Venezuela Defeats USA in WBC Championship Thriller
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🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Every March are brackets the only thing you can think about? |
| 0:03.2 | Do you have symptoms such as constant bracket obsession or moderate to severe bracket-related distractions? |
| 0:09.0 | You may be living with Bracket Brain. |
| 0:11.0 | Thankfully, there's ESPN Tournament Challenge, the number one proven way to treat Bracket Brain right at the source. |
| 0:18.0 | So this March, download the ESPN Tournament Challenge app, fill out your women's bracket, and get you and your brain in the game. ESPN Tournament Challenge play the number one bracket game, presented by Capital One. Pardon the interruption, but I'm Mike Wilbon. It's our last show until Tuesday, Tony. How are you going to spend that five-day weekend? I'm Tony Kornheiser. Golfing, napping, |
| 0:39.9 | looks maxing. Golfing, napping. What? What? The hell is that? I've had it explain to me. We are |
| 0:45.7 | much too old for this, but it is what young men do now to maximize their looks, including things |
| 0:51.7 | like take those hammers and bang in their cheeks with those hammers |
| 0:56.4 | and stuff like that. Pluck stuff off their head. |
| 0:59.1 | I see, plucking I get. |
| 1:00.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:01.6 | It was metrosexual behavior at one point is what it was called. |
| 1:05.6 | Right. |
| 1:06.6 | Looks maxing. |
| 1:07.6 | Looks maxing. |
| 1:08.6 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.6 | Making this up. |
| 1:10.6 | I don't know. I'm making it up. |
| 1:31.8 | I can't, well, I'm reading it, but I'm not making it up. Welcome to PTI, boys and girls. In today's episode, Max Crosby, speaking of maxing, was living. Miami of Ohio is an underdog, and Wilbon and I talk brackets. But we begin today with Venezuela winning the world baseball classic last night by beating the United States on a go-ahead run in the ninth inning three to two. |
| 1:35.9 | Bryce Harper had tied the game in the bottom of the eighth with a two-run homer. |
| 1:47.9 | But U.S. reliever Garrett Whitlock walked the first batter, Louisa Rize, who was then removed for pinch runner Javier Sanoa, who promptly stole second and scored on Gino Suarez's double. |
| 1:50.3 | The U.S. went out, one, two, three, and a ninth. |
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