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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.

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Speaker 4: This cheating is not trying to win a championship.

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Speaker 5: 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 6: The twenty twenty five Dodgers are the National League's Western

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Speaker 6: 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 1: Sports and the iHeartRadio app.

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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 3: They're two away, two more wins away from going back

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Speaker 3: so the World Series. As your Dodgers a five to

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Speaker 3: one win over the Milwaukee Brewers last night behind Yoshinobu

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Speaker 3: Yamamoto's complete Game three hitter, as the Dodgers go to Milwaukee,

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Speaker 3: take Game one, take Game two, and now come back

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Speaker 3: to Dodger Stadium for games three, Game four, and if necessary,

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Speaker 3: Game five of this and LCS Tim Kays along with

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Speaker 3: Steve Sacks here on AFI seventy la Sports. Coming up

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Speaker 3: in our eight o'clock hour, we're gonna hear from Mike Soosha,

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Speaker 3: who will be thrown out the first pitch tomorrow, along

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Speaker 3: with Steve Sacks before Game three tomorrow. My plan is

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Speaker 3: to bring in a couple of gloves into baseball. Yes,

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Speaker 3: and we can do in the breaks, you know, play

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Speaker 3: a little catch in the hall, stretch it out. We

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Speaker 3: could get you warm. And uh I last, so shot,

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Speaker 3: do you think he's you know, throwing the baseball around

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Speaker 3: a little bit today, you know, just getting the arm

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Speaker 3: loose a little bit. No, did you send me shimmying? Yes?

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Speaker 7: Okay, See that's what when I'm at home and I'm

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Speaker 7: on doing the show with you, I like to to

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Speaker 7: shiomey like that. So that's that's that. I want to

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Speaker 7: show that how you get loose, get it going, coffee water,

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Speaker 7: you know, I'm ready to go.

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Speaker 3: I like I like to do my shimmy. I like that.

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Speaker 3: I liked a little shimmy from Steven Sax here on

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Speaker 3: a Wednesday morning, as this hour, we got a pair

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Speaker 3: of tickets to Game three of the NLCS to give away,

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Speaker 3: and again it's a three oh eight first pitch tomorrow

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Speaker 3: at at Dodger Stadium. There are limited, limited amount of

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Speaker 3: tickets still available at Dodgers dot com slash postseason if

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Speaker 3: you want to get out there to Dodger Stadium a

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Speaker 3: three to oh eight first pitch tomorrow. It's an early one,

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Speaker 3: not at five o'clock, not at six o'clock, not at

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Speaker 3: seven to ten first pitch. It is a three to

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Speaker 3: oh eight first pitch and one the shadows will be

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Speaker 3: in full effect for coming back. Oh, how dare you

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Speaker 3: say the yes?

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Speaker 7: No, I can't believe it. You know, I guess as

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Speaker 7: a game went on, did it make that much of

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Speaker 7: a difference.

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Speaker 3: It didn't. I mean, in that game against the Phillies,

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Speaker 3: maybe an inning, maybe it was a factor. But after that,

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Speaker 3: you know, it passed through and it was a full

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Speaker 3: go out of Dodger Stadium. The rain came and went yesterday,

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Speaker 3: poured rain last night, another round of rain here in

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Speaker 3: southern California. Looks like that has passed through. Is the well?

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Speaker 3: The blue skies are out here in Southern California and

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Speaker 3: game three will be good to go tomorrow at a

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Speaker 3: Dodger stadium, a chance for the Dodgers to take a

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Speaker 3: commanding three to zero series lead after winning first two

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Speaker 3: games in Milwaukee, and again, Yoshinobu Yamamoto was dominated. The

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Speaker 3: first complete game for a Dodger pitcher since Jose Lima

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Speaker 3: in two thousand and four, the first postgame complete game

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Speaker 3: in the major leagues in eight years. The last guy

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Speaker 3: to do it, Justin Verlander in twenty and seventeen. And

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Speaker 3: how about these numbers. This was the twenty third postseason

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Speaker 3: complete game for a Dodger pitcher in LA franchise history.

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Speaker 3: Right mentioned Jose Lima, the last to do it in

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Speaker 3: two thousand and four. Before that, Oral Hersheiser in nineteen

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Speaker 3: eighty eight, Your magical year. Steve had not one, not two,

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Speaker 3: but three complete games in that nineteen eighty eight postseason.

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Speaker 3: Also in nineteen eighty eight game one in Game two

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Speaker 3: That was the last time the Dodgers had consecutive postseason

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Speaker 3: Game two last night, a complete game from Yomamoto nineteen

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Speaker 3: Tim Belcher the last two Dodger starters to go eight

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Speaker 3: plus innings in back to back games in a postseason. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it totally expected.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, and they do it today and it's like, wow,

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Speaker 7: I mean, is he gonna be on the DL Should

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Speaker 7: we set up the MRI and check out the arm

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Speaker 7: watch alarms. Yeah, let him go a little bit. Come on,

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Speaker 7: look at look at some history.

