Prior to Wednesday night's World Baseball Classic final, Ian Kinsler commented on how the Team USA and Puerto Rico show their passion for baseball differently.

"I hope kids watching the WBC can watch the way we play the game and appreciate the way we play the game as opposed to the way Puerto Rico plays or the Dominican plays," Kinsler told the New York Times.

"That's not taking anything away from them. That just wasn't the way we were raised. They were raised differently and to show emotion and passion when you play. We do show emotion; we do show passion. But we just do it in a different way."