Hour 2: $125 Million?!?!?! (feat. Daniel Alvarez)

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I remain uncomfortable. Remain is the word I was trying to say there with everything that's

happening with Domino in the other room, the camera angles, the tightness of the pants, the

navel. I am told that Domino makes an excellent Bancon Biste. I am told that it is going to be

something that's featured at Las Rosas earlier or later today. What's happening with that Domino?

What are you doing with Mike Ryan and Mike Ryan's bar later in the day?

Just so you know, Dan, just in case. Once again.

Please, this is a workplace we can't have you. He was talking about the Bancon Biste.

You know about those V lines, Dan? What are you guys doing? Please again with the Bancon Biste?

How many is he making? How many Bancon Biste is he making? I'm making enough for Las Udaya.

I make my own Aeoli. See? I make my own Aeoli. It's not so unique. It's different.

But Aeoli is different. Aeoli is different. I like Las Udaya the green sauce. Tony, you're not allowed

to talk. I'm allowed to do whatever I want, Dan. I'm allowed to do whatever I want. Yeah,

we're adding things you want to. Adding nothing. Tossing a chocolate. That was embarrassing.

The chocolate sauce. How could you on three or five days fail at the chocolate sauce? That was

embarrassing. You guys let Jeremy take out. Trista Frankie, who's wildly polite, spit out your

colada. What happened? I got sandbagged. I've had multiple people taste my colada and they said

it was better than Jeremy's. That's not true. But because I'm not akubana, they would not give it

to the gringa. Frankie spit it out. He spit it out. He told me that he was told to do it. There's

been a conspiracy. What? What are you? What are you? What are you? What are you? What are you? What are you

was told to do it? Hold on. Hold on a second. Jesus. See it, Trista. Out of here. Might

or penalty two minutes for explaining the show. What is told to do it? That is that I didn't realize

that was fraudulent. It was told and saw that coming. I just can't believe I won white boy the day

on three or five days. I'm proud of you. Thank you. That's the last time I'll do something like that.

But I'll admit you impressed me. Wow. You guys saw that Stephen Ross sold one percent of the

Miami dolphins for $125 million that puts the valuation of the dolphins and their stadium

at a higher number than any NFL franchise has gone for. What are you making faces about pit bull?

Why do you do that? Because it's an easy $125 million cash.

Right. But like he just needed a hunt. He just you a short 125 million. Let's sell a percent.

No, it's just you're selling the smallest possible amount percentage wise while keeping a whole

number and getting $125 million cash for your family. Do you know what Stephen Ross bought in

for in 2009? So do you know this number? Because this is why NFL franchises are a great investment.

Do you know what Stephen Ross bought in for in 2009? I guess $300. $550 million is where he

is what he did in 2009. That's an insane ROI. Do they still have the celebrity investors?

Do the Williams sisters are marketing Anthony? What about Ferg? Can you imagine the ROI they're getting?

I should point out that in 2009 he bought half of the team 50% of the team for $550 million. So

it'd be the equivalent of $1.1 billion. But still in 16 years the return on that investment goes from

$1.1 billion to a valuation of $12.5 billion and he's been a disaster as an owner. They have not one

a single playoff game in that time and it has not mattered. Although he does pour a good amount

of his money back into the franchise and you know that in those players association you know taking

the temperature of our franchise you saw recently the Steelers came in last in terms of facilities

and how good the employees feel about what it is that's being spent on the franchise and the dolphins

were first because Stephen Ross does put money back into the franchise but why wouldn't you when

it's worth that much that's crazy to buy in at essentially $1.1 billion and to turn that investment

into now $12.5 billion and the most valuable valuation you've ever seen Walmart came in at like $6

billion didn't they? That's why I always maintain he's an incredible owner because he doesn't just

own the Miami Dolphins and yes Lackas on field success I mean he's literally gotten in trouble

with a league for tampering because of how hard he's trying to fix that it hasn't worked out

but I assumed the entirety of that valuation Dan is the Miami Open Formula One the real estate all

the money that I pumped into that stadium which is a spectacular sporting venue great stadium and

my goodness before the renovations not a good no he literally made it a good stadium a great

stadium unlike any other venue in the world Jeremy would you do me the favor please of going over

and I want to get in the habit of doing this a little bit more often can we go over yesterday's show

and get to some of the things that we did poorly and some of the lesser things that we did well

