WEBVTT - Dodger Talk (8-16-26) 

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<v Speaker 1>The quest for the three peat has begun.

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<v Speaker 2>Only four teams in Major League Baseball history have won

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<v Speaker 2>three consecutive titles.

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<v Speaker 3>The Dodgers are the favorites to become the fifth.

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<v Speaker 1>This is World Champion Dodger Talk. Here we go again.

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<v Speaker 4>We're get ready running back.

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<v Speaker 5>To get in on the show called eight six six

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<v Speaker 5>eighty seven two five seven day and be sure to

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<v Speaker 5>follow Dodger Talk wherever you get your podcasts. And now

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<v Speaker 5>your host, here's Tim Kakes.

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<v Speaker 1>Well.

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<v Speaker 2>The struggles are real for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and

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<v Speaker 2>as they fall.

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<v Speaker 4>Again, they get beat by the Brewers six to two.

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<v Speaker 2>They drop three of four till Milwaukee and lose the

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<v Speaker 2>season series. But there is a lot to unpack from

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<v Speaker 2>this Dodger team, the way they've been playing as of late. Hi, everybody,

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<v Speaker 2>and welcome into Dodger Talk here on a five seventy

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<v Speaker 2>LA Sports Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Thanks for

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<v Speaker 2>being with us on this hot Sunday afternoon. Is this

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<v Speaker 2>only gonna get warmer here as the week goes on.

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<v Speaker 2>So just when you thought the kids are going back

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<v Speaker 2>to school, let's not forget it's still the middle of

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<v Speaker 2>August and it is gonna be warm here the next

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<v Speaker 2>couple of weeks. So stay cool wherever you're at. If

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<v Speaker 2>you're by the water, if you're by a pool, if

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<v Speaker 2>you're buy.

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<v Speaker 4>An air conditioner. I hope you're staying cool.

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<v Speaker 2>Thanks for being with us on this Sunday afternoon eight

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<v Speaker 2>six six nine eight seven two five seventy.

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<v Speaker 4>The Dodgers lose today.

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<v Speaker 2>Logan Henderson outpitches Trek Schoolball, who gave it the Dodgers six.

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<v Speaker 4>Good innings, allowed just the two runs on seven hits.

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<v Speaker 4>One of the runs, you.

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<v Speaker 2>Know, you can make an argument should have been there,

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<v Speaker 2>as the Dodgers had a miscue at second base on

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<v Speaker 2>a toss from Mookie Betts to Tommy Edmund so one

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<v Speaker 2>of the runs earned, one of them unruned for Trek Scooball,

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<v Speaker 2>who threw one hundred and nine pitches today, a career high.

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<v Speaker 2>A lot of damage done with two outs. And again

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<v Speaker 2>I mentioned in the Clubout show, this is what the

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<v Speaker 2>Brewers do, just because yesterday they hit two home runs

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<v Speaker 2>against Justin Robuski. Folks, everybody's hitting home runs against Justin Robluski.

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<v Speaker 2>This isn't a team though, that slugs. This is a

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<v Speaker 2>team that's near the bottom in home runs in the

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<v Speaker 2>National League. What they do is just paper cuts you

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<v Speaker 2>to death. That's what they do. They just two out

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<v Speaker 2>hit single here, bloop single there. And I think the basic,

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<v Speaker 2>biggest example of that came in the fifth inning with

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<v Speaker 2>two outs, a double by Jackson Churio with two outs

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<v Speaker 2>against Arrek Scoogle. I mean, he was a one pitch

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<v Speaker 2>away from getting out of the fifth inning and making

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<v Speaker 2>it seven straight that he got retired instead, a double

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<v Speaker 2>by Cherio, and the next batter, Jake Bowers out of

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<v Speaker 2>Marina High School in Huntington Beach, just bloops the ball

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<v Speaker 2>into right field for a base hit, finds green behind

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<v Speaker 2>Tommy Hmman in second base, and gets an RBI single

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<v Speaker 2>to make it a two to one lead.

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<v Speaker 4>That's just what the Brewers do.

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<v Speaker 2>Again in the seventh inning, two out trouble, Jake Bower's

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<v Speaker 2>RBI double against Alex Vessio, who came in just specifically

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<v Speaker 2>to face Jake Bowers, the left hander with two outs.

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<v Speaker 4>But that's what happens. This Milwaukee Brewers team will just

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<v Speaker 4>grind you down.

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<v Speaker 2>They will get after you, and they don't score a

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<v Speaker 2>ton of runs, but they score runs consistently, and they

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<v Speaker 2>did that today. They had a run in the second

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<v Speaker 2>thanks to a miscue by the Dodgers. They took advantage

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<v Speaker 2>of it. They scored a run on the fifth two

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<v Speaker 2>more and the seventh to more and the ninth taking

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<v Speaker 2>advantage of an air. The Dodgers had two airs today

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<v Speaker 2>but should have had three. They gave a double in

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<v Speaker 2>the ninth inning instead of an air to Kyle Tucker.

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<v Speaker 2>Don't understand that one, but they ruled it in an air,

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<v Speaker 2>a double instead of an air when Kyle Tucker clearly

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<v Speaker 2>should have made the catch to really get out of

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<v Speaker 2>the inning instead falls in for a double. They scored

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<v Speaker 2>two runs and it's a six to one Milwaukee lead.

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<v Speaker 2>Just everything not going right right now for the Dodgers.

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<v Speaker 2>I was telling Colin Either in the break, one game

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<v Speaker 2>it's starting pitching, okay.

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<v Speaker 4>Then you get to another game it's just no offense.

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<v Speaker 2>Then it's the bullpen letting them down like it didn't

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<v Speaker 2>series opener with Edwin Diaz. And then the Dodgers find

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<v Speaker 2>a way to win the game on Friday nights and

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<v Speaker 2>hang on by the skin of their teeth. And then

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<v Speaker 2>there's a game like yesterday where the starting pitching gives

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<v Speaker 2>up the long ball again like Justin Robuski has been

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<v Speaker 2>doing the second half of the season, putting the Dodgers

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<v Speaker 2>in a hole. And then the other consistent is the offense,

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<v Speaker 2>which has been inconsistent since the All Star break. So

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<v Speaker 2>it just seems like it's one thing after another. Sloppy defense, bat,

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<v Speaker 2>base running, it's a lot of things that just continue

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<v Speaker 2>to mount up into losses for the Dodgers and contribute

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<v Speaker 2>to what this second half has looked like. And with

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<v Speaker 2>the stretch of the last sixteen games have been in

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<v Speaker 2>which the Dodgers have dropped eleven of sixteen, the Dodgers

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<v Speaker 2>are consistently inconsistent with their play.

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<v Speaker 4>That's the one thing they got going for him right now.

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<v Speaker 2>And Logan Hinders is a really good, young right handed pitcher,

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<v Speaker 2>but he made the Dodgers look silly at the play today,

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<v Speaker 2>the way he was throwing his fastball, which was only

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<v Speaker 2>sitting ninety five. But then he throws his change up,

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<v Speaker 2>and he was getting the Dodgers to swing and miss

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<v Speaker 2>on a lot of those change ups right over the

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<v Speaker 2>top of them. And then the Dodgers started chasing out

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<v Speaker 2>of the strike zone. Whoa, whoa, whoa, that's not what

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<v Speaker 2>the Dodgers' offense is about.

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<v Speaker 4>They don't chase.

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<v Speaker 2>The Dodgers have been so good the last few years

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<v Speaker 2>because they're disciplined and they don't swing at balls out

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<v Speaker 2>of the strike zone and help out the pitcher. They've

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<v Speaker 2>forced the pitchers to start throwing more strikes, and when

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<v Speaker 2>the strikes come down the middle, they make them pay

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<v Speaker 2>if they're there. But the Dodgers have gotten away from

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<v Speaker 2>that too many swinging misses, chasing balls, you know, six

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<v Speaker 2>inches off the play to foot off the plate in

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<v Speaker 2>Tiotscar Hernandez's case. That's just not what the Dodgers do.

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<v Speaker 2>And the Dodgers got to figure it out, and maybe

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<v Speaker 2>going to Denver is a chance to do that. I

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<v Speaker 2>thought the three game series against the Kansas City Royals

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<v Speaker 2>would have been that got right series for the Dodgers.

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<v Speaker 4>I mean, I know they won two one run games.

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<v Speaker 2>I know they won it four to two in the

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<v Speaker 2>series finale, so it's not like they blew out the Kansas

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<v Speaker 2>City Royals. They got back on the winning track after

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<v Speaker 2>that series in Arizona, which they dropped two with three,

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<v Speaker 2>and after getting swept by the Cubs in the Red Sox.

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<v Speaker 2>You felt like the Royals were that get right series,

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<v Speaker 2>and they won all three games Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday,

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<v Speaker 2>and in came the Brewers. You felt pretty good about it.

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<v Speaker 2>They were leading the game on Thursday night, Edwin Diaz

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<v Speaker 2>blows it. Maybe that deflated the balloon. But the Dodgers

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<v Speaker 2>did come back and win on Friday night. But yesterday

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<v Speaker 2>the miz tip of the cap to him for doing

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<v Speaker 2>what he does.

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<v Speaker 4>And then today the.

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<v Speaker 2>Dodgers just again miss cues defense. Great opportunity to the

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<v Speaker 2>eighth inning show. Hay Otani gets back to the top

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<v Speaker 2>of the lineup runners on first and third.

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<v Speaker 4>It's only a four to one game.

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<v Speaker 2>It's the eighth inning, Dodgers down three, and they potentially

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<v Speaker 2>had the tying run at the play with sho hey Otani,

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<v Speaker 2>just keep moving the line. If you're not getting hit

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<v Speaker 2>a home run, move the line. Instead grounds out into

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<v Speaker 2>a four to six to three double play in the

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<v Speaker 2>inning inning of what really turned out to be the

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<v Speaker 2>only threat the Dodgers made all game long outside of

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<v Speaker 2>a solo shot from Muncie and then a solo shot

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<v Speaker 2>in the ninth and the game was out of hand

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<v Speaker 2>from Andy Pajuz they eighth inning, runners on first and

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<v Speaker 2>third against the Brewers bullpen. The only time they strung

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<v Speaker 2>together hits and had runners in scoring position. That's only

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<v Speaker 2>time all day they had runners in scoring position was

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<v Speaker 2>the eighth inning eight six six ninety seven two five seventy.

