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Speaker 2: Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won

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Speaker 1: A Spring training Dodger Talk, here we go again.

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Speaker 3: Back hosted by Dodgers in Cider David base three Peat

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Speaker 1: Here's your host, David Basset.

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Speaker 2: We are live at camel Back Ranch in Glendale, Arizona.

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Speaker 2: David Basse with you until eight o'clock tonight here on

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Speaker 2: AM five to seventy LA Sports. And this is a

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Speaker 2: very unique Dodger Talk because the Dodgers are playing right now,

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Speaker 2: right in front of us. It's a sellout crowd here

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Speaker 2: at Camelback Ranch. The Dodgers are leading the Reds four

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Speaker 2: to three. In the bottom of the third inning, Taoscar

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Speaker 2: double in the first inning, part of a four run

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Speaker 2: first inning for the Dodgers, and coming to the plate

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Speaker 2: right now is Freddy Freeman. I'm going to prove to

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Speaker 2: you that the Dodgers are playing right now. We're gonna

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Speaker 2: pod up Rick Monday and Tim Neverett on Sports and

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Speaker 2: at LA just to hear this at bat of the

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Speaker 2: great Freddy Freeman, who already drove in a run during

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Speaker 4: Enough to handle that one Kerr ball is swinging a miss.

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Speaker 6: Mentioned numbers a little bit earlier on Freeman.

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Speaker 5: How the breaking ball this dat Freddy takes it for

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Speaker 2: That was anti climactic right there, Freddie Freeman striking out.

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Speaker 2: He did challenge it. The ABS is in play, so

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Speaker 2: there is an automated strike zone. Yes, each team can

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Speaker 2: We are going to get into the Dodgers involved in

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Speaker 5: Is it hot?

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Speaker 2: us on Tuesday. We'll share that with you again right

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Speaker 2: here on Dodger Talk on a five to seventy LA Sports. Ah,

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Speaker 2: the Dodgers are pouring it on at kemel Back Ranch.

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Speaker 2: David Fast say with you until eight o'clock. Right here

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Speaker 2: on a five to seventy LA Sports. The Dodgers are

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Speaker 2: leading the Reds eight to three. Tae Oscar Hernandez just

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Speaker 2: hit a two run home run, So the Dodgers offense

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Speaker 2: rolling right now against the Reds. And right now it's

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Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman at first base, Alex Call at the plate,

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Speaker 2: Max Monsey on deck, who also hit a two run

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Speaker 2: home run in the last inning. So maybe we'll tap

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Speaker 2: into Rick Monday and Tim Neverett for the monthly at

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Speaker 2: back coming up here after Call either gets on or

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Speaker 2: strikes out. It's a full count right now with nobody

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Speaker 2: out in the bottom of the fifth inning, Dodgers leading

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Speaker 2: the Reds eight to three. Now, our next simulcast broadcast

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Speaker 2: is going to be this Saturday, the Dodgers will be

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Speaker 2: right here at Camelback Ranch facing the White Sox. The

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Speaker 2: White Sox will be the home team, the Dodgers will

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Speaker 2: be the road team, as you know, they share this stadium.

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Speaker 2: Our coverage begins at twelve thirty, first pitch at one

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Speaker 2: oh five with Rick Monday and Tim Neverett, and our

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Speaker 2: next Dodger talk show won't be until Saint Patrick's Day.

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Speaker 2: So that's next Tuesday. And like I mentioned, spring training

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Speaker 2: is rapidly coming to an end. Opening Day is just

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Speaker 2: two weeks away, March twenty sixth. Don't forget. Opening Day

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Speaker 2: is an evening affair five forty. They're doing that because

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Speaker 2: of their new partnership with Peacock. Not a great time

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Speaker 2: if you're a hitter to be facing pitching at five forty,

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Speaker 2: as you know. So whoever is the opening day starter

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Speaker 2: for the Dodgers and whoever's pitching for the Diamondbacks, it's

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Speaker 2: Zach Gallon. Actually, Gallen is gonna be the opening day starter.