yes absolutely um I just was a little confused by why there was an encouragement for Trista

to correct you on things and when I do it I'm just like a snot-nosed punk is it because she sounds

like Julie Bowen and Modern Family if it was a cartoon or Tommy Pickles I just like her more

right right it's because of the voice right definitely not mine you insinuated that the heat

wouldn't have made the playoffs the last several years because of the play entornament when every

single one of those years they finished as the seven of the eight seed do you feel stupid

but I think the content that's where they settled but if the regular season ended they would be

oh well I know they would have been the seven or the eight seed every one of those

but what did I insinuated you insinuated that they wouldn't have had a chance at any of those runs

because they got in via the play in but they would have been a team that would have made the playoffs

in any of those runs because they would have made the playoffs yeah you should be embarrassed they

would have been a nine see they would have been an eight you moron what are you bringing up uh

Pablo's awards because you're jealous and you want us to praise you what you're constantly

bringing up Pablo's awards and it it seems like you want us to cut him down on your behalf so that

you can feel better about yourself is that true you know you can win awards too without paying for

them right no why not only two minutes for a leaking confidence

I I want to understand I want us to understand the accusation so I celebrate Pablo's awards you

guys tear him down you guys keep mentioning yeah that he is buying these awards and that no one

else is spending money stating fact you guys are saying that he is only winning the awards because

he's the only one paying to win the awards that's right you guys are doing and I'm jealous yes

because you keep bringing it up specifically so that this group can undercut it I don't want an

undercut I'd like to celebrate Pablo's victories because I think they're hard to come by why are

you still here so hard to come by that you don't have them why are you still here I think it's

a penalty box you know you can't win awards without paying for them I won best

sideline reporter via the Miami new times about paying for that okay I've had enough of this

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dan lebertard it sounds to me like everybody could use a hug because a hug is always the right

size stugats all I have put in my body today now is three cups of coffee and an entire cup of

water the pedal back don't let him fool you he said in the break that he's jittery this is the

dan lebertard show with a stugat

Greg was right to be skeptical about you guys playing that sound yesterday it's a little boy

who cried wolf and also Chris I also love diarrhea he was skeptical of the sound that his

stomach made that was not altered by anyone and what Trista just did made it feel like now you

can't trust our show to tell the truth about things and some things are fake and some things are

not real this is real this is a sound that came out of Greg Cody's body it also what the intermonologue

just sounded like I just don't understand like how how did the microphone pick up Greg's stomach

so well I mean it's as if he took the microphone and put it down his shirt it really was amazing

to listen to in real time it was that loud and it's what I've been saying it's been that

loud for a few weeks it's just not that the mic is catching it every time because if you consistently

go 16 hours without eating and then have two thermoses full of coffee anyone stomach is going to

sound like that two thermoses full of coffee is not in any way healthy and it's the only liquid

that he drinks other than beer nothing that's happening with Greg Cody is healthy

that's it that is his stomach yelling at his brain sounding like a mango please stop

the police stop what you're doing up there what you're sending down here doesn't belong down here

and Jeremy agrees with diarrhea will clear you out oh I love diarrhea that's there will be times

where all purposefully when I'm feeling like bloated for the span of several days I will order a

meal knowing that it's gonna flush me out because I just want to feel better about myself as someone

who is very insecure about my body it feels really good when I don't feel bloated and so there are

times where I will purposefully go out of my way to get a meal that I know will give me diarrhea

love it when it sounds like I'm peeing chia seeds chia seeds mirrolax metamusel all better than

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it's the closest thing that's ever been said please get out please get out to Jeremy you caused

all of this and all right I will eat honestly just wrong what you did for adding nothing

where are we on Michael Joan Michael Jordan as an owner because and Trista had opinions about this

earlier in the week but in NASCAR he's killing it but at Charlotte he was among the worst owners

that there have ever been do you think he cares like I was I was thinking about it earlier today

actually a does he care that the Hornets now are obviously headed in the right direction and it

only took him getting rid of the team and I also wonder does he even know like does he have any idea

that the Hornets are potentially good I think he follows the league but do we know I I think it's

funny that a big deal was made out of and we got super excited for this NBC broadcasting deal that

he signed we get the insights into excellence of Michael Jordan and he's doing more interviews with

