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The world baseball classic has been fucking incredible.
1:42
Literally four days in.
1:45
It feels like so much longer.
1:48
It's just, you know why?
1:49
It's because there's so many games.
1:50
I mean, they've literally jam-packed games from like 3AM to like
1:56
And I fucking love it.
1:59
I got up, I shit you not.
2:01
I said this the other day on the show.
2:03
I got up at 2.45 AM.
2:06
Just randomly because I'm old and sometimes my back
2:10
causes me to get up at 2.45 AM.
2:15
In 15 minutes, baseball game was starting.
2:17
No, I don't think it was Japan.
2:19
I want to say it was
2:20
Chinese Taipei versus Korea possibly.
2:26
Something like that.
2:27
But regardless, it didn't matter.
2:29
It was starting in 15 minutes and I wasn't going anywhere.
2:33
Actually, I think it was Chinese Taipei versus Czechia.
2:35
Now that I think about it.
2:36
This has been just a fun tournament.
2:40
You say it's only been on for four days because
2:43
it feels like spring training is two months ago.
2:47
I'm glad you had that.
2:48
It's like the fact I've never been so
2:49
checked out of spring training.
2:51
At this point in training.
2:54
No, but the thing is too.
2:56
It's like these are these games matter.
2:58
But these aren't even like the games where it's like
3:01
you win or you're out.
3:03
Like this isn't even like elimination.
3:04
This is just the initial round.
3:09
But with pulling what it is, right?
3:11
Like every win matters, right?
3:14
We already have teams eliminated.
3:15
The Netherlands has already been eliminated.
3:17
Chinese Taipei has been eliminated.
3:19
They got their shape.
3:20
They got slaughtered by the Rappurra Kato Mini.
3:22
Guy on out this morning.
3:25
That happens anytime you play.
3:26
The Rappurra Kato Mini Kato.
3:28
Well, what we also have is the scrappy Australian team
3:33
that their catcher won't shake hands with people.
3:36
And I thought that energy.
3:38
I fuck with that energy.
3:42
We'll be friends later.
3:46
Yeah, we can shake hands, you know,
3:47
after the game in the tunnel.
3:49
But like, we're going to war right now.
3:52
You fucking play for Czechia.
3:53
You are a plumber or a civil engineer.
3:59
Or perhaps in some cases, a nuclear response,
4:04
a buddy who probably shouldn't be playing baseball.
4:06
No offense to this man.
4:08
And then on the flip side.
4:11
And then on the flip side of that,
4:13
you got 17-year-old Brazilian kids
4:16
throwing a hundred plus against
4:18
Aaron Judge and company.
4:22
Diamondbacks Mitch Bratt, right?
4:24
He got his first start at Chase Field
4:27
ever playing for Canada
4:31
And he got his ass kicked.
4:34
He was 19 at the time when he did that.
4:36
So like, yeah, impressive.
4:37
And Brazil's got two 17-year-old hurlers.
4:40
Well, Brazil's in a weird spot.
4:45
they barely fielded a team.
4:47
And I think that that's probably
4:50
the only thing that's been a disappointment here.
4:52
However, you have to kind of have it
4:54
that way in a tournament like this.
4:55
You have to have the good teams.
4:57
You have to have the bad teams.
4:58
If this was the world MMA classic,
5:00
I think Brazil would run the table.
5:04
But the world baseball classic Brazil's getting
5:06
the asses slaughtered.
5:08
I mean, also maybe the world BBL classic.
5:11
But that's a whole category that you shouldn't say
5:15
And excuse my ignorance.
5:17
I had no idea that so many Japanese people
5:21
had migrated to Brazil so many years ago.
5:23
And there's like a population of Japanese
5:27
like Brazilian people.
5:30
Because some do name like Kawasaki
5:32
or something on the numbers.
5:35
And they got some news that look,
5:36
they look like they're Japanese,
5:37
but they're on the presidency.
5:39
I feel like that's not a surprise anymore.
5:44
you know, I mean, like you see that everywhere.
5:46
You have great Britain doing everything they can
5:52
hey, Tomson's brother in right field.
5:59
We'll take whatever place you guys might have come from
6:04
that might also be attached to Great Britain.
6:06
You can come play for our world baseball classic team.
6:08
Yeah, because the Great Britain,
6:10
I mean, they're one like,
6:11
they're super star players.
6:13
Jazz Chisholm, right?
6:15
That's the best player.
6:17
Anybody else is major league that's currently in the majors?
6:21
I know they have a couple of guys.
6:23
I can't just probably someone.
6:25
Some random ass reliever because usually what it is.
6:27
Some random ass reliever.
