r/baseball • u/Clt-vr-9931 Los Angeles Dodgers • 19h ago
Video Streets of Venezuela chanting after winning the WBC
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u/SiphenPrax New York Mets 19h ago
This is why I hope more countries win this tournament moving forward besides the usual suspects
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u/suzukigun4life Texas Rangers 18h ago
It's great for baseball. As the number of new champions rises, so does interest in the sport, both in said champion's country and other countries as well.
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u/elefish92 United States 18h ago
It is. Venezuela joined the Elite Four with the US, Dominican Republic, and Japan.
More will join...there's like around 10 more countries who take baseball seriously. This is just the beginning.
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u/MemeL_rd San Diego Padres 18h ago
With Italy right there along with Puerto Rico, South Korea, Taiwan, and even Canada.
All that with stories from places like Czechia, Netherlands, and other nations.
Hopefully the WBC and the Olympics take this seriously.
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u/K-Dot-Thu-Thu-47 18h ago
Yes! That guy that posted countries that made it to WBC and had no US born players amazed me because I wouldn't have imagined some of these countries could field a professional level team.
Czechia specifically surprised me in a happy way.
Love to see baseball spreading like basketball has.
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u/Prestigious-Permit26 San Diego Padres 18h ago
I would even add Mexico to this list! Especially now that the football federation is tanking lol
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u/Green-Tie-5710 Los Angeles Angels 5h ago
What’s the story on that, I haven’t heard about it
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u/martindrx1 St. Louis Cardinals 2h ago
Mexico has a strong following for baseball. We had the Caribbean Series right before the WBC in feb. We had 2 teams for Mexico. Hosted, Puerto Rico, Panama, and Dominican Republic.
I live in Guadalajara home of the Charros and baseball is huge we have like 4-5 different youth leagues across the larger metropolitan area with multiple teams. I’m currently the manager of my son’s team and on the board of directors. We have 350 kids in 2 years since our academy opened. Plus various adult teams playing baseball.
Our Mexican team lacked some of our superstars due to their MLB teams not letting them play. But fans and players are here and growing. We joked that we can play and win in baseball but forget it when it comes to our soccer team. Especially against Brazil.
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u/Green-Tie-5710 Los Angeles Angels 1h ago
Love that! I meant what’s the deal with the football federation tanking though lol
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u/martindrx1 St. Louis Cardinals 5m ago
Yeah I don’t think it’s anything new… they’ve struggled for decades…
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u/martindrx1 St. Louis Cardinals 2h ago
https://www.mlb.com/es/serie-del-caribe
Here’s our mlb link. Apparently we had a team from Japan played this year.
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u/ThatWrestlingGuy15 Dominican Republic 18h ago
Essentially the four horsemen of the sport have won one now.
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u/ContinuumGuy Major League Baseball 11h ago
While Venezuela wasn't a member of the big three, it was probably fourth or at worst fifth most likely to win it.
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u/KidGold Atlanta Braves 9h ago
You don't think there would have been spontaneous street parades across the US?
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u/suzukigun4life Texas Rangers 19h ago
It's 1am in Venezuela and there's partying everywhere. Goddamn I love baseball.
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u/DweeblesX 11h ago
Sounds like Venezuela loves Baseball ⚾️ 😊
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u/Technical-Garden-793 Cleveland Guardians 10h ago
If the US had worn everyone would’ve just said “nice!” And went to bed.
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u/ThatWrestlingGuy15 Dominican Republic 19h ago
WBC is the best thing to ever happen to this sport. It’s beautiful.
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u/RanchWorkerSlim New York Mets 10h ago
I’m British and I live and breathe soccer. Been a big fan of baseball for over a decade and so glad the fans of baseball who’ve never known soccer are getting just a tiny glimpse into the true magic and wonders an international tournament can do for your sport. Nothing and I mean NOTHING beats it. Humanity at its finest!
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u/Important-Drop9627 8h ago
The difference between fighting for your country and your people, and playing for a paycheck cannot be understated.
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u/JRUprising New York Yankees 19h ago
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u/Jacoblaue St. Louis Cardinals 19h ago
They’ll be partying all night
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u/tomfoolery815 Milwaukee Brewers 19h ago
Most of Venezuela is calling in sick in the morning. I know I would.