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Speaker 3: Yamamoto last night was dominant. He got back out there

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Speaker 3: after ninety seven pitches through eight innings, through one hundred

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Speaker 3: of stress out there for those nine innings. He had

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Speaker 3: one inning in which he threw eighteen pitches, his most

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Speaker 3: strenuous inning, if you will, and that was the fifth.

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Speaker 3: He gave up a leadoff fly ball out and then

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Speaker 3: get out of that fifth inning, no damage done. Also,

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Speaker 3: of the game. There got no stress. Absolutely only three

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Speaker 3: the home run, A single, A single, an air. So

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Speaker 3: a very efficient outing from Yamaboto. Last night. The numbers

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Speaker 3: got fifteen round ball outs, he retired the final fourteen

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Speaker 3: strikes dominating last night. Of the thirty two batters that

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Speaker 3: he faced, twenty three of which were first pitch strikes. Amazing.

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Speaker 3: You mentioned the history of what he did in baseball

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Speaker 3: and in Dodger history, and we were rattling off the

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Speaker 3: numbers last night on the postgame show, and I kept

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Speaker 3: mentioning Oral Herschheiser's name, and lo and behold, last night,

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Speaker 3: Oral Hersheiser joined us on the Dodger postgame show to

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Speaker 3: talk about the last time the Dodger had a successful

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Speaker 8: It was him, Well, Tim, I heard you on the radio.

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Speaker 8: I heard you mention my name. I appreciate the reference,

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Speaker 8: but you know what I've watched with Blake Snell and

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Speaker 8: Yamamoto and the team and now being up two to

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Speaker 8: zero on the road, we're looking at World Series bound,

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Speaker 8: and it's so exciting. I was out to dinner with

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Speaker 8: a bar area where it was definitely on and listening

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Speaker 8: to the broadcast. And what an exciting night for the Dodger,

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Speaker 3: Or what can you say about Yamamoto the way he

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Speaker 3: battled around the first pitch of the game, throwing a

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Speaker 3: just dialed in for the next eight plus innings to

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Speaker 3: a complete game, his first complete game of his career

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Speaker 3: and the Dodgers first complete game this season.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it was so exciting to watch him go through

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Speaker 8: eight and do what he did and respond to that

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Speaker 8: home run. And as starting pitchers, you know, we don't

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Speaker 8: that home run, and it's still the mental discipline to

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Speaker 8: continue on give your team a chance to win, and

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Speaker 8: give your team more than a chance to win. When

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Speaker 8: he did what he did, so fantastic, fantastic out in

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Speaker 8: great mental discipline. But you know, we can attribute a

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Speaker 8: it's like one bad outing and then five good ones.

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Speaker 8: And you see the way Snell's throwing the ball. You

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Speaker 8: see the way he's throwing the ball. We know the

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Speaker 8: other pitchers in the rotation, We know what's in the bullpen.

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Speaker 8: This team could get carried to another World championship because

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Speaker 8: of the starting pitching, because of the pitching staff. And

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Speaker 8: that is nothing against the offense. That's just them setting

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Speaker 8: depending on what you.

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Speaker 9: Do that night.

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Speaker 8: If you get us two, you get US three or

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Speaker 8: you get US twelve. We're going to have a chance

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Speaker 8: to win. And that is really really exciting.

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Speaker 3: As a guy who anchored your rotation. Oral Look at

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Speaker 3: this pitching staff and what Blake Snell did last night,

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Speaker 3: what Yama did tonight, and what Tyler Glass now is

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Speaker 3: on Thursday. There's a competitiveness right amongst the starters, and hey,

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Speaker 3: what the guy did last night. I want to duplicate that.

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Speaker 3: I don't want to be shown up. I want to

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Speaker 3: be just as competitive and just as good as the

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Speaker 3: next guy. Is that something that you know can kind

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Speaker 3: of be contagious in a starring staff.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it just it depends on the personalities within the staff.

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Speaker 8: And I am close, but I'm not that close to know,

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Speaker 8: guys that you want to talk to like, hey, this

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Speaker 8: I think they're doing. So there's some guys you challenge

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Speaker 8: you know the personalities if you really are sensitive to

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Speaker 8: I want the whole team to win. And who sets

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Speaker 8: that tone? Dave Roberts and Andrew Friedman, they said that

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Speaker 8: tone that culture. Kershaw sets that culture. Max Munsey sets

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Speaker 8: that culture. Justin Turner when he was here set that culture.

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Speaker 8: It's a culture of be who you are, and once

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Speaker 8: we understand who you are, we will know what buttons

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Speaker 8: to push. And Dave Roberts I know, and Andrew Friedman,

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Speaker 8: if we talk about the pedigree of these guys when

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Speaker 8: they first came into the community, they both got hammered.

