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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Monday edition of Fair Territory. I'm

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Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal, coming to you from Houston, site of the

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Speaker 1: World Baseball Classic. Pool be We'll be talking about USA Mexico.

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Speaker 1: We will be talking about Trek schoobl and a whole

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Speaker 1: lot more this morning. Now, all of our World Baseball

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Speaker 1: next few weeks, and after that the best MLB action

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Speaker 1: all season long. All right, So here we go. First

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Speaker 1: real test for the US is tonight in Houston at

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Speaker 1: Dikin Park against Team Mexico. The environment is going to

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Speaker 1: pro Mexico than pro USA. Of course, the Mexican American

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Speaker 1: community in Houston is immense, about eight hundred thousand, I believe,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of them could be here tonight. So

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Speaker 1: it's going to be a great atmosphere and it could

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Speaker 1: be should be actually a great game. Now, you saw

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Speaker 1: after the last USKA game, Mark Durosa, the manager, said

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Speaker 1: that these are the best thirty players in the world.

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Speaker 1: And if you read Bob Knightingale this morning, Benji Gill

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Speaker 1: what about Venezuela, and maybe what about Mexico. Mexico has

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Speaker 1: beaten Team USA three straight times in this tournament, going

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Speaker 1: eleven to five victory in the last tournament in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three. What we've seen so far from Team USA,

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Speaker 1: of course, is utter dominance. Two exhibition games in Arizona

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Speaker 1: Excuse me, the combined score of those games, if you

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Speaker 1: but these were all just preludes, kind of addressed rehearsals

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Speaker 1: It's the run quotient differential, and Korea advanced because it

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Speaker 1: for the first time. We're gonna see Mexico run a

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Speaker 1: bullpen game guy named Manny Pareta, who has three Major

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Speaker 1: League appearances in his career, all in twenty twenty one

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Speaker 1: I can remember last time they had Julio Urias, they

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