Matt Clement

And the second one, ironically, I was coming off a shoulder surgery and with the Blue Jays and I was retiring about three weeks later and I got a start against the USA team.

I remember, I don't remember who was on it or what was going on, but I was like, this isn't what I need coming off a shoulder surgery facing the USA team.

So, but like watching last night and like hearing Aaron judge, I thought, I thought he, he put it in great terms, right?

It's, it's,

playoff baseball in March.

Yeah.

And, and I think we're like, you know, I just want the, you know, get everybody through and how exciting, like the, the, the craziness of the Dominican Republic versus the like business, like of the U S or, you know, you know, Japan kind of business, like in what they do.

And there's a lot of pride behind it, a lot of fun, but like to hear that crowd last night,

Incredible.

Really incredible, and it's turned into this gigantic atmosphere and sense of pride, and it's really cool to watch.

Yeah, I think it's going to, and it already has.

You're always going to have, and I'm assuming we might go here, this worry of the home team's players, especially the arms.

And and that that's that's always going to kind of like pull it back.

You have the Scooble Scooble leaving yesterday and all these different things are going on.

And those factors, they'll pull it back.

It's like it is like an Olympic atmosphere, even more so because the amount of fans that are coming to it.

And it's and everybody's hungry for baseball to start again.

And I know that some people say they should do this during the All-Star break, which I don't disagree with.

but it kind of gives this like push into the season that adds this fanfare to it.

Well, one thing I thought as that game ended last night was these dudes, everybody on these teams, pitchers, hitters, whatever, they're going to be ready to play at the beginning of the season.