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Speaker 3: joining us right now. The man of the app one

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Speaker 3: of the hour, Miguel.

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Speaker 4: It's our guests we're talking about it. Not only one

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Speaker 4: of the great men representing Venezuela and Southern California simultaneously,

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Speaker 4: but also a legendary Dodger hero of epic proportion. I

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Speaker 4: this off season was very, very special. The fact that

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Speaker 4: but the flair the exuberance, the leadership that Miguel brings

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Speaker 4: God bless you. That's Matt Smith on Petros Papadakas. I

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Speaker 4: don't think we've talked on the radio in many years.

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Speaker 2: Many years. Yeah, maybe way back the first time around.

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Speaker 2: I remember that, So tell us we don't know if

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Speaker 4: It's two worlds, Ampi and Chips for Miguel going for three,

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Speaker 4: just get another deal, and how could he not after

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Speaker 4: such a magical postseason, But just give us an idea.

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Speaker 4: It's been such a magical time for everybody in the city.

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Speaker 4: I can't imagine what it's been like for you, your

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Speaker 2: What's this offseason been like. It seems like it's been

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's been overwhelming, to be honest with you, guys.

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Speaker 6: But I didn't want to walk away from it because

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Speaker 6: I know what happened was really special, having happened in

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Speaker 6: I feel like that's the most special thing on Mahart,

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Speaker 5: So proud of being part of the part of this organization.

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Speaker 3: Look at that beautiful opening statement, Miguel. The you know

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Speaker 5: And that's another thing about this club.

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Speaker 6: And I'm happy that he won a championship with number

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Speaker 6: It's my personality. It's what I like is I like

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Speaker 4: We're talking about real history. But you know, it's not

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Speaker 4: Like you said, we talked to you ten years ago.

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Speaker 4: What keeps you because it's hard to have a fire

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Speaker 6: So many, so many energy drinks to play one hundred

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Speaker 3: Well, you brought it up the defense, so let's uh.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you just answered, Uh, so which one was?

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Speaker 3: Like when you when you fielded that ball, you're you're

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Speaker 5: But it was it was amazing. Still give me anxiety every.

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Speaker 4: But before before we get too far ahead of yourself,

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Speaker 6: Yeah, everything is started back in Venezuela watching marviy Scale play.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Omar Omar was was a wizzar man on the

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Speaker 6: And it's definitely an opportunity here to talk about that

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Speaker 3: Okay, So that never you never were like you never

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Speaker 2: I want to hit five hundred. Like that never shifted.

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Speaker 3: You kept that defensive focus even with I think Alex Gonzales,

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Speaker 5: Biscal was always a short stop. He never moved.

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Speaker 6: But Martinez and Marcus Kuta kinda taught me something really special.

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Speaker 5: All that that you guys already talked about.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, I checked my game out of those three guys.

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Speaker 4: You know, Mookie Bets credits you for helping him learn

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Speaker 5: He found he found his groove this last year. You

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Speaker 6: get that gog glove a short stop, and he's going

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Speaker 6: to continue to do whatever he wants. If he wants

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Speaker 6: to move back to right field, he's going to be

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Speaker 6: a go glover over there. And it's because of the

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Speaker 6: work ethic. He comes to the field every single day

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Speaker 6: to prepare to get better. And I feel like, I mean,

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Speaker 6: he credit a little bit to me, but I credited

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Speaker 6: back to him because the way that he plays every

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Speaker 6: single day. I was just an accept for him to

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Speaker 6: kind of like share my experience at the position that

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Speaker 6: I think he couldn't get in any with any coach,

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Speaker 6: because I mean, one thing is the things that you

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Speaker 6: do every single day to get better at a.

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Speaker 5: Fielding or throwing or moving your feet.

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Speaker 6: But the experience of like knowing that this guy is

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Speaker 6: pulling the ball, or this guys is staying through the middle,

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Speaker 6: that display you should throw the thirty instead of first.

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Speaker 6: So those are the things that I'm there for Mookie

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Speaker 6: every single day, and I'm willing to continue to do

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Speaker 6: that this year and hopefully next year when I'm starting

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Speaker 6: to be a coach.

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Speaker 3: Pretty hard not to be excited about the next forty

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Speaker 3: minutes with Miguel Rohase. After that starts, we are inside

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Speaker 3: the locker room. We'll step aside here for a minute.

