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So let's move into final thoughts
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The peanut gallery, if you will. And we're talking about the World Baseball Classic because
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the World Baseball Classic is back in 2023 after a long absence
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2027 was the last World Baseball Classic where the United States reigns supreme
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Guys like Adam Jones, Ian Kinsler, John Carlos Stanton. It was a great and exciting time for baseball, and that is back
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And I'm excited. I'm very excited for the World Baseball Classic. I cannot wait for it to kick off on March 8th
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On March 8th, it will kick off with pool play. There's four different pools
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There's going to be a pool in Taichung, Taiwan, a pool in Tokyo, Japan
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A pool in Phoenix, Arizona And a pool in Miami Florida Now the top two teams from each of those four pools Are going to move to the quarterfinals Which are going to be played in the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo Japan
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And in Miami. And then the finals for the World Baseball Classic. Are going to be held March 19th through the 21st
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And it's going to be an exciting time, right? Like, soccer has the World Cup
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And baseball is trying to do something like that with this World Baseball Classic
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It's not on the same level, and I'm not even going to try to compare the two
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because the World Cup is in a completely different league of its own
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But the World Baseball Classic is exciting, and it's good for baseball
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Team USA already has Mike Trout and Bryce Harper are confirmed to play
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Mark DeRosa is going to be managing them, with a few other names that you might notice like Ken Griffey Jr
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as the hitting coach, and Andy Pettit also on the coaching staff as well
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And this is something that is very exciting It something that again we have to look forward to for 2023 because this is going to be good baseball superstars playing for their home country for nothing more than bragging rights and pride
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And it's a beautiful thing. You know, when these high dollar athletes who deserve every bit of the money that they're getting, I'm not going to get into that debate
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But when they set aside a little bit of a time to get and represent the colors of their own country's flag, it's exciting
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And it's good marketing for baseball. And those games, I mean, those games were lit in San Diego
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Puerto Rico versus the United States for the World Baseball Championship. Adam Jones doing his best Michael Jordan impression and going airborne to Rob
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Manny Machado of a home run to save the game. That's fun
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That exactly how the game was intended to be played So you can guarantee that I be tuning in to the World Baseball Classic and I hope that you will be tuning in to it as well because it is going to be worth every second that
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you set aside to watch it. I can't wait. March. March cannot get here fast enough
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I know we got March Madness at that time and a whole bunch of other stuff as well, but
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This is going to be definitely something that you want to tune into
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Starting March 8th, ending March 21st. And then they go right into spring training
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And then the 2023 season kicks off with a much more balanced schedule
