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Venezuela silences Team USA to win their first World Baseball Classic! · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: I'm not getting hold of much more.
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  Speaker 2: On campus week.
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  Speaker 3: Good evening, everybody, and welcome to a very special edition
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  Speaker 3: of Foul Territory presented by Fox One. I'm your host
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  Speaker 3: Alana Rizzo in for Scott bron That is Todd Frasier,
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  Speaker 3: that is Eric Kratz.
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  Speaker 2: We are happy to be with you, guys.
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  Speaker 3: Man, I did not think we would be coming to you,
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  Speaker 3: guys with this type of finale.
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  Speaker 2: It is what it is.
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  Speaker 3: Congratulations to Venezuela, the victors.
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  Speaker 2: In the WBC. Guys.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not certain how I feel about this, but Todd,
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  Speaker 3: what is the biggest reflection you have Over the course
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  Speaker 3: of this two and a half week World Baseball Classic,
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  Speaker 3: Team Venezuela.
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  Speaker 2: Taken the wind.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it seemed like ever since they lost the Dominican Republic,
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  Speaker 4: they found this wave in the ocean and they that
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  Speaker 4: wave all the way to the championship. They were excited,
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  Speaker 4: they had joy, they had chance, they had everything going
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  Speaker 4: for him and they fell into this lovely little bond
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  Speaker 4: that they came together with.
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  Speaker 5: And it was.
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  Speaker 4: Fun to watch. And that's one thing I'll take away
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  Speaker 4: from it. I thought everybody played for each other. They
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  Speaker 4: got the bunt down, they got a guy over. I
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  Speaker 4: mean the pitching, the relief pitching for Venezuela. It was
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  Speaker 4: so spot on. They did absolutely everything that they did right.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, on the flip side, you look at USA.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah they did good, but they didn't hit. They didn't hit.
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  Speaker 4: That was the biggest takeaway I got for USA. They
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  Speaker 4: didn't find a way to get the big hit. I
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  Speaker 4: know Harper did, don't get me wrong, But when it
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  Speaker 4: came down to it, two runs is not going to
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  Speaker 4: win you a World Baseball Classic in the last two games.
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  Speaker 4: So for them, it's hard. It's hard to swallow. It's
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  Speaker 4: a hard pill to swallow if you're a USA you
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  Speaker 4: know favorite, if you're a fan of them and you're
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  Speaker 4: from there.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's hard.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, Venezuela came out and the excitement was
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  Speaker 4: on their side right.
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  Speaker 5: From Jump Street.
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  Speaker 1: Eric.
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  Speaker 3: So many people are going to question the moves always right,
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  Speaker 3: hindsight is twenty twenty. Everyone's going to question Derosi's starting,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Bregman over Gunner, Henderson, Will Smith over cal Rawley, this,
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  Speaker 3: that and the other thing. But it came down to
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  Speaker 3: the fact that you're right, Todd, they didn't hit.
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  Speaker 2: Eric what's your takeaway from it?
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  Speaker 6: My takeaways whenever there is superstars out in the field,
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  Speaker 6: superstar pitching majority of the time beats superstar hitting. And
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  Speaker 6: some superstars which I was not a superstar, would argue
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  Speaker 6: with me. But really, like that's the reason they're superstar pitchers.
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  Speaker 6: Those are the dudes that get that normally shut down
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  Speaker 6: the best players, the best players. They will they clip.
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  Speaker 6: Will they clip a guy here and there, absolutely, but
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  Speaker 6: they beat up on the other guys. They beat up
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  Speaker 6: on the guys that are there and aren't as aren't
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  Speaker 6: as good of pitchers as they are of hitters. And
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  Speaker 6: when you go head to head, superstar is superstar, I
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  Speaker 6: don't care what time of year it is. Rarely are
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  Speaker 6: the superstars on the other team. Like if you're facing Scooble,
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  Speaker 6: rarely is Aaron Judges automatically just going three for three
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  Speaker 6: against Scooble. No, you hope he clips them. When he's
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  Speaker 6: facing Garret Crochet, there's gonna be a few strikeouts here there,
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  Speaker 6: but you hope he lasts till the eighth inning and
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  Speaker 6: Judge gets another shot and then clips him, hits a
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  Speaker 6: dinger and you win one. Nothing Like that's how you
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  Speaker 6: got to beat superstars. I just didn't think tonight Eduardo
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  Speaker 6: Ariguez was gonna be that superstar.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, did he show up tonight for Venezuela?