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<v Speaker 2>We're gonna hear from the manager, Dave Roberts coming up

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<v Speaker 2>in just a couple of minutes. Hose Mota is gonna

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<v Speaker 2>check in as well later on, And a little tribute

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<v Speaker 2>to Tommy John, one of the great baseball players. Were

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<v Speaker 2>of the great pitchers that spanned a couple of generations

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<v Speaker 2>pitching in the major leagues and really set the bar

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<v Speaker 2>as far as surgeries to the arm and coming back

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<v Speaker 2>from that and establishing that Tommy John procedure. So we'll

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<v Speaker 2>get into that a little bit later, but let's go

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<v Speaker 2>out to the phones, all right, A lot of Dodger fans,

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<v Speaker 2>Julio Victorville start us off on this Sunday.

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<v Speaker 4>How frustrated are you right now? Julio?

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<v Speaker 6>Oh man, you know, I kept playing myself on the road.

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<v Speaker 6>I don't care what the team does in August. It's

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<v Speaker 6>October that matters. But still, it's just really frustrating to

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<v Speaker 6>see how this team has been playing the last couple

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<v Speaker 6>of weeks.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, no doubt.

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<v Speaker 2>This is a team that's gotta to be playing a

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<v Speaker 2>lot better than they are. The only thing to keep

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<v Speaker 2>in mind is.

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<v Speaker 4>You go back to the last two years.

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<v Speaker 2>On this date last year and on this date two

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<v Speaker 2>years ago, the Dodgers' lead was smaller and they didn't

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<v Speaker 2>have as good as record as.

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<v Speaker 4>They do right now.

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<v Speaker 2>So if you're going to start looking at positives year

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<v Speaker 2>to year, where they were in twenty five, where they

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<v Speaker 2>were in twenty twenty four, the Dodgers have a better

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<v Speaker 2>record this year and they have a bigger lead in

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<v Speaker 2>the division compared to the last two years. So that

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<v Speaker 2>is something to take away from an Julio. But yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>we've seen the lead go from fourteen down to seven,

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<v Speaker 2>and it could get even smaller if the Dodgers don't

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<v Speaker 2>turn things around.

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<v Speaker 7>And I got a question for you.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, good Now, given the Dodgers high end talent and

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<v Speaker 6>rubber Van Sclack's track record, they're multiple deep playoff runs

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<v Speaker 6>and recent championships, how much of this recent offensive inconsistency,

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<v Speaker 6>especially the passive approaches, struggles with the fastballs, and the

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<v Speaker 6>failure to drive and runners, especially with runners on do

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<v Speaker 6>you attribute to coaching and approach versus let's say, injuries,

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<v Speaker 6>aig in the lineup, or individual player adjustments.

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<v Speaker 4>I don't. I'm not going to point. I appreciate the

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<v Speaker 4>question whole on the thanks of the phone call.

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<v Speaker 2>They've been really good at approach and the way they've

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<v Speaker 2>gone about their offense the last few years. I don't

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<v Speaker 2>see how all of a sudden it just changes and

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<v Speaker 2>you can blame the hitting coaches Aaron Bates and Rob Nskoyek.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't see that at all. This is a player problem.

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<v Speaker 2>And when they're in the box, not seeing the ball

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<v Speaker 2>out of the hand, not seeing and recognizing pitches, chasing pitches,

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<v Speaker 2>all of that, there's swinging at pitches out of the zone,

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<v Speaker 2>and that is something this Dodger team was so good

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<v Speaker 2>at not doing. It is chasing swinging misses, helping out

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<v Speaker 2>the pitcher with balls that aren't strikes. You know, there's

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<v Speaker 2>an ABS system now and it has shrunk the strike zone.

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<v Speaker 2>It really has, and I think it's good because it's

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<v Speaker 2>tightened things up for pitchers and there's mall In my opinion,

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<v Speaker 2>there's more baseballs thrown around the plate than there ever

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<v Speaker 2>has been because you're not going to get the call.

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<v Speaker 2>Catchers aren't going to steal strikes anymore by snapping their

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<v Speaker 2>wrist back on a ball that's two or three inches

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<v Speaker 2>off the plate.

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<v Speaker 4>The abs don't lie.

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<v Speaker 2>That's the thing about the automated ball strike system. So

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<v Speaker 2>with that being said, balls have to be closer to

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<v Speaker 2>the plate, throwing in the zone more. And so I

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<v Speaker 2>think we're seeing a lot more pitches over the plate.

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<v Speaker 2>And now the Dodgers' offense should be thriving off of

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<v Speaker 2>that if you based on what they've been doing the

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<v Speaker 2>last few years and their approach at the plate.

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<v Speaker 4>But it's been different.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, I'm not even gonna point the finger and show, hey,

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<v Speaker 2>o Tani, how many pitches is he swinging that out

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<v Speaker 2>of the strike zone.

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<v Speaker 4>You know, as a left handed.

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<v Speaker 2>Hitter, balls that are a foot outside towards the right

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<v Speaker 2>headed batter's box, there's a lot of those swings at

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<v Speaker 2>pitches that aren't even pitches in the strike zone. Same

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<v Speaker 2>with Taskar Hernandez. Today, a Mookie Betts pitch swung on

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<v Speaker 2>a change up that was just a nasty changeup, but

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<v Speaker 2>it was outside and low and not even close to

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<v Speaker 2>being a strike. So I don't put the blame on

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<v Speaker 2>the hitting coaches, you know, I'm sure the approaches the same.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm sure the game plans are the same. It's just

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<v Speaker 4>the execution at the plate.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, sometimes the players got to take responsibility for

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<v Speaker 2>their actions at the plate. Certainly they do on defense

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<v Speaker 2>when they make base running in hers pitcher makes a

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<v Speaker 2>mistake with why throwing a baseball with the heart of

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<v Speaker 2>the plate, And that's gonna be the same with the hitters.

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<v Speaker 2>You know, it's ultimately them in the box facing the

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<v Speaker 2>pitcher one on one. They've got to do a better

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<v Speaker 2>job at pitch selection when they're up there. Eight six, six, nine,

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<v Speaker 2>eighty seven two five seventy. Sam in La is next

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<v Speaker 2>up on Dodger Talk on this Sunday after the Dodgers

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<v Speaker 2>fall to the Brewers sixty two.

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<v Speaker 4>Howre you doing?

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<v Speaker 8>Sam?

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<v Speaker 9>All right?

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<v Speaker 7>Jim?

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<v Speaker 9>How are you?

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<v Speaker 1>I'm all right a.

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<v Speaker 2>Little frustrated, but I'm hoping this Dodger team can get

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<v Speaker 2>right back on.

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<v Speaker 4>The right track.

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<v Speaker 10>Yeah, So, I mean, what's bothering me?

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<v Speaker 11>Is I?

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<v Speaker 12>I mean, I think we've all been watching this past

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<v Speaker 12>month round is or you know, a month and.

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<v Speaker 13>A half that the team just looks a little fatigued,

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<v Speaker 13>a little sluggish, maybe disinterested, but there's just no real

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<v Speaker 13>emotion coming out of the team. And I think that's

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<v Speaker 13>I mean, not excusable, but it's kind of understandable. They

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<v Speaker 13>saw the previous couple runs and back to back World championships.

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<v Speaker 13>But the person I blame for the struggles is Kyle

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<v Speaker 13>Tucker because he was supposed to be that stabilizing force

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<v Speaker 13>in the outfield and carry us through these lulls and

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<v Speaker 13>be that stabilizing force. And then not only is he not.

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<v Speaker 14>Producing, I mean he's sucking any energy.

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<v Speaker 12>He's sucking energy out of.

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<v Speaker 7>The team more than giving it. Look at what that

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<v Speaker 7>drop flat ball and right field. He walks over to it.

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<v Speaker 13>He's not even.

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<v Speaker 10>Running after it.

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<v Speaker 12>So I blame that on him, and it goes back.

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<v Speaker 12>It goes to what I'm saying that I believe we

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<v Speaker 12>need energy into this team, and it's time to call

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<v Speaker 12>up a couple. I mean, we have three of the

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<v Speaker 12>top twenty prospects in baseball in the outfield. It's time

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<v Speaker 12>to call up.

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<v Speaker 10>One of them.

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<v Speaker 12>I mean, it's time to infuse this team with some.

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<v Speaker 7>Energy, because that's what we're lacking.

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<v Speaker 13>Here and I don't care how much Kyle Tucker's paid,

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<v Speaker 13>but he's not performing, he's not hustling, he's even sit

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<v Speaker 13>down because this is not what Dodger Baseball's about.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I hear you, and I appreciate the phone call.

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<v Speaker 2>I understand where you're coming from. Sam with Kyle Tucker.

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<v Speaker 2>Here's my pushback in my problem in the world of

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<v Speaker 2>sports and where we're at and whether it's baseball, basketball, football,

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<v Speaker 2>it's hard. It's hard to sit a guy that is

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<v Speaker 2>the highest paid player annually in baseball and Kyle Tucker.

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<v Speaker 4>It's hard to sit.

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<v Speaker 2>A guy when you have made him a lucrative investment

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<v Speaker 2>in him for four years by paying him a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of money. He is one of the highest paid players

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<v Speaker 2>in sports this year. He needs to perform like it,

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<v Speaker 2>There's no question about it. The struggles at home compared

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<v Speaker 2>to the road, the ops at home compared away from

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<v Speaker 2>Dodger Stadium a day off.

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<v Speaker 4>In my opinion, what does that do?

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, we're not talking about a guy who's a

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<v Speaker 2>journeyman outfield guy. You took a flyer on who played

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<v Speaker 2>above their head the first half of the season and

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<v Speaker 2>maybe needs a little bit of a rest or a

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<v Speaker 2>guy that you sign, and you know, hopefully a reset

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<v Speaker 2>will get this guy back and you can get something

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<v Speaker 2>out of him the final six weeks of the season

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<v Speaker 2>and hope for the best. No, you invested a lot

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<v Speaker 2>in this guy. The Dodgers put a lot into Kyle Tucker.

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<v Speaker 2>Where is it drop five ball in the ninth inning

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<v Speaker 2>with one out. I mean, I know you're looking at

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<v Speaker 2>it to the sun, but you've got to make that catch.

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<v Speaker 2>You've got to produce more offensively, you know, And body

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<v Speaker 2>language does say a lot. You know in baseball you

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<v Speaker 2>always say don't get too high with the highs and

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<v Speaker 2>don't get too lows with the low and you know

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<v Speaker 2>you don't want to show a lot of frustrations. I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>I'll use Dalton Rushing as his example for you Dodger fans.

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<v Speaker 2>Dalton Rushing wears his emotions on his sleeves.

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<v Speaker 4>And I said it two months ago.

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<v Speaker 2>I like it because he brings a little fire to

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<v Speaker 2>what is a very professional, business like winning team.

