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Team USA is moving onto the World Baseball Classic final! · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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They're going to have a ton of money to spend.
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Why not putting in one of the top three offensive players in
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the league? We're going to be looking at
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Aaron George and saying that he can't win the big game, Michael
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Jordan said. I played 82 games.
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You don't see the fun doing that.
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A game where you got to go for four.
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I told you, giant feet. Saquon Barkley, at this point,
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Let's do it. You're listening to Jabba and
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the Mouth. Welcome, welcome, welcome.
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My name is Errol March, my Co host tonight the 1:00 we call
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If you're afraid of the rain, stay in your house.
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If you have an umbrella, pull it out.
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Well, somebody's got to pull it out anyways.
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A lot to get into tonight. But Speedy, we, we've been back
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and forth all weekend long. We've been back and forth and
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text message. I did something on Saturday that
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I've never done. Do you remember what I did?
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You did something on Saturday. You never done that.
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You wrote two stories in one day.
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And actually, three stories. Actually, three, you're right.
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Yeah, the other one was past midnight.
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That's right. So for anybody and everybody
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that reads my stories, I put a lot of work into it.
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So I could not sleep Saturday night.
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I've been dealing with, you know, my own issues when it
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comes to health. So I'm having a problem
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sleeping. So I watched 42 for like the
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100th time in my life and it's one of the best sports movies of
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all time. I know a lot of people don't
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really or have not been into baseball movies.
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As a matter of fact, there are more people into those football
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movies like Necessary Roughness. Remember that movie or the
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program? Love that movie as well.
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Baseball movies besides Field of Dreams or Little Big League
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League, which was a good movie when I was in, you know, I was
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young in the 90s, but the movies over the years have not been
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good in baseball. But when you go back and you
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look at the Lou Gehrig story, that's also a very good movie
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from the 50s. And if you have not checked it
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out, it's a great movie. I forget what they call it.
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Pride of the Yankees. Yeah.
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I think I saw that a while ago, so yeah.
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That was a really good baseball movie, but it's not a lot out
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there. And it was 61, as they called
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it. But yeah, the Roger Maris movie,
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love, you know, obviously everybody that loves Roger
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Clement, I mean, Roger Clemens, Roger Maris, Roger Clemens.
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I don't think a lot of people. Are using the Yankees.
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Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle. Everybody knows that race.
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One of the greatest home run races the Yankees ever had in
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one season. Mickey Mantle, who's one of the
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most beloved Yankees of all time.
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But I got a chance to watch 42. It was late at night, popped on
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television. Got to watch it in the beginning
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of the movie. I'm a big Harrison Ford fan, so
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I I got a chance to really watch in depth because when you watch
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movies over and over and over again, you just know everything.
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So you don't pay attention to certain things in the movie.
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You're doing other things. I've seen this movie a million
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times. So I'm going to look at my
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phone, I'm going to be on the computer and I really in depth
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watch this movie for the first time in it since it's been out.
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And it's one of the best acting movies for anybody to act a a
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professional athlete. It was sensational, may rest in
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peace by the way, but it was a sensational movie and I, I, I
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wanted to write about it. I never got a chance to write
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about Jackie Robinson. And it is a great story.
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It has a lot of back end story behind it.
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I don't think people understand what Jackie Robinson went
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through in his career before people started to respect him as
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a professional baseball player, as a professional athlete.
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He was the first African Negro player in baseball history.
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And I think people don't give this story a lot more when it
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comes to back end stories of baseball and the pride of
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baseball and where baseball really took off in those times.
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So I, I love the movie and I, I wanted to put out a story.
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So that was my first story. Smitty, you remember my second
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story? Revis Island I believe.
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That's right. And what was that about?
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Why Darrelle Revis is a fearsome menace for any whiter seer that
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ever faced him. Well, it was a quarterback
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story. Oh yeah, that's true too.
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Yes. So I wanted to explain why I
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believe the cornerback position is one of the most important
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positions in professional football.
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And I mentioned I believe the top 6, the top five corners in
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the NFL right now. Patrick Surtain.
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I know everybody doesn't believe this anymore, but there was a
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guy on the New York Jets that was traded last season to
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Indianapolis, Sauce Gardner, who I still think is an elite
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cornerback. I still think he's a top five
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corner in the league. Stingley, all those guys, all
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the guys that really started stuck stuck out over the last
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three years of the NFL. So I compared them from the past
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and why the cornerback position is so very important to
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championship level teams and, and why they stand out from all
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the rest. If you really look at the
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positions, the most important positions which we have attacked
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on this show plenty of times, the offensive line, the
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offensive tackle, the quarterback position, the
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defensive line, the DE defensive end, and then obviously the
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cornerback. So you don't understand it until
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you really put two and two together.
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And I, I worked really, really hard on that article and my last
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article that day was Ronda Rousey and Gina Carano.
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And I think it was to me something that a lot of people
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wanted me to put out there for the fans, the UFC fans and, and
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to tack attack Dana White and for something that I've never
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done on the show and that's compliment Jake Paul.
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I really for anybody that didn't check out that story, you're a
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Jake Paul fan and you want to check out something of that
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magnitude of, of really comparing and comparing what
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Jake Paul has done for mixed martial arts and, and boxing.
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I, I, I don't like what he's done for boxing.
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He's made it a mockery. I know everybody keeps saying
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he's helped boxing, but how much has he helped boxing?
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The way boxing has been portrayed as a, a selling sport
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in a, in a sport you can buy. But the UFC, these fighters, Jon
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Jones, Ronda Rousey, a lot of these guys are not making enough
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money economy. The Conor McGregor who made
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probably the most money as a professional fighter for the UFC
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and then finally got his payday when he fought Floyd Mayweather.