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  Speaker 3: So many folks are gonna ask why wasn't Mason Miller
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  Speaker 3: in this game? What's going on with Mark Drosso? Why
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  Speaker 3: didn't he allow Mason Miller to pitch? But there's things
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  Speaker 3: going into this game cratzy that people don't understand. Mason Miller.
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  Speaker 3: Ken Rosenthaler, our friend and our colleague, talked about the
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  Speaker 3: fact that Mason Miller wasn't necessarily going to be available
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  Speaker 3: to pitch in the game. There's so many different things
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  Speaker 3: that are hamstringing a manager in this situation.
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  Speaker 2: Mason Miller wasn't available.
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  Speaker 6: And if he was available, I haven't heard that he
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  Speaker 6: wasn't available, But if he was available, I mean, are
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  Speaker 6: you going to not put Garrett Whitlock in the same
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  Speaker 6: inning that he is dominated and hasn't given up a
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  Speaker 6: run the entire WBC. No, the plan was you go
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  Speaker 6: Whitlock and then you go Mason Miller. When if you
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  Speaker 6: need if you need it in extras there like I
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  Speaker 6: get it, I get it. Mason Miller is supposed to
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  Speaker 6: supposed to pitch. Maybe he wasn't available. We I don't know,
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  Speaker 6: I haven't heard.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not certain either.
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  Speaker 3: I mean there was talk, of course that maybe he
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  Speaker 3: wasn't going to be available based on how he felt.
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  Speaker 3: Craig Stamm and the manager of the Padres, was saying
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  Speaker 3: that we're going to see how this goes. But you're right,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you look at it like Garret Whitlock gave
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  Speaker 3: it up. But then you look at it also that,
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  Speaker 3: well you're a bray you of the Reds is the
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  Speaker 3: one that hit the two run home runs. So I mean,
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  Speaker 3: there's just so many different things that go through your
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  Speaker 3: mind as a as a fan, as an analyst of whatever.
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  Speaker 2: Watching this game, I'm a little shell shocked.
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  Speaker 3: To be honest with you, I did not Todd give
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  Speaker 3: Venezuela as much credit as I guess maybe I should have.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, was this was this the better team? The
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  Speaker 2: better team win?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: I mean right now I would have to say yes.
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  Speaker 4: Ultimately, they came out fired up, they took the pitches
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  Speaker 4: they need, they got guys on base. It just didn't
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  Speaker 4: seem like USA found a way to pit the ball.
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  Speaker 4: They had one hit for a long time there, and
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  Speaker 4: that's frustrating. You're facing a lefty pitcher and you know,
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  Speaker 4: he absolutely dominated and that's that's the bottom line. They
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  Speaker 4: came out in the last three or four three games,
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  Speaker 4: excuse me, and they pitched the best that they could
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  Speaker 4: do and it was their time. And yeah, I'm shocked too.
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  Speaker 4: I'm ultimately blown away. How I say, did not come
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  Speaker 4: out and hit the baseball and put up six, eight,
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  Speaker 4: ten runs. I was waiting for that output and never came.
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  Speaker 4: And guess what, when you do that in baseball, things
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  Speaker 4: will not go your way because you're playing against the
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  Speaker 4: best of the best from each country.
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  Speaker 2: Eric is Bryce Harper elite again?
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  Speaker 6: Brice Harper is the same guy he was last year.
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  Speaker 6: He is the same guy that has been motivated to
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  Speaker 6: be the best that he can be. Is he elite
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  Speaker 6: again because of one swing?
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  Speaker 1: No? Is he clutch? Yes? That never changed.
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  Speaker 6: Even if he flied that one to the warning track,
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  Speaker 6: He's still he still is the guy that you went
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  Speaker 6: up in the big situations. He's proven that and I
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  Speaker 6: think there's other guys on the team that can do that,
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  Speaker 6: but he's proven it in the playoffs for the Phillies.
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  Speaker 6: And now he did it again in a big spot
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  Speaker 6: to pull Team USA tied to too late in the game.