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<v Speaker 4>Some people don't like it, people that aren't Dodger fans.

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<v Speaker 2>Even some Dodger fans like, hey man, enough with this

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<v Speaker 2>minor league stuff, enough with this you know, popping off

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<v Speaker 2>and saying things and you know, showing your emotions and

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<v Speaker 2>snapping the bat over and screaming the dugout. There are

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of people that got after Dalton Rushing called

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<v Speaker 2>him in mature. You know, it's the big league exactly

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<v Speaker 2>like you've been there before. Don't show your emotions like that.

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<v Speaker 2>If you're gonna do it, go into the dugout in

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<v Speaker 2>the end of the tunnel and do it. There was

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of that reaction, folks. I think we all

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<v Speaker 2>remember it just a few months ago. And now because

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<v Speaker 2>Kyle Tucker doesn't show enough emotion, we're getting after him

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<v Speaker 2>for that.

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<v Speaker 4>So there's a balance in between there.

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<v Speaker 2>I personally don't have a problem with the guy showing

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<v Speaker 2>emotion out there, and I don't fault the guy for

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<v Speaker 2>not showing it because maybe it's just not in his DNA.

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<v Speaker 2>But if you're not gonna show that emotion, show the

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<v Speaker 2>emotion in your play, then I've got to see you

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<v Speaker 2>be perfect defensively. Then I gotta see you hustling after

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<v Speaker 2>every play. I gotta see you having better at bats

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<v Speaker 2>out there. If you're not gonna be that guy who's

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<v Speaker 2>gonna show the emotion, we're gonna see that frustration. I

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<v Speaker 2>think maybe that's part of it. Dodger fans will at

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<v Speaker 2>least want to see him show that.

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<v Speaker 4>Man, I'm mad at.

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<v Speaker 2>Myself, that frustration with himself, just that getting upset and

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<v Speaker 2>showing that on a stage. Everybody can see it because

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<v Speaker 2>maybe as a fan would feel you make you feel.

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<v Speaker 4>Better, like, oh, okay, he cares.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh okay, Yeah, he's oh for his last nineteen on

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<v Speaker 2>this homestand without a home run in his last fifty

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<v Speaker 2>three at bats, and he's dropping the ball in right field.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh but you know what, at least he's showing some

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<v Speaker 4>emotion right now. Okay, at least I know he cares.

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<v Speaker 1>Is that what you want?

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<v Speaker 2>Eight six six nine, eight seven two five seventy Again,

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<v Speaker 2>it's I you can't win. You can't lose with these

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<v Speaker 2>guys that that show the emotion or don't show emotion.

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<v Speaker 4>I I I understand you want to see a guy care.

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<v Speaker 4>I get it.

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<v Speaker 2>But at the same time, again we go back to

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<v Speaker 2>Dalton rushiing. I just laugh because fans are getting after

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<v Speaker 2>Dalton Rushing for breaking his bat over his knee and

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<v Speaker 2>yelling at himself and you know, getting frustrated at the

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<v Speaker 2>play and you know, show him that primal screen when

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<v Speaker 2>he makes it out.

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<v Speaker 4>So it's okay to do that, but it's not okay

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<v Speaker 4>on the other side. I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>I get your frustration though, because it has been a

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<v Speaker 2>huge disappointment this season for Kyle Tucker and the play

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<v Speaker 2>today and right field of ninth inning. I mean, if

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<v Speaker 2>you're not gonna hit your weight this home stand, if

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<v Speaker 2>you're not gonna get a hit at all, at least

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<v Speaker 2>go all out on defense. At least show me something

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<v Speaker 2>on defense, Make a play, catch the ball and fall

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<v Speaker 2>into the wall. Do something because it is frustrating. But

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<v Speaker 2>as far as going out and bringing up hohost Way

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<v Speaker 2>to Paula, is that the answer? He's in Double A, folks.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a big jump. It's a big jump from Double

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<v Speaker 2>A to the major leagues. When you're paying a guy

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<v Speaker 2>sixty million dollars a year in Kyle Tucker, You're gonna

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<v Speaker 2>just go to your guy in Double A.

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<v Speaker 4>Inhost Way to Paula. I love host Way to Paula.

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<v Speaker 4>Is the next guy I do? I think he is

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<v Speaker 4>gonna be a special player.

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<v Speaker 1>Is he ready?

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe on any other team in baseball not named the

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<v Speaker 2>Dodgers or Yankees or Brewers. Right now, he probably could

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<v Speaker 2>be in the big league level. He very well maybe,

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<v Speaker 2>But there is a logjam right now because you have

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<v Speaker 2>a guy getting paid sixty million dollars to play right field. Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>so you're gonna bench him for a double a outfielder?

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<v Speaker 2>Who is your top prospect? If you're upset because Kyle

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<v Speaker 2>Tucker's not showing any emotion right now, what's gonna happen

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<v Speaker 2>to him when he gets benched? What about Taoscar Hernandez

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<v Speaker 2>in left field? I just got to tweet about, Well,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe Taoscar Hernandez does need a time off.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>His struggles are real too. I know he got a

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<v Speaker 2>hit today, He's got a hit in four of his

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<v Speaker 2>last five games, but the power's just not there.

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<v Speaker 4>I don't know.

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<v Speaker 2>Sometimes you gotta shake things up in order to reset

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<v Speaker 2>your issues and get back.

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<v Speaker 4>On the winning track.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think that's the resort that they need to

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<v Speaker 2>get to, though. I think there are other things and

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<v Speaker 2>other ways this Dodger team could be uh sent a message,

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<v Speaker 2>and I think maybe Dave Roberts is time to have

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<v Speaker 2>that closed door getting their face meeting. He did it

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<v Speaker 2>a couple of years ago in Atlanta, telling these guys

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<v Speaker 2>they need to buckle down.

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<v Speaker 4>After Gavin stoning down the injury and.

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<v Speaker 2>Tyler Glass now was out of the rotation, maybe it's

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<v Speaker 2>time for that conversation in Denver tomorrow. Maybe it's time

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<v Speaker 2>to have that before batting practice, is to shut the

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<v Speaker 2>clubhouse tomorrow and get everybody on the same page and

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<v Speaker 2>let them know that the way they've been playing is

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<v Speaker 2>any excusable. In fact, let's hear from the mager Dave Roberts,

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<v Speaker 2>he spoke to the media just a little while ago

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<v Speaker 2>as the Dodgers now get ready to head to Denver.

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<v Speaker 2>I can't imagine Dave Roberts too happy with the way

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<v Speaker 2>his team played today or played this series.

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<v Speaker 4>Let's hear from him.

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<v Speaker 6>He said that in the super situation with Frow around.

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<v Speaker 11>Out, what did you see? I saw the Brewers putting

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<v Speaker 11>together good at bats, winning pitches, spoiling pitches, and getting

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<v Speaker 11>the pitch count up. And then you know with that, yeah,

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<v Speaker 11>the pitch count got up and it was just good.

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<v Speaker 11>I think for me, we just needed him to go

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<v Speaker 11>out there and take on that sixth inning and he

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<v Speaker 11>was going to get three hitters. Right there and for

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<v Speaker 11>him to be efficient get to that sixth inning. I

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<v Speaker 11>think that was a good thing for him and a

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<v Speaker 11>good thing for us as far as you know where

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<v Speaker 11>the pen's at. But yeah, I mean unfortunately, just you know,

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<v Speaker 11>we didn't do enough offensively.

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<v Speaker 1>Was it forced swing decisions offensively to.

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<v Speaker 4>The or was a lot of it the way Henderson

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<v Speaker 4>was executing.

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<v Speaker 11>I think for me is this has been cumulative. It's

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<v Speaker 11>been it's been a long time since we've been consistent offensively,

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<v Speaker 11>and I think for me it's it's a you know,

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<v Speaker 11>winning a two to one pitch and not chasing winning

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<v Speaker 11>a three to two pitch, taking the walk, you know,

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<v Speaker 11>not chasing the first pitch to then be one to know.

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<v Speaker 11>And I think for me it's it's, you know, I

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<v Speaker 11>see our guys. You know, we're chasing off in you're

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<v Speaker 11>chasing away, and I just don't see the consistent plan

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<v Speaker 11>of attack one through nine. And you know, the results

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<v Speaker 11>are hard. Hitting is hard. But I do think that

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<v Speaker 11>you know, fighting and winning pitches, spoiling pitches, that's care hunger,

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<v Speaker 11>and that's a reason why you know, you look at

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<v Speaker 11>you know, four and a half months of a season,

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<v Speaker 11>the Brewers have outscored us. You know, it's a team

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<v Speaker 11>that's young and hungry and it's certainly not talent. So

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<v Speaker 11>and I say this because this has been you know,

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<v Speaker 11>four or five six weeks of you know, below average

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<v Speaker 11>production from our offense. It's just it's the truth. And

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<v Speaker 11>I just think that we just haven't played clean baseball

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<v Speaker 11>for quite some time. And that speaks to the defense

0:22:11.040 --> 0:22:15.680
<v Speaker 11>and you know, not converting it out to then you know,

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<v Speaker 11>our pitcher potential could cost our starter and inning, which

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<v Speaker 11>it has so those things. That's just not winning baseball.

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<v Speaker 11>And so you know, our pedigree, what we typically do

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<v Speaker 11>is you know, control the zone, grind it, grinded bats,

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<v Speaker 11>you know, create stress. We're just not we're not doing that.

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<v Speaker 4>This other less agree before the game.

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<v Speaker 11>Yeah, I'm not. We're not concerned. It should be a

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<v Speaker 11>short it should be short lived. But yeah, I mean,

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<v Speaker 11>we have guys that we're kind of toiling with, kind

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<v Speaker 11>of with their with their health dealings, a couple of

0:22:54.240 --> 0:22:59.000
<v Speaker 11>guys in the pen robo and just feeling like given

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<v Speaker 11>his workload and kind of where he's at, you know,

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<v Speaker 11>taking some of the load off of his arm. I

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<v Speaker 11>think it's smart and I think with the eight men pen,

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<v Speaker 11>we could sort of protect guys more there, and so

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<v Speaker 11>you're sort of looking at a few guys and we

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<v Speaker 11>just felt collectively that, you know, Justin was the right

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<v Speaker 11>person that, you know, back off the fatigue of the arm.

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<v Speaker 11>And it's not something that he's ever going to make

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<v Speaker 11>an excuse for, but I do think that it's smart

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<v Speaker 11>for us as an organization to you know, take that

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<v Speaker 11>load off a little bit from him.

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<v Speaker 4>All Right, there's a manager.

