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Speaker 2: Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won

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Speaker 1: Here's your host, David Bassey.

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Speaker 2: What a heavy workload this week, we got four Dodger Talks.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to David Vasse's Dodger Talk Live from Camelback Ranch

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Speaker 2: in Glendale, Arizona. We have a great show for you

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Speaker 2: again tonight. Mookie Betts is going to join us. You'll

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Speaker 2: point fifteen and at the bottom of the hour. Can

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Speaker 2: you believe Pete Crow Armstrong has doubled down his hate

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Speaker 2: clip of our interview from twenty twenty four where he

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Speaker 2: David vass Live at camel Back Ranching, Glendale, Arizona. We're

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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, Paul.

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Speaker 5: I mean I'm hoping, dude, that that cutter coming along

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Speaker 5: I hear you, and I got a little quick on

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Speaker 2: That's that's a good comparison. Definitely. Yeah, baseball's a little

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Speaker 2: But I understand what you're trying to say. Mike Trout

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Speaker 2: I'm just saying Mike Trout and Mookie Bets are both

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Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi, Jim good Indian.

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Speaker 6: David, love your show.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 6: Want me to comment on both of your very welcome.

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Speaker 6: You do a great job. I wanted to comment on

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Speaker 2: They're not paying him a lot of money, Jim, Jim,

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Speaker 2: No, it was a standard rookie international signing.

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Speaker 6: But you can't even compare the two. Mike Trout has

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Speaker 2: I can make the argument Mookie Betts has been the

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Speaker 2: The first six years of Mike Trout's career, hands down,

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Speaker 2: Here is our one on one conversation with four time

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Speaker 2: It's only been two weeks. Guys are getting tired of me.

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Speaker 2: But my guy, Mookie Bets, has taken some time for

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Speaker 2: great to see you out here again.

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Speaker 7: Yes, sir, you that's how you know we love you though,

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Speaker 6: Hey.

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Speaker 2: I know you said this is the first normal spring

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Speaker 2: How does it feel coming off back to back World

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Speaker 2: I asked Miguel Rojas about this, what you guys are

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Speaker 3: Muki.

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Speaker 2: Everybody seems to always want to focus on individual numbers,

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Speaker 2: A lot of these people don't remember or have short memories,

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Speaker 7: This is how we'll create the history. It's just by

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Speaker 2: and then it shows up in Game seven of the

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Speaker 2: World Series, what about in the NLBS against the Phillies,

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Speaker 2: the whole wheel play? All that is the wheel play

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Speaker 2: in practice in spring training? Or is that just instincts

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Speaker 2: as the season goes on.

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Speaker 7: That's just instincts. That's just instincts. We have a good

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Speaker 7: veteran group here, and we've seen the game so much.

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Speaker 7: We we know a lot of things about this game.

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Speaker 7: And so that was just us kind of Doc trusting

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Speaker 7: us to help him. You know, he helps us so

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Speaker 7: much and puts us in so many spots to win,

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Speaker 7: so that was our way to to kind of do

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Speaker 7: it for him.

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Speaker 2: All right, before I let you go, you got new

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Speaker 2: tequila Providencia and also you got a new glove line.

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Speaker 2: Can kids go out and buy that for the little

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Speaker 2: league season?

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Speaker 6: Yet?

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Speaker 7: That that's two we can I can't. I can't talk

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Speaker 7: about it just yet. You know, we'll h We've got

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Speaker 7: a little time here. I'm just testing out some gloves

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Speaker 7: right now. Let's just to see how it's going to

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Speaker 7: play out. So stay tuned and I'll make sure you know.

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Speaker 2: I feel like the real test would be a skinny,

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Speaker 2: fat guy like myself if I could catch a baseball

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Speaker 2: with your glove. I think it it's meant for everybody.

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Speaker 7: We'll get you on and we'll find out.

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Speaker 2: Yes, sir, Hey, Mooky, great to see you. Awesome to

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Speaker 2: have you back for this run. And man, it's not

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Speaker 2: a Dodger season without MOOKI bets, that's for sure. And

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Speaker 2: he's got that twenty one on the back of his

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Speaker 2: end in spring training.

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Speaker 5: Sick.

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Speaker 7: It's sick.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I saw kursh with it when I first got here,

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Speaker 7: so I always said I wanted one, and I got it, Yes, yes, sir.

