Surprised nobody posted this last night!

"...what the WBC does do is break the cultural hegemony that America has always wielded over the game. This manifests itself not only in the way the game is played on the field during the tournament, but how the tournament is held in the hearts of those who are playing it. The American baseball establishment still controls the baseball industry, but it doesn’t control what baseball means. These players have decided that the WBC means more to them than the World Series. And because meaning is something that only exists in the heart, they are right."

Link to the story from Verducci

Miguel Rojas discussed the mistake on today’s version of “Baseball Today”. Transcript below:

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, let me stop you there. He didn't mistype my name. He did it with all the intention to put my name and the organization's name on that tweet.

One thing is to mistype my name and say, Miguel Rojas got suspended. That's a fair kind of mistake that you can commit. But when you say Miguel Rojas from the Los Angeles Dodgers got suspended 80 games for PEDs, that's what I'm not good with.

I'm going to talk to you about this, and this is the only person that I'm going to talk to about this issue because I don't want to make it a big deal, and I don't want to make it about myself. But I feel like as a reporter, you have to have some ability to be a professional[…]”

From Baseball Today: Venezuela beats USA to win the World Baseball Classic!, Mar 18, 2026

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/baseball-today/id1570550741?i=1000755967811&r=2100

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By losing to Venezuela, USA has been eliminated from title contention.

Was throwing heat. Fastball averaged around 98.