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Hope Plumbing Heating and Cooling today. World Baseball Classic Championship tonight down in Miami.

It is the United States. It is Venezuela. 8 o'clock, first pitch.

You can see it on Fox, but of course you can also hear about it because Tricia Whitaker,

who needs no introduction, but I'm going to give her one anyway.

Native of Bloomington worked at CBS 4, has been regularly a guest and a friend of this radio station and also working Major League Baseball coverage for Apple TV.

But, Tricia, a little different assignment for this particular event for you down in Miami, correct?

Yeah, absolutely, Jake.

It's been so much fun.

I'm pretty much just doing social media content down here in Miami, interviewing the guys, interviewing the players,

and getting some fun storylines because it's just such a passionate tournament that it really

needs more coverage than just the X's nose, you know?

One of the things that, Tricia, I've noticed about it, okay?

And this is kind of from a bird's eye view, not necessarily, you know, like boots on the ground view. So you can tell me if this is an off-based thing. But I'm not going to say that it goes as far as, like, say, the waste management opening golf where like it's a more relaxed or rider cup thing where it's a more relaxed the

stringent rules of the game go out the window and guys kick back a little more because it is

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