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This is a baseball tonight podcast for Tuesday, March 16, 2006, and today will be better than yesterday. Taylor Swink is producing.

I am Buster Only working for my home, and we're now joined for the top of the first by Joe Davis,

who just finished doing play-by-play for Fox for FS1 on the World Baseball Classic semifinal between

Venezuela and Italy.

Joe, how you doing?

I'm doing great, Buster. How are you doing? I'm doing great. You got your hearing back, Lone Depot Park. You and I were just talking about it. Man, it is loud in that place. It sure is. We got to see it a little bit last night with the Dominican Republic and the U.S., but they shouldn't have a ton to cheer about,

just the one solo home run from Comming Arrow,

and then it was kind of looking

like it was going to be the same thing here tonight, but that little rally they had in the

seventh inning, those four straight hits, it was just deafening.

What generally, so these games, these last two days, what's it been like in terms of the

enthusiasm of the crowd, you know, the reaction to the players, the players reaction to all this?

I got to believe some of it's related to the fact that it's a one and done NCAA like

in a tournament the way it plays out at this point.

Yeah, for sure.

And then I just, you really can feel buster in the building how much it means to these Latin American countries.

We've gotten shots of grown men crying in the stands, you know, watching Venezuela

win the other night against Japan.

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