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WBC Updates: Ken Rosenthal & Team Italy’s Jon Berti join FT · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Touch out.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to foul territory. We're gonna get into a
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Speaker 2: little WBC discussion. Boys, USA versus Canada tonight, our neighbors
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Speaker 2: to the north.
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Speaker 3: What do you got?
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Speaker 2: Joe Ryan's gonna come on for Clayton Kershaw if they
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Speaker 2: make it past this game. Matthew Boyd has left. We've
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Speaker 2: already heard about some roster moves with the bullpen. Tim Hill,
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Speaker 2: will vest right, Tyler Rodgers coming on. What do you
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Speaker 2: guys think happens tonight in the USA Versus Canada?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 5: I think ultimately USA is gonna come out on top.
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Speaker 5: That's why I'm wearing this shirt. I think they do.
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Speaker 5: I don't know if it's in the blowout fashion ag.
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Speaker 5: I've heard you talk about it a little bit earlier.
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Speaker 5: I've talked about a little bit earlier. Canada team is
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Speaker 5: not a team to be messed with. This is probably
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Speaker 5: their best team in a long time. They've been playing well.
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Speaker 5: They beat a good Puerto Rico team. They ended up
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Speaker 5: beating a good Cuba team, so they're battle tested. USA
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Speaker 5: should not take this lightly. But I do see them winning,
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Speaker 5: you know, not by blowof fashion, but I do see
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Speaker 5: them winning.
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Speaker 4: You know, A pretty close game for sure.
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Speaker 6: Obviously this is the time when somebody for Canada needs
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Speaker 6: to step up in the bullpen. You've got some I
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Speaker 6: was looking over their roster and you got some guys.
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Speaker 6: Filipo Mont I mean I played with Filipomnt back in
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Speaker 6: twenty I think it was twenty twelve and maybe even
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Speaker 6: twenty eleven, and he was like twenty or twenty one
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Speaker 6: years old, came over in the Cliff Lee deal. You
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Speaker 6: have to have somebody that steps up that you're like, oh,
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Speaker 6: I remember that name, and you know, oh, he's he's
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Speaker 6: able to throw for him because they don't have as
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Speaker 6: many guys as they had before in that bullpen that
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Speaker 6: were established, like you have a you have different different
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Speaker 6: Canadian closers that have gone over to Japan and had
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Speaker 6: great careers.
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Speaker 7: Scott Mathieson is the one that comes to mind.
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Speaker 6: I think he played in four of the WBCs. He'll
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Speaker 6: probably text me and be like, no, I played in
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Speaker 6: every single one of them except for this one. So
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Speaker 6: it's one of those things that this team has to
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Speaker 6: be able to have everything hit perfectly because some of
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Speaker 6: their strengths are and they're starting pitching with Soroka with
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Speaker 6: Jamison ty On. Fortunately for them, they have Soroka going tonight,
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Speaker 6: and can he be the guy that mixes and matches
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Speaker 6: because he's not gonna blow one hundred miles an hour
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Speaker 6: past these guys. And that's in my opinion I said
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Speaker 6: before this, that's not how you try to beat Team USA.
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Speaker 6: You can't try to outstuff them. You have to do
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Speaker 6: what Michael Lorenzen did to a T And then you
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Speaker 6: saw what happened when they got to a little bit
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Speaker 6: of some of the weaker guys in that Italian bullpen.
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Speaker 6: They still scored six runs against him. And I'm just
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Speaker 6: afraid if Canada can't put up six runs, it's gonna
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Speaker 6: be tough to keep the US under six runs.
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Speaker 2: All Right, Well, we got the Canada, don't forget the
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Speaker 2: Naylor brothers lineup is not case. We've talked about the
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Speaker 2: Naylor brothers. They've got some guys that can can swing.
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Speaker 2: You mentioned who has to step up for Canada. Eric
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Speaker 2: Who's the guy for the US that has to step
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Speaker 2: up and be the guy that leads either the pitching
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Speaker 2: staff or the offense.
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Speaker 6: I mean, obviously it starts with Logan Web but that's
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Speaker 6: that's an easy one. But to me, it really has
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Speaker 6: to be the top of the lineup because you can't
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Speaker 6: pitch around Aaron Judge. And I don't know what the
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Speaker 6: line's gonna look like, the configuration. I assume Bobby WIT's
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Speaker 6: gonna be gonna be up there one or two, and
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Speaker 6: whoever it is ahead of judge.
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Speaker 7: Everybody says, well, you can't.
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Speaker 6: You can't pitch the judge because or you have to
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Speaker 6: pitch the judge because so and so is hitting behind them.
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Speaker 6: I think in a tournament like this, and Todd can
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Speaker 6: attest to this. In international baseball, when there's traffic on
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Speaker 6: the basis, everybody gets a little bit more panicked. It'll
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Speaker 6: be less with Soroka. And you know, Logan Web is
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Speaker 6: not gonna panic. These guys with big Lee experience are
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Speaker 6: gonna have are gonna have less panic in their system.
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Speaker 6: But it just when the table gets set in front
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Speaker 6: of judge, it makes them say, crap, we gotta throw
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Speaker 6: to them, or we can't just put them on to
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Speaker 6: load the bases for Kyle Swarb or Bryce Harper, whoever's
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Speaker 6: hitting behind him. I get that, but it really matters
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Speaker 6: if those guys ahead of them put him in a
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Speaker 6: spot where he can drive guys in. So am I
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Speaker 6: saying Aaron Judge has to step up? No, I'm saying
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Speaker 6: the guys in front of him have to allow Aaron
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Speaker 6: Judge to be the best hitter on the planet like
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Speaker 6: he is.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and to your point, the guys in front of
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Speaker 5: him have to do well, but also the guys behind
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Speaker 5: them too, because one or the other. I think there's
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Speaker 5: gonna be opportunities for both of these guys to step up.
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Speaker 5: Whoever's hitting in the front or behind. But a name
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Speaker 5: like a Bryce Harper and now he's two for ten,
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Speaker 5: but guess what, he's viable to hit three home runs today,
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Speaker 5: you know, like a Pasquatina. The guy is that good
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Speaker 5: of a baseball player. I'm not really worried about him,
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Speaker 5: but he has to be ready to go. And I
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Speaker 5: think the bullpen too. I think the bullpen better be ready.
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Speaker 5: Once Web is done. These guys got to step it up,
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Speaker 5: keep doing what they're doing, get out, throw strikes, and
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Speaker 5: you know, basically when when and if Canada is losing,
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Speaker 5: they got to stomp on them and keep the pressure
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Speaker 5: on them. Because you've seen some of these games. USA
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Speaker 5: came back down eight nothing. You see Venezuela putting pressure
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Speaker 5: on Dominican in the last inning, so ultimately win the game,
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Speaker 5: win it by a lot, and don't keep putting the
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Speaker 5: pressure on these guys.
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Speaker 2: Well, by the way, we keep talking about the USA
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Speaker 2: and Canada game, there's also another game today, which is
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Speaker 2: a quarterfinal matchup with a couple of big name teams
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Speaker 2: in at Korea versus Dominican Republic in Miami is going
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Speaker 2: to be absolutely electric. I'm not going to ask you
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Speaker 2: all to break down the Korea team because we don't
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Speaker 2: know a lot about them. So maybe let's go a
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Speaker 2: little bit in the Dominican team. How many homers do
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Speaker 2: we think they hit? How many bat flips do we
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Speaker 2: think they'll have? How will they're pitching? Hold up Sandy
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Speaker 2: al contras That I'll pitch anywhere. I'll pitch five innings,
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Speaker 2: I'll pitch the ninth, I'll pitch the seventh. What do
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Speaker 2: you guys think happens in the Korea?
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Speaker 5: Dominican Todd, I'll go Krasty's ready, go ahead, big dog,
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Speaker 5: your itching.
