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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 1: It's winning it again.

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Speaker 3: This year is not trying to win a championship, They're

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Speaker 3: trying to repeat.

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

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Speaker 4: The twenty twenty five Dodgers are the National Leagues Western

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Speaker 4: Division champions.

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Speaker 1: And you know what that means.

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Speaker 5: 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 5: Reacting taking your phone calls talking Dodgers playoff baseball.

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Speaker 1: Saxon Kates in the Morning is presented by Daniels Jewler's

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Speaker 1: official sponsor of every Trip around the Diamond own the

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Speaker 1: Dram all postseason long now here they are on AM

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Speaker 1: five to seventy LA Sports and the iHeartRadio ass Steve Sacks,

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Speaker 1: Tim Kates, Tim Kates and world champion Dodger Steve Sacks.

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Speaker 5: Dodgers went the bank in Philadelphia, deposited two wins, oh

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Speaker 5: and now at two to zero series lead in this

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Speaker 2: You like that, Saxy.

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Speaker 6: That's a great turn on words.

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Speaker 2: Tim, You like that.

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Speaker 6: But that's hey, that's that's why you are. You know

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Speaker 6: what you are.

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Speaker 2: That's why I get paid the big box Saxy you do.

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Speaker 5: He is Steve Sacks, I'm Tim, Kate Sax and Kate

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Speaker 5: tod am Live and local as it should be on

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Speaker 5: your Home of the Dodgers, AM five seventy LA Sports,

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Speaker 5: nine years running in the postseason scam with you every

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Speaker 5: single weekday morning, talking Dodgers Baseball, reacting to the games,

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Speaker 5: talking about the next ones with you Dodger Nation at

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Speaker 5: eight six six, nine eighty seven two five seventy eight

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Speaker 5: six six nine eight seven two five seventy. So much

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Speaker 5: to digest from last night's Game two win over the Phillies.

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Speaker 5: We talked about it earlier. Really three parts of this game,

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Speaker 5: the pitching matchup the first six innings and then the

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Speaker 5: seventh and eighth inning, the scoring by the dofit Dodgers off,

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Speaker 5: the pitching from Imachian, and then the ninth inning, which

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Speaker 5: they can make a thirty for thirty of about the

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Speaker 5: Dodgers three relievers coming in to give three outs and

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Speaker 5: how they got those three outs was pretty unbelievable. Talking

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Speaker 5: about a bunt wheel play for the first time I

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Speaker 5: think in the history of sports talk radio and dissecting

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Speaker 5: what was a bunt attempt by the Phillies and a

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Speaker 5: great defensive play by the Dodgers, then a great fielder's

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Speaker 5: choice play by Freddie Freeman and the pick at first

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Speaker 5: by Freddie Freeman on the throw from Tommy Edmond to

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Speaker 5: in the game. Absolutely fantastic, absolutely great October baseball we're

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Speaker 5: experiencing right now.

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Speaker 6: Jim got the I got the text you sent me. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: with Freddy making the pick and the painting from what year?

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Speaker 6: And who is it about?

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Speaker 2: I want to go I have to go back and look.

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Speaker 5: I think it's from eighteen thirty four, and it's that

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Speaker 5: social media account the art and sports, and they find

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Speaker 5: great snapshots that happened in the world of sports and

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Speaker 6: This is believable.

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Speaker 5: They find something from the art world that is very similar,

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Speaker 5: almost identical to whatever the pose is in that sports photo,

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Speaker 5: whether it's basketball, football in this case it's Freddy Freeman

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Speaker 5: making the pick at first base.

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Speaker 2: Last just this.

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Speaker 6: It's funny how they can, you know, draw the line

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Speaker 5: You know it's it's a photo of Freddie Freeman next

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Speaker 5: to an art piece called the Prisoner of Chillon. I

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Speaker 5: think that's how you pronounce it by Eugene Delacroix in

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Speaker 5: eighteen thirty four. Oh my God, and side by side.

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Speaker 5: Pretty funny to see the same arm angle, both of

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Speaker 5: from Tommy Edmond. Last night was one of those all

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Speaker 5: around wins where you can get on the team plane,

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Speaker 5: Steve and look at each other and say, you know what,

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Speaker 5: everybody had a hand in this game. The bullpen, Blake Snellen,

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Speaker 5: started pitching, the offense, the defense, and it took all

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Speaker 5: three facets of the game to win last night. Some

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Speaker 5: nights it's the Dodgers offense that carries them. Some nights

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Speaker 5: it's the pitching that will carry them through nine innings.

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Speaker 5: But last night, without the defense of the ninth inning,

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Speaker 5: we're talking about a completely different series.

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Speaker 6: You're talking about yes and that play, and you know

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Speaker 6: it's been around a long time. The wheel play is

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Speaker 6: it's something that you know is not used very much.

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Speaker 6: It's not used all the time at all, that's for sure.

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Speaker 6: And they pull it out after not even you know,

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Speaker 6: practicing it that much. We used to run that playing

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Speaker 6: the hat. And they certainly did, especially when Mookie can

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Speaker 6: he ran it flawlessly. His his athleticism kind of made

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Speaker 6: the out is made first out of the inning.

