Shawn Spradling
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tension and excitement and um prestigiousness that prestige that we that we wanted to have um that i don't know if it would have if it was if it was a once every year no i wouldn't no absolutely absolutely what is it what i'm sorry go ahead no so so because of that i feel like i i appreciate that it does take a couple years to get to it and yet it still felt like it flew by
Okay.
Give me one second because I think that Great Britain has, on that point, I think they have the opportunity to surprise a ton of people if they get everyone who they could get.
Because we've already talked about Jazz Chisholm.
And just like Jazz, like another Bahamian player, Sebastian Walcott, one of the top players in the minors, like he is probably going to play for Great Britain.
But the ones that stick out to me are, I'll start on the offensive side and then I'll go to the pitchings.
But there's players in NPB who are of Nigerian and Ugandan descent that are still technically eligible for Great Britain.
Shun Mizutani is, I mean, one of the top outfielders in NPB.
And when I put him on the dream team, baseball fans in Japan freaked out because they were like, there's no way he's eligible.
But he is, and if they're able to get him to play, a Japanese player on Great Britain would be pretty electric.
I don't know.
I don't think so, because I don't know if he's quite to the tier of being able to make Samurai Japan yet.
I think if he was the best outfielder in Japan, there'd be no questions asked.
He'd play for Japan.
But to me, it kind of feels like a...
I don't know, like a Vinny Pasquantino playing for Italy.
I think if he were to get the call for the U.S.
and he was the best American first baseman, he might play for USA.
You're way too early to tell sleeper team.
Well, listen to this, because on the pitching side for Great Britain, we could see three different lighters play for Great Britain.