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How Important Is The World Baseball Classic To You?
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00:00Uri's made a move today.
00:03Oh, yeah?
00:04I mean, look, it's not earth-shattering here.
00:08Is it going to affect opening day?
00:10It should not affect opening day.
00:15They have added a player to the 40-man roster, a pitcher,
00:20left-handed pitcher, Emmanuel DeJesus.
00:23He doesn't have a ton of major league experience,
00:26a lot of minor league, a lot of international stuff.
00:29Did he pitch a really good game at WBC or something?
00:33Yes, I believe for Team Venezuela.
00:34He went five innings, shutout innings, I think, with seven strikeouts,
00:38which looked nice.
00:39Well, who were they playing, though?
00:41Yeah, I don't know.
00:42I don't know.
00:43Israel or something like that.
00:44I don't know.
00:45Oh, don't get me started.
00:50What?
00:51Don't get you started?
00:52Is that a stacked team this year?
00:54Well, no.
00:55It's a joke.
00:56It really is.
00:59Why, because as long as you have some sort of, some vestige.
01:03Because you're Jewish, you play for Team Israel, even if you.
01:06Yes.
01:07No.
01:08Well, who else is going to play for them?
01:09Somebody who grew up in Israel, or at least was born in Israel and assimilated.
01:14I mean, it's like any other country.
01:16It's like when Chelios tried to play for Greece in the Olympics for the bobsled.
01:23Those grandparents were from there.
01:24I mean, they've become, they're so weak on these international things.
01:28Well, because they have too many teams.
01:30At least have, be born in the country, or you've spent an ample amount of time in your
01:35country.
01:36Just because you might have taken a, you know, a trip to Israel when you were 15 years old
01:40or whatever, doesn't allow you to, in my opinion, to be able to play for Israel.
01:46Well, but you understand why it's happening.
01:48Of course.
01:48I mean, otherwise they can't keep a competitive team out there or any, I mean, I don't know
01:52if they're competitive to begin with.
01:53They're not bringing Ryan Braun back?
01:54No.
01:55Well, see, there's another one.
01:57He shouldn't be, you know, whatever.
01:59Just saying.
02:00Here's what, they probably shouldn't be competing in the World Baseball Classic.
02:04No, they shouldn't.
02:04So.
02:05I like Stoney Israel gatekeeping.
02:07This is very fun to me.
02:08Well, it's the same thing with, same thing with Italy and Great Britain.
02:11I mean, is, what's his name who plays for the Royals?
02:15Vinny Pascatino.
02:17Is he or his parents from Italy?
02:19But his name sounds Italian.
02:21His last name is Spaghetti.
02:23Okay, so they're going to send Valenti to do the play-by-play?
02:27Yes.
02:30If they can afford him.
02:31Yeah, but it's ridiculous.
02:33They don't sell enough ads for that.
02:36Tony Girantano, is he playing?
02:38Yeah, I got it.
02:39I understand.
02:40But that's the whole thing.
02:40Like, the World Baseball Classic should not be, you know, of however many nations are
02:46involved in this.
02:47Let's say there's 20.
02:48I don't know how many nations are involved in the World Baseball Classic.
02:50It really comes down to United States, maybe Canada, Venezuela, Dominican Republic.
02:57Japan.
02:58Cuba, Japan.
02:59And maybe Puerto Rico.
03:01Or Mexico, and Mexico.
03:03I'll get it.
03:03That's eight.
03:04Okay.
03:04You got the 18th turn.
03:05That's it.
03:05You don't need anybody else.
03:06You don't need Great Britain.
03:07We don't need Great Britain.
03:08We don't need Great Britain.
03:08We don't need Italy.
03:09Yeah.
03:09We don't need Israel.
03:10No.
03:11But if you were to blindfold me and ask me where Vinny Pasquantino came from, I would
03:16say Italy, which means he should be on Team Italy.
03:19That's my rule.
03:20I don't care if it makes sense or not.
03:21All right.
03:21Now I got to look it up.
03:22I know you shouldn't have.
03:25I got to look at where he's from.
03:27I mean, it's just absurd.
03:28The whole World Baseball Classic, I got to admit, I actually watched it.
03:33Some of it yesterday.
03:34I did watch some of it last night.
03:35And you know, what's his face from the Red Sox, Durant from Mexico hit two home runs.