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Speaker 2: They're gonna be feeling good. All right, Let's go tap

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Speaker 2: into Sports at LA before we take more phone calls

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Speaker 2: and hear from keyk Hernandez. Max Munsey has step to

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Speaker 2: the plate with two on and nobody out, Munsey hit

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Speaker 2: a two run home run in his last at bat.

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Speaker 4: Souvenir Bill, that was.

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Speaker 1: A loud sound.

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Speaker 5: It's from Anton that's lowing in. I'm going to peel

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Speaker 5: down to third. Miche Lensky says, no, he didn't go.

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Speaker 5: But Mike Malinsky on the bases with Brian Van breaking

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Speaker 5: and Jen Paul is back out there tonight. First female

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Speaker 5: umpire in the major leagues turns out there umpiring. Second basis.

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Speaker 5: Sitting umpires continue to rotate on the basis during spring training.

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Speaker 2: Max's went up in the air place able to left.

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Speaker 2: Come on month, see underneath it. I guess I can't

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Speaker 2: go to the at bats. Every time I go to

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Speaker 2: there at bats, they don't hit the home run. I

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Speaker 2: was so close before we went to the break to

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Speaker 2: tap into ta Oscar Hernandez's at bat, and he hits

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Speaker 2: a two run home run. So Max Munsey a two

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Speaker 2: run home run. He's sitting three point thirty three this spring.

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Speaker 2: He hit that two run home run in his last

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Speaker 2: at bat, the Dodgers leading the Reds right now eight

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Speaker 2: to three, in the bottom of the fifth inning. I

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Speaker 2: got news for you. The Dodgers have scored eight runs,

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Speaker 2: and they don't have Mookie Bets in the lineup. They

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Speaker 2: don't have Kyle Tucker in the lineup. They don't have

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Speaker 2: Will Smith in the lineup. They don't have Tommy Edmond

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Speaker 2: in the lineup. What I'm trying to tell you is

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Speaker 2: the Dodgers are a much scarier team than they were

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Speaker 2: a year ago. If you look at the Dodgers last year,

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Speaker 2: and Andrew Freeman has been very, very candidate out this

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Speaker 2: The Dodgers were not a good offensive team the second

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Speaker 2: half of last year, and they only hit two oh

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Speaker 2: three in the World Series and somehow still won a

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Speaker 2: seven game World Series. So what did the Dodgers do?

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Speaker 2: Michael Conforto not much production out of left field. Uh,

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Speaker 2: not a lot of range in left field. They go

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Speaker 2: out and sign Kyle Tucker. Kyle Tucker now hitting second

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Speaker 2: is gonna allow Mookie Betts to hit third. You got Otani, Tucker, Bets,

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Speaker 2: Freeman as your first four hitters. You're better defensively in

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Speaker 2: right field, which helps your pitching staff. Andy Piz has

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Speaker 2: showed no signs of a sophomore slump this spring. He's

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Speaker 2: hitting four to fourteen with an eleven hundred ops. He's

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Speaker 2: two for two tonight, has scored two runs. Tascar Hernandez

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Speaker 2: has driven in piz twice tonight with an RBI double

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Speaker 2: in a two run home run. So you got Pie

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Speaker 2: Hev and a much more confident Pa has in center field,

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Speaker 2: and a guy that still feels like he has a

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Speaker 2: lot to prove, so he's got that edge still. And

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Speaker 2: you got ti Oscar Hernandez who has come into camp

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Speaker 2: fifteen to twenty pounds lighter than he was a year ago,

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Speaker 2: and he's banging the ball around all spring training, so

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Speaker 2: it obviously hasn't taken any pop out of his bat.

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Speaker 2: And he's going to be more nimble in left field.

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Speaker 2: He's a better left fielder. When the Dodgers won the

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Speaker 2: World Series in twenty twenty four, when Taoscar Hernandez was

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Speaker 2: playing left field, he had thirty three home runs and

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Speaker 2: drove in one hundred runs. You got Max Munsey, who

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Speaker 2: is the healthiest he's been in a couple of years.

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Speaker 2: At third base. You got Mookie Bets, and I find

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Speaker 2: it hard to believe that Mookie Betts is going to

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Speaker 2: have a repeat of last season's offensive struggles. You're going

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Speaker 2: to have a combination of Rojas Edmund Kim at second,

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Speaker 2: and he got Freddie Freeman, who is showing no signs

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Speaker 2: of father time catching up with him. And you got

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Speaker 2: Will Smith, who is in the prime of his career.