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Speaker 8: Andrew got hammered for oh, he's only going to be

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Speaker 8: a numbers guy. Dave got hammered like, you know, really,

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Speaker 8: can he really win the big one? Does he really

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Speaker 8: know how to manage a bullpen? Those two guys, if

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Speaker 8: we don't understand now as a community, as a city,

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Speaker 8: as a baseball culture, that these guys really do know

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Speaker 8: what they're doing, then you're blind. You're blind. Andrew's not

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Speaker 8: a numbers guy. He gets the numbers. It's part of

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Speaker 5: But he knows.

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Speaker 8: People, and he knows culture, and he knows who to

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Speaker 8: Dave Roberts. He understands how to go through a transition,

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Speaker 8: how to tell everyday players you're not always going to

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was good last year. He got hurt and

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Speaker 3: missignificant time, and when he came back, there was still

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Speaker 3: that question of all right, how tough is this guy?

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Speaker 3: Can he give us what he needed out there? And

437
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Speaker 3: we paid him a lot of money and you know,

438
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Speaker 3: didn't see the results at least early on before the injury.

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Speaker 3: But man, I love everything about him. I love his confidence,

440
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Speaker 3: and I love his attack out there on the mount.

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Speaker 3: He's aggressive, he's got a little fire in that belly out.

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Speaker 7: Tim about how about leading the league this year in

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Speaker 7: a number of hits per nine innings five point nine

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Speaker 7: He led the league. I mean, this guy doesn't walk

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Speaker 7: a lot of people, so he's filling up the strike

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Speaker 7: zone while at the same time giving up the fewest

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Speaker 7: hits of any starter. That's crazy. I mean when does

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Speaker 7: that happen? Usually, like a guy like Ricky Henderson, for example,

449
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Speaker 7: he had more stolen bases than anybody. Okay, he was

450
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Speaker 7: also caught stealing more than anybody. You see a guy

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Speaker 7: like Justin Verlander, or you know, one of these top

452
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Speaker 7: pitchers has a lot of gas. Typically with the guy

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Speaker 7: who gives up a lot of strike gets a lot

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Speaker 7: of strikeouts, gives up a lot of home runs.

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Speaker 3: Sometimes they lead the league.

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Speaker 7: And you know, so it's only fitting that I like

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Speaker 7: Otani that really fills up the strike zone might give

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Speaker 7: up an inordinate amount of hits for a guy that

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Speaker 7: has a lot of wins.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, not so. He led the league in fewest amount

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Speaker 3: of hits given up eight sixty six, nine eighty seven

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Speaker 3: to two. Five seventy is our number. Paul and huntingson Beach.

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Speaker 3: You're all with Saxon Kates and the Am. You're on

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Speaker 3: a five seventy LA sports on this Wednesday morning. How

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Speaker 3: you doing, Paul good Man.

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Speaker 2: Happy Wednesday, dude. Last night I was like at this

467
00:23:23,320 --> 00:23:25,320
Speaker 2: bougie work event. I'm in the back of the room

468
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Speaker 2: watching the game, trying not to make an ace out

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Speaker 2: of myself. It was it was awesome, man. And then

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Speaker 2: you know afterward, there's all this talk of Lima time

471
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Speaker 2: right in two thousand and four, and it occurred to me,

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Speaker 2: you know, you just opposed he with a bulldog. The

473
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:42,959
Speaker 2: Dodgers went from nineteen eighty eight to two thousand and

474
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Speaker 2: four between winning a single playoff game. It's wild to

475
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Speaker 2: think about. And then after two thousand and four, the

476
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Speaker 2: Dodgers had this long run, you know, eighth nine, but

477
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Speaker 2: they weren't special until this particular ownership group came in

478
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Speaker 2: and put something together that it's fascinating that Dodgers have

479
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:05,240
Speaker 2: been around since eighteen ninety and this is like truly

480
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:08,840
Speaker 2: the golden age of Dodger baseball. And you know what, man, dude,

481
00:24:08,840 --> 00:24:10,600
Speaker 2: I live and die with these guys all year long,

482
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:14,680
Speaker 2: and you know, they drive me crazy. The bullpen, the outfield, play,

483
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 2: the fits and starts with the offense. I get pissed

484
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Speaker 2: off during the summer. But you got to take a

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Speaker 2: break and say, these dudes are freaking special and we're

486
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Speaker 2: on the cusp of something great and we shouldn't lose

487
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Speaker 2: sight of the fact that what we saw last the

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Speaker 2: last two nights is truly remarkable. You see the Stark

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Speaker 2: article in the Athletic, and you look at what these

490
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Speaker 2: two guys went out there and did in Milwaukee is unbelievable.

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Speaker 2: I'm fired up, man. And by the way, dude, Saxy,

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Speaker 2: you and Sosia throwing out the first pitch tomorrow, my

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Speaker 2: two all time favorite players. I'm stoked for that.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 2: Let's get this thing done here at home. Man, you

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Speaker 2: guys have a good one, Paul.

