Adam Amin

It does mean a lot to them.

And like I said, I don't like necessarily making this about more than it is.

But I do think there is a certain pride that a lot of people take in the identity that comes with playing for your country.

I think that's more what it's about.

I don't necessarily like connecting it to other peripheral things, but I do think the pride in country and the kind of unification of team to represent a country with an identity I think is really, really cool.

no i took it as a guy who wants to continue to push baseball on a global stage i think this is a big deal for bryce harper and i think he knows that the olympics are still the olympics you know the the impact that you know we we felt during the those two weeks in in milan for the winter olympics and and you know how much i've always felt i don't know if you guys do too but i always thought that the summer games had a little bit more accessibility for a lot of fans around the world um

just because they're probably a little bit more familiar with the sports and they're more comfortable with them.

And I think the U.S., you know, you look at the Olympics and it's not, the competition is greater here at the WBC.

You know, it's like the World Cup in soccer relative to playing for the Olympic gold in soccer.

I still feel like the World Cup has greater buzz.

It has greater participation.

There's different meaning to it.

But, you know, there's a lot of reasons for it.

And I'm sure you can make arguments for and against one or the other because of,

Whether it's government involvement or whether it's country pride, whatever, there's a million different things that you could dissect to try to talk about why one means more than the other.

And the WBC kind of means a little bit more in baseball.

There's more countries participating.

There's 20 countries participating in this, whereas the Olympics, it's a smaller field.

But I think wanting to implement that as part of the program for Team USA to allow Major League players to participate like they do in the Olympic hockey, I think that also had a lot of impact on these guys because they saw what happened with both the men and the women winning gold.

uh, in hockey and especially the men for the first time in, in, you know, a half a century, all those combined elements, I think have a lot to do with why some of these guys and Harper included Scooble said the same thing.