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Venezuela ends Italy’s epic run and heads to a heavyweight battle against USA in the WBC title match · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: FT Live postgame show presented by Fox One. One game
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  Speaker 1: to Go. But first, let's recap what we just saw.
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  Speaker 1: Venezuela heading to the WBC Final for the first time.
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  Speaker 1: Italy had an insane run, the Cinderella story, but they
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  Speaker 1: were stopped here after a two to nothing lead, they
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  Speaker 1: go down by a four to two final. It's bron
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  Speaker 1: Kratz and Todd Father. That was a fun one and
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  Speaker 1: Todd we had talked about how Venezuela had.
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  Speaker 2: Some big names in their lineup.
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  Speaker 1: Italy held them down for a while, but eventually they
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  Speaker 1: got to Michael Lorenzen and and that was it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there was an opportunity there too, you know, for
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  Speaker 3: Italy to kind of get a couple more runs here
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  Speaker 3: and there, but Venezuela's bullpen came through and they found
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  Speaker 3: a way to get the strikeout or the ground out
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  Speaker 3: or what have you.
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  Speaker 4: There.
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  Speaker 3: Give credit to Venezuela and they never backed down. That's
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  Speaker 3: why you played nine innings all with two outs, and
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  Speaker 3: it was just it was truly remarkable watching this team
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  Speaker 3: come through four to two win another low scoring game.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was.
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  Speaker 3: It was fun game to watch and the crowd was
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  Speaker 3: waiting to get fired up and then next you know,
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  Speaker 3: the seventh inning, the music went off, an infield single
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  Speaker 3: by Ronald Acuna, and then there was an opportunity. What
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  Speaker 3: they wanted to do to keep Lorenzen in or out.
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  Speaker 3: We can talk about that as we move forward. But again,
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  Speaker 3: Venezuela coming through Italy, what a great run. That's their
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  Speaker 3: first loss in this tournament or in this Classic. I
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  Speaker 3: should say so, give kudos to them.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, nobody even thought Italy was gonna advance,
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  Speaker 5: thought it was gonna be us in Mexico. Italy wins
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  Speaker 5: their pool advances, gets to this point, had to lead.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, they had the game under control. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 5: have to go and say Omar Lopez made a move
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  Speaker 5: that we didn't see last night. Obviously we're seeing these
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  Speaker 5: games back to back. Pool hosts did not make the
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  Speaker 5: move when and Austin Wells was on second base late
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  Speaker 5: in the game, I think it was a seventh Glabor Torres,
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  Speaker 5: who's definitely coming out for defense anyway, because Andre Simenez
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  Speaker 5: is on the bench, Clabor Torres is on first base
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  Speaker 5: and they put Andre Semenez in. He ends up scoring
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  Speaker 5: the run. They end up getting four hits in a
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  Speaker 5: row no dingers for them. It was one of those
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  Speaker 5: things that you go, is this the script of how
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  Speaker 5: it was gonna happen? For Like, if you told me
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  Speaker 5: there's no dingers in the game, I would say Italy
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  Speaker 5: wins it.
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  Speaker 6: And Italy I think.
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  Speaker 5: They drew five walks, including a including an intentional walk.
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  Speaker 5: Was it was definitely a game that was able to
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  Speaker 5: be won by Italy. But Venezuel's bullpen, to me, was
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  Speaker 5: really the stopper here tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the chance for Italy was kider Montero losing it
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  Speaker 1: three consecutive walks.
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  Speaker 2: Italy took advantage.
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  Speaker 1: They put up a two spot early in that game,
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  Speaker 1: and there was one danger if you remember earlier, did
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  Speaker 1: you say none, I mean none during that run?
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  Speaker 2: But Gino Swarez, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Right right right, yeah, none, you're saying none during that
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  Speaker 5: for that three run inning.