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Speaker 5: Huge as a middle infielder yourself, Steve Sachs to learn

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Speaker 5: a position at his age, to master that position, to

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Speaker 5: be able to do it at the big league level,

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Speaker 5: Just how hard is it? Because it's not just going

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Speaker 5: out there and hey, ground balls hit to me, I'll

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Speaker 5: make the play because I'm athletic, it's to know something

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Speaker 5: like this memory recall of a play that you did

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Speaker 5: and tell everybody, hey, we'll play let's run it, guys,

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Speaker 5: all right, the situation's here. They put the bunnet, Tim down,

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Speaker 5: Stott tries to do that. Let's run the wheel play here.

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Speaker 5: I mean, it's a thinking man's position more so than

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Speaker 5: I think any other spot in baseball on defense, right.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, shortstops the best athlete on the field.

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Speaker 3: He is.

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Speaker 6: I mean, you know, you can say there's some pitchers

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Speaker 6: And you know, baseball is a very, very skilled game.

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Speaker 6: It's the toughest game to play of all the of

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Speaker 6: And then to get the intricacies of playing defense and

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Speaker 6: all those things besides hitting is incredible. And Mookie can

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Speaker 6: just step in there at his age but thirty years

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Speaker 6: look like he's been there for ten years. It's it's amazing.

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Speaker 6: It just shows you what kind of a world class

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Speaker 5: Dodgers come back home up two games to nothing in

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Speaker 5: this best of five series, and that is huge. Not

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Speaker 5: that you want to mess around that you want to

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Speaker 5: have any wiggle room here and okay, we got game

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Speaker 5: four in five in our back pocket just in case,

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Speaker 5: uh uh, you want to take care of business tomorrow night.

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Speaker 5: And the perfect thing is you got Yoshinobu Yamamoto rested

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Speaker 5: and ready to go, and he has been your horse

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Speaker 5: along with Clayton Kershaw during the regular season. He was

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Speaker 5: in October, and has morphed into this new Yoshinobu Yamamoto

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Speaker 5: who has been dominant and fearless on the mound every

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Speaker 5: single start during the regular season and now on the

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Speaker 5: biggest stage again a close out game against Philadelphia. I

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Speaker 5: have all the confidence of the world. If this could

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Speaker 5: I don't even know how it could have to have Otani,

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Speaker 5: Blake Snell, and now Yamamoto in Game three.

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Speaker 2: It has lined up perfectly for this Dodger team and.

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Speaker 6: The Dodgers right now. What I like about this team

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Speaker 6: an uber talented team. Yeah, they make a lot of money,

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Speaker 6: But you know what I like about the Dodgers is

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Speaker 6: they can smell the blood in the water. They are

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Speaker 6: gonna have the animal instinct come out to just I

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Speaker 6: They're gonna come at these guys. They they can smell

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Speaker 6: it now and and that's the dangerous thing when you

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Speaker 6: got a lot of talent behind that. And I you know,

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Speaker 6: Yamamoto is gonna be the tip of the spear. He's

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Speaker 6: gonna he's gonna show the way, and he's gonna be

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Speaker 6: mentally tough. And good luck with that, because I think

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Speaker 6: the Dodgers are about to play their best game.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I love the fact that this is an experienced team.

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Speaker 5: You heard Max Mounts earlier talking about it. We're not

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Speaker 5: don't want Kyle Schwarber to wake up now. You don't

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Speaker 5: want Bryce Harper to get any momentum. You don't want

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Speaker 5: this Phillies team to start piecing together innings because they

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Speaker 5: could come back, win a game, they could win another game,

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Speaker 5: and all of a sudden, we're going back to Philadelphia

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Speaker 5: and they must win do or Die Game five on

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Speaker 6: Right now, I mean tomorrow. Is this a three o'clock game?

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Speaker 6: Is that right?

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Speaker 6: So six okay, yeah, so nine o'clock back you. So

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Speaker 6: they're gonna have to wait a while for this game show,

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Speaker 6: but uh yeah, this is this is an opportunity for them.

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Speaker 6: And don't let the Phillies wake up because any team,

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Speaker 6: any team, uh even not as nearly as good as

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Speaker 6: the Phillies, can come back and beat you. We've seen

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Speaker 6: too many times tim where the last place team will

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Speaker 6: come back, uh with some ferocious intent, and all of

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Speaker 6: a sudden you're in game, you know, in game five?

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Speaker 6: Okay at their place. You don't want that. You want

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Speaker 6: to come out tomorrow, put Yamamoto on display and go

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Speaker 6: out and crush these guys, and I mean crush them bad,

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Speaker 6: put them hard.

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Speaker 5: We'll get it here from the manager, Dave Roberts in

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Speaker 5: just a couple of minutes. Go back out to the phone.

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Speaker 5: Thanks for being patient, Ricardo and Fontana is next up,

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Speaker 5: Sax and Kate's in the am as we are live

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Speaker 5: and local on your home of the Dodgers A five seventy.

