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What if this team gets 30 starts from big game branded?

We're talking about it right now.

Skiiiing, welcome into another edition of PHNX D-backed podcast live from StudioKey.

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It is I, your mayor of PHNX,

and occasionally Amarillo, Texas.

Derek Montia, also mayor of everywhere.

And again, don't go throwing that mayor nickname around all willy-milly.

Like it's just something that you can call someone.

I need to remind you of that.

I am joined.

Of course, by my guy, Damon Dogg, on the 1st and 2's AKA Damon.

Farrell Damon, bark bark to you on this fine Thursday morning.

So who's there?

How's your basketball team doing?

My basketball team was maybe the best that it's ever been in my entire life.

Yeah, you have a lot of exciting times ahead.

As do we, as people that not only get to watch this air zone at Diamondbacks team in 2026,

but also the World Baseball Classic,

which we are going to be talking about here.

Shortly, we are going to do our best attempt to put together our winning bracket

for that tournament.

But Derek, I'm excited for the World Baseball Classic.

Oh, I really am.

I was telling my roommate yesterday.

I was like, I actually just can't wait for some high stakes baseball like this early in the season.

It just, it puts you in the baseball mood right away.

I remember like how 2023 felt where we had those big games and then all of a sudden

we're straight into the season and the debacks are hot off the jump.

And it just like, it was just a like a fever dream of like 10 months of just awesome

baseball. I need it back in my life.

You're right, you're right.

I needed it so bad that now that World Baseball Classic play has started, Damon.

I, which as you know, I've been getting some good REM sleep,

thanks to my new mattress, found myself up at 2.45 AM randomly,

as one does when they are 44 years old and have lower back problems.

And what I saw on social media, because you know, I can't stay away from Twitter when I'm awake at

2.45 AM, is that in 15 minutes South Korea versus Chechi, it was about to start.

And I was supposed to not watch that.

I wasn't supposed to stay up for a game that starts at 3 AM.

I love this.

This reminds me of a KBO baseball all over again.

And in fact, maybe just maybe that's part of the problem here, Damon overall, is that we have,

of course, World Baseball Classic starting and kind of running over

spring training, which is fine because nobody cares about spring training games.

And that's fine too.

We're okay with all of that.

We're not going to shy away from the truth on this program.

We know that you guys don't care.

We know you stopped caring.

Like you still want to know that Tommy Troy went three for four and yesterday's win over the

athletics, but you don't care that they won over the athletics.

You don't care that the score was three to one.

Admit it.

That's fine.

But Tommy Troy did go three for four and yesterday's win.

Also, Jacob Amaya, he's been quietly doing some impressive things.

He was two for three with a home run and he scored all of the D-backs.

RBI, he had all three RBI for the D-backs.

Luke and Baker, another big fella that we are, we are learning to love.

Big fella is right.

Oh man, he is.

If he's nothing, he's a big fella.

I mean, you know what I mean?

He might be the big show.

We might have to start calling him the big show, Luke and Baker.

But he's one for two with a double that he smoked 105.7 mile per hour exit

below on his double in that game.

Again, two runs scored and a walk for Baker.

So that looks great.

Another thing on the very, very bright side of things.

Brandon Garcia returned to the Diamondbacks bullpen yesterday.

If you don't remember, he left the game.

His last outing after hitting a batter and looking like he couldn't find the strike zone.

He left with a trainer, which was very concerning and made all of us collectively

hold our breath.

But luckily, as the Diamondbacks revealed, it was just due to illness and Brandon Garcia

went out there and looked great in his one inning of work.

He struck out too.

Didn't allow a hit.

Didn't walk anyone.

And again, looks outstanding.

But Tommy Troy, Tommy Troy looks great, man.

After going three for four yesterday, he is currently hitting 524 with a 1.238 OPS.

And he has hit safely in seven of his nine spring training games.

We talk about a lot of guys on this team.

And again, I think when it comes down to it, it's going to be disappointing.

When we see certain names sent back down to their, you know, minor league teams.

We're already seeing that today.

Gilbert Diaz was sent back down to or reassigned the triple A Reno aces or options.

Excuse me, do the Reno aces Dylan Ray also option to the Reno aces.

Those were guys I believe that were on their 40 man roster that are no longer on their 40 man roster.

But Tommy Troy again, just looks really good.

That 1.2 308 OPS outstanding.

He has four doubles to RBI in spring play.

The Diamondbacks have won five straight games in six of their last seven.

Because I guess the exhibition game doesn't count against two Mexico.

Derek, you did the thing.

I did the thing.

You did the thing.

The Diamondbacks currently have a 302 batting average, which is second.

And major league baseball behind only the San Francisco Giants.

We have a 318 team batting average.

Their OPS of 876 is third behind the Rockies and the Giants.

So Diamondbacks doing some good things offensively here already in spring.

But Brandon fought.

He made his first start.

He went to and a third scoreless innings.

He allowed one hit in his spring debut.

And again, just outstanding to see Brandon fought back out on the mound pitching.

There was some concerns about, you know, a side injury that had kind of come up.

Fingers crossed that we didn't lose Brandon fought because again.

Now we would start to get down to panic territory.

But luckily, he just, they had to slow play him a little bit.

