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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 year.

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Speaker 1: Is not trying to win a championship, They're trying to repeat.

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

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

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Speaker 5: Division champions.

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Speaker 1: And you know what that means.

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Speaker 6: 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 6: Reacting, taking your phone calls, talking Dodgers playoff baseball all

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Speaker 6: postseason long.

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

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Speaker 7: Steve Sacks, Tim Kats.

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

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Speaker 7: All right, here we go. The World Series is said,

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Speaker 7: Buckle up, La.

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Speaker 6: It's the Dodgers and the Jura Toe Blue Jays in

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Speaker 6: the twenty twenty five MLB World Series Game one Friday

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Speaker 6: night at the Rogers Center north of the Border in Toronto, Canada.

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Speaker 6: First pitch five to oh eight, and we are off

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Speaker 6: and running. In our preview leading you up to Game

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Speaker 6: one of the Fall Classic. I am Tim Kates, joined

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Speaker 6: by two times World Series Champion, Rookie of the Year,

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Speaker 6: our favorite number three oh one and only, Steve sack Saxy.

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Speaker 7: Good morning, Tim Kates.

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Speaker 3: How are you?

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Speaker 7: Tim? I'm excited now that we finally know what the.

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Speaker 6: Matchup will be, and it's not the opponent I had

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Speaker 6: hoped for. I wanted the Seattle Mariners, full disclosure, but

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Speaker 6: they were nine outs away from making that come true. Instead,

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Speaker 6: it's the Toronto Blue Jays who will square off against

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Speaker 6: show Hey Otani and the Dodgers. And just quick from

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Speaker 6: the get go, here your initial thoughts Toronto Blue Jays

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Speaker 6: Dodgers World Series. First thing that comes to my initial

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Speaker 6: thoughts about this series, well, it's it's.

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Speaker 3: A very formidable opponent, no question about it. This team's

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Speaker 3: got firepower, they've got pitching, they got defense, they got

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be a battle, no doubt. I think the

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Speaker 3: Blue Jays when they look over and see the Dodgers

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Speaker 3: are they're going to see a team that's well stocked.

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Speaker 3: Starting pitching is crazy off the chart, and I definitely

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Speaker 3: give the advantage to the Dodgers, not because I'm a

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Speaker 3: homer and I think that that that you know, they're

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Speaker 3: just a better team. I mean, the Milwaukee Brewers saw

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Speaker 3: that the team that had the best record in all

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Speaker 3: of baseball, and they didn't have a chance against the Dodgers.

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Speaker 3: The discrepancy between talent and these two organizations that the

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Speaker 3: Dodgers just finished off was pretty apparent. I don't think

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Speaker 3: it's quite as vast with the Toronto Blue Jays, but

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Speaker 3: I think the Dodgers are the better team. It's just

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Speaker 3: a matter of execution. Now.

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Speaker 6: It was a great game seven of the Alcs last night.

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Speaker 6: The Seattle Mariners jumped out to.

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Speaker 7: The early lead.

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Speaker 6: They were up three to one in the seventh when

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Speaker 8: One oh pitch, swinging a five ball left field and

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Speaker 9: Good a stringer dinger four three Blue.

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Speaker 8: Jays in the bottom of the seventh, one knee, no problem.

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Speaker 8: You have to have that guy in a big game,

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Speaker 8: and he crushed a pitch out till left center.

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Speaker 2: You have got to be kidding me, Ben, That is

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Speaker 2: the best moment in sports I have ever seen.

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Speaker 6: Blue Jay's radio with the call, and George Springer three

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Speaker 3: Hey, that's a big homer bit. I can point to

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Speaker 7: Yeah, talk about one knee.

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Speaker 3: They're playing that up like, oh, we could barely walk.

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Speaker 3: He's sprinting like crazy to first. But when he when

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Speaker 6: It is George Springer, who, let's not forget, was a

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Speaker 7: So Dodgers and what was that, tim? What was that again?

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Speaker 6: About that seventeen twenty and seventeen they were hitting trash

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Speaker 3: He part of that team.

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Speaker 6: He was part of that team in twenty and seventeen.

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Speaker 6: George spring now a member of the Toronto Blue Jays,

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Speaker 6: and he hit that three run home run last night

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Speaker 6: and in Seattle this morning, they're waking up and they

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Speaker 6: are just absolutely miserable with the way the final nine

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Speaker 6: way their postseason run comes to an end. I mean,

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Speaker 6: the seventh inning. And this brings up so many questions

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Speaker 7: Throw all that out.

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Speaker 6: It's high leverage situation when you've got the top of

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Speaker 6: absolutely made the wrong decision not to go to their

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Speaker 7: And the highest of leverage situations.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, hindsight the twenty twenty, you know, with

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Speaker 3: No, I would have extended Wu. And I know that

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Speaker 3: he was getting it done. A big fan of Brian Wu.

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Speaker 3: He's this guy can flat out get it done a

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Speaker 3: lot of times in you know, those questionable situations in

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Speaker 6: No, now that you got all off season, you got

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Speaker 6: how close the Seattle Mariners were to get into their

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Speaker 7: Night, Saxy.

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Speaker 6: They were so close to getting into the Fall Classic.

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Speaker 6: Full disclosure. Was already starting to do prep on Seattle.

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Speaker 6: I was already starting to do history on Seattle, the city.

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Speaker 6: I was already starting to think about different guests that

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Speaker 6: live up in Seattle. Sports talk hosts Our Buddy Dave

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Speaker 6: Softy Maller up there. I was gonna call him and

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Speaker 6: get him on this morning. I was excited to talk

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Speaker 6: Seattle Mariners, baseball, talk, coffee, and the origins of Starbucks.

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Speaker 3: I mean Hendricks.

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Speaker 7: Absolutely.

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Speaker 6: I was even more excited because looking at the Seattle

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Speaker 6: Mariners lineup, it didn't scare me. I mean, six through nine,

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Speaker 6: I mean, pu, it's stunk in this series. And I

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Speaker 6: I felt like, man, that is the easier the two

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Speaker 6: the Rodriguez and Raleigh and Naylor. And you know, Suarez

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Speaker 6: had cooled off in the in the Alcs. Absolutely, yes

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Speaker 6: he did it. They're all hitting under two hundred. I

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Speaker 6: mean I was licking my chocks, thinking, yes, we want Seattle.