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<v Speaker 2>Dave Roberts a lot to digest there from what he

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<v Speaker 2>had to say from the last part there about Justin Robleski,

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<v Speaker 2>who was placed on the injured list with irritation in

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<v Speaker 2>his left forearm.

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<v Speaker 4>That is certainly great news.

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<v Speaker 2>So it sounds like they're just giving him a breather

0:23:52.840 --> 0:23:54.960
<v Speaker 2>and they needed an extra arm in the bullpen, which

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<v Speaker 2>you do the math, they do need another arm because

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<v Speaker 2>of the six man rotation. They're down a reliever and

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<v Speaker 2>with the way the starting pitching has been, you need

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<v Speaker 2>another arm down there, maybe a long relief. Kyle Hurts

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<v Speaker 2>that guy. I wouldn't be shocked to see another transaction

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<v Speaker 2>bringing up another arm. Kyle Hurt being sent down since

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<v Speaker 2>he pitched today, but a break for Justin Robleski, I

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<v Speaker 2>have no issue with that, and that sounds like that's

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<v Speaker 2>what it is. You know, he's got a dead arm,

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<v Speaker 2>he's got, you know, some fatigue, and as Dave Roberts said,

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<v Speaker 2>he's not not the kind of guy who's gonna sit

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<v Speaker 2>there and tap out and they're not gonna complain and

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<v Speaker 2>not gonna want to ask to be taken out. But

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<v Speaker 2>they see the innings, they look at the numbers, they

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<v Speaker 2>realize where he's at. He's already surpassed his career high

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<v Speaker 2>in innings pitch at any level of professional baseball, Minor

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<v Speaker 2>league and major league.

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<v Speaker 4>Starts as well.

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<v Speaker 2>He's an all star first half pitcher, great, but the

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<v Speaker 2>numbers are what they are in the second half of

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<v Speaker 2>the season. In his last four starts, it's given up

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of home runs and he's not winning and

0:24:48.560 --> 0:24:51.959
<v Speaker 2>he's not pitching great. So give him a break, let

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<v Speaker 2>him miss a spin or two around the rotation so

0:24:54.400 --> 0:24:56.480
<v Speaker 2>he could rest that arm and get ready for September.

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<v Speaker 2>So I think that's a good move by the Dodgers

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<v Speaker 2>to get him off of his feed, get him a

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<v Speaker 2>break from pitching one or two starts, and then bring

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<v Speaker 2>him back. So certainly that is good news and that

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<v Speaker 2>is the reason why he is on the injured list.

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<v Speaker 2>But also Dave Roberts just kind of echoing what I

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<v Speaker 2>said a few minutes ago. This is not the pedigree

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<v Speaker 2>of the Dodgers. They grind out at bats. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>they don't chase pitches. You know, they make you work.

0:25:19.119 --> 0:25:22.159
<v Speaker 2>They grind the starting pitcher down. Too many swings at

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<v Speaker 2>the first pitch, too many swings at pitches out of

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<v Speaker 2>the strike zone, too many bat at bats for this

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<v Speaker 2>Dodgers team. And as he said, he doesn't like the approach,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's been a below average production for this Dodgers

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<v Speaker 2>team the last four to six weeks. Right on the

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<v Speaker 2>head hit there by Dave Roberts in describing his team,

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<v Speaker 2>We'll take a time out. We'll come back to get

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<v Speaker 2>to your Moti phone calls. We'll get to Jose Mota,

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<v Speaker 2>and we'll get a little tribute to Tommy John who

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<v Speaker 2>passed away at the age of eighty three and what

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<v Speaker 2>he has meant to the game of baseball. Dodgers fall

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<v Speaker 2>to the Milwaukee Brewers six to two. The final Logan

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<v Speaker 2>Henderson the win, Derek Scouble the loss. As the Dodgers

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<v Speaker 2>dropped three of four to Milwaukee as they're leading the division,

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<v Speaker 2>now down to seven over both the Padres and the

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<v Speaker 2>Diamondbacks eight six six nine eighty seven two five seventy.

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<v Speaker 4>Little on the pitch, that was awful, Monsie. On the

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<v Speaker 2>His twenty fourth home run of the season, is seventh

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<v Speaker 2>Dodgers had two solo home runs, but that was it

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<v Speaker 1>Let's check in with Jose. It's tough to go around

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<v Speaker 1>the horn with Hosean mos.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, Jose, no secret. This Dodger's team is struggling.

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<v Speaker 2>They've lost eleven of their last sixteen. Dave Roberts we

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<v Speaker 2>just heard from him, talked about the below average production

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<v Speaker 2>and really a Dodger's offense has gotten away from what

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<v Speaker 2>they did well, grinding down pictures, discipline.

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<v Speaker 4>At the play, they're just chasing a lot of pitches.

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<v Speaker 3>It goes together with not hitting, and I mean them

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<v Speaker 3>the way in which when you're not doing well, then

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<v Speaker 3>everything else starts getting a little bit tougher for you

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<v Speaker 3>and you start spreading the zone. The opposing picture learns

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<v Speaker 3>about a little bit more. He sees her intentions, he

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<v Speaker 3>can read the anxiety. Sometimes with the at bats, the

0:27:50.400 --> 0:27:52.960
<v Speaker 3>check swings toll you a whole lot about indecision, and

0:27:53.040 --> 0:27:55.320
<v Speaker 3>the batter's box is happening a lot, and then the

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<v Speaker 3>lazy pop ups are is a good indication of just

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<v Speaker 3>not getting through the zone as you need to. It's

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<v Speaker 3>a it's a pleasut other things that we can you know,

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<v Speaker 3>point to on a very talented team, you know, and

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<v Speaker 3>no two years repeat themselves. We know that Dodgers last

0:28:10.000 --> 0:28:12.240
<v Speaker 3>year got off to a fifty six and thirty two start,

0:28:12.480 --> 0:28:15.159
<v Speaker 3>best record in baseball. Before you know it, they go

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<v Speaker 3>twenty two and thirty two, fourth worst record in baseball.

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<v Speaker 3>So I don't want to be sitting on that only

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<v Speaker 3>and going, oh, they're gonna find their way. They need

0:28:21.680 --> 0:28:23.399
<v Speaker 3>to find it now, because the reason is you have

0:28:23.480 --> 0:28:26.800
<v Speaker 3>a different group. Every scenario is much different. It doesn't

0:28:26.800 --> 0:28:29.080
<v Speaker 3>repeat itself. As I mentioned, and you know at the

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<v Speaker 3>same time too, is I think tim the simplicity of

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<v Speaker 3>keeping your game the way it's supposed to be. Meaning

0:28:35.000 --> 0:28:36.880
<v Speaker 3>if I'm if I got I need to get on base,

0:28:37.119 --> 0:28:39.160
<v Speaker 3>they ain't gonna work counts if I need to move

0:28:39.240 --> 0:28:41.640
<v Speaker 3>runners over, which is one of the biggest things is

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<v Speaker 3>if you take more team at bats and play more

0:28:43.960 --> 0:28:47.240
<v Speaker 3>fundamental team at bats, daniear load is off a little

0:28:47.280 --> 0:28:50.480
<v Speaker 3>bit more, your mentality is just a little lightened, and

0:28:50.600 --> 0:28:52.840
<v Speaker 3>they get better with seeing. Okay, now that I did

0:28:52.920 --> 0:28:55.240
<v Speaker 3>that for my team. I can concentrate on whether they

0:28:55.280 --> 0:28:57.080
<v Speaker 3>getting myself. I can intro a groove, and a lot

0:28:57.120 --> 0:28:59.720
<v Speaker 3>of times the manager himself has to take charge of

0:28:59.760 --> 0:29:02.040
<v Speaker 3>this and just alleviate the load by putting plays on

0:29:02.560 --> 0:29:03.880
<v Speaker 3>or telling a guy, hey, I would like for you

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<v Speaker 3>to take a picture. And there's many things that you

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<v Speaker 3>know different than how you manage on April or how

0:29:09.320 --> 0:29:11.560
<v Speaker 3>even the opposing team pitches to you in April or May.

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<v Speaker 3>Did there now the cumulative numbers from you know, guys

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<v Speaker 3>on the other staff, knowing what you're doing, your tendencies,

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<v Speaker 3>when do you spread when you don't? And I think

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<v Speaker 3>you know it's the biggest time right now to make

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<v Speaker 3>an adjustment, Jose.

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<v Speaker 4>The fans are frustrated with Kyle Tucker.

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<v Speaker 2>I know he's not happy with the way he's been playing,

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<v Speaker 2>and certainly the numbers speak for themselves away from Dodger Stadium.

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<v Speaker 2>At home, the ops dramatically different. But simply put, this

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<v Speaker 2>is this is not the player the Dodgers paid for

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<v Speaker 2>in free agency.

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<v Speaker 4>What do you do?

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<v Speaker 3>What you do is you let him know how good

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<v Speaker 3>he is and why you brought him here. And I

0:29:44.160 --> 0:29:46.000
<v Speaker 3>think the Dodgers do a good job telling players that,

0:29:46.120 --> 0:29:48.720
<v Speaker 3>like Mookie Betson and even as chohil Tony Ways struggles

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<v Speaker 3>just to hey, you don't need to carry the whole load,

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<v Speaker 3>which is really if you're in a position like that Tim,

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<v Speaker 3>think about this. You're getting paid all this money, he

0:29:55.960 --> 0:29:58.880
<v Speaker 3>goes a large hypty contract. You're not a guy that's

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<v Speaker 3>going to be a plotter for you, full effort all

0:30:00.800 --> 0:30:04.240
<v Speaker 3>the time. He's always played like this. But there's also

0:30:04.320 --> 0:30:06.800
<v Speaker 3>a sense of I don't have to carry this by myself.

0:30:06.880 --> 0:30:10.080
<v Speaker 3>They didn't bring me here to save everybody. You got Manse,

0:30:10.240 --> 0:30:12.640
<v Speaker 3>you got Otani, you got Muky, you got Freddie in

0:30:12.760 --> 0:30:15.400
<v Speaker 3>so many ways are gonna help you. So I think

0:30:15.440 --> 0:30:17.480
<v Speaker 3>in a way like just get it off of you.