03:41Who's managing the United States?
03:42Is it DeRosa or whatever his name is?
03:47How long were you going to leave Matthew Boyd in the game?
03:50I mean, he gave up a lot of hits, didn't he?
03:54Did they lose?
03:54No, they won't.
03:55Then it doesn't matter.
03:57That's how long you leave Matthew Boyd in the game until you lose.
04:00And they didn't.
04:01I texted a couple of people that were watching the game with me.
04:03And I was like, this is the Matthew Boyd I remember.
04:05Right, exactly.
04:06That's that guy.
04:07Like, wait a minute.
04:07This guy looks really funny.
04:08Who is that?
04:08And I didn't see that he turned his back.
04:10I'm like, oh, Matthew Boyd.
04:11Of course.
04:11I noticed it when the first home run went over the wall.
04:14I was like, that?
04:14Matthew Boyd.
04:16By the way.
04:17Totally unfair.
04:19Vinny Pasquantino.
04:20Yeah.
04:21Okay.
04:21Of the Kansas City Royals.
04:23He was born in Richmond, Virginia.
04:26Okay.
04:27Mm-hmm.
04:28And he attended Old Dominion University.
04:31Oh.
04:34Mm-hmm.
04:34But where did his parents from Italy?
04:37It does say Pasquantino is of Italian descent.
04:40Well, that's different than your parents gave.
04:43Like, if you're a first-generation American, but your parents...
04:46Like, what are you talking earlier about?
04:47My mom, she's first-generation American.
04:49You know, had she had...
04:51She was a tennis player when she was younger.
04:53Could she have represented Sweden in the Olympics?
04:56Probably not because Sweden was really good in tennis.
04:58But, you know, my point.
04:59Right.
04:59My point would be because her parents were Swedish.
05:01Okay.
05:01Would that matter?
05:02Because it's just one generation removed?
05:05Oh.
05:05Is it easier to take?
05:07Or is it...
05:07It's easier to take, yes.
05:10But, to me, you have to have spent a decent amount of time.
05:14Last name, Pasquantino.
05:15First name, Vinny.
05:16That's two check marks.
05:18Italian descent, that's three.
05:20How many boxes do we need here?
05:22What's next?
05:23Vinny Barbarino?
05:24Sure.
05:25I mean...
05:25Adam on the team.
05:27Let's go through it.
05:28First name, Vinny.
05:29Last name, Barbarino.
05:31That's two.
05:31You need one more.
05:33One more qualifier.
05:34If you get three boxes checked, that's all you need.
05:36By the way, there's actually some conscience.
05:39Do you read right to left?
05:40There's a lot of conscience.
05:41Do you like blue and white?
05:43Matrix system.
05:44Right, exactly.
05:45And, you know, can you grow facial hair?
05:48These are things that would qualify, right?
05:51Yeah.
05:51Are you circumcised?
05:52Another one, right?
05:53I don't think we should be asking questions.
05:55Well, I mean...
05:55But that's it, yes.
05:56I mean, although Jim Harbaugh did do the whole, are you a sex addict thing.
05:59That was interesting.
06:01But it doesn't have anything to do with the World Baseball Classic.
06:03I don't know what the rules apply.
06:05I'm just trying to check three boxes.
06:07Jim Harbaugh would be the arbitrator to see who comes through.
06:11By the way, there's some controversy with the World Baseball Classic.
06:14That's my hardball impression.
06:17Just a sound.
06:18I know.
06:20The World Baseball Classic.
06:22Did you see in the game yesterday between the U.S. and Mexico, I guess, that's who they played.
06:29Or maybe it was a game before.
06:31I don't know.
06:32But Randy Rosarino.
06:34I just saw this on Twitter.
06:35I didn't realize this happened.
06:37Went to shake hands with his former Seattle teammate, catcher Cal Raleigh.
06:41And Cal Raleigh didn't want to shake his hands.
06:43He said, great seeing you and all that stuff.
06:46Didn't want to shake hands because they were competing against each other.
06:49Yeah, I think there's a moment where you do that beforehand.
06:54You're taking batting practice.
06:55You want to come up to somebody and say, hey, how you doing?
06:58Good luck today.
06:59That's great.
06:59But during the game itself, because this is where we can get into this.
