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USA ADVANCES TO WBC QUARTERFINALS · The 3-0 Take

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take where we talk
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all things Major League Baseball.
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Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes.
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It all starts right now. Welcome back to the three Take
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presented by Chinook Cedary this episode 598.
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I'll be your host, Kyle Corn. I'm here with my Co host Nate
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Reyes. Nate.
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USA question mark Casey how are we we are JB lists in the corner
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of this guy has yet to go home from the world Baseball classic
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in Houston. Bro just motored on over to to
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Florida for his for where his heart really lies Pittsburgh
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pirate spring training. Let's let's be real, that guy
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was watching highlights of spring training games.
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From all split. Squad games.
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We feel like we're all getting ready.
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We're getting gassed up for WBC. Everyone's wearing red, white
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and blue. My guy's coming out of his room
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all black and gold. Steel City shirts on.
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Oh, I tell you what man, of all the places to be pirate Spring
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Training is certainly one of them that I mean, that guy
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grinds and he is he is there. I can only imagine getting
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getting content, doing research, scouting.
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So mad props to our guy JV. The guy doesn't stop, never
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stops, never sleeps. I haven't slept much.
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I feel like really in the last week at the WBC to thank for
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that. That was a good trip.
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That was a great trip. I thought I was.
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Tired in Atlanta for the All Star game in Home Run Derby.
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Dear Lord, the earliest we went to bed was our last night there
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and it was still 2:00 AM. It was the earliest we went to
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bed. Yeah, brought some of the, or I
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should say, invited some of the some of our fantasy league to
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join us. So there's a group of us down
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there at an Airbnb. Had a great time with the with
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the fellas, yeah man. And every night it was just
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staying up to see how many random, how many random players
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we can name before we all passed out.
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So. Yeah, no, we had our fantasy
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draft. Had our fantasy draft in person.
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That was sick. That was great.
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We went to the card shop, loaded up on cards, did some did.
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We just traded cards for like 4 hours like we were nine years
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old again. It was great.
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It was great. That was awesome.
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But the tournament itself, not to, not to rush us through the
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good times, but I feel like there's some things that have
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transpired. Goodness.
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That we need to talk about where did where do we start?
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Should we go back to? Officially game over, by the
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way, for Italy, Mexico 91 finish.
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Backing our way in. Do we win the pool though with
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that or how does that work? I don't.
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Think we do? I don't think we do.
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We didn't win the pool. No.
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Oh yeah. I think it's I think we needed
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Mexico to like put up like 7 maybe.
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I don't know. The the look, the math is was
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the different was the different beast for me.
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It it was it was hard because when they started saying like,
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oh, it's like the scores got a hold.
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If it only goes 9-9, yeah, I'm like, what are we?
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I don't yeah, what is matter? I don't know.
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I don't know. Couldn't figure it out since.
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When? Since when?
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Real quick on that note, when did we decide as a sport to make
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the switch to runs per per inning as a tiebreaker as
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opposed to just total runs? Is that, has that been a thing?
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Is this news to me? I always thought it was run
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differential like that. That's what I thought was, yeah,
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like the it's just that simple run differential.
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The whole runs per inning thing is odd.
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I don't, I just don't really get it.
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But doesn't matter now. I guess it's the the point is
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moot as some say. I think the I think the WBC is
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moot to Bryce Harper Guy couldn't care less about playing
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at the WBC. And quite frankly, for those
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wondering, yeah, my thoughts have changed on our sweet young
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Prince as a result of this. I'm not I'm not happy with him.
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I'm really not happy with him. I, you know, I was all gung ho
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about like, oh man, I can't wait to get the Harper USA jersey.
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I don't particularly know that I'm doing that at this point
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unless he unless he decides to go off this this next stage.
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I don't I don't particularly know or if he walks back some of
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his comments, which I don't think he's going to do.
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But let's start with that. Let's let's go back to the game.
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One post game? Bryce Harper is asked.
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Is there a dub by the? Way yeah Bryce Harper's asked
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about the Olympics to which he says in summary to something to
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the effect of look no disrespect to the WBC pulled one of our
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lines by the. Way he did, he listens.
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No, dis have a listener, no disrespect to the WBC, but it's
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not the Olympics. And then goes on to explain
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like, yeah, you know, I'm looking forward to the 20282028
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so on and so forth. To which I said why, why, why is
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that necessary? To which somebody replied to me
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on social and said he was asked directly about the Olympics
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twitch. My response was, how many times
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do we see professional athletes table a question?
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How many times do we see a deflection?
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How difficult would it have been for Bryce Harper to simply say,
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hey, you know what? Like I'm really excited at the
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at the potential prospect, potential opportunity to play
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the Olympics in 2028. But that's 2028, really just
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focused right now on the 2026 WBC, which is a great
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tournament. Looking forward to going out and
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trying to win gold with my guys. How difficult?
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How difficult would that have been?
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But no, he decides to take this super bizarre stance and be
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like, well, no, no offense, no disrespect, but it's not the
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Olympics. Thanks, Bryce.
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I like, I don't, I don't, I don't know what you're trying to
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accomplish there. And I'm all four guys just
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speaking how they feel. But like, sometimes it's better
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to just not say anything at all. I I, I don't know that you're
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you're. One game in At this point,
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you're one game in against Brazil.
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Like you haven't even, you haven't even scratched,
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scratched the surface of how good the WBC can be.
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I it, it just, it's strange. It doesn't do anything.
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What does that comment do? How does that bring any
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positivity to the current situation you're in?
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Like it's, it's very obvious that everyone's bought in and
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not to like the I'm not going to trash the Olympics, but like, no
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thanks. I couldn't care less about the
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2028 Olympics. I couldn't care less.
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I don't know what that's going to look like.
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I don't know who's going to participate.
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And I don't really care because like some of the greatest
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representations of baseball, those countries aren't even
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going to be in it. It's not even an option for
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them. Not to mention, we're talking
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about an organization that decided it didn't want baseball
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in the Olympics anymore. So like, how?
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How? Good.
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Can it? How?
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Good. Can it really be that?
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I don't know. And not to mention the momentum
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that this event has picked up in the last three years alone, but
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we're going to take that stance. I just thought that was odd.
