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Speaker 1: They say, the hardest thing in sports isn't winning a title.

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Speaker 2: It's hard to repeat seasons.

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Speaker 3: It's winning it again this year.

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Speaker 2: Is not trying to win a championship, They're trying to repeat.

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Speaker 1: It's October baseball for your world champion in LA Dodger.

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Speaker 4: The twenty twenty five Dodgers are the National League's Western

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Speaker 4: Division champions.

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Speaker 1: And you know what that means.

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Speaker 3: Saxon Kates and AM is back.

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Speaker 1: This is Saxon Kates in the Morning with Tim Kates

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Speaker 1: and former World champion Dodger Steve Sacks.

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Speaker 5: Reacting, taking your phone calls, talking Dodgers playoff baseball all

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Speaker 5: postseason long.

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Speaker 2: Now here.

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Speaker 1: They are on AM five to seventy LA Sports and

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Speaker 1: the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 3: Steve Sacks, Tim Kaits.

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Speaker 1: Tim Kates and World Champion Dodger Steve Sacks.

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Speaker 5: Saxon Kates in the Am live in Local and have

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Speaker 5: feel so good on this Wednesday morning with you and

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Speaker 5: thanks for being with us Southern California. Wherever you may

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Speaker 5: be driving around getting ready to go out and about

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Speaker 5: for that, whether it's in the car or on the

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Speaker 5: iHeartRadio app We appreciate that Dodgers getting ready for Game

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Speaker 5: one of the World Series. They will head out to

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Speaker 5: Toronto later on this afternoon. Media Day tomorrow at Rogers Center,

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Speaker 5: and then the Dodgers and Blue Jays will have a

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Speaker 5: workout and then Friday night it's Game one of the

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Speaker 5: World Series.

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Speaker 3: First pitching.

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Speaker 5: The Gallpin Motors broadcast booth is coming up at five

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Speaker 5: oh eights. And what a world series it is gonna be.

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Speaker 5: We cannot wait. We're anticipating a great series. Will it

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Speaker 5: be a sweep? Most likely not. It's gonna be a

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Speaker 5: competitive series, a series in which the Toronto Blue Jays

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Speaker 5: come in equally good with an offense. The Dodgers probably

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Speaker 5: got a tip of the cap to your starting pitching

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Speaker 5: the bullpen. Will it continue to be really good for

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Speaker 5: the Dodgers like it has been so far here in October?

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Speaker 5: We will find out as the Dodgers and Blue Jays

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Speaker 5: Hope to hear from Buck Martinez at the bottom of

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Speaker 5: the hour and tany flashback later on this hour, Sex.

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Speaker 7: And Tim got a question for you if I could,

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Speaker 7: I never could figure out who this Uh, we know

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Speaker 7: they're already posted. But I don't know who this TBD

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Speaker 7: the other side. I mean, Toronto's got some guy named TBD.

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Speaker 8: Is that like?

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Speaker 5: You know, he's a veteran, he's been around a while.

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Speaker 5: He's bounced from team to team. I think he's pitched

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Speaker 5: in both leagues over the years. Okay, you know, he's

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Speaker 5: actually an ambidextrious guy, so I can throw from both sides.

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Speaker 5: He's a righty and a lefty. He's served as a starter,

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Speaker 5: he has served as an opener. He's been a bulgeting guy.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, TBD does it all. He's been one of

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Speaker 5: these versatile guys that you know, no matter where, it

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Speaker 5: doesn't matter the market either. He get pitch in l A,

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Speaker 5: he get pitching in Sacramento, he get pitching Seattle.

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Speaker 3: He can pitch anywhere. He's he's versatile.

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Speaker 8: This is kind of a good thing.

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Speaker 7: I mean, flat out, you know who the Dodgers are pitching, right,

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Speaker 7: we still don't know who's pitcher for Toronto.

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Speaker 8: That's that kind of speaks volumes to me.

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Speaker 5: still haven't made a decision. I mean, it shouldn't be

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Speaker 5: not like it's a quick turnaround and you're kind of

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Speaker 5: scrambling to put together a starting staff. And is it

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Speaker 5: How how beat up are we after that seven game

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Speaker 5: know by now who that story is going to be

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Speaker 3: Is it going to be Max Schurzer?

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Speaker 8: Who do you think is the best picture on that team?

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Speaker 3: This ye savage kid? Yeah, this twenty one year old

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Speaker 5: He was a first round pick a year ago out

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Speaker 5: and so it's it'll be fun to see him go

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Speaker 5: toe to toe with these Dodger pitchers. I mean, he

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Speaker 5: has been the talk of the Blue Jays here since

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Speaker 5: probably gave one or Game two of this World Series.

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Speaker 8: Just only three this year.

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Speaker 5: No It's a fun story and it's good for baseball

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Speaker 5: right to see an unknown come up and take over

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Speaker 5: Trey Y Savage kid, twenty two years old out of Pottstown, Pennsylvania,

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Speaker 5: and he catches the Toronto Blue Jays by storm here

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Speaker 5: with this electric pitching that he has done.

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Speaker 3: So I love it.

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Speaker 5: This is what baseball is all about, seeing young guys

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Speaker 8: Yes, because heat story. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: to the media Saxy And for those who don't know,

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Speaker 5: Freddie Freeman's late mother and his dad both Canadians, both

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Speaker 5: last two World Baseball Classics he played for Team Canada,

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Speaker 5: And here's Freddie Freeman yesterday talking to the media about

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Speaker 9: A lot of it's a face like Kevin Gong's sures

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Speaker 9: and we haven't faced Beaver in a couple of years

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Speaker 9: because he was hurt, So I mean, there's just and

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Speaker 9: then obviously they're they're they're young rookie that we've never

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Speaker 9: But you don't have that luxury, so I think it's

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Speaker 9: it's it's the World Series, and it's exciting.