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Speaker 3: How you doing, Ricardo, Hey, good morning, gentlemen. Thank you

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Speaker 3: for taking my call.

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Speaker 4: Car.

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Speaker 3: Just a couple of things so yesterday, you know, I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna be honest. I wasn't expecting the Dodgers to take

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Speaker 3: and I haven't heard anybody say it yet, like we

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Speaker 3: need to give credit to the pitching scouts because the

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Speaker 5: That's right, just sitting there ready to go. The future

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Speaker 5: tomorrow night. Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Aaron Nola the pitching matchup,

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Speaker 2: This is what we're talking about here.

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Speaker 5: Manager Rob Thompson of the Phillies said afterwards last night,

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Speaker 5: Again, heads up play by Mookie beds allowing the play

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Speaker 5: It's just executed perfectly. And again, the defense in the

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Speaker 6: Well suited on the pitch in front too, Tim.

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Speaker 5: Oh, absolutely. I mean we got Clayton Kershaw just itching

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Speaker 6: out of the bullpen?

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Speaker 5: Oh, I think it would be fantastic if with the

436
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Speaker 5: right HANDR. Yamamoto going tomorrow night, it makes sense. If

437
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Speaker 5: you need some leverage and some long relief, why not

438
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Speaker 5: go to mister Clayton Kershaw, the future Hall of Famer,

439
00:21:08,880 --> 00:21:11,120
Speaker 5: to come in and out of the bullpen at home

440
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Speaker 5: in a close out game at Dodgers Steam. I think

441
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Speaker 5: it would only be fitting. Not that you need to

442
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Speaker 5: do it for ceremonial reasons or nostalgia. That's all great,

443
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Speaker 5: But he can still get guys out. I mean he's

444
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Speaker 5: still pretty effective.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, let's go to Chris in La.

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Speaker 5: Chris is next up on Saxon Kate's and am Or

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Speaker 5: Live and Local on a five seventy l A Sports.

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Speaker 7: Hi Chris, Hey, good morning, fellas a great show as always,

450
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Speaker 7: you know, not to beat the trn and horse to death.

451
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Speaker 7: But and when Emma Schenbrook was in, I texted my friend,

452
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Speaker 7: I said, you know what, last year we were hard

453
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Speaker 7: on Dave Robertson and it proved to be that he

454
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Speaker 7: knew what he was doing, and you know, we got

455
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Speaker 7: a bullpen game in the World Series and it was like, Okay,

456
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Speaker 7: I get it. And then this year we've been me

457
00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:57,280
Speaker 7: and my friend had been hard on him and bringing

458
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Speaker 7: out Tanner Scott and trying it. And I said, you

459
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Speaker 7: know what, maybe he knew he was going to give

460
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Speaker 7: them as much as he could up to the end

461
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Speaker 7: of the season because he knew he was going to

462
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Speaker 7: use his starter pitchers and some other people in the playoffs.

463
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Speaker 7: And I was like, Okay, she is doing it. I

464
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Speaker 7: get it now. And then he brought in trying And

465
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Speaker 7: this is what I don't understand. Why do we keep

466
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Speaker 7: saying we have to keep bringing him in? The whole

467
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Speaker 7: point in sacks you can, I'm sure attest to this

468
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:28,200
Speaker 7: is to put your best team out there, no matter

469
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Speaker 7: what favoritism not contracts, your best team. There's no way

470
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Speaker 7: anyone can say he is part of being the best

471
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Speaker 7: team that you can field. I'm sorry that it happened

472
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Speaker 7: that way. He did great for us last year, but

473
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Speaker 7: for whatever reason, it's not happening now. So I don't

474
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Speaker 7: understand Roberts's commitment to trying, and when it's been shown

475
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Speaker 7: over and over and over again, you know he finally

476
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Speaker 7: left ten or Scott off the roster. But I don't

477
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Speaker 7: understand it. I'm really perplexed because he's a smart manager,

478
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Speaker 7: you knows sports. I don't know why you would not

479
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Speaker 7: want to put your best team out there every single night?

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Speaker 2: All right, Chris, appreciate the phone call, Saxy.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll take that, uh in in in context, what

482
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Speaker 6: Chris is saying is true. You want to get your

483
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Speaker 6: best team out there every night, but you have to

484
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Speaker 6: just say that. You know, these things aren't always the same.

