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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 Yearning is.

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Speaker 2: Not trying to win a championship.

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Speaker 4: 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 3: Reacting, taking your phone calls talking Dodgers playoff baseball all

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Speaker 3: postseason long.

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Speaker 1: Now here. They are on AM five to seventy LA

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Speaker 3: Steve Sacks, Tim Kats.

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

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Speaker 4: Ah.

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Speaker 3: The World Series is set. Dodgers Toronto Blue Jays Game

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Speaker 3: one Friday night from the Rogers Center north of the

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Speaker 3: border in Toronto, Canada. As a Blue Jays come back

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Speaker 3: and beat the Mariners last night in Game seven of

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Speaker 3: the ALCS, cheating George Springer with a three run home

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Speaker 3: run and the seventh inning hopping his way around the

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Speaker 3: basis and he looks fine to me. As the Mariners

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Speaker 3: blew a three to one lead after cal Roley homer

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Speaker 3: in the fifth inning, blue Jays come back and win

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Speaker 3: the game four to three in their first World Series

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Speaker 3: appearance since nineteen ninety three. How about the Blue Jays

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Speaker 3: winning back to back World Series brought you young folks

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Speaker 3: out there, nineteen ninety two nineteen ninety three, back to

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Speaker 3: back World Series championships for the Toronto Blue Jays. They

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Speaker 3: beat the Braves and they beat the Phillies. Joe Carter's

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Speaker 3: home run, all of that, John Olerude, Ricky Henderson, a

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Speaker 3: Toronto's Blue Jays team that won back to back? Was

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Speaker 3: that Jack Morris, Jack, I believe so yep, Jack. Even

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Speaker 3: Dick Schofield was on one of those teams. How about

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Speaker 3: that for the for the Toronto Blue Jays back in

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Speaker 3: nineteen ninety two, in nineteen ninety three, and they're going

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Speaker 3: back to the Fall Classic for the first time since

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Speaker 3: nineteen ninety three, So congratulations to them. They now get

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Speaker 3: show Hey Otani and the Dodgers and let the story

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Speaker 3: lines begin. Kershaw versus Schuzer, Don Maddie Lee, one of

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Speaker 3: the good guys in baseball who was making his first

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Speaker 3: World Series appearance. Sacxual in forty years of baseball as

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Speaker 3: a player and a coach a manager, forty years, he's

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Speaker 3: making his first trip to a World Series. How about that,

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Speaker 3: your former first baseman. Yeah, he deserves it.

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Speaker 5: I mean, they don't get better baseball men, they don't

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Speaker 5: get better human beings in the game. You put Don

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Speaker 5: matting Lee right there with Dave Roberts, Mike Soosha. You

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Speaker 5: know guys like that that These are kind of guys

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Speaker 5: like if you don't like them, there's something drastically wrong

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Speaker 5: with you. No question. They're the nicest human beings on

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Speaker 5: the planet, and they're phenomenal baseball men, and they're maddeningly

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Speaker 5: one of the greatest players I ever saw. Yeah, no

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Speaker 5: doubt and just amazing player. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: You also got the storyline of Taioscar Hernandez, who played

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Speaker 3: for the Toronto Blue Jays and now returning back to

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Speaker 3: Toronto to face his former team. You got show Hey

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Speaker 3: Otani taking on the Toronto Blue Jays, a team he

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Speaker 3: reportedly was on a flight to Toronto to sign with

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Speaker 3: two off seasons ago. That proved to be false. He

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Speaker 3: signs with the Dodgers, but the Blue Jays right there

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Speaker 3: in the running to sign show Ayotani when as a

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Speaker 3: free agent two off seasons ago. And you've got, of course,

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Speaker 3: the superstars battling it out with taoscar Hernandez Mookie Beg,

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Speaker 3: Freddie Freeman, Show Heyotani against Vlad Guerrero and crew, and

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Speaker 3: the Blue Jays could be getting Boba s sheetback at shortstop.

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Speaker 3: He had missed the time with a knee injury. But

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Speaker 3: he said last night after the game to MLB Networks

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Speaker 3: John Paul Morosi that he is going to play in

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Speaker 3: this World Series, so they'll be getting him back. They

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Speaker 3: of course got cheating George Springer playing for them as well,

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Speaker 3: So it's gonna be a fun It's gonna be a

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Speaker 3: fun World Series. And it begins on Friday night right

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Speaker 3: here on AFI seven e LA Sports. How about this?

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Speaker 3: The team still lose first two games at home and

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Speaker 3: win a best of seven series. The Blue Jays joined

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Speaker 3: the Yankees in ninety six, the Mets in eighty six,

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Speaker 3: and the Royals in eighty five to do that in

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Speaker 3: a post season.

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Speaker 5: They come back. This team come back more than anybody.

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Speaker 5: Right during the season.

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Speaker 3: This year, most comeback wins in twenty twenty five in

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Speaker 3: Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 5: Experienced a lot of that this year.

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Speaker 3: Who's a Cheating George? By the way, they had a

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Speaker 3: comeback win against the Dodgers in their three game series

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Speaker 3: at Dodgers Stadium. Dodgers were on the verses, sweeping them

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Speaker 3: at the Ravine, and the Dodgers saw the Blue Jays

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Speaker 3: rally late in the game ended up winning the game

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Speaker 3: over the Dodgers, but the Dodgers still took two or

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Speaker 3: three from Toronto and their head to head meeting out

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Speaker 3: of Dodger Stadium. We'll get me saw.

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Speaker 5: But you did see, you know, cheating George take that

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Speaker 5: fastball on the kneecap. Oh yeah, so that was bad.

