Shawn Spradling

And I, I guess another shameless plug.

I was just on MLB network today on doing a feature and which was, which was a blast.

It was, uh, Adnan Burke and Mike Lowell.

Um, and they asked,

about that.

They've asked about Korea and why, like what was going on with that.

And what I said was like, it's one thing for WBC fans to like have their players drop out of the tournament for personal reasons, because you can't really say anything to that.

It's like, they get to choose what they want to do.

But when it's an insurance issue, when it's just insurance, that's like keeping a player from playing.

It's not like the player, the player wants to play and the team is technically okay with them playing because

and they just can't get insurance, it's just too expensive.

That I think is the most,

frustrating part because it feels it feels like a problem that should have a solution um but it seems like that was the case for correa i know chandler roman his piece today he said that mlb and the and the players association they agreed on an insurer like one agreed on insurer to analyze to look over every player that's going to play in the wbc and they have like the end all be all of like if the player's healthy or not they picked the wrong insurer

I think so.

That's what it sounds like because it's not working out for them.

I'm going to say Venezuela.

Okay.

I'm going to say Venezuela because they have so many strong big leaguers in that lineup.

And if they get the pitching, which they can, they have enough pitchers to have good depth and high-end starters to

they can make a run just like they did in 2023.