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  Speaker 1: Three run all on two outs, right, two out knocks
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  Speaker 1: for the team to just keep things rolling. So Venezuela
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  Speaker 1: just too much for Italy here. Let's talk about the
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  Speaker 1: decision first off play manager for a moment. Todd Father,
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  Speaker 1: did you feel like Michael Lorenzen ran out of gas
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  Speaker 1: or were they putting together good at bats?
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  Speaker 2: He didn't. I mean he was good.
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  Speaker 1: He was mixing and matching like he was against USA
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  Speaker 1: for a while, and then all of a sudden, Venezuela
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  Speaker 1: figured him out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, his his change up was really good, his breaking
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  Speaker 3: ball was really good.
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  Speaker 4: I just did.
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  Speaker 3: I felt like he ran out of gas. He looked exhausted.
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  Speaker 3: He was getting up in that forty mark of pitches,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, some of these guys haven't double them all.
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  Speaker 3: These guys haven't done this, you know, pitching in big
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  Speaker 3: games for one and pitching that many pitches trying to
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  Speaker 3: get going. I thought, after Ronald Acun you got the
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  Speaker 3: infield single, I thought it was time to yank him there.
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  Speaker 4: Cervelli didn't do it.
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  Speaker 3: And then after the knock there, I thought that should
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  Speaker 3: have been the last straw. And then he left him
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  Speaker 3: in again and Aries got another single. Yeah, I could
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  Speaker 3: say that right now. I'm not the manager, but you
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  Speaker 3: got to see somebody's labor, and you went out and
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  Speaker 3: talked to him.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure he's like, no, I got this.
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  Speaker 3: But you got to be the guy as the manager
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  Speaker 3: to make the tough decisions, and in my opinion, they
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  Speaker 3: had the bullpen to do it. They came out and
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  Speaker 3: locked down as you saw, so could have should have
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  Speaker 3: wor it. But I felt like once the infield single
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  Speaker 3: came through the tider game, I thought it was time
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  Speaker 3: to put somebody else in because he wasn't overpowering, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and that's what worked for him in the beginning. It
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  Speaker 3: just didn't work for him late.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, kudos to Venezuela for putting the ball in play
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  Speaker 5: and not trying to go deep off of me. Lorenzo
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  Speaker 5: wasn't going to let him go deep. He was not
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  Speaker 5: going to let them beat him with the loan ball,
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  Speaker 5: and they kind of made the adjustment there. But I
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  Speaker 5: also think Cervelli he knew what he had. He knew
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  Speaker 5: he had Nichols for an inning, He knew he had
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  Speaker 5: rom aer Naccio for an inning. It was one of
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  Speaker 5: those things I think he needed. He needed seven out
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  Speaker 5: of Nola and Lorenzen. It was an amazing I honestly
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  Speaker 5: had no idea they were going to go go with Lorenzen,
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  Speaker 5: but I think they just figured, hey, these are four,
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  Speaker 5: these are four best pitchers to try to get through
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  Speaker 5: nine innings, because as the bullpen gets a little bit,
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  Speaker 5: you know, past those guys, they didn't really you saw
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  Speaker 5: it against Team USA. They were able to add some
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  Speaker 5: runs on. They never ended up catching up to him,
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  Speaker 5: but they added runs on off of some of the
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  Speaker 5: guys in the bullpen that maybe Cervelli didn't want to
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  Speaker 5: go to. So that's why he stretched Lorenzo a little
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  Speaker 5: bit farther.
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  Speaker 2: So who stood out?
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  Speaker 1: Let's pick a player of the game, presented by MLB Ribles.
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  Speaker 1: You want to pick a name who wants to go
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  Speaker 1: with it first? Where maybe you guys agree on the
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  Speaker 1: same player top bother do you want?
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  Speaker 3: I think I think we agreed on this one, mikeel Franco.