But, you know, Brandon looked great yesterday.

He said he was, he was, I think just being aggressive was what led to his outing yesterday.

That was his goal.

He said they were pretty fastball heavy, but they came out swinging.

We wanted to work on the curveball and the third inning.

Didn't land a three-two pitch, which I wish I could have had that one back.

But it felt good.

Stuff was moving great.

We were being aggressive.

He threw his sinker and his change up.

Primarily in yesterday's game, he got three whiffs in it.

And debacks, pitchers, overall, the entire pitching staff yesterday

did not allow an extra base hit to the athletic.

So good performance overall, but you can't help but wonder.

Brandon fought, right?

Brandon fought is to that point now where

you almost feel like you need to see that breakout season from him this year.

Something that he truly really hasn't had.

It's similar, I guess, to what we talked about with Jordan Lawler,

but Jordan Lawler is far younger into his career.

Brandon fought.

We have seen how great he can be.

We've seen Brandon fought.

Be, you know, one of the best pitchers on the staff at times.

However, just does not have that consistency that this team is looking for

from, you know, a starter and from him, quite frankly.

I mean, again, there was a lot of expectations for fought and so far, you know,

you probably won't find somebody that's harder on him than himself.

So it's kind of thing that something there that he needs to shed as well for the 2026 season,

but across all the projection systems, they like Brandon fought for 2026.

They really do see him as a candidate to have a rebound season.

We're talking about steamer, zips, fantasy pros, all of that stuff.

It looks like Brandon fought.

Obviously, if he stays healthy, projected to go about 30 starts and 170 innings pitched.

Mediocre record around 500 ERA improved, but still probably not outstanding.

They have his ERA somewhere in the range of 4.12 to 4.50.

steamer has him at 4.31 with a 1.27 whip.

Zips has him at 4.12 with a 1.19 whip, but overall, all better than it's 5.25 ERA from 2026.

And even that was kind of a bad luck, his underlying metrics once again suggested that

Brandon fought was better than that 525 ERA, but Brandon overall, if he can be a guy that comes

back and can contribute in a way that makes him look like a solid number three starter for

this team, number four starter, the Diamondbacks can really go places again.

Talk to you briefly there about their spring training offensive numbers, which don't really

matter in the grand scheme of things, but still are looking very good, still at the top of the league.

Don't feel like offense is going to be the problem for this team in 2026, and it doesn't appear

that that is going to be the case based on the way guys are playing so far.

It still feels like everything is going to hang on their pitching, and that's nothing new.

That's probably something you could say about every baseball team.

If you have great pitching, you're going to win a lot of baseball games, but what the Diamondbacks

realistically need is Brandon fought in Eduardo Rodriguez to pitch how we know they can,

not how these numbers at the end of the season essentially end up, right, and again,

I know I'm probably beating this to death, but ERA had himself an amazing stretch last year

against some of the best teams in baseball. That stretch right there is what I'm talking about.

It's those stretches and past seasons that lead you to believe that he can be much better than

what we've seen. I mean, everybody thinks that, but at least makes you feel like that's still there.

From ERA, he said he felt great, Brandon fought again, says he feels much better than he did,

and kind of over that side issue that he had. But again, those two guys, there's so many

questions about what those two guys are going to be in 2026. There's also questions about how

Soroka is going to factor here, factor in here to the starting rotation. Also, questions about

when Merrill Kelly will make his debut. He is scheduled to throw a bullpen today per toy

lovalo. Torrey said that it'll probably be somewhere in the 15 pitch range, and he said this

is encouraging news. He had a chance to speak to him directly and that he said he feels good enough

to get back up on the mound and begin that progression. So Merrill Kelly, resuming baseball

activity is not just throwing, but actually getting in and tossing a bullpen. He's still trending

towards being ready to pitch at the back end of the rotation, most likely against the Detroit

Tigers on March 31st or April 1st. That is not official from the team. That is me just doing

math and using dates and a calendar to figure that portion out. But again, the Diamondbacks,

very much need Merrill Kelly to come back here. And again, he is going to be a welcome site at

the back end of that rotation. But forget that, forget spring training. Nobody cares about that.

World baseball classic is here. And now we are ready for actual world baseball classic games to

start. And we already had a pretty shocking upset in the world of world, world baseball class,

in the world of world baseball classic Australia defeated Chinese Taipei by a score of three to

nothing. The three three had shut out, putting together by Alex Wells, Jack O'Loughlin and John Kennedy,

and top prospect Travis Bazzana added a home run to give Australia insurance later on.

His name is all over the place. If you go to the world baseball classic, you probably,

if you took a shot every time they tweeted about Travis Bazzana, you would be drunk before you

scroll two or three times. But this is a first game of the entire tournament. Again,

kind of a shocking win there for Australia who grabs an early advantage there in pool C,

which also includes Japan, South Korea, and Chechia. Is that right? Am I saying that right?

It's Chechia. That's the name because they were in the second game against South Korea. They lost

by a score of 11 to four. Korea's offense exploded for 11 runs powered by multiple home runs.

