Speaker 1: Ten fifty two.
Speaker 2: It is matten Ross with you, all right, So we
have to eliminate the comment. If you tweet about Posey
L two Bay not being in the WBC, or for
that matter, any of your favorite players, I would like
for all of us to admit to delete the following comment. Well,
it could happen just as easy in a spring training
game that it kind of happened in WBC. And in
theory that is accurate, okay, because when you get on
a diamond, you are playing. But the reality there are
there are some differences. One, the intensity and the pressure
is five hundredfold over a spring training game. There couldn't
be anything more less stressful than a spring training game.
Speaker 1: Really in an athletic event less stressing. Yeah, right.
Speaker 2: Number two, your body, whether it be the arm of
the pitcher you swinging, is going to be different. When
you're playing in the middle of the season on an
eight fifteenth May fifteenth, June fifteenth, then it would be
in late February early March, and you can you can
get yourself ready for off season workouts, and you can
go to the drills, you can go to spring training early.
You're just not going to be a body clock adjusted
to playing at your very best or pitching at your
very best in a game in March, so you have
pitchers who may not be as sharp as they need
to be. Case in point, when Jose got hitting the
rest and you're saying, well, okay, well that could certainly
happen spring training.
Speaker 1: Two. There's also a part I'm trying to think of the.
Speaker 2: Parallel on this or the analogy, which you know, I'm
terrible about. If something happens wrong with your employees, at
least it happened on your watch.
Speaker 3: Like an NFL player getting hurt in practice rather than
at the Pro Bowl, very very easily.
Speaker 2: But there are some things about if it was on
my watch and my clock. While I'm not happy about it,
it makes better sense than if I send off Jose
L two B to go play with Team Bennets and
we say good luck, see in three weeks. I think
the Astros, and I know Carlos Kray would like to
play in WBC, but I think the Astros are hesitant.
They don't want to have to come back, you know,
because Carlos Crez is a huge part of this baseball team.
Speaker 1: He just is.
Speaker 2: And especially if the boys this morning we're talking about this.
If Puerto Rico puts him as a shortstop, that does
him no good. He needs to play third base. Being
in the WBC and playing shorts, I don't know what
the search up situation is Puerto Rican, I don't have
the roster in front of me here. Let me get
the Puerto Rican roster. He needs to play third base.
Playing shortstop does mean no good to get my guy
ready for the start of the season.
Speaker 1: They still come back in the middle of spring training,
don't they they do. I'm not going to.
Speaker 3: I'm more I get more of the injury thing than
the third short stop. The human body goes from light workout,
light workout, step it up, step it up big time WBC.
Then you get back to after playing WBC light workout,
light workout. They got from Cisco Lindor, Okay, it'd be fine.
Hey put them at second. Apparently they got Nolan Rana. Well,
Puerto Rico got a squad.
Speaker 1: Do you know what?
Speaker 2: You know what? Tell Carlos you didn't make the team,
thanks for playing and Ross You're never gonna be able
to shake me of this. I don't care if there's
forty thousand people at DIIK in park and everybody's chanting
and playing their US and put in their international flags
out there, and I know the pomp and circumstance and
pageantry is amazing. I worry about big picture and I
worry about the Houston Astros, and I I just will
I I just can't change my stance, and I know
that maybe a detriment to I'm not telling you to
change yourself. No, I get it because as you said,
the intensity is gonna be higher, They're gonna play more innings,
probably get more at bats in the average. I don't
know what's gonna all add up in a crew too
in a spring training But as you said, where are
you more likely to be pushing your body to the limit,
like trying to go and run to the outfield and
rip a handstring or something like that. It probably more
in a WBC game than a spring training game. And
it can happen anywhere.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, we're talking about not necessarily splitting hairs, but percentages
of it's in a smaller increase an uptick in the
WBC but the spring training. But it's also not nothing.
And you don't watch and I don't watch the WC either.
I don't get into it, but many of the players do,
so that's that's kind of why it's their prerogative. Like
I don't care about I don't know the Olympic triple jumping.
That doesn't mean people don't care about the ross. There
are people.
Speaker 2: There are sporting events where the athletes care about something
and they don't think about the big picture.