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Not to mention he's been a freaking bum.
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Yeah, Guy couldn't hit his way out of a wet paper bag right
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now. It's it's embarrassing to see.
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And not to skip ahead, but all these people talking about in in
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the Italy game, talking about how well he, Derosa left Harper
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on the bench too long. It's like, have you been
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watching the tournament? There wasn't terrible.
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There should have been no hurry to get Harper in an extra AB in
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that game. Absolutely no rush, no hurry.
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Agreed. Anyway, moving down the line,
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what's next? I think it was the Scooble
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tease. Was that what, what, what was
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next? The the reports coming out being
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like oh oh it's possible we get Scooble back for another game.
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We got that update. Driving to the park, I think.
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Yeah, we, well, we decided as a group, no disrespect to these
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teams, but we were able to go see Brazil and Italy.
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That's on Saturday. That's pool B winner.
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I know my. Friends makes this even crazier.
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We were able to go see them play before the USA Great Britain
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game Saturday night for 5 bucks a pop.
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That was sweet. And it wasn't like, oh, you're
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sitting at the very top of Houston.
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This was like, you can sit in the left field corner dog like
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you can be, you're able to catch foul balls, you're able to try
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and talk some outfielders into tossing you to ball in between
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innings. That's how close you were for 5
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bucks real. Quick on that, real quick on
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that. I know people were like just the
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they've got their blinders on. They they can't see anything or
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hear anything other than WBC hate.
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They just can't stand the event. They're using games like Brazil
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and Italy at 12 noon and the lack of attendance as evidence
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to support their case at this tournament, this event, this
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exhibition sucks. It's like have just a little bit
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of awareness, have a like read the room a little bit,
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understand how the sport works. No game.
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Major League Baseball doesn't even get turnouts at 12 noon.
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So like, and, and you're expecting fans who predominantly
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wear soccer jerseys to these games to show up in masses.
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Like, that's just not how that works.
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You, you can't characterize the entire event by a, a Brazil,
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Italy game. Anyway, continue.
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Yeah. But anyway, we got the scuba
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update on the way to the ballpark and that was at like
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11:00 AM local time at that point saying he might be and
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didn't take long for it to 24 hours later be like now he's
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done, he's out. That I said it in the car when
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we were driving. I said that's, that's nothing
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but an image repair move. That is nothing but APR move.
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I don't know whose whose idea it was, who if it was his camp and
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like as a whole deciding to do that, but there was no chance
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that was happening. Yeah, not pitching.
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He gave up a first pitch Ding Dong to left center and then
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left after like 32 pitches or something.
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To my guy, by the way. It was like.
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Mate eaten. Like thanks for showing up.
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Anyone else could have done that?
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Thank you so much for being such a valuable member of this team.
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Anybody else could have shown up and left us in a deficit.
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Thanks. Thank you.
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Appreciate you my guy. What a stud.
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Any who's still got the dove, which is great.
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Not Great Britain, but great. Hey, those are great seats.
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You want to talk a little little Crawford box?
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I mean, I feel like that's a very unique perspective as far
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as like places to sit in, you know, stadiums in our game,
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there's not too many, too many spots like that.
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It was very cool. We literally got front row of
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the Crawford boxes. No one in front of us.
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Getting to see that view is sick.
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We were It was super easy to find us if you you've cared to
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look or if you care to go back and watch the replay of the
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game. If you're a sicko and and want
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to watch, I was. On the big screen like 4 times
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as. He was, he was I, I think I slid
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in there like with my arm or something, maybe once or twice.
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But you were the star of the show.
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At one point I was just like hey, like I didn't even I it was
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AI was a regular on there. Yeah, You're like, OK, enough,
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enough. Like let somebody else.
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Yeah, one of these others let somebody else have have some
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shine. No, but it was really easy to
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find us. If you look at the Crawford
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boxes and the way they're currently decorated, decorated,
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for lack of a better term, right in the middle of that orange
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yellowish logo, the WBC logo at the top of the Crawford boxes.
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Yeah, that, that shade right there, that yellowish orange
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there. That's, that's, you know, on
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the, the padding there we were smack dab.
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Yeah, we were smack dab in the middle of that, of that design.
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Like we're pretty much dead, dead center of the the boxes.
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But that was an awesome view. I will say what's very unique
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and and strange. Any balls hit to left center you
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you lose sight of. That's a good idea.
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Like there were a couple where you were like, is that going to
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be caught? Is that going to be off the
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wall? Is that going to be gone?
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So that part was a little strange, but over like I, I
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guess we could throw a little plug in for Minute Maid Daikin.
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I I thought it was a a very solid ballpark.
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I liked it. Yeah, we did a.
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Nothing bad to say about it there.
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Speaking of a plug, good reminder to let you folks know
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I'll be dropping a, a, a short little blog blog, a short little
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vlog from our trip here in the next day or two.
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So keep an eye out for that on our YouTube.
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But in that vlog, we do a little that was actually during the
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Brazil Italy game because we're like with 0 investment in this
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game whatsoever. We're like, hey, those little
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Dyken Park review and just sat out there in the the grandstands
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and just just chopped it up and shared our thoughts about the
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the park. But yeah, in in that review, we
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talked about how I think it was a better venue for this type of
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event more so than chase it. It was more open, a lot of
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natural light. You know, if you're not going to
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if you're going to play in a Dome, I guess the next best
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thing is to at least have a giant glass wall.
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So got got that natural light in there a.
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Lot of light getting in. Yeah, the the atmosphere.
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Some leaks by the by the way. Yeah, yeah, that's one, That's
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one downside. What was it?
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the IT was a Great Britain game 'cause we're sitting right
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there, you could see it. My guy Roman Anthony is getting
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soaked out there and left. Pouring, whole stadium shaking
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from Thunder. It was a good little storm, but
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yeah, there was there was some leaks in the roof.
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Blowing off Great Park. I liked it, I really did.
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I think the next thing on the list that we had to address was
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the the Cal Raleigh Randy Rose Arena moving on to to the Mexico
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game, the. There's a lot of.
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What is this about, man? Like this is now, like I know I,
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I put a post out about it and it's like, this is the second
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time we've seen this in the last week.
