Chapter 1: What are the callers' opinions on Team USA manager Mark DeRosa?
Dan in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey. What's going on, Dan? Hey, guys. Listen, I know you're not into it. Whatever. I'm not trying to convince you it's good. That's subjective. I love it. Worldwide baseball class is great. But I cannot believe. How does the manager of this dream team or whatever not know the rules of the tournament goes on an interview show and says they already clinched?
lets his players stay out all hours getting drunk, which he admitted and joked about. Before a game, you have to win to control your own destiny. Listen, again, I know you guys are not super into it.
Chapter 2: What criticisms are raised about DeRosa's understanding of tournament rules?
But that's part of the reason why, though. This is absolutely embarrassing. Yeah, I know. I know, but part of the reason why it kind of goes hand-in-hand, part of the reason why I'm not into it is because they're not taking it seriously. And I did want to give the WBC more of a chance this time around, but then you got one of your best players saying it's not the Olympics.
And you got this whole thing with these guys have no idea what's happening. And the players obviously didn't know what was going on either when it came to the ā because they were out and they didn't say anything and they were out drinking and guys dragging. He was trying to get guys off their feet.
I mean, that's why I'm not into it because I look at what we're doing with it and we're not caring as much as some of these other countries.
Why don't you think about the other way? Maybe our team was overly confident because I'm not going to knock this team. For hitting the town. You talk about the dream team. The dream team was known for hitting the streets. Barkley and Jordan, all these guys were known for not sleeping for 48 hours, but yet they would show up and get it done.
Well, okay, here's the difference there. One, these guys were getting drunk under false pretense because they thought they didn't have to win their next game, which they did to control their own destiny. So that's one problem. If you know what you're doing, fine. If you don't know what you're doing, no.
The other thing is you're talking about the dream team, the best team to ever be assembled before the European boom in basketball. So you see Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Scotty Pippen, and Larry Bird stomping on Slovenia. It's a little bit different than Team USA facing these good teams like the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. So that's, you know.
That's that.
Good try, though. I'm just saying.
Did take a swing at it.
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Chapter 3: How does player behavior affect Team USA's performance?
Good, Joe. What do you got? All right, so I sit down last night. I'm not a big world baseball classic guy, but I'm a big Patriot, big American guy. So I put the game on. We're losing, whatever. I go to sleep. I don't see the end. I go this morning. I'm working out, listening to you guys, and I hear this clip of DeRosa, and he is such a cringey douche, the way he's talking.
Yesterday, like, yeah, man, we got Nolan McClain on the ball, bro. He's going to throw his ass off, and we're going to get put up. I'm not watching another game. I don't care what the outcome is. Otani's pitching against. I don't care. I'm not watching it. So that was my whole thing about it.
I did have a question for Willie about the ramifications of the cap with Crosby signing, if you guys don't mind. Yeah, go for it. So Crosby gets traded to the Ravens. They give up the picks. They take a salary cap on. Then the Raiders go out and they go wild in free agency the first day. What happens with the money now? How does all that work out?
I think they, I think as far as they, I honestly don't know. I'd be sitting here, I'd be making stuff, pulling it out of my butt. I honestly don't know.
What I have pulled out of my butt in that situation is I think there is a time where they have to be cap compliant. I don't believe that.
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Chapter 4: What comparisons are made between Team USA and past Olympic teams?
Because they've spent, like, What, 218 million in contracts already?
Right, so now you put Crosby back on the books. It has to be over the salary cap. I don't know what that date is to be cap compliant, and it may be June 1st because I know that's a day. So if that day ā I mean, it's the start of the new league year. You're moving around. There's free agents everywhere. You've still got the draft. I don't believe that the cap compliant date is anywhere ā
but they'll have to deal with that at that point. So they're going to have to get rid of him.
They still have money, right? They have up to $50 million to still spend? $30 to $50 million?
Yeah, but I think that they spent that money thinking that Max Crosby wasn't coming back and being on their books.
So they're going to have to find him. That goes with the Lindenbaum deal, too.
Right, exactly. So I would think that they're going to end up having to get rid of him, especially if the relationship is as fractured As it is.
The issue with it is, too, they traded for Rashawn Garrett. So that's... He's got to go.
He can't go back there. He's got to go. And someone's going to get him on a discount. And hopefully he can still play. Let's go to Rob in Whitestone. What's going on, Rob?
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Chapter 5: Why do some fans feel disconnected from the World Baseball Classic?
I mean, I put on the Olympics. Hockey is not, you know, is down the list for me of my favorite sports. You put on the Olympics, you are into it immediately because these guys are playing their ass off. They're hitting each other. The speed, they care. You can tell. And I've never played hockey, played a ton of baseball, never played hockey. You can tell the guys cared.
It's just, you know, it's different. They'll be all right.