0:30:17.560 --> 0:30:19.680
<v Speaker 3>You don't have to carry this whole thing. But I

0:30:19.880 --> 0:30:22.520
<v Speaker 3>do want to see, like the fans, just the urgency

0:30:22.600 --> 0:30:25.720
<v Speaker 3>and fighting and grinding out at bats. With Kyle Tucker,

0:30:25.800 --> 0:30:27.760
<v Speaker 3>we've hit a whole lot of check swings, even on

0:30:27.880 --> 0:30:30.760
<v Speaker 3>hitters counts, which just tells me sometimes he's just not

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<v Speaker 3>ready to hit, or he's thinking about something else, And

0:30:33.360 --> 0:30:35.440
<v Speaker 3>I think you got to just erase all that because

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<v Speaker 3>the more you play you go into postseason that you're

0:30:38.040 --> 0:30:40.280
<v Speaker 3>gonna be facing tougher pitching, which is hard to be

0:30:40.360 --> 0:30:42.760
<v Speaker 3>in the size of it against tougher pitching. And also,

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<v Speaker 3>I'll tell you what, even the corners defensively the Dodgers

0:30:46.920 --> 0:30:49.160
<v Speaker 3>are not stopping the run. And what I mean is

0:30:49.680 --> 0:30:55.040
<v Speaker 3>the third base coaches are challenging to Oscar and and

0:30:55.360 --> 0:30:59.080
<v Speaker 3>now Tucker in right field and running and sometimes it

0:30:59.280 --> 0:31:01.080
<v Speaker 3>just doesn't come from the defensive position and where they

0:31:01.120 --> 0:31:02.960
<v Speaker 3>need to be because they're also not throwing the ball

0:31:03.040 --> 0:31:04.600
<v Speaker 3>very well. For a guy like Tucker that you know

0:31:05.120 --> 0:31:08.320
<v Speaker 3>was respected for that aspect of his game, that's not happened.

0:31:08.360 --> 0:31:09.239
<v Speaker 7>So that's concerning too.

0:31:09.320 --> 0:31:12.080
<v Speaker 3>So I think if he just lets a fly, it

0:31:12.120 --> 0:31:13.600
<v Speaker 3>says I'm going to go out there and just give

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<v Speaker 3>my best. Be selective and let it fly is sometimes

0:31:16.480 --> 0:31:19.560
<v Speaker 3>your best option, and hopefully going to Denver because of

0:31:19.640 --> 0:31:22.240
<v Speaker 3>all's gonna fly, you make good decisions so you get

0:31:22.240 --> 0:31:25.360
<v Speaker 3>better pitches and be a smartern ball player in every

0:31:25.400 --> 0:31:28.680
<v Speaker 3>single aspect. Defensively, running the basis with some urgency and

0:31:28.760 --> 0:31:30.840
<v Speaker 3>also grinding out at bats and knowing that you don't

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<v Speaker 3>have to carry this team by yourself, which in itself

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<v Speaker 3>should be you know, an easy load for you to

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<v Speaker 3>carry hose.

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<v Speaker 4>Final thing.

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<v Speaker 2>Tommy John passed away at the age age of eighty three,

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<v Speaker 2>longtime pitcher in the Big Lings, a Dodger went to

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<v Speaker 2>World Series, the namesake of baseball's most important surgery ever

0:31:48.840 --> 0:31:50.440
<v Speaker 2>and in the surgery for the elbow.

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<v Speaker 4>What did he mean to you? A lot?

0:31:53.800 --> 0:31:55.840
<v Speaker 3>Because Tommy Jones was a guy that's when we're in

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<v Speaker 3>the clubhouse. Very friendly guy, very amicable and just related

0:32:00.440 --> 0:32:03.720
<v Speaker 3>to everybody. I mean from Nobi Kuano to the assistants

0:32:03.720 --> 0:32:06.960
<v Speaker 3>in the clubhouse to his teammates. A voice that was heard,

0:32:07.080 --> 0:32:10.720
<v Speaker 3>A very funny guy, very entertaining. I recall that you

0:32:10.800 --> 0:32:13.520
<v Speaker 3>know in this that era of a lot of soul

0:32:13.640 --> 0:32:16.360
<v Speaker 3>music at the clubhouse with Reggie and Dusty and you know,

0:32:16.560 --> 0:32:19.400
<v Speaker 3>Garb and Top Tens and things like that. Then came

0:32:19.480 --> 0:32:22.440
<v Speaker 3>country music, and I think the first time I heard

0:32:22.480 --> 0:32:25.760
<v Speaker 3>country with Tommy John the riostone Cowboy. I stor remember

0:32:25.800 --> 0:32:27.440
<v Speaker 3>that song back in this hoaedy is with him. And

0:32:27.680 --> 0:32:31.200
<v Speaker 3>one quick story with him is when my my dad,

0:32:31.360 --> 0:32:33.720
<v Speaker 3>order my brother Andy and I are first bats ever

0:32:33.760 --> 0:32:35.280
<v Speaker 3>from the Liberal Slugger with our names on. It was

0:32:35.320 --> 0:32:39.360
<v Speaker 3>like the coolest thing. Nineteen seventy eight right and Tommy

0:32:39.440 --> 0:32:43.040
<v Speaker 3>John was right handed better. Okay, left that picture Ryana batter.

0:32:43.440 --> 0:32:45.960
<v Speaker 3>So he go into the cage in the by the

0:32:46.200 --> 0:32:48.560
<v Speaker 3>bullpen and take some swings. And one time we took

0:32:48.600 --> 0:32:50.680
<v Speaker 3>one of my brother's Andy's bats. It was a thirty

0:32:50.720 --> 0:32:53.960
<v Speaker 3>two inch bat. So he's like many, I'm saying, that's

0:32:53.960 --> 0:32:55.560
<v Speaker 3>that pretty good. If I break it, I'll buy another

0:32:55.640 --> 0:32:56.200
<v Speaker 3>one for Andy.

0:32:56.800 --> 0:32:58.200
<v Speaker 8>And prose he takes it.

0:32:58.200 --> 0:33:00.800
<v Speaker 3>Into a game, gets a knock his he and not

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<v Speaker 3>trading does bad.

0:33:01.600 --> 0:33:01.840
<v Speaker 14>Andy.

0:33:01.880 --> 0:33:04.280
<v Speaker 3>It's not yours anymore. So rest some peace. He and

0:33:04.360 --> 0:33:08.480
<v Speaker 3>a gray family and overall just an impactful person, a

0:33:08.600 --> 0:33:10.640
<v Speaker 3>member of baseball. And also think about what he did

0:33:11.080 --> 0:33:13.760
<v Speaker 3>for doctor job did for baseball and for so many

0:33:13.800 --> 0:33:16.560
<v Speaker 3>athletes and for other doctors. Think about what he did

0:33:16.600 --> 0:33:19.840
<v Speaker 3>for those doctor himself too by being able to spread

0:33:19.920 --> 0:33:22.760
<v Speaker 3>medicine and think about another dimension of medicine to keep

0:33:23.520 --> 0:33:24.480
<v Speaker 3>all these careers alive.

0:33:24.800 --> 0:33:27.280
<v Speaker 2>Absolutely absolutely well said he should be in the Hall

0:33:27.320 --> 0:33:28.600
<v Speaker 2>of Fame for his contributions.

0:33:28.680 --> 0:33:32.520
<v Speaker 4>Jose, appreciate it. We'll talk to you soon. Enjoy some

0:33:32.640 --> 0:33:34.840
<v Speaker 4>time off all, my friend, take care great.

0:33:34.880 --> 0:33:37.040
<v Speaker 2>There he goes, Jose Mota joining us on some thoughts

0:33:37.080 --> 0:33:39.520
<v Speaker 2>on Tommy John who passed away at the A eighty three.

0:33:39.960 --> 0:33:41.600
<v Speaker 2>I had a chance to talk to Tommy John Tos

0:33:41.600 --> 0:33:43.640
<v Speaker 2>several times. We'll get into that coming up in just

0:33:43.720 --> 0:33:45.560
<v Speaker 2>a couple of minutes. But a tough one for the Dodgers.

0:33:45.640 --> 0:33:47.680
<v Speaker 2>They lose three of four to the Brewers. They go

0:33:47.760 --> 0:33:49.560
<v Speaker 2>four and three on the homestand that sweep over the

0:33:49.720 --> 0:33:52.160
<v Speaker 2>Kansas City Royal. It seems like forever ago as they

0:33:52.240 --> 0:33:55.240
<v Speaker 2>lose today six to two. Robert and Glendale, thanks for

0:33:55.280 --> 0:33:57.560
<v Speaker 2>being patient. Welcome to Dodger Talk here on an five seventy.

0:33:57.600 --> 0:34:00.720
<v Speaker 4>How you doing, Robert, I'm doing great.

0:34:00.720 --> 0:34:01.440
<v Speaker 10>How are you, Jim?

0:34:01.800 --> 0:34:03.800
<v Speaker 4>I'm all right. I'm wishing this team would get back

0:34:03.840 --> 0:34:04.240
<v Speaker 4>on track.

0:34:05.880 --> 0:34:10.600
<v Speaker 9>Yeah, so I'll be quick. I'm I'm working to UCLA

0:34:10.719 --> 0:34:13.399
<v Speaker 9>VERSU Quipman's soccer. So if I go in the park

0:34:13.440 --> 0:34:18.160
<v Speaker 9>instructure and you lose me, sorry about that. But Robleski.

0:34:18.320 --> 0:34:21.920
<v Speaker 9>There's a scene in Moneyball where Jonah Hill talking to

0:34:22.000 --> 0:34:25.319
<v Speaker 9>Brad Pitt about losing Giombi, and he says, I think

0:34:25.360 --> 0:34:27.760
<v Speaker 9>it's a great thing that you got Giambi off your roster.

0:34:28.280 --> 0:34:31.320
<v Speaker 9>I think it opens up all sorts of interesting possibilities.

0:34:32.040 --> 0:34:34.360
<v Speaker 9>That's how I feel about robe Leski going the IL.

0:34:35.040 --> 0:34:36.880
<v Speaker 9>I mean, the black and white way to say is

0:34:36.960 --> 0:34:39.880
<v Speaker 9>that ever since the All Star Break, he's been terrible.

0:34:40.440 --> 0:34:43.040
<v Speaker 9>So I think that getting him off the forty man

0:34:43.480 --> 0:34:45.880
<v Speaker 9>getting him to the I L I think it opens

0:34:45.960 --> 0:34:50.359
<v Speaker 9>up all sorts of interesting possibilities for the Dodgers. As

0:34:50.440 --> 0:34:55.760
<v Speaker 9>far as Tucker and the disparity between Rushing and Tucker,

0:34:56.280 --> 0:34:59.880
<v Speaker 9>you know, I think there's a difference between not running

0:35:00.080 --> 0:35:02.480
<v Speaker 9>heart out on a fly ball in the outfield and

0:35:03.360 --> 0:35:06.040
<v Speaker 9>by emotion that Rushing brains. I think there's some sort

0:35:06.400 --> 0:35:09.120
<v Speaker 9>of middle ground there. I don't know if it's really

0:35:09.200 --> 0:35:12.480
<v Speaker 9>a fair comparison to say, like, oh, it's complained about Tucker,

0:35:12.560 --> 0:35:15.239
<v Speaker 9>but we don't complain about Rushing. I think that there's

0:35:15.280 --> 0:35:17.360
<v Speaker 9>a great ballplayer somewhere in the middle.