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Speaker 2: Not to mention, the Dodgers' bullpen blew at least ten

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Speaker 2: games late. That's not going to happen again this year.

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Speaker 2: With Edwin Diaz as their closer. It allows Tanner Scott

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Speaker 2: to not have pressure. You're getting Alex Vesia back, who

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Speaker 2: did not pitch in the World Series. So the two

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Speaker 2: biggest weaknesses whereas closing games the bullpen and outfield offense

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Speaker 2: and defense, and the Dodgers have been able to take

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Speaker 2: care of both at the same time, or take care

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Speaker 2: of both during the offseason. So I got news for you,

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Speaker 2: everybody that's angry at the Dodgers, Well you had your

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Speaker 2: last year. They were more vulnerable to be beat last year,

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Speaker 2: and they almost were. They almost were. The Padres almost

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Speaker 2: beat them in the NLS. They finished three games back.

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Speaker 2: The Phillies blew it. Basically, they came close. The Brewers

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Speaker 2: lost a close game one, the Dodgers swept them. The

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Speaker 2: Blue Jays inches from beating a Dodger offense that only

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Speaker 2: hit two oh three and was using starters as relievers,

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Speaker 2: not just one starter, but multiple starters because they didn't

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Speaker 2: really have too many relief options they could trust. Not

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Speaker 2: So this year, the Dodgers are in a much better

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Speaker 2: spot at this time last year than they were a

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Speaker 2: year ago. They are a much better team, and I

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Speaker 2: kind of feel like there was more pressure around this

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Speaker 2: Dodger team to see whether or not they could repeat

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Speaker 2: last year. Then there is going into camp and being

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Speaker 2: around camp this year because they're playing with house money,

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Speaker 2: going for the three peat. They faced the pressure cooker

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Speaker 2: last year. It just feels a little more free and

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Speaker 2: easy and the normalcy of a spring trending that is

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Speaker 2: not requiring the Dodgers to go to Korea or Tokyo

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Speaker 2: to start the season. Kei a Hernandez all blonde of him,

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Speaker 2: spoke about embracing the fact they are going for history

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Speaker 2: and the three peat.

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Speaker 9: Yes, we are going for the three peat, but these

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Speaker 9: are things that you don't think about because you're trying

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Speaker 9: to win this year. Whatever happened last year in the

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Speaker 9: previous year, that's already paid for, that's already history. You're

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Speaker 9: not trying to win three championship one year. You're just

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Speaker 9: trying to win this year, and we know how hard

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Speaker 9: it is to win. We don't really take it for granted,

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Speaker 9: even though we've been there, done that.

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Speaker 10: We know that.

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Speaker 9: We start to show up and do what we got

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Speaker 9: to do to it, you know, win ball game, win

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Speaker 9: the division, get into October, and then win three or

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Speaker 9: four series, however many it takes. But as far as

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Speaker 9: like thinking three p we're just trying to win this year,

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Speaker 9: we're not. Really. We're already won the last two years,

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Speaker 9: but that doesn't do anything for us other than, you know,

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Speaker 9: put a target on our backs. But we're trying to

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Speaker 9: win this year, and if we win this year, it

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Speaker 9: just happens to be three in a row. I take

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Speaker 9: it as a compliment. I take it as a privilege.

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Speaker 9: We we're playing in some some weird times in the

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Speaker 9: game where you know, not not every person that owns

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Speaker 9: the team is trying to win, a lot of them

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Speaker 9: are trying to make money, and fine, if it's it's

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Speaker 9: their money, they can do whatever it is. But not

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Speaker 9: all thirty teams are trying to win a World Series.

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Speaker 9: And for us to be in a position where This

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Speaker 9: team is doing whatever it can, it takes or they

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Speaker 9: can to put us in a position to compete deep

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Speaker 9: into the season, deep into October. I take it as

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Speaker 9: a as a as a privilege, and I guess maybe

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Speaker 9: it's because it's my tenth year here and it's nothing

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Speaker 9: new to me. But I don't necessarily think anything changes

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Speaker 9: because we're trying to go.

