Why are people

so invested? I think it's just the level of competition.

You have Miz that plays for the Brewers.

He's one of the hardest throwers as far as pitching goes in Major League Baseball.

And you have Rasmussen who threw almost a no-hitter into the eighth inning going against the Yankees.

You have these two aces on the mound that truly come through for these teams.

And then you have both teams being able to perform the way that they are.

that?

How do you keep baseball going and how do you see the world of business and baseball right now?

I don't know how you felt at the World Baseball Classic, but it was one of the most electric environments I had ever been able to experience within baseball.

And being able to connect with so many different fan bases and watch the games, it felt like postseason baseball every single game.

And...

So I feel like within WBC, I feel being able to allow the players to continue to have that much enthusiasm, excitement throughout the regular season, whether you be pimping it, the celebrations around the bases, the passion, the energy, it was palpable.

You could feel it through the screen.

And so for me, I feel like in order for baseball to continue in that trajectory, Seeing more of that, I think, would be fun.

What do you think softball can do to learn from that? And what is the future of softball with these numbers we just talked about?

[laughs]

It was probably, like, probably when I was, like, 13.

They have, like, 14 and under.

There's, like, 12 and under, 14 and under.

Probably then, and then when I was going into high school, I...

One of the coaches that was my high school coach, he kind of, like, took me under his wing.

His daughter, Gianna, actually, she played at UCLA.

Mm-hmm.