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I've never seen it before. Which, like I said, isn't isn't
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a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice and it's it's
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happened both times in the span of a week in the same event.
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Very bizarre. Like that was Australia against
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2I don't remember but it was for sure one team was Australia.
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Was it the Czechia or? Czechia.
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Let me see, maybe. Yeah.
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Are they? It was the IT was the Czechia
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team or Czechoslovakia, I don't know.
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Real quick, Czechia, Slovakia, is that, is that still a thing
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or is that still a place? Dude, I.
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Is Slovakia. Could have gone less of an idea.
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No I don't. They get absorbed.
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Is Czechia different than Czechoslovakia?
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Is what about Czech Republic? Was that 1 I think?
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Another great question. I think I found myself saying
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the Czech Republic at one point. I thought that was the.
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Place. Is it all in the same place?
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Are they all? Are they three different places?
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I don't know. It's, it's like I, I can't, I
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can't quite figure it out. This is like Kanye changing his
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name. OK, so according to excuse me,
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according to Google, oh, according to Google Czechia.
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Yeah. Is the Czech Republic National
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Baseball team? Why not just call it that?
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What? What?
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Yeah, so Czech Republic is still rolling.
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Check, check, check in. No pun intended there.
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Check in on. Well, I mean, they just said
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Czech, Czechia is the baseball team of Czech Republic.
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What do you mean they're still rolling?
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It's Japan and Korea coming out of that.
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Talking about the actual country existing still.
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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry, I was, I was thinking bald.
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What about Slovakia? What does Slovakia have to do
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with any of this? Well.
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Czech, Czech, Czechia, Czechia, Czechia, Czechia, Slovakia.
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That was a place at one point. Czechoslovakia was a Central
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European country established in 1918 following the collapse of
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the Austro Hungarian Empire. OK, on.
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January Here we go, here we go, here we go.
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On January 1st, 1993, shot at 93, it peacefully dissolved into
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the independent Czech Republic and Slovakia.
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So it's became two things. Two different things, Yeah.
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Slovakia was like too long of a name.
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We're going to take ours out of it, let's go do our own thing.
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Doesn't sound like a place for ball players, though.
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They stayed with Czechia. Sounds like it.
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I'm just glad we're educating people.
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So I'm. Educating myself here.
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Same same same thing but. Anyways, what were we talking?
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Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, the. Handshake thing like this such a
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bizarre thing honestly look, let me just say this real quick the
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I feel like I've made my sentiment about things like this
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clear like I'm not going to be this super like, you know,
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grizzled grumpy old man like I I I just want.
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These players, these teams that compete, can we just spare like
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the the the dapping up, the handshakes, the high fives, the
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hugging, the kissing, the making out, like, can we just look,
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these guys can be boys. You can be you can be
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respectful, you can be professional, you can be even
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friendly. But like does it does does this
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have to be a story if Cal Raleigh wants to just be like,
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hey, man, like good to see you, bro, but like, let's just play a
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ball. Like should he be crucified for
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that? No, Should he maybe have just
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like I don't know that like could he have maybe just dapped
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him up and then we wouldn't be talking about this Also yes, but
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it in in defensive Cal Raleigh or Rosa Arena put him in in this
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position. And I'm sure to some in some
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way, shape or form. That's probably what he
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communicated to him was like, hey, man, like let's just, hey,
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let's just. Yeah.
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Don't look, let's just play ball.
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Let's just play ball. I insert Speaking of the
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Olympics, insert Kobe Bryant, Team USA playing.
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It's Pau Gasol, Team Spain in that documentary where they run
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a pick and roll and Kobe calls it before it happens and he's
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like, watch this and literally just Rams into Pau Gasol's
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current Laker teammate and like basically godfather to his
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children. Bang runs them through with the
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with the little shoulder to the chest.
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He said I'm going to run. He said I'm going to run through
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his chest and I saw his. That is, that is
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competitiveness. That's what I want.
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Well, that's. I mean, that's Kobe Bryant's
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psycho behaviour and I saw people.
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No, I mean, I'm all I'm all about it.
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I get chills every time I see that clip.
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But I did see people saying what like, oh, so we're we're
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comparing Cal Raleigh to Kobe Bryant.
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It's like no, stop, stop blowing that portion of this out of
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proportion. Recognize.
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Yeah, I know. It's it's a lot recognize.
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Yeah, this portion of the incident out of proportion.
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Man, just derailing me left and right here.
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Blow this portion out of proportion?
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Sure, I guess I'll allow it. All right.
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Blow this part of it out of proportion.
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Is that better you've? Dropped bars before that wasn't
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one of them. I know not my best, a lot of.
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Portions going. On yeah, I wasn't it.
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It didn't feel right. But anyway, what was I saying?
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I don't know. I wasn't listening.
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Cal not being Kobe, which is duh.
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Right. Yeah.
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It's like we're not, we're obviously not saying that Cal
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Raleigh is is Kobe Bryant. But again, can we also not
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crucify the guy for just wanting to be competitive and and like,
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you know, compete with the guys that are on his side of the
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line? Yeah.
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I mean, even not to get like back and forth on Bryce Harper,
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but I think we both have our stance on Bryce at the moment.
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When he was on that bus and with the boys podcast and did an
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episode with them, they were talking about like like
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sportsmanship and just like, oh, can't you just they were talking
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about like guys getting hit in the game kind of policing
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itself. Like that was the context.
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And the football guys were like, why can't you just go like, you
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know, DAP each other up after the game, handshake, say
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everything's cool and bright's like we don't do that.
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And I think that aspect of baseball is is kind of cool
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where it's like there is that separation.
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There isn't this forced. You know what I mean it.
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But but then we do that in football too, Like if a head
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coach doesn't, you know, sit there and and hug the other
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coach like, you know, it was long lost grandpa, like we get
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upset or if they just DAP up and walk away or if the guy just
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heads straight to the the locker room, they get pissed.
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So it's like, I don't know, I, I are on the side of like, let's
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just we can be buddies later, like we can be homies off the
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field. But for right now, I'm going to,
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I'm going to get tapped. Especially for it being USA,
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Mexico, especially for arguably the biggest game of the
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tournament at that point, the most hyped, the toughest, most
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closest matchup. Like everybody's got eyes on
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this game. I'm blocking in.
