Actually considering the geographic locations of everywhere, the brackets were chosen pretty smart (Other than italy, south africa, and netherlands, they weren't going to win anyhow)
All the latin teams WANT to play each other. That's BIG down there. If you take the usa (and maybe even mexico then) out of the bracket we're in, that makes it WAY too heavy on one side with quality teams (And it already is pretty heavy to the latin side)
I think it's just fine, I mean the u.s. isn't even likely to MAKE the semifinals at this point.
Yeah I don't know how seriously people are taking this up there in U.S.A but down here it's the biggest event ever. Dominicans wanted to at least defeat Venezuela even if we didn't make the finals.
Specially now that Hugo Chavez is talking shit about us saying how Venezuela in a few years will take our place as the Spanish country with more baseball players.