WBC, nothing personal word of the day.

It is Tuesday, March 7, 2023, and the world baseball classic is back for the first time

in six years.

Play starts today and guess what?

It's pool play.

It's on the Fox networks.

You've got Team USA stacked trying to defend its title from 2017 in a tournament that

was started in a boardroom so many years ago we talked about it and we were so suspect

of it.

And the reason we were is we figured who's going to be interested in that.

Let's just say we're doing it.

This is the provenance of the WBC.

Let's just say we're doing it tournament because then maybe we'll get back into the Olympics.

This is back when maybe you guys may not remember this you guys Jeff probes come on in.

It's not you guys you guys you none binary whatever it is you all remember when the Olympics

said no more baseball.

Our feelings were so hurt in ownership meetings because when you're in those meetings you think

you're the most important people in the world and you think your sports the most important

sport in the world and all of a sudden the Olympic committee which at the time there was

a guy in the committee whose name was Harvey Schiller and Harvey Schiller had worked in

baseball before.

But in any case baseball was out of the Olympics so we said let's do our own tournament and

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