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Speaker 10: And we're looking forward to it.

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Speaker 9: But I don't know if you can take much from

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Speaker 1: I know you're playing for the visiting team, of course,

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Speaker 1: but is this something that's going to be special for

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Speaker 2: Do you think?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, my dad is is obviously gonna head out there

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Speaker 9: And I'm not so sure the Canadian fans Blue Days

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Speaker 10: But it is special.

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Speaker 9: Both my parents are born and raised in Canada, especially

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Speaker 10: My mom from the Toronto area, from Windsor, so it

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 9: Every time I go there, it just kind of you

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Speaker 10: So I'm looking forward to it. I'm excited every time

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Speaker 9: I always get this little envelope in my locker and

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Speaker 9: it's always like pictures of like a third cousin has

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Speaker 10: In their garage and they and they and they bring

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Speaker 9: It's a special place for obviously my family and I

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Speaker 10: So I'm looking forward to getting her Mary.

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Speaker 1: What was your filling last night just watching that whole

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean that's special.

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Speaker 9: I mean, when you have a whole country that's, you know,

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Speaker 9: to just see the city come together and I get

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Speaker 9: to experience so much jubilation that they had yesterday, going

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Speaker 9: to the World Series for the first time, I think

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Speaker 9: it was thirty plus years, So you know, it's an

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Speaker 10: And obviously, you know my family.

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Speaker 9: Being from Canada, it's pretty cool. But it's bodies had

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Speaker 9: an amazing postseason so far, and you know, everyone's Springers

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Speaker 9: I think it's just gonna be a really good real series.

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Speaker 10: Looking forward to it. Thanks Verny, Thanks everybody.

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Speaker 5: All Right, there's Freddy Freeman talking about going back to Canada,

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Speaker 5: and just another storyline that's going to play out here

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Speaker 7: Yes, and especially how impactful it was that he lost

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Speaker 8: That's it's a heart wrenching thing.

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Speaker 5: on Game one. On Friday Night eighty six, six, nine,

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Speaker 11: Hey, good morning guys.

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Speaker 11: You guys are making my four or five commute a

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Speaker 11: the World Series the NLCS formula. Do you think we've

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Speaker 7: Joe, thanks for the call, and no, I don't think

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Speaker 5: Let's go to Danny and Coasta Mesa. Danny, Welcome to

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Speaker 5: Saxon Kates and the AM. What's on your mind this morning?

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Speaker 4: Good morning guys, and Steve, just thank you for eighty one.

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Speaker 4: You know I suffered throughty four seven and seventy eighty

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Speaker 4: and Fernando and Sosia, you guys bought fresh blood.

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Speaker 6: Thank you very.

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Speaker 8: Much, thank you.

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Speaker 4: I was gonna say I got the pitching rotation. It

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Speaker 4: But third game one is that savage to savage. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: Okay, okay, gotcha, gotcha, I'll take I'll uh, I'll take

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Speaker 8: Go ahead. I'm sorry, Joe, I mean yeah, go ahead,

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Speaker 6: Oh no, that's fine.

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Speaker 4: And the other item I was going to bring up,

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Speaker 4: Don't put them on PMS next week.

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Speaker 10: He's a jerk, all.

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Speaker 3: Right, Dandy, I appreciate it.

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Speaker 5: I got your tweet there and you Rob Parker Fox

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Speaker 5: Sports Radio covered baseball for a long time in Cincinnati,

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Speaker 5: part of the Writers Association said that Shoeotani didn't do

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Speaker 8: Well, what is special if that's not.

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Speaker 5: He He referenced no hitter in four home runs. I mean,

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Speaker 5: come on now, now, I mean the guy hit three

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Speaker 5: I mean, that's that's not enough for you. That's not

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Speaker 7: Come on, he's trying to get some attention whatever. I mean, nobody,

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Speaker 7: nobody think that's a credible comment and nobody would take

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Speaker 5: No, I mean that's to me, that's that's also sounds

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Speaker 7: You could use your scam voice and say it's one

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Speaker 5: It's one of the greatest games in baseball free in history. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: It's not even close.

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Speaker 7: I mean, geez, strike out ten, strikes out, three runs over,

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Speaker 8: That's special in and of itself, right, I mean, yes,

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Speaker 5: It's it's it's an it's asenine. It really is asenine

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Speaker 5: right thing. Eric and Moreno Valley, Welcome to Sax and

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Speaker 5: Kates and the am Eric. How you doing today?

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Speaker 6: Doing great?

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Speaker 12: Go Dodgers. Hey, Sax, I wanted to ask you about

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Speaker 12: the incident spring training with Gibson and eye Black on

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Speaker 4: Thanks guys, All right.

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Speaker 5: Thanks a lot of Eric. What is he talking about, Saxy?

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Speaker 5: The I Black and Gibby and spring training?

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Speaker 7: He will Gibby Gibby coming over from the Tigers. You know,

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Speaker 7: In spring training, everybody's kind of getting ready, you know,

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Speaker 7: you're trying to get in baseball shape, and Jesse Erosco

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Speaker 7: pulled a prank. Ghibby wasn't about pranks, and Jesse Erosco

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Speaker 7: when Kirk Gibson is little, he was even back then,

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Speaker 8: He didn't know what it was, so.