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  Speaker 1: What a massive homer that was.
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  Speaker 3: Honestly though, Eduardo Rodriguez Todd four and a third scoreless
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  Speaker 3: innings inning against Team USA. A lineup that is stacked.
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  Speaker 3: We've talked about it so much. This is the best
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  Speaker 3: American lineup we've ever seen in the WBC.
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  Speaker 2: And it's so funny.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I guess not funny, but this is a
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  Speaker 3: guy that struggled with Arizona over the last couple of seasons.
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  Speaker 3: I mean an ERA over five over a course of
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  Speaker 3: you know, two hundred and four and a third innings pitched.
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  Speaker 3: And he comes out and he just shoves, Like what
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  Speaker 3: does that mean? Like, how does that happen? You have
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  Speaker 3: an elite lineup in the in the United States and
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  Speaker 3: Warder Areas.
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  Speaker 2: Comes out and just shoves. How does that possible? Baseball
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  Speaker 2: doesn't make sense? Make it make sense to me?
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  Speaker 4: Well, here's why it does make sense. You got Salvador
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  Speaker 4: Perez behind a plate. You got a veteran catcher who
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  Speaker 4: absolutely knows each hit or that he's facing, and he
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  Speaker 4: manipulated that strike zone so perfectly against guy like the
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  Speaker 4: captain Aaron Judge who had a couple of strikeouts. He
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  Speaker 4: was forcing him to throw that hard inside and throw
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  Speaker 4: that change up and nobody else could figure out how
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  Speaker 4: to hit. They got one hit against him. He did
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  Speaker 4: absolutely phenomenal. Give credit to Salvi Perez. They put the
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  Speaker 4: right catcher in there at the right time. They pushed
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  Speaker 4: all the right buttons and that's ultimately, and when they
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  Speaker 4: went down, or excuse me, when the game got tied.
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  Speaker 4: Next thing, you know, a walk can't do that. That's
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  Speaker 4: a big play in the game. Find a way to
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  Speaker 4: let Luisa rise try and hit one out of the park.
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  Speaker 4: You know what I mean, throw strikes. I know that
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  Speaker 4: three to one pitch I think was a strike, But
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  Speaker 4: ultimately that's the way it goes. That's the human nature
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  Speaker 4: of the game. Gotta find a way to get that out.
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  Speaker 1: Eric.
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  Speaker 2: Let me ask you this. We talked so much the
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  Speaker 2: other day.
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  Speaker 3: When the USA played the Dominican Republic and bested the
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  Speaker 3: DR it was a lot. It was three reasons. Number one,
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  Speaker 3: base running number two. They were two for nine with
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  Speaker 3: runners in scoring position. Number three. USA had really good pitching.
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  Speaker 3: So let me ask you this. When it comes to Venezuela,
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  Speaker 3: it was the Venezuelan hitters that stepped up in the
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  Speaker 3: big moments right, stepped up when they needed it most.
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  Speaker 3: You have a bray you obviously with the home run
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  Speaker 3: Suarez Mikel Garcia early on in the game. Was this
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  Speaker 3: just a matter of the Venezuelan hitters capitalizing when they
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  Speaker 3: needed to at the right time.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what do you make of it overall?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: I mean, for sure they capitalized when they needed I
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  Speaker 6: mean they struck out ten times. Team USA struck out
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  Speaker 6: seven times. I mean struck out seven times. Team USA
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  Speaker 6: struck out ten times. The batters did like, they both
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  Speaker 6: walked three times both teams. Venezuela had six hits, Team
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  Speaker 6: USA had three hits. Like they put together overall in
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  Speaker 6: their lineup, they put together better at bats top to
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  Speaker 6: bottom to get them in the situation that they were in.
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  Speaker 6: If you're only ever looking for one swing, well that
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  Speaker 6: could be the case with Venezuela too. Like Hinneo Suarez
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  Speaker 6: is in there for one thing, one swing, and he
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  Speaker 6: got the three to two and he threw him a
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  Speaker 6: change up. He had to throw a strike, or at
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  Speaker 6: least in that moment, he thought he had to throw
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  Speaker 6: a strike because he threw the fastball up the pitch
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  Speaker 6: before and then he just landed the He landed the
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  Speaker 6: strike middle middle, and Suarez came through a guy that
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  Speaker 6: is really boom or bust or walk, and he came
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  Speaker 6: through with a massive double. Like there's plenty of situation.