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Speaker 6: No, I was just gonna I was gonna take the
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Speaker 6: tougher part. I'll take Korea. I'll take Korea. Oh God,
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Speaker 6: so that Todd can say, you know, all all the
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Speaker 6: home runs in the battlists, because we know Todd loves
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Speaker 6: all that flash and flare.
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Speaker 7: But it's Hunging Rio. It's hunting real. We know Hunging Reo.
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Speaker 6: He he had opportunities to pitch in the big leagues
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Speaker 6: after he left to go back and pitching Korea, and
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Speaker 6: he wanted to go back and pitching Korea. And he's
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Speaker 6: he's done well over there. He knows how to get
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Speaker 6: big league hitters out. The issue that I see is
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Speaker 6: Hunting Rio. I don't know where his velocity, his stuff,
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Speaker 6: any of that stuff is at is He was consistently
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Speaker 6: a guy that threw that cutter through, that big curveball
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Speaker 6: that he'd land for a strike, and they'd try to
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Speaker 6: get you to bounce, but that back door cutter, he'd
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Speaker 6: run it. He would try to run the back door
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Speaker 6: cutter more than he would like Clayton Kershaw cut her
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Speaker 6: down and in cut her up and in kind of thing.
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Speaker 6: And I'm just afraid if he doesn't establish the inside
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Speaker 6: part of the plate to these Dominican hitters, the way
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Speaker 6: that they look in this tournament, but also the way
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Speaker 6: that they look generally because they're All Stars and MVP
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Speaker 6: type players.
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Speaker 7: I'm just afraid it's not.
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Speaker 6: Going to go well because of the fact that you
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Speaker 6: can't just live out over the plate or out away
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Speaker 6: from these guys. You have to be able to get
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Speaker 6: in on their hands, to be able to neutralize some
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Speaker 6: of that extension that almost everybody up and down this
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Speaker 6: lineup is getting.
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Speaker 4: I think a few things.
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Speaker 5: The atmosphere his career going to be ready for the
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Speaker 5: for the loud music, the craziness of the fans. I
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Speaker 5: think they are for one, I think they've been around
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Speaker 5: it before.
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Speaker 4: It's just going to be a.
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Speaker 5: Little bit more looser, a little bit more fun, a
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Speaker 5: little bit more you know, attitude. If they could make
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Speaker 5: this game low scoring, I think Korea does have a shot.
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Speaker 5: And I say that lightly. I think they do have
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Speaker 5: a shot. And you have a veteran in Hinshew, like
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Speaker 5: listen if he can manipulate the strike zone and throw
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Speaker 5: a lot of strikes, because this team has been very
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Speaker 5: good as hitters, laying off all those pitches that a
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Speaker 5: lot of the times they usually swing at. But again,
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Speaker 5: if Korea is gonna keep this score low. The discipline
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Speaker 5: of this team. They've played together for a long time.
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Speaker 5: These guys know each other. Yeah, they do have a shot,
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Speaker 5: but if they start giving up even an infield single,
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Speaker 5: it doesn't matter. The crowd's gonna go absolutely bonkers. They're
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Speaker 5: going to be spinning around the bases. This team plays
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Speaker 5: really well in the Dominican and they have some bats
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Speaker 5: that are absolutely some of the best in the world.
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Speaker 5: So finding a way to minimize runs, having those big
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Speaker 5: innings minimize, then Korea will have their shot.
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Speaker 6: All right, Well, we know Time's learn his Olympic his
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Speaker 6: Olympic USA quarter zip, so we know he's for USA.
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Speaker 6: We know that aj has been born in New York, Florida, Chicago.
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Speaker 6: He's one hundred percent American. So tonight, are you cheering
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Speaker 6: for Korea to play the US after they win or
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Speaker 6: are you like it's okay whoever they play.
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Speaker 2: Whoever praps, it doesn't matter, It doesn't matter. I mean,
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Speaker 2: look at how it went against Italy. It doesn't matter
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Speaker 2: who they play. It's it's just an easy tournament for
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Speaker 2: the US to slide right through. Right now, of course
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Speaker 2: I'm hearing, I won't listen I want the best matchups
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Speaker 2: right in USA versus Dominican in Miami would be absolutely incredible.
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Speaker 3: But do we think here's a better question.
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Speaker 2: Do we think Dominican is a problem for anybody that
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Speaker 2: has to face him if they beat Korea? And then
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask both of you guys, is and whoever
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Speaker 2: wants to answer, do we think Let's say, Korea is
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Speaker 2: really good at playing small ball and not a lot
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Speaker 2: of these teams are used to playing and defending the
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Speaker 2: small ball. The bunch, the steals, the hit and runs.
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Speaker 2: Korea does that and Japan does that. That's why they've
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Speaker 2: been so successful in this tournament. If it's tight in
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Speaker 2: the end, Korea gets a guy on, they bunt and
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Speaker 2: we see someone maybe make a mistake throwing a ball
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Speaker 2: to a base. We've seen that from some of these relievers.
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Speaker 2: Is Dominican a problem for you guys? And can the
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Speaker 2: Korea small ball be a problem for the Dominican today?
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Speaker 4: Yeah? I think a little bit of both.
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Speaker 5: And I think with Korea, I talked about it, for
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Speaker 5: their discipline and their honor of the game and how
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Speaker 5: these guys play, they're a problem for anybody. Korea, Japan, Chinese,
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Speaker 5: type pei. You know, Chinese tip pey just didn't have
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Speaker 5: the firepower. That was their problem. But this Korea team
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Speaker 5: they play hard. They play hard against Japan. They are
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Speaker 5: gonna come out and they are going to slap the
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Speaker 5: ball the other way. They're gonna get the bunt down,
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Speaker 5: They're gonna go first to third. They're gonna be in
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Speaker 5: the right positions. You're not gonna see many mistakes. And
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Speaker 5: if you do see some mistakes, it's because of the
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Speaker 5: atmosphere and the crowd, and that got to them a
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Speaker 5: little bit. But this team is ready for it. They're
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Speaker 5: ready for all the smoke. They're respectful, they honor the
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Speaker 5: other team. But ultimately this team here, you saw them,
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Speaker 5: they're crying, they're ready to go. They've wanted this moment
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Speaker 5: for a long time. It's just a matter of how
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Speaker 5: the pitching is gonna be and if they're ready for
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Speaker 5: this moment, you know, coming over here to play against
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Speaker 5: a really good team.
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Speaker 6: All right, Well then we got to get to the
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Speaker 6: next game. Then Japan versus Venezuela A jay. I gotta
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Speaker 6: ask you first, who do you think has the better
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Speaker 6: starting pitcher, because then I want it based on the
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Speaker 6: lineup that they're gonna be facing Ranger Suarez from Venezuela
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Speaker 6: versus Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Obviously, Yamamoto's had the better season, but
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Speaker 6: I mean the better career in the big leagues so far.
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Speaker 6: But do you feel like Rangers' ability to change speeds
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Speaker 6: will be enough to keep the Japanese lineup down one
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Speaker 6: hundred percent?
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Speaker 2: And I also think he's pitched his huge games for
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Speaker 2: the Phillies. Let's not forget this. Dude's a monster in
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Speaker 2: the postseason. He's an absolute monster in the postseason. He's
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Speaker 2: had unbelievable postseason success. So he can slow the heart,
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Speaker 2: he can breathe, he has all the all the tools
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Speaker 2: to be fine. And the one thing I love about
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Speaker 2: him is he's left handed cratzy. The Japanese lineup has
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Speaker 2: a ton of lefties in it. Whether you're going show Hey, Murkami,
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Speaker 2: whoever you want to go through this list Yoshida. They
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Speaker 2: have a ton of lefties, so he can neutralize them
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Speaker 2: with his not only has change up with the little
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Speaker 2: breaking ball he throws. So I think this is a
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Speaker 2: great matchup for Venezuela. Listen, do we all know what
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Speaker 2: Yamamoto can do we saw it in the World Series. Absolutely,
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Speaker 2: But if they can survive that and then get to
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Speaker 2: the bullpen, Venezuela, as we talked to Carlos narvaias, they
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Speaker 2: have some dudes coming out of the bullpen, and the
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Speaker 2: offense for Venezuela is real.