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I don't. I don't have any problem with
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what Cal Rally did. No problem.
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Will it be a problem for the Mariners this year?
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That's a different story. Yeah, I don't know that's.
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And I don't really care either way, but.
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Let me play devil, let me play devil's advocate here, not to
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just be a a total Cal Raleigh defender.
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I did think it was kind of bizarre the way things were
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handled. Was it the next day?
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I think it was pregame the next day.
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You know, media is asking, I saw this clip today.
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They're asking him pregame, you know, like, hey, what happened?
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Like, what's the deal? And he, you know, gave his two
26:03
cents all while wearing a shirt that I said, did you see this
26:07
where it said like front facing the enemy or something?
26:11
And people in the comments were like, what, what are we doing?
26:14
Like, are we are we going, are we going to the literal like, I
26:18
mean, you know, the current current society situation aside,
26:24
like, are, is Team USA on the baseball field going to literal
26:28
war? So that was kind of bizarre.
26:31
And then he answered the question and then when they had
26:34
follow-ups, he he said, no, no, no, he said, I'm I'm not.
26:38
And Ken Rosenthal standing right there, which kind of made me
26:40
happy low key where he was like, no, no, I'm not.
26:43
I'm not going to take questions. He's like, I've said what I need
26:46
to say on it. And that's, that's all I'm
26:49
really going to say. I'm so and then somebody else
26:51
tried to follow up with another question.
26:52
He's like, no, I'm, I'm just not.
26:54
So I'm which I also thought was, I mean, I respected it, but it
26:58
was just, I don't know. I there, I think there's easier
27:01
ways to go through. It's just I I maybe you and I
27:05
have watched enough interviews and enough sticky situations
27:11
with pro athletes that like, you know what the right answer is as
27:15
the fan and you know when you don't get it, it's not hard to
27:20
just be like, if if I'm couch be like, look, no, like today we're
27:25
not teammates. Like today I'm not wearing a
27:28
Mariners jersey and today my main focus is to get AUSA dub
27:32
and that's my mentality. And I wasn't you know, I'm not
27:36
trying to disrespect Randy, but this is what my my focus is
27:41
done. Check that box is checked.
27:42
We're good. It's a non story.
27:44
Randy float over here. Hey, man, I understand like he's
27:48
my boy. We're teammates.
27:49
We're going to spend the whole year together, but he to the
27:52
moment I get why he's locked in and I don't hold it against him,
27:56
which we even we. Even talk about that, Randy's
27:59
remarks afterwards, he was like expletive this expletive that he
28:04
can shove it up his rear. I'm like, what?
28:07
I thought it I saw first place I saw it was on Facebook and I
28:10
said I didn't even think twice, but I said this is one of those
28:13
satire pages. And then I looked it up, saw the
28:17
video because I'm like, you know, people are throwing out
28:20
like, well, I mean, what is it? What did he look like saying it?
28:23
Because that's, you know, that's important context.
28:26
Like is he saying it tongue in cheek?
28:28
Is he saying it with a grin? Is he laughing?
28:30
That kind of thing. Bro looked like he was disowning
28:35
Cal Raleigh as a friend. He made whatever else.
28:40
And I'm like, that seems weird that this whole situation, the
28:43
fact that this is a story, is unfortunate.
28:45
It is for the Mariners, Yeah, Mariners fans like, yo, like,
28:48
come on, it's unnecessary. Fans of the 20 other 29 other
28:53
teams, like, I just want my players to come back healthy.
28:56
The Mariners are like, I just want my players to come back as
28:59
teammates still. Like I that's that's kind of a
29:02
hairy situation to be in. But yeah, that was bizarre.
29:07
But I think what really has has taken the cake over the last
29:11
week. Well, let's get it before you
29:12
get into it, you want to recap a little Mexico like the team?
29:16
Yeah. Yeah.
29:17
Mexico fans, we told you before. I hope it came through your TV.
29:26
It's just Electric Factory. They're so exciting.
29:31
They're so fun. I think something that gave me
29:36
chills. I don't know if you experienced
29:38
it the same way. The fact that they sang like
29:42
majority of Mexico fans sang both national anthems.
29:47
And I genuinely thought that was one of the coolest sports
29:51
experiences I've ever had getting, you know what I mean?
29:55
Like getting to see. And we sat around a bunch of
30:00
Mexico fans and they were all just like, they're laughing,
30:03
they're teasing us, we're teasing them.
30:07
I was making fun of the dude next to me.
30:09
They're making fun of us. Like it.
30:12
It was just like wholesome mariachi bands all over the
30:15
place dancing after a loss like. Win or lose.
30:18
They're just happy. They're just happy.
30:21
Like I, I will easily say probably the the greatest fan
30:28
base in in sports. I think I can go ahead and lock
30:32
that in Mexico. Fans are awesome.
30:36
That game was awesome. Glad we got the dub.
30:39
Wouldn't have felt good if we lost any news.
30:43
Skeins Dog. Top Gun.
30:48
Sheesh, dude, yeah, I don't want to.
30:51
I'm not even going to pull at that thread, people.
30:54
Technically it's a Navy song. Shut up.
30:57
It's the same military. Shut your mouth.
31:00
So that was awesome. Him and Griffin Jax paying for
31:06
the Air Force's baseball team to be up there so sick.
31:11
And then going to your going back to your point about the
31:13
mariachi band, did you see the clip of them dancing out on the
31:17
streets with the mariachi band after the game?
31:20
I'm like, this is this game, this is this.
31:24
That would heal, like literally heal so much.
31:28
If people could all be there, it would heal us.
31:34
It was the coolest. They're, they're so, I mean,
31:38
the, the, the few interactions I saw from US fans, not great.
31:46
I will say like there was a couple couple guys on the
31:48
concourse like flipping birds and stuff.
31:50
And I'm like, we the look, I'm not going to sit here.
31:56
I'm not going to sit here and, and, and talk down on the
32:01
American people. However, I think I got a little
32:05
taste of it at the Mexico game where I was like, I get why
32:08
other countries hate us because we can just be idiots like
32:13
these, these fans and I and I include some of the clips that
32:16
you're talking about, like dapping up the the Mexico fans
32:19
and stuff. I had some of those clips are in
32:21
the vlog that are coming out. So so again, keep an eye out for
32:23
that, but there's just a much greater, I feel like respect.