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Speaker 3: We're going until five o'clock. Two more segments with Miguel.

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Speaker 3: A big thank you to our friends at Verizon Wireless.

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Speaker 2: Dance party in here.

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Speaker 3: Putting this thing on a packed house inside the locker

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Speaker 3: room as you would expect, as we make our way

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Speaker 3: forward on your home the back to back World Series

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Speaker 3: champion Dodgers Amphi sevylas words, this is Petro send money

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Speaker 3: demand Uh. We continue live inside the locker room, courtesy

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Speaker 3: and brought to you by Verizon Wireless, with two time

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Speaker 3: World Series champion Miguel Rojas.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 3: If you were not able to make it in we

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Speaker 3: have got a hack of a crowd all enjoying Miguel's company.

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Speaker 2: He took pictures of everybody durned the brain.

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Speaker 3: Talk about it, batterer afternoon here on your home of

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Speaker 3: the Dodgers Pee.

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Speaker 4: We're live inside the locker room, brought to you by Supporo.

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Speaker 2: As we have is this cold? It's cold? I mean,

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Speaker 2: should we crack them?

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Speaker 5: You know?

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Speaker 2: Migal has a Sapporo tattoo. I'm going to crack them,

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Speaker 2: Miguel ere we go. Yeah, good, of course, let's crack them.

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Speaker 6: Salute, cheers, cheers, guys, must my favorite be it right here.

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Speaker 4: That's right and brought to you by Verizon and our friends.

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Speaker 4: We're talking to a real hero of to see you,

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Speaker 4: don and beyond, Miguel Rojas. Now, before we go any further,

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Speaker 4: let's talk about that home run because it was very special.

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Speaker 4: It happened here on the radio. No one will ever

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Speaker 4: forget it. It'll be like Kirk Gibson and Freddie Freeman

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Speaker 4: and his teeth. It'll go down in the history in

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Speaker 4: the history of Los Doyers in town. So let's hear

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Speaker 4: it on the radio live when it was recorded on

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Speaker 4: m FHI seventy LA Sports.

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Speaker 3: When Rojas fight his way on base full count, Hoffman delivers,

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Speaker 3: Rojas hits it in the air left field.

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Speaker 2: This post got some carry.

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Speaker 5: It is gold.

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Speaker 2: It's gone.

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Speaker 5: In game seven, he's died.

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Speaker 3: Miguel Rojas off.

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Speaker 2: The bench in game six, on the board. In game seven.

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Speaker 4: Now we all know where we were and we know

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Speaker 4: where he was.

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Speaker 2: He was in Canada.

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Speaker 4: Now, whenever something like that, we talked about the defense

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Speaker 4: in game six. But whenever something like that happens, and

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Speaker 4: you've been a pro for so long, when you thinking

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Speaker 4: about it, do you think about those moments in bed

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Speaker 4: where you know what happens if I do this, or

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Speaker 4: what happens if I do Could you ever imagine something

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Speaker 4: like that happening?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I dream of it, but I never

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Speaker 6: knew that I was going to get the opportunity to

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Speaker 6: do that, especially in game seven. Obviously I'm not a

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Speaker 6: home roun hitter, and not many people would remember me

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Speaker 6: as a as a big home roun hitter. But now

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Speaker 6: that I hit the home run, think about it, right? Yeah,

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Speaker 6: that's what that's That's something that he talks a lot

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Speaker 6: about preparation and being ready for the moment.

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Speaker 5: And and I continue to quote though, Doc, because when

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Speaker 5: we get.

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Speaker 6: To spring training a couple of years ago, he says

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Speaker 6: something that he was really impactful, not just for me,

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Speaker 6: but for the whole clubhouse. I feel like a lot

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Speaker 6: of people I wanted to be in that in that

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Speaker 6: in that opportunity and ask for the for the chance

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Speaker 6: to to have the big moment, you know, three two

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Speaker 6: two outs. You know, I want to be on the

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Speaker 6: mound until you really got the chance, you know, like,

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Speaker 6: are you are you really gonna have your mentality and

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Speaker 6: you're gonna have to keep your composure and and do

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Speaker 6: everything that you need to do in practice to be

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Speaker 6: ready for that moment.