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Speaker 3: Salvador Prez Suarez rise.
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Speaker 2: I mean, the names are all names you've heard of
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Speaker 2: Akunya right, This offense is real. So I think if
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Speaker 2: they keep it close, the pressure starts mounting on Japan,
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Speaker 2: the crowd will get behind Venezuela. I think this is
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Speaker 2: an unbelievable matchup. I can't wait to call this game
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Speaker 2: tomorrow night on Fox.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and again, like you said, the big point is
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Speaker 5: left on left. You know you see Shoheo Tani, he
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Speaker 5: is just in a different atmosphere. When it comes to that,
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Speaker 5: he'll be out in front of a ball scoop it
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Speaker 5: out for a home run.
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Speaker 4: I think he's gonna be ready to go. He's been.
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Speaker 5: I've saw some some clips of him teaching guys, get
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Speaker 5: your elbow up.
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Speaker 4: Next thing you know he hits a home run. So
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Speaker 4: these guys are gonna be ready to go.
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Speaker 5: They understand what the atmosphere is, and I think Showy
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Speaker 5: is gonna explain to them that too as well. Venezuela
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Speaker 5: team with Salvador Perez. I mean, he's gonna get these
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Speaker 5: guys going. He doesn't want to go home. So we'll
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Speaker 5: see who's gonna throw that first punch, because when it comes,
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Speaker 5: then the next team is gonna be on the rope.
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Speaker 4: So it's game. These games are gonna be long, They're
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Speaker 4: gonna be drawn out.
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Speaker 5: There's gonna be a lot more timeouts, and we're gonna
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Speaker 5: see who's gonna come out victorious. I mean, talk about
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Speaker 5: a guy that hasn't really done much yet. You Henniyo Suarez.
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Speaker 5: Watch out for him too. He might even be starting
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Speaker 5: or get a pinch it appearance. Watch out all.
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Speaker 2: Right, real quick? Who wins? I can't because I'm commentating.
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Speaker 2: I'm commenting. I'm commentating, So who wins?
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Speaker 3: Guys?
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Speaker 2: Give me the give me the give me the fourth
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Speaker 2: semi finalists? Off these four games we have coming, Who's
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Speaker 2: who's go ahead?
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Speaker 4: Time? All right?
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Speaker 5: I'm going Japan finding a way to win. It's gonna
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Speaker 5: be a pretty close game. I'm going Usa. I'm going
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Speaker 5: Italy Verse Japan. Excuse me, I'll go Usa versus Dominicano.
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Speaker 6: I'm going Puerto Rico versus Puerto Rico's got seth Lugo going,
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Speaker 6: so I like that Versus Japan. I guess that's chalk
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Speaker 6: and I'm chalk with the US and Dominican on the
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Speaker 6: other side.
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Speaker 2: All right, So no upsets, all right, But don't forget
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Speaker 3: Ken.
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Speaker 2: I know all you do is work all day, you
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Speaker 2: write all day. So what's your big news you're breaking today?
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Speaker 9: No big News AJ But certainly we have a meaningful
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Speaker 9: game tonight in Houston, and it's going to be really
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Speaker 9: interesting to see just how this all plays out. Canada,
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Speaker 9: like Italy, has a number of major league players, and
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Speaker 9: they're not going to be afraid. Obviously, they've got Mike
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Speaker 9: Soroka on the mound. He's faced a lot of these guys.
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Speaker 9: Do I expect the US to win? Of course, I
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Speaker 9: expect the US to win, But as we all learn
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Speaker 9: the other night, in one game, and you guys know this,
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Speaker 9: anything can happen.
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Speaker 6: If the game goes in Canada's favor early with Soroka
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Speaker 6: doing well on we assume Logan Web's gonna do well,
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Speaker 6: so it'll be low scoring. Do they have the punch
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Speaker 6: in their lineup to be able to push them past
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Speaker 6: a US team that you assume is gonna score some
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Speaker 6: runs at some point?
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Speaker 9: We have assumed that the entire tournament, and they have
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Speaker 9: at times done that. They've been inconsistent offensively. The US
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Speaker 9: has now Canada has Josh Naylor, Tyler O'Neill, bow Naylor,
17:26
Speaker 9: a number of guys who have major League experienced or,
17:30
Speaker 9: in the case of Owen Casey, major league ready. So yes,
17:34
Speaker 9: I do believe they have enough punch if it gets
17:37
Speaker 9: to that kind of game. Sure, But again the question becomes,
17:41
Speaker 9: how is this going to play out for the US. Now,
17:43
Speaker 9: keep in mind there are going to be a number
17:45
Speaker 9: of different relievers in play tonight for the US. Tyler
17:50
Speaker 9: Rodgers joining the team, Will vest Is here as well,
17:53
Speaker 9: and there was one other that is also joining the team,
17:56
Speaker 9: oh Tim Hill. So three new relievers coming in and
18:00
Speaker 9: we're going to see if the team advances. Joe Ryan
18:04
Speaker 9: come into play, possibly for the championship game. But they've
18:07
Speaker 9: got to get there, and they probably learned the other
18:10
Speaker 9: night that you cannot look past any opponent. Mark Durosis
18:13
Speaker 9: said yesterday, they probably went into that game a little
18:16
Speaker 9: overconfident and got a wake up call.
18:20
Speaker 5: Do you see any or in the foreseeable future for
18:23
Speaker 5: tonight you see any changes you know, back to the
18:26
Speaker 5: original lineup? Probably, of course, But is there any names
18:29
Speaker 5: you think that might hop in there that you don't
18:31
Speaker 5: think should be playing or should not be playing?
18:33
Speaker 4: Do you see any of those kind of changes.
18:36
Speaker 1: No.
18:36
Speaker 9: I expect to see Harper and Bregman back in the lineup, Todd,
18:40
Speaker 9: and I expect to see as well Cal Rowley back
18:42
Speaker 9: in the lineup.
18:43
Speaker 10: He caught web in that first game.
18:45
Speaker 9: The one significant move, if you want to call it
18:48
Speaker 9: that even would be p Crow Armstrong for Byron Buxton,
18:50
Speaker 9: and that is going to happen. Krol Armstrong is going
18:53
Speaker 9: to be in there, and of course he's going to
18:55
Speaker 9: be in there. He had two home runs the other night,
18:57
Speaker 9: looked great like Buxton is a premier center field. So
19:00
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19:05
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Speaker 6: And most likely you said about Joe Ryan possibly if
20:14
Speaker 6: they make the finals, does that give them a little
20:17
Speaker 6: bit of different leeway with Nolan McClain. Is there a
20:19
Speaker 6: chance he'd be ready for a bullpen appearance or the
20:23
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20:25
Speaker 6: a certain way, or have you not been privy to
20:27
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20:29
Speaker 1: No.
20:29
Speaker 9: If Nolan McClain pitches in the championship game, which is
20:33
Speaker 9: the expectation, that's how it's lined up. If they get there,
20:36
Speaker 9: then he would start. That would be my expectation.
20:39
Speaker 10: Joe Ryan would be not quite an emergency guy, but
20:43
Speaker 10: not someone you would expect to see start a game.
20:46
Speaker 9: He just has made one spring training start coming off
20:49
Speaker 9: that lower back inflammation. He pitched three strong innings in
20:52
Speaker 9: that spring training start, but he is not.