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And then he walked away from mixed martial arts after losing
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against Justin Poirier, not once but twice, and walked away from
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mixed martial arts, bought a whiskey company, sold it for
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$500 million. And he's almost a billionaire.
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OK. I mean, it's a magical story
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because probably six or seven years before that he was on
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welfare and he was a plumber, an assistant plumber and working
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out in Ireland and nobody even knew who Conor McGregor was.
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So I, I think when, when you look at these stories, I like to
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put these stories in perspective.
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And I like people to really absorb my content and, and, and
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like what I put out there, either laugh at it.
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And if anybody that reads my my content knows that it's coming
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for me because I'm crazy and I have a deluded way of attacking
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things. So I hope that when people read
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my stories, they know that there's a lot of work put into
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it, a lot of love and and comparison to the sports that I
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talked about. And I hope everybody enjoys it.
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Anyways. Team USA beat the Dominican
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Republic 2 to one to advance the World Baseball Classic
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championship. The Dominican Republic scored
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first on a home run by Reyes DH I'm sorry Junior Caminero in the
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second inning. the United States scored both their runs in the
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fourth inning with Gunner Hernandez I'm sorry Henderson
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hitting the game tying home run and Roman Anthony hitting the go
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ahead home run, which Roman Anthony has played pretty good
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baseball. The youngest player on Team USA,
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Aaron Judge, also threw out Fernando Tatis junior at third
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base when he tried to advance following a hit by Katel Katel
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right Katel Marte. Paul Skeens pitch four and a
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third innings, allowing just one run and five different relievers
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combined for four and a third scoreless innings.
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Mason Miller got the save for the United States on a
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controversial call on a three and two pitch that appeared to
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be low, but umpire called it. The umpire called it a strike
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for strike three. the United States will now face the winner
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of tonight's semifinals between Italy, Italy and Venezuela.
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I'm going to tell you guys something now.
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Everybody wants to see Team USA versus Japan.
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That's what everybody was looking forward to, Otani versus
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Judge, and we're not going to see it.
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We're not. It's not going to happen.
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And we'll get into that a little bit later in the show.
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I'm sure a lot of people have their thoughts to what happens
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to Japan. It happens when you're facing
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off talented teams and baseball, professional baseball players.
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And maybe Venezuela is not as good as Japan.
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Well, obviously they're not with the star power that Japan has
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brought to the major leagues. And the same thing goes to
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Italy. Italy was never expected to be
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Team USA in the final game to advance into the semis and the
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quarterfinals. Nobody thought Italy was going
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to be Team USA. And they went up 8 to nothing.
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And then USA had to play catch up.
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And finally at the end of the game, they couldn't put up the
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eight runs to tie the game and United States lost in nine
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innings. And a lot of people were blaming
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Mark De Rosa on not knowing why or explaining why he didn't play
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three of his best players because he thought they're
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automatically going to make it to the quarters.
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Now, you look at a coach and, and a manager or whatever, you
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want to look at executives, you want to look at your pointing
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fingers, that's fine. And I, I've, I've been out there
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to speak my piece about Mark DeRosa.
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I think Mark DeRosa is a hell of a coach, hell of a manager.
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I think he's as good as anybody right now in the majors.
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You're going to make mistakes. People make mistakes.
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You wouldn't be human if you weren't.
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And he made a mistake. He didn't hide behind it.
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He didn't throw anybody under the bus.
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And you like that when you hear that from a manager that you
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respect and a guy that has been chosen by Team USA Baseball to
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lead this team to the promised land.
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And that's to win, to win the whole thing.
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And then going into Sunday night, United States beating
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Canada on Friday, knocking off a Canadian team that fought their
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way just like Mexico did. It wasn't easy.
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It hasn't been easy for Team USA.
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As good as these, as good as the line up is for Team USA, as good
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as the pitching, when you look at the the star power, Paul
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Skeens. Paul Skeens is one of the best
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pitchers, if not the best pitcher in baseball.
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Before this tournament start, they had it.
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They had Tarek Skubal. This is a good roster, but
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baseball is not won by good rosters.
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How many great teams in the past didn't win a World Series?
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How many great teams have not won Stanley Cups?
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How many great teams have not won the Lombardi Trophy?
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You go into these championships and you're competing in these
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games, these round Robin games, you don't know how it's going to
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work. That's why the Olympics is so
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incredibly fun to watch, why it was so incredibly fun to watch
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Team USA knock off of Canada, not only in the men's but in the
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women's. When you watch this competition,
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you look forward to seeing some of the great players.
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Seeing Juan Soto, Vladimir Guerrero, Junior Tatis, all
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these guys. It's been fun to watch and this
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is great for baseball. This shouldn't be an All Star
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game every single year. Baseball should put something,
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not the WBC, but put something together where some of the best
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teams, some of the best players in their countries play in a
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round Robin tournament. That would be fun to watch.
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Look what happened with the NHL last year.
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Look how that worked for Gary Bettman.
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Gary Bettman looked like a genius and it changed everything
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for the Olympics because Team USA lost against Team Canada in
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the finals. Connor McDavid scores the
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game-winning goal and Team USA smelled blood.
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They went into the Olympics looking at a completely
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different We need to go out there.
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We need to win a gold medal. We haven't won in 46 years.
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And that goes for Team USA Baseball.
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This is not the dream team. I don't want to hear it about
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the 92 Olympic basketball team with Michael Jordan, Magic
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Johnson, Larry Bird, Karl Malone, John Stockton, David
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Robertson, Christian Leitner. I had to add that one.
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I had to add that one. It's different and I wrote a
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story this weekend about it. I didn't call him the Dream
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team. I kind of compare them to the
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Redeem team, the team that had to come back, the team that
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before they added Kobe Bryant to LeBron James and those
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superstars to to come back after losing and only bringing home a
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bronze medal. Do you remember that?