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Speaker 6: Let them squeak by with a three to one win,

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Speaker 6: bring on the Mariners. Not only did the Dodgers sweep

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Speaker 6: they're playing right now, offensively, the Dodgers can completely control

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Speaker 7: Staff was pitching right now. But gosh darned.

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Speaker 6: The Blue Jays, the most comebacks in baseball this season,

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Speaker 6: did it again last night. And here Schneider, their manager,

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Speaker 6: after the game, like, yeah, we you know what, we've

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Speaker 6: And I'd believe in my guys. I mean, he was

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Speaker 3: You know what, Tim, Uh, that's fine because these things

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Speaker 3: don't automatically roll over. You don't just automatically roll over,

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Speaker 3: well as he's swinging the bat, you know you can

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Speaker 3: Alejandro Kirk He's he's a he's a good hitter, but

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Speaker 3: It's Springer and Guerrero the two guys that you have

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Speaker 3: He's having a good postseason. Sometimes you see guys that

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Speaker 3: That's kind of what reminds me of Lucas a little bit.

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Speaker 3: So they got some This is a This is a

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Speaker 6: This matchup the Dodgers in Blue Jays has has got

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Speaker 6: so many storylines going into it. I am fired up

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Speaker 6: show Hey Otani, Mookie Bets, Freddie Freeman, and then you've

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Speaker 6: got Vlad Guerrero Junior, who is just an absolute dynamic

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Speaker 6: whole dynamic of two forty year old pitchers basically I

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Speaker 6: And now two guys who will be pitching maybe in

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Speaker 6: Will we see Clayton Kershaw maybe. Then you've got the

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Speaker 6: other storylines of show Hey Otani, Steve. Remember when he

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Speaker 7: I cannot wait.

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Speaker 6: The storylines are abundant for this fall classic.

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Speaker 3: So you got it all the way, not only you know,

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Speaker 7: Right, Yeah, Kens like Lamar and Blake. What I say, Blake?

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Speaker 6: You got Ken's like Lamar and Drake Rake Drake, the

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Speaker 3: I was almost gonna bring one in, you know, for

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Speaker 6: We have Shane Biba. Well, it is Justin Bieber. It's

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Speaker 3: We can. And you know, there's a couple of things

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Speaker 3: first of all, why are they copying our colors? They

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Speaker 7: Well, they've always wanted to be like the United States

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Speaker 7: Mean the good thing. I loved it.

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Speaker 3: They got a beautiful anthem.

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Speaker 7: Whoa it is? Really you heard the anthem. I first.

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Speaker 6: Really liked the Canadian national anthem was when I fell

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Speaker 6: Canadian national anthem, and miss I memorized it. Yeah, and

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Speaker 7: I know it.

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Speaker 3: Maybe I'll do my rendition of it because I can.

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Speaker 6: Well, like maybe we kicked off the World Series on Friday,

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a beautiful anthem, and you know what I

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Speaker 3: Because everybody's talking about how bad it was. I mean,

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Speaker 3: I've heard lots of anthems in my life, and a

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Speaker 6: It's hard to mess up the Canadian national anthem. It

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Speaker 7: And you know what, it's short. It is not a

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Speaker 6: It is it's uh and we're gonna hear it Friday,

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Speaker 6: two of this World series, which a lot of Dodger

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Speaker 6: I got two texts last night alone from people are like, what,

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Speaker 6: why don't we have home field advantage? I'm like, guys,

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Speaker 6: the Blue Jays have wins. Yeah, I mean, they had

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Speaker 3: And you can just look that up real easy, right.

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Speaker 6: But I think people are more surprised that the Blue

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Speaker 3: They did, and they were you know, they not not

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Speaker 3: a lot. But I think they had one more win, right,

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Speaker 3: ninety four, Yes, Dodgers had ninety Have Dodgers have ninety three.

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Speaker 6: The Dodgers finished the regular season, of course, the top

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Speaker 6: How about the Yankees getting back? I mean, this is

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Speaker 7: Ran away with the division. No, no, no.

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Speaker 6: The the Yankees came stumbling back the final month and

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Speaker 6: The Yankees won eight straight down the stretch. The Blue

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Speaker 7: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Crazy, and the Dodgers, you know, they the Blue Jays

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Speaker 3: ten too. They could have been better. They split their

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Speaker 3: two to barely eke out. You know that, you know

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Speaker 3: I hope the Dodgers shut them out before they have

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you got to get one of the first two games,

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Speaker 7: How about this, if if it was.

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Speaker 6: this time it counts. Yeah, in the All Star Game,

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Speaker 6: American League versus National League, whoever won that, that team

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Speaker 6: the Dodgers would have had home field advantage if they

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Speaker 7: So, I mean, now it counts right.

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Speaker 3: They should do that for the NFL so they wouldn't

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Speaker 7: What the All Star Game decided.

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Speaker 3: No flag football in the NFL. Oh yes, that is

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Speaker 3: absolutely scary, sick that they do that. Yeah, flag football

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Speaker 7: Uh, he wouldn't approve, he wouldn't show up.

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Speaker 3: Uh yeah. What would Jack Lambert say.

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Speaker 7: Wouldn't even bother being there?

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Speaker 3: No? No, they no, they wouldn't say they wouldn't even

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Speaker 7: No, I mean, I I don't.

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Speaker 6: I'm so wrapped up in the Dodgers postseason. I totally

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Speaker 6: forgot the All Star game. You know what happened. Remember

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Speaker 6: it was the swing off with the home runs. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: and it was decided by like a home run derby style.

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Speaker 3: I like, one swing could decide it, right, right.

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Speaker 6: Imagine if they were still playing for home field in

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Speaker 3: Yes, see, everything let's go back to that. Yeah, go

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Speaker 6: That would have been awesome to have it decided that way.

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Speaker 6: I think we'd go back to that. I think they

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Speaker 7: They would not have changed it back. But I liked it.

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Speaker 7: You know.

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Speaker 6: It brought a little meaning to the Midsummer Classic again

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Speaker 6: the wild card, Steve, now that you've got more teams

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Speaker 3: Half basketball, like everybody gets in.

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Speaker 6: Right, I mean, now it's more competitive. So the thinking

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Speaker 6: They have nothing to play for. You're letting the All

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but they changed the rules so often. I mean

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Speaker 3: I think what they do in baseball is it would

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Speaker 3: back of their head. Why that guy was wearing his

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Speaker 7: Back of his head. I can't figure that out.

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Speaker 3: Well, really, you got glasses on your head, dude. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's a night game, You're in a dome.