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  Speaker 3: I think listen, four to two ball game, it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be really hard to pick somebody unless they got
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  Speaker 3: a three, three run homer or a big matchup. But
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  Speaker 3: you got to go with the biggest hit of the game. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: the base hit the left to give them the lead
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  Speaker 3: for good pretty much. So two for four, he's back
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  Speaker 3: in four to thirty five, coming out of his shell again.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of years ago, this guy was unheard of,
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  Speaker 3: and now all of a sudden this last year and
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  Speaker 3: now he's a name that everybody knows about. Came up big,
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  Speaker 3: nice line drive to left field, Acuna went first to third.
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  Speaker 3: The wheels were spinning there too, So give credit where
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  Speaker 3: it's due.
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  Speaker 4: Franco for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Michael Garcia Garcia, excuse me, Garci Garcia, but oh well,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Franco. Uh, you guys played against back in the day.
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  Speaker 4: I know, I get those two mixed up all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we got a new mikel taking over and a
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  Speaker 1: Richard kel Kratz. Remember we talked about him a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years or a couple months ago getting paid, and
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  Speaker 1: he's having the time of his life right now. He's
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  Speaker 1: set for life financially, He's playing on a competitive Royals team.
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  Speaker 1: He gets to play with Bobby Witt every day during
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  Speaker 1: the regular season, and he's playing on a Venezuela team
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  Speaker 1: that has a freaking party. You know, I love parties.
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  Speaker 1: I'm watching this as like a raver, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: these guys are putting on a freaking dance party before
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  Speaker 1: and after the game.
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  Speaker 6: Think about a calendar year.
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  Speaker 5: We're not even at opening day yet, and mikekel Garcia
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  Speaker 5: did not even start opening day for the Royals at
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  Speaker 5: third base. He did not play opening day. Now you're
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  Speaker 5: talking about a nice little five year piece that he
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  Speaker 5: got broke off, and he's part of a team that
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  Speaker 5: has to be thinking that they want some revenge, but
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  Speaker 5: they also have to sit here and go, a man,
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  Speaker 5: where are we at with our bullpen? Because their bullpen
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  Speaker 5: could have been the MVP of the game. With Avila
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  Speaker 5: giving you thirty two pitches and two in a thirds innings.
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  Speaker 5: You had Daniel Palencia who came in didn't shut the
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  Speaker 5: door yet, Zurpa, who was absolutely I mean they might
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  Speaker 5: rename some of his pitches a Zurpa. So there were
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  Speaker 5: some guys down there that really held the game and
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  Speaker 5: didn't allow Italy, who had been scoring a lot of
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  Speaker 5: runs this whole tournament, to only two runs. So kudos
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  Speaker 5: to them too. After Caterer didn't do well, it looked
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  Speaker 5: like it looked like he was just it didn't look
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  Speaker 5: like he was off. It looked like he was trying
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  Speaker 5: to get these guys to nibble, and so credit to
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  Speaker 5: Italy for not chasing.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, they didn't nibble at all.
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  Speaker 1: At one point I remember soon you know, it might
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  Speaker 1: have been after he was taken out, or if not,
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  Speaker 1: it was right around when they had him on the ropes.
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  Speaker 1: I think twenty one pitches outside the zone and they
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  Speaker 1: bit at one of them. They just weren't biting. And
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  Speaker 1: then this is part of what made Italy special. So
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  Speaker 1: we're going to preview the next matchup, but let's do
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  Speaker 1: a minute on Team Italy, Todd Father and how special
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  Speaker 1: this run was, what you saw from this team and
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  Speaker 1: what it does for the country of Italy that finally
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  Speaker 1: had baseball center stage. Right they're watching a national television
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  Speaker 1: game in Italy and apparently like half the country was
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  Speaker 1: watching it. And vinnip already spoke after the game and
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  Speaker 1: said he hopes there's kids in Italy watching right now
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  Speaker 1: that are going to see how fun this is and
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  Speaker 1: that the next team for Italy that's great, like this
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  Speaker 1: is full of more players from the country.
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  Speaker 3: It's very inspirational, basically what you alluded to. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if you're from Italy, you talk soccer, you talk other sports,
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  Speaker 3: you don't necessarily talk baseball the whole time.
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  Speaker 4: I know Mike Piazza lives out there.
