Adam Amin

I mean, I always love going to Los Angeles, but that's usually just because there's friends out there.

There's a lot of people out there that they usually get to run into.

I mean, they're all great.

I'm in San Francisco.

I know a lot of people probably made their way out here for the Super Bowl, and I didn't realize a lot of people were making their way out here for the very first time.

A lot of folks I talked to that were going out here for the Super Bowl had never been here before and raved about it afterwards, and I always loved coming out here, but

It's always nice to get a trip to Los Angeles and feel like you get to be kind of walking around California a little bit proper.

I think that'll be fun this weekend.

I mean, being around Mark DeRosa, the manager this past weekend, talking with Tarek Skubal, which has been one of the interesting, if you want to call it a controversy, I guess you can, but one of the interesting discussions around Skubal has taken place over the course of the week and

you know, how much she was impacted by going to the World Baseball Classic and standing in line up the first baseline in front of the dugout and hearing the national anthem and, you know, lined up with a bunch of other guys with the same jersey and, you know, kind of the superstar power of Team USA and kind of preparing for these games, it hits you differently.

And I'm not, you know, I'm not one to...

be jingoistic about this and overly patriotic.

I find it fascinating.

I appreciate it more than anything else because all these players that take time away from their spring training run-up to join this team, I look around at other countries and other players from other countries and seeing guys who have British backgrounds

backgrounds and and there you know their parents were born in the u k like harry ford is the catcher for the nationals uh... to see players in brazil who are construction workers in their off time and have like regular jobs and still play for the brazilian national team of baseball team that doesn't have a tremendous history it's only been at the w bc a couple of times but they have this appreciation for one to represent their country there there's a great story about an electrician for check you know who struck out show hey o'connie

and the Japanese fans gave him a standing ovation.

They brought him out to the field at the Tokyo Dome, and the Japanese fans gave him a standing ovation.

This guy's going to go back to Czechia and go back to his job as an electrician.

These are...

You know, I know some of these stories can sound like they're tongue-in-cheek, but these are real opportunities for a lot of people around the world, not just the superstars in Major League Baseball that we've come to know representing their country.