Yeah, it's our game, but again, I think it's a compliment to our game that so many other countries have caught on pretty good.

Good morning and welcome to episode 161 of Effectively Wild, the Daily Podcast from baseball perspectives. It is a new week, which is why we are starting on episode 161.

Ben Lindberg, how are you doing? Very well. Thank you.

I'm excited to start a new week.

Yeah, on a multiple of one.

I guess there are other ones.

Otherwise not excited at all.

No, just excited about the one starting the week.

And we're joined today by Ian Miller, who just got back a minute, well, I guess yes, minutes ago,

from the first semifinal game of the World Baseball Classic in San Francisco. Ian, how are you?

I'm well. Thanks for having me, guys.

Yeah, we're having you because we want to talk about the World Baseball Classic, but I don't think either of us is qualified to.

I actually have yet to see a single pitch because I don't have the MLB network and I can't.

Oh my god.

I'm not apparently allowed to watch it any other way and I'm also unable to listen to it as far as I can tell where I live.

So I'm way out of it, but I do want to know about it.

Can you, you've been to obviously tons of games at Pac-O-Park in your life.

What is different about going to a WBC game?

Well, let's see.

First of all, they played three national anthems tonight. That was kind of cool.

There was the Puerto Rican national anthem.

And they get, they get a national anthem, even though they're, what are they?

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