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Speaker 5: And I think, uh, that's what I always I.

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Speaker 6: Was thinking when I was on the bench, because if

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Speaker 6: you have a spot on the roster, you're always gonna

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Speaker 6: have the opportunity to get something like that. And that

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Speaker 6: moment was for me, uh, the biggest moment of my

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Speaker 6: career and always gonna leave between me, my family, and

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Speaker 6: the city of Los Angeles because uh.

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Speaker 5: That that was really special.

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Speaker 6: And and for me to hit the ball and and

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Speaker 6: kind of gave us an opportunity to.

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Speaker 3: Win everywhere in Canada exactly.

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Speaker 2: From ven with all of North America except for the top.

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Speaker 3: You always hear, like a lot of times with players,

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Speaker 3: they'll say, oh, well, you know, when you hit the

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Speaker 3: home run, what were you looking? I usually say, I

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Speaker 3: wasn't looking to hit a home run. I've got to

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Speaker 3: believe three and two show Hail Tani's on deck, you

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Speaker 3: really probably weren't thinking of hitting a home run, were you?

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Speaker 3: Or was that pitch so groove that it changed It's

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Speaker 3: hard for us to fathom, like a spherical object coming

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Speaker 3: at ninety five miles an hour, and you can make

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Speaker 3: those sort of split second decisions.

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Speaker 2: So kind of what went into that swinging.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, The thing is like he kept me like thinking

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Speaker 6: and guessing what he's gonna throw, you know, because I

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Speaker 6: guess wrong from the beginning. You know, I guess that

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Speaker 6: he was gonna throw me a fassile away because I

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Speaker 6: just got a good bass hitting my second about against

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Speaker 6: Jersey with a slider, with a hanging slider. I hit

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Speaker 6: it to left and I felt like, Okay, I got

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Speaker 6: a hit against the slider. He's probably gonna attack me

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Speaker 6: a little bit different. He don't want to walk me.

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Speaker 6: He wants to he wants me to put the ball

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Speaker 6: in play. So I thought he was gonna throw me

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Speaker 6: a fassble away. He threw me a slider into the

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Speaker 6: dead and I swiingmed through it, and I think that

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Speaker 6: that pitch kind of make me lock it in a

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Speaker 6: little bit more and make me let the boat travel.

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Speaker 6: We talk about that when when a guy throws ninety

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Speaker 6: four ninety five is a little bit easier, but this

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Speaker 6: guy was throwing ninety six ninety seven almost ninety hour

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Speaker 6: and it's really hard to let the boat travel and

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Speaker 6: be on time for the fastball. So I felt like,

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Speaker 6: what kind of gave me the confidence to do that

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Speaker 6: was the second, the third and fourth pitch were fast,

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Speaker 6: was away and I was able to file the back

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Speaker 6: to right field and I was letting the boat travel,

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Speaker 6: and I said, okay, I got time. I can't let

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Speaker 6: the ball travel. I'm hitting his best fastball. So let's

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Speaker 6: see what he's gonna throw now. So he threw me

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Speaker 6: a bad slider that he was kind of like opening,

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Speaker 6: and then he honed one and I was able to

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Speaker 6: put a good swing on it. But like you say,

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Speaker 6: I wasn't. I wasn't thinking to hit a home run.

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Speaker 6: I mean, everybody knows that I'm not a power hitter.

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Speaker 6: I was just trying to get on base for show,

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Speaker 6: to get the opportunity to tie the game with a

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Speaker 6: big swing of our big guy, you know.

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Speaker 5: But I was able to do it, and as you know,

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Speaker 5: I was going out, Uh, I hit it. I knew

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Speaker 5: I hit it good.

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Speaker 6: I was running hard because I thought because of the

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Speaker 6: big fans in left field. But then when I saw

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Speaker 6: the the booping guys looking up like this.

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Speaker 5: I tied the game.

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Speaker 3: What did show Hey say to you when you came

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Speaker 3: exactly to the clause so you tie the game? Show

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Speaker 3: Hay's coming. We always see like a high five of

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Speaker 3: you guys had a little bit of an exchange there.