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Speaker 7: He actually left the team, left the team to called

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Speaker 7: Tommy up and said, I'm not going with this kid

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Speaker 7: come back to the team when the culture changes. Then

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Speaker 8: Fred Claire called him. Tommy left. He left spring training.

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Speaker 5: Wait a second, did he just bluffily like, Okay, I'm

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Speaker 7: No, no, he says, I'll come back when when you

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Speaker 7: He went back to his his condo or his hotel

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Speaker 8: He was gone.

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Speaker 7: He didn't show up. Tommy was pleading for him. Tommy

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Speaker 8: Yeah, this is this is inside stuff. People don't know this.

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Speaker 8: This is this is very inside.

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Speaker 3: Were you guys freaking out or what?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, We're like, where's Gibby? And he said, uh.

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Speaker 7: And I think another part of the criteria for him

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Speaker 8: And and so.

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Speaker 7: We had to basically tie Gibby down when he came

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Speaker 7: because he would have tore Jesse's head off.

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Speaker 8: Oh my gosh. Now this is inside stuff. Nobody knows this,

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Speaker 7: And so we told him what happened, and Jesse apologized,

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Speaker 8: Oh my gosh, Jesse was scared for a few days.

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Speaker 7: You never know when it might pop back into a

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Speaker 8: But eventually he cooled down, and you.

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Speaker 7: Know, but we did have to you know, we did

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Speaker 5: Okay, So who ultimately got him to come back? Well,

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Speaker 5: whose words was it that got him to finally was

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Speaker 5: under contract, you can't do this.

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Speaker 8: He doesn't care.

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Speaker 7: He can care, he says, he says, I'm also under contract.

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Speaker 7: That says you got to try your hardest.

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Speaker 8: And I don't see it. So there you go, wow. Yeah.

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Speaker 7: And then and then Tommy I think went over there

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Speaker 8: I don't know, but he got him to come back.

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Speaker 7: And and but seriously, we had to restrain Gibby, and

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Speaker 7: I never saw those guys together very much. I mean,

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Speaker 5: So was that the line was drawn right there? Right

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Speaker 5: there was no like, Okay, we'll wait a week.

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Speaker 3: And then we're gonna get him. We're gonna wait a

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Speaker 7: That was no, that was it. That was that, there

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Speaker 7: But the great thing about the irony was that we

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Speaker 7: After one of the games, Tommy came out in the

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Speaker 7: he said, what a blankin I won't say it because

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Speaker 7: it's a family show.

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Speaker 8: What a blanking team? You know what I mean?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, So Gibby after one of our games thereafter, came

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Speaker 7: into the locker room.

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Speaker 8: And said, what a blanking team. So every time we

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Speaker 8: won a game, the whole team would say it.

447
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Speaker 7: In Unison, what a blanking team. And that was our

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Speaker 7: mantra throughout the whole year and in the playoffs and

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Speaker 7: World Series.

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Speaker 8: It brought us all the way through. So the funny

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Speaker 8: thing was Gibby was.

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Speaker 7: The one now that was joking and having a good time,

453
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Speaker 7: and we knew that the team really came full circle

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Speaker 7: because to get him to smile, I mean, last time

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Speaker 7: I saw him smile, he saw five.

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Speaker 8: Car wreck on the freeway. Okay, So when he started

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Speaker 8: to let go have fun and.

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Speaker 7: Smile, the team really shot forward because everybody relaxed. Then

459
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Speaker 7: he wasn't gonna kill anybody. He wasn't gonna come in

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Speaker 7: with a new z. He wasn't gonna tear Jesse's head off.

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Speaker 7: He was having fun and the team relaxed.

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Speaker 8: I love it.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 5: Nowhere else, Dodger fans, are you getting this inside?

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Speaker 3: Getting his stores?

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Speaker 8: This is close to the best stuff.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, This is why Saxon Kates in the Am is

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Speaker 5: the best. But you can find it on Scam Scam

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Speaker 5: because you're not gonna get these stories anywhere else.

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Speaker 3: You're not gonna get this inside.

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Speaker 5: You're not gonna get these memories from nineteen eighty eight,

472
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Speaker 5: peeling back the curtain that was a world championship team

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Speaker 5: in eighty eight. Nowhere else do you need to get this.

474
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Speaker 5: There's no podcast, there's no other station, there's no YouTube channel,

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Speaker 5: no nobody else is giving you this. It's not even

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Speaker 5: in the script. That's why you gotta be here every

477
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Speaker 5: single morning, six am to nine am during the postseason

478
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Speaker 5: for Scam Saxon Kates in the Am. Buck Martinez is

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Speaker 5: gonna join us at the top of the hour. I

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Speaker 5: just exchanged text message with him. Flight a little delay,

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Speaker 5: but he's gonna join us at the top of the hour,

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Speaker 5: David Vassie is gonna join us at seven forty five.

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Speaker 5: We got as possible special guests joining us. At eight

484
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Speaker 5: twenty five, Hose Mota will join us. So we got

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Speaker 5: a jam packed ninety minutes to go, including your phone calls.

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Speaker 5: And when we come back, Showy Otani almost to Blue Jay.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna relive that December day next right here on

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Speaker 5: Saxon Kate's and am Saxon Kates.

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Speaker 8: In the am.

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Speaker 3: The sun is up.

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Speaker 5: We're another day closer to Game one of the World Series,

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Speaker 5: which is Friday nights at the Rogers Center in Toronto.