I'm going to say a lot of names wrong here. Let's just get that out of the way here. Bo Gyeong-moon

hit a grand slam that helped blow the game open early. And then Astro's minor leagueers

Shay Whitcomb also had a huge game with two home runs himself. So Korea immediately looks like

a serious contender in a, honestly, a pretty stacked pool C there as far as being in the same

pool as Japan. So now we got Australia and South Korea at one and O and Chinese Taipei or Taiwan

as Damon Debanza. I call them O and one and Chechia, O and one. By the way, is Chechia, is that the one

where like a nuclear operator is one of their pitchers? I think so. Yeah, that was what Connor

our sales guy, Connor. Sorry, sorry, check. Yeah. Thank you, Martin. Yes.

So, yeah, they have like a bunch of dudes with day jobs. Like there's like dental hygienists and,

you know, but not more important than a nuclear monitor. I felt like I feel like he. Oh,

and there's a dude named Ryan Johnson as well on the on the on the Chechian. His name, I won't have

any problems pronouncing for short, but Chechia. It's Chechia. Yeah. Sorry. But again, Chechia is a

Russian. That's that's Russia. Yeah. That's different. I'm bad. I'm bad at all of this. I'm

going to do that. You got that in my head for I wasn't doing that. And then you started doing it.

Now I'm now I'm doing it. Yeah, it's bad. Only the top two teams advanced to the quarter finals.

So early wins are huge here. Obviously, and there's not a lot of games. So. Well, in Australia,

one, right? Yeah, that's what that's what you were saying. So I wanted to shout out my guy who I've

been DMing with Derek fan of the of the program here. Dbacks fan and just overall go Brad,

Brad Billett, who has been he's a fan of pH next Dbacks. He is an Aussie man. And he is

mess been messaging me about different world baseball classic updates because Derek, I would like

to announce that my second team is also not the United States. It's Australia. I am team

Dominican Republic and team Australia. Those are my two teams. No, I'm sorry. It's just a

lot individual. Oh, yeah. I got big Jake Franklin texted me yesterday. How about make a wish

Kershaw hitting 87 on the gun and giving up a no doubt bomb bomb. If Clay Kershaw wasn't on that

team, could we get you to root for that? Yes. Okay. Of course. I've made that very clear. The

sole reason I'm rooting against USA is because of Clayton Kershaw. Last World Baseball Classic,

Otani wasn't even on the Dodgers. And I was rooting for for the team USA over Japan. Like no question

about it. But when you start making my team, my country, a charity case for your loser retired

player retired players, then I'm out. I'm out on that. So team Dominican team Australia.

That's what we're all about. And we dozzies. We got ourselves a dub game one. Jason's trying to

put the two together in the chat. He says team Australia Republic or as a team Dominic Calia.

We'll workshop that. We'll workshop that. We might need a little bit more time to call you.

Well, we got some big matchups coming up today, including Japan versus Chinese Taipei,

Mexico versus Christian Robinson and the great Britain team. We got the Dominican Republic.

It's going to wipe the floor with Nicaragua and USA versus Brazil. This is team USA's first real

WBC game as well. So big matchups, fun stuff, World Baseball Classic. It's going to deliver man.

It's going to be exciting. And we're so pumped. We're going to do our best to figure out which teams

are going to advance from each of these pools. And then we're going to try to determine the winner

of the whole damn thing. Damon, let's do that on the other side of this break, shall we?

Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. We're going to do that. Don't you guys go anywhere you're watching

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Well, Damon gave his shout out to somebody here that he was communicating with that's turned

him into an Australian fan now. I want to give my shout out. Ozzy Ozzy.

Oh, I do that automatically. I didn't even mean to jump in on that, but hey.

So let's be honest. We can we can root for Australia together. Wasn't there? I'm forgetting his name

right now. And I'm really sorry for that. But we met another Australian fan of the program when

he brought his beautiful family out to the ball. Oh, absolutely. Two seasons ago.

He was awesome. Yeah. So we do have some Australian listeners here that like the diamond backs for

some reason. And so we love our Australian fans. One time at the Royal Rumble and that was taking

place at Chase Field. There was this very tall Australian man that proceeded to help lift me up

so I could see wrestlers come in the entrance. He was a darling human. Oh, this is this was like

when you were like you were you were younger at this point. Yeah, I was younger individual.

Totally. I was like 39. And this this giant of a man was the kindest human being. And then I

I kid you not before the end of the show. I saw this great man being taken out by police for

some reason that I still don't know. But again, not every story has a happy ending. Do

want to give a shout out though to our diehards. You guys are amazing. And as always, we thank you

guys so much for supporting us. And I mean that when I say this whole thing here at pH and X would

not be happening without the support of our diehards without the support of our supporters club

members. So again, thank you guys so much. And we wanted to spotlight one of our diehards, one of

our wonderful Diamondbacks diehards. Our guy here, Dean Browell, what a great name. Browell.

And I probably might be Browell. I might be butchering it by saying it. Browell. I bet it is

Browell. It probably is Browell. But I think Browell is also just so cool. So Dean, thank you so

much for being a diehards well. Dean is from Richmond, Virginia. And his favorite team is the

Arizona Diamondbacks favorite athlete Gabrielle Moreno. And he has been a diehard for three years. So

again, Dean, we thank you so much. Dean said thanks for being great. Thank you for being great.