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Speaker 4: Through in a row.

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Speaker 2: That was key Hernandez earlier today in the Dodger clubhouse,

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Speaker 2: and hard to believe he's been here for ten years.

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Speaker 2: He was with the Red Sox for a couple of years,

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Speaker 2: but luckily the Dodgers brought him back at the trade

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Speaker 2: deadline in twenty twenty four. So look, he is a

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Speaker 2: huge voice in that clubhouse, and he's echoing what the

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Speaker 2: sentiment is from a lot of players I've spoken to.

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Speaker 2: They're not shying away from the fact they're going for

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Speaker 2: the three peat. They're not shying away that. Basically everybody

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Speaker 2: is resentful of how good they are and the collection

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Speaker 2: of talent they have. So that is what separates these

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Speaker 2: Dodger players from other teams. They're veterans, they've been there before.

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Speaker 2: They were in a Game seven of the World Series

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Speaker 2: they understand how to navigate a regular season. And oh,

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Speaker 2: by the way, Key k Hernandez won't play until June

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Speaker 2: or July, and they'll get a second half Key k

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Speaker 2: a Hernandez to go along with everybody else they have.

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Speaker 2: They're not gonna have Tommy Edmond to start opening Day,

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Speaker 2: but they're going to have Santiago Espinal. It feels like

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Speaker 2: the Dodgers may have found another diamond in the rough.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he's a major league veteran, he's made an

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Speaker 2: All Star team, but the Dodgers just picked him up

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Speaker 2: before camp and he's going to make the team and

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Speaker 2: he's going to play third base. He's going to play

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Speaker 2: some second base. You need those type of guys to

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Speaker 2: compliment the stars, and the Dodgers certainly have that. Eight

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Speaker 2: six six nine, eight seven two five seventy is the

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Speaker 2: phone number. This is Dodger Talk David Vasse live at

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Speaker 2: Camelback Ranch as the Dodgers and Reds are playing under

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Speaker 2: the lights.

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Speaker 4: Right now.

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Speaker 2: It's eight to three Dodgers in the top of the

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Speaker 2: sixth inning. Let's go back out to the phones. Isaac

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Speaker 2: in the City of Industry. You're on Dodger Talk. How

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Speaker 2: you doing Isaac, I'm doing well, Dave, are you I'm

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Speaker 2: doing great.

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Speaker 7: Yeah. So I just want to touch a couple of

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Speaker 7: things that you said about the WBC as well as wrestling. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: about the WB, about the WBC not being like a

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Speaker 7: real tournament because the rosters aren't really made up of

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Speaker 7: Not because of that.

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Speaker 2: I didn't say because of that. I said because they

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Speaker 2: have an asterisk that is trying to get the US

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Speaker 2: in Japan to play each other in the finals when

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Speaker 2: they should be playing in the semi finals.

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Speaker 3: Right right.

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Speaker 7: But I'm saying, like some of the players, yeah.

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Speaker 2: The best of the best are not playing.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, but it's the same thing in the Olympics. You know,

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Speaker 7: no major leaguers can be we're able to be on

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Speaker 7: the Olympic team. It was so it was mostly made

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Speaker 7: up of prospects and minor leaguers and guys that were

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Speaker 7: formerly in the league.

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Speaker 2: Well, some of the best college baseball players. And that's

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Speaker 2: part of the reason. You know, nineteen eighty four that

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Speaker 2: US baseball team had some pretty good players on it.

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Speaker 2: And I love the fact that Baseball in the Players

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Speaker 2: Union is discussing having major league players playing the Olympics

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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty eight. So you're telling me that's not

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Speaker 2: going to be bigger than the World Baseball Classic.

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Speaker 7: For some of the players, it may or may not be.

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Speaker 2: I would imagine all.

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Speaker 4: Of them are.

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Speaker 2: It would be bigger because honestly, the Olympics has done

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Speaker 2: baseball dirty. They don't have it as an Olympics sport

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Speaker 2: every year depending what host country it is. And that's

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Speaker 2: why Major League Baseball decided to start this World Baseball Classic.