Fox on their NASCAR coverage because he's always winning over there I understand he was a not a

success to put it very politely as an MBA owner but it's irrefutable that he's a good NASCAR owner

he changed his sport through litigation through having the money to actually stand up and fight

the settlement has been beneficial to him and the sport he just made NASCAR history in the entire

history of that sport no one has won the first three races to start a season his racer Tyler

Reddick did that he is saving the sport the ratings are up I am watching in this studio as the show

goes on and first take for the last three weeks solely because Michael Jordan is involved is talking

about Tyler Reddick winning a race and showing Michael Jordan on screen the ratings bear this out

it's pretty impressive so to say flatly he's a bad owner ignores the motorsports part of his

portfolio 423 and 600 in basketball yes but I want to get into how it is that Mike is defining

owner success because he's doing it differently than I'm used to sports fans doing it never mind

Michael Jordan for a second we're just talking about Stephen Ross and he's like outside of the

on field lack of success and I thought that was the measurement he's saying he's giving him credit

for trying to cheat it's fair it's fair I get what you're saying and sports fans or don't tell me

about the labor pain show me the baby show me the success and Miami Dolphin fans at this point

are long suffering in my lifetime they haven't mattered longer than they did matter and they

mattered my entire childhood and teenage years it's kind of crazy so I get that if you're viewing

this through that sole prism but in ownership isn't that the sole prism no isn't that the sole

measurement it's not when you take on an investment when when I'm sure if you asked Stephen Ross he

would love to win a Super Bowl that's one of the benchmarks but also let me get one hell of a

return on this investment and it's irrefutable he's turned the Miami open into what is called

antenna circles the fifth major he is invented a formula one race at the height of its popularity

he built a formula one track around that venue for me as a sports fan I would love the team to be good

no doubt but I also hated going to that stadium before and it's a pleasure now to go to that stadium

not my skin is not searing off my bones sure you want the success and yes he has tried and failed

and sometimes tried too hard but I don't think it's because he's a bad owner Dan I think he's

done a lot of good things man ROI yeah but that doesn't that's not the measurement did you make

the franchise go up and value is not the business Dan it's what happens on the court on the court

on the floor on whatever it doesn't matter right like David will say as much like you can win you

can lose it doesn't matter as long as you're putting asses and seats and selling stuff on on

team I'm not like Jerry Jones I'm not going that far I'm not at all I get it I want my team to be

good if the team isn't good I hold the owner accountable because it starts at the top

but it's just one of the variables that we're talking about but the part the part that I'm

objecting to when it comes to what I believe to be empirically based on lack of success

one of the worst owners in the history of South Florida sports maybe the worst Jeffrey

was terrible in metal some ways that were incompetent but did win a championship Jeffrey

Laurie was all also cheap but I thought that the measurement of an owner the way that it's measured

is is there any success is the way that he's leading resulting in any success and no playoff wins

to me is where James Dolan gets criticized for everything that he's done for the nicks and gets

no credit for what he's done for the Rangers because the nicks haven't had any success and he's

metal some and a bad owner you're saying Stephen Ross does business well but he doesn't lead in a

way that produces success and I thought success was the measurement oh I think he leads in ways

that lead to plenty of success it's just not in the portfolio that you are focusing on it certainly

isn't in in motor sports and it certainly isn't tennis like I I don't even think he's the worst

dolphin owner of my lifetime I don't I think he's an upgrade over Wayne High Zenga I get where you're

coming from I want my team to be good too when I was a Browns fan I hated Jimmy Haslam I didn't

care about the Columbus crew being successful I wanted the Browns to be good I get you I'm I don't

think I'm being devil's advocate though I think they're very clear things that Stephen Ross has

made life better for the sports van down here in this market I really do I would guess Michael

Jordan believes his ownership of the Charlotte Hornets was a success because of what he paid

and where he cashed out okay but that's that's good he can do that measurement I'm not going to

measure him that way the standings measure Michael Jordan and owner and he was lousy in basketball

they find a NASCAR yeah you'd be fine if he started a tennis tournament in Formula One

on around the arenas what I'm saying and now those Hornets are 32 and 31 the best team in the

