Mark DeRosa’s WBC Comments Backfire

Evan & Tiki

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4.2 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Team USA manager Mark DeRosa finds himself under the microscope after controversial comments about the World Baseball Classic standings, and the attempt to clarify only seems to make things worse. The crew breaks down how the narrative around Team USA’s path to the quarterfinals spiraled, why DeRosa’s explanations aren’t landing, and how roster “guardrails” from MLB teams could complicate the United States’ quest for another WBC title. Later, the conversation shifts from international baseball to one of basketball’s most debated moments: Wilt Chamberlain’s legendary 100-point game. Is it untouchable greatness, or is there a legitimate argument about the unusual circumstances surrounding that night in Hershey? Plus, a caller controversy erupts after a listener is accused of stealing a Jets strategy idea, sparking a hilarious on-air debate about originality, credit, and sports radio etiquette.

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0:00.0	Tonight they play Canada. If they win, and they are heavy favorites to win, they will either face the Dominican Republic or Korea.
0:08.3	That's the other quarterfinal matchup. Now, what has been scrutinized over the last few days is Team USA's manager, Mark DeRosa, because he made those comments 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.
0:24.2	So Mark DeRosa was given a chance yesterday to kind of clarify, hey, can you walk us through what happened?
0:30.8	Mark DeRosa decided to double down when asked the question about how he got it wrong.
0:35.8	Is there anything that you want to clarify about the timeline of when all the tiebreakers
0:40.3	became clear to you?
0:41.4	Yeah, it's just an overly confident statement on hot stove, period the end.
0:46.1	And it's my fault.
0:48.2	It was not an overly confident statement.
0:51.4	It was you saying, we've already punched that ticket to the quarterfinals. It wasn't confidence. 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 cocky. Right. Remind me what he said is the original file. Wasn't it something about messing up the calculations? Didn't you already say that?
1:13.6	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?
1:18.6	It is the opposite. He did admit that he kind of just calculated it wrong.
1:22.5	Yeah, I was talking with my friends on Hustow, blah, blah, blah.
1:24.8	Now he's kind of making it out to I was just being really confident.
1:29.2	Well, he's about to make things worse.
1:30.9	You think that's bad? friends on Honstow, blah, blah, blah. Now he's kind of making it out to, I was just being really
1:28.0	confident. Well, he's about to make things worse. You think that's bad? Here's him talking about
1:33.6	the false narratives that are out there about what he said. We went into that game prepared to win it.
1:39.2	I think there's a couple false narratives out there, but no, I was well aware that we had to win
1:44.1	that game
1:44.7	based on all the scenarios that could take place. I mean, they went in 2 and 0, we went in 2 and
1:50.3	0. We knew they were playing Mexico the next day.
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