Hello and welcome to the Keeper Cup podcast.

I'm Chad Young here with Pete Ball.

We are, I was to say, Pete, that were days away from the start of the season.

I guess we're days past the start of the season, but also days away from the start

of the season. Season hasn't started yet. I feel that way. I know, I don't know. I really, like,

I totally understand why the Japan series games exist and why they did in Korea before.

Like, I get it.

And I will say, like, I understand that all this stuff is always a money grab.

And I, like, I could like brush it off as just a money grab.

But like the atmosphere in Japan was legitimately cool.

It was fun that they did it.

I get it.

But I also kind of hate it.

I like, I don't know.

I don't know how you, the problem is I don't know how you do something like that without doing it the way they did it, right?

Like you can't, you can't give them like a road trip in the middle of the season.

It's like, you know, three in New York and three in Kansas City and three in L.A. and then three in Tokyo.

Like, you can't do it. So I really just don't mind it. It's fine. You know, like it's,

it's cool for the sport. It was an electric atmosphere. You know, I mean, to have Imanaga against

Yamamoto, like that's wicked cool.

Otani hit and Homer.

I don't think there's anything really that bad about it.

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