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Speaker 5: So I mean he took that like a champ, you know.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know how he ran around the

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Speaker 5: I don't know. But you know, sometimes you get those

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Speaker 5: contusions like that happens in football all the time, where

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Speaker 5: you get hit. It looks awful and it hurts like

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Speaker 5: crazy at the beginning, and then it goes away. But

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Speaker 5: I don't know how he I don't know what it

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Speaker 5: looked like. He hit him right right on the kneecap. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: and the sound it looked like it was a foul ball.

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Speaker 5: They actually had a exit velocity recorded because it ricocheted

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Speaker 5: off his knee so hard. They actually got a exit

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Speaker 5: velocity off the bat. Of course it wasn't off the bat,

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Speaker 5: but it did record an exit velocity off his knee.

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Speaker 5: It was fifty five miles an hour. That's painful. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: so you got to think it hit something hard. So

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Speaker 5: it probably hit that kneecap, didn't hit the pateller tendon

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Speaker 5: below that or anything. Probably hit the kneecap, and he's

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Speaker 5: able to sustain that. But as far as him like

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Speaker 5: swinging and going down on one knee, no, I'm not

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Speaker 5: buying that at all. If you're able to sit there

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Speaker 5: he's hit a ball that was close to being fairfelt

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Speaker 5: goes back to the to the plate. No, I can't

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Speaker 5: Did he look hurt, No, he did look hurt.

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Speaker 3: He was jumping around like Joe Carter in nineteen ninety three, celebrating.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it was. It was not there's no uh, you know,

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Speaker 5: he's taking the pressure off himself because he can say, well,

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Speaker 5: Denise is so bad. I can barely stand up there,

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Speaker 5: But after that it's it's it's back to the Oh well,

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Speaker 3: I do give him credit. And I would happen to

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Speaker 3: be listening to the Blue Jays. Actually was John Smoltz,

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, was John Smoltzho was talking about it during

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Speaker 3: the game on Fox last night and they men how

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Speaker 3: the Mariners were throwing inside on Springer And you saw

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Speaker 3: it early in the game. In fact, the first bat

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Speaker 3: they all started booing.

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Speaker 5: He had two of them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And that was the thing they were trying to do,

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Speaker 3: throw him inside, back him off the plate. And I

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Speaker 3: don't like George Springer because he's a cheating George Springer,

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Speaker 3: But I do give him credit for that at bat

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Speaker 3: last night in the seventh inning, knowing that they were

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Speaker 3: probably going to try again to go in on him

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Speaker 3: and Bizartro's got this ball that kind of tails a

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Speaker 3: little bit in on right handed hitters if you watch

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Speaker 3: the at bat, and John Smoltz brought this up right afterwards.

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Speaker 3: He opened up. What you're not supposed to do, you know,

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Speaker 3: he opened up knowing the ball was going to be

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Speaker 3: a good job by him recognizing what they were doing

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Speaker 3: the moment he had faced Bizarro the night before, which

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Speaker 3: is another question, why are you bringing a guy out

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Speaker 3: who pitched two innings the night they just saw him

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Speaker 3: pitch two winnings? Go to your high leverage reliever. But anyways,

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Speaker 3: a great job by Springer to recognize what they were

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Speaker 3: and hit that three run home run, which, yep, according

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Speaker 3: to the Blue Jays analysts, is the greatest moments in sports.

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Speaker 3: Home in sports, right, Yeah.

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Speaker 5: You got you gotta hand it to him because the

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Speaker 5: dude had a really good year this year. I mean,

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Speaker 5: he he should have made the All Star team as

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Speaker 5: far as I'm concerned. You know, he played out of

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Speaker 5: He hit three to zho nine this year, you know,

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Speaker 3: He had a really good season in him and Vlad

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Speaker 3: there the top one two punch for the Toronto Blue

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Speaker 3: Jays is going to be something the Dodgers need to

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Speaker 3: figure out, how to control, how to limit the damage.

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Speaker 3: You know, the bottom of the line up scrappy for Toronto.

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Speaker 3: They find ways to get on base. Last night, it

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Speaker 3: up for George Springer, yeah, to do something with that

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Speaker 3: three run home run. So it's a good, not a great.

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Speaker 3: It's a good Toronto Blue Jays lineup, but the top

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Speaker 3: heavy lineup with George Springer cheating George Springer, Chan George

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Speaker 3: and Vlad Guerrero is a good I mean really good

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Speaker 5: Punch and and Guerrero as well is pretty hot. See

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Speaker 5: that's that's the other part of this, tim is you

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Speaker 5: can have all these great players, but if they're not

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Speaker 5: looks right now, Springer, Guerrero, the two really forces in

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Speaker 5: this lineup are at a really high abb right now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm watching Mark de Rosa do a breakdown and

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Speaker 3: Wu who was the reliever slash starter who came out

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Speaker 3: the new reliever there in bizarre Zara, He's breaking down

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Speaker 3: like why like Wo was struck him out in the

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Speaker 3: in Bizardo and yeah, just just disaster, disaster from the sea.

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Speaker 5: He's gonna hear that forever. You could have done the

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Speaker 5: eliminated the elimination of Bizardo by stretching out Wu another

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Speaker 3: I think it's only going to apply like it is

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Speaker 5: Saying night in Cleveland, and you know it ain't gonna matter.

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Speaker 3: But the regular season, yeah, well, I like my chances

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Speaker 5: Steve? Oh yeah, well see that's that's the bad part

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Speaker 5: of this. They they throw that out there, you're wasting

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Speaker 3: I just move two runners.