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Speaker 7: You got glasses on your head? What is this a

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Speaker 7: fashion joke? Unbelievable show, It's unbelievable, by the way.

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Speaker 6: Major League Baseball part of the new collective bargaining agreement

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Speaker 6: counts in the All Star Game was started in two

438
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Speaker 6: thousand and three and lasted all the way through twenty

439
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Speaker 6: and sixteen. I didn't realize it lasted that long thirteen

440
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Speaker 6: plus seasons, but they finally got rid of it as

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Speaker 6: part of the new collective bargain agreement.

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Speaker 3: So I wonder why that was.

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Speaker 7: I'm not sure.

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Speaker 6: Maybe I don't know why the players wouldn't want it

445
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Speaker 6: or the owners wouldn't want it.

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Speaker 7: I don't know. I don't remember that argument back in

447
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Speaker 7: twenty six.

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Speaker 3: I think it's probably they put too much emphasis on

449
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Speaker 3: the importance of the pitcher where they might try too

450
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Speaker 3: hard and hurt their elbow.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, that could make sense, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, instead of it, you know, being just a sliver

453
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Speaker 3: of a difference between a team. Well, if you push

454
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Speaker 3: them one more inning, then you then you're gonna have

455
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Speaker 3: home field advantage. I mean, you can do this right,

456
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Speaker 3: and then the guy gets hurt and they say, well,

457
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Speaker 3: see what happened. It's too much pressure.

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Speaker 6: I think that's what happened, by the way, when they

459
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Speaker 6: enacted this time it counts for the All Star Game

460
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Speaker 6: to decide home field advantage for the World Series. Ten

461
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Speaker 6: of the thirteen teams with home field advantage went on

462
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Speaker 6: to win the World Series. That stat alone helped convince

463
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Speaker 6: Baseball's decision makers that if it was it was time

464
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Speaker 6: for a change. Under the revised format, the team with

465
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Speaker 6: the best regular season record will again have home field

466
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Speaker 6: advantage in this series. So I guess home field advantage

467
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Speaker 6: really means something in the World Series. And because of that,

468
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Speaker 6: they didn't think it was fair that neutral players in

469
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Speaker 6: an All Star Game in July, who gets home field advantage?

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Speaker 7: Ye, I guess it took him thirteen years to figure

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Speaker 7: that out.

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Speaker 3: By the way, Well, Tim, like you said, I was

473
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Speaker 3: all set to bring in the culture of Seattle. I

474
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Speaker 3: had Jimmy Hendricks, you know, uh, you know top songs,

475
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Speaker 3: I had you know, all those down. We could play

476
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Speaker 3: some of those in the breaks. You could add it

477
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Speaker 3: as a jingle at the beginning. But there's no uh,

478
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Speaker 3: We're not gonna hear about Jimmy Hendricks or anything like that.

479
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Speaker 6: No Nirvana talk, no Pearl Jam talk, no grunge music

480
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Speaker 6: from the nineties talk from the Pacific Northwest, no Pikes plays,

481
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Speaker 6: no uh Starbucks talk, nothing.

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Speaker 3: No Petch coffee, Nope, that's out.

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Speaker 7: I mean, gosh, but what is Toronto good for?

484
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Speaker 3: We're not going to talk about the beauty of snow

485
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Speaker 3: Qualmi Falls. You've been an I never been.

486
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Speaker 7: I don't even know what that is good.

487
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Speaker 3: You had to go there. It's unbelievable, is that? Yeah? Well, anyway,

488
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Speaker 3: that's all gone, so we can talk about you know,

489
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Speaker 3: Toronto now.

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Speaker 7: So I mean, I guess I'm gonna have to google

491
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Speaker 7: what Toronto's good for.

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Speaker 3: I guess. I mean, well, I mean they got that

493
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Speaker 3: big space needle.

494
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Speaker 7: Oh, yeah, they've got that thing.

495
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Speaker 3: So I will tell you there it is a beautiful city.

496
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Speaker 3: I mean clean, very very clean. As they say in

497
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Speaker 3: New York. It's very clean. Okay, I like that part

498
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Speaker 3: of it. People are really nice and uh, that's about

499
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Speaker 3: all I know in Toronto. A few times I was there,

500
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Speaker 3: I really enjoyed it.

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Speaker 6: Uh, they got that big space needle. As you said,

502
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Speaker 6: that's that's sort of it in Toronto. Center has definitely

503
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Speaker 6: advantage to play there for the Blue Jays.

504
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Speaker 7: Oh, they got that hotel and right field. Yeah, what's that?

505
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Speaker 7: They got that hotel and right field you can stay at.

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Speaker 3: Oh, they had to close up the windows on that

507
00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:21,480
Speaker 3: thing though. Do you heard about that? Right?

508
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Speaker 7: I can only imagine what was happening.

509
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, they had to darken the windows. They had to

510
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Speaker 3: do it. You know, they got a car dealership in

511
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Speaker 3: that in that thing in the in the stadium.

512
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Speaker 7: It's huge.

513
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Speaker 3: You have a car dealership in there. It's like they

514
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Speaker 3: got everything there.

515
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Speaker 6: I guess the hotel and ride field gave a new

516
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Speaker 6: meeting to seventh inning stretch and things that were there.

517
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Speaker 6: Tim he and Steve Sacks, I am Tim Kats were

518
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Speaker 6: off and running on this Tuesday morning.

519
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Speaker 7: Thanks for being with us.

520
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Speaker 6: Is the World Series is said Dodgers and the Toronto

521
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Speaker 6: Blue Jays. Cajua Lamar against Drake show Hey against Vlad Guerrero,

522
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Speaker 6: Good versus Evil, the US versus Canada. Game one is

523
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Speaker 6: Friday night from the Rogers Centator. We'll have it for

524
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Speaker 6: you right here at five to oh eight, first pitch

525
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Speaker 6: on your home of the Dodgers ANFI seventy LA sports

526
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Speaker 6: coming up. We'll hear from Mookie Betts, We'll hear from

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Speaker 6: Andrew Freeman. We'll hear from the manager Dave Roberts, and

528
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Speaker 6: a certain Dodger closer could be coming back in the

529
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Speaker 6: World Series, but I don't think it's a good thing.