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Speaker 2: But come on, Dodger Stadium, the Olympics, major League players,

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Speaker 2: everybody's want to participate. It's going to be an epic

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Speaker 2: Olympics if it does come to fruition. Yeah, and there's

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Speaker 2: not going to be any any asterisks to get certain

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Speaker 2: teams in the gold medal round like the World Baseball

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Speaker 2: Classic has right now, Isaac, Hey, I like it. I

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Speaker 2: like the games, certain games I've you know, made a

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Speaker 2: point to watch while I'm out here in the desert.

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Speaker 2: But I can't buy all the way in I can.

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Speaker 2: I can enjoy it for what it is. Yeah, I understand,

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Speaker 2: all right, Isaac, Thank you for the phone call. Eight

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Speaker 2: six six nine eight seven two five seventy. Yeah, you

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Speaker 2: know I was called Debbie Downer you know last week

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Speaker 2: on the show, and that's fine, that's fine, but I'm

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Speaker 2: a realist. I just can't buy all the way into

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Speaker 2: this tournament for a lot of different reasons. And the

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Speaker 2: USA manager didn't even know whether or not they were

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Speaker 2: going on to the next round. And maybe that's the

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Speaker 2: reason why he had Ryan Yarborough in the game, down

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Speaker 2: three to nothing and it soon turned five nothing, you know,

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Speaker 2: having Ryan Yarborough and no disrespect to him having yards

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Speaker 2: in that game that you kind of have to win.

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Speaker 2: If USA doesn't come back to score the runs that

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Speaker 2: they scored, I feel like somebody let them know, Hey,

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Speaker 2: you better start scoring some runs because if you don't,

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Speaker 2: you're gonna be in real trouble. If they don't come

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Speaker 2: back to make it somewhat of a close game, USA

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Speaker 2: is out and there's a lot of fallout if USA

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Speaker 2: doesn't didn't advance. And I love Pascuantino saying you're welcome, USA.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's embarrassing, it's embarrassing what took place. And

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Speaker 2: I'm not blaming Mark de Rosa. You're telling me Mike Hill,

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Speaker 2: in charge of USA Baseball, the GM can't tell them, hey,

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Speaker 2: you kind of misspoke. We don't have our ticket punched,

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Speaker 2: or this is what's at stake, lay it out for him.

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Speaker 2: Come on eight six, six, nine seven, two five seventy

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Speaker 2: is the phone number. On Tuesday night, when all that

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Speaker 2: was unfolding, Derek Carr, the former Raiders quarterback, joined us.

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Speaker 2: And if you want to hear that show, was a

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Speaker 2: great show Rick Monday, Derek Carr. You can hear the

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Speaker 2: entirety of that show on the iHeart Radio app, and

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Speaker 2: you can live stream Dodger games and make Dodger Talk

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Speaker 2: a number one preset on the iHeart Radio app. And

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Speaker 2: right now, looking at what's happening before we get to

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Speaker 2: Derek Carr, just paying the picture because Alex Vesia just

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Speaker 2: pitched a scoreless sixth inning here at camel Back Ranch

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Speaker 2: and is coming off the field to standing ovation and applause,

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Speaker 2: And obviously Dodger fans that are here at camel Back

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Speaker 2: Ranch for the first time want to show a Vessia

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Speaker 2: with a lot of love. So that was special ast well.

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Speaker 2: Great to have him back. And that beard, I mean

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Speaker 2: it is getting Peter Griffin lane. I think there's a

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Speaker 2: bird nesting in that Vessia beard these days. But awesome

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Speaker 2: to have him back, and it feels like he's getting

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Speaker 2: back to you know, baseball when he's here at the ranch. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: as the Dodgers and Reds playing to the bottom of

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Speaker 2: the sixth inning, I want to share with you Derek

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Speaker 2: Carr's story. Derek Carr, if you watch his podcast, has

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Speaker 2: a baseball base in the background, and that bass, he

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Speaker 2: explained to us, is the actual second base bag that

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Speaker 2: was in the ground in Toronto for Game six of

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Speaker 2: the World Series. Remember Key k Hernandez doubling off Addison

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Speaker 2: Barger at second base, Rojas making an incredible pick, short

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Speaker 2: hop pick. Yeah, Derek Carr has that in his office.