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But Stefan Marbury and Allen Iverson and Tim Duncan on that
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roster, Dwight Howard, they failed.
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Carmelo Anthony, they failed to win a gold medal.
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Kobe Bryant put it on his shoulders to go into the
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Olympics and help Team USA bring home gold.
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Wasn't LeBron, wasn't Dwyane Wade.
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They were there. Wasn't Chris Bosh.
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It was Kobe Bryant. May rest in peace.
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Aaron Judge is 34 years old. Mark DeRosa was recruiting
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players. I don't know if anybody's heard
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the Logan, the Logan story. You know the Logan story,
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Speedy. You know the Logan story.
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I don't. Now there are a lot of country
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fans out there. So Mark DeRosa, Pat McAfee and
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all of them, they, they're all friends.
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They're all good friends with one another.
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And they weren't. Well, Mark DeRosa was not on the
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bus, but he was at the concert. He had his guys go on the same
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bus as Logan and Logan had no interest in pitching for Team
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USA, No interest. Maybe because of San Francisco
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and and getting his big contract, I don't know what it
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was, but he had no interest. Pat McAfee and a bunch of, I
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guess, United States execs and and friends, they were on that
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bus and they pitched Logan to come and pitch for Team USA
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Baseball for the WBC. It took a lot.
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It took a lot of push and drive. And he's one of the big
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important reasons why Team USA is going to the championship
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this year. He has been as good as any
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pitcher for Team USA. He's been clutch throughout this
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tournament. But Aaron Judge, he's 34 years
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old. He did not have to play for Team
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USA. He did not have to be the
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captain of this team. He just, he just fell in the in
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the playoffs against the Blue Jays the year before he lost in
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the World Series against the the Dodgers.
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He's got another probably 4 good years left in the majors to win
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in his first World Series and his only maybe his only World
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Series. Think about this, he did not
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have to play for Team USA and and by the way, he's not only
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the heart and soul of this team, he has done things in in this
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tournament that are going to be remembered forever.
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And I don't know if anybody watched the game I did that
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throw when Tatis was trying to go from 2nd to 3rd and how he
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picked him off at third base. Everybody was talking about,
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well, Aaron Judge is a great player, 5 tool.
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I don't know. He's not.
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I don't know if he's A5 tool player.
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Aaron Judge showed you guys or everybody, why not only is he A5
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tool player, he's the best player in the world, The best
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player in the world. Everybody's going to say Shayo
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Atani. Oh, he's a freak, A Unicorn.
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Whatever they call them, I don't care what they Everybody's a
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Unicorn in professional sports now.
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Everybody gives them that that compliment.
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You know you're always not a Unicorn, Travis Hunter.
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That's that's for sure. But what Aaron Judge did in the
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third inning will be remembered. If Team USA brings home the
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gold, they win this tournament as they call themselves the
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Dream Team, or I call them the Redeem Team.
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That play is going to be remembered more than anything
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because if Tatis gets to third base, he probably scores and
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maybe the game is completely different.
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And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why Aaron Judge is the best
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player in the world. It's the smallest and the
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littlest things that happened in the game that stands out the
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biggest. This is a 6 foot eight, 280 LB
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powerhouse hitter that when he came into the league people
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didn't think he was going to hit for average.
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People didn't struck out a lot and AAA and AA.
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He didn't get into the majors until late 2425 years old.
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Lot of people thought, hey, he reminds me of a little bit
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better of a done type of player. Well, he is a different player.
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He might go down as one of the greatest Yankees to ever play
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the game. That's crazy when you talk about
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Derek Jeter, who has been the stand out the face of New York
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Yankees baseball for over 20 years and to name Aaron Judge,
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the captain of this team has not only driven this organization,
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everybody says, well, it's what does he want?
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He hasn't won a championship. That has a lot to do with the
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executives over there. Brian Cashman, Hal Steinburn
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opening up his pockets like like his father did.
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That is not Aaron Judge's fault. Aaron Judge goes out there every
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single year. He gives you almost fifty home
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runs. He has been as consistent as any
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player in baseball in the last four years.
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Even when he hurt his toe, he came back and he played at a
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high level. That says a lot about who he is
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as a player, as a leader, and you want to follow a man like
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that. And we have guys like Gunner
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Henderson and Roman Anthony and Paul Skins.
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The future of United States baseball.
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That, ladies and gentlemen, stands out from the rest.
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I don't want to hear about. Hey, you know what?
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United States isn't killing everybody.
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This team is unbelievable. They should be getting 15 or 16
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or 17 runs every single game. It doesn't matter if it's the
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the Dominican Republic or Japan. We have our best players on the
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field. When you're playing a round
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Robin and you look at these games and the competition that's
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out there, it's not as easy as it seems.
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And as far as I'm concerned, for all you fans out there that have
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their own thoughts or after after thoughts to who Aaron
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Judge is and you don't want to give this guy any respect for
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what he has done for baseball, shame on you.
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Shame on you because this man has been nothing.
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Nothing but a Good Samaritan for the game of baseball.
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He doesn't go out there and throw anybody on the bus.
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He didn't throw Mark DeRosa under the bus after the mistakes
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that he made against Team Italy. He hasn't done any of that.
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He stuck up for Mark DeRosa. He stuck up for Aaron Boone over
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the last couple years. Why do you think Aaron Boone
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still has a job for the New York Yankees?
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This man has been everything to United States baseball and
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Yankee fans. I say this to all the Giant
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fans. When Eli Manning was going to
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step down and he was going to walk away from New York Giants
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football, I told the Giant fans, I said you don't realize how
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important he is until he's gone. As a Jet fan, we don't know
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anything about it. I mean, we're looking at Geno
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Smith again. Hopefully a second time around
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will be better. Justin Fields was traded.
