00:00We know about Roman Anthony. David Ortiz told you about him yesterday and they said it, calling him the complete
00:05package.
00:06Well, let's hear from the manager of Team USA and the World Baseball Classic, Mark DeRosa, talk about Roman Anthony.
00:12Are we currently watching, you know, what will be the next 15 years of baseball with this guy?
00:18Because I forget who said it, but they basically said, too, like, hey, Roman Anthony is going to carry this
00:22torch for the next five World Baseball Classics.
00:25Special, 21 years old to come in, handle himself the way he has, the quality of at-bat, the way
00:32the moment's not too big for him, starting every game, getting the rookie treatment on the bus.
00:38He's lugging this, like, thousand-pound speaker around with him every day.
00:42I want to get someone else to carry it for him because he's been carrying us.
00:46So, yeah, you're going to have, for the next 15 years, a nice time in Boston with this dude.
00:53Wow, that's pretty cool.
00:54Nice to hear.
00:55I don't know if it's just the anti-Red Sox bias that exists sometimes, but one of the wilder things
01:02to me was, and I think it was yesterday, talking about Roman Anthony,
01:06and a couple of, I'll take them as Sox fans, were outraged that I was anointing him as somebody to
01:17be happy about and look forward to in the future.
01:21It's such a weird take.
01:25I love the, baseball's unique in that, you know, it's not like you know the guy in college, he gets
01:29to your team, and you know what to expect.
01:32Baseball, it's a crapshoot.
01:34And to have a guy, like, last year, it was like a foggy night when he made his debut.
01:38It was the whole city stopped.
01:40It was like, holy cow, Roman Anthony's making his major league debut.
01:42There's nothing better than seeing a great player in the first year or two of his career to try and
01:46build something.
01:47And everybody, literally, have you heard a single bad thing about Roman Anthony, on or off the air?
01:51No.
01:51No, and he's got a chance to win it for his country tonight.
01:56Right.
01:56It is really impressive because, like, when you start to, like, you know, think of the world of baseball and
02:02you start to think of some of those players that had, like, the expectations put on them of, like, the
02:09next guy or who's going to, you know, be the face of major league baseball.
02:14Who's the face of your franchise and to be this young and hear that audio clip right there to think
02:20of, like, okay, so could we potentially be looking at, you know, the next, like, statistically, like, Alex Rodriguez type
02:28of player or Mike Trout type of player where it's, like, there's so much hype around this guy.
02:34Yeah.
02:34And the fact that he plays for an organization, you know, I think about Mike Trout.
02:38He's played for the Angels forever and they've done nothing, that you play for an organization that if you can
02:44be successful for this organization and get to winning, like, that can take you really to a whole nother level.
02:50And he also is one of the guys, and there are a bunch of them, but there are some that
02:55aren't, that are embracing the opportunity to play for their country in the WBC.
03:02Right.
03:03Not to go negative, but why do we give Crochet a pass without doing that?
03:06That is interesting.
03:07It's a great question.
03:08I mean, I, you know, I appreciate the fact that you're focused on the season and that is what, that's
03:17where you make your money, but I don't know.
03:20It's all guaranteed.
03:20It's not going to lose a dime.
03:22For some reason, and this was interesting because Ken, we were talking about this off.
03:26That's the first time Ken and Interesting have ever been in the same sentence.
03:28But it doesn't seem like, at least from just, like, some of the pitchers in years past, like, the elite
03:36pitchers, it doesn't seem like they really care about playing for their country in this.
03:41Well, Paul Skeens did.
03:42He's the best pitcher in baseball.
03:44Well, it's, I mean, this thing that they're...
03:46Like, Scooble didn't.
03:46Like, Max Scherzer didn't play, Justin Verlander, Chris Sales, Zach Greinke, like, a lot of the elite of the elite,
03:53we're talking about Garrett Crochet's not playing this year.
03:56No, they're not.
03:57And so, it's...
03:59It's interesting, though.
04:01But it's certainly, certainly it's the Olympics versus the WBC, but that doesn't happen with McJesus.
04:08Like, I mean, I, you know...
04:10Or even in the NBA with McLeBron.
04:13McLeBron.
04:14Oh, St. Patrick's.
04:15St. Patrick's, right?
04:16So, it doesn't, like, even when, like, when you think about the NBA players, like, they all want to play.
04:21Like, think about, like, they all want to play for the USA basketball team.
04:25Jalen Brown was upset that he, you know, wasn't part of it.
04:28You know what I'm saying?
04:29And when you see the...
04:30Jason Tatum was a part of it, but Steve Kerr didn't let him be a part of it.
04:35He got the Greg Hill minutes at the show.
04:36Yeah.
04:37But when you see some of these elite of elite pitches, like, especially a guy like Garrett Crochet, going, no,
04:43I don't want to play.
04:44It's kind of interesting that you have, like, you know, some of the elite pitchers who are like, yeah, no,
04:50I'm good with playing.
04:51Is it just a pitcher's thing, you think?
04:52Because, like, for the most part, right, like, the actual lineup of position players is pretty good.
04:57Aaron Judge is willing to play.
04:59Yeah, Roman Anthony's playing.
05:00I don't understand why.
05:02So, is it just a, you only have a certain number of innings and pitches you can throw in a
05:07season.
05:07And it's like, doing that, playing in the World Baseball Classic is just too impactful to your overall career in
05:15the...
05:15Seems like it is, Sean.
05:16Is that, like, what they're thinking?
05:18Yeah, it seems like it is, because the majority of the guys that haven't played have been the elite pitchers.
05:24Well, Ken points out no Mookie bets.
05:28So, there are guys, positionally, who don't want to do it.
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