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That is well, the best in baseball, getting TV USA last night of the world-based full-classic

final, three to two. Joe Davis with the call on Fox. We will break that game down in just a second,

and I will be brave enough to ask the question, what's the point of all of this?

I'm not talking about life. That's more for like your, you know, a freshman year of college,

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So you can make it legendary. Okay, a couple things off of last night with Ben as well,

beating the United States, A.U. and you Suarez with the, with the eventual game winning double

in the top of the ninth after Bryce Harper with an electric moment if we're honest, right? USA

down to nothing bottom eight. Bryce Harper with a mammoth to run shot the game. Maybe Team USA is

going to win, but here's Garrett Willock. You know, Jason's brother, serving it up to A.U. and

you Suarez with a double to put Ben as well up three two and the United States much like, you know,

and I'll say it. The United States watching Team USA last night and I know that I can get a little

like New York centric. I'm, I've lived here my whole life. So I hope you want to understand

where I'm coming from and we all watch the baseball playoffs, right? We've all seen this from the

Yankees. It felt like watching the Yankees offense even against the Dominican Republic when they

won two one in the semi final. Here's us like the greatest offense ever built with all these absolute

monsters in the lineup and they can't do Jack. They can't do anything. What an exercise and frustration

and a nice little preview for me for six months from now where the Yankees will inevitably lose in

some round of the American league postseason in similar fashion with Aaron Judge probably

over foring again in a big spot like he did last night. Couple points. Number one, credit to Ben

as well. I'm not going to be a hater. Good for them like this show and I think this of sports

con people can do whatever the hell they want on their shows. I think that sports is the toy

department of life and you and I come here and watch and love sports because it's like it's it's

fun. So we're not going to talk politics here. But look, we're not ostriches. My head's not in the

sand. I'm aware of what's happened in like the country of Venezuela, especially as it regards

the United States, not a commentary one way or another on anything, just saying these are things

that have happened. And I think if you have even like an ounce of empathy like in your body,

not insinuating like I was rooting for USA to win the game. I didn't want Venezuela to win.

But I think you can be happy for the Venezuelan people because this clearly, clearly mattered to them

way more than it did to us way more than it did to us in the same way. It feels like the world

baseball classic matters more to the Dominican Republic. It matters more to Puerto Rico. It matters

more to Japan. It matters more to Korea. Maybe matters more to like anybody than it does to us.

So I give them a ton of credit. The second thing I'll say is I don't know what the point of all of

this is. And the reason why think about what I said when I'm detailing the ends of the game, right?

They you and you as war as double. Garrett Whitlock served it up, not Mason Miller, who you know, the

best reliever on the team, closer for the San Diego Padres. Manager, it's just like this is all so dumb.

Mark Dorosa, the manager of the United States, you know, world baseball, classic baseball team, right?

Was asked, hey, after the game, like, hey, like, why was it Mason Miller in the game in this high

leverage spot? Take a listen to what Mark Dorosa said after the game. Mark, you said before the game

that Mason would be available if he needed him. And since there wasn't going to be a safe situation,

once you got to the night, those curious what went into not using him there. Honoring the Padres.

Had we taken the lead, he was coming in, but I wasn't going to bring him into a tie game.

There wasn't going to be a safe situation at that point. I just wanted to honor the fact that

there was a situation there where if it was tied, we were going to use Whitlock. We had talked to

the red socks about that. And if we had the lead, we're going to, we're going to use Mason.

What's the point of this?

Why do people care in this country about the world baseball classic if this is what it's going to be?

I could you imagine, like, remember the golden dagger a couple of years ago,

Steph Curry's insane three over Victor Wembenyama to win the gold medal for the United States.

What if the warriors were like, you know what, we don't want Steph in at the end,

at the fourth quarter or the end of a tight game because we need him fresh for the regular season.

Or if the Winnipeg Jets were like, Yo Connor Hellebuck, he can only play if the United States

have the lead. If the games tied or they're behind, we don't want Connor Hellebuck in the game.

We want to save Connor Hellebuck for the regular season and maybe the playoffs.

Or if the New Jersey devil said, Jack Hughes can't play an overtime.

We can't risk it and you never get the gold medal winning goal.

How insane is this?

What's the point of it where the United States is going to puff out it's and like they should do

this. This is not a criticism of the country at all. This is just like if if this is going to be

that this is the best team ever assembled and everyone's into national pride and God bless,

I have national pride, right? And Tarek Skoubel wants to keep going and Aaron Judges capped in

America and it all comes down to the end and the San Diego Padres are dictating whether or not they

win or not. What's the point? And I don't even mean this as a criticism of the Padres.

Like you get it from the Padres perspective, right? Like they're trying to win. Mason Miller's a

huge part of that. But if this is what it's going to be and like the teams in Major League Baseball

are going to dictate to the Americans to the American management. Like who can play and who can't

then why am I supposed to care as an American sports fan? Why am I like the world baseball classics

awesome? Like it's great. Like I'm not criticizing the events. I wish that they cared. I wish that

they were going. I wish we saw Mason Miller. It would have been awesome. But no, no, no.

How can you argue? And this is not like me and you as fans. Could you imagine if like

event as well? I was like, well, you know what? Like, are you and you as well as can't play in

the ninth inning? We got to pull them. Can't play. Can't do it. Could you imagine that Dominican

Republic did that? It would never ever happen. And that's why now like great. I'm into the

world baseball classic. I'll definitely keep watching and I'm never going to not watch it. I love

sports just like really is this what it is? And if that's the case, why am I supposed to care

as much as I did? Our one don't have or two for you coming up on the other side. We're talking

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