Jonathan Zaslow

I think it's tough to duplicate what rooting for your nation's team does, right?

Like this would be like asking New York City FC, if that's what they're called, right?

New York City FC to have the same energy.

I'm sorry to interrupt you, Tashae, but Tashae, that's exactly what we're talking about with the Heat fans or the Heat arena chanting MVP at Luka.

The international flavor is what made it great.

And so now pick up on, I'm sorry to interrupt you, but I think you can have it both ways.

Yeah, it's a great point.

If you're supporting what we saw there.

That's right.

And you can have both.

But they've tried over the years of specific pandering to certain demographics to try to get them to care in a different way.

It doesn't matter.

They got to build a winner and they can get an atmosphere, a consistent winner.

But it's going to be difficult to get anything that feels quite like what you saw in the WBC.

And if you really expect that to happen, you'll probably get a laugh that sounds like this.

Always drink your Jägermeister ice cold.

That's the rule.

Everything else is merely a suggestion.

Everything else.

Well, that's just a personal decision.