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Speaker 6: We'll get into that next hour. Jerry Royce will join

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Speaker 6: us in the eight o'clock hour. So much to get

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Speaker 6: to your phone calls as well. Eight six, six, nine

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Speaker 6: eighty seven, two five seventy. It's Sax and kateson am

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Speaker 6: right here on ANFI seventy LA Sports, Kenjlick Lamar against Drake,

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Speaker 6: Dodgers versus Blue Jays, Good versus Evil, US versus Canada.

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Speaker 7: Let's go Gay.

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Speaker 6: One of the World Series is Friday right here on

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Speaker 6: am FI seventy la Sports and we'll have first pitch

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Speaker 6: for you at five oh eight for pitch. Do not

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Speaker 6: know who will be the opening starter for the Dodgers.

541
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Speaker 6: I will imagine those Steve based on what the Dodgers

542
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Speaker 6: have done so far in this postseason. In the wild

543
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Speaker 6: Card round the DS and the CS, Dave Roberts would

544
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Speaker 6: probably be leaning towards Blake Snell in a game one starts.

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Speaker 3: I would think, so, I mean, go with what works right,

546
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Speaker 3: and that's been a very healthy combination for the Dodgers.

547
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Speaker 3: What did Milwaukee get one run a game? I mean

548
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Speaker 3: that's what they kind of were able to muster up.

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Speaker 3: You know this is remember these are two different types

550
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Speaker 3: of teams. Toronto was more of a slugging team. Milwaukee's

551
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Speaker 3: was more of a team that is old school, strings

552
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Speaker 3: hits together and runs the bases differently. So you're gonna

553
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Speaker 3: have more swing and miss, I think with the Toronto club,

554
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Speaker 3: so more chance to pitch. I think the pitch ability

555
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Speaker 3: part of this team on the Dodgers is gonna come

556
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Speaker 3: through more. So this might be a team that you

557
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Speaker 3: can actually strategize better as far as leverage situations and

558
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:05,800
Speaker 3: kind of mitigate those because you're able to pitch to

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Speaker 3: them better. As far as striking them out, You're looking

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Speaker 3: for more big time strikeouts I think here than you

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Speaker 3: would have with Milwaukee.

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Speaker 6: Game one is Friday night at the Rogers Center in

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Speaker 6: Toronto as the Blue Jays beat the Mariners last night

564
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Speaker 6: four to three. George Springer at three run home runs

565
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Speaker 6: at seventh inning to propel the Blue Jays to a win,

566
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Speaker 6: their first time back in the World Series since nineteen

567
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Speaker 6: ninety three, when Joe Carter and that group John Olerude

568
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Speaker 6: won back to back World Series titles for the Toronto

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Speaker 6: Blue Jays. Yesterday, the Dodgers had a workout at Dodgers Stadium,

570
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Speaker 6: had the game on the jumbotrons and left center and

571
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Speaker 6: right center field as they went through a workout, some

572
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Speaker 6: batting practice, a little bit of a sim game as well.

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Speaker 6: Mookie Betts, who is really quietly Steve, had himself a

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Speaker 6: nice postseason, hitting near three hundred in October four doubles,

575
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Speaker 6: he's got himself a triple six r eyes for walks,

576
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Speaker 6: he's got an ops over eight hundred in this postseason

577
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Speaker 6: and no home runs. How about that, Mookie Betts, who

578
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Speaker 6: had a lot of power during the regular season, zero

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Speaker 6: home runs for this Dodgers team. Again, that just shows

580
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Speaker 6: you how they've scored without having to use slug in

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Speaker 6: the home runs, despite the three home runs from shoe

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Speaker 6: Otani of course on Friday night. But here's Mookie Betts

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Speaker 6: after the workout last night with David Veasse and some

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Speaker 6: of the media around the Dodger Batty Cage. How do

585
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Speaker 6: you rest, how you prepare, what you guys do for

586
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Speaker 6: your bodies, and you know, how you guys stayed together

587
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Speaker 6: as a group, as a family.

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Speaker 7: What does that look like just here?

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Speaker 10: I mean practicing. I mean we've been together so much

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Speaker 10: throughout the year, so that plays a little part. And

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Speaker 10: you know, guys kind of want to enjoy a little

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Speaker 10: family time before we get back rolling again. So it's

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Speaker 10: kind of a balance. You know, when you're here, you

594
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Speaker 10: need to be present, hang out with the boys, and

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Speaker 10: then when you go home, turn your brain off. So

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Speaker 10: it's a balance of both but that's why.

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Speaker 3: You just got to be wherever you are.

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Speaker 9: Are you obviously being no Tiny's historic night the other

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Speaker 9: night as a teammate and also as a fan of

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Speaker 9: the game, can you reflect on how historic that night

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Speaker 9: was for you?

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Speaker 10: I mean, I mean, it's no more historic than you

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Speaker 10: guys have already all already said. I mean, it's amazing,

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Speaker 10: you know. And I don't want to rain on in

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Speaker 10: the parade or anything, but we is down and over it.

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Speaker 10: We got to focus on Friday and hopefully they can

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Speaker 10: do it and do it.

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Speaker 2: This series TOOKI hell gratifying is it? The first one

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Speaker 2: hundred games of your season obviously wasn't what you thought

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Speaker 2: it would be. But since then, I mean, you've been

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Speaker 2: one of the best players, hitters, your total game has

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Speaker 2: really rosen to the top. It gets lost once we're

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Speaker 2: in October, but do you have time to reflect that

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Speaker 2: you came out on the other end of it and

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Speaker 2: here you are in the World Series again and a

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Speaker 2: big part.

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Speaker 7: Of it, I mean a little bit.

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Speaker 10: You know, I do feel like I have contributed to wins,

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Speaker 10: especially here late that necessarily that necessarily had to be

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Speaker 10: offensively with defensively or both, you know.

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Speaker 3: And whatever.

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Speaker 10: So that does It does feel pretty good to know

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Speaker 10: that I at least helped. But you know, where we

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Speaker 10: started versus where we finished. I mean, I think it's

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Speaker 10: just uh, shows me and kind of rent reassures me

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Speaker 10: to to just stay in the moment, just help the team,

627
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Speaker 10: help the boys win in this inning, in this moment,

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Speaker 10: and that's all you can control.

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Speaker 2: Have you felt the excitement of the city this time around.

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Speaker 2: I know you go from the house to the stadium,

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Speaker 2: but can you feel the excitement that the city has

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Speaker 2: for this team?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Absolutely absolutely.

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Speaker 10: I mean I think, uh, you know what, it's Friday

635
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Speaker 10: or Monday or whatever. Everybody's gonna be here, and I

636
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Speaker 10: think everybody's locked and lowly ready to go, ready to

637
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Speaker 10: see some history, and we're ready to make it.