485
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Speaker 6: The team is fluid, the the confidence of all these

486
00:23:32,960 --> 00:23:35,800
Speaker 6: players is going to wane, it's going to grow. It's

487
00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:39,520
Speaker 6: it's both, and at a period of time, you got

488
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Speaker 6: to find out which is the best option for you

489
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Speaker 6: because you only have so many pitchers and they're all

490
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Speaker 6: capable of going out there and getting guys out. Some

491
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Speaker 6: guys are at a low ebb, and this goes back

492
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Speaker 6: and forth, like I said, and some guys are coming

493
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Speaker 6: back and they're getting it back again, and all of

494
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Speaker 6: a sudden they can be rookie Sasaki again. And Blake

495
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Speaker 6: Tryning has had a great career he's got I can

496
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Speaker 6: tell you as a hitter, he's got incredible stuff. And

497
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Speaker 6: when his stuff is down in the zone and it's

498
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Speaker 6: got the action on it, I don't care where you

499
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Speaker 6: throw it, what part of the plate you hit, as

500
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Speaker 6: long as you're hitting part of the plate. You know,

501
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Speaker 6: he's hard to hit you, very difficult. He's at a

502
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Speaker 6: point right now where he's not at his best, but

503
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Speaker 6: he's getting there. And there you need extension in your bullpen.

504
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Speaker 6: You can't have just one or two guys. It's impossible.

505
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Speaker 6: So is he the best option for where you are now?

506
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Speaker 6: I would say so. And you know what happens to

507
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Speaker 6: Blake Trying gets in there next time and he's the

508
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Speaker 6: star of the game and shuts him down because this

509
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Speaker 6: stuff is wicked. You know, that could very well happen.

510
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Speaker 6: And like I said, I could see the difference. I

511
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Speaker 6: know it. You know, I know what Chris is saying.

512
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Speaker 6: You know, he got a pitch that is up in

513
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Speaker 6: the zone and Rio Muto nailed it, and that's the

514
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Speaker 6: only ball that they hit hard off him. So you know,

515
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Speaker 6: you want soft contact, you want strikeout. Yeah, I got

516
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Speaker 6: all that, but it doesn't go in a straight line

517
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Speaker 6: and if you didn't have Blake Trining in there, tell

518
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Speaker 6: me who you want instead, right, and we're listening. I mean,

519
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Speaker 6: it wasn't long ago where Emma sheehan was out there

520
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Speaker 6: and we were wincing. People were wincing and saying, oh

521
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Speaker 6: my god, don't let him out there. Yeah, and look

522
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Speaker 6: what he did yesterday. I mean, so come on, I mean,

523
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Speaker 6: it's a fluid situation. This thing's moving all the time.

524
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Speaker 5: Yeah, two weeks ago, we're not even talking about Roki

525
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Speaker 5: Sasaki as a possibility coming out of the bullpen. Dodger

526
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Speaker 5: fans aren't clamoring for him to pitch the ninth inning

527
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Speaker 5: of a postseason game because we didn't know what he

528
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Speaker 5: was going to bring to this team. He was still

529
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Speaker 5: a question mark and a guy who hadn't pitched since

530
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Speaker 5: early April. And I get that he is the hot

531
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Speaker 5: pitcher right now. He's the dominant pitcher so far this postseason,

532
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Speaker 5: and you'll want to continue to write him, but I

533
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Speaker 5: also want to keep it in mind you can't use

534
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Speaker 5: him every single time. You can't also go out there

535
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Speaker 5: and expect him to, you know, two or three times

536
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Speaker 5: in a row. He's been great, But the Phillies for

537
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Speaker 5: the second time in three days seeing him. Maybe it's

538
00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,760
Speaker 5: a different outcome. Blake trying's a different arm, a different

539
00:25:59,760 --> 00:26:02,920
Speaker 5: time slot, excuse me, a different arm slot, and certainly

540
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Speaker 5: a different situation in a three run lead in the

541
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Speaker 5: ninth inning. He is the right guy at the right time.

542
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,520
Speaker 5: It backfired on Dave Roberts. But again, if we're talking,

543
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Speaker 5: you know, a one, two, three ninth inning, and we

544
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Speaker 5: didn't have to use Blake, use Rookie Sasaki.

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Speaker 2: It's a different story.

546
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Speaker 5: But as it turns out, the Dodgers had to grind

547
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Speaker 5: their way out of it. Bestie came in, Sasaki came in,

548
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Speaker 5: and now the Dodgers are fighting for a Game three

549
00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,680
Speaker 5: and a possible close that game. I just I get

550
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Speaker 5: the love for Susaki, believe me, I do, but you

551
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Speaker 5: cannot use them every game of this postseason.

552
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Speaker 2: You just can't.

553
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Speaker 5: You can't expect him. There's gonna be hiccups, folks. I mean,

554
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Speaker 5: two pitches to Trey Turner. He got the out, the

555
00:26:41,640 --> 00:26:44,679
Speaker 5: ground ball game over, but he's gonna have some rocky

556
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Speaker 5: outings here. It's just part of the game of baseball.

557
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:49,480
Speaker 5: The hitter is gonna get the best of him, and

558
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Speaker 5: I get it. You love him, you want him out

559
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,280
Speaker 5: there every single time, but you have to have another

560
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Speaker 5: right hander out there.