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Speaker 3: Not to put you on the spot, but they were.

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Speaker 3: If they asked you to catch the first pitch tomorrow,

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Speaker 3: you said, Sosha and Sachs your two favorite guys. All right,

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Speaker 3: you can catch one of their first pitches tomorrow. Who

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Speaker 3: are you catching?

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Speaker 2: That's that's it's almost an impossible question.

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Speaker 3: I gotta pick one.

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Speaker 2: Hey, listen, man, I'll be honest with you. I was

505
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Speaker 2: a catcher growing up, right, and I live here in.

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Speaker 5: The o C.

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Speaker 2: So it's gonna be awful hard not not not to

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Speaker 2: not to not to go with Soosha. But I'll tell

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Speaker 2: you what. I wore number three all the way through

510
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Speaker 2: high school for you, Sax, so you know you take

511
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Speaker 2: it or leave me.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it. Thank you, all right, to sit on

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Speaker 3: the fence. You had to pick one, had to pick

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Speaker 3: one of them. Well he picked yeah, but then he

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Speaker 3: was like the caveat Well, I wore number three, you know,

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Speaker 3: for you s That's okay, Yeah, I like it, very nice,

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Paul. Let's go to Tim and Rialito next

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Speaker 3: up here with Saxon Kate's and AM Live and Local

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Speaker 3: on your home with the Dodgers and five seventy.

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Speaker 10: Hi, Tim, Hey, good morning. Appreciate you guys. Love listening

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Speaker 10: to you guys. First off, man, this team is a

522
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Speaker 10: special team. I tell you what we've seen the last

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Speaker 10: two days from Snows and Yamamoto. You just don't see

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Speaker 10: that anymore. And I think they're gonna pass the torch

525
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Speaker 10: onto Glass now tomorrow we're gonna go up three of them.

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Speaker 10: So looking forward to it and I can't wait to

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Speaker 10: see it happen, all.

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Speaker 3: Right, to appreciate the phone call. Yeah, I hope Tyler

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Speaker 3: Glass now is up for the challenge. To be honest

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Speaker 3: with you, I just don't know the last time he

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Speaker 3: went out against the Phillies, we had the same discussion.

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Speaker 3: We'll talk about it even more tomorrow leading up to

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Speaker 3: Game three. But you tell me big game. Tyler Glass

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Speaker 3: now is on the mound. I'm like, great, but I

535
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Speaker 3: can see this going either way.

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Speaker 7: Well, listen, big game, big dude, big performance. Okay, I

537
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Speaker 7: want to see a tiger, right, I want to see

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Speaker 7: I like it when this guy pumps his fist. I

539
00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:45,480
Speaker 7: mean he brings all kinds. This is a really, really

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Speaker 7: toolsy pitcher.

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Speaker 3: If you know what I mean.

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Speaker 7: This guy's got tools coming out of his ears. I

543
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Speaker 7: mean the high arm angle, tough to pick the ball up,

544
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Speaker 7: tremendous leverage when he lets the ball go, he can

545
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Speaker 7: almost tickle you in the in the batter's box because

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Speaker 7: he's got such extension. Being six foot eight, I think

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Speaker 7: he is. He's got so many tools going for him.

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Speaker 7: If he just fills up the zone with that one

549
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 7: hundred plus and that big, ugly curve ball, this is

550
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Speaker 7: a tough guy to hit. And like I said, I

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Speaker 7: draw the comparison here with Dwight Gooden a lot of

552
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Speaker 7: the same makeup.

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Speaker 3: Game four against the Phillies last Thursday was his last start.

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Speaker 3: He went the six shutout innings, scattered two hits, struck

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Speaker 3: out eight along the way. Before that, he remember he

556
00:27:25,280 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 3: came out of the bullpen and pitching inning in two

557
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 3: third shutout innings add in relief in Philadelphia. Before that,

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Speaker 3: his final regular season outing was against the Seattle Mariners.

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Speaker 3: Three innings, no runs, three hits, three strikeouts up in

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Speaker 3: Seattle against Big Dumper and the Mariners. But I go

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Speaker 3: to the start before that, he went five innings, game up,

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Speaker 3: four runs on six hits while walking four against the

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Speaker 3: San Francisco Giants. But the resume, the last three outings

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Speaker 3: have been really good against playoff teams, the Mariners, the

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Speaker 3: final weekend of the regular season up in Seattle, and

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Speaker 3: then the last two outings. Want to start in one

567
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Speaker 3: in relief against the Phillies in that NLDS. So I

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Speaker 3: hope we see that same Tyler.

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Speaker 7: Gas Yeah, and an All star last year. He's got

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Speaker 7: some you know, good run going right now. And he

571
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Speaker 7: is a guy that's that's a benefit of of some

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Speaker 7: guys that have really lifted him up. Being on a

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Speaker 7: starting staff like this, it's contagious, you know, you watch

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Speaker 7: the other guy do it, same thing with hitting. Now,

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Speaker 7: you know, a rising tide lifts all ships. You have

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Speaker 7: a couple of guys in the order there that are,

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Speaker 7: you know, getting their hits and hitting the ball over

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Speaker 7: the wall, Guess what happens. It starts to spread out.