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down lebertard can i tell you something i know maybe like a month ago and i decided to watch

pitch clock and i told Jeremy stugats this is a good show you're doing this is the down

lebertar show with a stugat welcome to the pitch clock here's the pitch a two part baseball segment

combining a nostalgic baseball trivia game and an interview with an expert

this is the pitch clock world baseball classic edition however but a pitch clock is here uh and

to represent the fact that it's the world baseball classic not only do we have a reporter joining

us later who will be boots on the ground at games uh Ethan what is our game today all right boy

so we're going back to an old classic so in the folders in front of you you can open them there is

a baseball diamond one of them has a Dominican Republic flag the other has a united states of

america flag this is current i'm sure so these are the rosters for the starting these are the

starting lineups for the winning teams in 2017 that would be the united states and 2013 that

would be the Dominican Republic okay it's gonna be really simple we're just gonna do three strikes

okay uh Jeremy won jeopardy so he will kick us off okay i'm trying to figure out how

what the proper strategy is on this um i'm just i'm just gonna go ahead and get one on the board

centerfielder on team USA in 2017 for the Baltimore Orioles i mentioned his outstanding play

is one of the great moments in american sports history that would be one atom Jones that is correct

Jeremy Cody over to you we'll go uh stand dh for team USA correct yes i'm going to go with the

third baseman for team USA Colorado Rockies that was Nolan aeronaut correct that was no

now and now correct yes yeah he's now playing for team Puerto Rico why this this isn't just because

he couldn't make it for USA so he switched essentially all right all right Chris who you got

now i'm just gonna take yellow chauff yes yeah yellow chose plan left field for that team uh i'm

gonna go ahead and name i believe they're right fielder for the texas rangers this is for the 2013

Dominican team that would have been Nelson correct yes all right i'm gonna keep it in america

actually no no i'll do my one i'll do Robinson connection yeah yeah that would be you know

don't you know man i this is where the strategy comes into play right because we're doing strikes here

three strikes in your i knew that was the one that you knew and that's terrible strategy by you

i'm gonna actually i'm again i'm just gonna keep i'm gonna keep trying to just get correct answers

here so first baseman for team USA Kansas City Royals that's aerocos correct yes this is embarrassing

that i just realized i just figured out that i think i know who that texas catcher is and it's

wild that that's who it is yeah i think hmm i have one on my head now i feel like i should say it

because i don't want you to get it i'm gonna go right field i know america andry macaque that is correct

yeah i'm gonna say the third baseman for team dr as a dodger was Adrian beltray that is incorrect

that is the first strike of the game i had a feeling i was gonna be wrong i just i couldn't think

he definitely wasn't still with the dodgers i was so early in his career i'll go dh for the dr

pool host that is incorrect not ever pools it is our world baseball classic edition of the pitch

clock as we mentioned earlier and we have danie alvarez of l x that obassay with me here danie

welcome back to the pitch clock first and foremost but second of all i want to dive right into this with

you when it comes to the world baseball classic because i think some folks who are not accustomed

to major league baseball might not quite understand just how important this tournament is

to the players in major league baseball and and some of the fireworks that we've seen over the

years so i'm coming to you for a bit of like a history lesson here can you give me a little bit of

the background of the wbc and what the stakes are headed into this year's tournament

yeah i know it's it's amazing Jeremy because it's a tournament that started because the

because baseball was not in the Olympics and obviously they tried to find a tournament

that was going to be globally popular and have the best players in the world of the best nations

possible playing in it and and i think they they they found a way to to do it it started in

2006 it's crazy to think that it's been 20 years it's amazing and for example we had i remember

the first game being the Dominican Republic against Venezuela at the Disney World complex in Orlando

that it was a minor league stadium by by the time because the brace were playing there for

spring training and now to see that we're going to have lone people barred with 37,000 plus people

in it it's something you know crazy to see how much it's it's drove over over the years now it's not

only the Hispanic countries or Japan or Korea now it's baseball in America or with the national team

being something huge yeah everyone's taking it very seriously in terms of the roster and while

there are some individual players that are treating it differently headed into their season

we know Terrick Scoobold just gonna make one start throwing 55 pitches been been a bit of a controversy

these guys are taking it very very seriously and especially after the upset or you know if you

want to call it an upset but last year when you have that epic showdown at the end of a series with