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Speaker 2: And you got rings more to come. Thank you, Mooky.

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Speaker 2: There he goes, Mookie Bets. Appreciate the time, and that

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Speaker 2: was early in the morning, mooki Bets, so since games

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Speaker 2: have started, just to lay out what's happening here at

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Speaker 2: camp in the morning, Mookie Bets and Miguel Rojas go

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Speaker 2: out on field two before the meeting that starts at

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Speaker 2: about eight thirty am. This is the same Mookie Bets

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Speaker 2: that I saw and heard of in twenty twenty. We

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Speaker 2: didn't see him a lot because he was always working,

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Speaker 2: whether it was in the cave or on the field.

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Speaker 2: This is a similar spring training to that one is

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Speaker 2: first one with the Dodgers, him just continuing to get

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Speaker 2: here early, putting in the work early, and then being

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Speaker 2: able to do more work after the team meeting when

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Speaker 2: guys go out for live BP and regular batting practice.

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Speaker 2: But Mookie Betts has come to camp noticeably bigger, stronger,

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Speaker 2: and certainly ready for this marathon to try to make

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Speaker 2: history and go for the three peat. First time in

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Speaker 2: twenty six years, second time in the last what fifty years?

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's only two teams in the last fifty

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Speaker 2: years that have gone for the three peat. That's the

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Speaker 2: Oakland A's and the mid seventies and the Yankees from

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Speaker 2: ninety eight to two thousand. Many of you were not

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Speaker 2: born for either one of those. I wasn't born for

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Speaker 2: the A's three peat in the mid seventies, and I

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Speaker 2: know there's a lot of you listening that weren't born

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Speaker 2: when the Yankees repeated twenty six years ago. Themselves in

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Speaker 2: an opportunity to do, and that's make history to three

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Speaker 2: peat in baseball. Many of you, your kids have never

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Speaker 2: seen that happen before in their lifetime. And the Dodgers

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Speaker 2: have that opportunity this season. And you heard what Mookie

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Speaker 2: Bets had to say. The reason why they were able

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Speaker 2: to execute the little things in Game six and Game

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Speaker 2: seven is because number One, they're mentally tough. They don't

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Speaker 2: put extra pressure on themselves. Number Two, they practice the

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Speaker 2: way they play and it starts in spring training. And

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Speaker 2: they have headed players. They have smart players, they have

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Speaker 2: baseball players, they have guys that have high baseball IQs

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Speaker 2: and guys that don't panic. A lot of these guys,

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Speaker 2: we have to start recognizing this. A lot of these

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Speaker 2: guys have been there now times and that's a huge

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Speaker 2: advantage when the Dodgers play a team like the Blue

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Speaker 2: Jays in Game seven, when the Dodgers play a team

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Speaker 2: like the Yankees. I know the franchise has had twenty

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Speaker 2: seven championships, but Aaron Judge had never played in the

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Speaker 2: World Series before. That's a huge difference that the Dodgers

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Speaker 2: will have going into the postseason. Eight sixty six nine

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Speaker 2: eight seven two five seventy is the phone number, And honestly,

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Speaker 2: that was the difference in the NLDS against the Phillies.

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Speaker 2: The Phillies made a lot of bad mistakes, nothing bigger

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Speaker 2: than oriyan Keckering throwing the ball away on a comebacker

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Speaker 2: to end the NLDS and the Dodgers win it at home.

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Speaker 2: That was the difference in that NLDS. That was a

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Speaker 2: lot closer than people give it credit for. There's a

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Speaker 2: very good chance the Dodgers don't win that NLDS best

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Speaker 2: of five against a one hundred plus win Phillies team

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Speaker 2: if Yamamoto and Blake Snell and Taoscar Hernandez don't shock

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Speaker 2: Philly in the first two games of that series. Eight

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Speaker 2: six six nine eighty seven two five seventy is the

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Speaker 2: phone number. We have three lines open when we continue

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Speaker 2: more of your phone calls eight six six nine eighty

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Speaker 2: seven two five seventy. I'm not backing down. If I

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Speaker 2: had to choose between Mookie Bed's career or Mike Trout's

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Speaker 2: incredible career, I'm taking Mooki's career. He's had six Gold gloves,

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Speaker 2: an MVP, and more importantly, four championship rings. I'm sorry

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Speaker 2: that means more to me than three MVPs and five

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Speaker 2: hundred home runs. Eight six six nine eighty seven two

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Speaker 2: five seventy is the phone number. And can you believe

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Speaker 2: p Crow Armstrong has doubled down on his criticism of

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Speaker 2: you Dodger fans. You'll hear what he had to say

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Speaker 2: next right here on a five to seventy LA Sports.

