Hello again, everyone. This is Scott Linscombe, Vice President of General Economics at the Cato Institute, back once again on the Cato Institute podcast.

And today I'm joined by editorial writer at The Washington Post, Dominic Pino, to discuss two of my favorite topics, sports and globalization,

and a delightful essay that Dominic wrote for Cato's Defending Globalization Project right before he went over to the Post.

And some of the wonderful things we see and learn, um,

from sports,

uh,

and about globalization and trade and immigration,

all these great things.

So Dominic,

um,

with that introduction,

welcome.

Thanks for,

for joining us.

So I want to start out.

Um, we just had, uh had the World Series where the Dodgers unfortunately beat the Toronto Blue Jays.

I say unfortunately just because I always root for the underdog when my team is in it.

But Dominic, this was arguably our most globalist world series ever, right?

Toronto Blue Jays, of course, the Los Angeles Dodgers.

But beyond that, there are all of these elements in the World Series, okay, great

American pastime in baseball, that were remarkably international. Would you agree?

I mean, yeah, it's always been called the World Series. So that's, it's just saying globalist

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