Dean, we appreciate it. He said he became a diehard because he was looking for a community and

fan source even though he doesn't live in the area. And we are so happy to provide that. I will

say that again, I know that speaking as a Diamondbacks fan right here in Phoenix at times, it was hard

to find a group of fans. So we are happy to be helping this community grow. And we are thrilled

that you are a part of it. So thank you so much, Dean, for that. We appreciate you guys. We

appreciate all of you so much. You guys again are the reason why we do this and the reason we're

able to do this. So again, thank you. Thank you all. But Damon, I feel like it's time for us to

really start committing to these teams. You've already done that. There's no doubt about that.

I don't think anybody would argue with that. But I think it's time for us to maybe start figuring

out who exactly is in the quarterfinals and who is going to advance to win the whole damn thing.

So let's take a look at the world baseball classic bracket right now a little convoluted, maybe

not as easy to figure these things out, right? Because two teams from each pool advance. And as you

can see here on your screen, we have the four pools. We have pool A that features Puerto Rico, Cuba,

Canada, Panama, and Colombia. We have pool B, which features the United States, Mexico, Italy,

Great Britain, and Brazil. We have pool C that features Japan, Australia, Korea,

Czechia, and Chinese Taipei. And then last, we have pool D featuring Venezuela, the Dominican

Republic, Netherlands, Israel, and Nicaragua. All right. So I mean, it's electric the spots that

they picked for these games. I won't lie about that. You mean the locations themselves? Yeah,

pool B being in Houston, Texas, pool A being in San Juan, Puerto Rico. That is going to be

amazing. Electric.

Tokyo, Japan for pool C seems unfair. And Miami, Florida there for pool C. I mean, I guess maybe

it's not weird. It's on purpose. But all the Asian countries plus Australia are in there. So

that almost feels a little bit unfair to those countries to like not randomize it and to just

be like group them all together and be like, uh, whoever comes out of the Asian side of the bracket.

But it's like you're almost eliminating teams that maybe have a better chance of getting there.

Like what if South Korea was in, you know, the pool B? What's stopping them from beaten Mexico

and getting passed? Yeah, you're absolutely right. But now they're in a really difficult,

they're probably going to get out of pool C anyways. But like maybe Australia is one of those

teams, but it just feels a little bit like maybe it should be more randomizing that. But I'm

sure they're trying to reduce like the travel costs and everything. Well, and I think overall here,

you know, you're right. There is definitely a little bit of unfairness to it when it comes to

the locations and everything like that. But I mean, you could say the same thing about divisions

in such and baseball, right? Like some like the Diamondbacks would be in such a better place if we

played in any division besides the NL West for sure. You know, so it's like some of these pools

kind of do make it a little difficult for some teams to make it out. I think that pool A is fairly

up for grabs, probably the most competitive division that I don't know if you have a clear cut.

Two teams that stand out. I mean, let's, yeah, let's kind of do this. And I think we should do

the easiest obvious ones here and notice respect to the other three teams. But I don't see anybody

meeting Venezuela or the Dominican Republic in Puldi. Is that fair to say? Yes. I think it is

unless, unless, unless the plumbers are on the Netherlands team to get together. Drew Jones

has something to say about it. We need the, you're calling Drew, Drew Jones a plumber. I know. Let's

get this on the record pitching staff. I said pitching. True. They're pitching is not very

they do have a decent little lineup, though. Yeah. The Netherlands team. They do. They do.

And I mean, honestly, you could probably say that about a few teams that are a bit surprising. I

think great Britain is better than they've ever been. But true. Again, do you see those teams kind

of doing enough to outplay the other teams in their pool, including Venezuela and the Dominican

Republic, like the Australian win. That's a big kind of shocker there. But it's not over Japan

or Korea. So it's not enough to believe, make me believe at least at this point that Australia

is going to make it out of that pool into the quarter finals. I see that still being Japan and

Korea. Man, these, these Netherlands pictures are bomb steric. I know. I'm telling you a bunch of

metal workers. So bad. One guy's a lawyer. All they have is is is Kenley Jansen. Yeah. That's

the one guy that I recognize here on this list. And it's like, okay, well, if they have a lead,

maybe, but even then, but they do have Aussie Albies, Xander Bogart's, D. D. Grogorius,

is is pro far allowed to play or is that no far as brother? That's pro far as brother.

Interesting. That's not Drickson. That's whatever is their name. They have Jonathan Scoop's brother

as well. Charlon Scoop. And then they have Drew Jones. I mean, it's kind of a fun team. But I

remember, I agree with you. I do agree with you. I don't think that anyone is beating Venezuela

or the Dominican Republic out of pool D. And then so if we're mapping this out, pool D would then go

to game three of the quarter finals, the winner. So do you want to just say that the Dominican

Republic is going to win? Yeah. The Dominican Republic team is just a monster. I can't

imagine that team not taking that pool and being the winner of it. And then Venezuela is still

very good. And I think again, Venezuela has a lot of country pride to play for right now as well.

Plus again, very good roster. Japan and Korea just seem very likely out of pool C.

Do you want to actually commit yourself to believing enough to say that Australia is going to

keep Korea out of the quarter finals? Damon? Are you willing to commit to that?

I'm currently my brain power is being. No, I get it right now. He's updating the bracket.