20:55
Speaker 10: Built up for anything like a start in a WBC.
20:58
Speaker 9: I would think it would be one innings max for him,
21:02
Speaker 9: if indeed they get that far. But guys, we're talking
21:05
Speaker 9: about a team that just did lose to Italy, faces
21:08
Speaker 9: Canada tonight and then if it wins, would face the
21:11
Speaker 9: winner of the Dominican Republic Korea quarterfinal in Miami on Sunday,
21:16
Speaker 9: And regardless of who wins that game, I think the
21:18
Speaker 9: Dominican is, of course favored.
21:20
Speaker 10: It's not going to be easy. So I think if
21:23
Speaker 10: there's one thing we've all learned here, including the manager of.
21:26
Speaker 9: This team and the players on this team, don't look
21:28
Speaker 9: ahead one game at a time.
21:30
Speaker 2: Ken, what has the strategy changed for the US Because
21:33
Speaker 2: Clay Home's gone, right, Matthew Boyd back gone, now they
21:37
Speaker 2: have Joe Ryant coming in their Their playing originally was
21:39
Speaker 2: kind of to piggyback and and use relievers when they
21:42
Speaker 2: could if they needed them. Has that strategy changed now
21:45
Speaker 2: they're hoping Logan Web probably goes five innings at least
21:47
Speaker 2: tonight with this new pitch count, and then they can
21:50
Speaker 2: then they can deploy their relievers however they won, and
21:53
Speaker 2: then they you know, then they get the off day
21:54
Speaker 2: and then they can then they have schemes going for
21:57
Speaker 2: hopefully five or six innings, and then they can use
21:59
Speaker 2: the kind of the same guys because it won't be
22:01
Speaker 2: back to back days, right, So has the strategy for
22:04
Speaker 2: the US changed a little bit after what happened, especially
22:07
Speaker 2: in the Italy game where they were kind of stuck
22:10
Speaker 2: with who they had McLean and then Yarborough and then
22:13
Speaker 2: they were like, oh man, who do we pitch next?
22:14
Speaker 3: Or has it changed a little bit?
22:17
Speaker 9: I don't know aj that it's changed as much as
22:20
Speaker 9: circumstances have changed. And what has happened here is a
22:23
Speaker 9: number of pitchers, horse starters, Matthew Boyd being one of them,
22:27
Speaker 9: Clay Holmes being another, Michael Waka a third. Those guys
22:32
Speaker 9: have to get ready for the season and they cannot
22:34
Speaker 9: be guaranteed innings at this point. At this point, Mark
22:37
Speaker 9: de Ross is going to go with whoever is pitching best,
22:40
Speaker 9: and the piggyback system that we've seen in other games
22:44
Speaker 9: does not really apply in the knockout round. They're going
22:47
Speaker 9: for it, right, So that is one reason why the
22:51
Speaker 9: starters are shuffling out, some more relievers are shuffling in,
22:54
Speaker 9: and yes, they want as many bullpen arms as they
22:57
Speaker 9: can get. Someone asked yesterday if it's a blowout one
23:01
Speaker 9: way or the other, might we see Clayton kershaw tonight
23:04
Speaker 9: and DeRosa's answer basically was I've got ten relievers, so
23:09
Speaker 9: probably the answer that would be no.
23:11
Speaker 10: And that is why because they.
23:12
Speaker 9: Are obviously in this particular situation now as opposed to
23:16
Speaker 9: pool play when there is less urgency.
23:19
Speaker 10: There's certainly urgency, but now you have to win every night.
23:23
Speaker 6: Was all this ancillary's stuff with the what he said
23:26
Speaker 6: miss bo postgame? Now you know other comments that were
23:30
Speaker 6: different in things taken construed. Has it been a distraction
23:33
Speaker 6: maybe for the manager and staff, but you feel like
23:36
Speaker 6: it's been a distraction for the players when you talk to.
23:39
Speaker 9: Them, I would not say it's been a distraction for
23:42
Speaker 9: the players, And in talking to some of them yesterday,
23:46
Speaker 9: I wouldn't say some of them were not aware of it,
23:48
Speaker 9: but they're certainly not hanging on social media every day
23:52
Speaker 9: and looking at it and just went wow, look at
23:54
Speaker 9: what's going on. That's not kind of how they roll
23:57
Speaker 9: for the most part, so they know what needs to
24:02
Speaker 9: be done here. Has it been a distraction for DeRosa
24:05
Speaker 9: and his staff, Yes, I would say that it's occupied
24:07
Speaker 9: some of their time, no question about it. They have
24:09
Speaker 9: talked about it, and DeRosa's gotten a lot of support
24:13
Speaker 9: from people within the USA Baseball not just of course
24:17
Speaker 9: the players, but the coaches and others. And he's had
24:20
Speaker 9: some people reach out to him friends of his of
24:23
Speaker 9: course throughout the game as well. So yeah, it's been
24:27
Speaker 9: a distraction certainly for DeRosa, there's no question about that.
24:30
Speaker 9: I would not say it's really affected the players.
24:33
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's time to move on from all
24:36
Speaker 4: that and let's go to try and win a ballgame.
24:39
Speaker 5: For me, my question to you is Aaron Judge is
24:43
Speaker 5: probably a guy that Canada is probably gonna try and
24:45
Speaker 5: stay away from in my opinion, I mean, I feel
24:47
Speaker 5: like anybody should try and stay away from him. Who's
24:50
Speaker 5: that guy behind him that's going to have to step up?
24:52
Speaker 5: You know, they have so many guys that can play
24:55
Speaker 5: that are you know, productive that have been there before.
24:58
Speaker 5: Who's the one guy in your opinion, like, hey man,
25:00
Speaker 5: it's put up her shut up time here, let's go.
25:04
Speaker 9: I would say Bryce Harper, and I don't know that
25:07
Speaker 9: I would put it quite in that sense. Todd put
25:10
Speaker 9: up her shut up up, but he's two for ten.
25:12
Speaker 9: Didn't play in the last game, DeRosa said. One reason
25:16
Speaker 9: I didn't play him. He's struggling a little bit. I thought,
25:18
Speaker 9: get him off his feet, give him a day to
25:20
Speaker 9: work and just kind of get away and he'll come
25:23
Speaker 9: back strong. Now, of course, they put themselves in a
25:26
Speaker 9: position where they might not have had Bryce Harper playing.
25:28
Speaker 10: At all if not for Team Italy. But here we are.
25:32
Speaker 10: Bryce Harper is a big game guy.
25:34
Speaker 9: We know that, and I would expect that he is
25:38
Speaker 9: someone who is going to want to play a major role.
25:40
Speaker 4: Now.
25:41
Speaker 10: The lineup is so deep.
25:43
Speaker 9: We can be talking about this with any player. Cal Raley,
25:47
Speaker 9: let's see him do something. Bobby with Junior is capable
25:50
Speaker 9: of taking over a game at any time, as we
25:52
Speaker 9: saw against Mexico and right down the line.
25:55
Speaker 10: So I don't know that anyone has to put up
25:57
Speaker 10: her shut up.
25:57
Speaker 9: But Harper is the guy that I'm interested to see tonight,
26:01
Speaker 9: just how he goes about it and how he fares.
26:04
Speaker 6: Talking to the players on either side. Have anyone brought
26:07
Speaker 6: up the fact that team USA Women's Hockey and Canada
26:12
Speaker 6: Women's hockey played against each other and the men played
26:15
Speaker 6: against each other.
26:16
Speaker 7: Have they brought that up?
26:17
Speaker 6: Because that's what the fans talk about, So it's interesting
26:20
Speaker 6: to hear what the players have been saying to you.