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Speaker 6: Just another quick example, Tim, and that is that. You know,

562
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Speaker 6: it's like, you know, it's like a great stock. Okay,

563
00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,200
Speaker 6: Navidia is a pretty good stock. Right That stock doesn't

564
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,159
Speaker 6: go in a straight line up. It's got pullbacks. It

565
00:27:07,560 --> 00:27:10,760
Speaker 6: always happens. Baseball players are the same way. It's not

566
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Speaker 6: going to happen all the time. Aaron Nola last year

567
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:17,880
Speaker 6: started a seven year deal for one hundred and seventy

568
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Speaker 6: two million dollars that runs from twenty twenty four through

569
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Speaker 6: two thousand and thirty. And you know, he he had

570
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Speaker 6: a really good year in twenty four, you know, had

571
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Speaker 6: thirty three starts and pitched right at two hundred innings

572
00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:35,680
Speaker 6: and had his normal, you know, really good year. This year,

573
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Speaker 6: what happened, he had his era was doubled. He only

574
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:40,960
Speaker 6: had half the starts, and it was a down year.

575
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Speaker 6: I'm sure he was hurt and it was just a

576
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:46,719
Speaker 6: horrible year for this guy. But they just gave him

577
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 6: one hundred and seventy two million dollars. So, I mean,

578
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Speaker 6: I'm sure there's people that are questioning that, but it's

579
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Speaker 6: you know what, you just can't do it that way.

580
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Speaker 6: It's it's it's too much of a fluid situation and

581
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Speaker 6: it never stays the same.

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Speaker 5: Let's hear from the manager, Dave Roberts getting a lot

583
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Speaker 5: of attention for the decision to go to Blake trying.

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Speaker 5: Let's hear from the manager Dave Roberts post game last

585
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Speaker 5: night after the win.

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Speaker 2: How fun was that?

587
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:08,640
Speaker 6: Yeah?

588
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Speaker 8: That was that was a heck of a ball game.

589
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:16,280
Speaker 8: Lots to unpacked and that one, you know, to come

590
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:22,919
Speaker 8: away with a win right there, Huge, huge momentum, maintainer

591
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,400
Speaker 8: and so you know, looking forward to getting back home.

592
00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:30,200
Speaker 8: But great ball game, great plays, huge win.

593
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Speaker 9: Did you consider it all going straight to Sasaki in

594
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Speaker 9: the ninth and what, ultimately me do you go with

595
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Speaker 9: tryin in there?

596
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Speaker 8: I thought about it. He hasn't gone two out of

597
00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:45,360
Speaker 8: three much at all, just figuring the run right there.

598
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Speaker 8: You know, Blake's pitched some of the biggest outs innings

599
00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 8: in the postseason for US and felt really confident right

600
00:28:54,720 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 8: there and with Vesia behind him if needed, and so

601
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 8: I didn't want to just kind of, you know, preemptively

602
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:06,960
Speaker 8: put him in there with Again, I felt good with

603
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 8: who we had with our leverage relievers, a couple of

604
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 8: our highest leverage relievers, and you know, fortunately, you know,

605
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Speaker 8: he was ready when called upon, and I liked him

606
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Speaker 8: versus Trey, and he got a big out force.

607
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Speaker 9: And this one last time for me just kind of

608
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Speaker 9: in the context of this series and the context of

609
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Speaker 9: what you guys are hoping to accomplished this October, just

610
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 9: what does it mean to get the two wins here?

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Speaker 8: It's huge, It's it's absolutely huge. You know, guys are

612
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 8: really stepping up. I thought Blake through a heck of

613
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:41,560
Speaker 8: a ball game, Blake Snow and you know what Emmett

614
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 8: did was was fantastic. I thought his stuff was good tonight.

615
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Speaker 8: And you know, obviously what Roki has done has continued

616
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 8: to show has been very encouraging for you know, a

617
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Speaker 8: lot of fronts.

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Speaker 7: And in that seventh thing, is that the kind of

619
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Speaker 7: ending from this the contact to the base running to

620
00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:03,280
Speaker 7: manufacturing runs. That what you've talked about seeing out of

621
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Speaker 7: the offense the last couple of weeks, all of that

622
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Speaker 7: kind of coming together, all.

623
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Speaker 8: That coming together just really good at bats across up

624
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Speaker 8: and down the lineup, you know, and even you know

625
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 8: will being inserted in the game to get a big

626
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 8: hit right there versus Crookering. Can't say enough about what

627
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Speaker 8: Ben That's done for us to be able to kind

628
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Speaker 8: of hold hold it down for Will to get into

629
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Speaker 8: the game. What he's done with our pitching has been incredible.

630
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Speaker 8: And then you know the defensive plays by Freddie, huge plays,

631
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Speaker 8: you know, even in that ninth inning to get the

632
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Speaker 8: force out and then to get that kind of in

633
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Speaker 8: between hop from Tommy that was a huge, huge play.

634
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Speaker 8: So just he had bats taking walks and you know

635
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:51,360
Speaker 8: all of that, the defense, base run, everything just top notch.