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We'll get into that a little bit later in the show.
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The fact here is the reason why I bring this up and everybody
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looks at the score and they look at the two one and what?
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United States got lucky? That wasn't a strike.
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Who cares? First of all, the bases were
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cleared. There was nobody on base.
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Even if he walked them, what does that mean?
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It was 2 outs. Is that the reason why the
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Dominican Republic lost against Team USA in nine innings?
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That's not the reason why It's not.
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If the Dominican Republic wanted to win the game, they had to put
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on put up runs and they couldn't.
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They couldn't hit against Paul Skins.
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They had one home run. They had one big hit against
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Paul Skins, and that's why Paul Skins is the best pitcher.
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That's why he's going to be the highest paid pitcher in baseball
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in the next 5 to 6 years. The guy's going to make almost a
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billion dollars. The man is so impressive and he
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doesn't have more than 3 or 4 pitches.
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He got like 5 pitches and he's unhittable.
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And when you think about the back end of baseball, America's
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pastime, and everybody says, well, Japan has conquered
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baseball over the last couple of years and the Dominican Republic
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have the biggest stars. When you have guys like Vladimir
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Guerrero Junior, who was unbelievable in the playoffs
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last year, unbelievable. Juan Soto has has been so good
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in the playoffs, one of the best.
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You have two players that good the big important game, and I've
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done it in big, important games and failed to do it against
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United States baseball. You're going to blame that on
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anybody? You're going to blame that on
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Team USA or the umpire because they missed a strike.
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Are you going to tell me that the umpire is American and
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that's why that happened? It was very impressive.
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And, and, and I, I, if I was a United States player and I, I
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was lucky to get into the quarterfinals because they were
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lucky. Italy really, really saved the
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United States from absolute smack around because if the
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United States don't get into the quarterfinals, they'll be the
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they'd probably be the laughing stock of Major League Baseball
27:02
all season long. And I don't care what anybody
27:05
says, Bryce Harper says, you know, it's baseball.
27:08
This, this happens. I don't want to hear it because
27:10
Bryce Harper knows, Paul Skeens knows, Aaron Judge knows that
27:17
United States baseball is not at the top level.
27:20
It's been over the last 50-60 years.
27:23
It's not Countries are getting close.
27:28
Successful superstar players are coming from all different parts
27:32
of the world and the Dominican Republic in Japan are only two
27:37
places that there are development of great talent.
27:42
Puerto Rico, Venezuela, Italy, Mexico.
27:52
It's growing just like basketball, just like football,
27:56
just like hockey. And when you look at United
28:00
States baseball now, if they can come out winning this tournament
28:05
and they're going to, it's not going to be easy.
28:06
I don't care if it's Venezuela or it's Italy and you want
28:11
Italy. If you're an American, you want
28:13
Italy. You want them because of what
28:18
Italy did, almost knocking out the United States out of this
28:22
tournament. I know for a fact Aaron Judge
28:25
and this team wants to see Italy in the finals because they want
28:30
to put a spanking on them and that's what you want to see.
28:34
Those are stories. What do you think Team USA
28:37
wanted to do in the Olympics? When the Olympics started, they
28:41
wanted to play Team Canada in the finals and knock them off.
28:45
They're the powerhouse. They're known as the best in the
28:48
world and unbeatable. That roster, everybody said was
28:51
unbeatable. We all know what happened in the
28:56
in the 1980s. That was the last Time Team USA
28:59
won a gold medal in hockey, knocking off the Soviet Union.
29:04
Miracle. Remember that.
29:08
This isn't like that. Nobody's comparing them to the
29:11
Dream Team miracle or even the Olympic team that happened this
29:15
past last couple of weeks. Nobody's going to compare it to
29:20
Jack Hughes's golden goal, as you're seeing on the screen
29:25
right now. Thank you, Fish.
29:28
The fact here right now is this is the year of Team USA.
29:35
This is where we take over sports.
29:38
Again, it's been a big problem. I'm sorry, over the last couple
29:46
of years we we've been dominant in basketball.
29:48
There's no question. There's no question, but it's
29:51
getting close. Look at the top three players
29:53
right now in the NBA. They're not United States
29:56
players. They're just not actually, the
29:58
top four players are not United States players.
30:02
You can argue maybe the top five are United States players.
30:06
It's crazy. It's growing.
30:10
But what hockey brings and baseball has brought and what
30:15
sports is starting to drive now here in the United States, This
30:20
is what as a United States, USA stand out.
30:25
A person that my whole life respected the red, white and
30:30
blue. And I, I know everybody sits
30:32
here and they're probably saying, oh, this is somebody
30:34
that's just reading off a reading off a storyline and
30:37
stuff like that's not me. If you listen to the show, I
30:41
don't beat around the Bush. Well, sometimes I do, if you
30:44
know what I mean, sometimes. But I, I, I'm not beating around
30:49
a Bush here. I'm a fan of professional
30:54
sports. I'm a fan of college sports.
30:56
I'm a fan of high school sports. And when you see some of the
31:03
best players in the world compete against one another and
31:07
then win tournaments or win series or games when people
31:14
counted you out. And I'm telling you, there are a
31:19
lot of people that don't believe the United States is the
31:23
dominant, dominant force of professional baseball anymore.
31:27
How do I know this? I put a survey up on my social
31:32
media the other day and I asked strictly, who do you think is
31:38
the most dominant countries in professional baseball?
31:46
And you know what the two dominant countries over the
31:47
United States was the Dominican Republic and Japan with all the
31:54
talent, the United States abroad over the last 20 years, the
32:01
superstars of the majors besides Aaron Judge, they've all washed
32:09
away. Nobody looks.