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  Speaker 3: He's trying to brew up all these younger Italianos to
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  Speaker 3: get going, get a baseball batman and enjoy this wonderful game.
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  Speaker 3: This is truly remarkable for them. You saw a lot
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  Speaker 3: of unsung heroes, a lot of names that eventually you
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  Speaker 3: might hear in the next couple of years playing the
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  Speaker 3: big leagues and take off. They were awesome. They were awesome,
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  Speaker 3: they were fun to watch. They beat the United States
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  Speaker 3: of America, a team that might win the whole thing.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, they can always look back on that they
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  Speaker 3: made it to a semi final matchup in the World
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  Speaker 3: Baseball Classic. There's a lot of good athletes, a lot
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  Speaker 3: of American Italians that have played this baseball game that
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  Speaker 3: are wonderful at this game. And you know, I can't
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  Speaker 3: wait to see what they do in the Olympics too.
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  Speaker 3: You never know what's going to happen. So kudos to them. Cheers,
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  Speaker 3: how you doing all that good stuff? And have another
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  Speaker 3: express th Baby. It was fun to watch.
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  Speaker 5: I can't I can't wait until Andrew Fisher comes on
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  Speaker 5: the show. So when Todd gets him on the show
• 10:28
  Speaker 5: this Friday, So look forward to that on FT. But
• 10:32
  Speaker 5: when you have a when you have a Italian baseball
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  Speaker 5: club that has had a history of baseball, not necessarily
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  Speaker 5: as like the main sport in Italy, but there's an
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  Speaker 5: Italian professional league, there's there's the families like like what
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  Speaker 5: Tommy Lasorda when he was helping do that. Jason Grilly,
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  Speaker 5: He's got incredible stories of Italian baseball. You got the
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  Speaker 5: Colabello family, you have obviously Piazza is you know the
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  Speaker 5: name that's coming out there, that that's out there as
• 11:02
  Speaker 5: a Hall of Famer. But you sit there and you
• 11:04
  Speaker 5: go everyone that's ever been part of Italian baseball needs
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  Speaker 5: to be and should be proud of what this team accomplished, because,
• 11:14
  Speaker 5: like Todd said, there's some young dudes that have already
• 11:17
  Speaker 5: established themselves. Vinyp is no fossil. Jack cagleone is just
• 11:22
  Speaker 5: into the league. And if Fisher and Dezenzio, Dezenzio can
• 11:30
  Speaker 5: be in there, like you get guys that are making
• 11:34
  Speaker 5: names for themselves. You watch Our Phillies show on the
• 11:36
  Speaker 5: FT Network and they're talking about Dante Nori and what
• 11:41
  Speaker 5: he's been doing in WBC and how this will be
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  Speaker 5: kind of a catapult for him. I think start the
• 11:46
  Speaker 5: season in Double A. There's so much, so much positive
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  Speaker 5: going on with Italian baseball right now because of this.
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  Speaker 1: I'll also say this, I think Vinnip is making himself
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  Speaker 1: some money. Whether he stays with the Royals long term,
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  Speaker 1: or eventually hits free agency. He's more than just you know, power,
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  Speaker 1: nice defense at first, right gets on base, he can
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  Speaker 1: completely command a ball club. And you saw him do that, right,
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  Speaker 1: And there are a lot of younger players, but I
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  Speaker 1: mean he has really gripped this. And also, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Todd Father, you've seen guys, including yourself, probably grow as
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  Speaker 1: a leader as you get older. Vinn he's still young, right,
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  Speaker 1: so when you go through an experience like this, he's
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: going to take this back to the Royals. I know
• 12:25
  Speaker 1: the Royals are Salvador Perez his team in terms of
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: the emotional leader's been there for a long time. He's
• 12:30
  Speaker 1: the only guy with the world series title from the
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  Speaker 1: last run. Bobby WIT's a little quieter, but definitely emerging
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  Speaker 1: as a leader. Vinny p is just like he's entertaining.