26:23
Speaker 9: Yes, that has come up, and yesterday some of the
26:26
Speaker 9: Canadian players were talking about it, and DeRosa mentioned that
26:29
Speaker 9: Jack Hughes reached out I believe to him, and then
26:32
Speaker 9: he's voted the text to a group you know, the
26:35
Speaker 9: group chat that they have, and seems that there are
26:39
Speaker 9: going to be some jerseys Warren Hockey jerseys worn by
26:42
Speaker 9: the US players, either in BP or around the clubhouse
26:46
Speaker 9: something today along those lines.
26:48
Speaker 10: Yesterday Josh Naylor was wearing a Paul Koreer jersey. Now
26:51
Speaker 10: Paul Korea is I don't believe active at he Warre
26:53
Speaker 10: in hockey. I'm not a hockey fan, so don't hold
26:55
Speaker 10: me to this.
26:56
Speaker 9: But he's been wearing a different jersey of a Canadian
26:58
Speaker 9: hockey legend every day during their workouts. So yes, that
27:02
Speaker 9: is certainly something that has come up. It's kind of
27:05
Speaker 9: a cool PostScript here to what happened in the Olympics,
27:08
Speaker 9: and we'll see how it plays out.
27:12
Speaker 2: And we're I know, Canada, they have to be Canada first,
27:15
Speaker 2: the USA does to get to the semifinals, Dominican has
27:18
Speaker 2: to be Korea. What kind of matchup will that be
27:21
Speaker 2: if it comes to USA Dominican in Miami semifinals, both
27:28
Speaker 2: basically all star teams.
27:31
Speaker 3: How great?
27:32
Speaker 2: Listen, we got to get there, I know before everyone says,
27:34
Speaker 2: but how amazing will that game be if it comes
27:38
Speaker 2: to fruition?
27:40
Speaker 9: Amazing AJ And yes, we've got to get there, as
27:43
Speaker 9: you just said, But it is something that I would
27:46
Speaker 9: be definitely looking forward to, and it would be something
27:49
Speaker 9: that would be a lot of fun to cover. And
27:53
Speaker 9: just the atmosphere in Miami. It's not as if you
27:56
Speaker 9: were playing this game in Houston. It's a different.
27:58
Speaker 10: World in Miami. Miami, my view, is kind.
28:00
Speaker 9: Of the capital of Latin America, and there are people
28:03
Speaker 9: from all different Latin American countries in Miami, a great
28:07
Speaker 9: number of Dominicans, of course, and it would just be
28:10
Speaker 9: something else to see, particularly given what we've seen so
28:14
Speaker 9: far from the games involving the Dominican Republic in Miami,
28:18
Speaker 9: just how electric they've been, how intense and passionate the
28:22
Speaker 9: fans have been.
28:22
Speaker 10: So that game would be a blast, no doubt.
28:25
Speaker 9: And the fact that Skeins would be starting would just
28:28
Speaker 9: add an element to it because here is or here
28:31
Speaker 9: would be Paul Skins against Vlad Junior Tatist, Junior Manny Machado,
28:37
Speaker 9: Katel Marte, Heraldo Podomo right down the line, all of
28:40
Speaker 9: these great great Dominican players, Junior and Caminar, and I'm
28:43
Speaker 9: sure I'm missing a few.
28:44
Speaker 10: So yeah, that would be something to see.
28:47
Speaker 2: Okay, so we're talking Dominican, we're talking USA. Now everyone
28:52
Speaker 2: talks about the Dominican and their home run celebrations, and
28:55
Speaker 2: then there's this kind of this, I don't want to
28:56
Speaker 2: call it a false narrative by people like you Ken
28:59
Speaker 2: that say the US isn't having any fun. Right, they
29:01
Speaker 2: don't have the home run celebrations.
29:03
Speaker 3: They don't have not said that at all, because they
29:05
Speaker 3: don't have the bats, they don't have the bat flips.
29:07
Speaker 2: Right, So if the USA does play Dominican, and let's
29:10
Speaker 2: say Aaron Judge is one of the most stoic people
29:12
Speaker 2: we've ever seen hits a big home run.
29:15
Speaker 3: Will we get a bat flip?
29:16
Speaker 2: Will we get a smile out of Aaron Judge as
29:18
Speaker 2: he's running around the bases. Will we get a little
29:20
Speaker 2: extra like the Dominican the Venezuelan players do, I mean
29:23
Speaker 2: they hit a home run, it is a pure party
29:25
Speaker 2: around the bases.
29:26
Speaker 9: First of all, I believe we were on the broadcast
29:29
Speaker 9: together the other day when we addressed this, and I
29:31
Speaker 9: did say that the US players were playing with joy,
29:34
Speaker 9: and they might show it a little bit different. And
29:35
Speaker 9: we also saw in the Mexico game when Judge hit
29:39
Speaker 9: that two run home or early, he gestured troyed the
29:42
Speaker 9: dugout and flipped his bat and looked more excited.
29:46
Speaker 10: Than you usually see Aaron Judge.
29:48
Speaker 9: So the false narratives, you're asking the question and inventing
29:51
Speaker 9: the narratives yourself.
29:52
Speaker 10: Anyway, they just showed joy in a different way.
29:57
Speaker 9: And this is a cool cultural element here that kind
30:01
Speaker 9: of defines the different countries. And that's the beauty of
30:05
Speaker 9: the World Baseball Classic.
30:06
Speaker 10: It's the beauty of diversity.
30:08
Speaker 9: You have different points of view, different ways of approaching things,
30:12
Speaker 9: and I don't know that it makes the US players
30:15
Speaker 9: any less joyful or any less I don't know what
30:19
Speaker 9: the word would be, even just as I don't know
30:22
Speaker 9: that you can criticize the Dominican players for the way
30:24
Speaker 9: they act. That's just who they are, man, And it
30:27
Speaker 9: bothers me when people want homogenous kind of reactions, everyone's
30:32
Speaker 9: got to act. The saying it bothered me in the
30:33
Speaker 9: old days, Oh my gosh, can't flip a bat. It's
30:37
Speaker 9: equally kind of silly now to say, why aren't these
30:39
Speaker 9: guys flipping bats? So I don't know, AJ take your
30:44
Speaker 9: narrative and you know, just talk somewhere else.
30:47
Speaker 6: I should have known this before I asked the question,
30:50
Speaker 6: how many WBCs have you covered?
30:52
Speaker 10: All of them? Every one of them?
30:55
Speaker 6: Is this the most vibrant WBC. Vibrant isn't the right word,
30:59
Speaker 6: but is it the Have they just continued to get
31:02
Speaker 6: better with them because the talent increases, or do you
31:05
Speaker 6: feel like there was another one that like sticks out
31:07
Speaker 6: where you're like, ah, man, that one was a little
31:09
Speaker 6: bit better than this one because of this.
31:12
Speaker 10: The last one, to me was incredible.
31:15
Speaker 9: And the reason I say that, eric is because every game,
31:20
Speaker 9: at least in the later portion of the tournament were
31:24
Speaker 9: really exciting. And I might be exaggerating at some but
31:27
Speaker 9: I remember just the Mexico Japan game in the semifinal,
31:31
Speaker 9: What a game that was. The US Venezuela game in
31:34
Speaker 9: the quarterfinal, that was an incredible game, and those kinds
31:38
Speaker 9: of moments is what makes a tournament so electric. We
31:42
Speaker 9: haven't seen quite that consistency of great games, I guess
31:47
Speaker 9: at this point, but that's not to say it won't happen.
31:50
Speaker 9: And we're in the quarterfinal round now. The games I
31:53
Speaker 9: just mentioned were all quarterfinals or later. And of course
31:56
Speaker 9: the US Japan game to decide that classic was so
32:00
Speaker 9: the last one to me was really special, but this
32:04
Speaker 9: one has every potential to be the same.
32:07
Speaker 3: Well, Ken, thank you.
