8. a 5 game series vs. the dominican republic or japan would be must watch TV.
9. only risk $$$/attention wise if Team USA somehow doesn’t make the semi-finals.
10. hire me as a consultant i will make you so much money @MLB@WBCBaseball
11. @Phillies 2026 World Series Champs
the mlb should shorten the season by 40 games & run a longer style WBC with ~20 games where every team plays each other.
Rank teams 1-20 based off W/L + Run Differential.
Top 8 make the “playoffs” but copy NBA play-in for seeds 6-10.
6. no other core 4 american sports league could do a tournament that long. it’d be unique, and get people stoked on baseball heading into the regular season.
7. all games obviously played in the greatest city in the world & most beautiful ballpark there is (citizens bank park)
Learned about something called a "glimmer" recently. It's the opposite of a trigger. A tiny moment that makes you feel good. Coffee hitting right. Sun on your face. Your dog losing its mind when you walk in the door. Most of us are trained to scan for threats all day. Flip that. Start scanning for glimmers. Same exact life starts feeling completely different.
Lessons from today
1. It’s crazy how if you just constantly do the right thing (for/to yourself) and for/to others, good things happen.
2. You never know what someone else is going through or why they appear in the world the way they do.
i work in private finance and i can tell you AI is OUT and gnomes are IN as the next big thing for 2026. every investment firm i talk to cant get enough of big mushrooms with small wooden doors, conical red hats, illusion magic, comic mischief, etc