32:30
There's a there's just a more pure enjoyment for their team
32:35
success and even failures. They're like still supportive.
32:38
Like the at the at the end of that game, they're still doing
32:43
the Mexico chant and I heard it on the TV tonight during the
32:46
Mexico Italy game. They're they're just getting
32:49
taken to the freaking woodshed and you can still hear in the
32:54
background. So they they share in the
32:56
failures and successes of their team.
32:59
There's just a lot of pride. I think that's and it's not like
33:02
there are instances of US pride that has to diminish other other
33:09
cultures in a way. And it wasn't like that even for
33:12
the Great Britain game. I don't know if you noticed the
33:14
the dad and like the young 20s kid that was right next to.
33:18
US. Yeah, yeah.
33:19
When we started tearing up, that young 20s kid was just
33:23
screaming, just screaming at the Great Britain left fielder, just
33:28
berating this kid. Like, I don't even know who it
33:31
was. I have no idea who played left
33:33
field for Great Britain. And this guy's just like, it
33:36
wasn't like cheering high fives around.
33:39
He's leaning over the railing and just like giving it to this
33:43
left fielder, He had nothing to do with what just occurred
33:46
either. It wasn't like he booted a ball
33:48
or anything. We were just, we were hitting
33:51
anyway. So it's just, I think that
33:54
aspect of Mexico fans, one of my favorite things I've I've
33:58
experienced, they're just, they're happy, they're fun and
34:02
there's a little edge to them, but they're not over the top and
34:04
they don't cross any lines. I think I said yeah, for the
34:08
most part, and it goes both ways.
34:10
Again, I know I mentioned the thing about US fans, like some
34:13
of them are idiots, but All in all we saw a lot of a lot of
34:16
patriotism but also just saw a lot of mutual respect, which was
34:19
cool. And I think I said it last
34:22
tournament, but I, nothing has changed based on my experience
34:25
this tournament, if for whatever reason, whether it was this
34:29
event or future events, if we were to not advance, I'd be I,
34:35
I, I don't know how other people feel.
34:36
And I'm not saying I'd become this die hard Mexico fan, but
34:39
that'd be the team where it's like, OK, like if, if I did want
34:42
to see another team succeed, it would be Mexico.
34:44
And it's, and honestly 98% of it comes down to the fans just how
34:49
how great they are 100. Percent, dude.
34:51
Some of the biggest cheers we got in that stadium where, which
34:54
by the way, if you couldn't tell on TV, they were constantly
34:58
putting people up on big screens like every in between pitches
35:04
you like, you could rarely get to the point where you could
35:06
finish reading stats or see a replay before cameramen were
35:10
just grabbing fans all over the place.
35:11
But one of the biggest cheers of that stadium in that game was a
35:16
flag that was half Mexico, half half US flag.
35:20
And I just think that's super cool, man.
35:22
It's just, I don't know, whatever, I'm done.
35:26
Solid game, though. Solid, solid game.
35:28
Little had to had to sweat a little bit, but overall not too
35:32
bad. My guy Jaron Duran having a
35:35
game. Did have himself a day.
35:40
Yeah, glad we could, glad we could pick up the DOB against
35:43
Mexico. The the everything that led up
35:49
and and followed the Italy game, I feel like is what everybody's
35:52
talking about right now. Yeah.
35:54
And it's the Mark DeRosa comments regarding punching the
35:59
ticket to the quarterfinals. Now mind you, they're as we
36:04
mentioned right off the top here, they're headed to the
36:06
quarterfinals. But that was not the case when
36:10
Mark DeRosa went on MLB Network and said that, you know, it's
36:14
weird. We we really want to win this
36:16
game even though we've got our ticket punch of the
36:18
quarterfinals and that was kind of it.
36:23
And we just left it at that. And then people start asking
36:27
questions going, wait, wait a minute, let's can we rewind
36:30
there for a second? Can we talk about that?
36:33
And the whole thing blows up. And next thing you know, every
36:38
baseball outlet is posting about the fact that Mark DeRosa was
36:43
confident that Team USA had punched their ticket to the
36:46
quarterfinals with the win over Mexico.
36:49
Now, I will say as the average fan attending the World Baseball
36:54
Classic, if you would have asked me 100 times, yeah, sure, 98 of
37:00
those, I'm telling you, oh, we're three and oh, I'm going to
37:04
assume we're moving on. But I'm not the manager of Team
37:08
USA, so it's not necessarily on me to know at that moment in
37:15
time whether or not we have our ticket punch.
37:17
What's crazy though is that through some quotes through
37:24
through a little digging around, through some research done by
37:28
reporters, I'm guessing found out that apparently Team USA was
37:34
celebrating a little hard after the Mexico game and turns out
37:37
that it was almost certainly because they thought they had
37:41
clinched. Which then led to what I believe
37:46
was a rest game line up the next day against HE.
37:53
Said that he said the boys are hanging because it started in
37:56
the bus. No, he said.
37:58
He said. He said the boys are dragging.
38:00
He said some of the boys are dragging.
38:02
Yeah, starting the bus, then carried into the hotel.
38:06
So the boys are dragging today. Yeah, with a grin and I'm going,
38:11
my God, what are we doing? So then you you, you see the
38:17
line up rolled out for Italy. You got Paul Goldschmidt at
38:21
first. You got Gunner playing third,
38:24
which to your credit, you had been saying that that should
38:26
have been done from the jump. Hadn't been doing too much.
38:30
I was kind of wanting to get Gunner in there.
38:34
Yeah, it was, it was. I was a fan of that, that
38:37
thought I was glad to see it. It played out that way.
38:41
But yeah, not not our best lineup.
38:43
It was really the, I think what really sold the fact that D Rd.
38:49
had no clue was the the pitching, the decisions with
38:52
pitching. Yeah, in the Italy game, yeah,
38:55
you know, you're rolling out. Yarbrough is the first line of
38:58
defense out of the pen. You've got Kershaw warming up, I
39:02
think with the bases loaded at one point.