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Speaker 2: David Vasse live that Camelback Branching Glendale, Arizona with you

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Speaker 2: until eight o'clock tonight here on a five to seventy

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Speaker 2: LA Sports. Thanks again to Mookie Betts who took time

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Speaker 2: out for us today. In case you missed that conversation,

544
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Speaker 2: you can find it on the iHeartRadio app. In case

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Speaker 2: you missed it, the Dodgers did not have any of

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Speaker 2: their regulars in the starting lineup today, and they still

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Speaker 2: beat the Arizona Diamondbacks at Salt River Fields ten to

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Speaker 2: seven to improve their record to five and zero. The Dodgers,

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Speaker 2: who have only had basically one game of their regulars

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Speaker 2: or the majority of their regulars in the lineup, and

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Speaker 2: that was yesterday, have scored double digits three times this spring.

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Speaker 2: So that just shows you, you know, not just so

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Speaker 2: much about the Dodgers' offense, but which shows you just

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Speaker 2: a huge drop off and quality pitching that these teams

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Speaker 2: are thrown out there early on in spring training. Speaking

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Speaker 2: of that, tomorrow, the Dodgers are going to be here

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Speaker 2: at home with a spring training game. You'll be able

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Speaker 2: to watch that on Sports and at LA at twelve o'clock.

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Speaker 2: Our next broadcast right here or simulcast will be on

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Speaker 2: Friday from Scottsdale Stadium Dodgers Giants for the first time

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Speaker 2: this spring. Our coverage begins on Friday at eleven thirty

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Speaker 2: with first pitch at twelve oh five, and on Friday

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Speaker 2: night that will be our another Dodger Talk at seven

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Speaker 2: o'clock from Scottsdale Stadium eight six six nine eight seven

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Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number before I let

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Speaker 2: you hear Pete Crow Armstrong double down on taking shots

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Speaker 2: at you. Let's go out to the phones. Philip in La.

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Speaker 2: You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Philip.

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Speaker 3: Doing all right?

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Speaker 10: Doing alright? I love the Mookie Bets Mike Trout discussion.

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Speaker 10: It's uh, it's fun. And when you asked which career

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Speaker 10: you'd rather have, I agree with you. I think Mookie's

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Speaker 10: career is the one you'd want, primarily because he's been

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Speaker 10: able to stay on the field. I think the most

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Speaker 10: frustrating thing about Trout's career is that he just hasn't

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Speaker 10: been able to physically be able to stay on the field.

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Speaker 10: But I would I think you pointed out something a

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Speaker 10: minute ago that is critical with Trout's career, and it's

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Speaker 10: a fascinating debate as to if he'd made a different decision,

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Speaker 10: or if something had different had happened in his life,

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Speaker 10: had he been where Mookie was, had he played center

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Speaker 10: field for Boston and then gone to the Dodgers, or

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Speaker 10: if he had done what Showhey had done and left

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Speaker 10: Anaheim and gone to Los Angeles. I mean, look at

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Speaker 10: show Hay's career after he left Anaheim.

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Speaker 2: I mean he just I mean Trout is that every

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Speaker 2: freaking Eagles playoff game he had an opportunity to join

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Speaker 2: Bryce Harper in Philadelphia and go to all the Eagles

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Speaker 2: games he wants. I mean, Trout has been to more

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Speaker 2: Eagles playoff games than he's played in in his career.

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Speaker 10: That's point. I mean, ultimately, the single biggest factor in

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Speaker 10: Trout's career is a choice he made to stay in

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Speaker 10: Anaheim because he could have left, and what would his

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Speaker 10: career have been had he left. He might have even

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Speaker 10: stayed healthy had he left, but he chose to stay

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Speaker 10: in an organization that didn't do well for him. And

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Speaker 10: I don't dislike the Angels, but clearly it's not a

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Speaker 10: good organization. They have not put players around him to

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Speaker 10: help him reach his full potential. So yeah, you're right,

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Speaker 10: Mukie's had a better career. But I do think I think.