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Speaker 2: Anybody honking their horns at you on the freeway, No, not.

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Speaker 7: Yet, but hopefully hopefully here soon. All Right.

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Speaker 6: There's Mookie Bets with David Vasse in the media last

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Speaker 6: night at the team workouts. Yeah, the Dodgers are putting

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Speaker 6: Friday Night behind them, and I I like that, Steve.

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Speaker 6: I like the fact that Mookie Bets isn't just sitting

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Speaker 6: reflecting on what show. Hey, did in game five or

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Speaker 6: game four, excuse me, of that NLCS and the win

646
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Speaker 6: over the Brewers. You got to turn the page. That

647
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Speaker 6: was Friday Night. That was historic. That was a great moment.

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Speaker 6: Certainly what he did historic. But the Dodgers got a

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Speaker 6: mission of now winning the World Series and they got

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Speaker 6: to win four more. They can't sit there and glean

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Speaker 6: off of what show hey did in game four of

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Speaker 6: the NLCS and ride that momentum. They've got to turn

653
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Speaker 6: the page. And I love that this is a new series.

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Speaker 6: We're on to the next one. That was great. We

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Speaker 6: reflect on on it, and I don't want to sit

656
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 6: here and harp on it. I love that for Mookie Bets.

657
00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:37,880
Speaker 3: Take you know, what you had from you know, being

658
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:40,080
Speaker 3: able to go out there and just dominate those guys

659
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 3: in the in the NLCS and all before that as well.

660
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 3: So you take all this and you got four more

661
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 3: games to win. I mean, it's the same situation for Toronto.

662
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,080
Speaker 3: But I think if you look at the the just

663
00:31:51,120 --> 00:31:53,520
Speaker 3: to you know, if you parse out position for position,

664
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 3: you know, you'd have to say that the Dodgers have

665
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 3: quite an advantage as far as who's the better players.

666
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 3: Does that mean the Dodgers are going to win. Heck, no,

667
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 3: does not mean that at all. Been on teams before,

668
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 3: as I said yesterday that you know, not as much talent,

669
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 3: but you know you still win because it's a team

670
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 3: that plays to bet, plays the best together. You know,

671
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 3: it's a collective coming together that's gonna make the difference.

672
00:32:17,840 --> 00:32:19,920
Speaker 3: And it all starts with your pitching staff. And you know,

673
00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:21,720
Speaker 3: Dodgers are pretty good in that regard.

674
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 6: We talked about the connections between these two teams, these

675
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 6: two cities, and he even goes deeper to them. We

676
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 6: mentioned Max Scherzer versus Clayton Kershaw, two guys who scored

677
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:36,120
Speaker 6: off against each other with the Dodgers and Diamondbacks way

678
00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 6: back in two thousand and eight.

679
00:32:37,880 --> 00:32:38,680
Speaker 7: And here they are.

680
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 6: For Clayton Kershaw his final season. Is it the final

681
00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:44,440
Speaker 6: season for Max Scherzer is forty plus years old. We'll

682
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 6: find out. But both guys now playing in this World

683
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 6: Series here in twenty twenty five. I mean Don Mattingly,

684
00:32:51,040 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 6: let's not forget, was the manager of the Dodgers. He

685
00:32:54,000 --> 00:32:57,360
Speaker 6: is now the bench coach for the Toronto Blue Jays.

686
00:32:57,520 --> 00:32:59,400
Speaker 6: He'll be squaring off against his team. He let the

687
00:32:59,440 --> 00:33:02,719
Speaker 6: Dodgers to three NL West titles while serving as their

688
00:33:02,760 --> 00:33:05,800
Speaker 6: manager from twenty eleven to twenty fifteen. Chris Woodward the

689
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:09,400
Speaker 6: Dodger first base coach. He was drafted by the Blue

690
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 6: Jays and played seven of his twelve MLB seasons with

691
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 6: the Toronto Blue Jays. He is now a Dodger, so

692
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:19,360
Speaker 6: there's a lot of crossover, And think the biggest one

693
00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 6: on the field right now is Taoscar Hernandez. He spent

694
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 6: time in both teams. He won two Silver Slug Awards

695
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 6: in six seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays. He was

696
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:34,280
Speaker 6: there from twenty seventeen to twenty twenty two, ended up

697
00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:36,920
Speaker 6: going to Seattle and then came to the Dodgers last

698
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:39,479
Speaker 6: year and then signed the offseason deal to stay in

699
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 6: La but Ta. Oscar Hernandez knows Toronto very well. Spent

700
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:45,719
Speaker 6: time there, won a couple of awards there, never won

701
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 6: a World Series there. But I love the storylines going

702
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:54,160
Speaker 6: into this series on and off the field. This is

703
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 6: good for baseball to have the connections, to be able

704
00:33:57,400 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 6: to connect the dots between the Dodgers and Blue Jays.

705
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 6: This is good, This is fun. Dodgers Yankees last year

706
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 6: was the two big bad teams from the East Coast

707
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 6: and West Coast squaring off to legendary organizations.

708
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 7: But I like this on and off the field.

709
00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,879
Speaker 3: Baseball ties, Yeah, there's a lot of them here, and

710
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:18,879
Speaker 3: you can only imagine what's gonna happen before Friday kicks off.

711
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 3: There's gonna be a ton of those there. And you know,

712
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 3: for the the amount of time since ninety three that

713
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 3: this team has been to the World Series, you can

714
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:28,880
Speaker 3: imagine what Canada. I mean, this is a whole country

715
00:34:29,600 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 3: that's gonna be behind the Blue Jays. And the Blue

716
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,399
Speaker 3: Jays are way way over there in the eastern part

717
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:38,800
Speaker 3: of Canada, but you got everybody in the West obviously pulling,

718
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:42,399
Speaker 3: you know, for the for the Blue Jays. So this

719
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:45,640
Speaker 3: is gonna be a big, big, epic rival. This is

720
00:34:45,680 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 3: what I believe the networks wanted. They wanted to have

721
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 3: the East versus West type of thing. They wanted it

722
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 3: to cover way over across and expand as much as

723
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:59,160
Speaker 3: you possibly could of land masks so there's more people involved,

724
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:02,760
Speaker 3: and to have it one country against the other. Great.