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Speaker 7: And I think that's what you're going to see right

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Speaker 7: here in this pitching staff. You got four number ones

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Speaker 7: that are out in front and leading this charge. Make

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Speaker 7: no mistake about it. This team is where it is

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Speaker 7: in postseason right now because this pitching staff is just

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Speaker 7: absolutely elite.

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Speaker 3: Larry in Long Beach, thanks for being patient. You're on

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Speaker 3: with Scam, Saxon, Kate's and the Am how you doing, Larry?

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00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:55,960
Speaker 3: I'm doing great?

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Speaker 4: Thank you?

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Speaker 2: Hi, Larry, Oh, thank you?

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Speaker 3: Go ahead.

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I'm doing great.

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00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 3: Thank you. Just amazing watching the series.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I believe now tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe in. I believe this well, Larry. Thanks Larry.

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Speaker 3: Appreciate the phone call. Eight sixty six, nine seventy Michael Downtown,

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Speaker 3: l A. You're next up with SAX and Kate's and

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Speaker 3: am how you doing? Michael?

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Speaker 4: Great man, Thank you so much for taking the call.

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Speaker 10: Sure you know.

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Speaker 4: Steve Sachs. I love watching you up in Oakland on

601
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Speaker 4: the Oakland Show. I got the MLB package and I

602
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,320
Speaker 4: love your energy. Thank you great to have you down here.

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Speaker 4: You're a historic Dodger and I grew up as yours.

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Speaker 4: My My first Dodger I've ever seen was you.

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Speaker 6: I went to you.

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Speaker 4: Remember the Dodgers used to have the fans come and

607
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Speaker 4: and we could hang with you and take a picture

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Speaker 4: and go up against the wooden blue wall.

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Speaker 3: Right before right before the game. They would have us

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Speaker 3: all come out.

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Speaker 4: Right before the game. That's right. And I have a

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Speaker 4: picture with you and my little brother, my dad and

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Speaker 4: my mom, and my mom had a crush on you.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure when you you had a lot of ladies

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Speaker 4: back in those days. But that's that was like Steve

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Speaker 4: sax When I was eight years old, when you guys

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Speaker 4: played the Cardinals.

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Speaker 5: That was some series.

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Speaker 4: They were an impressionable team. And yeah eighty five, that's right.

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Speaker 4: I could tell you every guy on that team that was.

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Speaker 4: That was and I got to meet you and have

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Speaker 4: that picture. So it's great to say hello to.

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Speaker 3: You, Michael. Do you still have that picture somewhere if

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Speaker 3: you If you do, I'd love for you to maybe

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Speaker 3: tweet at ALI Sports if you can post that.

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Speaker 4: You know what to do that And you know what

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Speaker 4: sax knew exactly what I was talking about. It's exactly

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Speaker 4: what he said. It was before the game, and they

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Speaker 4: had the yellow rope, so we would stand and you

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Speaker 4: guys would come right up. That was amazing and I

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Speaker 4: still remember it and I'm fifty years old.

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Speaker 9: Now.

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Speaker 4: The thing I want to tell you about the Dodgers is,

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Speaker 4: h I'm actually a different fan of a team. But

635
00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:05,480
Speaker 4: the Dodgers is a machine right now. The Dodgers is

636
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 4: putting their money to the right places and the ship

637
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:12,640
Speaker 4: is going straight ahead. You know, the Yankees, the Padres,

638
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 4: the Mets, they all spend a lot. So the Dodgers

639
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 4: is winning and they spend. That's true, but you have

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00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:21,840
Speaker 4: to win on the field to hit the ball and pitch,

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00:31:22,320 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 4: and they're doing that and they're winning. And Dave Roberts

642
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 4: with the energy is their expectations is so high. And

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00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:34,240
Speaker 4: look the Dodgers. Now, I went thirty two years without

644
00:31:34,280 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 4: the Dodgers hitting the World Series from eighty eight to

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty. You guys never want too much. Now you're

646
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 4: so used to winning. I have a whole family members

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00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:49,200
Speaker 4: of Dodger fans. They expect to be in the World

648
00:31:49,320 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 4: Series now. It's like no thing now, and there was

649
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:54,720
Speaker 4: a lot of years that they didn't do that. This

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00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:58,040
Speaker 4: is something that Dodger fans should really enjoy. This is

651
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Speaker 4: not going to last forever. I don't think this is

652
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 4: a huge period in history that you'll look back as

653
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:08,040
Speaker 4: the Dodgers being the best fifteen years. They've been in

654
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 4: tons of World Series one plenty in the playoffs, winning

655
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 4: the division like how the Braves did all those years.