39:05
Right, like it was it felt like full on punt and they they
39:09
talked about Goldie being on 1st and not being pinch ran for and
39:15
there was a ball in the gap that he I think it was right before
39:17
the PCA three run home run. So it kind of didn't matter
39:20
eventually, but should have scored from first if any
39:24
literally Byron Buxton sitting on the bench would have would
39:28
have scored standing up. So yeah, I don't think he knew.
39:34
And shame on like how did none of the other coaching, no other
39:39
coaching staff member. No, you got to assume there's
39:44
some other people on the outside that are helping with this.
39:47
No one says anything. This interview is on MLB
39:51
Network, his employer. And no one said, oh, wait, whoa,
39:59
whoa, whoa, you're not in yet. No, we just.
40:03
Like went along with it. For like 24 hours, dude, no one
40:07
says anything. I I can promise you that he
40:14
didn't know I love Dero. I'm I still love Dero.
40:22
I still think he should be an MOB manager.
40:24
Yeah, I agree. I absolutely think that I don't
40:28
think this slip up should be defined by that.
40:31
And I've seen a lot of other, you know, opinions and comments
40:34
saying like, you know, other countries have big league
40:38
managers that, you know, we're not taking it fully seriously
40:42
because we don't have a big league manager in this place.
40:44
And it's it's just like, I don't know, you can't make everyone
40:48
happy. This is obviously a mistake, but
40:52
I'm not excusing it. That's a bad mistake.
40:57
It's a big mistake. You need to know the rules.
41:00
Someone in that room needs to know the rules.
41:03
Well, I think what made it worse is when he came out and said,
41:06
well, I misspoke. It's like D Roe, you know good
41:10
and well that you didn't misspeak.
41:11
You didn't know. You just didn't know.
41:14
And that part of that falls on you, part of that falls on your
41:17
staff, and the other part of that falls on literally anybody
41:22
associated with the organization.
41:24
Anybody to let somebody know at the top, like, hey, anybody, we
41:30
got to win tomorrow if we want to control our own destiny.
41:33
Wives, girlfriends, nobody's off the literally anybody.
41:36
Somebody could have said something and I'm I'm just I'm
41:42
grateful that we, you know, started to kind of I seem like
41:47
they maybe found out at some point started figuring out.
41:50
I don't know if that's just the flow of the game that we started
41:53
to fight a little bit and you know, the three run bomb and
41:56
then Roman Anthony and like, you know, we started getting going.
42:01
But yo, I did not feel comfortable today waiting for
42:06
this game to decide our fate for a team that like we talked
42:11
about, like if this USA team doesn't win, like I don't, I
42:15
don't know how you assemble a better team.
42:18
That's, that's what I'm saying I put out.
42:20
I put out that video today just talking about how like this,
42:24
this was not the Team USA experience we were promised like
42:29
it, this was supposed to be different.
42:32
This was supposed to just be The Avengers being assembled,
42:38
rolling into Houston, dog walking every team in Pool play.
42:43
And then it's got all these other storylines and all these
42:47
other. Distractions It has.
42:49
Team USA has turned into an episode of Gossip Girl like
42:55
every other storyline except what's happening on the field,
42:59
minus the the play of a few, you know, Bobby Witt, my guy, Paul
43:07
schemes doing exactly what was what was expected, what was
43:12
advertised and and you know, some others mixed in there as
43:15
well. But otherwise, this, this Team
43:18
USA, all you know, granted, they made it in, but this it this
43:22
just, it wasn't supposed to be this way.
43:25
Underwhelming. And I just feel like with the
43:27
way that this team is, is going about this tournament, unless
43:33
something changes, this team cannot and will not win this
43:37
WBC. You, you can have all the talent
43:39
in the world. And I think we can credit the
43:42
three wins of the four games we played, talent, talent alone and
43:47
maybe a combination of, of the opponent in, in certain cases,
43:52
definitely playing a bunch of high a guys like that's OK.
43:55
So we can we can combine that with the with the raw talent
43:58
that exists on Team USA. However, what happened in Pool
44:03
play with Team USA is not going to fly against the Dominicans
44:10
against Japan. Venezuela.
44:12
No shot. What are we doing?
44:15
This is not, this is not going to fly.
44:17
And it's, it's frankly just been embarrassing to see it.
44:22
It, it's such a bizarre feeling because I, I almost feel like
44:26
it's, it's been a let down Like the, the, the, the, the
44:29
experience being there in person was great.
44:32
It was great seeing some, you know, some big moments,
44:35
Schwarber judge things like that.
44:37
But it just feels like we're not taking it as seriously as the
44:42
rest of the teams in this tournament.
44:45
Like I've seen the, I've seen the line a few times on social.
44:49
Now the rest of the field is playing as though this is game
44:54
seven. We're treating this like an All
44:56
Star game. Yeah, dude, 100%.
44:58
I mean, they talked about it specifically tonight around
45:01
Italy, like Francisco Cervelli driving across Italy, all over
45:08
the place, trying to find players, not for this team, for
45:12
the 18 U team, for the 15 U team, trying to build this up
45:17
for the future. That along with the Lorenzen and
45:28
Nola being saved for the last two, like we were just so
45:34
worried about like sticking to these guys's schedules and like
45:38
we don't want to mess up their spring training.
45:40
And you know, we're we're burning scuba against the Great
45:44
Britain team that we probably could have beaten no problem,
45:48
right? And like, luckily we advanced,
45:52
but like we probably could have switched McClain and and web, no
45:57
reason we have web going against Brazil.
46:00
Brazil got Brazil like potentially needs to not play
46:05
baseball anymore based off of this weekend.
46:08
So we could have absolutely shifted things around.
46:11
I get the big league club thing and there's probably someone
46:15
specifically who's not in our corner right now would call us
46:18
out on this. That that is the main focus and
46:21
that's the main commitment. And I get that.
46:24
I understand that it's being shoved down our throat, but like
46:30
it is awfully refreshing to see other guys saying, no, I'll do
46:35
it for the front of my chest. I'll do it for that name, not
46:38
the name on the back. And we got a couple couple guys
46:40
that'll do that. But then you're looking at all
46:42
these other countries and they're like, no, that is what
46:44
what we're doing. I don't care.