32:08
Speaker 2: You can see Ken and I on the Fox one
32:10
Speaker 2: app and at the WBC on Big Fox the next
32:13
Speaker 2: few nights. And also Ken, by the way, it's not
32:16
Speaker 2: a false narrative. If you invent it, then it becomes
32:18
Speaker 2: true because you invent it. But I am here for
32:20
Speaker 2: the bat flips, I am here for the fun, I
32:23
Speaker 2: am here for the parties. And listen, if you watch
32:25
Speaker 2: A Venezuela, A Dominican or any of those games, if
32:28
Speaker 2: you're not smiling, when they hit a home run. No
32:30
Speaker 2: matter what team you're rooting for, then you're doing it wrong.
32:33
Speaker 2: So thank you Ken for joining us. Go write your paper,
32:36
Speaker 2: your term paper that you have to do by the
32:37
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32:39
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33:08
Speaker 6: Now we get to welcome John Birdie, native of Troy, Michigan,
33:12
Speaker 6: but today Italy Italian as Italian can get John, You've
33:18
Speaker 6: been having an incredible, incredible tournament for the four and
33:22
Speaker 6: zero Italians. What is this vibe feeling like and where's
33:26
Speaker 6: the team going from here?
33:29
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean it's been a ton of fun. I
33:31
Speaker 11: haven't had this much fun playing baseball in a long time,
33:34
Speaker 11: and we have a really good group of guys and
33:36
Speaker 11: it's been a lot of fun to be around. And so,
33:39
Speaker 11: you know, we're taking it one day at a time.
33:40
Speaker 11: We got to work out today and preparing for Puerto Rico.
33:45
Speaker 4: Hey, so you look, you look a little sluggish. You
33:47
Speaker 4: look a little tired.
33:48
Speaker 5: Have you not been getting a little bit of that
33:51
Speaker 5: that espresso, cappuccino whatever you guys are drinking over there?
33:55
Speaker 11: Uh, probably having too much of it. So I'm staying
33:57
Speaker 11: up too late. So uh, that's good, that's fun. I
34:00
Speaker 11: don't know how viny three of them, so I'm not
34:03
Speaker 11: sure what time he fell asleep the other night.
34:06
Speaker 4: Yeah, I wanted to ask about that a little bit.
34:08
Speaker 5: Who came up with the idea and who's making the
34:11
Speaker 5: batch there, because sometimes it looks like guys are a
34:14
Speaker 5: little fire too fired up, you know what I'm saying.
34:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had a little trial and error.
34:20
Speaker 11: I'm not sure exactly who came up with it, but uh,
34:22
Speaker 11: the first first couple of times we did it, we
34:25
Speaker 11: were making it right away and so guys were taking
34:28
Speaker 11: it and just burning their mouth. So we kind of
34:31
Speaker 11: came up with a little system of making it. Maybe
34:33
Speaker 11: a little sooner, or adding a little cold water to
34:36
Speaker 11: it to to help help help go down easier.
34:41
Speaker 2: John Kratch mentioned you're from Michigan, okay, And I get
34:45
Speaker 2: that your your your.
34:46
Speaker 3: Heritage is Italian.
34:48
Speaker 2: But was there a little bit of you rooting for
34:50
Speaker 2: the USA to get through so you guys might get
34:52
Speaker 2: a chance to play him again or were you just
34:55
Speaker 2: like completely Italian screw the USA.
35:00
Speaker 11: I mean, I can't say that part, but no, it's
35:03
Speaker 11: just we're going out here to win. So whatever happened happened.
35:06
Speaker 11: So I had some buddies from the other team texting
35:09
Speaker 11: me and we're just having some fun with it. But
35:12
Speaker 11: now we came out to win every game, and so
35:16
Speaker 11: fortunately for the US it worked out.
35:20
Speaker 6: One of the things that AJ's brought up is like
35:23
Speaker 6: the US is a little hamstrung with their pitching. Can
35:26
Speaker 6: you attest to being on another team besides the American
35:29
Speaker 6: team that your pitching is hamstrung too, just because of
35:33
Speaker 6: all the regulations or do you feel like do you
35:36
Speaker 6: feel like Francisco Savelli has carte blanche and he's just
35:39
Speaker 6: able to throw out there whoever he wants to throw
35:42
Speaker 6: out there.
35:43
Speaker 11: No, Unfortunately, yeah, we have a ton of restrictions as well.
35:46
Speaker 11: Just most of our pitchers are affiliated with an organization,
35:51
Speaker 11: so yeah, it can be kind of tough to maneuver.
35:54
Speaker 11: But our starting pitching has done a great job for
35:58
Speaker 11: us and getting deeper into games, which has been which
36:01
Speaker 11: has been huge, So we hope for the same come Saturday.
36:06
Speaker 5: Real quick, if you don't mind moving your camera over
36:09
Speaker 5: just a little bit maybe the other way.
36:10
Speaker 4: Sorry, perfect.
36:14
Speaker 5: My question to you is you got all these guys
36:16
Speaker 5: coming with Italian heritage. You guys come together, heard the
36:20
Speaker 5: flights are great, everybody come together. What's one guy on
36:23
Speaker 5: this team who you you know, maybe heard of or
36:26
Speaker 5: haven't heard of where you're.
36:27
Speaker 4: Kind of glueing too, You're like, you're you're.
36:30
Speaker 5: Hanging out with all the time, like because there's a
36:32
Speaker 5: lot of different animals on this team, there's a lot
36:34
Speaker 5: of different perspectives.
36:37
Speaker 4: Give me a guy that you think.
36:38
Speaker 5: Right now or that you know that you're you're getting
36:40
Speaker 5: even friendlier with.
36:43
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, honestly, it's just crazy how close we've
36:46
Speaker 11: gotten in such a quick period of time just with
36:48
Speaker 11: the whole team in general. And so I don't know
36:50
Speaker 11: if there is one name. It's just been great to
36:53
Speaker 11: get to know everybody, and obviously Vinnie's got the big
36:56
Speaker 11: personality and he's been the leader of this clubhouse and
36:59
Speaker 11: he gets all the credit in the world for having
37:02
Speaker 11: us as close as we are and helping this be
37:04
Speaker 11: such a fun experience for everybody.
37:07
Speaker 7: You guys are four to oh so far.
37:09
Speaker 6: If it doesn't end up in a championship, is this
37:11
Speaker 6: an unsuccessful tournament for Team Italy.
37:16
Speaker 11: I mean, we're not looking at it that way. We're
37:18
Speaker 11: just trying to take it, you know, one day at
37:20
Speaker 11: a time. And obviously the last two games probably were
37:23
Speaker 11: the two biggest wins in Italian baseball history, and so
37:27
Speaker 11: that's been tremendous. But we haven't reached our goal yet,
37:30
Speaker 11: and our our goal is to get to Miami and beyond.
37:33
Speaker 11: So we have a you know, really tough team coming
37:36
Speaker 11: up with Puerto Rico, and we gotta be ready for him.
37:41
Speaker 3: John Vinni.
37:42
Speaker 2: If Vinnie is the leader, so he would be the godfather, right,
37:45
Speaker 2: he's the godfather. He's doing the double the double kisses
37:48
Speaker 2: who's like the capo? If he's the godfather, who are
37:51
Speaker 2: his capo's and his consiglieri? Who are his underlings that
37:56
Speaker 2: he's teaching the Italian way.
37:58
Speaker 1: Yeah.
37:59
Speaker 11: I mean, we have a bunch of young guys that
38:01
Speaker 11: are that are really talented that Sam Antonacci has just
38:06
Speaker 11: been a stone cold killer for us. Andrew Fisher has
38:09
Speaker 11: been great. We have a ton of young guys and
38:11
Speaker 11: I'm probably missing out on a handful of them. So
38:15
Speaker 11: they've all been asking a lot of questions and trying
38:18
Speaker 11: to learn as best they can. And they're extremely talented,
38:22
Speaker 11: so they're trying to lean on the veteran guys like
38:25
Speaker 11: Vinnie and myself and Attavino and some of the guys
38:28
Speaker 11: that we have here, and so it's been a good mix.
