Talk:And the United States Loses/@comment-BRG-2006033194127

We do need to decide whether we take this thing seriously. Obviously, Jeter did -- with a .450 average in the WBC he played like someone who was trying to win. I&quot;m not so sure about some of those other players. But then, the other side of the coin was the injury to Luis Ayala. Should a player risk his main job (winning in the regular season) for the WBC? Interesting question. (See http://www.allsports.com/cgi-bin/showstory.cgi?story_id=58482 for the story on Ayala)