46:47
I don't care that I'm only scheduled to do this this day.
46:51
I don't, I don't care that I need to go finish my bullpen
46:55
after and I don't care. I'm doing it for this.
47:01
Why is it that that's so much so much more prevalent than what
47:06
you're hearing about some of these other big league guys
47:08
specifically playing for Team USAI?
47:11
Don't know. Maybe we're too critical.
47:15
I thank the Lord that Team Italy looks legit and our and is
47:21
Ballin, by the way, sick coaching staff.
47:26
Francisco Cervelli, Jorge Posada and Sal Fasano, just three
47:32
Italian catchers in the dugout. No, so I learned this.
47:36
I learned this this weekend or actually last night when I was
47:40
watching Italy game. Posada has no Italian heritage,
47:44
he said. The only connection he has Italy
47:46
is that he likes Italian food. I thought his wife was Italian
47:50
or something. I thought like his family was
47:52
Italian. I.
47:54
Maybe I misheard the quote, but I I think they said like direct
47:57
bloodline heritage thing like maybe he married into it.
48:01
I don't think so, but he he they were like, or he, he basically
48:05
was like, yeah, I I just like pizza and pasta.
48:07
That's really my only connection to Italy.
48:10
But I think it passes though that his nose and his last name,
48:14
I think. But if that's the case, then we
48:15
could all coach Italy, you know, right?
48:19
That's what passes. I just figured it was a cool
48:21
coaching staff. No I agree 3 catchers.
48:23
I guess not all were Italian, but either way man, I.
48:30
Look, I know it's our. Way into this and and like I'm
48:33
I'm glad we're still in it. It's definitely better than
48:35
getting eliminated without even having the chance to.
48:40
You know, I guess we did have the chance, but leaving it in
48:43
other, you know, hands, fate, fate in other hands.
48:47
Yeah, look, I know it's, it's, it sounds like we're being super
48:52
critical, but it's it's we're not be I, I promise you we were
48:57
there. We wanted to like be hyped up
49:00
about this. And I think for the most part,
49:02
we we, we were. But it's hard when you feel like
49:06
you care more than 80% of the guys on the team and I I get it.
49:12
They get, you know, they get paid to do what they do for a
49:16
living. But like, I just wish that some
49:20
of these egos could be set aside and and that there's no denied
49:23
it. There are egos on this team.
49:25
100%. I just wish for a week, two
49:29
weeks tops that we could set those aside and and fall in line
49:34
with the the, the passion, the the desire to want to win this
49:38
thing with the Mexico, with the Japan.
49:41
Well, I think that's the argument of the Olympics is that
49:44
it's a lot of these aren't professionals, a lot of them are
49:47
young and that is like it. This feels rare.
49:51
It feels like a once in a lifetime opportunity you should
49:56
be grateful for. And our guy, a lot of our guys
49:59
are just like, but you get out of the young guys, right?
50:04
Like you get out of the guys that aren't, you know, everyday
50:09
names. You know what's ironic?
50:13
Team USA in the 2026 World Baseball Classic is going up
50:17
against all of these other teams that are the 1980 US hockey
50:22
team. Young, unpolished, hungry
50:27
players that just want to win the whole thing going up against
50:33
a Team USA of just these established stars.
50:36
And I'm not saying that there's not established stars on other
50:39
teams, but collectively, not to this collectively not to this
50:43
level like this. This was the this was supposed
50:46
to be The Avengers. And ironically enough, we're
50:50
going up against all of these other 1980 US hockey esque teams
50:55
that don't care about the numbers, the data, the the
50:58
probabilities. They just want to go out and
51:00
win, drink their espressos and, and win the whole thing.
51:06
That that's it, that's it. That's, that's what's ironic
51:09
about this. But yeah, it it's like, I know
51:10
it sounds like you're being critical, but it's coming from a
51:13
place of like wanting this team to care more and wanting this
51:20
team to like get their act together for this.
51:23
Because like, if we're all going to invest our time and like the
51:26
people that actually care about this event, I'm not talking to
51:28
the people that couldn't care less about the World Baseball
51:30
Classic, are actively rude against it.
51:32
Talking to the people that like this event.
51:34
If we're all going to invest our time and energy into this as
51:38
well as these players, I just wish they would do it in a way
51:42
that reflects a desire to to want to win and be competitive.
51:47
Yeah, now with that being said, let's go, let's go smack Canada
51:52
on Friday. Is that who we got?
51:55
Is that what the? Is that what the?
51:57
I think that's what I was hearing on the broadcast.
52:00
Let's go remind them that they're they mean nothing.
52:04
I'm not. Yeah.
52:05
I mean, they're still, they're still bent over from the hockey
52:10
finals. Let's go.
52:12
Let's go kick him in the teeth, you know?
52:14
That's what it was, is that it's like, I I think that was what's
52:21
his face, JP John Perosi, Yeah, was talking about.
52:26
He's like the irony of the John Perosi John.
52:31
What's his? Last name.
52:31
Morosi, Morosi, JP Morosi. There it is.
52:34
John Perosi. Yeah, I like that too.
52:37
The like tie in with the Olympics where it was basically
52:42
like Team USA beating Canada and that was in Italy.
52:49
And now because of Italy, we're getting to face Team Canada
52:53
again on Friday. So that was kind of cool.
52:57
Good point. That's fair.
52:58
Yeah. They're, Yeah.
52:59
Good job, Porosi. They're Yeah.
53:02
Canada's still picking up their teeth from the Olympics.
53:04
Yeah, Suck it. Let's go.
53:07
Let's go kick the others in. No, But that, that leads me to,
53:11
I guess what's, what's my final point here?
53:13
And is that, Look, I, I, I know I've said all of this.
53:17
Good, good, good. I know I've said all of this and
53:22
it probably sounds like I'm super anti Team USA right now,
53:26
but I hope that you can see through that and like understand
53:31
that I'm trying to like, or I'm just hopeful that this team can
53:36
like change something or somebody can come out and say
53:40
something between now and the next game.
53:42
Being like, you know, effectively just be like, Hey,
53:49
we, we needed an attitude change.