725
00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,320
Speaker 3: I mean, this is all great for the public to

726
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 3: get involved in this, but I think what they're going

727
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,279
Speaker 3: to hammer on a lot. Is the power of each team,

728
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 3: Oh my god, the power and the middle of the

729
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 3: lineup for both teams are absolutely outstanding. But if you

730
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 3: look at this, the Dodgers were second and all of

731
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,600
Speaker 3: baseball and home runs to the New York Yankees. They

732
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 3: had yank Yankees were first with two seventy four. The

733
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 3: Dodgers were second with two forty four. If you look

734
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:29,400
Speaker 3: way down the list there, Toronto not as much not

735
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,359
Speaker 3: as prolific as a home run team as you might

736
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:35,359
Speaker 3: think with with vlade in there and Springer, they were

737
00:35:35,760 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 3: like tied for eleventh with which if you really go

738
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:42,120
Speaker 3: down the line, it's like fourteenth, you know, with a

739
00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,719
Speaker 3: couple of other clubs, so, you know, but a well

740
00:35:44,760 --> 00:35:47,319
Speaker 3: stacked team and they can go deep. But one thing

741
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 3: I'll tell you about their team that people aren't going

742
00:35:49,239 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 3: to really really realize about them, is they're going to

743
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 3: think that Toronto is, you know, team that's going to

744
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:56,440
Speaker 3: tarry out by the home run. This team was the

745
00:35:56,600 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 3: second hardest team in all of baseball to strike out.

746
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 3: And I mentioned the strikeouts earlier because they have the

747
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:05,879
Speaker 3: top guys on their team that are home run hitters.

748
00:36:05,880 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 3: When you talk about Springer and Guerrero. These guys strike out,

749
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 3: do strike out the most on their team. These are

750
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 3: the guys that are gonna have to be neutralized. All

751
00:36:14,880 --> 00:36:17,839
Speaker 3: those guys that I mentioned struck out over or right

752
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 3: around one hundred times a year, So that part of

753
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:24,240
Speaker 3: the team does strike out. But the rest of the guys,

754
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 3: guys like Ernie Clement, who is a really good player.

755
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 3: I mean he's like a Tommy Edmond type of player.

756
00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:33,239
Speaker 3: These guys don't strike out very much at all. They

757
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:35,720
Speaker 3: do have a mix of old school and home run power.

758
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 3: But the guys that I mentioned before, the guys you

759
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 3: got to neutralize. They can be pitched to, and they

760
00:36:40,080 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 3: do strike out a lot.

761
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:43,400
Speaker 6: Coming up a little bit, we're going to get into

762
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:47,360
Speaker 6: the economics of baseball and do fans really care about

763
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,880
Speaker 6: what potentially could be looming in a lockout and why

764
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:53,200
Speaker 6: there's going to be a lockout, and this whole narrative

765
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 6: about the Dodgers ruining baseball.

766
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:56,800
Speaker 7: We'll get into it.

767
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 6: I just want to quickly point out the Toronto Blue

768
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:03,600
Speaker 6: Jays are top five in salaries in baseball, and also

769
00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,800
Speaker 6: they have the third highest paid player in all of baseball,

770
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 6: making five hundred million dollars in Vladiguerrero. So this isn't

771
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 6: small market, cute little Toronto team north of the border.

772
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:18,480
Speaker 6: They got the maple leaf on their helmet. No, no,

773
00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 6: this is a high pain Toronto Blue Jays team with

774
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 6: a big time owner with deep pockets up in Canada.

775
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 6: That the almost landed show Halo time. We're gonna get

776
00:37:28,200 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 6: into that. Let's get some phone calls in here. Eight six, six,

777
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 6: ninet eighty seven, two five seventy Edgar and Carson, thanks

778
00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:35,319
Speaker 6: for being patient, Edgar, Goo morning, how you doing, what's

779
00:37:35,360 --> 00:37:35,759
Speaker 6: on your mind?

780
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 4: Good morning, guys, Gonna be on with you. Scam. Just

781
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:43,120
Speaker 4: feeling pumped up for this world series. Let's go big Blue.

782
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:47,200
Speaker 4: I feel like going and starting in Toronto is gonna

783
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:52,560
Speaker 4: continue this trend of going and starting in the visitors stadium.

784
00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 4: Dodgers have a chance to again take two. It's really

785
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:01,479
Speaker 4: gonna fire them up. And so let's at least get one,

786
00:38:01,719 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 4: if not two, over there and then come back for

787
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:06,840
Speaker 4: three in La. So let's go Dodgers in five.

788
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:09,920
Speaker 7: All right, he call on your shot early Dodgers in five.

789
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 3: It's how it five?

790
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 6: Okay, It's gonna be a good series. It's not gonna

791
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,800
Speaker 6: be a four game sweep like the Milwaukee Brewers. I

792
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:20,600
Speaker 6: don't even think it's gonna be a five game series.

793
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:22,319
Speaker 6: I think it's gonna be a little bit longer than that.

794
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 6: And that's why I'm a little nervous. That's why I

795
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:27,360
Speaker 6: wanted the Seattle Mariners to make it to the World

796
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:29,840
Speaker 6: Series on the matchup with the Dodgers, just to me,

797
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 6: on paper felt a lot easier and looked better as

798
00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 6: far as the matchups were concerned. But here we are,

799
00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 6: the Toronto Blue Jays and George Springer with the three

800
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 6: run home run last night, propelling Toronto to their first

801
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:45,480
Speaker 6: World Series appearance since nineteen ninety three. Veronica in La,

802
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 6: You're next up with Saxon Kates and the Amhi Veronic,

803
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:50,000
Speaker 6: how are you hi?

804
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:52,839
Speaker 9: Good morning, Hey, I'm getting ready for work, so I'm

805
00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:53,719
Speaker 9: gonna make this quick.

806
00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:55,400
Speaker 4: We just need to remember that.

807
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 2: Springer was part of the twenty seventeen Astros team and

808
00:38:58,239 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 2: nobody's talking about that.

809
00:39:00,040 --> 00:39:01,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, I talked about it this morning.

810
00:39:02,360 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 4: He is a cheater.

811
00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:06,800
Speaker 6: He is a cheater. He was on the twenty seventeen team. Veronica,

812
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 6: You're right, no doubt about that.

813
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:08,840
Speaker 7: Thank you.

814
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 6: The phone call, enjoy your day of work and thanks

815
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,280
Speaker 6: you're keeping us with you as you get ready this morning.