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Speaker 3: What did what did he say to you when you

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Speaker 3: came back to the dugout?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, sho show He flew out on the first pitch

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Speaker 6: to left field. And one one thing that happens before

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Speaker 6: that is I'm seeing Blake snel on the on the

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Speaker 6: bench's pitching right, and he had to pitch it but

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Speaker 6: the bottom uh, the bottom of that inning.

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Speaker 5: Uh to give us the opportunity to win the game.

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Speaker 6: After uh, And he's just like quiet, like focus on

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Speaker 6: on going back to pitch. It was just clapping. Well

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Speaker 6: when everybody else is screaming like we.

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Speaker 5: Won the World Series already, you know. Uh.

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Speaker 6: That kind of like made me realize that we still

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Speaker 6: got work to do, you know, like we I wing

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Speaker 6: win the game. We just like this something really special

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Speaker 6: because I mean we're down to our last two outs.

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Speaker 6: But show her when he flew out, he came back

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Speaker 6: to a dog and I'm like, I'm just walking back

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Speaker 6: to put my helmet on the on the rack, and

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Speaker 6: he just told me that.

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Speaker 5: Hey, MIGGI, you can retire. Now you have to play

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Speaker 5: for ten more years.

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Speaker 2: Ten more years. So there you go. You're stuck for

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Speaker 2: ten more years.

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Speaker 6: So I played one more year with you and then

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Speaker 6: after that I'll be coaching or doing something else. But

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Speaker 6: that was special because I mean, when you put anything on,

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Speaker 6: everything on context and and how great show he's being

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Speaker 6: through his career, not just on the field but off

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Speaker 6: the field, and the way that he carried himself, the

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Speaker 6: way that he was like working so hard and getting

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Speaker 6: that speech the other day, and it was flawless for

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Speaker 6: the MVP, and I think that's that's the greatest player

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Speaker 6: of our generation, if not the best player that ever

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Speaker 6: played the game. For him to come to me and

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Speaker 6: say something like that, it means a lot, and he

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Speaker 6: is something that I will take forever.

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Speaker 4: The one and only Miggy Rojas our guests on the

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Speaker 4: Petros and Money Show brought to you by Verizon Wireless,

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Speaker 4: his favorite beer Supporo, and his Japanese teammates who love

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Speaker 4: it as well. But it really is a global team,

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Speaker 4: uh is the you been on other baseball teams, other

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Speaker 4: franchises in the miners.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you fought your way all the way through.

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Speaker 4: Uh, what is the feeling inside the Dodger Clubhouse among

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Speaker 4: those guys Because you look around and this one guy

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Speaker 4: sitting here is the best player maybe ever to play,

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Speaker 4: Clayton Kershaw, your generational Hall of Fame pitcher. What's it like,

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Speaker 4: you know, on a day to day basis being around

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Speaker 4: all those guys and leading those guys.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, he sucks because they become human beings, you know

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Speaker 6: you And I mean they're not they're not superstars superheroes

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Speaker 6: anymore to you. But that's that's what's really cool, you know,

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Speaker 6: like that you get to uh to to for your family,

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Speaker 6: your son and the people around you.

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Speaker 5: To get to be with these people.

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Speaker 6: And and when you get in the clubhouse is like

666
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Speaker 6: a really a good connection that not everybody else can see.

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00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:12,680
Speaker 6: And it's really really cool to see the other aspects

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00:31:12,760 --> 00:31:14,960
Speaker 6: of the just the player, and see what kind of

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Speaker 6: people they are and where they're coming from and the

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00:31:18,080 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 6: different culture and the way that they like things. It's

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Speaker 6: pretty special because in this clubhouse we have so many

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Speaker 6: different players from different cultures coming in with the same

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Speaker 6: goal and and and that's right, it's a different creature

674
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Speaker 6: when he's American. But that's that's the most special that

675
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:41,920
Speaker 6: the most special thing about this team is that everybody

676
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 6: who walks in this clubhouse doesn't matter who it is.

677
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 6: The mentality change and it's all about the Dodgers and

678
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:51,760
Speaker 6: about the winning that we have, the winning.

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Speaker 5: Culture that we created.

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Speaker 6: And then these guys they created before me and before

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00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,720
Speaker 6: us right now because they've been the winning on a

682
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Speaker 6: regular basis for a long time in.

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Speaker 5: The regular season.