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Speaker 2: The question the better question, Philip, is the better question

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Speaker 2: is which career would you choose?

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Speaker 10: I want to win, so clearly you'd want Muki's career.

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Speaker 10: There's a degree I would agree with you. There's no debate.

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Speaker 10: You want to win at the highest level. I just

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Speaker 10: think it's a sad thing when you I don't believe

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Speaker 10: you've ever gotten to see what Trout could have done

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Speaker 10: had he chosen to leave.

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Speaker 2: I'm just a believer, Philip. There's certain winning players and

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Speaker 2: then there's certain players that really I don't want to

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Speaker 2: call uh losing players, because Mike Trout's not a losing player,

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Speaker 2: but there's certain players that are winning players. And Mookie

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Speaker 2: bats is a winning player. I'm not sure I could

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Speaker 2: say that about Mike Trout because after what we've heard

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Speaker 2: from Arty Moreno in the last week. If I'm Mike

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Speaker 2: Trout and I care about winning, and winning right now

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Speaker 2: is not something that's attainable in the organization's eyes. If

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Speaker 2: I'm Mike Trout, I'm saying I want out. I want

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Speaker 2: to win right If he cares about winning that much.

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Speaker 1: I think I think.

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Speaker 2: I think he's very comfortable. I think he's very comfortable

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Speaker 2: in Anaheim and going under the radar.

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Speaker 10: He's comfortable now. I think he was optimistic when he

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Speaker 10: was younger.

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Speaker 2: I that's I agree with that. I agree with that

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Speaker 2: for sure. All right, Philip, thank you for the phone call.

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Speaker 2: Great Thank you, Philip, great phone call. And look, Mike

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Speaker 2: Trout's a hall of Famer, great career. I like I said,

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Speaker 2: I think the better question is whose career would you choose?

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Speaker 2: Would you choose to have Mike Trouts or would you

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Speaker 2: choose to have Mookie betts career. I would choose and

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Speaker 2: Philip would choose Mookie's career. Eight six, six, nine eighty seven,

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Speaker 2: two five seventy is the phone number. All right, here

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Speaker 2: we go in case you missed it. I tried to

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Speaker 2: back up Pee Crow Armstrong. We played his clip with

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Speaker 2: me from twenty twenty four where he did give praise

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Speaker 2: to Dodger fans and just playing at Dodger Stadium, and

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Speaker 2: in the Chicago Magazine interview he took shots at Dodger

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Speaker 2: fans saying that they're just there to take pictures. Well,

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Speaker 2: today he was on foul territory and given the opportunity

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Speaker 2: to clarify his comments, and he made it worse.

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Speaker 8: I didn't get a chance to really, like like, back

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Speaker 8: that statement up with the fact that that has nothing

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Speaker 8: to do with Doc, that has nothing to do with show. Hey,

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Speaker 8: any of the players over there. I love MOOKI Betts

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Speaker 8: look up to him like crazy. Freddy's only ever been

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Speaker 8: great to me. If anything, those are the guys that

648
00:36:06,719 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 8: have given these fans a reason to be fans. And

649
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 8: you know, I grew up going to Dodgers games when

650
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:18,600
Speaker 8: they weren't always good, when they had like Manny would

651
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:24,360
Speaker 8: pop up. But it's like they go in phases and

652
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 8: and I remember, like you know, all fans fighting stuff

653
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:29,719
Speaker 8: like putting the Giants fan in the calmba like that

654
00:36:29,719 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 8: stuck with me as a kid, like just little things,

655
00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 8: you know, and and sitting in the stands, just nasty

656
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:38,759
Speaker 8: stuff goes on. I didn't always experience that at other ballparks.

657
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 8: But like I said, that has nothing to do with

658
00:36:40,960 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 8: who's actually on the field for them. I love playing

659
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:47,919
Speaker 8: against them, and I love I just love what they're

660
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:51,319
Speaker 8: doing right now because they're they're creating a dynasty. But

661
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,240
Speaker 8: I want to take them down too, And and again

662
00:36:54,840 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 8: I love it.

663
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 10: All the people that are like for sports man, Robberries,

664
00:36:59,040 --> 00:36:59,399
Speaker 10: let's go.

665
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Speaker 2: Fade out, fade out. Pete Crow Armstrong, what are you doing?