0:35:17.120 --> 0:35:17.360
<v Speaker 7>Of the.

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<v Speaker 4>YEP, you're right, you got to UCLA. We're losing to

0:35:21.200 --> 0:35:21.520
<v Speaker 4>you there.

0:35:21.800 --> 0:35:24.799
<v Speaker 2>But I appreciate the patience and checking in. There has

0:35:24.840 --> 0:35:26.920
<v Speaker 2>got to be a happy medium there, Robert, and I

0:35:26.960 --> 0:35:29.200
<v Speaker 2>appreciate the phone call. Yeah, your phone just dipped out

0:35:29.239 --> 0:35:31.360
<v Speaker 2>there as you made your way close. It's probably underneath

0:35:31.360 --> 0:35:34.200
<v Speaker 2>the parking structures there off sunset at UCLA. But I

0:35:34.239 --> 0:35:35.959
<v Speaker 2>appreciate the phone call. There's got to be a happy

0:35:36.000 --> 0:35:39.279
<v Speaker 2>medium there between the two. And certainly I understand the

0:35:39.360 --> 0:35:42.560
<v Speaker 2>Dodger fans perspective is you see a guy struggling, and

0:35:42.640 --> 0:35:45.480
<v Speaker 2>it appears that he doesn't show any emotion, so it

0:35:45.600 --> 0:35:46.960
<v Speaker 2>appears that he doesn't care.

0:35:47.680 --> 0:35:50.279
<v Speaker 4>I can guarantee he cares. I can guarantee you he's

0:35:50.320 --> 0:35:53.000
<v Speaker 4>trying everything he can to perform at a better level.

0:35:53.080 --> 0:35:54.319
<v Speaker 4>It just hasn't gone his way.

0:35:54.680 --> 0:35:57.839
<v Speaker 2>And quite frankly, it has to, because you're being paid

0:35:57.880 --> 0:36:00.680
<v Speaker 2>as a superstar to perform as a suit superstar, and

0:36:00.800 --> 0:36:03.080
<v Speaker 2>you can't perform as a superstar. You just got to

0:36:03.080 --> 0:36:05.120
<v Speaker 2>figure out how to get back to that level. Eight six, six,

0:36:05.239 --> 0:36:07.319
<v Speaker 2>ninet eighty seven, two five seventy, My guy.

0:36:07.280 --> 0:36:09.680
<v Speaker 4>Blake in Colorado. Blake, what's going on, buddy?

0:36:11.920 --> 0:36:13.480
<v Speaker 9>What's going on now?

0:36:15.440 --> 0:36:17.719
<v Speaker 4>It's a tough time right now for the Dodgers, Blake. Yeah,

0:36:17.760 --> 0:36:18.879
<v Speaker 4>they've lost three of four.

0:36:19.440 --> 0:36:22.560
<v Speaker 2>Uh, they fall behind the Brewers by three games now

0:36:22.600 --> 0:36:24.680
<v Speaker 2>as far as best record in the National League.

0:36:24.920 --> 0:36:26.640
<v Speaker 4>They got to turn things around, Blake. They gotta do

0:36:26.680 --> 0:36:27.080
<v Speaker 4>it fast.

0:36:28.960 --> 0:36:29.200
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

0:36:30.600 --> 0:36:32.479
<v Speaker 9>Yeah, they're not doing too good.

0:36:34.200 --> 0:36:36.120
<v Speaker 4>What do you think about Kyle Tucker? What do you

0:36:36.160 --> 0:36:37.360
<v Speaker 4>think about Kyle Tucker.

0:36:37.120 --> 0:36:41.439
<v Speaker 1>Blake, Yeah, he's not doing good.

0:36:41.560 --> 0:36:43.160
<v Speaker 11>We should call up dude.

0:36:43.680 --> 0:36:45.560
<v Speaker 2>Well, you're paying the guy a lot of money to

0:36:45.640 --> 0:36:47.200
<v Speaker 2>set him on the bench. You're playing the guy a

0:36:47.239 --> 0:36:48.759
<v Speaker 2>lot of money and not to play him in the

0:36:48.800 --> 0:36:51.759
<v Speaker 2>lineup every single day. I know he struggled, but you know,

0:36:52.000 --> 0:36:54.960
<v Speaker 2>you're here's a reason why he got paid that money.

0:36:55.000 --> 0:36:58.120
<v Speaker 2>Because he's a guy who's over his career can produce,

0:36:58.480 --> 0:37:01.080
<v Speaker 2>you know, what he's capable of. He just hasn't done it,

0:37:01.200 --> 0:37:03.839
<v Speaker 2>especially at home. The number is dramatically different away from

0:37:03.920 --> 0:37:06.919
<v Speaker 2>Dodger Stadium than when he does play a uniclo field

0:37:06.920 --> 0:37:07.680
<v Speaker 2>the Dodger Stadium.

0:37:07.719 --> 0:37:10.239
<v Speaker 4>For for whatever reason, they're down. But Blake, there's there's

0:37:10.280 --> 0:37:11.640
<v Speaker 4>a little bit of time, not a lot of time

0:37:11.719 --> 0:37:12.399
<v Speaker 4>left in the season.

0:37:12.440 --> 0:37:14.440
<v Speaker 2>It's about six weeks to go, so he can certainly

0:37:14.480 --> 0:37:16.719
<v Speaker 2>get on a heater here. Good little run.

0:37:19.200 --> 0:37:21.600
<v Speaker 7>Yeah, the Dodgers are struggling.

0:37:21.719 --> 0:37:24.600
<v Speaker 10>What are the big issues you seem for them?

0:37:25.120 --> 0:37:26.200
<v Speaker 13>What do you need to see?

0:37:26.360 --> 0:37:26.400
<v Speaker 9>What?

0:37:27.200 --> 0:37:27.960
<v Speaker 4>Who do you see?

0:37:28.080 --> 0:37:30.600
<v Speaker 13>Replacing saying well he's on I.

0:37:30.880 --> 0:37:34.000
<v Speaker 2>L Well, well we'll find out what this team can

0:37:34.040 --> 0:37:35.680
<v Speaker 2>do in Colorado. Thanks, Blake, Are you going to any

0:37:35.680 --> 0:37:37.920
<v Speaker 2>of the games this week and the Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.

0:37:39.200 --> 0:37:41.440
<v Speaker 4>No, oh, okay, all right, no.

0:37:41.520 --> 0:37:42.200
<v Speaker 9>Problem, no problem.

0:37:42.239 --> 0:37:43.840
<v Speaker 4>Good to hear your voice. Good to check in with you.

0:37:44.160 --> 0:37:48.560
<v Speaker 4>Blake and Colorado, longtime Dodger fan. We appreciate that. I'll

0:37:48.600 --> 0:37:50.440
<v Speaker 4>be back on Wednesday after the series finale.

0:37:50.520 --> 0:37:55.280
<v Speaker 2>Okay, okay, all right, I appreciate. There's my guy Blake

0:37:55.680 --> 0:37:59.440
<v Speaker 2>in Colorado, Ken at Newport Beach. Thanks for being patient

0:37:59.480 --> 0:38:01.239
<v Speaker 2>on this Sunday. Ken, How are you doing, my friend?

0:38:02.520 --> 0:38:05.840
<v Speaker 7>Hey, Ken, you're an ext baseball player. Yeah, the Dodgers

0:38:05.880 --> 0:38:09.960
<v Speaker 7>were five and ten. Yeah, the Dodgers are closer to

0:38:10.840 --> 0:38:13.200
<v Speaker 7>fourth place than they are in the first place. But

0:38:13.320 --> 0:38:18.040
<v Speaker 7>there's more to the fact with Tucker than you're needing

0:38:18.440 --> 0:38:22.440
<v Speaker 7>the eye. And here's what I mean. Other players and

0:38:22.560 --> 0:38:24.400
<v Speaker 7>you remember as a baseball player, if you had one

0:38:24.440 --> 0:38:26.239
<v Speaker 7>guy who was only going to his motions and not

0:38:26.360 --> 0:38:29.560
<v Speaker 7>trying hard, it affected all the players. The other players say,

0:38:29.600 --> 0:38:34.040
<v Speaker 7>this guy scared the fence, doesn't play hard, doesn't hittings

0:38:34.080 --> 0:38:37.800
<v Speaker 7>getting sixty million, And they're sitting there going, wow, this

0:38:38.040 --> 0:38:41.120
<v Speaker 7>is really bumming me out. He needs to make an

0:38:41.200 --> 0:38:44.680
<v Speaker 7>effort at least not be scared of the fence. It

0:38:44.840 --> 0:38:47.560
<v Speaker 7>affects the other players on the team. And you know

0:38:47.640 --> 0:38:50.640
<v Speaker 7>when you played baseball, you'd have one guy who wasn't

0:38:50.760 --> 0:38:53.960
<v Speaker 7>making the effort. That's what I think is causing some

0:38:54.080 --> 0:38:55.400
<v Speaker 7>of the problems with the Dodgers.

0:38:55.520 --> 0:38:56.320
<v Speaker 4>Well, they need to fix that.

0:38:56.440 --> 0:38:56.680
<v Speaker 9>They can.

0:38:56.800 --> 0:38:59.200
<v Speaker 4>I'll let you finish, But then somebody needs to say something.

0:38:59.440 --> 0:39:02.479
<v Speaker 2>It's a Freddie Freeman, a Mookie Bets, a Maximunse, somebody

0:39:02.520 --> 0:39:05.760
<v Speaker 2>who's been on this championship run and has that voice

0:39:05.920 --> 0:39:08.799
<v Speaker 2>in the clubhouse, Dave Roberts. Somebody needs to then tell

0:39:08.880 --> 0:39:10.640
<v Speaker 2>him this is not the way we do things. This

0:39:10.800 --> 0:39:14.560
<v Speaker 2>is unacceptable. You need to change what you're doing. Then defensively,

0:39:14.640 --> 0:39:17.680
<v Speaker 2>your approach, you need to be better, because look around you.