38:32
Speaker 5: I want to talk a little bit about Andrew Fisher.
38:34
Speaker 5: Jersey Boy lives down the street actually from me. He's
38:37
Speaker 5: like fifteen to twenty minutes. I've been talking to him
38:40
Speaker 5: a lot. He's saying this is probably the best well,
38:43
Speaker 5: it is the best experience for him because he's a
38:45
Speaker 5: younger guy. He's a really good baseball player.
38:49
Speaker 4: Talker.
38:50
Speaker 5: Just talk about this experience and you know, not only
38:52
Speaker 5: just being on the Italian team, but just they call
38:55
Speaker 5: it an exhibition. This is an exhibition to me, this
38:58
Speaker 5: is more baseball at h go go into how awesome
39:02
Speaker 5: this has been and you know, you guys are exceeding
39:06
Speaker 5: all expectations here.
39:07
Speaker 4: Man, to be honest with you, so talk a little
39:09
Speaker 4: bit about that.
39:11
Speaker 1: Yeah.
39:11
Speaker 11: Like I said, it's honestly the most fun I've had
39:13
Speaker 11: playing this game in a long time. And it's their
39:16
Speaker 11: playoff atmospheres. It feels like a playoff game. You know,
39:18
Speaker 11: this doesn't feel like March. It feels like October. And
39:20
Speaker 11: so it's awesome for especially young guys like Fish and
39:25
Speaker 11: a handful of them to get this kind of experience
39:28
Speaker 11: that they can lean on hopefully when you know, down
39:31
Speaker 11: there further down in their careers, when when they're playing
39:34
Speaker 11: in October for the respective team. So yeah, the crowds
39:38
Speaker 11: have been great, especially the last couple of nights, and
39:41
Speaker 11: we expect to have a pretty big crowd again on
39:43
Speaker 11: Saturday and then hopefully onto Miami.
39:46
Speaker 6: All right, we're going to talk about you. What the heck, man,
39:50
Speaker 6: why do you not have a job yet? Is our
39:51
Speaker 6: guy Storm not doing enough work?
39:54
Speaker 1: Now?
39:55
Speaker 4: He is? He is?
39:55
Speaker 11: He's bugging me all the time. So I just h yeah,
39:58
Speaker 11: I just want to enjoy the w BC, enjoy this
40:01
Speaker 11: experience and kind of see what comes from it. And
40:05
Speaker 11: sit down with my family and if there's an opportunity
40:07
Speaker 11: that excites us, then then we'll go from there.
40:12
Speaker 6: What does that what does that look like in a
40:13
Speaker 6: sense of what is your off season look like because
40:16
Speaker 6: of how your season ended last year and then going
40:19
Speaker 6: into it knowing what you can still give. What kind
40:22
Speaker 6: of conversations do you have or is it all storm
40:25
Speaker 6: your agent storm, cursion bomb, big shout out, also my agent.
40:29
Speaker 1: He's gonna love that. He's gonna text me about that.
40:32
Speaker 11: No, it's been spend some time with the family, which
40:35
Speaker 11: has been really good, and I have a young daughter,
40:38
Speaker 11: so been fun to be be at home for that,
40:41
Speaker 11: and then just kind of started training again like a
40:43
Speaker 11: regular off season and seeing what was kind of out there,
40:46
Speaker 11: and when this opportunity arose, it was a no brainer
40:50
Speaker 11: for me and super pumped. I did it And you know,
40:53
Speaker 11: we'll make those other life decisions after after this is over.
40:57
Speaker 2: John, John, does this help or hurt you? You think,
40:59
Speaker 2: because I'm like, Eric, well, how do you not have
41:01
Speaker 2: a big league job. You're a big league player, You're
41:04
Speaker 2: going in the WBC, You're hitting homers off big league pitchers.
41:08
Speaker 2: This isn't you know this isn't you're facing college guys.
41:11
Speaker 2: I mean, you're facing legitimate big league dudes in big games, right,
41:15
Speaker 2: I mean, this isn't. Again, there's thirty thousand people forty
41:18
Speaker 2: there's five million people watching these games every night on Fox.
41:22
Speaker 2: So do you think this helps your case for a
41:24
Speaker 2: job next year or do you think teams look at
41:26
Speaker 2: it and go, ah, it doesn't really matter?
41:28
Speaker 3: Because to me this matters.
41:29
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean to me, it matters.
41:31
Speaker 11: And so I'm playing like it's, you know, the World Series,
41:35
Speaker 11: you know, and we're taking it that seriously. And I
41:39
Speaker 11: think as competitors that's all you can do. Anyways, I
41:41
Speaker 11: kind of treat every game, whether it's a spring training
41:44
Speaker 11: game or regular season playoff game, doesn't matter. It's you know,
41:47
Speaker 11: you're trying to win. You're competing against the guys across
41:50
Speaker 11: from you, and so I think it helps. But I'm
41:53
Speaker 11: not too worried about that part of it. So they'll
41:55
Speaker 11: see what they see, and you know, if if an
41:58
Speaker 11: opportunity comes, then then great.
42:01
Speaker 4: You kind of alluded to a Puerto Rico.
42:03
Speaker 5: I mean, have you guys talked a little bit about
42:05
Speaker 5: the game plan or how is it in there? How
42:09
Speaker 5: Survelli is he just hey, guys, go out and play,
42:11
Speaker 5: or you guys have a little bit of a game plan.
42:13
Speaker 5: Who's throwing How you guys kind of perceive this game,
42:17
Speaker 5: and how do you feel going into playing it? You know,
42:19
Speaker 5: a really good team Molina's team in Puerto Rico.
42:23
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, no, Servey does a great job with with
42:26
Speaker 11: this group of keeping it loose. But at the same time,
42:29
Speaker 11: we still have some meetings and stuff like that just
42:31
Speaker 11: to be aware of certain things, you know, on the
42:34
Speaker 11: advanced side of it, and having our hitters meeting and
42:38
Speaker 11: stuff like that. So now we'll be we'll be as
42:40
Speaker 11: prepared as we can be. We know Puerto Rico is
42:44
Speaker 11: a great team when we just faced USA in Mexico,
42:47
Speaker 11: so it'll be another really good test. And there's all
42:50
Speaker 11: really good teams left, so there's no no easy game
42:54
Speaker 11: here and we're excited about the challenge.
42:57
Speaker 6: Jack hagleone, I would say Firmer Deny most power on
43:02
Speaker 6: the team.
43:02
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I mean he just its balls really really hard.
43:08
Speaker 6: Okay, so we'll tell Vinny that he has more power
43:10
Speaker 6: than quote from John Birdie.
43:12
Speaker 7: That's totally fine. I love that.
43:14
Speaker 6: But what do you when you look at a guy
43:16
Speaker 6: like that when you look at a guy like that
43:17
Speaker 6: who's just coming into the big leagues, it took you
43:20
Speaker 6: a long time to get to the big leagues. Does
43:23
Speaker 6: it make you feel like the game of baseball because
43:26
Speaker 6: you're playing on an international stage and you said how
43:28
Speaker 6: much fun it is. The game of baseball can be
43:30
Speaker 6: played by so many different people. And Jack Hagle own
43:33
Speaker 6: looks like the prototypical chiseled out baseball player playing with
43:38
Speaker 6: your blue hair John Birdie old age, all on the
43:42
Speaker 6: same field and you both are having success.
43:46
Speaker 1: That's the beauty of baseball.