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Speaker 6: Now we put it all together and now we're going

685
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Speaker 6: not just to the playoffs, but we're reaching another level,

686
00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,880
Speaker 6: which is like, if we don't win the last game

687
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:15,239
Speaker 6: of the year is a failure every single time, and

688
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:17,000
Speaker 6: everybody knows it, from.

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Speaker 5: The front office to the ownership, to the to the

690
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,880
Speaker 5: to the manager, coaching staff, and us.

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Speaker 6: We feel it every single day and they continue to

692
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 6: not make us be acceptable than anything else.

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Speaker 5: And the reason why is because the.

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Speaker 6: General manager went out and got the best reliever of

695
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Speaker 6: the free agency and it got the best player on

696
00:32:37,240 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 6: free agency this year, and that creates the competition that

697
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 6: still needs to be alive. Older players need to continue

698
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 6: needs to continue to do their job, and younger players

699
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Speaker 6: they can't really come in and say, Okay, I'm just

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Speaker 6: gonna have my spot right here, and I'm gonna be

701
00:32:52,560 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 6: okay playing our level. No, it's not gonna be a

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00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 6: kind of like a flexibility of like okay, I I can,

703
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:01,760
Speaker 6: I can be okay.

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Speaker 5: For a little bit.

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Speaker 6: No, everybody needs to kind of continue to push themselves

706
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:07,520
Speaker 6: to be the best because we have the best time

707
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Speaker 6: in the room.

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Speaker 2: Well, uh, it goes by quick.

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Speaker 3: We got one more to go as we'll step aside here,

710
00:33:13,720 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 3: come back for our final segment inside the locker room

711
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 3: and join our souporos enjoying our company, then certainly enjoying

712
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Speaker 3: the centerpiece of it all, Miguel Rohans, a two time

713
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 3: World Series champion. We'll do it for one more segment

714
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 3: before passing it along to Adam Ouslin and Clipper Pregame

715
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 3: stick around. Uh, still a handful of time, a handful

716
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Speaker 3: of questions, and some time to go when we come

717
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Speaker 3: back on a five to seventy l a sports.

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Speaker 1: Southern California's most listened to sports talk show this Money

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Speaker 1: on Demand.

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Speaker 3: Well, we have a lot of time, team, so uh,

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Speaker 3: let's get right to it. We got good Let's go

722
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Speaker 3: Dodgors xach. They got the let's go Dodger chant. We

723
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Speaker 3: are in side the locker room with the great Miguel Rojas.

724
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Speaker 3: We only have about seven minutes left, so jump right

725
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Speaker 3: back into it so we can try to get because

726
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Speaker 3: Miguel is so loquacious.

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Speaker 4: I don't know, it's fantastic. Where and when did you

728
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Speaker 4: learn such beauty? I mean you're a great communicator.

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Speaker 6: I mean, I've been in this country for over twenty

730
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Speaker 6: years now, I really understand.

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Speaker 4: It wasn't always like that. Fernando never spoke. I mean

732
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:25,320
Speaker 4: he never talked.

733
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Speaker 6: To us well because he might never think about being

734
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Speaker 6: a coach after afterwards, you know, and when you just

735
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:33,239
Speaker 6: have to play baseball, you don't need to speak English, right,

736
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Speaker 6: But I feel when you when you want to be

737
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 6: a good leader, when you want to be a coach after,

738
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Speaker 6: I feel like you have to put the fort of

739
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Speaker 6: beautiful learning. And my son and my daughter are American,

740
00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 6: so they they got yeah.

741
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Speaker 3: Exactly, I do want to go to before I want

742
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 3: to make sure we get this in because I think

743
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:55,799
Speaker 3: obviously everybody knows about the home run, everyone knows about

744
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,680
Speaker 3: the double play, about the force out at home But

745
00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 3: because you know, you were gone so quickly after you arrived.