636
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Speaker 5: All right, there's a manager Dave Robbers last night postgame

637
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 5: and yeah, he's you know, gonna go to Blake trying

638
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 5: it again. There's no question you can hear it in

639
00:31:00,240 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 5: his voice that he felt he was the right guy

640
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:04,560
Speaker 5: at the right time. And you still hear and talk

641
00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:08,719
Speaker 5: about Sasaki and the tone I hear from Dave Roberts,

642
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 5: and maybe I'm just hearing it differently, maybe I'm I'm

643
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 5: hearing it wrong, but it kind of feels like Dave

644
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 5: Roberts loves Sasaki but still does have the trust in Susaki,

645
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,400
Speaker 5: maybe necessarily, and that Okay, yeah, we've seen him four

646
00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 5: times and he's been great, and yeah, we're gonna ride him.

647
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 5: But you know this, I mean, in your back of

648
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 5: your mind, you have to be keep thinking. I remember

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Speaker 5: Sasaki in April, I remember what he was as a starter.

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Speaker 5: Now he's a completely different pitcher now. But that has

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Speaker 5: to stick in the back of Dave Roberts's mind. Is

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Speaker 5: you know, when's the old Sasaki gonna resort back to

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Speaker 5: his form or is it?

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Speaker 2: But I get it. You know, he's the new guy.

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Speaker 5: He's the hot guy, and he's the hot hand and

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Speaker 5: you got to ride him as much as possible.

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Speaker 2: But you just can't ride him every single game.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you ride the momentum. And you know, here's here's

659
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Speaker 6: one thing you don't have to worry about. What's the stuff,

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Speaker 6: Like the star is phenomenal. The stuff is great. You

661
00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 6: don't ever have to worry about that. And sometimes that

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Speaker 6: will make up in some deficiencies of having pinpoint control, say,

663
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Speaker 6: because he can get bigger parts of the plate and

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Speaker 6: still be successful at it because the stuff is so good.

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Speaker 6: So that's one good thing about you have about Roki

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Speaker 6: Sasaki is he doesn't have to be perfect. He doesn't

667
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Speaker 6: have to you know, scrub the the fringes of the plate.

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Speaker 6: He can go out there and get a meaty part

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Speaker 6: of the plate and still get guys out. Like you

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Speaker 6: see that wicked curveball from glasnow striking out, you know,

671
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Speaker 6: striking out Harper, big curveball right in the middle of

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Speaker 6: the plate. And but the drop was so violent, you know,

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Speaker 6: from about head high down to about belt high, and

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Speaker 6: it was a violent drop and he swung right through it.

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Speaker 6: Couldn't get it.

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Speaker 2: He is Steve Sacks.

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Speaker 5: I'm Tim Kay's one segment to go here on I

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Speaker 5: seventy LA Sports before we hand things off to Colin Calherd.

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Speaker 2: Tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: Game three, Dodgers a chance to close out the Philadelphia Phillies.

681
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Speaker 5: And this nld as first pitch at six oh eight

682
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Speaker 5: with the Yoshinoba Yamamoto and Aaron Nola. The pitching matchup.

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Speaker 5: Your phone calls the rest of the way right here

684
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Speaker 5: in an FHI seventy LA Sports. Mission accomplished in Philadelphia

685
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Speaker 5: as the Dodgers win Game one. They win Game two,

686
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Speaker 5: a four to three victory last night at the Bank

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Speaker 5: in Philadelphia. Now they're coming back home up two games

688
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Speaker 5: to nothing in the best of five nlds the chance

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Speaker 5: to close out the fight and fills. Tomorrow night with

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Speaker 5: Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound, we will have Marongo Casino

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Speaker 5: Dodgers on deck beginning at five pm.

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Speaker 2: First pitching.

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Speaker 5: The Galpam Motors broadcast booth is at six oh eight

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Speaker 5: as the Dodgers get back to back great pitching performances

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Speaker 5: from Shohyo Tani and Blake Snell, who last night went

696
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Speaker 5: six shutout innings. As the Dodgers get the victory, great defense,

697
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Speaker 5: great offense, great pitching, and now they're one win away

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Speaker 5: from the NLCS, where they would potentially meet up against

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Speaker 5: the Brewers or the Chicago Cubs. An off day in

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Speaker 5: that series as well, all the American League Divisional series

701
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:05,000
Speaker 5: were zoomed later on today in Detroit you got the

702
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Speaker 5: Tigers taking on the Mariners, and in the Bronx panic

703
00:34:09,280 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 5: time for Yankee fans and Aaron Boone as the Yankees

704
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 5: are back home down two games to nothing to the

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Speaker 5: Toronto Blue Jays and if they get bounced in three

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Speaker 5: games in this series. I hate to bring it up,

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Speaker 5: but Aaron Boone, how much longer can he stick around

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Speaker 5: in New York? As the manager of the Yankee Saxony.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's Aaron Boone's fault, right, Yeah, I don't get that. No, no, no, no,

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Speaker 6: it's not Aaron Boon's fault. Hey, you can't win it

711
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 6: all the time unless you're the Dodgers and you're talking

712
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Speaker 6: about the Division in the West. But look, it's not

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Speaker 6: Aaron Boon's fault. You got you got guys over there

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Speaker 6: that are very good players, and you know they're up

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Speaker 6: against a formidable foe. You know, the the Toronto club

716
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 6: is extremely good, and you know that's the team I

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00:34:57,360 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 6: think that that's probably gonna win it in the in

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00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 6: the A League, they're just a better team. I mean,

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Speaker 6: it's it is what it is.

