Bradfo

He sure does, yes.

I looked into it.

Yeah.

oh of course yeah absolutely yeah i mean they i mean they didn't but i don't know how i was crazy did you did you sense that did you sense that that they didn't because they had benched like they didn't play everybody so with the starting lineup i guess i wasn't like as like you know like i didn't like immediately like set off any uh any red flags you know what i mean like um

These are great players.

I figure if everybody's there, they've got to play a little bit.

But at the same time, some of the pitching decisions and some of the way it was trending when we were winning by a lot and trending towards Mercy ruling them, I was like, they have to know that this is going to leave them vulnerable tomorrow if they don't keep this game closer or try to actually come back and win it.

And then it looked like to me, they even warmed up Clayton at one point there.

And I'm in a similar role to Clayton.

Really, the down a million runs role doesn't really exist in this tournament because every run matters in these tiebreaker scenarios.

It's more that you're up by a lot.

you know role is is really what it is when you're in this scenario so when i saw him warming up i was confused by that and then immediately that kind of switched to bedmar and these other guys all came in so then i was like oh somebody they just realized what happened like that's what it felt like to me in real time did you and then they almost came back and got us but yeah it just felt like it was trending like it wasn't being managed that seriously but were you guys talking about that like what are they doing

Yeah, a little bit in the bullpen.

Yeah.

So our scenario going into the USA game was that we didn't have to win that game.

We knew that we had to win the Mexico game.

But Francisco Cervelli was very straightforward when he talked to the pitchers and he's like, I'm going to attack USA.

We're going to try to win this game.

We're not going to play to not win.

We're going to go for this game.