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Speaker 5: David Vassa will join us in about fifteen minutes, as

494
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Speaker 5: the Dodgers will fly out today. David Vasse included we'll

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Speaker 5: get aboard that flight, head north of the border to Toronto,

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Speaker 5: work out tomorrow media day as well, and then gave

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Speaker 5: one Friday Night from the Rogers with Blake Snell getting

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Speaker 5: the Game one starts showing Otani's last time in Toronto

499
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Speaker 5: was last year, and that was the first time he

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Speaker 5: was there since he signed with the Dodgers and spurned

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Speaker 5: the Toronto Blue Jays. It was thought that maybe he

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Speaker 5: was going to Toronto Saxy back on December eighth. It

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Speaker 5: was a Friday, and it was around this time on

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Speaker 5: that Friday morning that a tweet got put out from

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Speaker 5: John Paul Morosi that the Blue Jays and Otani there

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Speaker 5: could be something there. There started to gain some traction

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Speaker 5: about Okay, what's happening now?

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Speaker 3: Could he be signing there?

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Speaker 5: There was a lot of speculation on that Friday, and

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Speaker 5: there was also a flight that was leaving John Wayne

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Speaker 5: Airport in Orange County that Friday morning, and there was

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Speaker 5: speculation that it was headed to Toronto because that's where

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Speaker 5: the destination was, and so people for four and a

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Speaker 5: half hours were tracking that flight online and there was

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Speaker 5: buzz on social media, and then there was a big

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Speaker 5: surprise who was actually on that flight when it lanted

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Speaker 5: at the Toronto Inner National Airport. As it turns out,

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Speaker 5: twenty four hours later show Heotani signed with the Dodgers

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Speaker 5: and not the Toronto Blue Jays. But that February December eighth,

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Speaker 5: twenty twenty three, we all thought he was going to

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Speaker 5: be a Blue Jay, And now that the Dodgers are

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Speaker 5: playing the Blue Jays in the World Series, I think

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Speaker 5: it was fitting to hear this breaking news from Major

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Speaker 5: League Baseball. Breaking news from Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 7: Show hey Otanio Tani is signing with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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Speaker 5: Sports changed forever that Saturday afternoon. Not only did shoe

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Speaker 5: ha Otani sign the largest contract in Major League Baseball history,

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Speaker 5: but he inked the richest deal in the history of

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Speaker 5: North American sports.

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Speaker 7: Ten year, ten years, ten years, seven hundred, seven hundred.

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Speaker 8: Seven hundred million dollars.

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Speaker 3: The numbers are astronomical.

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Speaker 5: It was December ninth, twenty twenty three, the day show

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Speaker 5: Hey Otani let it be known he was signing with

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Speaker 5: the Dodgers. But remember the whirldwin. That was the day

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Speaker 5: before internet rumors falls reports amateur air traffic controllers following

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Speaker 5: a plane across North America. Baseball fans everywhere that day

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Speaker 5: wondered where in the world is sho he Otani. Friday,

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Speaker 5: December eighth, twenty twenty three, five point thirty nine am

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Speaker 5: Pacific time, John Morosi of the MLB Network tweeted out

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Speaker 5: source Shoeotani decision is imminent, possibly as early as today.

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Speaker 5: That one note from a national Baseball insider sent the

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Speaker 5: sports world into a tizzy.

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Speaker 8: This is getting a bit more real.

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Speaker 7: Toronto is getting a little bit more momentum than I

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Speaker 7: thought they were going to. And if he goes to Toronto,

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Speaker 7: he owns it, and he owns Canada, he owns the

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Speaker 7: United States, and he.

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Speaker 5: Owns Japan, and he becomes an international start. Less than

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Speaker 5: an hour after the initial news that Otani's decision was

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Speaker 5: imminent six point thirty one am Pacific, a Toronto Blue

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Speaker 5: Jays fan posted on a Reddit page that a private

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Speaker 5: plane was chartered to fly from County to Toronto.

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Speaker 3: That same plane.

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Speaker 5: Had flown to Florida five days earlier with Otani on it,

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Speaker 5: so speculation was swirling now that sho Heotani was headed

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Speaker 5: to Toronto to sign with the Blue Jays. The buzz

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Speaker 5: on social media was growing as fans tried to connect

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Speaker 5: the dots. Instantly, fans became amateur air traffic controllers. They

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Speaker 5: were tracking flight in six one six our age as

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Speaker 5: it made its way slowly across the country.

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Speaker 7: Take a look at the radar right there, it's a

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Speaker 7: Bombardier Global five thousand.

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Speaker 3: Is this sho Heotani's airplane?

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Speaker 5: The mystery continued ten fifty three am Pacific, five hours

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Speaker 5: after the report that Otani's signing was imminent. JP Hornstruck,

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Speaker 5: a writer for a Dodger's blog, posted an article citing

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Speaker 5: multiple sources that shoey Otani was indeed planning on signing

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Speaker 5: with the Toronto Blue Jays one oh one pm Pacific.

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Speaker 5: Over two hours later, MLB network insider John Morosi updated

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Speaker 5: everyone with a.

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Speaker 7: Tweet sources Shoeyotani is en route to Toronto today.