32:10
I mean, Paul Schemes is becoming a superstar, but he's still
32:13
young. But if you look at the top ten
32:15
players right now, the majors, I would tell you right now, seven
32:19
of them are not American players, 7 of them.
32:26
And that's why when you look at the game and you look at the
32:30
difference of what this game and what this tournament means to
32:35
United States and USA Baseball, it's more than anybody believes
32:40
it should be and what it could be.
32:42
Yeah. It's one of those things where
32:44
you look at these super team labels over the years that we've
32:47
seen in other sports and baseball definitely was
32:49
certainly one of them. You've seen the Dodgers have all
32:51
these super teams in the past that joked in the first round of
32:53
the playoffs. That was the ongoing joke for a
32:55
while. They didn't win since 1988.
32:56
And then same kind of thing on an international level too, with
32:58
the US and the and the Dream Team, like they could have very
33:01
easily lost the gold medal game in 2024 against France.
33:04
France played them very well up into that point.
33:06
So everything like that has a sense of a diversity that's
33:09
necessary. Did they obviously get lucky
33:11
backing in with a little getting help from Italy?
33:13
Yeah, sure. But at the same time, you can't
33:16
just be an all talent driven team and try to make that kind
33:18
of thing work without a a sense of adversity.
33:20
And that's the same kind of thing with somebody like Aaron
33:23
Judge. Aaron Judge has magnified well,
33:24
he hasn't been hitting greatly outside of the early stages of
33:27
the tournament, but that throw is a game changing play against
33:30
somebody as fast as Fernando Tatis, who definitely could have
33:33
scored on an infield hit or a sacrifice fly if he makes it a
33:36
third base, maybe skins out of the game at that point.
33:38
There's a lot of factors that go into that and I agree with you
33:41
when it comes to the umpiring thing.
33:43
Yeah. Was the pitch a ball?
33:45
Yeah, it probably was, but there's going to be other calls
33:47
like that too. We're going to have Phil Kazi on
33:48
in about an hour and he's going to say there's no umpire.
33:52
That's going to be completely perfect when it comes to those
33:54
calls. And you look at the way that
33:57
international versus US umpires and that stuff like that, this
34:00
could be like that. The whole tournament, every
34:01
international event is going to be like that.
34:04
And there's not going to be this drastic bias.
34:06
Like we were talking about the Olympics with the whole figure
34:08
skating scandal. It wasn't like that.
34:10
It wasn't like this drastic judgment difference.
34:13
That was a pitch that probably was a ball.
34:15
Yeah, but you can't blame it on that one call when the United
34:19
States definitely had some against them as well.
34:21
So I think you look at this U.S. team now going forward, though,
34:25
you do have a good sense of your other guys being able to do it.
34:28
Paul Skeen's got, I mean, he wasn't going to pitch obviously
34:31
a normal length like a Major League game.
34:32
But those bullpen guys are unsung heroes compared to like
34:35
the rest of this quote UN quote super team.
34:36
This dream team, as your boy AJ Burzynski likes to call it, and
34:41
those those five relievers. You calling him my boy?
34:44
That was sarcasm. But you called him a dream team
34:48
and these relievers, not the starters that the starters were
34:51
getting all the flashy hype. It was the relievers that came
34:53
through in that game against the Dominican Republic offense.
34:55
That was the best offense throughout the tournament.
34:58
And that's why you're saying you can't just rely on talent as it
35:00
is now. Obviously, we questioned the
35:02
pitching with the Dominican Republic and Luis Severino until
35:04
that 4th inning actually looks pretty good.
35:06
But you knew that offense was going to cool off and the United
35:09
States did a good job of just pitching and staying focused on
35:12
that kind of thing. And Mark DeRosa, whatever
35:15
everyone was slandering that week, last week, has to get some
35:18
credit for that for getting them to reset and just be
35:20
concentrating on their own game. Now, again, in baseball, it's
35:23
harder because there's a lot of individual factors that can't be
35:26
controlled with everything because again, A2 hitter is not
35:29
going to have a direct impact on A5 hitter and so forth.
35:32
But you still have to have that kind of sense of camaraderie
35:35
with your team. It's still an Ultimate Team
35:37
sport with a lot of uncontrollable factors.
35:39
In the US did all the little things when the Dominican
35:41
Republic was the more talented team.
35:43
The whole way the US show they were still the more talented
35:45
team and focused. And, and again, if if you're a
35:49
fan of professional baseball and if you're not a fan of
35:53
professional baseball, these are the kind of tournaments you
35:55
watch even if you're not a baseball fan because you get a
35:58
chance to see the best in the world.
35:59
You get to see the chance to watch Aaron Judge and Otani and
36:04
and Soto and Guerrero get a chance to play at a top level
36:08
with their peers and their teammates or even guys that you
36:12
probably never get a chance to see play with one another in any
36:15
part of their careers because they're they're such great
36:18
players. They're not getting traded or
36:20
they're going to be with that organization for the rest of
36:22
their careers. So that's what's fun to watch
36:24
when it comes to these tournaments and getting a chance
36:26
to see the competition at a high level.
36:28
You know, that's one thing to enjoy, but if you're like a team
36:32
that has like a big country behind you, like the United
36:34
States, I don't know if everybody's into the WBC like I
36:37
wish they were. I know I'm into it.
36:39
I know we're into it, like what following it on the show.
36:42
But I don't know if it's like how Venezuela is, how the Dr. is
36:47
and how those fan bases have been brought together.
36:48
But think about what's going on in Japan right now.
36:50
The Japanese lost in the quarterfinals in so they played
36:55
their first couple around in their pool games in Japan, but
36:58
then they played in Miami and they lost.
