Jonathan Zaslow

I mean.

You guys just do this thing, though, where you make it sound very easy to do the thing that you're saying as if you don't understand what you're watching.

It's a hard thing to be in that situation against that pitcher who has struck out 19 of the last 20 guys he's faced.

Hitting's hard.

All of whom were swinging hard on the last pitch trying to protect the strike zone.

What other takes, David, did you have regarding the World Baseball Classic as the United States ends up advancing and beating the team that has looked the best in this tournament?

But the United States was favored last night, at least in part, because Skeens was starting for them.

Can you walk me through some of this, though?

Because if I were a Major League team, the United States didn't used to have these kinds of stars playing in this game, and I don't know that I'd want my stars playing in this game, even if it's good for the sport, because I wouldn't want anybody getting hurt, anybody as

valuable as Skeens who is almost single-handedly responsible for the Pirates improved playoff chances I would not want that person getting hurt off of my employment watch yeah there was a nice agreement with Bill Nutting Bob Nutting excuse me uh you know he gets a lot of that's his real name Bob Nutting Bob Nutting is good for him I don't know why I said Bill but it's Bob well but that's not the part of the name I was noticing the Nutting part you never heard the word Nutting

They milked a whole lot out of Skeens.

Three of his uncles were in the armed services.

They made him a 6'6 fighter pilot.

I expected him to take the mound just to land on the mound in a military chopper and a Blackhawk.

Your thoughts on Juan Soto saying after the game, yeah, everyone knows we're the better team.

Who cares?

Yeah, but he's saying that that was decided by the umpire at the end on a call that wasn't correct, and so the game shouldn't have ended on that.

It's not wrong.

It's unknown.

The Raptors won because Durant and Klay Thompson were hurt, but I still don't know what you were doing with the Heat.