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Speaker 5: Things were changing quickly. To eleven pm Pacific, the story

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Speaker 5: took a new twist as Bob Nightingale of The USA

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Speaker 5: Today posted on social media that shoe Aotani was not

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Speaker 5: on a flight to Toronto, it was actually at home

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Speaker 5: here in southern California. Forty three minutes later, two fifty

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Speaker 5: four pm Pacific, Evan Mitsui, a CBC photographer, was dispatched

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Speaker 5: to the tarmac at Pearson Airport in Toronto. When he arrived,

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Speaker 5: he got eyes on the most talked about plane in

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Speaker 5: North America.

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Speaker 3: So what did he discover?

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Speaker 5: It was not Shoeotani after all, it was Robert Herkovich,

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Speaker 5: the Canadian businessman, an entrepreneur, and one of the stars

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Speaker 5: of the TV show Shark Tank.

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Speaker 6: I had no idea.

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Speaker 10: It was just me and my five and a half

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Speaker 10: year old twins.

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Speaker 5: We Land and there's a bunch of customs guys and

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Speaker 5: go where's Otani?

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Speaker 10: And then my text start coming in. I put two

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Speaker 10: or two together. They didn't even ask for my passport.

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Speaker 10: They were so disappointment.

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Speaker 6: It was me.

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Speaker 10: I've never been more humbled in my life.

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Speaker 5: A wild eight hours of reports, rumors, and speculation. Where

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Speaker 5: in the world was sho Heotani. Well he was not

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Speaker 5: only not in Canada, he was never even on a

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Speaker 5: flight to Toronto to sign with the Blue Jays. Something

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Speaker 5: that really upset fans north of the border.

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Speaker 10: No, no, no way.

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Speaker 5: I don't want to hear on how fans shouldn't believe

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Speaker 5: things on social This rumor was awful.

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Speaker 7: The idea that he would come up and be a

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Speaker 7: Toronto Blue Jay was going to change everything.

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Speaker 3: Turns out nothing was changing.

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Speaker 5: As the sun set inning a wild Friday show, Heyotani

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Speaker 5: remained baseball's most sought after free agent. The next day, Saturday,

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Speaker 5: December ninth, Otani broke his silence and made it official

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Speaker 5: he was signing with the Los Angeles Dodge.

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Speaker 3: There you go, Steve Sacks.

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Speaker 5: Friday, December eighth, twenty twenty three, a chronological time chart

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Speaker 5: of where he was or wasn't on that Friday. Was

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Speaker 5: he going to Toronto? Was he going to be a

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Speaker 5: blue jay? And you heard the disgust in the talk

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Speaker 5: show host there in Toronto once they found out he

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Speaker 5: was never even on board that plane and had no

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Speaker 5: plans of signing with them.

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Speaker 8: You put that together yourself, I did. I did. That

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Speaker 8: is an amazing piece.

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Speaker 7: I liked all the you know, the radar tracking kind

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Speaker 7: of put you in the in that plane and ah,

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Speaker 7: you had to win an award for that. That That

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Speaker 7: is a really good piece right there.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that was a lot of fun putting that together,

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Speaker 5: and may going back on different outlets and seeing you know,

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Speaker 5: people online had a live YouTube feed going and they

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Speaker 5: were tracking it on those radar websites showing the plane

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Speaker 5: going over Colorado, going northeast through Ohio as they were

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Speaker 5: going up to Toronto, and they wereulating and talking what

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Speaker 5: kind of plane it was, and how long it takes

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Speaker 5: to get there, how many passengers could be on the

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Speaker 5: plane that's like this?

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Speaker 3: Who owns a.

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Speaker 8: Plane like this?

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Speaker 5: They were trying to counting number. Yeah, they had the

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Speaker 5: tail number of the plane. And so that's what caught

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Speaker 5: everybody's attention was these people on YouTube were tracking it,

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Speaker 5: and it just spread like a wildfire to see everybody

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00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 5: tracking this plane because they had the tail number. And

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Speaker 5: then they started tracking the tail number, and there was

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Speaker 5: reports that that plane had been in Florida, in Dunven, Florida,

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Speaker 5: like two weeks before that, and that was kind of

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Speaker 5: lining up the timeline to where OTWNI was visiting the

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Speaker 5: spring training complex. So people were doing like these amateur

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Speaker 5: like investigations online and it turned out to be completely wrong.

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Speaker 5: He's sitting in Orange County at his house.

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Speaker 7: Wow, plane with Dodger. Maybe he already had the dog

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Speaker 7: named Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely, I mean literally twenty four hours later. I mean,

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Speaker 5: while this is happening Steve. On that Friday, there was

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Speaker 5: radio silence. It's not like his people put out a

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Speaker 5: report like hey, this isn't true. It's not like Otani

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Speaker 5: puts out anything on social media. This just kept going

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00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:05,760
Speaker 5: and kept riding, and this just whole build up for

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Speaker 5: hours all day on that Friday, until that plane landed

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Speaker 5: and they realized and the door open it was the

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Speaker 5: guy from Shark Tank and it wasn't Otani and then

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Speaker 5: I was like, okay, great, what now? And literally twenty

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Speaker 5: four hours later, Otani put out the Instagram that he

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Speaker 5: was signing with the Dodgers. It was a wild Friday

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Speaker 5: here in southern California.

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Speaker 8: And what a wham in the face.

665
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Speaker 7: I mean, because the guy from Shark Tank, you know,

666
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 7: he's probably you know, a probably a pretty famous guy.

667
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 8: He goes places, you know, he gets his people. Wow,

668
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 8: you know, probably asked for his auto rep. And he

669
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Speaker 8: gets off the plane. It's you. You're not Otani. Get

670
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Speaker 8: out of here.

671
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Speaker 3: You could hear.