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  Speaker 6: Not plenty, but there were some situations where you would
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  Speaker 6: have said, Okay, Team USA is going to come through here,
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  Speaker 6: but it was still they were waiting for somebody to
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  Speaker 6: come through with a big homer. They were waiting for
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  Speaker 6: Judge to come through with a big homer with a
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  Speaker 6: runner on first. Like, to me, that's not the way
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  Speaker 6: you normally win close games is by, oh, we got
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  Speaker 6: a guy on. And every time the United States got
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  Speaker 6: a guy on, he was on first base with two outs.
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  Speaker 6: And the only guy that got a hit against at
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  Speaker 6: Guardo Rodriguez early was Bryce terraang so is left on left.
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  Speaker 6: So it's really to me, it's not.
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  Speaker 1: At all on d Row. To me, it's not at
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  Speaker 1: all on the pitching.
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  Speaker 6: I really think it's a rest with the lineup and
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  Speaker 6: they weren't able to get that big hit because I
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  Speaker 6: think that's what they were looking for, one big hit
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  Speaker 6: instead of trying to figure out how to string hits together,
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  Speaker 6: which is really tough against the line, which against the
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  Speaker 6: pitchers that Venezuela kept running out there.
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  Speaker 3: Todd, Aaron Judge was zero for four in this game.
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  Speaker 3: Three ks. He's going to take a lot of criticism
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  Speaker 3: just because he's Aaron Judge, right, I mean rightfully? So
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  Speaker 3: we expect so much of this man, captain of the Yankees,
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  Speaker 3: captain of the USA squad.
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  Speaker 2: Is the criticism.
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  Speaker 3: Justified when it comes to number ninety nine in this
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  Speaker 3: particular tournament or in this particular game rather, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I think yes, But I think ultimately Aaron's gonna take
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  Speaker 4: it on the chin and say, hey, you know this
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  Speaker 4: is on me.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't do my job. You know, it's one game.
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  Speaker 4: So if you don't do good, and it's one game,
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  Speaker 4: you're gonna get criticized, and not just the nature of
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  Speaker 4: the beasts. You get one chance to win a World
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  Speaker 4: Baseball Classic. It's not best out of three, it's not
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  Speaker 4: best out of seven. So yeah, he's gonna take the criticism.
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  Speaker 4: He's gonna take it with his chin up high and understand, listen,
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  Speaker 4: I didn't do my job, you know. But in the
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  Speaker 4: back of everybody's mind, is nobody did their job as
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  Speaker 4: the hitters. Nobody came through, They didn't get guys in
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  Speaker 4: scoring position. Give Venezuela the credit. Like we talked about,
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  Speaker 4: USA did not hit, and guess what they didn't win.
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  Speaker 5: That is baseball defense wins championships. We get that.
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  Speaker 4: But if you don't hit and score runs, you're not
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  Speaker 4: gonna win any games.
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  Speaker 5: And that's ultimately what it came down to.
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  Speaker 3: Eric, we talked about the criticism whether or not it's
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  Speaker 3: warranted for Aaron Judge, what about Mark de Rosa? What
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  Speaker 3: does this mean for d row moving forward? Is this
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  Speaker 3: is this his fault? I mean, he can't hit right,
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  Speaker 3: he can't go out there and hit. He's the manager,
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  Speaker 3: he's not the player.
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  Speaker 2: So what is your.