656
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:18,280
Speaker 4: This is even bigger than the Braves. This is we're

657
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 4: in the midst of it. It could last a lot longer.

658
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Speaker 4: We'll see if Dave Roberts stays in that position. With

659
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Speaker 4: the ownership, the GMS, the ballplayers are so focused on

660
00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 4: one hundred and sixty two games. As a fan of

661
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:37,360
Speaker 4: another team, when the Dodgers come in town, it's scary.

662
00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:41,440
Speaker 4: It's you know, you're gonna have to bring everything you have.

663
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Speaker 4: Mike shild who's a great manager, was quoted saying, look,

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Speaker 4: I don't have to deal with the NS no more.

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Speaker 1: You know it.

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Speaker 4: It's stressful. The Dodgers is a serious thing. You ask

667
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Speaker 4: any team in the league. The New York Yankees is

668
00:32:56,880 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 4: the most famous franchise in sports. Look saying the dog

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Speaker 4: It's just this is the Dodgers Major leagues right now.

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Speaker 3: Michael, no doubt you hit it right on the incredible.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, I'm following every you know, I have three big

672
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 4: screens in my house, and you know I got the Dodgers,

673
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Speaker 4: and I wanted to say one last thing. This is

674
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Speaker 4: something amazing. The Dodgers fans deserve so much credit. They

675
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 4: put high expectations and they show up every night. My

676
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 4: dad has since passed. I too a Dodger hat in

677
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:34,560
Speaker 4: his coffin. He loved them so much. And yeah, an

678
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:37,640
Speaker 4: old Italian man from New Jersey and he'd come here

679
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:40,080
Speaker 4: at five years old and took took to the Dodgers

680
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 4: in nineteen fifty nine and stuck with them. He was

681
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 4: a big radio man. So my dad never wore a

682
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 4: Dodger anything to the game. He wore like a suit,

683
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 4: those old guys and uh, and he would have his

684
00:33:50,600 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 4: transition to radio. I know you love it, mister Sax,

685
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 4: because that those are Dodger fans. But now the Dodger

686
00:33:57,520 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 4: fans are everywhere. I asked someone. He's like, well, I'm

687
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 4: not a Dodger fan, but everyone in my family is.

688
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:05,600
Speaker 4: And I said, well, same thing for me. Like Dodger

689
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 4: fans one hour before the game, they get a whole

690
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 4: hour pregame show. They get a thirty minute postgame show.

691
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 4: The effort on the Dodgers to give to the fans

692
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:20,040
Speaker 4: is also there. It's just the highest point of any

693
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 4: sports franchise that you can have. I want everybody to

694
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 4: know that I follow all the teams. I used to

695
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 4: write sports for San Diego State University, my alma mater,

696
00:34:29,280 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 4: and this is an amazing period of time. Steve Sach's

697
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 4: down here talking Dodgers at eight in the morning. Yeah,

698
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:42,000
Speaker 4: Brewers are coming in. Yeah, And this is an amazing

699
00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 4: monster of a franchise with a monster fan base. And you,

700
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:49,759
Speaker 4: mister Kates, you guys are just really bringing it.

701
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 3: Mike Willie, you have brought it today. You have absolutely

702
00:34:52,680 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 3: brought it today. And we appreciate the phone call and

703
00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 3: certainly all the nice words and the compliments and wow,

704
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 3: just a love the passion from Michael there checking in

705
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:05,920
Speaker 3: this morning. He very well said, very well said, we

706
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 3: appreciate the phone call about throwing a hat into his

707
00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:10,880
Speaker 3: dad's cough. Wow, that's I mean, we found out a

708
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 3: lot about him. We found out all We got three

709
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:15,440
Speaker 3: big screens. He watched those. I just wish he would be,

710
00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:17,879
Speaker 3: you know, more expressive and tell us what he thinks.

711
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 3: You know, some people are inner people, not people. That's true,

712
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 3: you know. And I feel like Michael is one of

713
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,480
Speaker 3: those guys that just likes to hold a lot in. Yeah, yeah,

714
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 3: absolutely absolutely, We'll take a break. We'll come back. More

715
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Speaker 3: of your phone calls. Got a line open if you

716
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Speaker 3: want to jump on board eight six six nine eighty

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Speaker 3: seven two five seventy eight sixty six nine eighty seven

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Speaker 3: two five seventy. We got a pair of tickets to

719
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Speaker 3: Game three of the NLCS coming up. Don't forget this postseason.

720
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Speaker 3: Tune in to MLB Network for pregame predictions, postgame highlights,

721
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:47,720
Speaker 3: and analysis of all the big plays. Watch MLB Tonight

722
00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:51,359
Speaker 3: before and after every postseason game. Go to mlbnetwork dot

723
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:53,520
Speaker 3: com for details on how you can watch live on

724
00:35:53,800 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 3: any device. Love watching Mark de Rosa and the crew

725
00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 3: in the morning, Our buddy John Paul Morosi, all the insiders,

726
00:36:01,239 --> 00:36:03,800
Speaker 3: all the analysis. It is top notch if you're a

727
00:36:03,840 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 3: baseball fan. Nl beat Network for all the postseason coverage.