I'm here asking him questions. Yeah, I'm not entirely listening. But so do we want to put

Venezuela as the runner-up in group D then? Correct. Yeah, Venezuela will be the runner-up in

group D. So again, when it comes to the quarter finals, it's a bit complicated. But yes,

Damon's putting together the bracket correctly. I have the format in my head. Okay. And I have it

next to me. So I'm kind of just basing it off of that. That works for me. So again, what we have

here in pool C again, Japan, Australia and Korea are probably going to be in a fight here for

those two positions. But again, can't imagine that samurai Japan does not come out of pool C.

So really, it's up to the Australian team pulling off a fairly big upset and making it in over

Korea. That's what we have so far, Derek. That's what I've been working on. That's what you've

got. So taken up 75 to 80 percent of his brain power, which is fair. So what I was asking you

was, are you ready to commit enough to Australia to have them making it into the quarter finals over

Korea? After Korea got that big W against Taiwan, I will call them. Sure.

I think it's a checking actually. Oh, I wait. I thought Australia would be

Australia. Australia. Australia. Taiwan. Taiwan. I got you. Yeah, man. I mean, that's a big win

for Australia. That feels like that's momentous. Let's do. I feel like Korea has the pitching

advantage. Yeah. They have to, right? They do. They absolutely have the pitching advantage.

But Australia, once again, has also has lawyers. Australian pride and

guys that do air conditioning work on the team that are, you know, do they actually?

Do they have Liam Hendrix? No, he didn't suit up. No, he did not. What a joke.

I mean, again, the Travis Bessana. Yeah, Travis Bessana has killed it. He hit a home run in that

one. And again, like I said, if you, if you go to the World Baseball Classic account and take a shot

every time you see a tweet featuring his name, you're going to be wasted. So what do we want to do

here? Do we want to go Australia or Korea? Let's go Australia. All right. This is who you,

this is who we're backing. This is who you are behind. So we'll go through Australia in there.

As the runner up. Yeah. As the runner up. And we'll have Japan winning that division.

Okay. So it looks like my teams will then be playing each other up. Yes. Good. Let's get

this over with. Wow. The winner of that, the winner of that quarterfinal game will then be the

team that Damon can go by a jersey of whether it's a Predomo or a Bessana jersey. So there's that.

Meanwhile, pool B United States, Mexico, Italy, Great Britain and Brazil, Brazil. Not a chance.

Italy, get out of here. Great Britain. You showed up at least. We appreciate that.

But nobody's beating Rowdy to Les in Team Mexico. And nobody's definitely beating the United

States when it comes to making it into the quarterfinals. So I feel like that one's fairly obvious.

Maybe I'm being unkind to some of those other teams, but I just, I can't imagine it.

Team Mexico looked really good out there against the Diamondbacks. We had a chance to see them in

that exhibition game. And then you also have the United States putting up, you know, going 15

to 1 over the Giants and making them look like some fairly pathetic pedestrians there. So

anyway, what do you, what do you think in here? So anybody, this is in the group pool B. We're now

talking. We're now talking about group B United States. Winner probably right. And then Mexico,

I would say, yeah, it's got to be right. Yeah. That's, that's it. That's, that's it. As far as I'm

concerned. And again, I know a lot of these are easy. We went with Australia. There's a little bit

of an underdog, but Korea obviously making it in seems like that's just as likely, but not

probably enough there for them to, oh, I think you mix those up. I think Australia would be playing

Dominican right in Japan. Would be playing Venezuela. Isn't that what I have? Oh, yeah, they're

crossed from each other. They're crossed from their own. Got it, got it, got it. I see that now. Got it.

All right. And then the teams on the right are the home teams and the teams on the left are the

away teams as well. Understood. So then we'll do Mexico. Yeah, we'll do Mexico. But pool A by far,

the hardest pool to determine, I feel like. And yeah, I mean, it's just the teams are, it's the

most wide open for sure. It feels like, right? Yes. It definitely feels like the most wide open.

It feels like the one where any of these teams honestly could be really good and any of them could

kind of find, you know, their rhythm together. It's hard, right? Like it's a very short amount of

time of you essentially becoming a team together before these games actually start playing, you know,

few days at the most, but it's hard not to think even though they have a lot of, I guess a lot of

problems overall with the insurance situation that we unfortunately are going to talk about later

on the show. Team Puerto Rico still feels like a pretty decent bet there overall. Team Puerto Rico

feels like they have enough star power on that team for them to come together and, you know, when

get themselves into the quarterfinals, right? I agree with you. Interesting. Some interesting

people on this Cuban team, Derek. Cuba Cuba. They have Yoan Lopez. Yep. And then Yoan,

Moncato and Ariel Rodriguez. Yeah. They have Alexi Ramirez, brother. Yeah. I'm sorry. Did you hear

me say what I just said right now? Alexi Ramirez stopped playing Major League Baseball in Derek. Can

you guess the year that he stopped playing Major League Baseball? Go ahead and guess, Derek.

2018. 2016. 2016. This guy hasn't played in the pinnacle of the sports since 2016. And he's

in the World Baseball Classic. This is why the World Baseball Classic is awesome. Yeah.