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Speaker 5: How's that a waste?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but that batter you wasted.

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Speaker 5: And out when you struck out trying to hit home run.

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Speaker 5: That's a waste to me.

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Speaker 3: That is true.

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Speaker 5: That is true. That's a waste. There is no productivity

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Speaker 3: This is true. I'm out arguing you do. I just

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Speaker 3: I just don't think it's going to change any philosophy.

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Speaker 3: In the regular season. They got to listen to Scott.

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Speaker 3: I know, I know they have to listen. Speaking of listening,

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I wouldn't say you that's luck, though. I think

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Speaker 6: that's part of being able to hold. It's kind of

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Speaker 6: like that whole brave heart, you know, or Russell crows

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Speaker 6: and I I think it's yes, Mel, And I think

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Speaker 3: All part of a master plan, as they used to

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Speaker 3: say on the AD team, And I love it when

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Speaker 3: why ramp up show hey Otani in April and May

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Speaker 3: I agree one hundred percent. Why stretch out a guy

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Speaker 3: out of your starters. It worked out to perfection, Steve.

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Speaker 5: It did. And when you know, you look at Blake

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Speaker 3: Long played him. They waited and waited for him to

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Speaker 5: And if if you look at as far as when

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Speaker 5: You got to win the division first and hopefully you

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Speaker 5: a perfect scenario. And that's what they did. But it's

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt, And they mapped it out perfectly. And

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Speaker 3: But I don't know if slow playing it's the right word.

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Speaker 3: Being cautious with Blake Snell is a better way to

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Speaker 3: Gibson in Brave Heart, Hold, Hey, Blake Snell, we don't

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Speaker 3: you a hold right now. We know you're anxious, you

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Speaker 3: We don't need you right now. Let's pump the brakes.

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Speaker 3: We need you in October again. Part of this masterful

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Speaker 5: No? And Gaus, you can plan this out all the time.

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Speaker 5: I looked it up. Show Hey, fourteen games, forty one innings,

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Speaker 3: Mean this is nothing.

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Speaker 5: He's he's just getting just getting the froth going right now.

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Speaker 3: Yamamoto is the only one who had two hundred plus strikeouts.

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Speaker 3: He was the workhorse during this season. But you go

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Speaker 3: Name, Yoshinobu. Say it again, Yoshinobu.

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Speaker 5: Okay, you're really good. At that. I mean, I know

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Speaker 3: we'll have Moronggo Casino Dodgers on Deck Friday, four pm

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Speaker 3: Pacific as a Dodgers start Game one of the World Series,

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Speaker 3: Dodgers in Blue Jays first pitch fiveh eight from the

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Speaker 3: Rogers Center on Friday, Dodgers, We'll head to Toronto, get

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Speaker 3: ready with a couple of workouts, and get ready for

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Speaker 3: Game one into North of the Border. Coming up, your

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Speaker 3: phone calls Jerry Royce next hour, but up next a

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Speaker 3: certain Dodger reliever wants to be a part of the

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Speaker 3: World Series roster. But should he be based on his performance?

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Speaker 3: We'll get into that. Your phone calls as well, Steve Sax,

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Speaker 3: Tim Kates and you. It's Scam Sax and Kates and

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Speaker 3: Am on NI seventy ELA Sports, Saxon Kates in the

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Speaker 3: am here on MFI seventy LA Sports. As the World

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Speaker 3: Series is set, Dodgers and the Toronto Blue Jays for

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Speaker 3: the Blue Jays their first appearance in the Fall Classics

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Speaker 3: since nineteen ninety three after they went back to back

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Speaker 3: World Series champions And I was just talking to some

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Speaker 3: of the folks at KFI Saxy and they said, if

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Speaker 3: if they don't want this to happen, But they just said,

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Speaker 3: if if the Toronto Blue Jays happened to win the

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Speaker 3: World Series. They said, they're a Canadian team, do they

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Speaker 3: go to the White House? Are they invited as a

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Speaker 3: team from Canada? And I thought to myself, you know what,

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Speaker 3: I don't know, because it's been so long since the

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Speaker 3: Canadian hockey team has won the NHL Stanley Cup. I

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Speaker 3: think it's been since ninety four in Toronto, the Maple Leaves.

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Speaker 5: Well did they go in ninety three?

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Speaker 3: Well, I looked it up. They went ninety two. They

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Speaker 3: were invited again in ninety three, but they did not

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Speaker 3: go because you go the next season, right, you go

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Speaker 3: in ninety four because they won it in ninety three.

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Speaker 3: So you would go during the ninety four season as

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Speaker 3: you make your way on the East Coast or when

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Speaker 3: it was convenient at the time. There was no Washington

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Speaker 3: Nationals then in ninety four, but you would you know,

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Speaker 3: try to make it so you were in Philadelphia or

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Speaker 3: New York close by to go. That was the lockout year,

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Speaker 3: that was the ninety four shortened season.

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Speaker 5: They had plenty of time to go.