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  Speaker 2: He's fun.
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  Speaker 1: You want to be around him. He's singing on the plane,
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: he's ripping espresso shots with everyone. We have him on
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  Speaker 1: the show and he's one of our favorite guests. So
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  Speaker 1: I just think he's really had his coming out party here.
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  Speaker 4: Agreed, Agreed totally.
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  Speaker 3: And the three homer game is going to be talked
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  Speaker 3: about in Italian lore for for as long as he lives.
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  Speaker 3: I mean definitely, these guys are going to go back
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  Speaker 3: and playing back in spring trending.
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  Speaker 4: They're gonna be bored. Man, They're where's where's the crowd?
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  Speaker 4: Where's all this?
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  Speaker 3: So they're gonna have to come back to life a
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  Speaker 3: little bit and you know, go out and play for
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  Speaker 3: each other again.
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  Speaker 4: I think that's what you bring back.
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  Speaker 3: You bring back a little bit of culture, a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of you know, raz, a little bit of more
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  Speaker 3: fun of this game and the enjoyment of dude, you
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  Speaker 3: just hit a home run.
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  Speaker 4: Let's make the best out of it, Let's have fun
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  Speaker 4: with it.
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  Speaker 3: And I think that's what he's going to bring back
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  Speaker 3: a little more joy in baseball, a little more fun times.
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  Speaker 3: And hopefully fans catch on to all this stuff because
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: it's a lot of fun when there's more fun in.
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  Speaker 2: Baseball and there's one more fun run to go.
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  Speaker 1: We're about to do a preview of what's next, Team
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  Speaker 1: USA against Venezuela. A reminder where you can watch that game.
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  Speaker 2: So all love there. They've done a great job covering it,
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  Speaker 2: and this is it. There's just one game left.
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  Speaker 1: The World Baseball Classic twenty twenty six final comes down
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  Speaker 1: to Venezuela and Team USA eight pm Eastern on Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: night in Miami, a ballpark that will be ridiculously electric.
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  Speaker 1: It was like that tonight when Venezuela charged back. It
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: was a scene in the seventh inning. It was loud
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: as hell. There are a ton of Venezuelans that live
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: in Miami now and they filled up that ballpark. They
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  Speaker 1: will be trying to fill that ballpark up on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: Oh well, the American fans, it's gonna be a super
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: hot ticket. What are we thinking heading into this one?
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  Speaker 1: Todd Father.
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  Speaker 2: The Venezuela lineup has plenty.
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  Speaker 1: Of all stars. They've got a little superstar mix like
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: Ronald d'acunyan Junior. I'm waiting for him to go nuts
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Curio in the nine spot. That's pretty special. And
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: then of course we know what team USA has and
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: we haven't seen some of the USA guys blow up.
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  Speaker 1: Like last game it was the young'ins, right, you had
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  Speaker 1: Roman Anthony with a big homer, Gunner Henderson with a
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  Speaker 1: big homer. Are we going to see, you know, an
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge or a Bryce Harper who's been really quiet
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  Speaker 1: step up and put on a show. What are you
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: thinking for this one? It's it should be EDWARDO Rodriguez
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: and it's definitely against Nolan MacLean on the other side
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  Speaker 1: to start it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, first off, you know, even with the rules,
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  Speaker 3: all hands on deck, I guess whomever can go, so
• 15:47
  Speaker 3: everybody's gonna have to be ready in that instance, I
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  Speaker 3: think it's gonna be USA's time to come out of
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: their show, like you said, And I think the big
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: names are gonna show up. I think the Bobby witz
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: are gonna make the plays in diving plays left and right.
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna see the Aaron Judges get underneath baseball as
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna see Bryce Harper maybe go opposite field because
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: once he goes opoh, good things are coming.
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: I think it all starts with Bobby Witt. That's the
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: guy the straw that stirs a drink. You see, when
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: he doesn't get on base, not many runs are scored.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: So if this guy could find a way to get
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: on base, which I think he will eventually, USA is
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: gonna take charge in this game. And I think they're
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: gonna have an outpour runs and I think it's gonna
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: they're gonna show everybody why they're the number one team
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: in the world.