0:39:17.960 --> 0:39:20.799
<v Speaker 2>We won before you got here, will win after you're here,

0:39:20.840 --> 0:39:23.319
<v Speaker 2>if that's the case. But while you're here, you need

0:39:23.640 --> 0:39:25.319
<v Speaker 2>to be what we are doing here at the same

0:39:25.400 --> 0:39:27.840
<v Speaker 2>approach it to play and the good, tough defense the

0:39:27.880 --> 0:39:28.440
<v Speaker 2>way we play it.

0:39:28.840 --> 0:39:30.359
<v Speaker 4>Somebody's got to say something to him then.

0:39:31.400 --> 0:39:33.000
<v Speaker 7>And I agree, and it's he's a gonna kind of

0:39:33.080 --> 0:39:35.680
<v Speaker 7>pan for Freeman who made this move, or it's gonna

0:39:35.680 --> 0:39:39.279
<v Speaker 7>come from days. Just think that Walt Alton being here

0:39:39.400 --> 0:39:42.480
<v Speaker 7>right now or Lasorda being here right now, would they

0:39:42.600 --> 0:39:45.440
<v Speaker 7>put up with that? No, he'd be on the bench.

0:39:45.880 --> 0:39:48.680
<v Speaker 7>And you know, you've got players that didn't make the

0:39:48.760 --> 0:39:51.640
<v Speaker 7>efforts and you got angry as a player, and I

0:39:51.719 --> 0:39:53.319
<v Speaker 7>think that's affecting the whole team.

0:39:54.280 --> 0:39:55.840
<v Speaker 2>I agree a little bit with you. Can I appreciate

0:39:55.880 --> 0:39:57.359
<v Speaker 2>the phone call. Good to hear from you, my friend,

0:39:57.400 --> 0:39:59.719
<v Speaker 2>as always. Eight sixty six nine eighty seven two five,

0:40:00.080 --> 0:40:01.560
<v Speaker 2>Andy Donn in the City of Industry.

0:40:01.600 --> 0:40:02.920
<v Speaker 4>You're next up here on Dodge Talk.

0:40:03.160 --> 0:40:05.680
<v Speaker 2>After a frustrating series for the Dodgers as they lose

0:40:05.719 --> 0:40:08.319
<v Speaker 2>to the Brewers six to two, they drop three of four,

0:40:08.760 --> 0:40:10.800
<v Speaker 2>and they go four and three on the homestand but

0:40:10.880 --> 0:40:13.440
<v Speaker 2>hopefully as changes in sight here as they head to

0:40:13.480 --> 0:40:15.680
<v Speaker 2>Colorado for a three game series against the Rockies.

0:40:15.680 --> 0:40:16.479
<v Speaker 4>How you doing, my friend?

0:40:17.719 --> 0:40:17.879
<v Speaker 7>Oh?

0:40:18.080 --> 0:40:21.760
<v Speaker 8>Doing good? But there is no joy in Modreal today.

0:40:22.440 --> 0:40:25.799
<v Speaker 8>I am bummed. I am kicked off. Almost said something else,

0:40:26.160 --> 0:40:29.480
<v Speaker 8>but man, you know it's I love Dave Roberts, you know,

0:40:29.640 --> 0:40:32.280
<v Speaker 8>but you know he's got this Barney at the Dinosaur approach.

0:40:32.800 --> 0:40:35.680
<v Speaker 8>I don't think he needs to give Kyle a hug.

0:40:36.120 --> 0:40:37.640
<v Speaker 8>I think he needs to give him a good kick

0:40:37.680 --> 0:40:41.160
<v Speaker 8>in the Keister say, look, man, you know, because he's

0:40:41.200 --> 0:40:47.160
<v Speaker 8>symptomatic of all this malaise, and at some point these guys,

0:40:47.719 --> 0:40:49.960
<v Speaker 8>I think they're gonna snap out of it because it's

0:40:50.040 --> 0:40:53.799
<v Speaker 8>almost eerily reminiscent of what happened last year wreck him.

0:40:54.120 --> 0:40:54.239
<v Speaker 10>You know.

0:40:54.360 --> 0:40:56.120
<v Speaker 8>It's like we came out of the All Star break

0:40:56.200 --> 0:40:58.400
<v Speaker 8>and we went into this funk and we had to

0:40:58.560 --> 0:41:02.920
<v Speaker 8>drag ourselves across the finish line. But somehow once we

0:41:03.040 --> 0:41:05.920
<v Speaker 8>got there, then we did okay, but we lost home

0:41:06.000 --> 0:41:08.400
<v Speaker 8>field advantage in the finals. You know, we had you know,

0:41:08.760 --> 0:41:11.520
<v Speaker 8>that would have been nice to have, although we still

0:41:11.640 --> 0:41:14.640
<v Speaker 8>pulled it out. We got so much ability, so much talents,

0:41:14.760 --> 0:41:18.200
<v Speaker 8>and so much muscle memory on this team that it's

0:41:18.400 --> 0:41:22.719
<v Speaker 8>just it's just frustrating. This Yeah, what do you call it.

0:41:23.000 --> 0:41:26.240
<v Speaker 8>It's a funk of blue funk? Oh okay, But whatever

0:41:26.400 --> 0:41:28.440
<v Speaker 8>it is, they need to snap out of it because

0:41:29.320 --> 0:41:31.480
<v Speaker 8>time's getting short, you know, and everybody thinks I can

0:41:31.520 --> 0:41:33.760
<v Speaker 8>flip the switch. I can flip the switch. It reminds

0:41:33.800 --> 0:41:36.120
<v Speaker 8>me of the great Sugar Ray Robinson. He used to say,

0:41:36.719 --> 0:41:39.839
<v Speaker 8>I think I'll fight until I start to slide. Then

0:41:39.920 --> 0:41:43.600
<v Speaker 8>you wake up one morning and you done slid Okay.

0:41:43.920 --> 0:41:45.719
<v Speaker 8>You know so I think that's kind of what's going

0:41:45.760 --> 0:41:48.160
<v Speaker 8>on here. You know, it's like, hey, you guys might

0:41:48.200 --> 0:41:50.200
<v Speaker 8>have done it last year and the year before, but

0:41:50.320 --> 0:41:52.840
<v Speaker 8>we got a chance to make history now, and it's

0:41:52.840 --> 0:41:56.239
<v Speaker 8>stumbling around like a bunch of bums. It's not good, Kim.

0:41:56.320 --> 0:41:57.280
<v Speaker 8>I know you agree.

0:41:58.080 --> 0:41:58.279
<v Speaker 4>Don.

0:41:58.560 --> 0:42:01.040
<v Speaker 2>You're a boxing guy. I know you going way back,

0:42:01.200 --> 0:42:03.440
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0:42:03.480 --> 0:42:05.879
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0:42:16.960 --> 0:42:20.600
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<v Speaker 2>Sweet Science Not Quite Ringside with our own Colin Yeen

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<v Speaker 2>Sammuel Long, two young dudes chopping up about the Sweet Science.

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<v Speaker 4>You gotta love it.

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<v Speaker 10>Good deal.

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<v Speaker 8>Sounds like you need an old old head dag to

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<v Speaker 8>the mix. So i'danky to still still that void.

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<v Speaker 1>Good deal.

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<v Speaker 8>Yeah, it sounds like it's made for me.

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<v Speaker 4>Thanks to Billy. Absolutely Don great to hear your voice.

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<v Speaker 2>Thanks for checking at eight sixty six nine eighty seven

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<v Speaker 2>two five seventy is the number yet. Don from the

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<v Speaker 2>City of Industry is a long time sports talk listener

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<v Speaker 2>and a guy that loves the sweet science, so we

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<v Speaker 2>appreciate that eight sixt six nine Don, thanks for the

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<v Speaker 2>phone call. Let's go to Addie and Palace. Vernice is

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<v Speaker 2>next up here on Dodger Talk.

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<v Speaker 8>On s doing Eddie, I'm doing good, Tim Kates, what's

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<v Speaker 8>shake and what's going on?

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<v Speaker 15>Uh?

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<v Speaker 10>Three things I'd like to know when Uh, let's see, uh,

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<v Speaker 10>what's the what's the catcher's.

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<v Speaker 4>Team Dalton Russian? Will Smith?

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<v Speaker 10>Will Smith? When he's coming back? You had they had

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<v Speaker 10>something the other day that he was going to come back,

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<v Speaker 10>and then uh, and then Glass now when he's going

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<v Speaker 10>to be coming back? Because I need I need these

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<v Speaker 10>guys need to come back soon if not soon enough, Yeah,

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<v Speaker 10>and then uh, before I leave, let's see what was

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<v Speaker 10>else my mind? Oh yeah, when is paead is going

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<v Speaker 10>to get up a bibble here? Me and my wife

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<v Speaker 10>are always talking about that. So I just want to

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<v Speaker 10>leave you.

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<v Speaker 7>That with that.

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<v Speaker 10>With that, Tim Kates, and thank you with taking my call.

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<v Speaker 4>All right, I appreciate that. I got a couple of

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<v Speaker 4>answers for you.

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<v Speaker 3>Eddie.

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<v Speaker 2>There is one, Yes, a bobblehead for Andy Pajes you asked,

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<v Speaker 2>you shall receive September sixth, Eddie, and I hope you're listening.

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<v Speaker 2>Just go to Dodgers dot com again, Dodgers dot com

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<v Speaker 2>and get your tickets for September sixth, Dodgers at home

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<v Speaker 2>against the Washington Nationals. And on that September sixth, it

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<v Speaker 2>is going to be arguably one of the best bobbleheads

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<v Speaker 2>that you'll ever see. It is a remake of the

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<v Speaker 2>dramatic ninth inning collision in Game seven of last year's

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<v Speaker 2>World Series in Toronto. Now picture this, you remember, right,

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<v Speaker 2>the ball hit to left center field centerfielder Andy Paiez

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<v Speaker 2>on in relief, as far as the defensive replacement Keiky

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<v Speaker 2>Hernandez with the goggles on in left field wearing their

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<v Speaker 2>Dodger grays, both running towards left center field, coming together

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<v Speaker 2>to catch the baseball, and pa haz leaps up with

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<v Speaker 2>his back to the field. Is it collides in mid

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<v Speaker 2>air with Key k A Hernandez, who then falls to

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<v Speaker 2>the ground and Paz hangs on for the catch and

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<v Speaker 2>what was one of the great catches in Dodger postseason history.

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<v Speaker 4>And certainly helped them win the World Series last year.

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<v Speaker 2>Pa Haz key k Hernandez the catch bobblehead on September

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<v Speaker 2>sixth out at the Dodgers Nationals game.

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<v Speaker 4>So you can find tickets a Dodgers dot com. But

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<v Speaker 4>there you go. You ask, you shall receive.

