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Shawn Spradling

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Baseball Isn’t Boring
It's Time To Rank The WBC Teams, With Shawn Spradling

I feel like this is pretty common for anybody in any sport that has some big event, whether your team makes it to the World Series or you're a player and you're going through your playoff run and you get to the peak and then it's on the other side of the hill.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
It's Time To Rank The WBC Teams, With Shawn Spradling

But I legitimately, after March 2023...

Baseball Isn’t Boring
It's Time To Rank The WBC Teams, With Shawn Spradling

April, I was kind of like in a low emotional place because I was like, man, I was so high for so long.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
It's Time To Rank The WBC Teams, With Shawn Spradling

And it was just like just WBC, WBC, WBC, like baseball, baseball, baseball, staying up all night, watching the games in Japan.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
It's Time To Rank The WBC Teams, With Shawn Spradling

Obviously, the way that the tournament ended couldn't have been more perfect.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
It's Time To Rank The WBC Teams, With Shawn Spradling

So it was just like so much stimulation.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
It's Time To Rank The WBC Teams, With Shawn Spradling

And then all of a sudden it was nothing.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
It's Time To Rank The WBC Teams, With Shawn Spradling

It was like normal, regular baseball season, which was great before.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
It's Time To Rank The WBC Teams, With Shawn Spradling

But then now that it was like right after the WBC, it just didn't.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
It's Time To Rank The WBC Teams, With Shawn Spradling

I don't know, man.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
It's Time To Rank The WBC Teams, With Shawn Spradling

It was crazy.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
It's Time To Rank The WBC Teams, With Shawn Spradling

But yeah, it was I was thinking like, man, we got three whole years to wait.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
It's Time To Rank The WBC Teams, With Shawn Spradling

And all of a sudden it's here.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
It's Time To Rank The WBC Teams, With Shawn Spradling

Well, I'm trying to remember what the first thing that was released or like announced by MLB.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
It's Time To Rank The WBC Teams, With Shawn Spradling

Because for me, I did my like way too early projections, like rosters.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
It's Time To Rank The WBC Teams, With Shawn Spradling

Like literally it was 2023 and I was already trying to project like Team USA in Japan, Dominican Republic, which they're not too far off.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
It's Time To Rank The WBC Teams, With Shawn Spradling

We should analyze those sometimes.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
It's Time To Rank The WBC Teams, With Shawn Spradling

But yeah, so that was interesting.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
It's Time To Rank The WBC Teams, With Shawn Spradling

But then I think the first thing that came out was...

Baseball Isn’t Boring
It's Time To Rank The WBC Teams, With Shawn Spradling

Like pools, like the pool hosts.