00:00But Tarek Skubal is scheduled to throw 55 pitches against Great Britain,
00:03who they should be 21-1, and also then return back to Detroit.
00:07Like, this is, like, I understand, like, hey, I'm going to go pitching that,
00:10and here's what you need me to do.
00:11But it just seems backwards.
00:13Like, I'm the best pitcher in Major League Baseball.
00:15Throw me against a chump, and I'm getting right on a plane.
00:17Like, you can't say, like, the extra week and a half to ride this out.
00:20Or how about if you're just in that dugout going,
00:22I know I told you 55 pitches.
00:23That felt good.
00:24Hey, Skip, man.
00:25You need me in the knockout stages here.
00:27I'll give you one or two innings late here.
00:29Like, this is so much fun.
00:30It just sounds like, hey, yeah, I'll be part of the WBC.
00:32I'll throw a couple pitches against a bad team, and I'm out of there.
00:35It's not what it's supposed to be.
00:37Like, I don't know.
00:37Like, Connor Hellebuck.
00:38Hey, I'm going to go out there against, I don't know, Chechia or Italy.
00:42We're going to ground them, and then I'm just going to fly back to Winnipeg
00:45and get ready for the second half of the NHL season.
00:47It just doesn't seem right, Joe.
00:48It just doesn't.
00:50And to me, Donnie, this was all about the PR aspect of it.
00:55Because, I mean, listen, if we're all being honest here,
00:58where, like, you're never getting Scoble for seven, eight innings anyway
01:02at any point, or that was never going to happen here.
01:06But if he just would have handled it where he said, listen,
01:09I'm going to give it a go, and, you know, I'll be –
01:12you could have said all of those things
01:14and still disappeared back to Detroit's spring training facility,
01:17and nobody would have let the chips fall where they may.
01:20But instead, you know, the way it was handled
01:23kind of get left a sour taste in everyone's mouth.
01:26Here we go.
01:26Here we go.
01:26Here we go.
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