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Speaker 3: Then, yeah, well they did not go as a team

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Speaker 3: in ninety four, even though they were invited as to

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Speaker 3: the ninety three championship team. So yes, even if a

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Speaker 3: team from Canada wins a championship, they still are invited

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Speaker 3: to the White House in Washington, DC. It's just I

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Speaker 3: was I had to think about it because man, it's

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Speaker 3: been so long since the Canadian hockey team has been

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Speaker 3: the Stanley Cup. That and again the Blue Jays haven't

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Speaker 3: won since ninety three, and you know, we don't play

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Speaker 3: in the Canadian Football League, so those are the only

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Speaker 3: two major sports NBA. I guess you got the Toronto

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Speaker 3: Raptors and want a championship maybe what ten twelve years ago,

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Speaker 3: but who really cares. Yeah, it's it's it's interesting because

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Speaker 3: the roster gets reset here in the World Series, and

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Speaker 3: we saw a little bit of changes from the Wildcard

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Speaker 3: round to the DS. We saw even a little bit

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Speaker 3: more smaller changes as far as relievers in the bullpen

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Speaker 3: was considered in the NLCS for Dave Roberts. I don't

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Speaker 3: think we're going to see a lot of changes in

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Speaker 3: the World Series roster, but one guy who is hoping

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Speaker 3: to get on the World Series.

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Speaker 5: Roster, Jerry Rice. That's why he's coming on.

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Speaker 3: I wish he was there to help out the bullpen

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Speaker 3: is another left hander, Tanner Scott, who has had himself well,

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Speaker 3: quite the interesting first year in a Dodger uniform after

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Speaker 3: signing a long term deal as one of the prize

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Speaker 3: free agent relievers last offseason. Here he is yesterday with

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Speaker 3: David Vast and the media talking about well the medical

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Speaker 3: procedure he had in the NLDS that took him off

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Speaker 3: the roster then, and his hope, his hope to join

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Speaker 3: this Dodger's roster here in the World Series.

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Speaker 7: I feel a lot better now throwing through a couple

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Speaker 7: of bullpens.

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Speaker 5: Swear.

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Speaker 8: It takes me comtable sort of thing.

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Speaker 5: What happened?

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Speaker 7: I mean, I think I think was it. Hayman said it,

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Speaker 7: so I don't need to go into depth on it,

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Speaker 7: but it was just an affection in a bad timing

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Speaker 7: and I mean healthy now, So keep throwing. It's about it, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 7: I mean I feel I feel healthy. I mean, I

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Speaker 7: definitely feel a lot better than I did coming off

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Speaker 7: that h Philly or the Philly series, and I wasn't

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Speaker 7: I wasn't feeling great.

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Speaker 8: So yeah, he's leading up to win you got or

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Speaker 8: taking off the roster? Like was that a Dave was saying,

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Speaker 8: like it was kind of like popped up somewhat urgently there,

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Speaker 8: Like what do Yeah, it.

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Speaker 7: Definitely it popped up.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 7: Probably Game one, I started feeling something and then the

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Speaker 7: off day I noticed something was really off. And then

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Speaker 7: by the time we got back to Billios was like, hey,

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Speaker 7: we needed we needed to taken care of.

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Speaker 6: Maybe about a month.

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Speaker 3: Since you're pitched in an MLB game, is there any

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Speaker 3: concern there's rusts or anything.

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Speaker 2: No, why is that not a concern for you? Why

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Speaker 2: isn't that a concern for you? I mean that's quite

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Speaker 2: a bit of time. And then to be thrust into

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Speaker 2: a playoff game, I.

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Speaker 7: Mean, I mean playoff playoff energy is different. Uh, I

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Speaker 7: mean hopefully throwing a life soon. And I want to

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Speaker 7: face Freddy. I want to face Freddy so uh no, uh,

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Speaker 7: I don't know, just see what it takes me.

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Speaker 3: All right, there's Tanner Scott, he was on the NLDS roster,

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Speaker 3: had a medical procedure that took him off the roster.

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Speaker 5: Tim, do we want to talk about the elephant in

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Speaker 5: the room.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, let's do it. Let's do it.

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Speaker 5: I mean, do we want to get into exactly what

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Speaker 5: was going on with him? I mean, well the medical

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Speaker 5: procedure was.

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Speaker 3: I thought you wanted to get in the elephant in

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Speaker 3: the room that he was really bad during the regular season. No,

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Speaker 3: it's gonna change your postseason. Let's make a kind of

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Speaker 3: tap dance around. If you want what the medical procedure,

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Speaker 3: why don't we just talk about it?

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think we should get a a medical

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Speaker 5: line on what the procedure was. The exact medical procedure.

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Speaker 5: I don't know what it was.

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Speaker 3: It was a uh, it was something on his lower

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Speaker 3: half of his body is from what well, what is that?

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Speaker 5: It's like his knee?

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Speaker 3: No, was his knee?

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Speaker 5: Oh.

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Speaker 3: At the time, John Hayman, who he referred to from

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Speaker 3: the athletic in the MLB Network, said it was an ailment,

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Speaker 3: an infection that one Dodger official called a cyst that

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Speaker 3: had to be removed and it was causing discomfort and.

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Speaker 5: Oh, so it had to be his foot, right something

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Speaker 5: he's walking on.

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Speaker 3: Well, I think it was on his lower part of

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Speaker 3: his body, but maybe not his foot, maybe a little

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Speaker 3: bit more north of that, but south of his hip,

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Speaker 3: north of his knee, south of his hip. As we're

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Speaker 3: starting to zero in where it could have been on

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Speaker 3: the lower half of his body. But he says he

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Speaker 3: feels good. And I don't know how much I trust

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Speaker 3: though Tanner Scott pushing through the issue. He yes, he's

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Speaker 3: pushing through it, and I know he wants to be

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Speaker 3: on this World Series roster.