Otani and Trout going head-to-head that's what baseball is all about and it's really exciting headed

into this year and so i want to talk to you about some of the favorites and then maybe some underdogs

so let's talk favorites first can you give me maybe three teams here to watch at sort of the

top of the standings and those power rankings for you and maybe a player worth highlighting

to sort of watch looking into this tournament yeah i think it's this is the easy part

giving the favorites because obviously the u.s they have an outstanding team i really want to

see what both skins can accomplish at this level we know he's in the pirates he's probably

the best pitcher in baseball and how much he loves this country and he almost serving in the

military he said that he hasn't done that yet but this is a really close second which is you know

speaks highly about how he feels about the tournament and worrying us a across his chest i really

want to see what he can do but also the Dominican Republic man i was at loan depot park this week

watching their first official workout and i was like oh my god first of all you see other poolholes

coming out of the dog either and he's like you need to be playing sir and that's start uh loaded

roster with Fernando that is that it's going to represent the Dominican Republic for the first time

he missed it in 2023 obviously he had the PD suspension but now i know he he took it personal

and how much it means to him also he's dad being on the coaching staff and he's it's going to be

very special for for both of them and for the entire country uh and then japan the current

champions i mean you always have to respect the champs uh now they have more big leagueers than

than ever under roster uh and obviously it's easy uh show yotani saying we we want to see showy

in the tournament but man after what he did in the world series and the poses in general i want to see

joshino gullemoto in march that feels like october or november first which was the date of the

the game seven of the world series the shortstop for the 2017 american team was Brandon

Crawford i have that is correct yeah all right i'll go american catch your saltamakia

no not saltamakia that's bad guess it's not a not a terrible guess because he was thought of

this right yeah he wants a good american catcher is that is that two strikes for christian

two strikes for christkody one strike for Jeremy i i'll just i'm just going to give you my full thought

process there's two different guys i'm thinking are possible at the second base position for team

USA oh one of them one of them i feel like did not play long enough for this to be correct and the

other i'm identifying with potentially i think he just him talking i have it now i know who

other one exactly the two players he's taking up i'm identifying with i'm i only have one so i'm

hoping he says oh yeah no i know exactly what's going on i'm gonna both of your heads right now i'm

gonna say the the second guy i'm gonna say that's yin kinsley that is correct okay that's not the

guy it's not you have the other guy you had Michael young yeah all right this starting pitcher it

can't be him he just give me one hint is it is it is it a dr is it like a number one no no you

ask the u.s. pitcher is it just like a random at this time he was of he was a very like he's

still in the league i'll give you that and at this time he was a very solid like up and coming

number one oh i'm thinking of it was an up and coming number one keep talking that out i i

would do some thinking about in 2013 i would do some thinking about what was going on with the

Toronto blue chase and our show at this time i just started with the show exactly what was going

on in baseball around that time right okay i got you you now know with that i now know exactly

what that means shut up why are you allowed to know the hint all right well he's you're

ready gave the hint yeah but you just tell me you're here you can only just tell me the thing

i'm trying to help you know information other than just what he's talking about he's talking

about i'm not gonna win this game all right the the the blue jays there was a big trade made with the

blue jays oh there you go all right so Jose race yes i'm gonna be really mad if you do uh you

know what i'm gonna go is the designated hitter for the angels there Vlad senior no it's not

no it's not a strike there for you so next guess wrong the other team the other guy can steal

you know no i mean if christ get it wrong i win because i went first if christ gets it wrong yes yes

yes no now we figure it out that's the end of the round that's the end of the round yep yep yep

yep so Cody you got to you got to get this to stay alive here you you mentioned sort of the big

three right everybody's looking at the us dr and japan but let's talk about three other teams

who are some dark horses in this tournament and who will be carrying those teams

it's hard for me to call Venezuela dark horse yeah right by the way i know it's gonna get my

my thumb by putting your bias aside exactly but the thing is that Venezuela lost Pablo López

to do an injury we did all the best to do Pablo Lito uh José Lvarado because of insurance which is

something that kind of confuse people a lot and Jose was very upset about it because it happened

once the roster was announced he was already on the roster like 10 days before the tournament

starts and and he was really really upset with the situation but since they don't have those big

names on the rotation or the pitching staff in general because Robert Suarez is not participating

he says lucardo am i getting after pool play they don't have the you know the sexy names on

on the pitching staff that's right you really have young arms that i know are hungry

and i know that they can get some people out and that's gonna be so important for them um Mexico

we were so close to uh us against Mexico finals last year yes buddy you know what it gave us one

of the most epic finishes in in wbc uh with that japan mexico game but they were pretty pretty

them close to making it to the finals and i think that um they've grown a lot since since that

