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83 Points and World Baseball Fever: Deconstructing the Game · D-constructing Topics

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What's going on, everybody, and what's going on, folks? Welcome to the Deconstructing Topic Podcast.
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My name is David, and I'm your legendary host, the legendary host of the Deconstructing
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Topic Podcast, where we got a couple of topics.
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We got one or two, a couple of topics, and we just deconstructed the D way,
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which is, listen, D stands for my name, David. Let's make it happen.
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And today we got a little sports little episode going on here in the world of sports.
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A couple of stuff that I want to talk about for those who out there are keeping
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up with the World Baseball Classic as a Puerto Rican kid born in Puerto Rico
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living in the United States.
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Let's go. Let's go, Puerto Rico. Come on, man. Hey, listen.
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Props to Team USA as in the end of the tournament. The tournament starts basically tomorrow.
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There are eight teams left for eight countries. We're going to go over that.
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And I also want to touch bases on the 83-point performance by Ben Adbayo from
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the Miami Heat, the forward center.
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You know, I want to do these weekly sports things, but, you know,
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my life, you know, hey, listen, there's so much going on in the world of creating content.
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You have to unplug yourself. I try my best to be on top of baseball, football.
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Football is the one sport that I like to say that I could plug myself on Sundays
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with the red zone, only the red zone.
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I mean, you know, sometimes it's hard to watch my New York Giants just watch
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them on a game and you'll be like, what's going on?
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You know, you got the baseball, my New York Yankees coming up.
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We got the Rangers struggling in hockey in a nutshell.
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We got the New York Knicks. We contenders, we contenders, we contenders, and then we pretenders.
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Basically, that's the New York Knicks in a nutshell. The season,
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once again, we put in three, four games where we looking like one of the top
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teams out there in the NBA, looking to win a championship.
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Then we go on a two-game winning streak, losing like by 60 points.
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Combined, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, but hey, listen,
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I try my best to, and you know, in the world of wrestling, we got the rest of
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the minute coming up, I try my best to, you know, to be on top of the game, basically,
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no funny stuff, but here we are, we're doing a little sports thing, because the way.
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I don't, when am I going to talk here first, we
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are going to talk about the nba and
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the 83 game for ben i mean ben at
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the bio the forward and center from
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miami he was just kind of like that 83 game
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is the talk of the time in the nba and
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in a sense in sports and if
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you always hey listen i always appreciate anybody out there
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hit that like comment and share all that that good stuff but we here we making
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it happen you You already know you're talking about the Ben Adebayo game of
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83 points versus the Washington Wizards.
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I want to say I didn't watch the game.
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I seen highlights. I heard of it. Then I went back before, let's say, doing this podcast.
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I went back and I watched more of the quote unquote full highlights.
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In my train of thought, because it looks like, for the most part,
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someone who does a feat, especially, let's say, in the NBA, being that that's
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the second most scoring game ever in the NBA.
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Will Schembele with 100, and you already know Kobe, the legendary Kobe.
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Kobe Black Mamba with 81.
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People are just saying some people. I mean, I hear a little bit of everything,
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you know, some shatters.
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Again, you would think that something great happened in sports.
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But the fact that there's some backlash and a lot of backlash,
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I'll give my little two cents on the situation.
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Again, when you do a feat in sports, unless you're cheating,
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doing something out there, it's hard to give you props.
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You already know the cyclist Lance Armstrong was under dopity-dope,
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winning the Tour de France like that was a candy.
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Tour de France cycling, not an easy sport. Not an easy sport.
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Imagine cycling going up a hill down a hill to the side come on man come on
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i don't even think that there's a cyclist over the over 200 pounds they all
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like 150 and 120 that's with the equipment on i'm just saying it's hard but it's hard to kind of say,
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wow you've done this now again you know we will will i don't want to open a
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can of worms because that's another topic we could talk about of steroid use
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and all that and cheating all that in sports.
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But this is a game with the 83 points that, hey, listen, all right,
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you did your thing. I mean, what a feat.