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  Speaker 3: Overall takeaway about the criticism that you know d Ro's
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  Speaker 3: going to face.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, I think from now on, I don't think that.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think it's fair criticism. I didn't see anything
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  Speaker 6: that I would have done differently during this game. I
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  Speaker 6: felt like the lineup construction was there. I felt like
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  Speaker 6: he stuck with Bryce Harper through thick and thin here
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  Speaker 6: and he paid off. He got two of the three
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  Speaker 6: hits tonight and drove the two run homer that tied
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  Speaker 6: the game up late. So to me, I think the
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  Speaker 6: only way, the only way he's not brought back to
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  Speaker 6: do this in the next WBC is if the players
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  Speaker 6: are like, nah, we need a different voice, or nah,
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  Speaker 6: we're looking for somebody that's currently just off the field,
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  Speaker 6: something like that. I mean, look at you. Look at
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  Speaker 6: the guys that they had on the bench. It was
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  Speaker 6: a lot of guys that are very very well respected,
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  Speaker 6: but they don't have a ton of coaching experience in
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  Speaker 6: pro ball. And to me, I don't know that that's
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  Speaker 6: what's needed. I don't know if that's what would have
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  Speaker 6: helped them win the game. No, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 6: So to me, the only way those dudes don't come
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  Speaker 6: back is if they A don't want to or B
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  Speaker 6: the players weren't happy. And to me, all the players
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  Speaker 6: that we've talked to, all the players that we've seen
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  Speaker 6: and heard the way that they're talking, have had a
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  Speaker 6: great time. Like Terry Scoble just talking about driving through
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  Speaker 6: the rainstorm to get back down there to he threw
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  Speaker 6: a pen and he hung out in the dugout and
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  Speaker 6: he's like, I feel like I've known these guys for
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  Speaker 6: a few months, not just a few weeks. And that's
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  Speaker 6: the kind of environment you have to build. And then
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  Speaker 6: you put the guys out there, you throw the balls
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  Speaker 6: out on the field, and you say, go play and
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  Speaker 6: try to win the.
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  Speaker 3: If you look at the comments, gentlemen, everyone in the
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  Speaker 3: chat just talking about this game. Of course, everyone's like,
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  Speaker 3: why didn't you just put Mason Miller in? It was
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  Speaker 3: known before the game. Mark Deurosis said Todd that Mason
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  Speaker 3: Miller was available.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, it was a whole situation.
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  Speaker 3: Garret, Garrett Whitlock comes in instead of Mason Miller. You
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  Speaker 3: could have used Mason Miller at a later time. It's funny,
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  Speaker 3: you know, it's so easy to be a manager when
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  Speaker 3: you're sitting on your couch right or when you're sitting
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  Speaker 3: in your hotel rooms. You're getting ready to do Yankees
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  Speaker 3: games coming up. It's so funny how everybody has the answer.
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  Speaker 3: But there's a reason that Garrett Whitlock was in the
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  Speaker 3: game before Mason Miller was in the game, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: everybody has a everyone has an opinion, But there's a
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  Speaker 3: reason that Whitlock was in before Mason Millar.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean he's given up zero runs. I mean, the
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  Speaker 4: guy has been absolutely insane. He's been great. I don't
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  Speaker 4: think that that was an easy decision as a manager
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  Speaker 4: to bring him in and then ultimately if they found
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  Speaker 4: a way to get a run. If not, yeah, maybe
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  Speaker 4: you think about bringing Mason Miller in after that. But
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  Speaker 4: you know, I don't second guess that at all. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you think about de Rosa, you talked about him as
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  Speaker 4: a manager.
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  Speaker 5: I thought he did well.
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  Speaker 4: You know, ultimately, the comment was probably a big problem
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  Speaker 4: that people still aren't getting over with, which they should.
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  Speaker 4: He made a mistake and he and it is what
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  Speaker 4: it is. He owned up to it in his own way.
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: Move on.
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  Speaker 4: They made it to the championship. They didn't hit the ball.
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  Speaker 4: That's what they got to live with and they got
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: to move on. I'm excited to see if they Finally
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  Speaker 4: they get this team back in the Olympics coming up
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  Speaker 4: in a couple of years, so we'll see about that.
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: But yeah, this one still stinks. This one's gonna stink
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  Speaker 4: for a little while, especially until you know, the regular
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: season starts. So hopefully it starts tomorrow. But no, it's not.
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  Speaker 4: But yes, congrats to Venezuela.
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  Speaker 2: They deserved it one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 3: And Eric, let's look at I mean the facts, right,
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: the US didn't hit you look up and down the lineup.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: I mean Harper obviously was two two for four. Rather
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: I mean Bryce terrang was one for three. That's it,
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: that's your hits, right, I mean Venezuela doubled up on
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: the hits and not a ton. I mean they only
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: had six hits in thirty one at bats, but in
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: total in thirty one at bats. But the fact of
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: the matter is they came up clutch in the situations
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: that they needed to. I mean, obviously Bryce Harper had
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: the two run home run, but in the little moments
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: that counted, Venezuela made the most of it. So let's
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: not take away from what they were able to accomplish totally.