53:51
So we've we've we've talked about things, had a players only
53:54
meeting or something like that. And now we're going to go do
53:57
what we what we came here to do. And I'd be I'd be so back on
54:01
board. And if, if some of these guy
54:03
like a Bryce Harper, if if I saw some guys like that come out and
54:07
show out. I'm I'm so back, so back, so
54:12
back. But if it just continues to be
54:15
this drudgery, this indifference, that's the biggest
54:19
thing for me, it just seems like.
54:21
I need a flips I need, I need to I need to see a flip switch here
54:25
like I need, I need them to just completely go the way I need
54:29
them to be like that's what I said.
54:31
I need a flipped switch, flipped switch.
54:34
I need. I just need like stone cold
54:36
killers. That's what I need locked in.
54:42
Don't care. That was pool play.
54:44
We're done with that. Let's go get dubs.
54:47
Yeah? Friday, Korea will play the Dr.
54:55
and then US plays Canada. Korea #1.
54:59
Korea number one shout out Marais Saturday, Puerto Rico
55:03
against Italy and Venezuela against Japan.
55:08
So those are the eight teams remaining and then immediately
55:16
goes into immediately, immediately goes into the game
55:21
Sunday and Monday too. So it's going to be great.
55:26
I'm going to be tapped in and be locked in.
55:27
I'm. Going to be wearing the jersey
55:31
I'm going to be pulling so hard, but I swear if I see if I see
55:39
anybody on this team just acting like it's a chore, I'm just
55:42
going to turn it off like I I because I don't want to I I no
55:49
I'm serious man like I'm. Going to turn anything off.
55:52
I'm going to, if, if I see it, well, let me rephrase.
55:56
If I, if I, if I, if I hear any more sound bites between now and
56:00
the game, I, I might not even watch the game because I, I, I,
56:04
like I said, I need, I need a, a mindset shift here because we
56:09
got to go out and win this thing and it's been, it's been a
56:13
little ugly. I can't believe I'd be saying
56:15
that after going three and one in Pool play, but it just feels
56:18
like it's. Been.
56:19
It's been ugly, so let's figure out a way to go win this thing,
56:24
and I guess it starts with Canada.
56:28
Yeah, last note, shout out Vinnie P3 Jacks tonight.
56:33
Dude, if Vinnie P would have hit a fourth Homer, he might have
56:37
suffered from a heart attack with that 4th espresso.
56:40
I know I was. That guy's going to be up till
56:43
4:00 AM. I was worried for his health.
56:47
How I I don't even know what what is an espresso equivalent
56:51
to. I'm not a big big.
56:54
Coffee guy I think like 1 espresso is like 4 cups of
56:58
coffee. How much caffeine a shot of
57:03
espresso? 64 milligrams.
57:06
Is that a lot? I don't know, couldn't tell you.
57:13
All I know is that my wife spends extra dollars to put
57:18
extra shots of espresso in her drive through coffee.
57:24
So it's got to, it's got to be something.
57:26
The average 8 oz cup of brewed coffee contains 96 milligrams of
57:31
caffeine. The average 1 oz shot of
57:32
espresso contains 64 milligrams. Yeah, I think, I think you're
57:38
having more than I think you're having like 3 oz.
57:40
I don't think you're having just one ounce, right?
57:43
Fair. Yeah.
57:44
Well, this is a shot. I don't know.
57:46
Starbucks has 75 per shot. Yeah, all I'd say.
57:52
He's not sleeping. Nope, good for them.
57:56
It really looks good man. I like that shout out Nola dice
58:01
tonight. Good stuff.
58:07
Any other thoughts on the trip or anything else we we failed to
58:10
mention feel like we? How How do you feel about your
58:15
card addiction? Do you feel like it started?
58:17
You feel like do you feel like you want it?
58:21
You can't wait to go get more cards?
58:23
Is there? Is it?
58:27
I'm happy to have answers the questions that I've had for some
58:31
time that have quite frankly just kind of scared me away from
58:35
getting into it too D because I'm like, I don't know the
58:38
difference between a hobby mega hanger blaster super ultra
58:42
deluxe box and just a regular box from Walmart.
58:46
Luckily, we had some experts with us.
58:48
Shot him out, but I've got some, like I said, I've got some
58:52
answers, got some clarity. I I I feel good about the the
58:58
start or I shouldn't even say start the the re entry into the
59:02
hobby because I did this a bunch as a kid, but not not as
59:05
seriously as people do it these days.
59:06
But I'm excited to see what the future of of Casey's cards.
59:11
Holds, Yeah, I won't out us. There was a lot of overall
59:17
dollars spent on cards between the group collectively, but the
59:24
best card was pulled from a retail box, which is arguably
59:29
the cheapest box you can get and get them anywhere.
59:32
And that was the best card. Jake pulled like a numbered one
59:36
out of 50. I think it was Paul Skean's
59:39
cards. That's sick.
59:43
That's I think it was worth like 60 or 70 bucks or something like
59:46
that that came out of a box that didn't cost that much.
59:50
So that gave me hope because I'm like, I don't want to, I'm not
59:56
trying to suspend the bag. So I guess the addiction hasn't
1:00:00
like fully taken over yet. Maybe if I if I pull something
1:00:04
like that in my next purchase. Yeah, I think I need to let some
1:00:09
time pass to let the the high sort of fade a little bit so I
1:00:13
don't become a degenerate. So for sure.
1:00:17
But All in all, I'm I'm, I'm enjoying the cards again.
1:00:20
Yeah, me too. Me too.
1:00:23
Great trip, lot of fun tried to I'm trying to eat a little
1:00:29
healthier now since getting back It's it's fair we got to reel it
1:00:33
in like quinoa tonight. I.
1:00:35
Saw that it's a good. That's a good though.
1:00:38
It's a good pivot. Yeah, yeah, I'm a better man.
1:00:42
I'm a better man already. But believe it.
1:00:45
Yeah, Now I got to go poop. So that's what good food does.
1:00:49
That's what good food does, you know?
1:00:50
Quality food runs through you. Shout out, shout out to Italy.
1:00:56
Thank you for the assist. We'll see y'all next week.
1:01:00
Don't go chase the curveballs. Love you all, and as always,
1:01:02
looking forward to talking more baseball with you guys soon.
1:01:04
Until next time, stay filthy.