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And I want to say, hey, what a feat. Hey, you know, great. 83 points in 42 minutes in the NBA.
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Once again, Kobe Bryant with 81 in what we would call modern basketball or modern NBA.
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And we'll shamblin a hundred like half a century ago, I think it was,
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or something to that effect. Again, wonderful feats.
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All different in its own kind. But obviously, in my lifetime,
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the two games, which is the Kobe Bryant game of 81 points,
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and not even the great Michael Jordan, I think the most he ever scored,
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like 68, you know, have you ever scored 70? I don't know.
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But when you score that much in the NBA, it's reserved for great legendary players.
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And I could understand the backlash where there's those out there who be like,
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Ben Adebayo, who in the world is this dude who happens to have been scoring
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16 points per game or 17? I don't know where it blows up at 83.
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Now, I'm going to say it's this. I watched the full highlights.
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I'm going to give you the stat line.
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For those out there who have not watched basketball, just, you know, wait, listen.
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It's good to know. If you have not watched basketball and you're listening to
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this, if you're from other countries and you're listening to this,
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hey, listen, basketball is basketball.
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Basketball is where we're at, created here in the United States of America.
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And the stand line would be this. You go for 20 for 43 in field goal.
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This one is interesting. You go for 7 and 22 in three-point.
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Now, for those out there, a three-pointer would be that you divide or you multiply 7 times 3.
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That means that in a basket you get two
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points three-pointer you shoot a three-pointer you get three obviously
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and if you go to the free throw which he
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did which is the questionable stat of
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36 out of 43 you get one point and you got nine rebounds three assists two still
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but he had like a nice little overall game if you look at the highlights and
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i'll be straight up i'm not saying And I'm implying it because,
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sadly, in the world of sports, and we got now sports betting,
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I don't know what was his numbers where you're going to get money.
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I don't know if somebody say, listen, if Ben Ayodayamo scored more than 30 points,
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the fact that he averages 16, if he gets more than 30 or 40,
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if I put in or I bet it, again, legally, $5, you're going to get $5,000. I'm just saying.
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I don't know what was the stat lines or the betting line for Ben at that,
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you know, a couple of nights ago against Washington to put in 83 numbers, 83 points.
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But if I'm looking at the highlights, especially in the first quarter, he was hot.
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You could tell the Wizards was playing. And they regarded him.
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He was hot. He was doing the three-pointer. He was doing a little bit of everything.
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And he scored about 30-something, 32, 30 points in the first quarter.
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That was four quarters. Keep in mind, if he does this every quarter,
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so 30, 60, 90, you could have 120 games,
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I mean 120 points, but it's a little bit difficult to push somebody to do that
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much in a 42-minute game, especially if the other team also...
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Gets the ball, you know, run out the clock, whatever it is.
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So somewhere you can start to see that when the second, the third quarter,
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you can start to see that Washington Wizard was not trying to stop the dude.
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It's like, oh, we're watching history, let history happen.
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And there was some questionable fouls. There was some questionable,
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I mean, defense, defense.
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Now he got to dunk the ball. He got in somebody's back. He got to do a little bit of everything.
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But there are sometimes it seems a little bit questioned, especially if you go for the free throw.
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Now, let me throw this stat like Kobe Bryant, the legendary Kobe Bryant,
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who scored 81 points back in 2006 against the Toronto Raptors.
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His stats, 28 out of 46.
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That means 60%. That means that Kobe was hotter than Ben.
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7 out of 13 from 3 points. Now, keep in mind, Ben shot 22.
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If he got a little bit, you would think that, oh, because he's shooting more
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3. If he got more threes, God knows, he would have gotten 90, 95, maybe 100.
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But the fact that if you're telling me this person was a center,
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power forward. Now, centers and power forward these days, they could shoot threes.
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Some of them could shoot the ball.
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Whether it goes in or out, they're not Stephen Curry, but I'm just saying.
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It is questionable that you start to think that perhaps, perhaps,
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they were pushing the stats.
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They were pushing the stats. and the fouls and all this nonsense.
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Now, Kobe went 7 of 13 from 3 point, very proficient, versus 7 of 22, versus...
