If you're among the millions of Americans blissfully ignoring the World Baseball Classic, you might be a bit surprised to learn that Major League Baseball really doesn't care all that much.
You're not their target.
Rather, the WBC has always been about following the NBA model of growing the game globally. And already this tournament, with pool play that began in Japan and Chinese Taipei, has produced electric moments. In addition to blooming in places where it's already established like Japan and Taiwan, baseball could take root in places where it barely exists, like Italy, Holland and the Czech Republic.