746
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:05,040
Speaker 3: I want to go back to June eighteenth, twenty fourteen,

747
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 3: because Clayton Kershaw has only had one no hitter in

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Speaker 3: his career, And for people that may not be aware,

749
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Speaker 3: let's go to the I think it was a seventh inning,

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Speaker 3: right one out. You're playing third base, and you basically

751
00:35:17,000 --> 00:35:19,120
Speaker 3: save the no hitter, kind of take us through being

752
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 3: a rookie wearing number seventy two. Kershaw is through six

753
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:25,960
Speaker 3: and a third and this freaking shot pushes you all

754
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 3: the way back. If you can visualize the diamond the

755
00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:31,799
Speaker 3: farthest right corner of dirt, You've got one foot in

756
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Speaker 3: the grass, and you manage to pepper a throw over

757
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Speaker 3: the first and preserve the no hitter for Clayton.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that was really special. Top three in my career

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00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:40,879
Speaker 5: for sure.

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Speaker 6: At that time, I was just trying to stay in

761
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Speaker 6: the big leagues and help any way I can. And

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Speaker 6: I go back to what I was talking about a

763
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 6: couple moments ago when I say, when you walk in

764
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:55,320
Speaker 6: that clubhouse and you see a guy like Clayton Kersher,

765
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Speaker 6: Brian Clayton Cirsher, you know he's the MVP of that year.

766
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Speaker 6: Cy Young winner, face of the franchise, face of baseball

767
00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 6: at the time, and you seem like dominating every single start.

768
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:09,759
Speaker 6: Like the least you can do is play your ass

769
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Speaker 6: of every single time you're out there. So I feel

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Speaker 6: like that moment was really special for me and obviously

771
00:36:16,800 --> 00:36:19,000
Speaker 6: all the fans when I came back, that's the first

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Speaker 6: thing that they remember.

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Speaker 5: I remember.

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Speaker 6: I remember me from saving kerchonal hitter and I didn't

775
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 6: say anything. I feel like I just was doing my

776
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 6: job because if that ball goes through me, they probably

777
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Speaker 6: find someone else that can catch it.

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Speaker 5: And that's what I was thinking about. And at the end,

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00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 5: at the end of the game.

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Speaker 6: It was like really special that he came to me

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00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:42,520
Speaker 6: and say thank you, MIGGI, and we started to create

782
00:36:42,560 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 6: a really good relationship and he's gonna be one of

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Speaker 6: my favorites forever. But that moment and that time in

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00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:51,719
Speaker 6: my career kind of make me make me realize that

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Speaker 6: I was doing something good at my young age, and

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Speaker 6: I'm glad that I did it with the tollerself.

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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 4: Part of the great appeal of Miguel Rojas, isn't you.

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Speaker 4: It's the hard work, the story, the leadership, the things

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00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:06,239
Speaker 4: we talk about it's a style, a style, and a

791
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Speaker 4: lot of people don't know because we don't know the

792
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Speaker 4: Van Cleve and our peals, you know, most guys, you know,

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00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 4: they don't know about the necklace and the ear rings.

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00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 4: They see it, but they don't know. Could you tell

795
00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 4: the people because they're I mean, it's really beauty.

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Speaker 2: You gotta lot. Did you always have that style?

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00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:23,640
Speaker 5: Now?

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Speaker 2: I feel like shoes and kind of the same one

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Speaker 2: we always see the earrings and necklace or.

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Speaker 6: Do you have all I pair the same colored necklace,

801
00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:35,399
Speaker 6: the Dodger blue. I pair it with the earrings now.

802
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:39,359
Speaker 6: So I brought it for this year for FanFest and

803
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:42,880
Speaker 6: for a community tour that we're gonna do. But definitely

804
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 6: a style. Always been part of my game, kind of,

805
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 6: you know. I love shoes. I love the Jordan brand,

806
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:52,239
Speaker 6: and I love Nike brand, and and I trying to

807
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 6: kind of like reflect my personality through my shoes when

808
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:58,360
Speaker 6: I play baseball, right, because you can't really.

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Speaker 5: Wear too many things or many colors.

810
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Speaker 6: Especially when I was coming into a lee, it was

811
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Speaker 6: a rule that you have to wear circuit colors, uh,

812
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,759
Speaker 6: you know, and and that changed over time and now

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00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:12,920
Speaker 6: that you can actually spress yourself a little bit more

814
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,399
Speaker 6: through the colors and and the shoes and all that.

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Speaker 5: I always being kind.

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Speaker 2: Of like that.

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Speaker 4: But nobody else wears the cliff Bank Cliff, the number one.

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Speaker 4: You only see that at like the can film festivals.