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Speaker 3: Steve Sacks, Ten Kates and you on a Wednesday morning

729
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Speaker 3: scam on an FI seventy Light Sports Saxon Kates in

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Speaker 3: the Am live in local as it should be here

731
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:28,480
Speaker 3: in Los Angeles, especially during an October run for the

732
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:31,919
Speaker 3: Dodgers is gonna look like a deep run yet again,

733
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:34,600
Speaker 3: as they are two wins away from going back to

734
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:38,720
Speaker 3: the World Series. Two OH series lead over the Philadelphia Phillies.

735
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,920
Speaker 3: After Oh Mate that the Milwaukee Brewers in the NLCS,

736
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,239
Speaker 3: they took care of the Phillies in the NLDS. They

737
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:46,479
Speaker 3: won games one and two behind Blake Snell's eight any

738
00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 3: performance on Monday night and last night the performance of

739
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 3: the postseason, a complete Game three hitter by Yoshinobu Yamamoto.

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00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,839
Speaker 3: We'll hear from Yoshinoba Yamamoto coming up later on next hour.

741
00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,439
Speaker 3: Mike Sosha will join up, coming up in about thirty

742
00:37:01,480 --> 00:37:03,239
Speaker 3: five minutes as well. Let's go back out to the phone.

743
00:37:03,280 --> 00:37:05,760
Speaker 3: So a lot of Dodger fans want away in this morning,

744
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,800
Speaker 3: Saxy Manny in Porter Ranch, you're next up here on

745
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:10,799
Speaker 3: Saxon Kates in the morning. How you doing, Manny?

746
00:37:12,400 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 6: Hey, I'm doing great, man, Good morning job. Hope you

747
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 6: guys have had had a good morning. I just want

748
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 6: to say, I just want to say I'm happy. Yesterday

749
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:24,080
Speaker 6: was my fortieth birthday. All I wanted was a Dodger

750
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:26,800
Speaker 6: win and to come home and have dinner with my

751
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:31,840
Speaker 6: wife and watch Yamamoto completely dominate that complete game. It

752
00:37:32,040 --> 00:37:34,880
Speaker 6: was amazing, It was amazing. So so grateful for that.

753
00:37:36,320 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 5: Yeah.

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00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 6: So the last thing I want to say Dave Roberts,

755
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 6: amazing job he's done, especially the last two years. I

756
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:45,600
Speaker 6: hope people give him his flowers as much as they

757
00:37:45,680 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 6: give them the criticism.

758
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,920
Speaker 3: Thank you, guys, all right, appreciate many. He won't get

759
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:52,760
Speaker 3: his flowers. He never does. I mean, he does everything

760
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,560
Speaker 3: right last postseason, pushing all the right buttons with all

761
00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,839
Speaker 3: those different relievers. Yeah, winning games in October, winning games

762
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 3: in the World Series, and he still didn't get credit

763
00:38:01,320 --> 00:38:01,839
Speaker 3: for what he did.

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00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 7: I mean, this is a this is a hard team

765
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:07,160
Speaker 7: to People will say, well, you got all that talent,

766
00:38:07,239 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 7: it's easy. No, your expectations are higher than that.

767
00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:10,319
Speaker 3: Just roll the ball out there.

768
00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:10,879
Speaker 6: Yeah.

769
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 7: So so, you know, I like, as they were talking before,

770
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:16,600
Speaker 7: you know, you know, ORL was saying, these guys are

771
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 7: you know, human, and they have they still have to

772
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 7: go out and do all those things. They still have

773
00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 7: to have relationships, et cetera. He's right about that, and

774
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 7: it's not easy to go out and just win every

775
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 7: time with the bar.

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00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 3: That's so you know, so high.

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00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:31,359
Speaker 7: It's but but you know what happened if they had

778
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:34,399
Speaker 7: a collective collapse for some those things happened. They happen

779
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,080
Speaker 7: on the offensive side. They've they've happened with injuries, they

780
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 7: happened to all different reasons, and but he keeps them

781
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 7: there and they you know what, thirteen or fourteen years

782
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:43,640
Speaker 7: in a row now in postseason that says something.

783
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:47,400
Speaker 3: Let's go to Michael and Idaho, the two eight checking

784
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 3: in here on Saxon Kate's and a am how you

785
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:50,280
Speaker 3: doing Michael?

786
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 5: I'm doing great?

787
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 3: How are you doing great? How are you listening to

788
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 3: this game?

789
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:55,799
Speaker 9: Last night?

790
00:38:56,800 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 5: Just listening on iHeartRadio app you so greatly told us

791
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 5: how to how to grab the sand in the morning.