816
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,000
Speaker 6: He was on that twenty seventeen team, and he was

817
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 6: a big part, a big part of that twenty seventeen

818
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 6: Houston Astros team, which it turns out we're using signals

819
00:39:24,600 --> 00:39:27,880
Speaker 6: and bag on trash cans and cheated their way past

820
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 6: the Dodgers in seven games of that World Series, and

821
00:39:30,719 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 6: even cheat their way past the New York Yankees in

822
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:36,480
Speaker 6: the ALCS that year to make it to the World Series.

823
00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:39,399
Speaker 6: So Dodger fans won't let George Springer forget if you're

824
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:42,359
Speaker 6: at a Dodger game the last few years, anytime a

825
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 6: former or current astro gets there, it doesn't even matter

826
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:48,320
Speaker 6: if it's an astro player. Steve that wasn't even probably

827
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,399
Speaker 6: in the major leagues. The heck was probably in high

828
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,239
Speaker 6: school back in twenty seventeen. Had nothing to do with

829
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:53,960
Speaker 6: the team.

830
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:56,280
Speaker 3: That you wanted to be with. The astrois go ahead, Tim.

831
00:39:56,160 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, if you have an Astro uniform on,

832
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 6: but you were in high school back in twenty seventeen,

833
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:03,839
Speaker 6: you still get booed at Dodger Stadium. We saw that

834
00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 6: this year out at the ravine and certainly George Springer,

835
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 6: all two of a guys who are either still or

836
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:13,319
Speaker 6: former Astros on that twenty seventeen team, they get booed mercifully.

837
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:16,840
Speaker 3: Hey, they even remember that here in Sacramento when the

838
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:19,960
Speaker 3: Astros came here to play the athletics. I'll tell you what.

839
00:40:20,160 --> 00:40:23,120
Speaker 3: Twov came to the plate and he was resoundingly booed.

840
00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:25,319
Speaker 3: I love it. I mean, the whole place was all

841
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:26,759
Speaker 3: over him, as it should be.

842
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:30,239
Speaker 6: Make sure they recognize and remember for what they did

843
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:31,440
Speaker 6: in twenty seventeen to.

844
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 3: So, if you have a last name that starts with

845
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,720
Speaker 3: an A because of Astros, you deserve to be booted.

846
00:40:36,800 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 3: Yeah right, if you even think about it when you're

847
00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:42,960
Speaker 3: in kindergarten. If you want to be a Houston Astro,

848
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 3: if you traveled to the state of Texas and you

849
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:51,279
Speaker 3: actually thought about Hughes, you're guilty, right, I agree with that.

850
00:40:51,400 --> 00:40:55,240
Speaker 3: I mean, if you have any friends that have ever

851
00:40:55,640 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 3: said the word Houston or Astro, If you have an

852
00:40:59,280 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 3: astronaut that actually thought about being any good astronaut and

853
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:09,399
Speaker 3: the word astro came into his vernacular at any part

854
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:12,000
Speaker 3: of his life, he's guilty. Because it's part of that.

855
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 3: I could go on, but I mean, I think this

856
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 3: is true.

857
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 6: It absolutely is true. If you even thought about it,

858
00:41:17,040 --> 00:41:19,359
Speaker 6: you wanted to be or you were an Astros fan,

859
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 6: you are guilty by association for those twenty seventeen cheating

860
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 6: Houston Astros and George Springer of the Toronto Blue Jays

861
00:41:27,040 --> 00:41:29,360
Speaker 6: the game winning home run last night a part of that.

862
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 6: In twenty seventeen, we'll come back get more of your

863
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,440
Speaker 6: phone calls. We'll hear from Andrew Freeman, who weighed in

864
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 6: on this whole Dodgers ruining baseball, and he had some

865
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 6: interesting things to talk about his superstars compared to other superstars.

866
00:41:43,200 --> 00:41:45,359
Speaker 6: We'll hear from Dave Roberts. Next hour, we'll hear from

867
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 6: a Dodger reliever who wants on this World Series roster,

868
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:53,560
Speaker 6: but what he did in the regular season as Dodger

869
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:56,279
Speaker 6: fans not really wanting him a part of the fall.

870
00:41:56,320 --> 00:41:56,800
Speaker 7: Classical.

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Speaker 6: Here from Jerry Royce, former Dodger leftander, coming up in

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Speaker 6: the eight o'clock hour. So much to get to thanks

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Speaker 6: should be with us. It's Sax and Kate's and am

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Speaker 6: right here at NFI seventy LA Sports. It's Saxon Kates

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Speaker 6: in the AM Steve Sacks, Tim kaits on your home

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Speaker 6: of the Dodgers A five seventy LA Sports Live at

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Speaker 6: local during the month of October, as it should be

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Speaker 6: during yet another Dodgers World Series run, as they get

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Speaker 6: ready to square off against the Toronto Blue Jays.

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Speaker 7: Game one right here on AM.

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Speaker 6: Five seventy LA Sports coming up on Friday night, fiveh eight,

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Speaker 6: first pitch from the Rogers Center in Toronto, Canada. We

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Speaker 6: got you cover with all the Dodger action and of

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Speaker 6: course leading up to Game one, David bats our Dodger

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Speaker 6: Insider with the team embedded with them as they make

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Speaker 6: their way to Toronto, probably tomorrow, I would assume, and

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Speaker 6: then Thursday they have like a little mini media day

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Speaker 6: for all the international and US media and then Game

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Speaker 6: one of the World Series will be on Friday night

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Speaker 6: work of course right here on I seventy LA Sports.

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Speaker 6: But we talked about it yesterday. It's one of these

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Speaker 6: narratives that the media wants to spend about how the

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Speaker 6: Dodgers are bad for baseball and the Dodgers are ruining

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Speaker 6: baseball and they just buy their superstars and they just

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Speaker 6: roll out the baseball and because of their talent and

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Speaker 6: because of the money and their pockets and how much

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Speaker 6: money they got in there, that they just go and

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Speaker 6: win baseball games.

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Speaker 7: And just roll over teams.

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Speaker 6: And Andrew Freeman was on with Petro Some Money last

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Speaker 6: Friday and it was very candid about how he does

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Speaker 6: not like this narrative at all.

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Speaker 5: It really is a lazy narrative. I get it at

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Speaker 5: surface level. It's easy to pull on that thread, but

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Speaker 5: it discounts these guys so much. Because you watch us

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Speaker 5: play other teams, and you watch our stars out here

907
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Speaker 5: early on their knees taking ground balls, doing extra work.