672
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Speaker 8: He said.

673
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Speaker 5: He was humbled for the first time that they were

674
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,240
Speaker 5: so disappointed that it was to see it was him

675
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Speaker 5: and not showing Otani. So I hope you enjoyed that

676
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:53,120
Speaker 5: you can podcast it was amazing as well. Thank you,

677
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Speaker 5: thank you.

678
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Speaker 8: Then the next day Otani signs with the Dodgers.

679
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Speaker 5: Literally the next day that Saturday, put it out on

680
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Speaker 5: Instagram and the guy who's going to join us next,

681
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Speaker 5: David Vassa, popped on in the middle of a Saturday

682
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Speaker 5: and did a live on the spot Dodger Talk. The

683
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Speaker 5: day of the show, a Otani signed with the Dodgers.

684
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Speaker 5: I'll never forget I was listening to it. David did

685
00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 5: a great job taking reaction. He was talking to different guests,

686
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 5: taking calls from Dodger fans who were amazed. So yeah,

687
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:20,880
Speaker 5: that was the December ninth, twenty twenty three, and here

688
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Speaker 5: we are getting ready for the twenty twenty five World

689
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 5: Series and Otani remember the Dodgers getting ready to take

690
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Speaker 5: on the team that everybody thought he was going to.

691
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Speaker 3: Yep, the Toronto Blue Jays. He is Steve sax I'm

692
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Speaker 3: Tim Kates.

693
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Speaker 8: Coming up.

694
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Speaker 5: We'll hear from David Vassa, Buck Martinez will join us.

695
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Speaker 5: We got a special guest coming up to the eight

696
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Speaker 5: o'clock hour as well, hose A Moti will join us.

697
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Speaker 5: We're jam packed. Saxon Kates in the Am. You're on

698
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Speaker 5: NFI seventy l A Sports. Saxon Kates in the Am.

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Speaker 5: Here on a FI seventy LA Sports with you here

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Speaker 5: till nine o'clock this morning, with you tomorrow as well,

701
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 5: six am to nine am. Looking forward to a great

702
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Speaker 5: show tomorrow leading into mediate at the Rogers Center in Toronto.

703
00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 5: Game one of the World Series Dodgers in the Blue

704
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 5: Jays is coming up on Friday night. Blake Snell gets

705
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Speaker 5: to start in Game one and Saxy joining us. Now

706
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Speaker 5: our good buddy, the best Dodger insider out there. He'll

707
00:33:14,200 --> 00:33:17,120
Speaker 5: be on a plane later today heading into Toronto as

708
00:33:17,160 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 5: the Dodgers gear up for this World Series run against

709
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Speaker 5: the Toronto Blue Jays. The one and only David Vase David,

710
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:24,320
Speaker 5: good morning, How you doing, buddy?

711
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 6: Hey, good morning guys and man. I'm going to go

712
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 6: out on a lived here and say the seven o'clock

713
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 6: hour has been the best hour of the entire postseason.

714
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:39,160
Speaker 6: I was listening dropping off the kids, Yeah, sealing Steve

715
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 6: SAgs tell the story about Kurt Gibson, Tyre Black, and

716
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 6: then that phenomenal produce Steves by Tim Gates on the

717
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Speaker 6: timeline I'm showing here O Todi that never was, so

718
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 6: I would say, maybe just replay this the rest of

719
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Speaker 6: the World Series.

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Speaker 5: I'm with you, David, I wholeheartedly agree. Real quick, I

721
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Speaker 5: want to ask you about last or what even last year?

722
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 5: Was December eighth, twenty twenty three, That friday in which

723
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Speaker 5: the whole world thought he was going to the Toronto

724
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Speaker 5: Blue Jays. That that Friday, December eighth, every thought he

725
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 5: was going to Toronto, and then the next day he

726
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 5: surprised everybody with the announcement. It wasn't a surprise he

727
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 5: was going to the Dodgers, but it was a surprise

728
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 5: that he made the announcement. You jumped on the air

729
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:24,880
Speaker 5: and you did a Dodger talk in the moment. You

730
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 5: were talking to current Dodger players on what it's going

731
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Speaker 5: to be like to be his teammate. It was great.

732
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:33,080
Speaker 5: And what about that Friday? Do you remember real quickly

733
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Speaker 5: that day was wherever he thought maybe he was going

734
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Speaker 5: to Toronto?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, number one. I just remember it seemed a little suspicious,

736
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Speaker 2: right that you got a guy from the MLB network

737
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Speaker 2: that's going to break a story about this and hasn't

738
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Speaker 2: even put eyes on Otani getting on that plane and

739
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Speaker 2: tweeting it. And he had a guy from a blog,

740
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:59,520
Speaker 2: a fan blog break the news. That also was suspicious,

741
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 2: And it was just a reminder of everybody trying to

742
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 2: be first again and they missed horribly. It was an

743
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 2: embarrassing day for baseball journalism that day. I mean, those

744
00:35:14,040 --> 00:35:18,040
Speaker 2: two guys are infamous for saying Gotani was going to

745
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 2: the Blue Jays, So you know that's what I remember

746
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Speaker 2: the most.

747
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Speaker 7: Yeah, Dave good to be with you today. And you know,

748
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 7: I'll tell you what this tray you savage. He's got

749
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,239
Speaker 7: some great stuff. We had a small sample size this year,

750
00:35:31,280 --> 00:35:34,520
Speaker 7: only three starts and fourteen innings. But what he had

751
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,200
Speaker 7: shown us, besides the numbers that he put up, which

752
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 7: were really good, is this kid's tools are really fantastic.