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: Tomorrow, I think I can take advantage of the fact
• 16:37
  Speaker 5: that Venezuela does not have enough in their bullpen unless
• 16:41
  Speaker 5: unless there's some guys that are allowed on March let's
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: see what will be March seventeenth to do a back
• 16:49
  Speaker 5: to back. Usually the back to backs are for like
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: the last the last outing of spring training. And I
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: know we're coming to the end of spring training here
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: because the season opens on the twenty six, But I
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: have a hard time believing that Venezuela has all of
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: their all their horses coming out of the bullpen. I'm
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: not saying that they're not gonna fight for it, but
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: to me, that's where Team USA. They do take good
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: long at bats. They did strike out too much the
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: last game, but they take long at bats and they're
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: gonna work those pitch counts up and at some point
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: they're gonna get to somebody in the pen that they're
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: gonna they're gonna break it open against.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Can I ask you guys a question because there are
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: two good closers on each side. Ken Rosenthal, along with
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: other colleagues that the Athletic came out with a story
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: a few hours before the Venezuela Italy game that said
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: Mason Miller is not a definite. They're gonna see how
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: he's feeling ahead of the game. It would be his
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: third appearance in five days. The Padres are probably not
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: thrilled with Mason Miller potentially appearing again. Pumping one oh
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: two plus in the World Baseball Classic, all amped up.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Mason Miller wants to pitch, but he also did talk
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: about how he wants to be smart about it. So
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: that's that situation. He is eligible, And I want to
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: be clear on the rules here. Venezuela played and pitched
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: Danny Palencia. You are allowed to pitch in back to
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: back games rules wise in the tournament. Do the Chicago
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Cubs try and hold him back from pitching, I personally
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: don't think they can. I mean, I know that they
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: can make a phone call and make it difficult for him.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Danny Palencia is also one of the better guests we've
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: had on Foul Territory, and he's like, I would die
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: for this game, right this is everything to him. And
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: he's talking about a regular season MLB game. This is
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: the World Baseball Classic Final. Venezuela is in there for
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: the first time. Country's been through a lot, A lot
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: of the citizens are like living and dying for this
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: game right now. Lency is going to pitch. In my mind, right,
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, some people are going to watch this video
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: later on. We probably will already have an answer on
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: that one. But in my mind, Todd father Blency's going
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: to make a phone call and be like, this is
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: a once in a lifetime opportunity for me.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: Cubs please. And Omar Lopez has like snuck a comment
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: in here and there during the tournament that he is
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: going to try and push back against teams. There was
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: one point where I think he said, like a team
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: asked for some rule and he was like, it's too
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: late on the rule you're asking anyway. I think that
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: they're going to say you can pitch. I think Mason
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Miller's going to pitch too, if either of them are
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: in save spots. But what do you think.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: I don't think he makes the call if I'm omar,
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: I'm not even making calls tonight. There's I'm having a
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: few surveyss and I'm going to bed and my my
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: phone is off. The only person I'm calling is my
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: family members and say hey, here's your tickets.
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: Blah blah blah. They're gonna keep ringing.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Guess what I didn't see The phone didn't work that day,
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: you know, So all jokes aside. I think, say what
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: you want to say. But these guys can be very
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: hard to tell. These guys, hey man, you're not pitching
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: them all.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: They both sides. It's going to be very od.
• 20:02
  Speaker 6: I don't yeah, I don't see.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: I don't see that being an easy conversation. But the
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: reality is, I still think the US is a better team.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: I think the US is a team that overtook a
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: Dominican team that I thought was playing better and equaled
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: their star power and maybe even to the point where
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: position by position, you could have made the argument that
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: they were better than the starting lineup for the for
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: the Dominicans were better and they came out on top.
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: So I think the I think the.
