Vamos. Nothing personal. Word of the day. Good morning. It is Monday, March 20th, 2023. The word of the day is Vamos.

Let's go. Let's talk about WBC. The World Baseball Classic has created all sorts of interesting issues off the field and on the field.

Back and forth on Twitter, back and forth everywhere in the media is the World Baseball Classic good for baseball.

Our players happy to be playing. Are they unhappy to be playing? What about injuries we covered it last week with Edwin Diaz.

Got into a Twitter spat with Keith Oberman, although he never responded. That's not a spat. People questioning why he said what he said.

We're watching games. Everything's going great. Marlon's Park is shining. I guess it's the lone depot park now. 35,000 people.

Players all in quarter final game. All of a sudden Daniel Bard gets in the game. Let's talk about this for one second.

Daniel Bard is a pitcher who you may not remember had some command issues. Out of the game for a while, Mark Tarrosa is a first-time manager.

There's a very simple rule when you are managing the USA team or any team in the WBC. You get a list of things from the clubs.

My player can do this, not this. He can have this number of pitches, not that. He can play every other day, not every day.

He can play the full-line innings, cannot. It is prescribed inscribed in stone.

What is not put in there is when you're looking at Daniel Bard and you know that he's got no command because he's walking people throwing it to the back stop doing his best Charlie Shin imitation.

What's not put in the rules and regulations given to first-time managers or long-time managers is what to do with your pen or a specific player where you don't do it.

You don't pitch him when it looks like he doesn't have it. Take him out. No. He faces Jose Al Tuevay and hits Jose Al Tuevay.

If I am the president of the Astros, I am not sure what I'm doing today, but I sure as heck know what I was doing when I saw Tuevay get hit.

He immediately gets taken out, gets into the X-ray machine at Marlon's Park and it would have been discovered and it was discovered that he broke his thumb.

A fracture of his thumb. Why the Astros announced will have an update tomorrow is beyond me. It doesn't get unbroken. This is what teams do.

They did it with Nolan are not our last night are not about hitting the hand went to get an X-ray immediately what do you think you went to the hospital and came back where they just have their PR people working better than the Astros PR people give me a break.

They announced negative. They always announced negative right then and there but when it's positive they say will have results tomorrow.

It's such a bunch of horse hockey that it makes me laugh. We have the results immediately. Al Tuevay's thumb fractured surgery out for two months minimum.

It's going to be longer.

Renews cries for and the WBC.

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