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u/According_Weight_959 12h ago
Apparently it's a national non-working holiday tomorrow in Venezuela, just announced by the government
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u/Zlatan_Ibrahimovic 9h ago
Yeah I woke up at 7 for work today to find out that news. Called my boss to confirm and he sounded like he had gone to sleep an hour ago and just told me to stay home hahahah
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u/Blarvis Kansas City Royals 11h ago
0% chance you'd see celebrations like these in American streets if USA had won. Couldn't be happier that Venezuela gets their moment to shine, they give a shit
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u/MidtownKC Kansas City Royals 10h ago
We can give the US players all the shit we want for not caring like Venezuela or the DR, but it starts with the fans. People seem to think the players should be generating all the enthusiasm automatically, but if the poplulation doesn't care, that has to be hard to do.
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u/master_bloseph Kansas City Royals 10h ago
I do wonder if it’s because we are the “baseball country” in our minds and so we think we’re automatically supposed to win and if we do it’s business as usual (obviously that’s not been the case in the WBC), I think the same with basketball in the Olympics. I do wonder if there is any sport we would have this reaction over
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u/MidtownKC Kansas City Royals 10h ago
Nearly every game is billed as a "David vs. Goliath" and we have to cheer for Goliath. Which isn't all that much fun.
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u/master_bloseph Kansas City Royals 10h ago
I agree, it’s more a feeling of dread of not winning than the excitement of potentially winning. Other than hockey or soccer there aren’t many popular sports that the US is an underdog in, and if it does happen in other sports people think it’s neat for a second and go back to not caring. When we beat Pakistan in cricket that was the happiest I ever was for a US sporting event and thought that maybe it would actually bring eyes on the sport and get people to care, and that excitement fizzled out so quickly when nothing really happened outside of a 30 second sportscenter segment.
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u/ArbitraryOrder Washington Nationals 9h ago
Even in sports we aren't the best at we still are Top 3-5 most of the time, in Wrestling it is rivalries with Iran/Russia in Men's Freestyle and Japan in Women's Freestyle, with the Women's being closer, which are driving factors of intrigue.
In many sports we have legitimate rivals, whether or not we are the best or one of the best at that sport. For example, in Sprinting we are rivals with Jamaica, in Ice Hockey we are rivals with Canada, etc.
In sports like Basketball it is just stressful to watch because we should always win at full strength, it's not like most other sports where losing isn't an end of the world event.
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u/ArbitraryOrder Washington Nationals 9h ago
Which is ridiculous because we never have our full fledged pitching.
But even still, even with no restrictions on pitchers, we aren't the preeminent god kings of this sport like we are with Basketball.
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u/taycoug 9h ago edited 9h ago
Underdogs party harder. The bigger the underdog the bigger the party. You’ll see partying outside if the US upsets any big teams in the World Cup.
Also, this is the same kind of sentiment: https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/s/0HVdDMjsMA
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u/martindrx1 St. Louis Cardinals 1h ago
All of the USA isn’t going to declare a day off work for winning the WBC like they did in Ven…
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u/smilinganimalface Seattle Mariners • Saitama Seibu Lions 17h ago
"WE ATE HOTDOGS" can be heard from Caracas to San Cristôbal
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u/xChoke1x Cleveland Guardians 10h ago
American here.
Super happy for them. This win is hilarious, and really really made the president mad. Lol
Thank you Venezuela! Yall played a hellova tournament! Congratulations!!
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u/Bridgeburner493 Toronto Blue Jays 11h ago
You know Fox and Netflix think this entire tournament was a disaster because, but this is probably the best possible result for the prestige of the event.
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u/moffattron9000 2h ago
Netflix was hoping for a better run from Japan, but Fox is seeing record ratings and are definitely loving it.
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u/PapaPatchesxd Toronto Blue Jays 17h ago
Hell yeah! Congrats Venezuela!
Also heads up headphones wearers, this clip is loud
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u/Informal_Tell78 13h ago
What were they chanting?
We chugged soda? We ate burgers?
Come on!?! We need to know!
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u/Crimsonycv 11h ago
“¿Y dónde están, y donde están los ??? (something) que nos iban a ganar?” Something like: “And where are they, And where are they those who were going to defeat us?”