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: US team is playing well and I think they they
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: won that game without scoring many runs, So I think
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: it could be it could be something where this you know,
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: they start putting some balls out of the ballpark too,
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: especially when you start looking at some of the mashups.
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: If it is Eduardo Rodriguez, you're gonna have to get
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: some pitches out of them. Not saying you need length,
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: but you need some pitches because of the fact that
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: while there may not be conversations, there's a there's dudes
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: that are definitely down and they are not pitching in
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: the game tomorrow for Venezuela, no matter conversations or not.
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: They're just physically not going to be able to.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Right by the way right now, USA is moneyline minus
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: two eighty five on BETMGM cod Father plus two thirty
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: for Venezuela.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: So it's you know, heavily tilted in the US favor.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Coming off a day off, a day of rest, some decisions,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Let's do this I'll give you two decisions to make
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: third base and catcher Gunder Henderson coming off a big game,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: but you're gonna have a lefty in Eduardo Rodriguez. Gunner's
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: a lefty and Bregman's alrighty. And then also i'll give
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: you the catcher decision. Will Smith three for ten in
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: this World Baseball Classic, but he did catch in the
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: last game. Cal Raley is zero for ten or over
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: nine make it in the World Baseball Classic. I mean,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: these are incredibly small sample sizes. But what would you
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: do with those two spots.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: If you're Mark de Rosa?
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: How about this? Since I'm played third base, He'll do
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: the catcher one. I'll do the third base one.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: How about that? Good for me?
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: I'm starting Alex Pragman left on right matchup. I think
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Gunner Henderson is going to fully understand that. I know
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: he looks good. He can he can ultimately do a
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: sweat like say in the fifth, sixth, seventh inning they
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: bringing a right hand, or you definitely put Gunner Henderson
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: in there. You gotta play with the matchups. In my opinion,
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: you gotta play the game. Yeah, you got to take
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: all the psyche out of it and understand. Listen, guys,
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: we're trying to win this game. I want my best
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: hitters up at the best possible times. Alex Pragman been
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: there before, a veteran guy. I could see him having
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: a really good game tomorrow against the left handed pitcher.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: I would start Bragman for sure, and.
• 23:00
  Speaker 5: I would I would concur because if you look at
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: the stat page against Edwardo Rodriguez, the most likely starter
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: for Venezuela number eight all time hits against Edwardo Roriguez,
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: Alex Bregman. He's got nine hits and twenty seven at bats,
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: three dangers, eight steaks. So Gunner's hot, I get it.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: Bragman's not. But Bragman's got He's seen him well, let's
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: put it that way. See, and there's not much of
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: a matchup. Cal Rawley's one for three against Eduardo Rodriguez
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: and Will Smith. I think it's like one for six
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: or seven. To me, I think Will Smith is the
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: guy because of the fact that you can still bring
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: Cal in and you don't lose any advantage if you
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: do need to make a change. But I think I
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: think Will prove that he's played well. I really think
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: it's I think I think it's six and one half
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: A does another. You're not going to make a wrong
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: decision with either of those guys. They're both winners and
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: they both can can put the ball in the seats.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: At some point, who is going to start?
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Do you think it'll be because, oh, you think it'll
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: be well, I was going to say, because they've been
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: going basically every other but I mean now they're coming
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: off a day off here. It's not like a rest
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: playing time situation. Also, you shouldn't be worried about that
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: at this point, there's one game left.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Are you worried that Kyl Rale he's not going to
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: be ready for the season or something. It's not about that,
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: It's about the win. They're looking for the win. Again.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: I would maybe even again think about moving Harper down
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: in the order somewhere. See what that could get you.
