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Evan & Tiki

Hour 4: Evan EXPLODES on Team USA Manager Mark DeRosa & WBC Debate Gets Heated!

Evan & Tiki

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Sports

4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

The final hour of Evan & Tiki features a fiery debate about the World Baseball Classic and controversial comments from Mark DeRosa. After claiming Team USA had already “punched their ticket” to the quarterfinals, DeRosa tries to walk it back then somehow makes it worse. Evan reacts to the confusing explanations and questions whether the United States national baseball team manager hurt his credibility.

Transcript

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0:00.0

So we got a double header at the garden tonight with St. John Seton Hall at 5.30, Georgetown,

0:07.5

those things against Yukon at night. So you would think Yukon is going to romp their way to the championship game tomorrow.

0:15.0

And so we're either going to get Yukon, St. John's, the rematch?

0:17.6

Remember what Yukon did to St. John's the last time they played, they assaulted them.

0:21.3

Or Seton Hall is going to make this surprising push as they try to get to the NCAAs.

0:25.7

And of course, Sunday is selection Sunday. Sunday will also hopefully be the United States playing in the semifinals.

0:33.1

Because tonight they play Canada. If they win, and they are heavy favorites to win, they will either

0:37.7

face the Dominican Republic or Korea. That's the other quarterfinal matchup. Now, what has

0:44.9

been scrutinized over the last few days is Team USA's manager, Mark DeRosa, because he made those comments

0:50.0

on MLB Network that they had already punched their ticket to the quarterfinals. He said that and then talked about trying to get guys off their feet.

0:57.6

So Mark DeRosa was given a chance yesterday to kind of clarify, hey, can you walk us through what happened?

1:04.1

Mark DeRosa decided to double down when asked the question about how he got it wrong.

1:09.1

Is there anything that you want to clarify about the timeline of when all the tiebreakers

1:13.7

became clear to you?

1:14.7

Yeah, it's just an overly confident statement on hot stove, period the end.

1:19.3

And it's my fault.

1:21.5

It was not an overly confident statement.

1:24.7

It was you saying, we've already punched that ticket to the quarterfinals. It was ignorance. You didn't know the rule. I didn't know the process. This is an interesting pivot. Like I'm fascinated by this. His pivot is to say, no, what I meant was we're a cocky. Right. Remind me what he said is the original Bob. Wasn't it something about messing up the calculations? Didn't you already say that? You're talking about how he got out of it? Yes, the first time. Doesn't this sound opposite of what he said the first time he ever? It is the opposite. He did admit that he kind of just calculated it wrong. Yeah, I was talking with my friends on Honstow, blah, blah, blah. Now he's kind of making it out to, I was just being really

2:01.3

confident. Well, he's about to make things worse. You think that's bad? Here's him talking

2:06.6

about the false narratives that are out there about what he said. We went into that game,

2:11.1

prepared to win it. I think there's a couple false narratives out there, but no, I was well

2:16.0

aware that we had to win that game

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