Chapter 1: What is the significance of the World Baseball Classic in this episode?
This is the Dan Levatar Show with the Stugatz Podcast.
Against the Spread is brought to you by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. Roy, what do we got? All right, we got Kings and Islanders tonight. The Islanders have failed to cover the puck line against the Pacific Division in the last six games. And the Kings have covered the puck line as underdogs in seven straight games against the Metro Division.
But looking at the stats, the Kings just do not score. And the Islanders are 7-3-0 in the last 10. So I'm going to go with the Islanders as the favorites at a goal and a half against the spread.
Chapter 2: How does the host share personal experiences related to superpowers?
Tony, a lot of analytics and numbers there from Roy. We're going to the vibes portion of against the spread. La República Dominicana. Just like you saw in the video of me going around town at the World Baseball Classic and hyping up all the Dominicans. Dominican Republic minus four and a half on the run line against South Korea. That's what they told me. So I'm taking the Dominican Republic.
The lineup in the Dominican Republic. Good pick. Manny.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of the Dominican Republic's performance in baseball?
Keep going. Hold on. Manny?
David Ortiz. There's one Manny. There's one Manny.
Miguel Tejada. He's not there anymore. A bunch of guys in this lineup absolutely dominating. Big Papi.
Chapter 4: How do the hosts feel about the current state of Major League Baseball?
We saw him. Not that big.
I saw something on social of that lineup, the Dominican lineup. I think, was it 16 or something? Man, fire lineup. It's crazy. They're just hitting home run after home run after home run after home run. Vladdy. Cattell Marte. who's one of the most underrated players in baseball.
Chapter 5: What are the hosts' opinions on the Best Picture nominees?
Cause he's in Arizona and not as many people are paying attention to him. He's amazing. The fact that you've got tonight and this is here in Miami, O'Neal Cruz doesn't even play right. O'Neal Cruz has not been a starter for them for a trip. Like the majority, where are they hiding this guy? He's huge. It's crazy that you've got the DR and that team that may very well win it all. Uh,
The way they're playing probably will. This should be a wild atmosphere tonight, right?
Chapter 6: How do the hosts critique the current film industry dynamics?
It's going to be nuts. You have DR playing in an elimination game as they're going against Korea. And then tomorrow night, it's Yoshinobu Yamamoto, the World Series MVP, starting for Japan against Venezuela. That's also a great team. That's tomorrow night. And those are both here in Miami. It's pretty cool to have this type of atmosphere here.
I'm looking at the prices because I checked out the prices the other day. And I guess maybe... I'd like to go, actually.
Chapter 7: What personal health story does the host share regarding ear flushing?
And I've been to the WBC before, like years ago, and it's an atmosphere, all right? But I checked recently, and I guess it was because the matchup, the tickets were very expensive. But looking at tonight, tickets are pretty affordable. Yeah, because you don't have that second team that brings so many people.
It's a long trip from South Korea to Miami, where Venezuela, you have Weston, you have Doral, and everybody's here. You're going to have a ton of Japanese media that shows up. We already started seeing them on Wednesday night. We'll be there. Preemptively. Preemptively coming here and getting settled because I remember last year,
Chapter 8: How does the host describe the experience of having their ear cleaned?
during that championship game. I mean, there must have been like 200 media members alone, let alone fans that came over here because simply for Shohei, let alone the fact that now Yamamoto just won the World Series MVP. So the fact that you have those two guys playing together tomorrow night and that Venezuela is great. Venezuela could have won that game. They had an opportunity late.
That's a team that if they lose here, like what a... What a disappointment. It's the way it's set up in your bracket. But to then have a matchup where you'll have Japan against DR and likely for a chance to square up against the United States in a championship game here in Miami, like no matter who wins, you either get a rematch of USA and Japan.
You could get DR against USA, which happened a few years back, which would be electric, like crazy. It's really cool that Miami gets a chance to have this type of moment here before the season even starts. Zaz, you said you were probably looking at the DR Venezuela game, which was $500 a ticket. I think the cheapest ticket was $400 to get in. Yeah, it's insane.
But we were able to go to different games. We went to the game against Nicaragua. We went to the game against Israel, which was Monday, and then Wednesday against Venezuela. And it was like the Dominicans showed out every single time. They were just packed, that place. It was incredible. So anytime you can go to a Dominican game, that's why – I'm thinking of going tonight.
For my package, I decided to follow the Dominican team because their fans are so amazing. They're so loud. They're so fun. That's the atmosphere you want to see. So if you can get to a Dominican game, head out there. Jeremy, can you... Go ahead, Dave. Can I just say very quickly on the WBC? I feel like MLB should be embarrassed.
I see them on social media celebrating the events, the bat flips and everything else. It's the antithesis of everything Major League Baseball stands for at this point. Shouldn't they adopt what we're seeing?
in the world baseball classic a little bit more i mean it really kind of to me stands as a black eye for for what awaits us now in the regular season which is more like mute your emotions stop stop acting like a human being might um and when it's on display here it's joyous and a marvelous watch and i couldn't give a crap about who wins the wbc but it's still electric
There's something about it that really it stems down to the youth level. Like what we've seen from Team USA, right? Where Team USA has more guys playing this time around than in years past. Like they took it more seriously from that perspective. But we saw the way they went into their game not knowing it was necessarily an elimination game no matter what they try to say now.
The vibes around the team where it's very muted as opposed to the...
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