753
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 7: The splitter never gets there, it's got a really sharp

754
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:48,600
Speaker 7: dive to it. And his other stuff, his secondary stuff

755
00:35:48,640 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 7: besides the splitter and the fastball, that's great, really plays well.

756
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Speaker 8: And I think the Dodgers are going to have.

757
00:35:54,719 --> 00:35:58,359
Speaker 7: To really do some studying on this guy, figure him out,

758
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:02,400
Speaker 7: and really put lever the level to him, because this

759
00:36:02,480 --> 00:36:05,000
Speaker 7: guy's got some stuff, can get on a momentum, and

760
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 7: he can be very effective.

761
00:36:07,400 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, and in some ways he's the Blue Jays version

762
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:13,839
Speaker 2: of Roki Sasaki. Not a lot of teams that seen Rokie. Yeah, right,

763
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,880
Speaker 2: So this reminds me a little bit. Obviously, this guy's

764
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 2: not a lefty Jamie Wright with the Indians in the

765
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:24,720
Speaker 2: ninety five World Series. He was a rookie that really

766
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:28,320
Speaker 2: helped carry the Indians at that time to the World Series.

767
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:32,799
Speaker 2: They eventually lost. But yeah, this is probably I would

768
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 2: say just as big of a challenge for the Dodgers

769
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Speaker 2: as it was facing the Phillies, and the Dodgers surprised

770
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:43,440
Speaker 2: all of us and dispatched the Phillies in four games.

771
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:47,839
Speaker 2: So again I just warn everybody. You know, again our

772
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 2: guy Jack Harris in the La Times coming up with

773
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Speaker 2: nine reasons why the Dodgers should be concerned. Thank you

774
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Speaker 2: number one, because it hasn't worked the previous three rounds.

775
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Speaker 6: Two.

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Speaker 2: At some point people are going to have to give

777
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:07,680
Speaker 2: the Dodgers credit and realize that the Blue Jays want

778
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 2: nothing to do with the Dodgers. I thought Derek Jeter

779
00:37:10,600 --> 00:37:13,279
Speaker 2: said it perfectly that the Blue Jays are a very

780
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 2: deep team, but the Dodgers are a juggernaut. And the

781
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:19,919
Speaker 2: reason why is because of their starting pitching, and their

782
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 2: starters have not had to pitch twice in any one

783
00:37:22,600 --> 00:37:24,960
Speaker 2: of these series. They haven't had to come out of

784
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 2: the bullpen, and you know, in a do or die

785
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,800
Speaker 2: type of game like the Blue Jays. So for those

786
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 2: reasons alone, the Dodgers are in a great spot.

787
00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:38,320
Speaker 5: The storylines about this series from the outside, obviously between

788
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,240
Speaker 5: the Lions is different, but on the outside, the different

789
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:44,920
Speaker 5: storylines with ta Oscar Hernandez returning back to Toronto, the

790
00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:47,759
Speaker 5: whole Tawny thing almost going to the Blue Jays, allegedly

791
00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 5: Don Maddingly, the bench coach of the Toronto Blue Jays.

792
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 5: I mean this is a fun I guess storylines that

793
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:58,319
Speaker 5: are being built up in the days off leading up

794
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:01,880
Speaker 5: to Game one, including Freddy David going back to Canada.

795
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 5: He's played for Team Canada in the World Baseball Classic,

796
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 5: his parents born and raised there. There's a lot of

797
00:38:07,200 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 5: cool storylines on the outside of this series.

798
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and here's the one that nobody's talked about. Remember

799
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Speaker 2: Buddy Kennedy. Buddy Kennedy, the famous third base fill in

800
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,960
Speaker 2: for seven days for the Dodgers. That's right, Well, he

801
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 2: was a journeyman for the Blue Jays as well. He

802
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 2: played for both the Blue Jays and Dodgers this season.

803
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:31,080
Speaker 2: So Buddy Kennedy is going to get not only a

804
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 2: playoffs share from these two teams, but he also is

805
00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:36,439
Speaker 2: going to get a World Series ring sent to him.

806
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:38,319
Speaker 3: How about a Jose Rainia too.

807
00:38:38,440 --> 00:38:41,399
Speaker 5: Dave two appearances for the Dodgers, pitch for the Blue

808
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,319
Speaker 5: Jays this year, pitch for five different teams. The right

809
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 5: hander Jose Orainia, if you remember him in those two

810
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:50,320
Speaker 5: games that he pitched four innings total. He too, another

811
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Speaker 5: guy who could get a ring. We'll get a ring here.

812
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, this day in baseball, a lot of these same

813
00:38:56,120 --> 00:39:00,280
Speaker 2: players are recycled just to be stop gaps. But Buddy

814
00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 2: Kennedy sticks out to me more than anybody else, and

815
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Speaker 2: it's kind of funny that he may he may end

816
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:08,320
Speaker 2: up getting a ring here. Hey, hey, Kate's can I

817
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:11,280
Speaker 2: ask you a question? I know you're a theatrical type

818
00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:14,360
Speaker 2: of guy. You got the scam voice. Did you really

819
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 2: not know the eye black story of Kirk Gibson and

820
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:20,840
Speaker 2: Jesse Roscoe or were you being a great teammate to

821
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,719
Speaker 2: set up that great story from Steve Sachs.