It's because you get these like these players, guys that play for like the great Britain team where

you're like, wait, what is he doing out there? He's, I thought Adrian Beltray retired 25 years

ago. And they're like, well, he has some obscure connection to, you know, the UK. And so he can

play for them. And he's 45, but he's still the best third baseman they got. And you're like,

this is ridiculous. Yeah. Is Alexi Ramirez going to just be a third base coach for them? Like,

what's going on? He's going to be both. He's going to be a third base man and a third base coach

for that team. Cesar, I was not in elementary school, but here's get this. I was in high school.

I was in high school. That was my senior year of high school. It was when Alexi Ramirez played ball.

All right. Now you're making me feel old. It's been 10 years. I know. I know. Puerto Rico,

they got an old Leonardo, they got Edwin Diaz, they got Seth Lugo, all right. You also have Canada

with Josh Naylor, Tyler O'Neill and Jameson Tyone. And then Colombia in Michael Sorroca.

And Michael Sorroca. You're right. Excuse me for letting him off there. And then you got Colombia

with Jose Cantana, Michael Royo, and one Nabil Krizmat. That's Colombia. That's Colombia.

There's your ex-factor. There's your winner right there. That's your division winner, Colombia.

No, I'm joking. I do think Puerto Rico is going to make it out of that. I would put Puerto Rico

probably as the winner of that pool. Okay. But what do you think here as far as I think Canada and

Colombia is concerned? Let me take a peek at this Colombian roster real quick just to kind of get

a better idea of what we're working with here. John Romero, who's a Cantana, I mean, Julio Tejeron,

which one was last time Julio Tejeron pitched in an MLB game. Now we're looking that up because

this is insane. Julio Tejeron hasn't pitched in a majorly baseball game since 2019, Derek. He's

on the Colombian team. This Colombian team is really not bad. I know. They're pretty so. I mean,

they got a lot of peripheral dudes, but that's the type of team that can, I think, kind of play

above its head. Like when you get like a geo or shella and he's just a monster in the world

baseball classic and you're like, what? Wait, that's not a thing that happens in regular baseball.

It's true. But when these guys play for their countries, they get a lot better. I'm leaning

Canada, but I do think this Colombian team is sneaky. I think they're real sneaky. Canada did get

beat by the Toronto Blue Jays in exhibition play. Just wanted to throw that out there. I don't know

how that impacts your feelings. It doesn't really impact my feelings too much. I don't really care

about spring trading. But yeah, no, I mean, we already, let's do this. Look, because I'm a wrestling

guy. And sometimes you have to book this for the best, like fan, fans, you know, situation. We want

big matchups, right? We want hatred. We want bitter all. And there's no bigger, like there's

no bigger rivalry right now than Canada versus USA, right? After what happened in the winter

Olympics with hockey. So I'm throwing Canada in there and they are going to face off there

against Team USA in the quarterfinals. I love it. Right? That's going to put some butts in seats.

That's going to sell some tickets. That's going to get TV watching. I mean, you would assume so,

David. You would think so. You would think so. But sometimes you don't know. These audiences can

be fickle. Damon, that's why every once in a while, you got to, you got to throw like a big show

out there, AKA Luke and Baker. The second time I've mentioned the big show, the big show on this show.

What he's what Luke and Baker is what the people tune in for there. That's what the people,

they have in jelly bean, ham and jelly bean factor is what people are here for. But I think we've

done a pretty good job here of setting up the quarterfinals overall. We got Puerto Rico in there

on the winners bracket side along with Team USA, the Dominican Republic in Japan on the

second place side. I guess you could say over here. We got ourselves Canada, Mexico, Australia,

and Venezuela. So love that. I think that looks good for essentially an elite eight here in our

tournament bracket. So Damon, why don't we do this? Why don't we take a quick break? And on the other

side of this break, we will do some more bracketology here and figure out who exactly is going to win

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semifinals and who is going to win the whole thing. First, it gets a little

convoluted, I guess you could say from here, because the seating in the next round would depend on

where essentially what their records are, right? But we do know that according to this information,

the teams that advance or team Japan and team USA cannot play each other in the semifinal.

Well, I think that basically they can, I think, but it was kind of set up so that they don't.

I think is more of the differentiator. They tried to set it up where there's not really a chance

that it happens. I also think that they've kind of talked about this poorly because there's two

games of these quarter finals that take place on the 13th and two that take place on the 14th.

So you would, I think it makes all the sense in the world that the teams that play on the 13th

play each other and the teams that play on the 14th play each other in the semifinal matchup.

Okay. Because those games are also a day apart, so they want to have equal rest, I believe.

So I think that the pool B winner versus the pool A runner up, so that would be USA Canada will

take on the pool D winner versus the pool C runner up. So we have Dominican Republic versus Australia.

So I think we can plug those teams in as playing each other in the semifinal. USA versus Dominican

Republic. Right. I don't think either of those teams are going to lose. And I feel like when

it comes to all of the winners and forgive me for not having more pride in my own personal island,

the same way Damon has pride in his little little island. I think the only upset here in the quarter

finals is going to be team Mexico over Puerto Rico. Wow. Is that really that big of an upset?

No, no, no, no. I don't think in the grand scheme of things as far as those two rosters are

concerned. I just mean that, you know, you have the second place teams on the left versus the

teams that ended up winning their divisions or their pools on the right. Right. So I think

team Mexico goes on to take that game against Puerto Rico. And then I think Japan is in there.

