What Happens When An Organization Is Genuinely Excited

A magnifying glass on the 2026 WBC Dominican baseball team.

“Nothing good ever happens until someone gets excited — think about it. You wouldn’t even be born unless your parents got excited.”

— Francisco Marte, Founder & Chief Visionary Officer at Marte Companies & Co.

If you came here for a scientific, self-help, psychological, nerdy think-piece — don’t continue reading. Go read a textbook or something.

Just kidding, please read. Because what we are witnessing with the Dominican organization is directly transferable to any arena you want to apply it to.

This team has created a unanimous feeling akin to what Michael Jordan cultivated in basketball — an excitement that transcends beyond the sport. People who don’t even identify with baseball or the culture are still somehow excited by it.

How does something become that electrifying?

For starters (no pun intended), I don’t know if we will ever see a Dominican lineup this elite again. EVERY SINGLE HITTER IS IN THEIR PRIME.

What are we doing here?? This feels illegal. And we are slaughtering teams like it’s batting practice.

As a pitcher, it would be your biggest nightmare to go up against this lineup. You might as well file for unemployment while you still have some dignity left.

Having elite-level talent coupled with the excitement and energy this Dominican aura farm brings to the table — takes an already elite squad to an unprecedented level.

Because not only are we winning, not only are we dominating, but we are having fun in the process. This makes winning happen at an altitude that couldn’t have been conceived of before.

Imagine if every time you closed a sale, sent out an immaculate email with impeccable verbiage, diffused a workplace conflict, landed a high budget client, or did anything significant pertaining to your career, your entire department threw on Tiró y Tiró on the speakers, gave you a standing ovation, did an idiosyncratic dance, gave you a platano, put a leather jacket with your country plastered over your back…

What does that do for your self-esteem? What does that do for an organization? How does that inspire the co-workers around you to want to achieve something great now?

How much better would you feel, on top of the joy you’re already feeling, if your accomplishment inspired your co-workers to do something significant themselves?

Wouldn’t you want to continue to perform at a high level? Wouldn’t this encourage you to perform at a level that goes beyond comprehension? A level that you didn’t even know you could achieve before?

Heck, not only will you be motivated by the ripple effect your accomplishment created in others, but you will also get inspired by their accomplishments and praise as well, creating a stronger reverse ripple that reverberated from you in the first place.

This is the complex, multi-dimensional effect excitement marinates into the ether.

Remnants Of A Magnetic Atmosphere

“Surround yourself with enthusiastic people. Enthusiasm really is contagious.”

— Frank Bettger, How I Raised Myself From Failure To Success In Selling

In a team culture like this, do you drag your feet out of bed each morning? Or do you sprint to your office??

Do you show up early?? Do you actually feel alive for once??

Not only is the quote by Frank Bettger true for your immediate sphere of influence, but you can especially feel the overflow of enthusiasm just from watching the Dominican team through the screen.

You get pure, unadulterated joy from seeing these men have fun and dominate.

You can sense they have a genuine pride and passion to wear their country across their chest. Personally, I find myself being filled with Dominican nationalism watching them represent us in such a way.

I bought two Dominican Republic hats just from watching highlights on Instagram. So much joy exudes out the Dominican players, I found myself starving to catch an inkling of it too.

Wearing my hat gives me a fraction of the feeling the team has. It even sparks that same exuberance in others who notice the hat on my head, and are met with inspiring thoughts of the WBC Dominican team as well.

Enthusiasm creates movements that people want to be apart of in any way, shape, or form — as simple as wearing a hat.

Aura Farming

Most pitchers pitch.

But Abner Uribe tucks his gun away, does The Sign of The Cross, rolls some dice, throws an imaginary pitch, and fires a rocket launcher into the crowd.

What pitcher would get you more excited??

Imagine if everyone’s coworkers had this type of enthusiasm. It wouldn’t take long to cultivate cultures of people buying into company missions at illogical frequencies. A double-shift would be every shift, because every shift would feel like everlasting pleasure.

As a spectator, it makes you want to know when the next game is. It becomes a checkpoint you focus on. You’re not thinking about going through life day by day anymore — you’re thinking about your life game by game. That’s now your light at the end of each tunnel.

See what excitement does to people? It reorients their entire sense of time.

Meaning Beyond Understanding

I’ve been to sporting events of many kinds, various concerts, celebratory auditorium gatherings, theatres… you name it.

Do you know how tough it is to get thousands of people on their feet chanting and jumping unanimously?

It’s not something you see often.

When you take a step back and analyze what is going on here, this is a crowd filled with unique individuals — each with a specified number of hairs on their head accounted for by the Lord, each with their own set of problems.

Some of them are dead broke and missing a few months of rent. Coming to this game was not a good financial decision. But they came anyway, because this organization makes them feel something that goes beyond logic.

Some of them are depressed and drowning themselves to sleep every night through conglomerates of alcohol. They haven’t been sober in years. They might not even be sober at this game. But at least here, they are a happy drunk rather than the miserable one they would’ve been at home.

Some of them experienced the loss of a loved one recently.

Some of them got let go from their job because their boss did not grant them the PTO to attend this event in the first place.

And for that one moment, while they watch the Dominican team, none of their problems are on their mind.

This is the reverberating effect enthusiasm has in an organization.

It has the power to make people forget life has them beat up.

Stealing More Than Bases

Dominicans know how to have fun, and it’s something ingrained in the culture. Everything they do, they find a way to make it fun.

But they are extremely competitive as well, because being an underperformer in any environment is never fun.

Enthusiasm is a major part of how winning environments are created.

You might not be Dominican or 6ft+. You might not have batatas for arms, thick muscular legs, or eat plantains everyday. But if you have the ability to change any of that, I highly recommend you do. Surgery, genetically alter your DNA, do something.

However, if there’s one thing you can universally steal from the Dominican playbook, it’s: What happens when an organization is genuinely excited.

Author’s Note

This rumination sits near other thoughts I’ve had about the way enthusiasm reshapes how people experience time and meaning.

Sociologically, this kind of shared intensity has often been described as collective effervescence — the heightened energy people feel when they participate in something larger than themselves.

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