666
00:37:06,680 --> 00:37:09,080
Speaker 2: I tried to help you out last night, and now

667
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:12,600
Speaker 2: you double down and start to bring up the Brian

668
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 2: Stone incident. I mean, come on, man, that is so

669
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 2: low below the belt. And I got news for you.

670
00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 2: I see fights at a lot of stadiums, and quite honestly,

671
00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:27,000
Speaker 2: I have known Dodger fans that were coming to Dodger

672
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:30,359
Speaker 2: Stadium around the time that you referenced many Wood, and

673
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:34,360
Speaker 2: it wasn't as safe of a stadium as it is now.

674
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:38,360
Speaker 2: I got news for you, and I know actual friends

675
00:37:38,440 --> 00:37:41,839
Speaker 2: that refused to come back to Dodger Stadium because they

676
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 2: felt like it wasn't safe around that period of time.

677
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:49,359
Speaker 2: Now I felt like that was an overreaction, but they

678
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:53,280
Speaker 2: came back a couple of years ago and they said,

679
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium is night and day different than it was

680
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 2: around that period of time that Frank McCourt owned the Dodgers,

681
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:06,360
Speaker 2: around a nine and ten. Dodger Stadium is one of

682
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 2: the most family friendly stadiums now in baseball. Yes, of course,

683
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:14,760
Speaker 2: there's going to be overserved fans at a football game,

684
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 2: at a basketball game, at a baseball game, and they're

685
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 2: going to be idiots. You're telling me at Wrigley Field,

686
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 2: where it's known for having daytime beers, there's no fights

687
00:38:25,840 --> 00:38:31,799
Speaker 2: at Wrigley Field. PCA, really really, and you're contradicting what

688
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:37,120
Speaker 2: you said. You said basically, Dodger Stadium is a stadium

689
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:40,040
Speaker 2: that fans only go there to take selfies. Now you're

690
00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 2: saying that they're too intense and they start fights. Which

691
00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 2: one is it? It seems like you don't really know,

692
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:53,640
Speaker 2: and that's why you're sounding, quite frankly, not Phi Beta Kappa.

693
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:58,439
Speaker 2: So I mean, you had your chance, you doubled down,

694
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 2: and now you're gonna hear when you come to Dodger Stadium.

695
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 2: You're probably on the Fernando Tattoos junior list right now.

696
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 2: I mean, that's that's the booze that you're going to get.

697
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,280
Speaker 2: And when you're in center field, you will hear those booze.

698
00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 2: And look, Dodger fans are going to let you hear it,

699
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:19,799
Speaker 2: because they're well within their rights to let you hear it.

700
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:24,880
Speaker 2: And I do not condone throwing anything that fans were

701
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:28,839
Speaker 2: thrown at Tattoos a couple of nl ds as ago.

702
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:32,520
Speaker 2: I thought that was horrible and I would never condone that.

703
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 2: But fans can boo as loud as they want at

704
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 2: p Crow Armstrong. He just doubled down and completely contradicted

705
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 2: a what he said originally, and now he's going, you know,

706
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,400
Speaker 2: below the belt. In my opinion, let's go out to

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00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 2: Andrew in La, You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse

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00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 2: Hi Andrew.

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Speaker 3: David, I'll worry Ben, I'm doing good.

710
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 2: I can't believe my guy PCA is doing this. He's

711
00:39:58,640 --> 00:39:59,720
Speaker 2: going down this road.

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Speaker 3: I am a big Dodger fan, huge, like I schedule

713
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 3: my things. I got to do as a dad around him,

714
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:09,440
Speaker 3: so I don't miss a pitch. But I got to

715
00:40:09,440 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 3: agree with him. Okay, So so onset, right, so kick

716
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 3: me out to hear me out?

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00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 2: Okay, hold on, hold on, no, you hear me out

718
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 2: really quick? Which part do you agree with? Because in

719
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:23,600
Speaker 2: the original interview he said, basically, Dodger Stadium is a

720
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 2: tourist stadium where everybody just takes pictures. And now he's

721
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:30,480
Speaker 2: saying when he used to go to games, you know,

722
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 2: he was there for many wood in the bad times,

723
00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 2: they went to the NLCS Anda And now he's saying

724
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 2: that there's fights and he didn't feel safe. Do you

725
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 2: think do you think Picrow Armstrong ever sat in the pavilion?