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Speaker 5: But but because yeah, but everybody's being a little cheeky

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Speaker 5: about it. But yeah, but but I'm not sure Tanner

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Speaker 5: Scott should be on this World Series roster.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he hasn't pitched in a game since September

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Speaker 3: twenty sixth. To his credit, he did allow only two

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Speaker 3: earned runs and four hits over his last seven appearances,

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Speaker 3: which was six and two third Indians, so he pitched

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Speaker 3: better down this stretch. But but in my mind, I

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Speaker 3: still remember Tanner Scott and know what he did during

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Speaker 3: the regular season, with the amount of blown saves that

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Speaker 3: he has and the amount of bad outings that he

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Speaker 3: had and just did not look dominant coming out of

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Speaker 3: the bullpen, whether it was in a high leverage situation

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Speaker 3: a low leverage situation. He just wasn't the Tanner Scott

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Speaker 3: that they gave four years and millions of dollars to

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Speaker 3: in the offseason, the left tander that was so good

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Speaker 3: the last few years, and he was, he was really good.

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Speaker 5: He's got nasty stuff.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's he's been dominant. And the Dodgers brought him

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Speaker 3: in Kirby Yaton to be the guys at the back

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Speaker 3: end of the rotation, to be the back end of

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Speaker 3: the bullpen, and neither one of them are on the

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Speaker 3: postseason roster right now, and Tanner Scott is itching to

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Speaker 3: get back in. Yeah, the back end of that bullpen.

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Speaker 3: They're trying to, you know, they were they were asked

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Speaker 3: to come in and be big parts of that. But

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Speaker 3: but Tanner Scott just did not deliver in the regular season.

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Speaker 3: And I look at the amount of blown saves, I

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Speaker 3: look at the outings, and I look at the situations

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Speaker 3: in a seven game series against the Toronto Blue Jays,

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Speaker 3: I don't know if I can rely on him. I

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Speaker 3: don't know if I want that bullpen gate opening Saxy

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Speaker 3: and seeing Tanner Scott run out of there. I mean,

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Speaker 3: things can change next year, he can reset in twenty

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Speaker 3: twenty six. I got confidence that he'll be back to

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Speaker 3: the level at some point over the next couple of

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Speaker 3: years of this contract that the Dodgers gave him, that

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Speaker 3: he'll be back and he'll be back out there pitching

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Speaker 3: really well. But right now, this twenty twenty five season

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Speaker 3: hasn't been a good one for him. And with the

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Speaker 3: amount of lefties that they do have at their disposal,

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Speaker 3: Jack Dryer, Justin Robleski, Anthony Bonda, Alex Vesia, and a

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Speaker 3: Hall of Famer to be in Clayton Kershaw, I don't

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Speaker 3: feel like there is enough room for Tanner Scott to

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Speaker 3: bust the rough into that bullpen, so to speak.

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Speaker 5: You know, I'm just wondering. You know, the guy has

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Speaker 5: incredible stuff, and they invested a lot in him. He

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Speaker 5: was supposed to be, you know, a guy that could close,

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Speaker 5: the guy that could set up, but definitely a leverage

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Speaker 5: guy that could come in leverage situations and shut it down.

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Speaker 5: And and you wonder how much this this procedure has,

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Speaker 5: you know, kind of thwarted his his ability to be

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Speaker 5: the best he can be or was it just not

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Speaker 5: that at all? Was it? Was it way before that?

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Speaker 5: And was it? Uh, you know, he's just having one

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Speaker 5: of those years. But I mean, if you go to

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Speaker 5: the essence of why they got him over here, his

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Speaker 5: stuff is great. I mean, he's he's he's a guy

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Speaker 5: that you know that can come in and just stop

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Speaker 5: all bad, bad things happen. And these guys are getting

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Speaker 5: runners on Brader, your lefty, he can come in and

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Speaker 5: get him out. But I mean that is that all

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Speaker 5: not the case now because of this this affliction? Was it?

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Speaker 5: Was it something else? Was he he just having a

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Speaker 5: bad year? I don't know, but I know he's got

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Speaker 5: great stuff.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got really good stuff when he's on and

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Speaker 3: when it's working. But there were times that his ball

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Speaker 3: was flat, he was fastball was getting teed up on

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Speaker 3: they he just did not have the dominant stuff and

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Speaker 3: getting swinging misses. He wasn't getting you know, ground ball outs.

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Speaker 3: When he did get contact, he was getting launch angled

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Speaker 3: against him and the balls hit out of the ballpark.

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Speaker 3: In his outings this year now again, the sample size

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Speaker 3: down the stretch in September and his last six plus

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Speaker 3: outings you know, just to earned runs, and that was

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Speaker 3: against the Arizona Diamondbacks on September twenty third. He's pitched better,

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Speaker 3: he really has, but he also has gotten himself into

651
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 3: situation in what let's see, five of those six outings,

652
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 3: he did walk about her in those outings in a

653
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 3: late inning game. We saw what happened last night in

654
00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 3: the seventh inning of the Blue Jays.

655
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Speaker 5: Can't walk people.

656
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,480
Speaker 3: You can't know the leadoff batter gone on because of

657
00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 3: a walk. If Tanner Scott's walking guys this year, but

658
00:31:56,960 --> 00:31:59,080
Speaker 3: walking that tight rope and getting out of jams like

659
00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 3: he did the last outings, I still can't trust him

660
00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:04,000
Speaker 3: to go out there and give up a leadoff walk

661
00:32:04,000 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 3: in the eighth inning and in a three to one game,

662
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:09,040
Speaker 3: because now it's panic time with Dodger fans and the

663
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 3: bullpen and here we go again.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, his other block save his walks per nine were

665
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 5: not enormous. It was two point eight, okay, but but

666
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 5: when you bring him in from the bullpen, any walk

667
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 5: is enormous. It really is. You cannot walk people. I

668
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:27,080
Speaker 5: mean the most that a manager wants to see the

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Speaker 5: number one thing he wants to see from relievers throw strikes.