07:04There were some, like, Tarek Skubal made some comments about how he didn't know that this was going to be
07:09this big of a deal to play in a World Baseball Classic.
07:12And he's kind of regretting that he was only going to pitch into one game.
07:17And people are like, how did you not know that it was a big deal?
07:19Did you not know, you know, when USA was taking on Japan and Shoei Otani and the big matchup and
07:25all that, how did you not know it was a big deal?
07:27Because it's not a big deal in most of America.
07:29That's why.
07:30And he's like, well, I thought it was more like an all-star game type thing.
07:34And it seems like yesterday, so a Rosarena is treating it like it's the all-star game.
07:39And Cal Raleigh is treating it like, no, this is a World Baseball Classic.
07:42Right.
07:42This is different.
07:43And like, as if I'm shutting you out, we'll be friends after the game.
07:47But for right now, just get up and get in the batter's box.
07:50We're not shaking hands here.
07:51And a Rosarena is pissed.
07:53Yes.
07:54He went on social media and just ripped Raleigh.
07:56Oh, he totally ripped him.
07:57Yeah.
07:59Fortunately, his name is Big Dumper, and he can, you know, lose some of that.
08:02But, yeah, he tore into him.
08:05It's an interesting thing to keep an eye on if that's going to be a problem with those two.
08:10And if it is, it's so dumb.
08:11I mean, Scoobo should have just, you know what, I probably should have wanted to stay, but I'm not.
08:16And I'm going, it's not making this whole, oh, my God, I never realized how important it was going to
08:21be.
08:22And na-na-na-na-na-na.
08:23Are you crying?
08:24No.
08:24Are you whining?
08:25I'm whining.
08:26Like, Scoobo might be whining.
08:28You think he's whining?
08:30Yeah.
08:30I don't think he's whining.
08:32I think it's just he's, you know, responding.
08:34Because he didn't know until he was in it.
08:36I wish I could have stayed.
08:38Well, he could have stayed.
08:39He could have made that decision.
08:40Okay, so he could still go back and forth.
08:42But now he's not.
08:43Right.
08:44Okay.
08:45So don't make a big deal about it.
08:47I don't know if he is necessarily.
08:49I think everybody, I think the media is making a big deal out of it.
08:51And then people respond to the initial post.
08:53Well, no, I saw a video of him at the press conference.
08:54It's like, it was like a 20-person scrum.
08:58Scoobo, the World Baseball Classic.
09:00Wow.
09:01He pitched against Great Britain.
09:03Gave up a home run in the first pitch of the game, I think it was.
09:07Yeah, Scoobo, the quote is, I, he, that he totally misread how I would feel pitching in the World Baseball
09:12Classic,
09:13making his decision to leave even more difficult.
09:15Quote, I just assumed it would be an all-star game type of vibe.
09:18And it's absolutely not.
09:20It couldn't be farther from that.
09:23And then there are comments to that, which are kind of funny if you look on Twitter about that.
09:29Somebody says, Scoobo, bro, it's okay.
09:33We get it.
09:34You're on the verge of one of the largest contracts that ever been given to a pitcher.
09:36Just be honest.
09:38Yeah.
09:39But how is it different pitching at the World Baseball Classic than it is pitching against Baltimore in spring training?
09:46It's not.
09:47I know.
09:48You're still getting the work in.
09:49Correct.
09:50Your competition's, well, Great Britain, no.
09:53But if he would pitch in a later round against one of the teams, like we mentioned, the Dominican or
10:00Venezuela,
10:00that's a different story.
10:02Well, you're still, regardless, it's still work.
10:04Like, you're still throwing fastballs and sliders and curveballs.
10:08I mean, it's spring training.
10:10So I don't know if it mattered.
10:11But the difference is if he's pitching in the WBC, he's pitching more to get these guys out
10:15rather than if he's pitching against the Orioles in a spring training game,
10:18he might be working on a particular pitch every pitch.
10:21That's what they do down there.
10:23Somebody responded on Twitter saying, he's losing a lot of likability.
10:27Laugh my ass off.
10:29Why go back to camp for the organization that made you go through arbitration?
10:33Well, first of all, he's got to get ready for opening day.
10:36Yeah, and arbitration.
10:38Yeah, of course they made it go through arbitration.
10:41Of course they made it go through arbitration.
10:43248-539-9797.
10:45This is 97.1.
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