6:28
You've heard of like once.
6:30
They they that's exactly what it is.
6:32
I mean, I think you could say that probably
6:35
about the majority of the teams that aren't outside of.
6:40
I was like, Dominicans, Japan.
6:44
Yeah, all the teams that insurance wouldn't
6:47
ensure, you know, those things.
6:48
Well, speaking of insurance, let's talk about your team
6:54
How are you doing all right?
6:55
Honestly, man, I wish I could have been there to catch your reaction
6:59
Oh, that walkoff was wrong.
7:04
I heard Aussie Albee say that his walkoff
7:09
even though it was against, it was Nicaragua, right?
7:12
That's who it was against and it was in the bottom of the ninth.
7:14
And that was the first one in WBC history.
7:17
And for his his was the first walkoff ever.
7:20
And he said that that is the best moment of his life.
7:24
Like he basically said it was better than the World Series.
7:28
And that's that just goes to show that this isn't like
7:31
this means some of these guys.
7:33
This isn't just an exhibition thing.
7:35
This isn't just these guys getting to go fuck around
7:38
and play for their country and just kind of have a good time.
7:41
But you know, play meaningful games
7:43
representing where they come from.
7:45
These guys take this seriously and it means a lot to them.
7:47
No, and they're the fact that you have samurai Japan
7:50
that is now a juggernaut
7:53
in this in this world baseball classic.
7:57
The only team you imagine being
7:59
Can you imagine being at a game in the Tokyo Dome
8:04
while during the WBC?
8:07
Okay. You imagine sitting in a cheering section
8:08
as they're cheering for say us is okay.
8:10
The way they imagine.
8:11
Imagine me sitting next to Benito.
8:16
Other Timothy Shalamet.
8:19
Me Timothy Shalamet Benito.
8:22
I'm asked the fucking reason we never knew we needed.
8:24
Taking more pictures.
8:27
Oh, you would be a photo.
8:32
And my my phone has a terabyte of memory
8:34
and I would have used it all up from that.
8:36
The every single they would they I mean,
8:38
they probably would have liked me in the first place,
8:40
but they would have ended up aiding me
8:42
before the end of that.
8:43
Hey, speaking of photos,
8:44
I just want you to know that the birthday gift
8:46
you gave me a couple of years ago,
8:48
the frame photo of you and Rosario Dawson
8:52
still sits on my desk.
8:54
And I look at it and I smile
8:56
and then I get a little angry at you
8:58
every time I look at it.
8:59
Well, when when you when you talk about the greatest
9:02
days of someone's life,
9:03
meeting Rosario Dawson and being in her embrace,
9:07
embrace because I got in the good graces of her boyfriend.
9:10
Okay, okay, okay, okay.
9:16
It's like it's like Benito says in Monaco,
9:18
Sophie of Agara also,
9:20
prettier in person when you get to see her.
9:22
Anyway, when it comes to race ball classic,
9:26
there one thing obviously that is happening here
9:28
is nobody cares about spring training anymore.
9:31
Not to say anyone would have in the first place
9:33
but there is so little interest in spring training games.
9:40
I would like you as a man of logic and common sense.
9:48
To explain to me why they think they can get away
9:51
with charging what they're charging
9:53
for spring training games right now.
9:56
Rock, you and I could get in plenty of seats
10:00
as you've seen during the World Baseball Classic.
10:02
Almost criminally underattended as far as what you see on TV, right?
10:07
I've seen some of my friends there.
10:10
They're sitting in sections where the seats behind them
10:13
Doesn't make any sense to me.
10:14
Part of it is because the games aren't cheap
10:16
to get into World Baseball Classic games.
10:18
Definitely not what they should be.
10:23
They should be, right?
10:24
Like when you have space to have people in,
10:28
then I feel like you should do everything
10:32
And this is a universal common theme
10:34
here between spring training
10:36
and the World Baseball Classic.
10:38
You should have people in there.
10:40
If not only would it be amazing
10:41
to be sold out of your game.
10:44
And I mean, obviously you have that in Japan
10:46
and you have that in Puerto Rico, right?
10:47
But you do not have that in Houston.
10:49
And that's the contrast.
10:50
And you don't have that Miami.
10:52
Just to me, it just looks bad.
10:55
Because I'm like at that point, you know what?
10:57
Fucking every, every 200, 300 level ticket, $10.
11:03
I feel that exact same way when I sit there
11:06
at a spring training game.
11:07
And there are like less than half
11:10
of the fucking seats available, right?
11:12
And or like it filled, right?
11:15
But when I say this, I say this because right now, you and I,
11:19
I did the math on this.