37:01
Was it to Venezuela? Right.
37:03
So Venezuela moves on and they're playing in Italy
37:05
tonight. They had an issue where the
37:08
entirety of Japan tried to cancel Netflix because they were
37:13
forced to buy the games that for the WBC through Netflix.
37:17
It was free in 2023. So now like the entire country
37:21
lost their mind. They're blaming the pitcher
37:23
because they everyone had to pay 20 bucks to only watch one game
37:26
where they were upset. This horrible thing.
37:29
Ohtani was great. You know, he had 460 and had
37:33
three homers. Yamamoto was good.
37:36
He got hit, hit the first inning.
37:37
He was in there in that game. But they he left with the lead
37:40
5:00 to 2:00. They're getting killed in Japan.
37:43
The whole country team. That guy's not going to be able
37:45
to coach again for that national team.
37:47
As bad as I was worried about Derosa after they lost to Italy,
37:50
imagine that times a million for what's going on in Japan right
37:53
now. It's, it's incredible when you
37:56
lose, you're going to be looking at the bad guy.
37:59
You're going to be attacked by everybody, a country, an
38:02
organization. And and that's what Japan
38:05
baseball is. It's it's, it's an organization
38:07
that they built their product through superstar players.
38:11
Yamamoto, Otani, Sasaki, all these guys.
38:14
And in the past, you had the Godzilla and we all know Matsui
38:17
and all the guys that we've seen come into the league Nomo,
38:21
they're they're superstar after superstar and player after
38:25
player. When you look at all the
38:26
different great players from Japan and then you look at what
38:31
has happened when it came to this tournament and, and again,
38:35
this is what happens. You're even though you're
38:38
expected to win and you're supposed to be in the finals.
38:40
You've been dominant in the WBC for the last I, I would say the
38:45
last five years you've fund three of them.
38:47
Well, it's not five years every three years.
38:49
So every every three years you have won three out of the last
38:53
five, which you've been dominant.
38:56
You've been as good as you should be as a professional
39:00
bunch of baseball players. And, and Otani, he made his name
39:04
in these tournaments, the WBC. Otani wasn't in the major
39:07
leagues when he first played in the WBC.
39:10
He was seen in the WBC. And then same thing with
39:13
Yamamoto. They all were seen in the WBC.
39:19
And that's how they got their big contracts.
39:20
And that's where they move from international baseball to
39:24
National Baseball. It's different now.
39:30
The best players want to come to America and play against the
39:32
best, but those best players don't believe America is the
39:36
best. They believe they're the best.
39:40
And that is why this tournament as is as important to Team USA
39:46
than it has been for any of these countries.
39:51
Italy's making a statement. They're making a statement now.
39:57
A lot of these guys are not Italian, They're not from Italy.
40:01
They're Italian Americans, their families are from Italy or their
40:05
great grandparents are from Italy, and they're playing in
40:08
this tournament because there's no way Team USA is going to take
40:10
them on. They're nowhere close to the top
40:12
players in baseball. But when you go out there and
40:18
play like a team and believe anything's possible,
40:23
professional sports is all about competition.
40:26
Sports is all about competition. That's why I love watching it.
40:32
Everybody asked me, why are you a sports fan?
40:34
Not because I was an athlete, because I was.
40:36
I was a good athlete. But that's not why I love the
40:38
game. That's not why I love sports.
40:40
I love sports because I love competition.
40:45
I love when I see the Cinderella team knock off the championship
40:52
team, the team that's expected to win.
40:55
Boxing is so fun. Well, it used to be fun to
40:58
watch. Not anymore.
40:59
Prize fighting isn't prize fighting anymore.
41:02
But if you're a boxing or a mixed martial arts fan, the game
41:06
has transitioned and you would have thought, like, remember
41:10
when the UFC came out, most of the top end fighters are from
41:15
the United States. Besides the Gray season
41:17
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, they were from the USA.
41:21
The best fighters in the world are not from the United States.
41:25
They're just not. You know why?
41:29
Because it's become international.
41:32
And that's the same thing with baseball.
41:35
It was American sport, America sport.
41:37
It's not that anymore. And I'm going to tell you this
41:39
right now, even though everybody says there's no way
41:43
international football is going to come to the NFL, that's
41:47
wrong. It's going to happen.
41:49
The NF LS making that happen. You're going to tell me there's
41:52
not going to be an international football team in the NFL.
41:56
It's going to happen. It is.
41:59
Even though everybody says it's impossible because of the the
42:02
times and the changes, it's not going to make a difference.
42:08
It's going to happen. You could argue it, you can cry
42:12
about it. It's going to happen.
42:15
Sports is open for money, advertisers, sponsors,
42:21
networking. Networking International is
42:25
going to bring money and more money to the sport and that's
42:31
where it is right now in Japan. Why do you think Ohtani took
42:34
deferred money? Why ask me that?
42:39
Riddle me this as I used it on the last show.
42:43
Here's the reason why. Because no matter what, that $70
42:47
million is $100 million at the end of this year.
42:51
Why? Because he's an international
42:54
superstar. The sponsors, the advertisements
42:58
this man is making right now, that money's not going to itch
43:01
the surface to bother him when the game transitions.
43:07
And it's going to happen. AI artificial intelligence is
43:14
going to be a part of the game in the very near future. 10
43:18
years from now, artificial intelligence is going to be a
43:21
part of it. So is Nick Goody going to be,
43:22
and they'll be commissioner at that point?
43:24
Hopefully we love you, good, we love you, but it's not going to
43:27
happen right away. But it's going to, when that
43:31
happens, players, international players are not going to be as
43:36
impressive as all this AI technology that's going to drive
43:41
the sport, drive the game, maybe bring in robotic simulators into
43:46
the game. That's going to change it.