Now the big question Damon is, can the Dominican Republic pull off the win over team USA?

I got to be honest, Eric. I'm sitting here. And as we're outlying this and I'm kind of getting

an idea of what the bracket is headed towards, I, I can't believe baseball did it again.

I cannot believe baseball did it again. Yeah. Is there any player who has been propped up by a sport

since Michael Jordan, as much as this show Hayotani three that they have over in Los Angeles?

They are literally giving Japan a free run to the final.

Mm-hmm.

Venezuela, Mexico. Why can't the Dominican team get a shot at Japan? I want a shot at Japan.

Yeah. I know. In the semi-final. I know you do. Well, would you think it was,

be crazy if I were to say, I think they'll get a shot at Japan in the final final?

What? I think Dominican Republic, USA.

Okay. Let's do it. The only advantage that team USA truly has there. I don't want to say that.

That's probably not right. But I feel like their biggest advantage is pitching. And I still question,

you know, when their biggest pitchers are going to be available in these games.

Like, obviously, you got to have a Paul Schienz or a Terrick Scoobal pitching in that semi-final game,

right? But didn't we discuss that if team USA made it to the finals, it wouldn't be either of those

guys pitching for them in the final? Yeah, it would be Nolan McLean final. Yeah. And no disrespect to him

or his good name, but not exactly the guy would want in there for the championship overall. So

and then what Derek? You know what happens next. You're going to make me say it. You already pointed

out that this whole thing props up. Show Aotani. It does. It does. That in the team Japan is going

to win it all again. The entire, the entire tournament was, was started just so Otani can add to his

resume. I'm convinced at this point. I feel like the Dominican Republic has to be the team of

Destiny. I really feel like they are. It's just, it's like the vibes, everything about them. You

know, Japan truly is the juggernaut, the end boss, everything that, you know, God, I hate them.

We are going to rep the DR so hard in this game, Damon. Harder than we've ever

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If you needed any help, hope that helps. Hope that lays it out for you. They'll like it was too

easy. We just went with the good teams here overall, but we made some tough choices. We did

us really over Korea. We did the thing. I'm okay. I'm okay with this. All right. Well, you know what I'm

not okay with. I circled Japan. That's our final bracket. That's what we got. Yeah. And it makes

me sick. It should, it should make you. I dude, is that really where we're headed? Probably,

probably. But let's hope we, let's hope, let's hope it wrong. It's fun to do this. This is where

you head yourself emotionally. You fill out your bracket like this. And then if you're wrong,

you get to enjoy the Dominican Republic winning another world baseball classic title. Or perhaps

Team USA getting the job done. We'll see. But, you know, it's not Japan that's ruining the world

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there some some memes earlier. Oh, is that permission impossible? Yeah. Yeah, just

there's there's some stuff out there. Insurance in general is a joke. As we all know, if we've

ever had to deal with it, but the insurance for the World Baseball Classic is possibly the biggest

joke you've ever seen. And I mean, you could argue maybe even slightly, slightly unfair might be

bending the rules a little bit just in favor of team USA overall. That's because after the injuries

last year or last World Baseball Classic, not last year, but last time we did this to Edwin Diaz

and to Jose Altuve. There has been some concerns here from the insurance provider and the list of

reasons why a player could potentially not be insured is very lengthy. Now, this is a weird situation.

This obviously was a part of the World Baseball Classic, a part that got owners to allow their

players to participate. Like we've said, it's understandable, even though it's a little bit

villainous for a organization for a franchise to keep their start players out of participating in

a tournament like this in which they get nothing in return for those players participating in the

tournament. So MLB implemented this insurance, which allows teams to insure their players and

should those players get injured participating in the WBC, their salaries would be covered by

Major League Baseball, but it actually wouldn't be covered by Major League Baseball. It would be

covered by an insurance provider much like most of us have insurance through our jobs. It would be

a similar thing where MLB is paying to this insurance provider and then should something terrible happen

to one of these players, then they would be covered. Their salary at least would be covered in

the franchise themselves wouldn't have to put up with it. So if Otani gets injured in the World

Baseball Classic, for instance, and Otani by the way, not cleared to pitch by insurance,

just cleared to hit. So there's one way that this is impacting his availability for team Japan

is that Otani is only cleared to hit in this World Baseball Classic. This insurance provider

company called National Financial Partners is the official insurance broker for the 2026 World

Baseball Classic. Basically, it evaluates players based on salary, age, injury, history, and maybe

what team they play for to provide coverage that protects teams, guaranteeing up to two years

of salary for position players and four years for pitchers should a pitcher or injure themselves

in a way where they their career is done due to an injury that they sustained during the World

Baseball Classic. They would have to pay for four years of salary for that player. But if a player

has had a recent surgery, for instance, that is one of many reasons that they can deny insurance.

In fact, I found nine of them that are broader categories that are reasons why or eight

that they can't that they could deny insurance. And that's been the bigger problem here.

Recent surgery, for instance, has impacted them, allowing certain guys to get injury. Meanwhile,

other guys that have played for two USA, for instance, like an Alex Breggman, they've had

recent surgeries and those recent surgeries have not impacted their ability to be insured and play

in the WBC. It's the reason why a lot of this is coming into question and why teams like Team

Puerto Rico are truly screaming foul about their guys not being covered while other guys are, right?

