USA Slips-Up: World Baseball Classic Emergency Podcast

With USA Baseball's WBC hopes completely out of their own hands, Carlos Collazo, JJ Cooper and Geoff Pontes gathered for an emergency podcast to discuss what happened in Team USA's loss to Italy, how it happened and what it could mean going forward.

(00:00) Setting the stage on a shocking evening of baseball

(03:15) Looking through what happened in the game

(10:00) What did Mark DeRosa know and when did he know it?

(16:45) 3-1 = 3-1 = 3-1. That's not complicated math

(21:15) Explaining the tiebreaker permutations.

(25:00) Looking the USA managerial choices

(31:45) This has been a systemic issue for Team USA

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