11:20
You and I could get in to watch a World Baseball Classic game
11:25
tomorrow for $191.66 for two tickets.
11:30
I'm not saying that's, it's not great.
11:32
It's not great seats.
11:33
It's standing only.
11:34
That's in Houston, right?
11:36
So we are, are we going to rain to flight
11:39
We're going to figure it out.
11:41
We're going to get there.
11:41
We're going to get there.
11:43
The tickets have been purchased.
11:45
Basically, they're in the cart.
11:47
They're in the cart.
11:49
That's not even that, that's not even that outrageous.
11:51
$79 a piece, right?
11:54
And then taxes and fees.
11:57
rocked for us to go sit in the cheapest seats
12:01
tomorrow at Salt River Fields to watch the Diamondbacks.
12:06
Minor leaguers take on human Seattle Mariners.
12:11
It's going to cost us to sit in seats $114.
12:15
That is outrageous.
12:17
It's going to cost us $114 to go to a free training game.
12:21
And it's going to cost us $191.66
12:25
to go to a World Baseball Classic game.
12:27
Now, sir, I ask you, what time are we leaving?
12:31
And how can we get the fucking Houston?
12:34
That is outrageous.
12:36
The pricing is so high, especially considering
12:40
that if you're going to that game to watch the D-backs
12:42
in the Mariners, you're going to see nobody that matters.
12:45
No offense to my D-backs.
12:47
I mean, you'll probably see a start area that you're not going to see could tell.
12:50
And on the flip side,
12:51
you're not going to see Hulu, you're Rodriguez,
12:52
you're not going to see Kat Raleigh, you're not going to see Josh Taylor.
12:55
But Randy Arosa Reina is not going to, nobody's there.
12:59
I was thinking of it just from the D-backs perspective,
13:01
but you're absolutely right.
13:02
You go to see them take on the Mariners to see those guys as well.
13:08
I mean, I know that they don't do dynamic pricing in Major League Baseball,
13:13
but maybe they should.
13:14
And I know that this isn't controlled by the D-backs,
13:17
and I want to defend them just a little bit for people that I think is.
13:21
It's controlled by that by Salt River Fields.
13:25
It's not because I would go on the logic of, let's drop ticket prices.
13:29
Let's get these people in here because chances are,
13:31
These people are going to buy concessions.
13:33
They're going to buy merchandise.
13:34
We're going to make, we're going to make our money on the back end.
13:37
Just get them in here.
13:38
If I get a free ticket to an event,
13:40
I am going to, at least by food at the concessions.
13:43
Well, if I get a free ticket,
13:45
in my career, that's beer money, I just say.
13:48
You're going to go hog wild anyway.
13:50
Even if you had to pay for these premium tickets, right?
13:52
If I pay you, you are a person that does not go to events often,
13:56
but when you go, you enjoy the shit out of it.
13:59
I've seen you, right?
14:00
I fucking forced you as you should.
14:01
And I mean, I've seen, I don't want to get put your personal business out there.
14:06
Your personal finance is out there.
14:08
But I've seen the amount of money you dropped just on a single game at chase field
14:13
with your incredible sister.
14:16
And I will say that that's how people should do.
14:20
If you're only going to do it every once in a while, right?
14:22
But you're so much more likely to spend like that.
14:26
If you're not getting strapped for $140 for tickets to a spring training game, right?
14:33
And also, I will say that like Diamondbacks games,
14:37
I mean, at this point, I would just feel like as a fan,
14:40
that I would wait until regular season games started.
14:43
You could get $9 tickets to a regular season games.
14:48
I mean, it's just wild, right?
14:49
Yeah, you buy that $9 ticket and then you just act like you've been there before
14:53
and you just snake your way down and sit lower level.
14:56
We just want you to fill in anyway.
14:58
We just wanted to look full, right?
15:00
I'm glad you brought that shit up because I was going to mention the lack of crowds that I saw
15:05
and then you sit in Miami.
15:06
I'm like, why are there empty seats galore?
15:09
Well, and that goes for them too.
15:10
These tickets that I looked up are $79 standing room only tickets.
15:14
You have plenty of standing room only, bud.
15:17
You don't need to be charging $79 for standing room only because that goes for that.
15:21
Someone say, I don't want to spend that much to just stand.
15:25
You and I know that that just is the price to get in the door.
15:28
And with that many empty seats, it's going to take maybe three innings
15:32
until you and I are sitting down somewhere, not to give away our secrets,
15:36
not to encourage people to do things they shouldn't do.
15:39
But I feel like this is what sports teams,
15:42
more importantly, not to team themselves,
15:44
but the venue, whoever runs things, makes us do these things, right?