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Speaker 5: I think it's great for baseball to see Seattle, Milwaukee,

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Speaker 5: Toronto all excelling here in the postseason. And then I

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Speaker 5: say that as a Dodger guy, and of course being

723
00:35:15,080 --> 00:35:18,560
Speaker 5: here in Los Angeles and southern California, but to have

724
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Speaker 5: these other markets excel and to see a potential matchup

725
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Speaker 5: in the World Series with LA and Seattle or LA

726
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Speaker 5: in Toronto, that's exciting LA and Detroit. If the Tigers

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Speaker 5: can somehow win this series and you know they're very

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Speaker 5: capable of doing so in that series tied one one.

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Speaker 5: Going back to Detroit. It's great for baseball to see

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Speaker 5: other markets excelling like this.

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Speaker 6: Yeah in Toronto, they were there, what ninety three or

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Speaker 6: ninety three, twenty three, Yeah, yeah, yeah, they that place

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Speaker 6: Rogers Center in Toronto. Especially when it's nice outside and

734
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:54,760
Speaker 6: have the roof open, that place rocks, especially if they're winning.

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Speaker 6: I mean it's a really loud venue. Especially when the

736
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Speaker 6: roof is closed. That place really does good. And if

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Speaker 6: they're if they are winning, the place will sell out.

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Speaker 6: This is one of the most indicative markets I think

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00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 6: that you can find anywhere in the country. And by

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Speaker 6: that I mean if the team is winning, you can

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Speaker 6: guarantee it's packed. If the team is not winning, Uh,

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Speaker 6: it's pretty intuitive to know when you go to the

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Speaker 6: ballpark that's not going to be a very big crowd tonight.

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Speaker 6: You don't have to ask that whether or not then

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00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 6: it doesn't matter because you've got a roof. But if

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Speaker 6: you're winning, they sell that place out.

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Speaker 5: Let's close things out with some phone calls. Rudy in

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00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:30,759
Speaker 5: La thanks you for be impatient. You're always sax and

749
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Speaker 5: Kates in the morning.

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Speaker 4: How you doing, oh great, great Showick always guys, I

751
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 4: just always just thought it was laughable. Yesterday the TVs

752
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 4: pregame show. You know, Curtis Grinderson, Jimmy Rollins and even

753
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,840
Speaker 4: Pedro Martinez, they'll pick the Phillies to win. And the

754
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,279
Speaker 4: funny part was up to the Milwaukee Chicago game when

755
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 4: they went post game, Jimmy Rawlins was just making excuses

756
00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:53,600
Speaker 4: for Castiano's and Jimmy, you killed us in the past

757
00:36:53,719 --> 00:36:56,200
Speaker 4: in the playoffs and you're a former Dodger. But it

758
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:59,399
Speaker 4: was just laughable. It seems like the night the nationwide

759
00:36:59,680 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 4: I think they got Dodger blue fever, a thma kind

760
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 4: of over. They probably want new teams to win, but

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00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:06,359
Speaker 4: being a national broadcast, I think they should have gave

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Speaker 4: credit more for the execution of the Dodger play more

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Speaker 4: of it, more than Jimmy Rawlins just talking about Acasiano's

764
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 4: very bad base running. And just one more thing, Steve.

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Speaker 4: I know it's a short on time, but Steve, you

766
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 4: have credentials with the Dodgers. Do me a big favorite tomorrow.

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00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 4: If you see Tayo Hernandez, tell him to get a

768
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,560
Speaker 4: little bit of an impression from your career. When you

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Speaker 4: hit the ball, you know, unhitch that trailer and run, Taylo.

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Speaker 4: You're a great hitter. Yesterday yesterday that went back to

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Speaker 4: the pitcher. If you just ran half hard, you might

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Speaker 4: have made a bank bank player. You might have been

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Speaker 4: safe at first And that second one, he didn't start

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Speaker 4: turning hard till he round at first base. He's a

775
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 4: great player. But you know what, You'll never been accused

776
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:45,960
Speaker 4: of doing that, Steve, I remember you want to walk.

777
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,200
Speaker 4: You would run to first base like your idol Pete Rose.

778
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:50,440
Speaker 4: And that was something that I always admired about your play.

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00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:52,799
Speaker 4: So if you get a chance tomorrow, because I don't

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Speaker 4: have the power to do it, go up to him

781
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,840
Speaker 4: and just say, hey, Tao, you know what you can.

782
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 4: You can't control hitting, you can't control defense, but what

783
00:37:59,120 --> 00:38:01,240
Speaker 4: are our little league coach stage? You can control effort.

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Speaker 4: And that's all I gotta say.

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Speaker 6: Great show, guys, all right.

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Speaker 5: Rudy, appreciate the phone call. Keep in mind that the

787
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:10,200
Speaker 5: TV networks want these series to go as long as possible.