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: But I mean, I think we're splitting hairs. The reality is,
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: d row stay out of the way. We know it's
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: a must win game. The players will play, They're going
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: to be hyped for it.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be awesome. It's gonna be great.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: USA versus Dominican Republic was epic and you can't ask
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: for much better star power here in the lineups.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: We just saw it with USA.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Dr Venezuela's had a really good run too. I know
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: they lost the Dominican Republic at the end of pool play,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: but they beat the defending champs in Japan. They came
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: back late. Italy had a strong ball club, they came back.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: I think this will be a good game. I know
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: you guys are saying, maybe USA opens things up.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: I could see Venezuela's lineup keeping up with these guys too.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Nolan McLain, let's finish with this is a young pup.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: He's got six stuff and DeRosa can mostly go bullpen
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: game here if he senses much trouble. This is almost
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: going to have World Series Game seven vibes. But Nolan
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: McLain was shook a little bit. I don't know if
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: that's the right way to put it, but Team Italy
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: got to him. And if you know, you're an American fan,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: and that ends up being the problem. McLean get in
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: trouble early, giving up a few runs. It brings up
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: the classic. Hey, you know, do we have the best,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: most battle tested pitchers in this moment, is this who
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: we should have in this spot? Again, I'm not going
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: off of talent. Nolan McLain looks like he's going to
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: be a number one in ace in the league, but
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: we've seen a handful of starts in the big league
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: so far, so he just I mean, this is by
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: far the biggest game that he's ever pitched in his life.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: The scene in Miami is out of control, and you
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: can embrace it and relish it. But Kratz, like you know,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: when you're working with a young pitcher like this trying
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: to navigate through a moment, you can see a trey
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: a savage moment, or sometimes the moment gets a little
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: big and you know you might overthrow.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: Might you might spin that slider a little bit. I mean,
• 26:49
  Speaker 5: the man can spin it. That slider is going to
• 26:51
  Speaker 5: be going right to left. Are they going to chase?
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: That's the biggest thing. If they're not chasing, then he's
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: got to bring that slider onto the plate, and a
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: strike slider as a hanging slider, I don't care. I
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: don't care if you're throwing the meat or if you're
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: throwing to the Venezuelan MVP lineup. That they have out there.
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: So to me, it really has to be can he
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: keep the ball on the plate and can he keep
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: it down in the zone and really if he wants
• 27:17
  Speaker 5: to know what the atmosphere is going to look like.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: We just kind of go back to the last WBC
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: in the semi finals. A lot of people forget that
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: Venezuela was there. They had the US and until Trey
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: Turner hit that big home run, Venezuela was going to
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: the finals.
• 27:34
  Speaker 6: So it's it's.
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: Nothing new for Venezuela because there's a lot of repeat
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: guys on that team and they're gonna come out They're
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: gonna come out swinging. But if I look at the roster,
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: if I look at the pitching roster, supposedly Clay I
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: thought Clay Holmes was taking off. Maybe I'm incorrect, but
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: Clay Holmes is still on there.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: No, No, I mean you might be knocking on paper
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: on the roster, but I mean he went back to Metsican.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: I think he's.
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: Done because he didn't pitch.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: So he's another one because I saw him in the
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: dugout and I didn't know if he just did the
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: whole Tarik Scuball thing because in the last game he
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: was in a dugout. And the reason I say that
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: is because Scoobale was off this list. But the bullpens rested.
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: So even if McLean falters in the first inning, second
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: inning last night, I mean last game, he struck out.
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: I think he struck out the side to start the
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: game off, and then he faltered, he might he might
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: be allowed to give up two base runners and then
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: they're going right.
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: To the pen.
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah. And and you're putting a button on this too. USA.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: They got a hit.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: They got a hit, So two things gotta combine for them.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: I think both will do well. But if Usay is
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: clicking on all cylinders hitting, put the pressure on or
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: on them early and often, you know, could be could
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: be a big you know, three innings in the beginning,
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: could be four to five nothing before you know.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: And that's that's the plan. We'll see how it works out.
• 29:00
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• 29:03
  Speaker 2: I'm pumped. This is gonna be good. We appreciate it. Yeah,
• 29:08
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• 29:10
  Speaker 1: So, I mean, you got all kinds of cultures mixing
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: and mashing together for this one. You got a little
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: little green beer American flavor, Venezuela having you know, about
• 29:22
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• 29:24
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