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Speaker 7: You see the other team stars.

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Speaker 5: They're never out here about having the right people and

910
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Speaker 5: the way they prepare and how much they want to

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Speaker 5: win and give back to these incredible fans.

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Speaker 7: So it is a disservice to.

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Speaker 5: Them because the way they play the game, how they prepare,

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Speaker 5: regardless of how much they make or don't make, these

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Speaker 5: guys are wired the right way and they care.

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Speaker 7: I love that.

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Speaker 6: I love what he had to say, and you can

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Speaker 6: hear the frustration in his voice. You certainly heard it

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Speaker 6: in Dave Roberts's voice when he said, let's go ruin

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Speaker 6: baseball with four more wins, and he said, of course

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Speaker 6: sarcastically after the game on Friday night. But they hear this, Steve,

922
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Speaker 6: they hear this narrative that's being spun about how they're

923
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Speaker 6: just out there rolling the baseball out to the mound

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Speaker 6: and their talent and money is just better than other teams.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that is just malarkey. I don't believe that whatsoever.

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Speaker 3: I'll give you a flat example when you're in Yankee Stadium.

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Speaker 3: When I went to the Yankees and played, you know,

928
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Speaker 3: I was a free agent and I signed a good contract,

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Speaker 3: and my relationship with the fans in the Runks was

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Speaker 3: one that you know, I played hard and that's all

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Speaker 3: they want. Fans anywhere in the country, they don't care

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Speaker 3: what kind of money you made. And it was very

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Speaker 3: much on display with the Yankees. I was there with

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Speaker 3: a lot of guys that were huge contract guys those

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Speaker 3: fans want to see. And that's kind of like the

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Speaker 3: heartbeat of America. Old school fans, proximity to the field,

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Speaker 3: very close, they get it, very educated fans. What they

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Speaker 3: wanted to see was the effort. They wanted to see

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Speaker 3: you transparent, They wanted to just see you play hard.

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Speaker 3: They wanted to see your love for the game. They

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Speaker 3: wanted to see you do anything it took within the

942
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Speaker 3: guidelines of fairness to win the game. That's what they wanted.

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Speaker 3: They don't care how much money you make. And that's

944
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Speaker 3: the same thing with Andrew Friedman's talking about. They don't care.

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Speaker 3: He doesn't care what the money that the players makes.

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Speaker 3: Look at the effort, look at the early work, look

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Speaker 3: at the you know, whatever it takes to get better.

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Speaker 3: And that's what people respect. They want to say, see

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Speaker 3: the effort. They don't care what kind of money you're

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Speaker 3: bringing in. No.

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Speaker 6: I like how he pointed it out that their superstars

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Speaker 6: are out there working, and I think that's a shot

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Speaker 6: at other superstars. And maybe it wasn't necessarily a shot

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Speaker 6: at the Milwaukee Brewers directly, but he was referencing the

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Speaker 6: opposing teams and superstars who are getting paid and got

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Speaker 6: their contracts and are out there and aren't putting it

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Speaker 6: in the work and are out there grinding four hours

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Speaker 6: before a game, getting loose, making sure that ankle is good,

959
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Speaker 6: making sure they're working on their defensive drills. The Dodgers

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Speaker 6: put in the work, Yes, they get paid. They got superstars,

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Speaker 6: they got guys who are making tons of money. Sure,

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Speaker 6: but they're out there still grinding. They're out there still working.

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Speaker 6: And that's the point that Andrew Freeman and Steve just

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Speaker 6: alluded to. They're out there still working hard and putting

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Speaker 6: in the work to make sure that pays off for

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Speaker 6: the World Series Championship. And I love that. I just

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Speaker 6: I love the fact that they emphasize that. And I

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Speaker 6: know they hear it. I know they hear this narrative.

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Speaker 6: And I was watching Andrew Freeman's face when he said

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Speaker 6: that on Friday, and he looked ticked. And to see

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Speaker 6: Dave Roberts make that kind of sarcastic comment about let's

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Speaker 6: go ruin baseball with four more wins. Not that they

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Speaker 6: need a rallying cry, but this could be something that

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Speaker 6: you know, they can go on the road with and uses.

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Speaker 6: You know, nobody thinks we should be here because we

976
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Speaker 6: bought our way here, nobody wants us to see us win.

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Speaker 6: It could be this US against the world mentality that

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Speaker 6: they take into Toronto on Friday night for Game one

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Speaker 6: against the Blue.

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Speaker 3: Jays could be a great rallying cry. Tim I think

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Speaker 3: that's outstanding. In eighty eight, we used the David Cone

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Speaker 3: rallying cry saying that, you know, one of our pitchers

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Speaker 3: had a lollipop curveball, And of course, one of the

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Speaker 3: announcers on the National Network, Bob Costas, said that we

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Speaker 3: had the worst looking talent as far as that goes

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Speaker 3: on a World Series team ever, and Tommy the sort

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Speaker 3: of promptly used those two examples to really give us

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Speaker 3: an edge. And I think that's what the Dodgers will do.

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Speaker 3: They'll they'll David Roberts will remind them of this probably

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Speaker 3: and it'll it'll be a good rallying cry.

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Speaker 6: Eight sixty six nine eighty seven, two five seventy is

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Speaker 6: the number one hour down, two to go, and we

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Speaker 6: want you to be a part of the show at

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Speaker 6: eight six six ninet eighty seven, two five seventy. Coming up,

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Speaker 6: a Dodger reliever wants to be a part of this

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Speaker 6: World Series roster.

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Speaker 7: But should he be based on what he did in

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Speaker 7: the regular season.

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Speaker 6: Well, here from the manager Dave Roberts, Jerry Royce will

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Speaker 6: join us in the eight o'clock hour. Also coming up,

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Speaker 6: there's a lingering lockout in baseball, and that seems to

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Speaker 6: be talked about a lot. With a upcoming World Series

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Speaker 6: to be played, how much do you care about the

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Speaker 6: economics of baseball? With the Dodgers on the eve of

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Speaker 6: trying to win back to back World Series championships and

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Speaker 6: the question has been brought up on Twitter. Steve, will

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Speaker 6: the United States be rooting for the Dodgers since this

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Speaker 6: US versus Canada or they still have a hatred towards

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Speaker 6: the boys in Blue.

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Speaker 7: We'll talk about that when we come back.

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Speaker 6: Steve Sacks, Tim Kats and you on a FI seventy

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