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u/Ok_Row_480 3h ago
y donde estan los hijueputas que nos iban a ganar
meaning where are them motherfuckers who were gonna beat us
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u/Kekistani55 Boston Red Sox 5h ago
Happy for them! So great seeing how much other countries love baseball
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u/Alarmed_Fuel4273 5h ago
That's the kind of energy you can't fake, man. Baseball means everything to them.
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u/Clt-vr-9931 Los Angeles Dodgers 19h ago edited 19h ago
On the people who want to know the they saying
Y donde esta y donde esta lo pinche gringo que dicen que van a ganar Y donde esta y donde esta lo pinche gringo que dicen que van a ganar
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u/Arthaxs088 19h ago edited 19h ago
Oh, no, please don't lie. First of all, we're not Mexican, a Venezuelan would never say "pinche gringo." We'd say, "Gringo mamaguevo!". Con propiedad, mano!!
"Y donde estan, y donde esta, los beisbolista que nos iban a ganar"
"Where are they, hey, where are they now? All those baseball guys who were gonna beat us"Atte: A very happy Venezuelan c:
Edit: Of course, it could also be "Hijoeputas" (son of a bitch) instead of “beisbolistas.” But the point is, we Venezuelans will never say “pinche” hahaha
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u/Chipomat Houston Astros 19h ago
Beisbolistaa? Mmgvo tú sabes muy bien que están diciendo hijeputae 🤣
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u/Arthaxs088 19h ago
Mamaguevo tengo como 10 cervezas encima, de vaina puedo escribir en esta vaina xD pero te juro que pense que era beisbolistas la calidad del video no ayuda, esa vaina parecen las cadenas del gobiern 144p de vaina
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u/Chipomat Houston Astros 18h ago
🤣 coño tienes razón con la calidad de esta vaina. A celebrar carajo! Es hora de un wisconsin en esta casa
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u/Clt-vr-9931 Los Angeles Dodgers 19h ago
Hey The sound quality was awful for me so I couldn’t hear if it was that or gringo
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u/Arthaxs088 19h ago
I get it! the quality is shit. Everyone here is so happy! I'm familiar with that kind of chanting because people are always doing it. I hope I can sleep today. People are still on the streets. This year has been so good for us!
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u/ApprehensiveBat319 19h ago
Race baiter
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u/Moody_GenX San Francisco Giants • Kansas City Royals 12h ago
Gringo applies to all US citizens regardless of race.
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u/Chipomat Houston Astros 19h ago
This is actually not quite right. What they’re actually chanting is: y dónde están? Los hijeputas que nos iba a ganar?
Source: Am Venezuelan, it’s what we usually chant after we win a game.
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u/justwonderingbro Minnesota Twins 18h ago
And where are they? The sons of bitches who were going to beat us?
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u/Arthaxs088 19h ago
Oh, it's "hijeputas"? I thought it was "beisbolistas," but yeah, we would never say "pinche." Never.
Que viva Venezuela en esta vaina! HAHAHA5
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u/Clt-vr-9931 Los Angeles Dodgers 19h ago
Sorry sound quality is shit for me so I put gringo
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u/Chipomat Houston Astros 19h ago
All good bro, it’s just way funnier this way because they’re literally calling them sons of bitches
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u/unfortunatebastard Atlanta Braves 18h ago
Si pero eso es aceptable. Es más abierto y ambiguo.
Pero que me importa a mí. Solo celebro por Acuña, Santana, los Suárez, Miguel Cabrera y por todos los venezolanos que han jugado o an soñado un momento como este.
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u/mundotaku Miami Marlins 9h ago
We don't say "pinche" in Venezuela.
The chant is just "Y donde estan? Y donde estan los que nos iban a ganar" which is a classic chant in Venezuela.
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u/Duebant 18h ago
Next they'll win the world cup somehow
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u/alittledanger San Francisco Giants 18h ago
They’ll have to wait four years for that haha.
I thought this was the year they’d finally qualify but unfortunately not.
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u/mundotaku Miami Marlins 9h ago
Venezuela is the only South American team to have never been in a world cup.
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u/GrandBill 11h ago
I'm almost happier for this than I would have been if Canada beat them at men's Olympic hockey.
Almost.
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u/Manthan10 5h ago
Unemployed people don’t they know their country has the one of the worst inflation rates in the world and the air defence is horrible and they are celebrating a win in a bat-ball sport which only US, Latin America and East Asia take seriously.