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<v Speaker 2>As far as Andy Pie haz bobblehead, we mentioned it

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<v Speaker 2>back in April and May when he was off to

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<v Speaker 2>that great terror on the station, like when is he

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<v Speaker 2>gonna get a bobblehead? I mean, Luka, Donchas has got

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<v Speaker 2>a bibblehead coming up. You know we're giving one to

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<v Speaker 2>ice Cube again. Everybody's getting a babble You want.

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<v Speaker 4>A bobblehead, You want a bibblehead? All right, everybody's gonna

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<v Speaker 4>get a biblehead.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, Andy Pie has hadn't had one, and now they

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<v Speaker 2>put one together with Key k a Hernandez. And if

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<v Speaker 2>you hadn't seen it online, I go ahead and tell

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<v Speaker 2>you look it up. You can just put in Paez

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<v Speaker 2>Kik bobblehead. And they've already got the picture of what

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<v Speaker 2>it looks like. It is pretty fantastic. The catch September

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<v Speaker 2>sixth for Key k hernandez Andy Pias. Your other questions

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<v Speaker 2>about Tyler Glass now. Tyler Glass now is gonna make

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<v Speaker 2>one more rehab appearance, whether it's in Triple A or

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<v Speaker 2>it's in a ball with Ontario tower buzzers.

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<v Speaker 4>I'm not quite sure yet.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think that was announced, but he's gonna make

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<v Speaker 2>another one next time around. This week, he pitched two

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<v Speaker 2>three and two third scoreless innings with eight strikeouts on

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<v Speaker 2>Friday night in Triple A, Oklahoma City. He looked really good.

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<v Speaker 2>It was a home game in Oka See. He looked

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<v Speaker 2>really good at a lot of life on his fastball.

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<v Speaker 2>He threw all of his pitches again. Three and two

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<v Speaker 2>third hitless frames, eight strikeouts for Tyler Glass. Now on Friday,

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<v Speaker 2>he's gonna make one more rehab start and then he'll

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<v Speaker 2>be back. And you asked about Will Smith as well.

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<v Speaker 2>Will Smith took batting practice last week.

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<v Speaker 4>That is good news.

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<v Speaker 2>Dalton Rushing was out there in the cage as well.

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<v Speaker 2>So Will Smith is trending in the right direction. And

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<v Speaker 2>it's the case with Will Smith in the neck is

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<v Speaker 2>you hope every time he does something, whether it's play catch,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, take a batting practice, that he comes out

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<v Speaker 2>of it injury free as far as the inflammation in

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<v Speaker 2>his neck and is not there, and he has checked

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of boxes already, and as he continues to

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<v Speaker 2>check the boxes and stays injury and pain free, that

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<v Speaker 2>is all certainly good news. But realistically, as we sit

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<v Speaker 2>here on August sixteenth, you're looking at probably around a

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<v Speaker 2>Labor day return.

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<v Speaker 4>That's just my guess.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't have any insight on that. I don't have

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<v Speaker 2>any behind the scenes. This is when they're circling. Don't

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<v Speaker 2>know that at all. But if you're gonna start connecting

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<v Speaker 2>the dots as far as what he's doing now, how

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<v Speaker 2>long it's gonna take him to ramp up. Shouldn't take

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<v Speaker 2>him a full month to do so you gotta look

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<v Speaker 2>at maybe that first week of September Labor day ish

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<v Speaker 2>is my mind, what the goal should be for Will

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<v Speaker 2>Smith to return to this Dodgers team, and certainly Hunter

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<v Speaker 2>Fordusha and Ben Roardvatt for what they've done in his absence,

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<v Speaker 2>they've been really good. You know, you're not asking for

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<v Speaker 2>these guys to slug and hit a bunch of home

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<v Speaker 2>runs and back clean up for you. They hit the

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<v Speaker 2>bottom of the lineup. But what they do is they

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<v Speaker 2>play really good defense and they take control of your

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<v Speaker 2>starting rotation. Which you look what they've done the last

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<v Speaker 2>week and a half or so pitching giving you quality starts.

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<v Speaker 2>Another quality start today for Terra Schooble and his six

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<v Speaker 2>innings given up to just the two runs.

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<v Speaker 9>Well.

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<v Speaker 2>We talked to Jose Mode about it a little earlier.

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<v Speaker 2>The name behind the most famous surgery in baseball is gone.

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<v Speaker 2>Tommy John, the former Dodgers pitcher whose name became synonymous

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<v Speaker 2>with elbow reconstruction, has died at the age of eighty three.

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<v Speaker 2>Tommy John died Saturday at his home in Florida after

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<v Speaker 2>a period in hospice care. He had been battling bladder

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<v Speaker 2>cancer and other health issues in recent years. But for

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<v Speaker 2>generations of baseball fans, Tommy John wasn't just a pitcher.

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<v Speaker 2>He became the name of a surgery that changed the

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<v Speaker 2>game forever. Young baseball fans know the term Tommy John surgery.

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<v Speaker 2>For many pitchers undergoing that procedure has almost become the

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<v Speaker 2>right of passage on the road to the major leagues.

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<v Speaker 2>According to the American Medical Association, more than one thousand

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<v Speaker 2>professional pitchers have undergone the procedure since it was first performed.

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<v Speaker 2>In twenty twenty three, a report said that thirty five

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<v Speaker 2>percent of all active Major league pitchers had undergone Tommy

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<v Speaker 2>John surgery. But where did the name come from? Technically

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<v Speaker 2>it's called ulner collateral ligament reconstructive surgery UCL surgery, and

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<v Speaker 2>it began with a Dodgers pitcher and a Dodgers team doctor.

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<v Speaker 2>September twenty fifth, nineteen seventy four, Tommy John thirty one

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<v Speaker 2>years old when he tore the UCL in his pitching elbow.

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<v Speaker 2>At the time, the injury was essentially a career ending diagnosis,

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<v Speaker 2>but Dodgers team physician, doctor Frank Job had an idea.

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<v Speaker 2>He would take attendant from Tommy John's right forearm and

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<v Speaker 2>use it to replace the damaged ligament in his left elbow,

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<v Speaker 2>a procedure described to Tommy John as never done before

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<v Speaker 2>in baseball.

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<v Speaker 14>He had done a lot of ligament repair and transplant

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<v Speaker 14>on ankles and feet of polliotation, so he knew the

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<v Speaker 14>surgery was doable, but he'd never done it in the elbow.

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<v Speaker 14>Of a pitcher who is going to be using his

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<v Speaker 14>arm two three hundred times a day.

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<v Speaker 2>Doctor Frank Job told Tommy John that without the surgery

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<v Speaker 2>he'd probably never pitch again. And with the surgery, doctor

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<v Speaker 2>job estimated time Tom John's chances of returning to the

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<v Speaker 2>major leagues was roughly one in one hundred, but odds

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<v Speaker 2>that Tommy John was willing to take.

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<v Speaker 7>I had nothing to lose.

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<v Speaker 14>I wasn't going to pitch like I was and if

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<v Speaker 14>he did it and it didn't work, and I'd be

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<v Speaker 14>back home in Tarohod, Indiana working at my buddy's card

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<v Speaker 14>dealership being a car salesman.

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<v Speaker 2>Tommy John took the gamble, had the surgery, and baseball

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<v Speaker 2>history has been changed forever. After the surgery, Tommy John

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<v Speaker 2>missed the entire nineteen seventy five season before returning in

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<v Speaker 2>nineteen seventy six to the major leagues.

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<v Speaker 4>And he didn't just come back, he stayed.

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<v Speaker 14>I piped thirteen years after surgery, one one hundred and

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<v Speaker 14>sixty two games after surgery. Never missed a start in

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<v Speaker 14>thirteen years, and I don't think that can be said

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<v Speaker 14>by the guys that have the surgery.

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<v Speaker 7>Now.

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<v Speaker 2>Tommy John won more games after his surgery than he

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<v Speaker 2>did before. He pitched until he was forty six years old,

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<v Speaker 2>retiring in nineteen eighty nine with two hundred and eighty

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<v Speaker 2>eight career victories. He was a four time All Star.

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<v Speaker 2>He pitched in two World Series for the Dodgers and

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<v Speaker 2>against the Dodgers in another World Series. But his greatest

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<v Speaker 2>contribution to baseball is not found in his statistics, but

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<v Speaker 2>rather it's the legacy he created after by going under

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<v Speaker 2>the knife back in nineteen seventy four. To have that

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<v Speaker 2>procedure without Tommy John, baseball may not be what it

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<v Speaker 2>is today. In twenty twenty six, Baseball Hall of Fame,

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<v Speaker 2>time now for you to open the door to a

0:51:25.040 --> 0:51:28.200
<v Speaker 2>man whose name will always be remembered and should be

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<v Speaker 2>enshrined into Cooperstown. Tommy John gone at the age of

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<v Speaker 2>eighty three. So there you go, Tommy John. We know

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<v Speaker 2>the name, we know the surgery has become mainstay now

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<v Speaker 2>for pictures at every level to have that surgery. If

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<v Speaker 2>it's not for Tommy John, we're not talking about pictures

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<v Speaker 2>doing what they do today here in twenty twenty six.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, that's gonna do it for Dodger talk on

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<v Speaker 2>this Sunday. Thank you for being a part of it.

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<v Speaker 2>Thank you to Colin and everybody else. If your podcast

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<v Speaker 2>the show, we really appreciate it. Thanks for being a

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<v Speaker 2>subscriber to the Dodger Talk podcast, the iHeart for Wherever podcast.

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<v Speaker 2>We're back at it tomorrow with Marogo Casino Dodgers on deck,

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<v Speaker 2>starting our coverage, first pitch at five point forty, pregame

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<v Speaker 2>at four point thirty. As the Dodgers a quick turnaround,

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<v Speaker 2>hopefully a flight to Denver, clear their heads and get

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<v Speaker 2>ready for the Rockies for the next three days is

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<v Speaker 2>what they need after they fall to the Milwaukee Brewers

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<v Speaker 2>today by a final of six to two. They dropped

0:52:24.760 --> 0:52:28.000
<v Speaker 2>three of four to Milwaukee. They lose the season series.

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<v Speaker 2>The Dodgers now seven games up on San Diego, eight

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<v Speaker 2>games up on Arizona in the NL West. They lost

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<v Speaker 2>eleven of sixteen. But the good news is Tomorrow's a

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<v Speaker 2>new day and a new game with a new series

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<v Speaker 2>against the Colorado Rockies.

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<v Speaker 4>Have a great, safe rest of your Sunday. Everybody Song