Number two is just a broad chronic injury classification that says insurance company can

categorize players as high risk if they have repeated injury issues. A player may be labeled

chronic if they meet criteria like multiple surgeries during their career. Sixty plus days on

the injury list in previous season, which some guys again on the team USA have experienced,

missing the end of the previous season with injury late season, IL placement after August 31,

or multiple reoccurring injuries. That covers every single person in this office. Every single

person in this office has chronic injury classification, game and mostly. Also, just having an

extremely large MLB contract could disqualify you from, you know, participating, which is weird

because when that means Shohei wouldn't be allowed to play, but insurance is actually covering the

contract value, not just the player, as we found out, for instance, like FIFA covers a similar

insurance for players to take place or take part in the World Cup, but it only guarantees them a

certain amount of the salary, not the full amount. I think what was it? 7.8 million euros,

something like that, Damon. But meanwhile, the MLB has the entire contract covered, right? So,

if a player has a massive deal, the potential payout is huge. Lindor has over $200 million

million remaining on his contract, making him a high financial risk to ensure not to mention he

just had the recent he made injury. But another reason they can choose not to ensure you is age

restrictions. For the 2026 WBC cycle, insurer implemented a rule denying coverage for players,

37 years or older. Why is Clayton Kershaw out there? Well, he's not insured, that's why, but still

Miguel Rojas reportedly couldn't get coverage because of this age threshold. So, there's one guy

that was not allowed. Also, recent injury history, which is different than the chronic injury

history and recent surgery. So, if you have a recent injury, players coming up injuries,

even if they're healthy for spring training, could be rejected. Jose Altube had a recent

procedure and a history of WBC injury concern, so he was not approved. And past WC injuries also

can impact this as well. Position specific risk. Number six, the sixth reason why insurance can

deny you. Pitchers are often harder to ensure because of higher injury rates, a past history of

UCL or elbow injury, and a risk of arm fatigue before the MLBC season. And that's why show Hayotani

was approved to hit, but not pitch. Another reason, which is why I wouldn't be approved besides

the 37-year-old thing, disciplinary issues. Guys know I'm a problem when it comes to

following directions and following rules. Occasionally, players may be unable to participate because

of international competition suspensions. Javier Baez being suspended due to the testing

violation from marijuana in this day and age in 2026. MLB teams refusing to accept risk, even if

insurance is denied, a player could still play if the MLB team decides to allow it. Carlos Santana,

due to his age, not being covered by insurance, the Diamondbacks still let him participate as part

of the Dominican Republic team. Most teams refuse. You know, in this case, they are at the risk of

essentially losing his salary if he gets injured. But to the Diamondbacks, it meant more to allow

their player to participate in what will obviously be, well, probably not obviously be because

you just said earlier, players can apparently participate in the WBC until they're 60 years old.

But Carlos Santana, this could be the end of the line for him participating in the World

Baseball Classic. Do you want to be the team that denies him that glory by keeping him out simply

because he wasn't able to get insured? Insurance became so strict because of Edwin Diaz

Ozeal Tume, those incidents dramatically increased insurance caution and the cost overall.

And insurance companies like this one that covers the WBC evaluate everything. So

this is why they deny coverage and this is why guys weren't able to participate. It sucks.

And not only does it suck, but it also feels like some of these guys that were insured that are

part of Team USA got special exemptions to be insured, not exemptions from their team allowing

them to participate uninsured. No, exemptions that had them covered, where other countries and

other teams don't have that same, I guess, grace, that same courtesy extended to them.

So it does feel a little bit here like, you know, in a situation where you have a United States

based company that's providing insurance for this tournament that they are being a bit biased

on behalf of Team USA. We don't need that. Like, we don't really need that. Let's just make this fair

and even across the board. And let's remember that this is just for the game of baseball. Like,

yeah, there's a winner. Yeah, there's a trophy. Yeah, a country gets bragging rights for the next few

years, just like you do in the Olympics. However, you know, this is one of those things that's meant

to bring us all that together more and not make players and countries and certain ethnicities feel

like they're being treated differently due to this insurance situation and that part sucks. But

anyway, I just want to go watch World Baseball Classic now. This insurance stuff kind of brought me

down. I didn't mean to bring you down, but there are still plenty of amazing players participating

in this tournament. And we get to watch 12 Diamondbacks be a part of it. So let's all go do that.

We will be back here at 12 p.m. tomorrow with another show discussing the outcome of these

World Baseball Classic games and maybe taking a look back at our bracket wondering if we already

made a mistake or two. So let's do that tomorrow at noon. Until then, you'll follow me on social media

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Let's never forget that Australia is a place that is just filled with danger at all times.

They have these qualis called drop bears there. They'll just drop out of the trees and kill you,

Damon. It's insane. But yes, no, this has to be a great sign. This has to be the best possible sign.

You would think you would think I don't know how it might not be, but shout out to Australia as a whole

for being a very dangerous place. Damon, let's get out of here. We appreciate you guys again

for your time. We'll see you back here tomorrow. Until then, behave yourself. Michael Dixon

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