yall show some european baseball. Nice video as always.
You should do Cubaaaa
Highly recommend you guys explore baseball in Venezuela, the country loves the sport, has produced a ton of excellent MLB players and the local league has a long history that includes one of the craziest rivalries in the sport.
Please bring this series back
Excellent job - Dominican power
Next has to be Puerto Rico. AKA: The Greatest Catchers Crib.
I am from San Pedro, nice video guys!
Amazing vid on DR, the vid makes justice to the country that has more players in MLB outside US. Now please do a Cuba one!!!!!!!!!!
Puerto Rico would be interesting
Ray Pavey Thank you!
baseball in Italy is incredibly interesting. Would love to see yall cover it.
The Secret Menu Now that would be interesting
Canada would be awesome to see. You could bring up Joey Votto's draft story in it!
Wao amazing work... thank you for the video, by the way if you want to keep following the winter league in DR "LAS AGUILAS or the eagles" are the best team of the country a lot of big leaguers go and play for the playoffs also keep them on track for the MLB season
It is small but please go to Australia. I know it’s not on the list but please go. Baseball is still really popular in Australia
I’m mixed with the great Platano Power and taco power lmaoao I feel like y’all should talk abt Mexico next it plays a good role in the MLB
Yes
Baseball in DR is incredible❤️⚾️
Puerto Rico next please!
We need this to continue
Episode 3 has been delayed for a while, but it’s coming soon 🙂
Lets do korea please
They have cy young candinate hyun jin ryu
Puerto Rico and Cubs next!!
It would be interesting seeing a Canada video considering the blue jays exist
Y’all really need to highlight baseball in Cuba.
Amazing video!! Canada!! Looking forward to hearing you guys mispronounce French stuff!! : D
Do a video on the México the hidden potential and how strong the Pacific league is and the 3peat they had in the Caribbean world series!
So you like wild crowds? Watch an Eden Gardens Cricket match. You will love it.
Puerto Rico tiene que ser el próximo 🔥🔥🔥
also definitely check out Italian baseball in the future. There is a fantastic book that can be purchased on Google Books called Baseballisimo Written by a Canadian writer which provides an excellent analysis of the game out there.
Hi there Stark Raving Sports, i wanna show and express my gratitud to you guys for bringing to the international social communications or social media what me as a Dominican borned and proud , just as me coming at front and say that when we are as single and through eras reprecent this small island, that historically as a country and specially Dominican culture as people will always thank Cuba as the country and yes the Cubans gave us the boost to make posible that fact that we also had a dictator Rafael Leonilda Trujillo in early 1900s and share with us just like them being an island that the country needs the rest of the world that we also a country that is free and brave to represent democracy also mixed cultures besides colonies as Spain that still today do not have what DR Cuba Or the whole LaTaM as Españoles call it which is culture music with art folklore and many many other Qualities as history went like Wars or man going to the moon, while small land wise or noticed internationally made it in fields that humans did not care at the time the best in the world in medicine like Cuba Baseball prospects factory in DR and so many others like musicians that internationally are know as pioneers on Merengue Bachata and even Son which is Cuban. What im saying is not only that im proud to be from here but also to let everyone out there that there is always an excuse but also that the way out to do nothing about such topics will also be lazyness on a nation just because ive learned that If im Dominican truth is that a country was made to divide humans while it did backfired because of greed envy control and ego wanting to be way better than the highest
I had a host brother from the DR and he was getting scouted by the mlb when he was 14-16 but chose basketball lol.
Would be interesting to see a vid about baseball in the Netherlands. They've had a pro baseball league since the 20s.
Gotta do Puerto Rico!
I was going to say the PR but there’s probably a handful comments of it.
Nobody can watch this video without saying "LA BALLA"
Muchas Gracias por la bonito Video. Peter Streiff(Suiza)
0:01 “the beat go off?”
Parker B. Holy shit
Canada for sure. So much has happened with the mlb here
I know it’s not baseball but covering the life of Junior hockey players across the globe I think would be pretty interesting
The Montgomery biscuits part got me
Yall should do Canada out of the 2 but u guys should rlly check the KBO
Well done!!!
I’m Canadian but PR is a must next up after DR
Canada is my home country and I played baseball so I definitely would like to see it in a vid
3:17 looks like a normal Marlins game
Nah. Too many people.
You should do cuba we export many big leaguers and current mvp without any academies or scouts and all our baseball players risk their lives and freedom to be able to do lay in MLB
Mexico mate, as far as I know and please correct me if I am wrong, Mexico is the only country with professional baseball all year long, with 2 leagues. LMB summer and LMP winter that is the toughest one. Best place to host a Caribbean series is in Mexico sold out all the time.!
Loud? If you want to know what loud is then go to a game between Aguilas vs Licey in December. Biggest rivals in DR baseball, ask former MLB Eric Byrnes as he was part of it.
Don't forget about Venezuela. And if you guys want a different experience, should do Colombia too
Baseball is also religion in Venezuela although our league LPVB focuses more on pitching and defense this is why you don’t see more Miguel Cabrera types and you will see more Altuves or Omar vizquel types although there have been more sluggers coming out in the past 20 years or so.
One thing I like the Dominican play style is the batting, they hit that rock hard, swing it like you a chip on your shoulders, aggressive swings.
I was waiting for a Bartolo Colón reference
They should do what soccer in europe does and have a school in the academy
canada, we know PR loves baseball
I know it wasn't a choice here, but I want to see you do Korea soon. Baseball games here (yes, I do live in Korea) are not quite as exciting as in the DR, but they get pretty close.
Meh-Tyu it’s on our radar, I’m an advocate for Korean Baseball so stay tuned
The only other places that I would say are as crazy about baseball as the Dominicans are is Cuba, Venezuela and Puerto Rico.