Try to explain to someone time traveling from 400 years ago to our current time or from one of the planes of existence where they do not play baseball, anything about this particular spring training year with the WBC and you are likely to get them shrieking and holding a silver totem of their religion up to bane you away.
"Away DEVIL! with your baleful talk of diverting star players to play for the princelings of nationstates which do not yet exist! And for what?! To risk their very wellfulness to the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune!"