43:48
Maybe you're not going to see pictures anymore.
43:50
You can have robots throwing the ball.
43:51
I don't know. I don't know how it's going to
43:53
work, but that could happen. The game is changing.
43:58
Sports is changing, athletes are changing.
44:02
Everybody says, oh, Michael Jordan couldn't play in the game
44:05
now, which I think is absolutely bogus.
44:07
It's ridiculous. It's a ridiculous take.
44:09
But guess what? The competition in the training,
44:13
in the facilities that they have now are way better than they
44:16
were in the 80s and the 90s, Way better.
44:19
The athletes are running. Look at the combine, you got
44:22
£350 guys running 4 eights. It's ridiculous.
44:27
They're running it faster than I can and I'm like 2200 and 5 lbs.
44:33
I, I can't run a 48 anymore. Maybe when I was younger I can
44:37
run faster than that. I can't do it now.
44:39
These guys, they're £350, they're 150 lbs heavier than me
44:43
and they can run it faster than me.
44:46
It's unbelievable. The training, the facilities,
44:49
everything. And Baseball international.
44:52
Remember in Puerto Rico 20 years ago, they were playing without
44:56
cleats. They were playing in there with
44:57
their feet. Anybody know who Daddy Yankee
45:03
is? Daddy Yankee was a great
45:07
baseball player. He's a, he's a rapper or Spanish
45:12
rapper, reggaeton. That's what they that's what
45:16
he's known for. He's one of the best in the
45:18
industry. He has been one of the best in
45:21
the industry for a very long time.
45:24
He was a great baseball player. You know what ruined his career?
45:28
He got shot. Daddy Yankee got shot, got shot
45:32
in the back, couldn't play baseball anymore.
45:40
His career was over and he took his career to another sector
45:44
which became a national voice in in music changed, break it tone
45:51
changed music. I mean, there's no Bad Bunny
45:54
without Daddy Yankee. See what I'm getting at?
45:59
Music changes, it evolves. Sports evolves, it's different
46:07
and no matter how it's changed or the way it's changed, it's
46:10
going to change. Fans, everybody out there, you
46:15
want to, you want to doubt me on my arguments to this.
46:18
I'm not going to sit here and read off a clip paper that
46:21
somebody's going to give me, my producer is going to give me.
46:24
This is coming from my own brain, my own take, my own
46:26
thought. It's changing and you're not
46:31
going to see guys like Aaron Judge forever.
46:35
They'll they'll be prototypes. These guys don't grow.
46:40
They don't grow on trees. They're not, they're humans.
46:44
So when you get a chance to watch greatness, ladies and
46:47
gentlemen, love it, respect it and just root for it.
46:55
And that's what I that's that was my that's my whole take to
46:57
this guys. And as as a fan of professional
47:01
sports, especially baseball, I've, I've been a baseball fan
47:03
my whole life. I grew up a Don Mattingly fan, a
47:05
Yankee fan. I my first pair of clothes
47:09
leaving the hospital, Port Jefferson Hospital, was a Yankee
47:14
pyjama with Don Mattingly's name on the back of it. 1982.
47:22
Growing up, he was my favorite player.
47:24
Not because it was my first pyjamas, not because not because
47:30
he was the best player on the New York Yankees, is because he
47:33
stood for something. He was the captain, he was the
47:37
leader. And even though he never won a
47:40
title, he never won a title with New York, never won a title as a
47:44
manager. Yet he was with the Blue Jays
47:46
last year, still haven't won. He was won, and still is one of
47:51
the most beloved Yankees of all time.
47:54
Yeah, I also want to comment on the international side of it
47:56
too. When you look at some of these
47:58
baseball leagues, a lot of these professional leagues that start
48:00
younger too. I think that's why Aaron Judge
48:02
was even saying like a lot of these WBC crowds are much
48:04
stronger than we ever saw at a Major League game is because a
48:08
lot of these players have been followed for a very long time.
48:10
And you were talking about it like a lot of these, a lot of
48:12
these leagues started up in leagues that were very poor
48:16
areas. Cuba, another example that we
48:18
didn't list, they have a lot of those types of leagues over
48:21
there and obviously everything political going on over there,
48:23
it's harder for them to get the types of resources that you see
48:27
in the United States or even in Mexico or stuff like that.
48:30
And same kind of thing with all these other island nations, Like
48:32
a lot of those times are just followed for a long time.
48:34
Even the names that aren't like the big names yet are known for
48:38
a long time with a lot of those countries as well.
48:40
And the same kind of thing with Japan too.
48:41
A lot of those Japanese guys are in that professional league for
48:44
a while. So they're followed closely and
48:46
they have these connections that work out well.
48:48
And maybe that's why they're just getting all this
48:50
unfortunate backlash that you're describing Fish, these relievers
48:53
and these these coaches. It's it's basically to the level
48:56
that you see in European football that all these like hot
48:59
head fans want to just take take them down just because of that.
49:01
And you see this during the World Cup.
49:03
We've seen this in the soccer leagues.
49:04
All these coaches are going to get the I guess the protest
49:07
treatment that you're seeing at something at that level.
49:10
And now you're seeing it like you're saying, Errol, with the
49:13
United States kind of fusing these international cultures
49:16
together and all these other sports with baseball, with the
49:18
NBA just getting really stronger at a higher level than we ever
49:22
saw before internationally. The NH LS always had that kind
49:25
of thing because they've embraced the the Russian
49:27
players, the Swedish fin finish, etcetera, post the Cold War.
49:30
But now you're seeing it a lot more with baseball, definitely,
49:33
and even higher in basketball where, like you said, the top
49:36
four players in the NBA, Yokich, Luka, Yanis, SGA, whatever
49:39
argument you want to make, Wendy, they're all international
49:42
players. They're not.