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Free throws, 18 of 20 was Kobe Bryant.
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Think about it. That means it was a little tough game. I've seen the highlights of that game as well.
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Toronto was playing hard. I mean, it ain't like if they were just letting Kobe do his thing.
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Kobe was just proficient, shooting the ball, not getting to the foul. He was shooting.
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Double team, that ain't work. But with Ben, you know, again,
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I've seen the full highlights, and it was just no defense.
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There was a lot of one-on-one a lot of isolation for
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those people that familiar with basketball not familiar with
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basketball I'm sorry you basically that's five on five the other four plays
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starts to stand on the three-point line somewhere so that if you're banned you're
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one-on-one with whatever the player and then you know you'll get some help in
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the defense but by the time that they come and help because keep in mind you
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got you know it's a little bit hard to play zone in the NBA.
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So if you're doing the isolation, you got basically a one-on-one matchup.
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And Ben, he's a flat again. Not taking that away from him.
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But for me, doing that thing one-on-one, and then again, it was just so strange.
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So I see a lot of people just calling in an asterisk. Listen,
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I don't want to call in an asterisk, but I'm just saying.
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It is a question of a game, and I can understand why there's questioning,
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why people question the game, why people feel like this is a slap to basketball. Let's see.
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Let's see how, you know, what a basketball reacts to it or come about. But it is questionable.
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Again, props to Ben. You know, he was not SGA. You know, he was not Bronson from the Knicks.
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He was not your typical player to do this.
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I just hope that this is not a pattern for the NBA to do this because sadly
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the NBA's ratings, when it comes to his TV ratings are a little bit down.
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The attendance is still always going to be attendance.
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Because at 10, as I always say, when it comes to NBA, listen,
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yeah, it is a little pricey.
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So again, you know, props to him, whatever it is. I mean, he made it happen.
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But again, I can understand where are those people that just be like, you know what?
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I don't know about this game. This game is a little sketchy.
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And I mean, personally, the way I've kind of see the game somewhere, somewhere.
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I'm not saying it was rigged. I'm just saying that somewhere it looked like
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the Washington Wishes stopped playing defense.
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And when they did play defense, they fouled him because he is a decent free
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throw shooter and let him stat.
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I can also pad up the stats.
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But that's the word of basketball. Once again, if you enjoy it,
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by all means. If you didn't, hey, by all means. Continue to watch. I love sports.
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Just continue to watch. Let's see. Let's go next. Let's go with some baseball.
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World War Baseball Classic, which now we are in the tournament.
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It's elimination time. And let me just say is this.
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I grew up watching baseball. Baseball, to me, was my first sport that I could
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say that because since I was born in Puerto Rico, we had a lot of Puerto Ricans,
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great baseball players, Hall of Fame.
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You already know Roberto Clemente. I feel about Roberto Clemente,
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the pride and joy of Puerto Rico. Let's go.
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But the fact is that, you know, growing up and coming to the United States, baseball was my thing.
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You know, football is my thing now, but I'm just saying.
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Baseball is always that thing. It's always in my heart. You know what I mean?
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And I always kind of knock baseball a little bit because it is a long game.
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There's a little bit of not so much of excitement.
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But in these war baseball classic, especially this year, looking at Team Republic,
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Dominican Republic, who is facing Korea.
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Tomorrow, then you got Team USA versus Canada, and you got Puerto Rico versus
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Italia on Saturday, and you got Venezuela versus Japan on Saturday.
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The fact that, you know, I tried to see if I could watch some games,
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you know, sneaking my little, my phone, you know, somewhere,
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you know, I'm not going to try to say, you know, I'm just saying,
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not giving away my secret.
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I'm just saying, I'm trying my best, but it's a little bit difficult,
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So I try to catch the highlights and I'm going to say, well,
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it's a Puerto Rican, Dominican Republic.
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Some of the Latin countries that were there before and they got out once on
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Mexico, got Venezuela fans, Japanese fans.
