00:00I've actually watched far less of the WBC than I wanted to watch.
00:04What are you laughing about?
00:06It's an excellent event.
00:08Is it?
00:08It is.
00:10I think it's at a tough time of year.
00:13But that one last night felt like the first appointment viewing one.
00:19They'd never beaten Mexico.
00:22Yeah, but Mexico's starting pitcher, last pitch in the major leagues five years ago,
00:26and it was three career starts.
00:28So it's like, come on.
00:29We'll get started at nose tackle next year.
00:32But even in the lower lesser games, I think one of the things about the WBC that people
00:36don't realize is the David versus Goliath thing, but it's the story of players like Lucas Ramirez
00:40in that first game against Brazil, going out there and hitting two home runs.
00:44Jose Contreras, his son, it's 17 years old, getting Aaron Judge to break his bat and throw
00:49a scoreless inning, you know, to start his outing.
00:51Like those are the things you find in those moments that, yeah, there's three or four,
00:55four or five teams that are above everyone else, but you get some great storylines, even
00:59if it isn't, you know, the same equal playing field for everyone.
01:02So Roman Anthony hits a three-round home run tank.
01:05That is the difference in this game.
01:09And right there wins a game.
01:12He won the game for the United States.
01:14And the Red Sox showed out brilliantly in this game.
01:16I don't want to credit Aaron Judge.
01:19No, thank you.
01:20Not going to credit Paul Skeens.
01:21No, thank you.
01:22I'm going to credit.
01:23I'm going to credit.
01:24I'm going to credit that guy right there.
01:26Roman Anthony and Jaron Duran, according to Peter Gammons, Gammons telling the world that
01:32the Red Sox coaches have worked with Jaron Duran and that the release of his hand off the
01:38bat during the swing is increasing his velo on the bat speed and is going to lead to Roman
01:45Anthony, excuse me, not Roman Anthony, Jaron Duran being just an absolute monster this year.
01:51Are we buying this?
01:52There's something there against lefties.
01:54I do trust what Peter Gammons is saying because he's been down at Red Sox camp.
01:58So someone's feeding him that.
01:59Oh yeah, no, they're telling him this.
02:00100%.
02:01I do feel like we would have gotten like that typical spring training piece on how Jaron
02:05Duran completely reworked his mechanics, the big off season.
02:08Yeah.
02:08But all we, all we've heard from core is he's a different looking hitter up there this year.
02:12He's getting to pitches.
02:13He didn't think he was getting to a year ago.
02:14I think when you're talking about the WBC, and this is the thing with Yoshida too, the
02:19level of competition in terms of whatever you take away from it is so massive.
02:22If you're hitting guys that are maybe double a or below good for you, you should go and
02:26dominate those guys.
02:27Jaron Duran, what he did last night, Matthew Boyd, one of the better left
02:31pitchers in baseball to take him deep twice.
02:34That is massive.
02:35Especially when you go back to spring training, when he had three home runs and he had already
02:39hit two homers off lefties with how bad he was against lefties a year ago.
02:42That gives me hope because if he looks like he didn't even 24 or 23, you're going to get
02:47a much closer line to, you know, 2024 MVP candidate Duran.
02:51Then, you know, last year, which was a good player, a top 15 outfielder, but not an elite
02:55player, which would be massive for this lineup.
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