Exploring Japan's Dominance in World Baseball Classic

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00:00The total is eight in this game.

00:06Imanaga is a badass, all right?

00:08These Japanese, listen, Japan, they play good baseball in Japan.

00:11They play elite baseball in Japan.

00:13You'll notice pretty much every Japanese player that comes over and signs into big leagues is good.

00:17And Japan is starting to get tired of losing all their top players, actually.

00:21So they're trying to enforce stricter rules to leave, and they've got controversy going on in Japan.

00:26But, you know, the World Baseball Classic, I'm a big fan of the WBC.

00:30And we generally always bet on Japan to win.

00:33And I think they've won three out of five of them.

00:35I think there's been five of them.

00:36They've won three.

00:37The USA won once.

00:39The USA might have won twice, actually.

00:41I think the USA won twice.

00:42They won, like, a couple of tournaments ago, and they won the first one.

00:45I think they won the first.

00:47I think the USA has won twice.

00:48Anyway, Japan has won more than anyone else.

00:51You know, that whole, like, World Series champions.

00:53You're not World Series champions.

00:55Play the Japanese champ.

00:56Will you beat them?

00:57Maybe.

00:58Probably.

00:59But let's see.

01:00You know what I'm saying?

01:01Let's see.

01:02But, you know, there's a lot of debate about that, about, like, world champions and stuff.