788
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 5: They're invested financially, they want these series to be competitive.

789
00:38:14,120 --> 00:38:16,920
Speaker 5: They want eyeballs watching these games, and if it's a

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Speaker 5: two zero series, lead going into game through tomorrow night,

791
00:38:20,080 --> 00:38:22,160
Speaker 5: how many fans are gonna be like, oh, yeah, Dodgers

792
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:23,959
Speaker 5: are about to blow out the Phillies, going to close

793
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:26,319
Speaker 5: out this series in three I'll watch something else. No,

794
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:29,480
Speaker 5: they want competition. They want a series that is back

795
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:31,399
Speaker 5: and forth and that people are gonna want to get

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00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 5: eyeballs on watching.

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Speaker 6: So remember this too when you talk about Jimmy Rawlins

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Speaker 6: and how he's talking up the Phillies. He played there

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Speaker 6: for fifteen years, so maybe a little bit of bias there,

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00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:44,439
Speaker 6: but that's okay. I mean he played there a long time.

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00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 5: Yeah, and he's gonna watch the Dodgers beat the Phillies

802
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 5: and eliminate his Phillies this year, which he can enjoy

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00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 5: from the studio there in Atlanta. Ed in Ontario, thanks

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Speaker 5: for being patient. Welcome to Saxon Kate toonay am, I

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Speaker 5: you doing ed? Got about a minute.

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Speaker 10: Taking if I'm doing great?

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Speaker 4: Saxy.

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Speaker 10: Good friend, mutual friend Scott Warner and I were texting

809
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:04,319
Speaker 10: last night about both of our hearts were stopping at

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00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:05,280
Speaker 10: the end of that one.

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Speaker 4: I just I'd love to.

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Speaker 10: See a Hollywood ending tomorrow, Yamamoto, go six. We have

813
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:12,319
Speaker 10: a lead Cursa comes in and closes it out would

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00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:14,839
Speaker 10: be pretty sweet. And I just last thing, I love

815
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:17,319
Speaker 10: where the Dodgers are. I mean, what other team can

816
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 10: look back five years and be proud of what we've done,

817
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:22,319
Speaker 10: look at today and be proud of what we're doing,

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00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 10: and look ahead five years and know we're still going

819
00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 10: to be great. I mean, every other team envies the Dodgers,

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00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:30,760
Speaker 10: that's why they hate us. And it's just exciting, exciting

821
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:33,360
Speaker 10: time to be a Dodger fan looking back at a

822
00:39:33,360 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 10: great history and loving where we are today and really excited.

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00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:37,480
Speaker 10: I mean, look at the moves we're going to make

824
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 10: in the off season, the holes we're going to fill,

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00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:42,359
Speaker 10: and it's just a great time to be a Dodger fan.

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Speaker 10: It's all I got. Love you guys, thanks for keeping

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Speaker 10: me company on my morning drive. To listen to Dodger

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00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,160
Speaker 10: Talk all morning. I love this. Don't have to listen

829
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,319
Speaker 10: to NFL talk, don't have to listen to look We're

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Speaker 10: on talk.

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Speaker 3: I get you.

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00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 10: Just listen to Dodgers every morning through the playoffs, and

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00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:57,879
Speaker 10: it's a pretty good time to be a Dodger fan.

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Speaker 2: Awesome, man, appreciate the nice words.

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Speaker 5: That's why how We are here because, thank you, Dodger

836
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:03,920
Speaker 5: fans want to be heard and Dodger fans want to

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00:40:03,960 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 5: hear about their Dodgers. In October, Saxony, another great morning.

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00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 5: We're back at it tomorrow's. We'll get ramped up for

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Speaker 5: Game three starting at six am tomorrow morning.

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Speaker 6: Buddy, looking forward to it.

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Speaker 5: Tim All right, there you go, Steve sax Thanks to Zach,

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00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,239
Speaker 5: Thanks to Michelle. Thanks to all you Dodger fans for

843
00:40:19,360 --> 00:40:20,880
Speaker 5: being a part of the show this morning. Thanks for

844
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 5: being with us on your commute as you make your

845
00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 5: way through southern California. We appreciate you keeping us along

846
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,399
Speaker 5: for the ride as the Dodgers are going to ride

847
00:40:30,400 --> 00:40:33,279
Speaker 5: hopefully into the NLCS. One went away now with the

848
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Speaker 5: victory over the Phillies tomorrow night, they're up two games

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Speaker 5: to nothing in this best of five series. Colin Coward

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00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 5: coming up next, followed by Rogan and Rodney at noon.

851
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 5: Petro some money three to seven. Dodgers will work out

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Speaker 5: later on today and then get ready for Game three tomorrow.

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Speaker 5: Yoshinobu Yamamoto Aaron Nola, the pitching matchup. We'll have it

854
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Speaker 5: for you. Keep it right here on your home of

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Speaker 5: the Dodgers. For all the latest Dodger news, a FI

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Speaker 5: seventy LA Sports