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00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:47,399
Speaker 3: Andrew, No, No, but but hear me out real quick

727
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:50,120
Speaker 3: on why I want to say what he's what I

728
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:52,440
Speaker 3: think he's trying to say. Okay, if you go to

729
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 3: Dodger Stadium, Dodger Stadium. You know it's the Lakers show

730
00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 3: of the showtime, right. There's a bunch of business people

731
00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 3: around LA that buy season ticket They do in centers

732
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 3: and they let their coworkers go, their colleagues go.

733
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Speaker 5: Right.

734
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 3: When you sit below in the field level, you hear

735
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,759
Speaker 3: side conversations and it's never about the game. I've been

736
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 3: to many different stadium when I travel to watch the Dodgers,

737
00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:13,480
Speaker 3: and it's all baseball talk that I could agree with.

738
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:17,479
Speaker 3: When it's crucial situations, playoff time, we can't get handed.

739
00:41:17,600 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 3: We get handed a rally talent to pump up our pictures,

740
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:22,600
Speaker 3: to motivate the hitters and all that. With two strikes,

741
00:41:22,600 --> 00:41:26,719
Speaker 3: what are we doing. We're sitting down, faces loaded two strikes,

742
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:29,319
Speaker 3: well even one, you know first any we're sitting down.

743
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 3: We're not there like to cheer on our boys in blue.

744
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 3: It's like we're just there just because we got to

745
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:37,879
Speaker 3: pick it and we could take a selfie and post

746
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 3: it on social media. That part I agree with him,

747
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 3: But the comments he made today, he took it too

748
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 3: far right. But I think what he was trying to

749
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:51,440
Speaker 3: say is that we're not involved in the game as

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00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 3: much as other stadiums are. And it is because, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I disagree with that.

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00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 2: I think there's certain games that the fans are more

753
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:02,520
Speaker 2: engaged with. And I'm a believer that when a team

754
00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 2: is scoring runs, everybody's on their feet. They're excited. When

755
00:42:07,200 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 2: you know things are dragging a little bit, and baseball's

756
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 2: a great sport to hang out with your friends and

757
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:15,880
Speaker 2: talk and catch up and watch the game. That's how

758
00:42:16,280 --> 00:42:18,839
Speaker 2: a lot of us do it, Andrew, and I don't

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00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 2: begrudge anybody for doing that, especially before there was a

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00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:23,280
Speaker 2: pitch clock.

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00:42:24,600 --> 00:42:26,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, as before a lot of people were saying like, oh,

762
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:29,160
Speaker 3: we sell out games, we win games. Yeah we do.

763
00:42:29,239 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 3: But he's not referring to that, Andrew.

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Speaker 2: Four million fans, and I think I think Dodger Stadium

765
00:42:35,200 --> 00:42:37,920
Speaker 2: is pretty loud. You hear the Dodger players say that.

766
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,360
Speaker 2: And I travel with them, Andrew. I'm not trying to

767
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,279
Speaker 2: pull a John Ireland here to say I travel with them,

768
00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 2: just to say it. I travel with them. I go

769
00:42:45,640 --> 00:42:49,400
Speaker 2: to other stadiums, and trust me, the atmosphere is not

770
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:53,239
Speaker 2: electric like it is at Dodger Stadium. Trust me. The

771
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:56,800
Speaker 2: reality is those seats behind home played and by the

772
00:42:56,880 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 2: dugout are very expensive. You're right, those are business corporation

773
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:06,759
Speaker 2: seats for the most part. The fans that there are

774
00:43:06,840 --> 00:43:10,799
Speaker 2: affordable tickets for fans in the field level, the loge level,

775
00:43:10,840 --> 00:43:13,960
Speaker 2: the pavilion, the reserve level, And now, you know, I

776
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:16,840
Speaker 2: think I think part of it, Andrew. The Dodgers have

777
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:19,760
Speaker 2: done such a great job of building different things around

778
00:43:19,800 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 2: the concourse where families can go and hang out if

779
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:26,480
Speaker 2: their kids are a little too wiggly, and and that

780
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:29,720
Speaker 2: center field plaza beer garden area. A lot of fans

781
00:43:29,760 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 2: hang out there if they have seats in the reserve levels,

782
00:43:32,239 --> 00:43:35,239
Speaker 2: so they're not actually in the bowl. And I think

783
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:38,760
Speaker 2: sometimes that works against what you're talking about.

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00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:41,360
Speaker 10: Yep, yeah, I agree.