822
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:27,439
Speaker 5: I may have heard it before, David, but stop, there's

823
00:39:27,480 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 5: a lot of people who hadn't heard it before and

824
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:32,880
Speaker 5: a lot of great reaction coming off of the story

825
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:34,040
Speaker 5: and to hear the details.

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Speaker 2: I agree. But but for you to act like, oh,

827
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Speaker 2: this is the first time you ever even heard about it,

828
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:41,319
Speaker 2: I found that hard.

829
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Speaker 7: I think I knew that Dave that he did really

830
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Speaker 7: like just get you know, flushed with this thing all

831
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:48,920
Speaker 7: of a sudden, I think I kind of knew that.

832
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:52,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, he just sets you up perfectly.

833
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:54,799
Speaker 7: Will he did, and we got some We got some

834
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:57,239
Speaker 7: details though that he probably didn't know.

835
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I know, I'm saying it was great, but

836
00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 2: I I wasn't buying the shock in awe of Tim

837
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:04,440
Speaker 2: Kates not knowing that.

838
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Speaker 5: St David, I'm the unnamed Laker guard who helps out

839
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:11,400
Speaker 5: Luka Donca score forty three points and I blowout loss

840
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 5: to the Golden State Warriors. That is me just setting

841
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 5: up Steve Sacks, like the guards who I don't even

842
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:17,520
Speaker 5: know their names setting up Luca.

843
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:20,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, here's a baseball relation. You put the ball on

844
00:40:21,000 --> 00:40:23,360
Speaker 2: the tee for Steve Sacks every morning.

845
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Speaker 8: Right, Yes, that's a great host. That's what they do.

846
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:27,279
Speaker 8: A great hoast, does that?

847
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:27,799
Speaker 6: Hey?

848
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:29,400
Speaker 2: Great Adam right there?

849
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Speaker 8: Yeah, Dave, I got to ask you.

850
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Speaker 7: I mean, you're looking at this team overall. They've got

851
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:36,440
Speaker 7: some great supporting cast on this team. You know, they

852
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:38,440
Speaker 7: got guys like Tommy Edmond. When you look at this

853
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:41,759
Speaker 7: guy like Ernie Clement, good player. Nobody talks a lot

854
00:40:41,760 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 7: about Ernie Clement, but the guys they.

855
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:44,200
Speaker 8: Do talk about.

856
00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:47,360
Speaker 7: Springer and Guerrero got to neutralize these two guys, I

857
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,400
Speaker 7: know they're playing up the Springer getting hit by the

858
00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:53,400
Speaker 7: pitch on the kneecap that hecks actually registered an exit

859
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:57,280
Speaker 7: velocity of fifty five miles per hour off the knee

860
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 7: because it was it was so hard that the pitch

861
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:03,120
Speaker 7: was hit him right there in the kneecapet registered fifty

862
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 7: five miles per hour off the knee. These are two

863
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:09,319
Speaker 7: guys that they got to take care of. Springer's got

864
00:41:09,320 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 7: a pinch it now for postseason. He's one of those

865
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 7: guys like Kik that.

866
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 8: Just does it. But he had a big year this

867
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 8: too this year as well.

868
00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 7: So looking at these two guys in this team, I

869
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:20,880
Speaker 7: think you go after Springer and.

870
00:41:20,880 --> 00:41:25,840
Speaker 2: Guerrero, Yeah, without a doubt. And the Dodgers handled Guerrero

871
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 2: pretty well when they came to town earlier this summer.

872
00:41:29,920 --> 00:41:31,759
Speaker 2: The one guy for me, if you want to talk

873
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:35,439
Speaker 2: about a guy that's not a household name but may

874
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 2: well become one during this World Series, is Dalton Varshow. Yes,

875
00:41:40,280 --> 00:41:43,920
Speaker 2: center fielder for the Blue Jays. Yes, he talked about

876
00:41:43,960 --> 00:41:46,279
Speaker 2: coming into his own. This was his best year at

877
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 2: the Blue Jays and he plays a gold gloves center

878
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:53,160
Speaker 2: field and he came up big a few different times

879
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:56,680
Speaker 2: during that ALCS with home runs and hits. So if

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Speaker 2: you're talking about an under the radar player for the

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Speaker 2: Blue Jays that could hurt the Dodgers is Dalton var Show.

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Speaker 5: David Save travels to Toronto. Enjoy media day tomorrow and

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Speaker 5: we'll be looking forward to your coverage the next couple

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Speaker 5: of days leading up to Game one of this World

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Speaker 5: series on Friday night.

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Speaker 3: Thanks a lot for doing it.

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Speaker 2: Hey, looking forward to snell Zilla Day. Send him the

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Speaker 2: tone again, and we know and.

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Speaker 8: We know Dave, we know Snelly. You and Snelly. You

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Speaker 8: call him Snelly or just snell Zilla.

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Speaker 2: I call him mister snell Zilla.

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Speaker 8: Okay, all right, Dave, we'll talk to you. Thanks Dave.

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Speaker 2: He was at the Laker game. Everybody's on board now, Sacks.

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Speaker 8: I got you. I'm on too. I'm on board with it.

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Speaker 8: I love it.

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Speaker 3: Thanks David.

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Speaker 8: He's crazy there he goes the one and Zilla. That

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Speaker 8: is some difference showing his way.

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Speaker 6: Yeah about it.

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Speaker 5: Appreciate Dave popping on this morning. We got a jam

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Speaker 5: packed eight o'clock hour coming up, and it starts with

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Speaker 5: Buck Martinez, who Jay's analyst, joins his next right here

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Speaker 5: on Saxon case of the am