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Evan & Tiki

WBC Controversy, Electric Crowds, and a Better Tournament Idea

Evan & Tiki

Audacy

Sports

4.2988 Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

The conversation continues with reactions pouring in from fans after the controversial ending to Team USA’s win over the Dominican Republic in the World Baseball Classic. While the missed strike calls remain a major talking point, the hosts shift into a deeper discussion about what the game revealed about the tournament itself—both the excitement it creates and the flaws that still exist in how it’s structured. Listeners call in to debate whether the Dominicans truly got robbed, how much the missed calls actually mattered, and whether teams should simply execute better in big moments. The discussion expands into ideas for improving the WBC, including whether later rounds should be played as short series instead of single elimination games. Along the way, the hosts highlight the incredible energy from Dominican fans in the stadium and why the passion surrounding international baseball continues to make the event feel unique despite its imperfections.

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0:00.0

A lot of fans are pissed off today.

0:01.7

The Dominican team lost in the WBC,

0:04.2

mainly because of some bad base running and some bad calls,

0:07.4

specifically at the end of the game.

0:09.1

And St. John's fans are wondering, what do we do wrong?

0:11.8

The five seeds bad enough, but you put us in a region with all these blue bloods,

0:15.9

like Kansas and Duke and the final boss being Yukon?

0:19.7

Let's get to your calls, 888808--19, and we will dive deep into Aaron Judge's comments. That's annoyed a lot of people. And we mentioned John Rothstein will join us at 12 noon. Let's go to Rich in Brick, New Jersey. Good morning, Rich. Hey, Rich. Hey, good day, guys. How are you doing today? Paul's well. Wow. Wow. That call was so bad last night that I think that even some of the worst

0:43.4

empires from the MLB would get that right. However, what happened wasn't completely all

0:52.7

on the umpire. The DR had the you know opportunity to take a hit case and

0:57.9

point katiz got a second hit he was on second base he didn't dare go to third and test his

1:03.7

test judge's army again because if he did he would have been tossed out and also if they would

1:09.3

have gotten a hit it would have scored them in

1:11.0

and the game would have been tied. And they wouldn't be complaining at this point. But that's,

1:15.6

so just to reset what happened here, Tatis was thrown out on a bad base running decision,

1:21.3

trying to go first to third with two outs and one Soto about to come up. So that was on its own

1:27.0

a bad base running decision.

1:29.1

Credit to Aaron Judge, who looks completely healthy, especially after the fear last year on his

1:33.2

ability to throw, he guns him out.

1:35.3

But on the other base hit, like the Cattel Marte base hit where Tatis was on first, it wasn't

1:40.6

against Aaron Judge.

1:41.7

It was against Pete Crowe Armstrong that he didn't run.

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