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: This is less about what the and I think we've
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: kind of alluded to it. Less about what the what
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: USA couldn't do, and more about out what Venezuela was
• 18:01
  Speaker 6: able to do. They were able to overcome the fact
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: that they played last night they didn't have I guess
• 18:09
  Speaker 6: they did have almost everybody but Avila, who gave him
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: some good innings. He wasn't available. Palencia wasn't available unless
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: it was a safe situation. So if they were tied
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: in that situation in the bottom of the ninth, Palencia
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: wouldn't be in there. So things fell in place for them.
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: But they fell in place because they took advantage of
• 18:31
  Speaker 6: situations that I think both teams had at different points.
• 18:35
  Speaker 6: The close out safe called second base on the stolen base.
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: Whitlock didn't keep them close because Sinejas is not He's
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: not fast, he's not like blazing speed, but he's able
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: to take the base high leg kick. Will Smith made
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: a good throw, not perfect throw, could have been called out.
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: Could Like there's so many plays in these types of games,
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: any kind of winner take all type of game, You're
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: going to look at all the little plays and say
• 19:06
  Speaker 6: who played better Venezuela. Venezuela one played better, and they
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: deserve to win this. They were really close other years,
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: I mean they lost. They had the game in hand
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: in the eighth inning last time they played Team USA
• 19:19
  Speaker 6: until Trey Turner's home run which sent the US to
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: the finals and not Venezuela.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: And this time Venezuela came out on top.
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, congratulations to Venezuela. It was It was a very
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: good game. And this whole tournament has been so incredibly special.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: I'm going to ask you guys this. It is time
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: now for our MLB Rivals Player of the Game. And
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: it's funny when you do this right, it kind of
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: changes every other second. For one minute, it's like, Oh,
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: it's the starting pitcher, Then all of a sudden, it's like,
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: oh it's eu Henio Suarez.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Then all of a sudden, it's like, oh it's Bryce Harper.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: So Todd, I will I will defer to you first.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: Who is your em BE Rivals Player of the Game.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: I know Kratz, he loves this because he never gets
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  Speaker 4: the first try here, which is great.
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  Speaker 5: Appreciate it.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: And guess what, I'm not gonna pass either. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 4: keep getting here. I'm gonna go with me and Jane
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  Speaker 4: the boy I came up and played with with the
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  Speaker 4: Reds when he came over there, Eu Henniosuarez absolutely clutch
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  Speaker 4: Jean Big Homer yesterday and then comes up big here
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: with the RBI to win the game. You saw him
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  Speaker 4: in the press confer in the interview after the game.
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: The dude was fired up, was lit. He was just
• 20:36
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  Speaker 4: go lucky guy. Well deserved. He is my MVP of
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: the game.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm so glad that you get to go first,
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: because you always pick the one that's not really the
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  Speaker 6: MVP of the game. It's easily Eduardo Riguez. This team
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  Speaker 6: was playing last night. They had to play a game
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  Speaker 6: within twenty four hours and in these this environment where
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: all we.
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  Speaker 1: Talked about the whole time.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, Mark Derosi's hands are tied. A lot of these managers'
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  Speaker 6: hands are tied with the pitching. If he doesn't do that,
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  Speaker 6: Venezuela is cooked because they don't have all their guys
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  Speaker 6: in their pen. They don't have they don't have enough
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  Speaker 6: innings really to with that. Withstand what was going to happen?
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  Speaker 1: And you know what, and.
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  Speaker 6: Waldriguez showed up really like he hasn't shown up in
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: a long time. And if I'm a Diamondbacks fan, I'm like, yeah,
• 21:32
  Speaker 6: I love this because this means our guy is going
• 21:36
  Speaker 6: to be ready to go and you sit there and
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: you go Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't expect this.
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  Speaker 6: Thought it was going to be a game where we
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  Speaker 6: had to kind of piece it together. I thought they
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: kind of took at Wardo Riguez out a little early.