43:47
Speaker 11: You know, abilities come in all shapes and sizes, and
43:51
Speaker 11: obviously it would be nice to be his size. It
43:54
Speaker 11: would have maybe helped me get to the big leagues
43:56
Speaker 11: a little quicker, but you know, I wouldn't trade my
43:59
Speaker 11: journey for anything. And he's got a long, long career
44:04
Speaker 11: ahead of him, and it's been fun to watch.
44:09
Speaker 3: Crouch.
44:09
Speaker 2: John Krauts has a crush on CAGs. I'm just letting
44:11
Speaker 2: you know, just so you know that I'll let him know.
44:16
Speaker 2: That's all right.
44:18
Speaker 6: We actually that's perfect because I'm the one that's supposed
44:20
Speaker 6: to thank you to leave, and I'll be the one
44:22
Speaker 6: to say that I said that, look at look at agent.
44:25
Speaker 6: He can't even stop smiling, like he's like, he's blushing
44:28
Speaker 6: right now. He is the biggest Florida Gator fan. He
44:31
Speaker 6: never went to Florida. He is the biggest Jack Cagly
44:35
Speaker 6: owned fan. When he was sitting next to him, so
44:37
Speaker 6: think about this when you sit next to tags in
44:39
Speaker 6: the dugout or a practice today, he was just looking
44:42
Speaker 6: at him the whole time.
44:43
Speaker 1: He's like, wow, Wow, just blushing.
44:47
Speaker 7: He was blushing.
44:48
Speaker 6: We were at Kansas City Camp. We almost got kicked out.
44:50
Speaker 6: He now has a restraining order. He can't get within
44:53
Speaker 6: fifty feet of CAGs.
44:54
Speaker 3: Family friends, crouds. You should try, You should try having
44:56
Speaker 3: family friends.
44:58
Speaker 6: Nervous, nervous. Now he's his family into it. He knows
45:01
Speaker 6: his family follows him on Facebook, but AJ so that's
45:04
Speaker 6: only has his Facebook. I appreciate you. We are as
45:09
Speaker 6: much as we were cheering for you guys to win.
45:12
Speaker 6: As Americans, we definitely love to see you guys beat
45:17
Speaker 6: Puerto Rico, continue to move on, and we're cheering for
45:20
Speaker 6: you no matter what happens.
45:21
Speaker 7: So thank you for coming on.
45:23
Speaker 1: Appreciate it, guys.
45:31
Speaker 6: This is our favorite time right now to check out
45:33
Speaker 6: how much money Todd is gonna make us when we
45:36
Speaker 6: check out our money bags.
45:37
Speaker 7: But he's not up there right now.
45:39
Speaker 6: That's okay, Scottie Braun's up ninety three, everyone else's even.
45:43
Speaker 6: So it's positive early on in the season. This is
45:46
Speaker 6: spring training for everybody. So we're gonna go over our
45:48
Speaker 6: picks for tonight. We'll go first Todd, then AJ, and
45:52
Speaker 6: then I'll bring us up with the coin flip of
45:55
Speaker 6: whether I'm right or wrong.
45:57
Speaker 5: Yeah, So, I mean, for me, I alluded to this earlier.
46:00
Speaker 5: I think team I said wins the game. Do I
46:03
Speaker 5: think they win the game convincingly?
46:05
Speaker 4: I don't.
46:05
Speaker 5: I think they have a good time playing. I think
46:08
Speaker 5: they win a close ball game. So I'm gonna go
46:10
Speaker 5: Canada plus four and a half, you know, hoping that
46:15
Speaker 5: USA comes through here. But Canada has one of their
46:17
Speaker 5: better teams they've had in a long time. A lot
46:20
Speaker 5: of guys are professionals, and we'll see what happens there.
46:24
Speaker 4: Well.
46:25
Speaker 2: As much as we're riotting for the USA, Todd, I
46:27
Speaker 2: don't mind that, bet. I actually thought about going that
46:29
Speaker 2: we're out because I think it will be closer than
46:32
Speaker 2: the experts say with the minus four. Now, so I
46:35
Speaker 2: actually love that bettab but I'm going a different route here.
46:38
Speaker 2: I just think there's gonna be a lot of run
46:39
Speaker 2: scored in this game on both sides. I know Logan Web,
46:42
Speaker 2: but I think one of the Nailer boys will get
46:44
Speaker 2: a big hit. I'm just taking the over. I'm going
46:46
Speaker 2: over nine and a half. That seems like a low
46:48
Speaker 2: number for me. With the power on these two teams
46:50
Speaker 2: and the pitching on these two teams, I just feel
46:53
Speaker 2: like there's gonna be some run scored. And I think
46:56
Speaker 2: Canada can score runs with the USA. That's why I
46:58
Speaker 2: like Todd's bet. But I'm going over nine and a
47:00
Speaker 2: half and that's minus one fifteen.
47:02
Speaker 6: I mean, let's let's see if we can see if
47:05
Speaker 6: we can parlay that jone or something. I mean, that's
47:07
Speaker 6: some extra so I'll take care of that for the boys.
47:09
Speaker 6: But I'm going the exact same. I'm going over nine
47:12
Speaker 6: and a half minus one fifteen, so let's make.
47:16
Speaker 7: Sure everybody gets a nice little victory.
47:20
Speaker 4: I love that.
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47:53
Speaker 2: Well, thank you to the Red Sox for having me
47:56
Speaker 2: and having Mark here at Red Sox Camp down a
47:58
Speaker 2: beautiful four myers. I know you guys are else because
48:00
Speaker 2: the sun is out and it's about eighty five degrees.
48:02
Speaker 2: And thank God for this tent that we bought last year.
48:05
Speaker 2: But thank you Red Sox. Thank you to Peyton Toley,
48:08
Speaker 2: Alex Cora, Carlos Darvaas.
48:10
Speaker 3: Who else do we have?
48:11
Speaker 2: We had Ken Rosenthal, we had Richard Grisham from bird
48:15
Speaker 2: TP John Birdie right, So thank you to all our guests.
48:18
Speaker 3: It was a wonderful show today. What do we have
48:20
Speaker 3: for krats? Hats?
48:21
Speaker 7: Oh?
48:22
Speaker 6: I'm just glad Scott's not here, that's all. I figured
48:24
Speaker 6: you'd say it, but we're not. We're missing him, but
48:27
Speaker 6: he'll be back.
48:29
Speaker 4: That sucks.
48:30
Speaker 6: I got to talk to the new air guys. He
48:32
Speaker 6: gave me a little bit of the insight about you
48:35
Speaker 6: might see these hats next year, but we're not sure.
48:37
Speaker 6: We're not sure, so it's been a good seller, and
48:40
Speaker 6: it's been. I got a lot of great compliments about
48:43
Speaker 6: all the different different logos that they're putting on this
48:47
Speaker 6: year's spring training hats.
48:50
Speaker 2: And by the way, they have new batting practice hats coming.
48:52
Speaker 2: I saw the Tigers one. You know who's gonna love it,
48:54
Speaker 2: Producer Lady. It has one of her favorite logos on
48:57
Speaker 2: the front. Oh, it was sick.
48:59
Speaker 3: It was sick.
49:00
Speaker 2: I'm just saying new era. But don't forget the post
49:02
Speaker 2: game today. Crausy, you're on the post game tonight, right, Todd,
49:06
Speaker 2: are you on the post game?
49:06
Speaker 4: No, Scott tonight, not tonight.
49:09
Speaker 2: Kevin polar USA Canada. After USA crushes Canada, we can
49:13
Speaker 2: talk about it. But only by three runs, right, only
49:16
Speaker 2: by three runs. It's going to be ten to just
49:20
Speaker 2: saying or four all right post game for every team
49:22
Speaker 2: USA game. Thank everybody here at Red Sox camp. That's
49:25
Speaker 2: it for foul Territory today. Everyone enjoy their afternoon. Let's
49:29
Speaker 2: watch baseball, real meaningful baseball tonight.