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And there's something about this tournament and these baseball classic thing
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that brings fans to say, wow, if the Major League Baseball, for some reason,
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or teams decided, yo, I'm going to bring a band in and something to ump up the
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crowd, I tell you, baseball will be so much fun.
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And the fact that you got these folks, these baseball players we've seen in
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Dominican Republic, we've seen in Puerto Rico, we've seen here in Japan,
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when they hit a home run, and especially a home run to make it happen, they're celebrating.
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Like if there's no tomorrow and, you know, there's no retaliation.
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And that's one thing about baseball and the major
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league sports that if i hit a home run regardless of
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whatever the condition is with it's for the
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most part not the winning i just happen to have hit a home run and
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i'm trotting the bases dancing a little bit of salsa and next time i pad up
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you're gonna the pitcher's gonna get so upset that's gonna ding me and when
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i say ding is trying to hit me with the baseball pitch at me see major league
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baseball is missing something and i want of my players to be excited,
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but sadly, baseball frowns.
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Like, this gentleman's sport of whatever it is frowning. Like,
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if you did something extra.
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Next time somebody's going to say something like you shouldn't do that because we playing baseball.
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You know, the word baseball classic and let that sink in is fun.
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And seeing the highlights, seeing the fans is fun.
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And people are watching it. People are gravitating because there's a lot of pride, obviously.
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You know, these aren't just teams. These are country. Puerto Rico and Italia, come on.
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Hey, we might have a little West Side Story Part 3 up in this, Motherflower.
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Venezuela Listen now Venezuela It's one of A hot band in baseball Believe it or not Japan
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For some reason Japan is always that country That whatever United States Invent
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Japan perfects Whatever it is And baseball Is that one sport,
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Invented in United States But Japan perfected it The baseball The art of baseball Because they play,
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I've seen some documentaries Kids in Japan Jeez It's like a military out there.
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But, bro, let me tell you something.
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Baseball over there in Japan is popular.
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Always been. And will continue to do so because it's fun.
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You know what I mean? The fans get into it. There's always something.
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There's always an atmosphere.
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It looks like you're going to a party based on videos that I've seen.
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It's not like the fans here in the United States. I remember years ago there
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was this group of young ladies.
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Yankee, I believe it was Yankee Stadium And even I can tell you this story,
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American fans Go to the stadium and they're on their phones And that's okay
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You're checking your messages, you're hitting People up, but when you're on
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your Phone for like 58% Of the game And I remember these young ladies, those,
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Cameras like, oh, okay, you know I guess the only time they reacted when they
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realized That they're on TV, like, oh my god Ha ha.
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In baseball, let the fans be fun.
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If you're a baseball team, let them be fun. In Japan and in that league, they let people be fun.
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Now, we got on the other side of this pond, we got United States and Canada,
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two countries, two of the three countries that will be hosting the FIFA World Cup this year.
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So, Canada and United States, they got a little rivalry of everything and everything,
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especially in hockey. Hockey, you already seen a couple of weeks ago,
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the Winter Olympics, you already know.
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Hockey, Canada, and United States, oh, my goodness.
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And baseball, you know, hey, listen, United States got a little up and up, obviously.
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Canada doesn't go that far, so Canada has fielded a lot of continuing.
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Keep in mind, there's their baseball team in Canada that plays in the Major League Baseball.
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It's the Toronto Blue Jays. So it's going to be interesting there.
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Once again, even the Canadian fans, a little reserved, but a little bit,
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you know, the American fans, again, they do their thing.
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And they are letting loose because they eat their pride. United States, let's go.
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It's the tournament for the most part right now. And this elimination is going to be United States.
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We'll get that little home field advantage. But let's see. Again,
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I'm not going to say who's going to win, who's not. Not my predictions for now.
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I'm rooting for Team Puerto Rico. You already know Team Rubio. Let's go.
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And then you got Korea. Korea, again, another country that has perfected it.
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Baseball. They love baseball in Korea. Great baseball players from Korea.
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And they are facing against la República Dominicana.
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La República Dominicana in baseball. If Japan have perfect baseball,
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I wish I, you know, am I saying it right?