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00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 3: So I just wanted to just, you know, go ahead,

786
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:44,600
Speaker 3: come out there and say we got it. As Dodge

787
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 3: fans can play off easy, we got to do a

788
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:49,839
Speaker 3: better job of beat in our seats light moment too.

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00:43:50,040 --> 00:43:53,400
Speaker 2: They how about all the fans that stayed for eighteen innings?

790
00:43:53,480 --> 00:43:56,320
Speaker 2: Is anybody going to give Dodger fans that that credit.

791
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 4: I'm one of them.

792
00:43:57,840 --> 00:43:58,600
Speaker 3: I'm one of those.

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00:43:59,040 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 2: Okay, come on, Andrew, Come on, Andrew, that's a general statement.

794
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:07,680
Speaker 2: You and PC Air are making about Dodger fans. Come on, yeah,

795
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 2: go go watch the Dodgers in Cincinnati or Pittsburgh. Tell

796
00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:11,920
Speaker 2: me how that atmosphere is.

797
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 3: Oh, it's a dead zone.

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00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:17,879
Speaker 2: Thank you all right, Andrew, thank you for the phone call.

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Speaker 2: Eight six six nine eight seven two five seventy. Sorry,

800
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:24,799
Speaker 2: I'm not buying that. Dodger fans are very knowledgeable, you know.

801
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 2: The Cardinal fans get this. In my opinion, kudos for

802
00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:32,920
Speaker 2: being the best fans in baseball, the smartest fans in baseball.

803
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:37,640
Speaker 2: I've never seen a crowd like I've seen at Bush Stadium.

804
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 2: A fly ball to shallow left field and they get

805
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 2: up like they think it's a home run. To me,

806
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,400
Speaker 2: that's not a smart fan base Let's go out to

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Speaker 2: Vicki and La. You're on Dodger Talk with David vasse Hi.

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00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:54,880
Speaker 4: Vicki, Hi David, it's I know you don't remember me,

809
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:57,600
Speaker 4: but I met you at Wrickley Field. I've seen you

810
00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 4: a few times at Dodger Stadium and I had to

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Speaker 4: call when I heard that Andrew guy call say he

812
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 4: was a Dodger fan, and he agreed with some of

813
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 4: the comments. No, he is not a Dodger fan. I

814
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:15,160
Speaker 4: doubt he was there for that eighteen inning game like

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00:45:15,239 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 4: me and my family were. I actually fought Toronto fans

816
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:23,440
Speaker 4: leaving the game when during that eighteen inning game. And

817
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:28,400
Speaker 4: anyone who believes anything about those Dodger fans and what

818
00:45:28,480 --> 00:45:30,960
Speaker 4: they think that is dangerous. It is not. I have

819
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 4: grown up at Dodger Stadium. I grew up in the pavilions.

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00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:37,319
Speaker 4: I'm a season ticket holder, and he is not a

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Speaker 4: true Dodger fan. I've been to wrigley Field, and I've

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Speaker 4: been to the UB.

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Speaker 2: To the just jealous that he doesn't have the tickets

824
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:49,960
Speaker 2: that are a little bit closer than where he sits.

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Speaker 2: That's what it sounds like, VICKI and I can understand that.

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Speaker 2: But the Dodgers have done a great job over the

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Speaker 2: course of the last ten years where if you have

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Speaker 2: top deck or reserve tickets, you don't have to be

829
00:46:00,360 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 2: stuck up there. You can move down and get a

830
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:04,800
Speaker 2: better look from a different vantage point.

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Speaker 4: I totally agree. I love actually sitting up on top deck.

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00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 4: That's where I sit, and I have a lot of

833
00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:14,600
Speaker 4: friends up there. But yes, you can move around. Dodger

834
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 4: Stadium is a family friendly place, and anyone who doesn't

835
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:21,680
Speaker 4: feel that way or says they're a real Dodger fan

836
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:24,319
Speaker 4: and they think otherwise and they're not a real Dodger fan.

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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, David.

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Speaker 2: All right, VICKI thank you for the phone call. And look,

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Speaker 2: I would say four million fans for the first time

840
00:46:32,560 --> 00:46:36,480
Speaker 2: in Dodger Stadium history, first time in baseball history. I believe.

