Billy Gil
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But we wanted to applaud him because all of a sudden it seems like between the semifinal and the final, America kind of figured out like, hey, this is fun.
We should try to want to win this instead of, you know, saying the wrong thing every possible chance they got, including Bryce, who like at the end was like,
very gracious and he was shaking the hands of Venezuela and all that.
But earlier in the tournament, they asked him about it.
And he's like, I, you know, I'd rather win the Olympics than the world baseball classics.
Like buddy.
Just don't say that.
And then there's all the players from all the different countries who are all excited.
And they're saying even Kika Hernandez, who was playing for Puerto Rico has been the five world series.
He's won three and,
And he's saying winning the World Baseball Classic would be more important, which then caught the ire of Derek Jeter, who on the broadcast, they say like, what do you make of all these players that say they'd rather win the World Baseball Classic than the World Series?
And he's like, sounds like players that have never made the World Series.
It's like, there's plenty who have, who are saying this, but also like Derek,
You're on the broadcast for the World Baseball Classic.
Can we pretend to care just a little bit about this?
Or also, you don't add anything to any of these broadcasts.
Just sit out the World Baseball Classic, Derek.
We're not going to miss you.
It's going to be perfectly fine.
So the Americans had kind of like not the greatest attitude throughout it.