670
00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 5: That's the key. You've got to throw strikes. You can't

671
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 5: walk any Listen, this is the game, so hard to say.

672
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:41,360
Speaker 5: What do you mean you can't walk any people? That's

673
00:32:41,440 --> 00:32:45,479
Speaker 5: that's the that's the hope. Is it? Is it practical? Well, no,

674
00:32:45,520 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 5: you're gonna walk somebody sometime. But every time you walk somebody,

675
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,720
Speaker 5: it's just coming out of the bullpen. See, as a starter,

676
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 5: you have some runway. Yeah, possibly nine innings where you

677
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 5: can spread that stuff out a little bit. You don't

678
00:32:58,960 --> 00:33:00,960
Speaker 5: have the runway come out of the coming out of

679
00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 5: the bullpen, you have no runway, and you have to

680
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 5: throw strikes. So I would much rather see you a

681
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 5: guy barrel up the baseball and hit it somewhere and

682
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:13,880
Speaker 5: get on as a single than to walk somebody. At

683
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:16,080
Speaker 5: least make him earn it, you know, at least if

684
00:33:16,080 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 5: they hit it hard, you might hit it at somebody. Yeah,

685
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:20,479
Speaker 5: but you can't walk him.

686
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Speaker 7: No.

687
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Speaker 3: I just I like Tanner Scott. I applaud him for

688
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 3: wanting to come back and be vocal about how he

689
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 3: wants to come back, and he's feeling healthy now and

690
00:33:31,080 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 3: he feels a lot better than he did a few

691
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 3: weeks ago. But I just I don't trust him. I

692
00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:41,480
Speaker 3: got muscle memory, I got PTSD here with him coming

693
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 3: out of the bullpen this year in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 5: Five, next snapping, Yeah.

695
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Speaker 3: I just I don't trust him again. He can reset

696
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty six and we'll look ahead to spring

697
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 3: training then for him. But let's just shut it down

698
00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 3: for the rest of the year. I don't I don't

699
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 3: need for the next potential seven games to have Tanner

700
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Speaker 3: Scott in the back of my mind as the potential

701
00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 3: guy that Dave Roberts can go to. There's four other

702
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 3: lefties I would rather go to than Tanner Scott eight

703
00:34:04,520 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 3: six six nine eighty seven two five seventy. Agree, disagree.

704
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 3: Tanner Scott wants back in, he wants to be part

705
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 3: of the bullpen in the World Series. How much trust

706
00:34:13,160 --> 00:34:15,920
Speaker 3: do you have for Tanner Scott eight six six nine

707
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 3: eighty seven two five seventy. Jerry Royce will join us

708
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,719
Speaker 3: next hour as well. And the economics of baseball next hour.

709
00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 3: How much do you even really care about luxury taxes

710
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 3: and spending and how much this guy's getting, how much

711
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:31,320
Speaker 3: that guy is getting, and on the Dodgers ruining baseball

712
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:33,240
Speaker 3: and the Blue Jays are a high pay royal team.

713
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:35,759
Speaker 3: How much do you even care when the games actually happen.

714
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:39,760
Speaker 3: We'll get into that, Jerry Royce, your phone calls Tanner Scott,

715
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Speaker 3: oh boy eight six six, nine eighty seven two five

716
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:44,640
Speaker 3: seventy sax and Kate's and am here on an FI

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Speaker 3: seventy l A sports SAX and Kate's in the am

718
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Speaker 3: with you on this Tuesday morning, October twenty first is

719
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Speaker 3: the World Series is set game one Friday night in Toronto.

720
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:04,520
Speaker 3: It's the Dodgers in the Blue Jays. First pitch at

721
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:08,040
Speaker 3: five toh eight coming up. Jerry roysill join us in

722
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:11,560
Speaker 3: about thirty minutes. I didn't think this would blow up

723
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,879
Speaker 3: as big as it did sexy with Dodger fans. I've

724
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 3: gotten no less than six texts during the commercial break

725
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 3: from people saying no, no, no, no, Tanners Scott's hy

726
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 3: Dare you even bring up his name? I mean, I

727
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:25,840
Speaker 3: didn't think it was that sensitive of a subject. But

728
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 3: when you you have twenty three saves in the season,

729
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:32,239
Speaker 3: as Tanner Scott did, but you blow ten games, ten

730
00:35:32,320 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 3: blown saves for the Dodgers this year, you think about

731
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:37,719
Speaker 3: that and where the Dodgers are sitting right now not

732
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:41,600
Speaker 3: having home field advantage in the World Series one game back.

733
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:44,800
Speaker 3: As far as wins concerned. Behind Toronto is the difference

734
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,680
Speaker 3: between them hosting Games one and two and potential Game

735
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:50,440
Speaker 3: six and seven and the Blue Jays, who are hosting

736
00:35:50,760 --> 00:35:53,280
Speaker 3: games one and two and potentially Game six and seven.