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00:46:37,960 --> 00:46:42,680
Speaker 2: Disagree with Pete crow Armstrong in his comments let's go

842
00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:45,880
Speaker 2: out to Louis in Anaheim. You're on Dodger Talk. How

843
00:46:45,920 --> 00:46:46,640
Speaker 2: you doing, Louise.

844
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Speaker 9: I'm doing well, best saying nice to talk to you.

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00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:51,880
Speaker 9: I'm a big fans thank you.

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00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:54,239
Speaker 2: Bigger fan of me than Pete crow Armstrong.

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00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 9: Oh definitely, for sure, especially up to these comments. I

848
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:00,919
Speaker 9: do really like him. But I do got to say

849
00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:04,520
Speaker 9: I've been a longtime Dodger fan, and I do remember

850
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:06,400
Speaker 9: the times when it was a little bit more violent,

851
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:09,920
Speaker 9: but nowadays it really is a lot more safe. Like

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00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:12,360
Speaker 9: I have a young daughter that I actually bring to

853
00:47:12,440 --> 00:47:14,560
Speaker 9: the games. I brought her at three months old and

854
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:17,520
Speaker 9: she was totally happy to be there. And then for

855
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:20,399
Speaker 9: the comment he said about the pictures, I mean, of course,

856
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:22,600
Speaker 9: everybody's going to take pictures at the Stadium. You know,

857
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 9: you're at Dodger Stadium with big all star names that

858
00:47:25,600 --> 00:47:28,240
Speaker 9: people want to come see. Like I live in Anaheim,

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00:47:28,360 --> 00:47:31,160
Speaker 9: and I see what happens at Angels Stadium where people

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Speaker 9: are not excited and it's not a static at all,

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Speaker 9: Like like, Dodger Stadium is just the place to be.

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Speaker 9: I've taken an uncle that lives in Mexico, the big

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Speaker 9: where big baseball films at their big Dodger fans as well,

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Speaker 9: and he literally cried he did not want to leave

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Speaker 9: Dodger Stadium because of how emotional he felt there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, come on, it's a great place. It's the third

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Speaker 2: oldest ballpark and the Dodgers have done a great job

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Speaker 2: under Stancasten and Janner Marie Smith to make it more

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Speaker 2: of a twenty first century modern ballpark even though it

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Speaker 2: was built in nineteen sixty two. So I'm with you, Luis,

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Speaker 2: and I'll leave you with this. I took my family

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Speaker 2: to a game or got them tickets at Petco Park

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Speaker 2: a few years ago, and we saw fights as I

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00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:19,120
Speaker 2: was taking them around. I sat with them for a

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Speaker 2: few innings, and then when I left, I found out

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Speaker 2: the person behind them sitting and their seats were in

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Speaker 2: right field. The person sitting behind my wife and kids

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00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 2: threw up because they were overserved. So come on, I mean,

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Speaker 2: there are ridiculous people at every stadium that don't know

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Speaker 2: how to handle themselves. So let's not just put this

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Speaker 2: on one place or one sport. Picro Armstrong has no

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00:48:46,640 --> 00:48:49,520
Speaker 2: idea what he's talking about. I'll just put it at that,

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00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:52,360
Speaker 2: he has no idea what he's talking about, and he

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Speaker 2: should probably shut his mouth moving forward when it comes

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Speaker 2: to this. All right, that'll do it for us on

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Speaker 2: Dodger Talk tonight. We'll be back with you on Friday

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Speaker 2: with our pregame coverage at eleven thirty before first pitch

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Speaker 2: between the Dodgers and Giants at twelve oh five, and

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Speaker 2: we'll have Dodger Talk at seven o'clock. And we already

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Speaker 2: have two guests lined up. Dave Roberts is going to

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Speaker 2: join us and JD Martinez, America's DH is going to

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Speaker 2: join us as well. Looking forward to that conversation, to

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Speaker 2: be reunited with JD Martinez and to have Dave Roberts

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Speaker 2: on Dodger Talk for the first time this spring. Thanks

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Speaker 2: to Ronnie Foscio for all his help. Thanks to you

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Speaker 2: for listening, and you are the greatest fans in baseball.

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Speaker 2: I don't care what Picrow Armstrong has to say or

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Speaker 2: anybody else. Dodger fans are the best. They come out

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Speaker 2: loud and proud, and I'll see you at Opening Day

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Speaker 2: and it will be electric coming up next Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Have a great rest of your night. See you