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Speaker 4: That's pretty super style for the Dodgers. Yeah, that's a

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00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:28,400
Speaker 4: great style.

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Speaker 5: I came.

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Speaker 6: I came last year with the bank Cliff necklace because

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Speaker 6: I felt like that's something that just the woman's where

824
00:38:36,400 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 6: I got a couple for my wife and I said,

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Speaker 6: you know what this, I think this would look good collaboration.

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Speaker 5: I hope so they should. God, I'm playing.

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Speaker 2: Nobody's pushed more than you.

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Speaker 5: I'm playing.

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Speaker 6: I'm playing on the biggest the biggest page with the

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Speaker 6: biggest team in the in the world.

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Speaker 5: So uh.

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Speaker 6: But now it was really cool to see a lot

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Speaker 6: of people like kind of connecting with me and and

834
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Speaker 6: the stuff that I was wearing. And actually a lot

835
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Speaker 6: of people from from Bankleef reach out to me and say, hey,

836
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:09,120
Speaker 6: you don't even know how many people came during Christmas

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Speaker 6: trying to find the same necklace that I was wearing.

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Speaker 2: Two bracelets I got thrown out of my house.

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Speaker 3: I'm putting the guy an endorsement deal. I mean, my goodness,

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Speaker 3: well we're right up against it. We got about thirty

841
00:39:22,280 --> 00:39:24,680
Speaker 3: seconds forty five seconds here, So I do want to

842
00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:27,200
Speaker 3: ask you wanted to play for the country. David Vesse

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00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:30,560
Speaker 3: shared with us that you committed to the Dodgers the

844
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:34,279
Speaker 3: last time this thing happened, and unfortunately now it's not

845
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Speaker 3: going to be able to put together. But just it's

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Speaker 3: hard for I think people in America kind of wrap

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00:39:37,960 --> 00:39:40,280
Speaker 3: their head around the World Baseball Class, but how important

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Speaker 3: it is to so many players in this league.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, WBC and putting the flag in your on your

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00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 6: chest and like over your your career is really important.

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00:39:51,000 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 6: And I feel like that's why so many players that

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00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:58,360
Speaker 6: accomplished so much during their careers they always talk about,

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Speaker 6: like how the e speerience was in the WBC, because

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00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:04,560
Speaker 6: it's different baseball. It's a game seven, every single game

855
00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 6: that you play, it doesn't matter who you go against.

856
00:40:07,000 --> 00:40:09,200
Speaker 6: And I mean in twenty three, I had the opportunity

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Speaker 6: to go. I was on the roster and everything was

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Speaker 6: clear with my insurance, but then Gamy locks went down

859
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:17,440
Speaker 6: and the Dodgers asked me to stay to prepare to

860
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Speaker 6: play short stuff for a full season, and I decided

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Speaker 6: to do that.

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00:40:20,480 --> 00:40:22,680
Speaker 5: I couldn't go to the WBC.

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Speaker 6: And then this year just because of my age, I'm

864
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:30,359
Speaker 6: turning thirty seven by the start of February, and the

865
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Speaker 6: insurance companies say, I'm sorry, we can really get insured,

866
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,960
Speaker 6: like ensure your your contract with the Dodgers, And it's

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Speaker 6: really hard for me to kind of like go out

868
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Speaker 6: there and take away from what we.

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Speaker 5: Can do for a long season.

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Speaker 6: So it's kind of sad, and I feel like I

871
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 6: want the best for the for the country, one of

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00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:53,839
Speaker 6: the best, the best for the team, and that's why

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Speaker 6: I wanted to go, because I feel like I can

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Speaker 6: help them to accomplish what they want.

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Speaker 5: But at the end of the day, it will be

876
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:01,840
Speaker 5: a little portunia, hopefully as a coach.

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00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:06,799
Speaker 4: Always the best intentions. What a guy, Miguel Rojas. What

878
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:10,040
Speaker 4: a special treat. A big thank you to Soporo Caitlin

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00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:14,400
Speaker 4: from Soaporo is here. Our friends at Verizon Verizon Wireless

880
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 4: brank you this great, great opportunity to talk to a

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Speaker 4: great player, a great leader, a great countryman and a

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Speaker 4: great Dodger Miguel Rojas.

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Speaker 3: Every night, Thanks everyone for coming. Adam Oslin here with

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