Shawn Spradling

I used to collect like crazy, but this is one I had to buy.

That moment is solidified in baseball.

I mean, I'm biased because I own one, but I fully believe that WBC cards are going to explode eventually.

the same way that they did in soccer.

Soccer cards, World Cup cards, got exploded over COVID.

They were never really a thing.

World Cup stickers and cards in soccer.

So I think that as the WBC continues to grow and it becomes more of a mainstay in baseball, it's the premier international tournament.

You're going to want...

Those kinds of cards, just like you do for all your rookie cards for, for baseball.

Anyway, it's just, you can do a full podcast to where every pitch is

you're interviewing a different person.

Exactly.

Analyzing the why, the how, the history behind that at-bat.

You could have a two-hour long podcast on just that at-bat.

That's been played in a lot of big games.

Even being his teammate, I remember him talking about this on Mookie's podcast after the tournament.

He said he had never faced Shohei in any setting when Shohei was on the mound.

Not on the backfields, not in any sort of practices.

Because of that, he stepped up to the plate and it was the first time he'd ever faced Shohei.