15:49
And again, when you don't have the money to attend an event like this
15:53
that only comes around once every four years,
15:56
I say, get in the door and figure it out once you're inside and do it for as cheap as possible,
16:02
$79 for standing room only still seems outrageous, even for something, you know,
16:08
as incredibly rare to attend as a World Baseball class of game.
16:12
I feel like we didn't, I feel like we took it for granted when it was here.
16:16
I'm at a World Baseball class of games here.
16:18
I'm at it myself for not going when it was here in 23.
16:22
And hindsight, I'm like, I'm an idiot.
16:24
Yeah, just didn't know how good we had it.
16:27
We just didn't know how good we had it.
16:28
But hey, let me ask you this, I know we talked about this on the last show
16:31
about the baseball and the Olympics.
16:33
Did you catch Bryce Harper's comments?
16:36
I think it was last night talking about hoping that when they start discussing the new CBA
16:42
that they talk about allowing, possibly allowing the MLB guys to play in the Olympics.
16:48
Because he was saying how great this is.
16:52
And he was just saying it needs to be seen by everybody.
16:55
And he basically alluded to the fact he hopes that when they go to talk to CBA
16:59
that it gets brought up and positive it could happen.
17:04
I mean, you know, I mean, and we talked about how much of an nightmare it would be.
17:08
You'd have to put the season on pause.
17:10
I mean, it's once every four years.
17:14
But if they could find a way to make it work, I wouldn't be mad at it.
17:19
Again, I think that at the end of the day, what the Olympics always needs to be
17:24
is the top competitors in the world.
17:27
They found a way to do this for the World Baseball Classic.
17:30
But it feels like this is really the only period of time in which you could do that.
17:34
You're right, though.
17:35
It's only four, once every four years.
17:37
I just think about how much of an issue Edwin Diaz and.
17:44
I'm sure teams are like, just, I don't know.
17:46
Just two injuries caused them to completely rethink this entire thing.
17:51
And they caused insurance to completely change their, their,
17:55
and then you also figure it's the summer Olympics.
17:57
So that's like July, August, which is like,
17:59
you could be the Lieutenant race.
18:01
I mean, maybe it's, it's probably, maybe it's what happened.
18:06
That's, I mean, like it's, it's nice to want that.
18:08
But I think that the World Baseball Classic has figured it out.
18:11
And the best part about it is that the WBC takes the center stage here.
18:16
It's, it's not part of the rest of the Olympics.
18:19
I love this, though, because of how much it is like the Olympics.
18:21
Like you said, my favorite part about the Olympics is waking up at random times
18:28
and having sports beyond.
18:29
I love sports being on at 2 p.m. on a Thursday.
18:32
That's what I love.
18:34
And it's, even if I have no interest at all, no rooting interest at all,
18:38
even if I can't even bring myself to pay attention to who's winning
18:43
in a, in a game or in a sport during the Winter Olympics like that.
18:47
I'm still having a good time with it on in the background.
18:49
And I'm still enjoying sports being on.
18:52
Hey, did you, for you a little, or were you holding your breath on Friday night?
18:56
What could tell got pumped on the elbow?
18:58
I was and then I was going to fly.
19:02
I was ready to fly somewhere and attack anybody.
19:06
And see, that's the problem with it.
19:08
That's the problem.
19:08
But you could also say the exact same thing about.
19:11
So having a drink and you could say it at a live BP.
19:15
Look at Corbin Carroll broke his hand mate bone swinging a bat.
19:20
Like not getting hit in the hand, not sliding up doing something.
19:24
Just swinging a bat, right?
19:25
Man swung the bat so hard.
19:27
Swung his bat so hard he broke a bone his hand.
19:33
And now here he is saying he's going to,
19:34
he's going to play 10 spring training games before regular season starts.
19:39
Meanwhile, those other bombs that broke their hey may bones.
19:43
The fuck are they at?
19:44
They're, they might not be back until April.
19:47
I'm not going to call loser.
19:49
I'm not going to call it until April or a bomb, buddy.
19:52
Oh, I can't call Indora bomb down.
19:56
And doesn't heal as fast as Corbin Carroll's.
20:00
I can't, I can't, I can't slander Lindor.
20:04
I can't, I shouldn't be either.
20:05
But you really shouldn't.
20:07
You didn't make the WBC team.
20:08
So because it was because it was goddamn Hammett bone.
20:13
To weak ass Hammett bone.
20:15
Don't you dare come for Corbin.
20:17
The biggest heel of 2026 is the Hammett bone.
20:22
I'll take that over fucking Tommy John being the
20:24
fucking the major cause of injury this year.
20:28
Say it louder for the training staff.
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