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Perfect, perfect. I don't know. Whatever.
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Republic, they, not only did they perfect baseball.
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Wow. Have they turned baseball? They love baseball. Baseball is fun in the Republic.
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It used to be a little bit different, but if you look at 30,
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40 years ago, there were certain poor parts in the Dominican Republic,
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you know, especially the Macoray, I forgot, Francisco de Macoray town,
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you know, in private towns in Dominican that sadly baseball was their go-out
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and then major leagues had these camps and they exploded a lot of kids.
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That's all a different story. but now it's a little bit different because you
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got a lot of media league baseball players that are dominican making money and
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they're doing their own camp thing so it's a little bit different now,
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you know dominican i can i
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say dominican republic and dominican baseball player have taken more
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control of their players in a sense winter ball
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it's a big thing in republic dominican republic where to
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say oh i don't now i don't really need to go
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to america to to make the big bucks even though
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you want to go america but the fact is that now there's
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more of a control and they love baseball geez more power to them that's hey
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that's my neighbors hopefully it'll be a puerto rico dominican republic thing
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because if puerto rico dominican republican baseball it's like hockey with american
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canada maybe we it's more a little fun in baseball but.
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It's gonna be interesting and shout out to dominican republic because they make
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their Their fans and their players and la musica that they incorporate in baseball,
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take notice, Major League Baseball.
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Take notice. I think there's a petition of making the DR, that's what they call
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it, the Dominican Republic part of the Major League Baseball team. That's funny.
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Perhaps they'll maybe they'll manage something. Not the Dominican Republic,
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the country in itself, but at least something. That would be fun.
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Because baseball, that's it. I just, when it's Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic
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and Japan, like those are the three countries with the fans.
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You got to love these fans.
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Listen, shout out to United States. Hey, Italia, Venezuela, not too far.
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They think, you know, Venezuela is a little mini hotbed. And Korea, hey, again.
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But for some reason, if you watch a baseball game, you watch these three countries
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when they play, the RPR and Japan, wow. Now, sometimes you're watching baseball
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in a concert, basically, but I love it.
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But anyway, I'm just throwing it out there for Major League. Follow Sue.
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If you're a fan of baseball and you're out there and you think that,
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let's say, I'll give an example, Yankee Stadium.
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In Yankee Stadium, we got the Bleacher Creatures.
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You know, for those out there, Bleacher is a place where tickets are not expensive.
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But you're going to get certain people out there. but I love the bleacher creatures.
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I've been in the bleacher a few times in my lifetime in Yankee Stadium and with
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the new Yankee Stadium and I believe it's a tradition they started in the O
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as well is that they do the calling of their baseball team, their baseball player.
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Let's say, Debbie Gita, you know, some type of deal.
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Jorge, Jorge, you know, you're talking about the back then.
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Aaron Judge, Aaron, you know, they do the calling before the game or when the
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game started in the first inning. So that's just cool.
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Let me know if you know any tradition that is fun that we might not know here.
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But let Major League, Major League, let them know. If you want to gather fans,
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I hope that they land people with some instruments or something to that effect.
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I know that sometimes Americans, I love America, but sometimes Americans be
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a little bit too uptight, a little bit too much. Oh, what's that?
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What kind of music is that? Is that sales? What's so...
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Salsa, not salsa. It's not like a sauce. You're listening to something like, hey, papi, let's go.
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And then you got that boy in Dominican Republic, a merengue.
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What's that? Is that a merengue? I'm listening to what kind of music is that?
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I'm just saying, come on, Major League. Get your stuff together.
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Make baseball fun. Let players be.
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Let the fans be respectfully. If you're listening out there,
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let me know what you think.
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Once again, hit me up. If you want to make things happen for baseball and baseball
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fans so people could be like, yeah, can we be like, you know,
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like people in the world, baseball classic.
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That's one. Let me know. Hit up the kid. You already know. Deconstructing Topic Podcast.
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I know it's perfect But I'm trying to add the E And the D at the end Whatever
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let's make it happen I'm out peace.