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00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 3: Awesome.

793
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 5: So hey, uh yeah, since we don't get spectrum out here,

794
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 5: we at least we get iHeartRadio.

795
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:17,080
Speaker 9: So my question is is that Otani's not been hitting

796
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 9: and he looks kind of lost at the plate, and

797
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:24,359
Speaker 9: we've gotten pasted it so far, but at some point

798
00:39:24,480 --> 00:39:28,439
Speaker 9: it's gonna it's gonna get exposed. Is there a point

799
00:39:28,440 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 9: where you just take Otani as a picture and you

800
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:35,879
Speaker 9: take him out of it, And and what point would

801
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:39,360
Speaker 9: that be, because you know it's it's gonna cost.

802
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 3: Us as the designated hitter.

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00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 9: If he's not hitting. Yeah, I mean they would set

804
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 9: anybody else, Wouldn't.

805
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:51,879
Speaker 3: They appreciate it? Michael, you're paying the man seven hundred

806
00:39:51,920 --> 00:39:54,840
Speaker 3: million dollars. He is a unicorn. He is a threat

807
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,000
Speaker 3: every single time he's up at the plate, so much

808
00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:59,360
Speaker 3: so that the Phillies and other teams are in the

809
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:03,359
Speaker 3: postseason have walked him intentionally with first base open, even

810
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,400
Speaker 3: though he was one for the postseason after his two

811
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:09,279
Speaker 3: home runs against the Cincinnati Reds in Game one of

812
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:12,120
Speaker 3: that Wild Card round. With that all being said, you

813
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:13,200
Speaker 3: still want to sit the game.

814
00:40:13,440 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 4: I don't know.

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00:40:13,880 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 3: Maybe the fifty five home runs didn't mean that much.

816
00:40:16,280 --> 00:40:17,320
Speaker 3: There's that too, okay?

817
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:21,080
Speaker 7: Yeah, And you know what else is evident that other

818
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:25,399
Speaker 7: teams try to structure the attack on the Dodgers all

819
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 7: built around Otani. You notice any time they can get

820
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:30,839
Speaker 7: a lefty out there, they're just running them out. Why

821
00:40:30,880 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 7: because they went to neutralize Otani. That changes everything in

822
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 7: It helps the right handed hitters a lot. So he

823
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 7: affects the game just by being in it. Okay, that's

824
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:42,520
Speaker 7: what he does. Just by being in the game, he

825
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:44,920
Speaker 7: affects it. I mean, look at Otani's numbers. What were

826
00:40:44,960 --> 00:40:47,319
Speaker 7: they this year? To eighty two, fifty five and one

827
00:40:47,400 --> 00:40:49,439
Speaker 7: hundred and something. He scored way over one hundred runs.

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00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:51,200
Speaker 3: You want to sit that dude.

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Speaker 7: Check out the check out the slumps that Mickey Mantle

830
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:57,280
Speaker 7: went through, especially early in his career. Okay, Mickey Mantle

831
00:40:57,360 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 7: had some tough ones. He was sent down to Triple A.

832
00:40:59,640 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 7: His dad had to come down and rescue him because

833
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 7: you was gonna come home. Really, yeah, you talk about

834
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 7: scam Wow, that was scam City right there.

835
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 9: Wow.

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00:41:08,920 --> 00:41:09,040
Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 7: But yeah, but so yeah you Otani, No, heck no,

838
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 7: he changes the game just by being in it.

839
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:17,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt. There's no way there. There's not a

840
00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 3: chance ever that Showy Otani is going to be sat

841
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:25,600
Speaker 3: down and not in a Dodgers lineup. R I mean,

842
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 3: the guy played through a torn shoulder last year, yeah,

843
00:41:29,640 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 3: in October. So let alone, an injury is not going

844
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:34,360
Speaker 3: to prevent this guy from being a lineup. A little

845
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:37,800
Speaker 3: offensive slump in show Hayes World is never going to

846
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:40,440
Speaker 3: keep him out of this lineup. No, absolutely's part of

847
00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 3: the game. Part of the game. Eight sixty six, nine

848
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 3: eighty seven, two five seven. He will step aside, We'll

849
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Speaker 3: come back. We'll get to your phone lines. We had

850
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 3: a full board of calls. Mike Soosha joins us. In

851
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:51,400
Speaker 3: thirty minutes, your phone calls when we come back. On

852
00:41:51,480 --> 00:41:55,319
Speaker 3: this great Wednesday morning here in southern California, the sun

853
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:58,200
Speaker 3: is out and the Dodgers are back home, up two

854
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:00,960
Speaker 3: games to nothing in the end. LC. Yes he is

855
00:42:01,000 --> 00:42:03,400
Speaker 3: Steve Sacks. I'm Tim Kates. Thanks for being with us,

856
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 3: live and local. You're home of the Dodgers. Seven is

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00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 3: my favorite jingle. Here we go, boom that that that thing.