737
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:55,279
Speaker 3: Could have been a factor in one of those ten

738
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:58,200
Speaker 3: blown saves. While Tanner Scott during the season, you look

739
00:35:58,200 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 3: at what he did in September, shirt out the September

740
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 3: really good in his last six outings, one of which

741
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,719
Speaker 3: was a blown save. But he had an ERA six

742
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 3: forty eight in the month of September. The month before

743
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 3: in August, he had an ERA of nine and just

744
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:16,120
Speaker 3: three outings in the month of August. I look at

745
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:18,359
Speaker 3: the options they have down there. It's not like they

746
00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:20,839
Speaker 3: need him. It's not like they're desperate for a left

747
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 3: handed pitcher. They've got other options. And with that being said,

748
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:25,920
Speaker 3: let's go out to the phone sacks, because a lot

749
00:36:25,920 --> 00:36:27,800
Speaker 3: of Dodger fans want to weigh in on this. Okay,

750
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:31,640
Speaker 3: go to Zach in Long Beach. Zach, Welcome to sax

751
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 3: Kates and the am Tanner Scott on the World Series roster.

752
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 3: What do you say?

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00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 9: Good morning and real quick on a very very sad

754
00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 9: Tuesday morning for the Seattle Mariners fans, still absolutely terrible

755
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 9: for him. Shout out JP Crawford from the LA Area

756
00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:54,000
Speaker 9: Long Beast, California. As for the Dodgers, though, is it

757
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 9: not a perfect scripture for them to just absolutely.

758
00:36:56,800 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 10: Sweep the series? Like goodness, gracious, they're probably gonna beat

759
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:04,240
Speaker 10: the breaks off of the Blue Jays. And it doesn't

760
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:07,280
Speaker 10: matter if they bring Tanner Scott on or on, uh

761
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:11,319
Speaker 10: on or off, because they're absolutely stacked, like you know what,

762
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 10: brick house and God bless you Dodgers fans and everybody,

763
00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:16,919
Speaker 10: have a good rest of your day, all.

764
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,160
Speaker 3: Right, thank you, Zach. I don't think they're gonna beat

765
00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 3: the pants off of the Toronto Blue Jays. This is

766
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 3: this is gonna be a little tougher than the previous.

767
00:37:25,400 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 5: Listen to we can't, we can't get beside ourselves. If

768
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:31,040
Speaker 5: the Dodgers drop a game, you know what I mean,

769
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 5: we're gonna panic, Steve. We're gonna you can't because even

770
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 5: if they drop two, no, I mean that's still you

771
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 5: got to.

772
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 3: Win four here, all right, it's over if they drop two.

773
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:41,719
Speaker 5: Were the Dodgers lost in in postseason this year?

774
00:37:41,800 --> 00:37:43,800
Speaker 3: One game that's sick.

775
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 5: Nobody does that. You don't just sweep a rama everybody,

776
00:37:47,560 --> 00:37:50,640
Speaker 5: but they're doing it. I mean, this this team is

777
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 5: is so good. This is one of the best teams

778
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:56,080
Speaker 5: I've ever seen. I mean, if I'm on Toronto and

779
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 5: i'm you know, position player, I'm looking over at that team,

780
00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 5: I'm thinking, Okay, get past the way. You have four

781
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:07,800
Speaker 5: five guys that are number ones on any team in MLB,

782
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:11,439
Speaker 5: five of them. Scared put Sasaki in there, Scary Chris

783
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:12,320
Speaker 5: and La Garry.

784
00:38:12,719 --> 00:38:15,399
Speaker 3: Welcome to Saxon Kates to the am Tanner Scott World

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Speaker 3: Series roster.

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00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:20,680
Speaker 4: What say you absolutely not? You are so right, Tim.

787
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:23,879
Speaker 4: What has he done since the last time we've seen

788
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:26,279
Speaker 4: him that would change our mind? No, he absolutely doesn't

789
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 4: need to be on the roster. And you you stole

790
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 4: my thunder, because that's what I was gonna say, is

791
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:33,879
Speaker 4: that we were behind one game. So those last two

792
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:36,760
Speaker 4: or three weeks when he dropped his games and trying

793
00:38:36,760 --> 00:38:39,720
Speaker 4: and dropped his games, you know, those almost complete games,

794
00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:43,160
Speaker 4: those almost no hitters, those games matter. People always say, oh,

795
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 4: it's one hundred and sixty games series season. No, those

796
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 4: games matter. Those sweet when we got swept by the Angels,

797
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:52,600
Speaker 4: those games matter one more game, so we need it

798
00:38:53,239 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 4: one more game and we would be hosting. So no,

799
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:58,919
Speaker 4: I'm cool with him to be on there. Like you said,

800
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 4: let him reset in the spring, you know, spring training

801
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 4: and bringing back out next year and hopefully he has

802
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 4: a great year. But I think we're good for now,

803
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:08,439
Speaker 4: and let's let's let's go in and do what we need.

804
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 3: To do, all right, appreciated. Chris was just looking up

805
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 3: the Dodger Blue Jays series from earlier this year, in

806
00:39:14,560 --> 00:39:17,359
Speaker 3: which the Dodgers took two or three from Toronto. They

807
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 3: lost a Sunday Day game five to four after the

808
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 3: Dodgers had had the lead. I'm looking at the box

809
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 3: score again, and it went off like a light bulb. Steve,

810
00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 3: and I remember, I remember what happened in that series.

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00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 3: That to me was the first series in twenty twenty

812
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 3: five that we really saw an opposing manager and an

813
00:39:38,560 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 3: opposing team go with the philosophy of just walk show. Hey,

814
00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:47,320
Speaker 3: just walk him, don't don't let him get anything going,

815
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:49,560
Speaker 3: don't let him do any damage to you. He did

816
00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 3: hit a home run of the Sunday game. But if

817
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 3: you look at what they did and their philosophy in

818
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 3: that series was at least in the second and third game,

819
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,440
Speaker 3: was to go after Oton. He did image in the

820
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,799
Speaker 3: first game win three for five with a strikeout, but

821
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 3: the next two games there was a clear message of

822
00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:08,920
Speaker 3: let's not let this guy beat him, and that that

823
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:12,280
Speaker 3: I started to remember now as I'm watching these these

824
00:40:12,400 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 3: these recaps here that yeah, that was Schneider, that was

825
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 3: Toronto not pitching to show a Otani.