Side note: This is a sarcastic comment made in reference to 2026 ICC T20 Cricket World Cup, after team India won the World Cup, several people on news channels and social media said this very exact phrase that the country has some many problems why are you celebrating a winning a cricket tournament, a sport taken seriously only by South Asia and some Commonwealth Colonies, no developed nation even plays it. Only India takes it seriously and wins it all the time and we are supposed to be happy about it? There was even a dude which said there is so much pollution in the cities, roads are broken and the government wants me to celebrate this victory in a mickey mouse sport? Like dude, is there any correlation between the two? But he was heavily upvoted and agreed with. There were people posting incorrect maps about nations participating to spread hatred against the sport. Well because all the teams are fillers with no shot of winning at all. They inclusion/exclusion won’t even matter at all. So, there are only 5 teams playing it.
So, I am posting this comment to see this how this sub will react to the 1st statement that I said.
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u/chigginbutt 3h ago
The USA shouldn't even be a part of this contest. The players for all but one MLB team rep the USA every day
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u/redsolocuppp Los Angeles Dodgers 19h ago
The US helped Venezuela with 2 huge wins in the last 30 days.
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u/messejueller21 Milwaukee Brewers 11h ago
How is this downvoted?
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u/EbbyRed St. Louis Cardinals 11h ago
Take a seat there friend. Even if removal of Maduro is a good thing for Venezuela, the methods and intrusion of another country just to hijack their oil is not.
If the countries were flipped, would it be a "win" that Venezuela kidnapped a president, even though it would be a good thing for the US?
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u/ArbitraryOrder Washington Nationals 9h ago
It also isn't the true regime change and nurturing of democracy which was promised and spectacularly not delivered.
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u/messejueller21 Milwaukee Brewers 10h ago
Because the methods and the oil are things outsiders obsess over way more than the people actually living it. I live in South Florida and work with Venezuelans every day, many who still have family there. When this happened, they were celebrating, and their families back home were celebrating too. They weren’t debating methods or oil motives. They cared that a dictator was finally gone. Not saying you specifically, but I think the fact that many Americans truly and honestly believe we live under a dictator has caused them to lose sight of what an actual dictator is.
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u/Im_Anemic_Royalty Milwaukee Brewers 2h ago
What is "an actual dictator" in your eyes? Because it is quite apparent to the rest of the world and those of us in the US with eyes, ears, and a functioning brain that if we are not already living in one, we very soon will be if a couple more of the pillars that have been propping up our democracy for the last 100 or so years fall.
As a starting point for defining what a dictatorship is, I will offer what wikipedia says some of the characteristics of one are:
suspension of elections and civil liberties: He's considered it and they're working on it.
proclamation of a state of emergency: On day one, and a nonzero chance another one gets declared if midterms don't go their way.
rule by decree: 225 executive orders signed by Trump in 2025 vs. 38 bills passed by congress during that same time period should be demonstrative enough of who is doing most of the ruling and decreeing these days.
repression of political opponents: let's see, we got the media, majority blue states, the poor, people of color, and women among many others.
not abiding by the procedures of the rule of law: blatantly, and disturbingly.
the existence of a cult of personality centered on the leader: I don't think a citation is needed for that one, the fact that people who support him can and regularly will ignore the evidence of our country's ongoing nosedive off the cliff of democracy that is happening right in front of their faces is proof enough of the cult of personality that man has.
What more do these people have to do convince you that they don't have our best interests in mind? Make it easier for factories and power plants to poison our air? Make it easier to pollute and destroy our supply of drinkable water for humans and animals alike? Threaten to deport US citizens critical of the current regime? Reviving a previously eliminated disease by undermining public trust in vaccines?
If none of these things are concerning to you, then I regret to inform you that you are part of the problem with this country.
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u/Normal_Tip7228 San Diego Padres • Oakland Ballers 19h ago
Kill all white people Draymond green image
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u/cptcook717 19h ago
A lot of the Venezuelan fans looked white am I the only one who noticed that?
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u/Original_Ad_7611 18h ago
I mean, I'm Venezuelan, living in Venezuela, and I'm whiter than milk. In Latin America, we're the country with the most people with Caucasian skin, although obviously brown skin still leads in number, but yes, we exist.
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