tournament they're mexico they're gonna have a really really really good team and this last one

that i will give you team italy i think they can do something special in this wbc because i think

they have the best roster they've carried uh for the tournament and francisco survey leaving the

manager with the passion that he brings to the game i think it's can man i just can't wait to see

what team italy is gonna do in this wbc um alright so let's let's roll through this i'm gonna lay

out each bracket for you there there's four pools here okay and you're just gonna go ahead and give

me your prediction of the two teams that will get out of each of these pools and then we'll talk

about who makes it to the championship so pool a Puerto Rico Cuba Panama Canada and Colombia

who are the two teams at advance i would say Puerto Rico and team canter or canada as bad

bonus for pool b united states mexico italy great britain and brazil so the us and it's gonna be

a really close he here i think mexico but i wouldn't be surprised if it's italy i said yeah that's

that's the you've got two of those dark horses in the same pool so they're sort of competing for

that second spot that could be really fun to see and just so we know that side of the bracket those

two teams will square off against the two teams from pool a over on the other side of the bracket pool

c is japan australia korea chechia and chinese typay who you got um yeah japan and korea i think

are the two big favorites here and then finally in pool d it'll be venezuela the Dominican Republic

netherlands israel and nica ragua who are your two who advance here i have the Dominican Republic

and venezuela in the all right who are the teams to emerge from each side to play each other in the

championship and who ultimately wins the world baseball classic so i have the dr winning there and i

have venezuela winning there two advance okay then the standlies that's where things are are really

reshuffled we shuffled exactly so we can have let's say that game mexico against the the second one

so so it would be it could be mexico against dr mex no mexico against i think Puerto Rico and the

us playing against canada in the in the quarter finals that's right in the quarter finals exactly

so then we we can have semi finals between mexico and venezuela and the us against dr and that's

where i have my the finals with us facing venezuela and this is what i think in the us pulls it

you are you are so biased sending venezuela all the way to the final but you know what you're also

you're also a baseball expert and i'm going to trust your opinion here yeah you know these teams

and these players as well as anybody and and your expertise is valued here this united states team

is loaded in a way that i have never quite seen in the world baseball classic i think particularly

after last time around they're frustrated at the way that it ended but boy would it be interesting

to see if japan can find a way to to make a run here because they are going to have one hell of a time

trying to get through that bracket going up against teams like venezuela or the dr on the other side

once they escape group play this is going to be an electric world baseball classic i know dany will

have you covered with his coverage on elixir obase and guys we're gonna have some coverage here

with the pitch clock so be sure to tune into the levitard social channels and to youtube but let's

go ahead and get back to our trivia game i am a little i'm a little i'm a little frustrated with

myself if i'm being the most honest for not being able to name who a who the starting i got it

angels dh bobby abreo no that's strike three for code is way he is venezuela is it kendras morales

no all right that's strike three for jermy no no but i all right so that's a victory it was

handley wait handley here handley is a third base he's a third hand man dot it yes yes so you

would have had that so i'll give it to you jermy all right so let's go around the horn here

so in left field was moissa seara of the toronto blue jesus is for the 2013 Dominican team

the centerfielder was alohandro de aza oh yes that's the centerfield Nelson cruisin right field

Jose res and robinson cano who we got up the middle yeah handley at third base if you say it

clearly couldn't have been carlos dogato it was not carlos dogato it was five it was edwin

incarnacion oh that uh the catcher was carlos santana carlosantana so obvious carlosantana so

obvious and Samuel de duno was the starting pitcher okay and erick ibar was the dh tell me who the

starting pitcher and catcher were for the twenty yes so let me just go around the horn again

ever give everybody answer so christian yellow chin left out of jones in center angiomacutchin in

rite yet no one aeronauto brennan crawford in kinsler air cosmer around the infield the dh

was chancarlo stanton the catcher was jonathan lucroy and the starting pitcher was marcus strowman

oh oh who pitch for portorico in the last world baseball club of course

both these teams not as good as they are today these teams now just shows you by the way

just how much better the tournament is getting yeah no this tournament is getting

studly better and better and better by the year and if you look at both the us and the dr rosters

now these teams are absolutely loaded guys i'm very excited for the wbc i cannot win a game good news

for you we're not counting the the games in the offseason against the standings so we'll pick up

with our our first episode we're in spring training right now it's spring training nice that's

that i'm dominating well i don't try and spring training

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