49:43
They're not US board. So it's crazy to think that the
49:45
melting pot is really fusing together more.
49:48
I Before we move on, I do have to say I'm only a quarter
49:52
Italian, but I'm loving every single bit of this Team Italy
49:56
business with the taking the shots of espresso after homers,
49:59
this camaraderie, Francisco Cervelli, the manager over
50:03
there, as I, I haven't seen a single person who isn't super on
50:09
board with what team Team Italy's done.
50:12
Even though there aren't really, you know, Italian Italians
50:15
there. It's, it's a great thing for
50:17
Italian Americans. The fact they're gone this far.
50:20
It's hard to not root for them until tomorrow night.
50:23
Which begs the question, Errol USA winning this?
50:26
Or is this going to be a pretty bad choke job because they
50:30
should beat either one of these teams?
50:32
I will say this, if Tim Team Italy plays the United States in
50:37
the finals, I think they're going to absolutely destroy
50:39
them. There is no way they're going to
50:41
let this team breathe, get an early lead.
50:44
I expect Team USA to go hard and hard at them early in the game.
50:48
I I expect their big boppers to bop that ball and smack that
50:53
ball around. This, this, this could be an
50:55
absolute demonstration of why Team USA is one of the best
51:00
baseball organizations, baseball products in in, in international
51:05
sports. And I, I think baseball is
51:08
always going to ride with USA baseball because this is where
51:11
it was built. But it's starting to obviously
51:14
all these countries are starting to catch up to them.
51:16
So I agree with you, Fish. It's it's very exciting to see
51:19
team Italy tonight. Hopefully they knock off
51:22
Venezuela. I'd love to see Italy go back
51:25
with Team USA and and the United States teach them a listen, you
51:28
know, smack them around a little bit, explain to them why we're
51:33
known for our baseball. This is this is United States
51:37
has always been a baseball national stage product.
51:42
It it's always been baseball has been America's pastime.
51:47
Field of Dreams. It it's a movie that everybody's
51:50
going to remember Kevin Costner ever, ever.
51:52
It it was one of the one of the baseball movies that really
51:55
dropped James Earl Jones. My favorite movies of all time.
51:58
That movie is just legendary American film because baseball,
52:02
you know, they say is America's past.
52:03
I mean, you can get in that argument if it's still America's
52:05
pastime, but it's certainly part of America and it always will
52:08
be. It's a sport that was created
52:11
during the American Civil War. It's been around that long.
52:13
It's what the soldiers were doing in downtime on both sides.
52:17
So it's kind of fascinating that it's it's stick stuck around and
52:21
then spread around the world as much as it has because a game
52:24
like soccer, you know, that goes back into ancient times that
52:28
honestly, it starts with like guys kicking skulls around
52:31
cemeteries in medieval times is actually how it started.
52:34
And it it becomes something that, you know, because there
52:37
was a lot of that during the plague.
52:39
There just was a lot of that and they didn't bury very well back
52:42
then. And it just people just want to
52:43
have fun and people wanted to do things that are entertaining.
52:46
And sports has always been that. And sometimes we get too serious
52:50
about sports. And I think sometimes the sports
52:51
media especially we're seeing in Japan getting way too serious
52:54
about some of this stuff. But just have fun man and be
52:58
proud of your country. For all the Japanese right now
53:01
out there in Japan crying the river, blah, blah, blah, we got
53:04
cheated. We got this, we got that.
53:06
Let me let me throw something and let this stick to all you
53:10
fans out there. Shay Ohtani should be kicked out
53:13
of baseball. He should been.
53:17
He should have been kicked out of the major leagues betting on
53:21
baseball. You could say whatever you want,
53:23
guys. Oh, he was in court.
53:25
He wasn't this. You're going to tell me he
53:26
didn't know where 20, five, $27 million was when he was betting
53:30
on sports? Get out of here.
53:32
He knew exactly what was going on and he just settled while the
53:35
WBC was going on with the the money that him and his friend
53:40
who's an agent took from these rich guys, these rich real
53:44
estate guys, 240 million which the settlement never came out.
53:48
I wonder why? I wonder, wonder why?
53:51
So for all you Japanese fans, oh cool.
53:54
I'm so sad, such a sorrow that our team got robbed and all this
54:00
and all that and we're going to fire our manager.
54:02
Bah humbug, go cry to somebody that actually gives a crap.
54:06
Thank you to all the fans on Apple and Spotify following us
54:09
and on video and audio, all the different platforms that were on
54:12
X Instagram, TikTok, Jabba in the mouth.
54:17
By the way, our show is transitioning into the New York,
54:20
well, New York sports loudmouth, which will be next week.
54:24
We're working on everything on the back end.
54:26
But yeah, it's going to be it's same show, but we're going to
54:29
have Quinton Copples joining us full time and it's going to be
54:33
very interesting. I can tell you that another
54:35
voice a lot of craziness and Quinton doesn't like losing
54:40
arguments. So that'll be interesting.
54:43
Anyways. Yeah.
54:44
Speedy, who do we have on Thursday?
54:46
Nothing else. I'm sure Nathan will have
54:48
something planned, Something to want.
54:50
Soda's a bitch some. But maybe we get want soda on
54:53
the show. What do you think, Speedy?
54:54
I want to do a whopping. What do you think?
54:57
I don't know. I don't know what Nathan would
54:59
have to do to do that. How about rattling her?
55:04
Maybe he would. Or he is goofy.
55:07
Well, somebody'd goofy, right? Could you do that?
55:09
Like, alright, that's it for a show.
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Goodnight. It's the worldwide sports radio
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