Bob Pompiani

Now Japan got knocked out.

I was a little surprised by that.

But Italy already beat the United States.

And Italy with Francisco Cervelli as its manager.

That would be fun to see a rematch of that game and see what would happen.

And Mark DeRosa, the manager right now, is pulling all the right moves –

after his comment last week that we already earned our spot, which they really didn't at that point.

So I think he made some lineup changes that were critical and that were also controversial.

Gunnar Henderson.

Yeah, and he's looking pretty good right now.

So he'll wait for the outcome tonight of that game, Venezuela and Italy.

That'll be the next semifinal to determine the final, which will be tomorrow.

Paul Skeens will be hanging around.

He'll be hanging around until the outcome of that game, and then he'll return to the Pirates, where then we can get on with the business of baseball and getting closer to the opening day.

So phone lines are open, by the way, at 412-928-9370 as we await Joe Starkey's arrival.

I don't know.

Hold on.

Can I ask one question to you as well, Bob?

I have a lot of texts that come in, and sometimes I'm in the middle of doing broadcasts.

I'm not looking at them, and I don't know.