826
00:40:18,080 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 5: Yeah the first time. Well that's been around forever. I mean,

827
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:25,400
Speaker 5: didn't didn't we see a team maybe Arizona walk Berry

828
00:40:25,440 --> 00:40:27,240
Speaker 5: Bonds intentionally with the bases loaded.

829
00:40:27,360 --> 00:40:28,000
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.

830
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 5: I think that happened. I mean that's a bit of gregious.

831
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:32,799
Speaker 5: I think I would take my chances because you know,

832
00:40:32,800 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 5: you might hit it at somebody, but show hey, yeah,

833
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:37,760
Speaker 5: I mean he's getting that kind of that same effect,

834
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 5: you see. I don't know, man, I you don't like

835
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Speaker 5: to walk people to start a game. Maybe I wouldn't then,

836
00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 5: but any other time I would. I would pitch to

837
00:40:47,160 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 5: him if I could, if I left he was pitching,

838
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:52,799
Speaker 5: I would only tell the guy, don't you know? If

839
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:56,399
Speaker 5: you can unintentionally intentionally walk him, or if he can

840
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 5: strike out, you get him to fish at something. But

841
00:40:58,760 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 5: sooner or later you're gonna have to show him something

842
00:41:00,680 --> 00:41:02,880
Speaker 5: or he'll he'll he'll catch on to it. He'll just

843
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:05,160
Speaker 5: take everything right. You got to come in the strike

844
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:08,480
Speaker 5: zone sometime, and unless you're you got three lefties like

845
00:41:08,520 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 5: Philly did and can dot dot dot that lower outside

846
00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:16,759
Speaker 5: corner with a wicked slider is all the chance they

847
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 5: had to get that dude out right, and that's what

848
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:18,839
Speaker 5: they did.

849
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,959
Speaker 3: Pedro and Anaheim, thanks for being patient. Tanner Scott World

850
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Speaker 3: Series Roster. Yes or no, I'm a yes, guys.

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00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:31,280
Speaker 11: I'm a yes only only because I trust the Dodgers

852
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:35,000
Speaker 11: organization from top to bottom. If they deem him one

853
00:41:35,040 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 11: hundred percent healthy, ready to go, I'm gonna trust organization

854
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 11: that they're gonna put him out there and he's gonna

855
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 11: do his thing, all right.

856
00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 3: I love the optimism, uh Pedro, so the.

857
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:50,359
Speaker 5: Share crack of daylight here says he might be able

858
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:51,000
Speaker 5: to get out there.

859
00:41:51,120 --> 00:41:54,799
Speaker 3: Yeah. To me, I don't know what changes from what

860
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:57,840
Speaker 3: you saw over one hundred and sixty two game season

861
00:41:57,960 --> 00:41:59,320
Speaker 3: here in October.

862
00:41:58,800 --> 00:42:00,839
Speaker 5: And maybe it's a reset. Maybe I don't know.

863
00:42:01,120 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 3: I mean, I'd rather see the reset next year, when

864
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 3: everybody's got a clean slate in twenty twenty six. Let

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Speaker 3: us see it next. I don't need to see a

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Speaker 3: possible reset here in game one or two of the

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Speaker 3: World Series. Louis and Covina, thanks for being patient.

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Speaker 5: Louis.

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Speaker 3: Tanner Scott wants back on the roster in the World Series.

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Speaker 5: What do you think, morning.

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Speaker 12: Guys, No, absolutely not, because what happens in the World

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Speaker 12: Series is now you're playing the absolute best team left.

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Speaker 12: Everybody's talking about how great the Dodgers are, and they are.

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Speaker 12: The Dodgers will win the World Series, but they will

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Speaker 12: not skate through this because Toronto's the last team standing.

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Speaker 12: So the margin of error is smaller. Tanner Scott has

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Speaker 12: not done anything to remove doubt. So when the manager

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Speaker 12: looks to the bullpen or the bench for a pinch hitter,

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Speaker 12: you're gonna pick the guy who has the least amount

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Speaker 12: of doubt in your mind that he's gonna struggle. And

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Speaker 12: Tanner Scott is not the guy that removes any doubt.

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Speaker 12: So the margin of bears you only have three games

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Speaker 12: at home. If so, at this stage of the World Series.

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Speaker 12: Absolutely not. There's no room for anyone that has any

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Speaker 12: kind of doubt of having a complete success, not a

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Speaker 12: little bit of success.

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Speaker 3: I get you, Lloid. The the margin of error, as

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Speaker 3: you so greatly pointed out, is so small here in

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Speaker 3: the postseason, and with the three batter minimum, it's not

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Speaker 3: like if he makes a mistake with a walk you

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Speaker 3: can go out and get him. You got to live

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Speaker 3: with him for three batters. Yeah, and that's not something

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Speaker 3: I necessarily feel comfortable with.

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Speaker 5: And the issue here, Tim is Toronto does not have

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Speaker 5: to win on the road. The Dodgers do.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely Bingo. He is Steve Zackson, I'm Tim, Kait's two

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Speaker 3: hours down, one to go, Zax and Kate's and the

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Speaker 3: am Jerry Royce will join us in about twenty five minutes.

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