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  Speaker 6: So that's my MVP. But the MVP of the tournament
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: for me is Palencia. He gets another save, absolutely dominant.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: I don't even know who won MVP of WBC, but
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: to me, if it's definitely from the winning team, it's
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: either Palencia or trying to think who else had a
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: good series for him, somebody, somebody with the sticks.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Well, how about let's get let's get.
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  Speaker 6: Your braid is great, but not mean, gean, geez, Todd,
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: you're such a homer.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: Mean, listen, will your bray you Todd's gonna smash okay,
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: And so as far as smashing path will you're a
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: braid you Let's do this right, And I mean that
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: in the most respectful way. I mean the guy obviously
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: a couple of massive, massive, key at bats.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: This is.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: This is a kid that continues to just rise in
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: terms of what he's been able to do.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: He's a great outfielder for the Red Sox.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: He has that clutch gene, he's a good defensive outfielder,
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: and he's just he just came up big in this tournament.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: So not that anybody asked me, but I'm going to.
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Give some love to will A Bray You as far
• 23:01
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• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Of the Game, I feel I feel like he deserves that.
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: Well well said too, for sure, has some really really
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: clutch It's home is that home run?
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: It's a different ballgame, so yes, very true.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: In the Japan game either.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: That's That's what I'm saying. The man came up big.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: We are smashing as far.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: As that is.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: It's like an inside joke with the three of us
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  Speaker 3: before we say goodbye, I just want to take get
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  Speaker 3: your opinion overall on the WBC. It only happens every
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  Speaker 3: three years. It may not have been the way that
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: we wanted it to end up, obviously. I believe we're
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: all USA fans here, we're all born here. But man,
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  Speaker 3: this is a fun tournament.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Todd.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: What's your overarching thought about the World Baseball Classic?
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  Speaker 5: Tike?
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: I think it was fantastic. I think this is truly remarkable.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: If you're not a baseball fan, you're a baseball fan
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  Speaker 4: now watching this you can root for teams like a
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  Speaker 4: great Britain or how about in Italy who's undefeated until
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  Speaker 4: the semifinals. I mean if you have roots or any
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  Speaker 4: lineage to any of these countries. Yeah, you're into baseball now,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm so glad this is going on. You saw
• 24:40
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  Speaker 4: is something if you're a young man or woman watching
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: this game, you're going to be talking about when you're
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  Speaker 4: older and you have kids. Hey do you remember when
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: we saw Venezuela win the World Baseball Classic in Miami?
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is fantastic. Bravo to everybody involved.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: You know what I have to say.
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  Speaker 6: Oh G, another thing that baseball is doing really well. Gee,
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: I wonder if we could just not have a workstoppage.
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: Oh G, they just sold out Loan Depot Park in Miami.
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  Speaker 6: You know what, it took a little bit of extra effort.
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  Speaker 6: It took really good players to come down to that ballpark.
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  Speaker 6: Oh man, I guess Miami is just not a great
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: place for baseball. It's not what it looked like tonight.
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: I think it's maybe more of the product that you
• 25:32
  Speaker 6: put on the field. And this is such a great
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: thing for baseball. I hope it continues. I hope the
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  Speaker 6: next time we see all these dudes on the field
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: are when the big leaguers get to play in the Olympics.
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  Speaker 6: But if some people that want to ruin the fund
• 25:47
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• 25:51
  Speaker 6: know what, maybe we need to we need we need
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: to revisit who's who's making the decisions on things. But
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: until then, this is an incredible series, is incredible, classic tournament,
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  Speaker 6: whatever you want to call it.
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  Speaker 1: And they killed it.
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  Speaker 6: They killed it, and baseball couldn't be higher and couldn't
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  Speaker 6: be flourishing more I agreed.
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  Speaker 3: I am so grateful to have the opportunity to have
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  Speaker 3: to have lived through this amazing tournament the amazing time.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: I'm proud to be from the United States. I'm proud
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  Speaker 2: to have watched this club.
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  Speaker 3: I'm proud to see all of the different Cinderella stories
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: and all of the different stuff that happened. Baseball's great
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  Speaker 3: and baseball's in a great spot, and I'm just I'm
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  Speaker 3: so grateful to be a part of all of this.
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