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Speaker 2: Here's the story on how he obtained not just a

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Speaker 2: piece of memorabilia, but a piece of Dodger in baseball history.

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Speaker 10: Honestly, we still don't have I don't even know if

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Speaker 10: I have the real story yet. But a business partner

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Speaker 10: of ours was like, man, I just wanted to get

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Speaker 10: you guys something nice. And he said, I had no

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Speaker 10: clue what to get you, So I thought Dodgers and

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Speaker 10: he said I had I reached out and had someone

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Speaker 10: and whatever, and he just went down this rabbit hole

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Speaker 10: and sure enough, it pops up in our office and

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Speaker 10: it's I mean, it's got the it's got the dirt marks,

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Speaker 10: it's got the cleat marks, it's got everything. And I

741
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Speaker 10: was like, dude, this is like such a precious thing

742
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Speaker 10: to some Dodger fans. Obviously, for that moment to end

743
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Speaker 10: right there at second base and now it's sitting here

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Speaker 10: in our office in Presno, California.

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Speaker 1: Is pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: That was Derek Carr and the story of how he

747
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Speaker 2: has the second base bag from Toronto Rogers Center Game six,

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Speaker 2: so the World Series in his office and he's coming

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Speaker 2: to ten games and I said, hey, I got to

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Speaker 2: let Miguel Rojas and Key k Hernandez know that you

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Speaker 2: have this second base back in your possession. And Rojas

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00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:02,840
Speaker 2: immediately said, yeah, tell them, tell them to bring it

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Speaker 2: to Dodger Stadium. I'll sign it for him. I haven't

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Speaker 2: had a chance to relay the story to Key a Hernandez,

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Speaker 2: but Rojas, who actually had his cleat marks on the

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Speaker 2: second base bag receiving the throw from Key a Hernandez

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Speaker 2: to end Game six and force a Game seven, he's

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Speaker 2: all in to sign that for Derek Carr. So cool story.

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Speaker 2: Derek Carr's been a Dodger fan since he was a kid.

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Speaker 2: His brother David, his other brother, you know, Dad. They

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Speaker 2: grew up in Bakersfield and we're all in with the

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Speaker 2: Dodgers as kids. So a great story. And if you

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Speaker 2: want to hear the full conversation with Derek Carr, like

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Speaker 2: I said, you can find it on the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 2: That'll do it for us. Tonight from camel Back Ranch.

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Speaker 2: To keep up with the Dodgers the rest of this game,

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Speaker 2: tune over to Sports net LA Rick Monday and Tim

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Speaker 2: Neverett on the call as the Dodgers are up eight

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Speaker 2: to three in the bottom of the sixth inning. Our

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Speaker 2: next Dodger talk show will be next Tuesday, Saint Patrick's

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Speaker 2: Day at seven o'clock, and our next Dodgers simulcast right

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Speaker 2: here on a five seventy LA Sports with Rick and

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Speaker 2: Tim will be this Saturday. Our coverage begins at twelve

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Speaker 2: thirty and first pitch at one oh five between the

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Speaker 2: Dodgers and White Sox right here at camel Back Ranch

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Speaker 2: in Glendale, Arizona. Thanks to Ronnie Fascio for all his help.

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Speaker 2: Thanks to Colin Yee who is back at the Burbanks

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Speaker 2: Studios earlier today and thanks to you for listening. Like

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Speaker 2: I said, you missed the show any of them. iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: App is where you want to go. And oh, by

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Speaker 2: the way, I'll be back with you tomorrow at noon

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Speaker 2: Rogan and Rodney are off. I'll be co hosting the

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Speaker 2: Rogan and Rodney Show with that's right, the one and

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Speaker 2: only Southern California Sports Broadcasting Hall of Famer himself, Steve Hartman.

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Speaker 2: That's right, Steve Hartman and David Vasse tomorrow noon to

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Speaker 2: can't wait to do that with Steve Hartman. It'll be wild.

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Speaker 2: Hope you tune in as well. We'll talk to you tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Have a great rest of your night.

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Speaker 8: See you