This is the baseball tonight podcast for Thursday, January 4th, 2024 and today will be better than yesterday on this show where baseless accusations will be challenged.

I'm buster only working for my home in Montana.

Taylor Shink is in the Shink studios back in Connecticut.

Taylor, how you doing?

I'm doing great, Buster.

I'm fresh off covering the Rose Bowl for the game day

podcast here's a baseless accusation for you you had a terrible time in Japan

didn't you get a great time in Japan and I will say this I was surprised I thought when we go to Japan that everywhere

and I know we're not talking about it's not baseball season so maybe this will change

once baseball season begins.

I thought for sure the country was going to be overrun by Dodger caps.

And I will tell you that most of the caps that I saw in Japan were Yankee caps.

I saw a smattering of others, I thought for sure after the Otani

signings, the Yamamoto signings, that we'd see a ton of Dodger caps. Is that surprise you?

That, it surprises me a little, but it's been a relatively short amount of time.

I think maybe if you win in a year from now, it might be different.

I mean, but also, the Yankee cap supremacy is hard to dislodge. I commend the, you know, the Dodgers are going to try, but The

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Dodgers are gonna try but that's that's gonna be tough. Yeah, well it's gonna be tough

Yeah, well it and I can tell you this like if you went past newsstands there are all kinds of pictures, Yamamoto, all kinds of pictures of Botani.

So it will get geared up.

And I did see at the Tokyo airport that we flew out of, the displays they had,

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