Anthony Heron

and Mike Maddox, who's been a pitching coach now for almost 25 years, is in there as well.

So I think they have good people around them.

Brady Anderson has come back to baseball as the hitting coach, and the Angels have offered a much more patient approach in the first few games of the season than what we saw last year.

So I think that it's a good staff, and for a first-year manager, Kurt Suzuki has the people around him that can help him succeed.

Yeah, I think they should, and I think the players are going to push for that.

It sounds like they're pretty interested.

I mean, you can make an argument that the Team USA guys might be more interested in the Olympics than they have been in the World Baseball Classic.

I think it's a smaller tournament.

It won't be the full-sized, all the countries involved.

I think six teams are allowed in the Olympics tournament.

So it'll be a bit smaller, and I think that it will...

for the first time having major leaguers in it will bring that continued interest that you're talking about internationally I mean what's a better international event than the Olympics for these guys to be a part of and you know we saw it over well over 30 years ago now when the NBA started to use the dream team and and use their players in the Olympics and how that made the NBA a much more global sport and baseball has the same goals right now so

I think it's a no-brainer.

I think the commissioner wants it.

And I think they can find a way to pause the season for a week and a half and make it work.

I've always said San Francisco, but I think maybe Petco Park has kind of taken that over in the last few years.

It's a beautiful place.

You know, downtown San Diego is a great setting.

And the atmosphere there has been incredible.

I mean, as the Padres have become a real unit in the National League, you know, the last three or four years, that place has sold out like every game.