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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Sports Film KMBR. I'm really excited to

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Speaker 1: bring my guests on. I've talked to him for several years.

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Speaker 1: You can see him on Channel seven. Is he one

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Speaker 1: of the best sports anchors they have. Let's bring in

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Speaker 1: Chris Alvarez. Chris, how are you this evening?

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Speaker 2: Oh I'm good, Bill. How are you doing? We get

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Speaker 2: to you know, March is a great time. Is weather's

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Speaker 2: getting nice and got all the sports of spring, especially

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Speaker 2: baseball around the corner. I can't I look at the

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Speaker 2: schedule and what we're two weeks and two days from

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Speaker 2: the opening day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of things got to happen in spring training, Chris,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of moves and a lot of young

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Speaker 1: players being looked at. With the WBC being played. What

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Speaker 1: do you think about the opportunities that all these young

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Speaker 1: players are getting it for?

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Speaker 2: Tony Botello, Yeah, I think it's great. I mean, look, one,

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Speaker 2: I love the WBC. Number one. I think it's great.

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Speaker 2: I think it's great that the Giants have a good

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Speaker 2: amount of their players playing in it and playing well

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Speaker 2: and high competition early on. I think, look, spring training

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Speaker 2: is a long it's a long grind just to get

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Speaker 2: to opening day and some of the times guys are

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Speaker 2: you know, working on different stuff, so you know the

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Speaker 2: stats may not reflect maybe what the kind of season

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Speaker 2: they're gonna have. And you know this pictures sometimes you're

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Speaker 2: just you know, you're working on your curve ball, you're

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Speaker 2: working on a certain things, and sometimes you get hit,

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Speaker 2: sometimes you don't. I love seeing these guys playing high

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Speaker 2: competition and then you look at that with guys that

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Speaker 2: are getting more reps and opportunities that are trying to

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Speaker 2: make the club. And I think it's great for Tony

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Speaker 2: might tell a look going in. You don't have to

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Speaker 2: be the manager of the team. You know, there's certain

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Speaker 2: guys that are make the roster, and the therese guys

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Speaker 2: that are on the fringe, and guys that have options

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Speaker 2: don't have options you want to look at. So it

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Speaker 2: gives Tony obviously who's who's brand new to this team

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Speaker 2: and a new coaching staff overall, to to get a

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Speaker 2: or gonna be in the farm, and that the guys

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Speaker 2: need to call up this year. So I think it's

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Speaker 2: a great opportunity. It couldn't have happened at a better time.

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Speaker 2: I think for this new staff, and then again the

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Speaker 2: guys that are that are gonna be on the team.

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Speaker 2: You see loose Louis Rise who said he can't hit

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Speaker 2: and you know, a good opportunity for young guys to

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Speaker 2: get repsent. Maybe they wouldn't have So I think it's

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Speaker 2: a it's a win win for every lay involved.

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Speaker 1: Well, the WBC, as you said, has a good flexure

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Speaker 1: of players from the San Francisco Giants. But let's look

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Speaker 1: at a couple of guys that are still staying in Scottsdale.

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Speaker 1: And the first one is Rafael Devers getting a full

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Speaker 1: year with the San Francisco Giants. Coming off a little

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Speaker 1: tight hamstring. He's starting to play this week, and I

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Speaker 1: think that's going to be a big plus. Now that

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Speaker 1: clear head pretty much makes him a solid player.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I think he saw it a little bit towards

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Speaker 2: the end in late and someone the Giants made that

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Speaker 2: run that obviously they couldn't. They they'd done themselves too

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Speaker 2: big of a hole and they couldn't couldn't get out

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Speaker 2: of it. But you saw him kind of like, loosen up.

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Speaker 2: It's not easy. I mean, take for anybody that listening

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Speaker 2: One day you're just up and you know, clear across

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Speaker 2: the country trading, and you have to perform. You You

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Speaker 2: are the person, You're the higher and er, you're the high,

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Speaker 2: high marked guy, and you're all that pressure on you

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Speaker 2: and you're trying to figure out just your life, where

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Speaker 2: to live. You know, your family's on a different time zone.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's not like these people are they're they're humans,

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Speaker 2: and I think sometimes fans forget that, and then you

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Speaker 2: wanting to be the guy. And so once you can

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Speaker 2: I think that's gonna be great. You know, he was

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Speaker 2: to make the club? Are they going to platoon over there?

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Speaker 2: So I mean Raffie's going to be in the line

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Speaker 2: first And I think it's great that, you know, Ron,

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Speaker 2: So just to have that that full offseason and kind

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Speaker 1: But for you here in sports phone, kmbire I'm a

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Speaker 1: good friend from Channel seven sports anchor Chris Alvarez. You

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Speaker 1: mentioned him a minute ago. Louis Arise a guy that

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Speaker 1: won three batting titles, something that Buster Posey really wants.

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Speaker 1: He wants the ball and play. He the strikeouts has

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Speaker 1: think that's what he's going to bring to this light

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Speaker 1: up a little bit more contact. Your thoughts on Louis Arise.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think. Look, I mean, I'm surprised he was

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Speaker 2: made a couple of good, good moves late. They got

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Speaker 2: Harrison Bader also, to you know, he can he can

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Speaker 2: fly around centerfield. You kind of shore up your defense,

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Speaker 2: which obviously has been a problem the last couple of years,

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Speaker 2: and last year, especially in the outfield, was a little

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Speaker 2: As you mentioned, Luisa riiseok, the defense has left some

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Speaker 2: I think in the long run, if he's gonna work

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Speaker 2: and maybe call me a little more old school and

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Speaker 2: You think about those teams, they put the ball and

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Speaker 2: how many times back in that championship run to the

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Speaker 2: you kind of get the swinging bunt, like I mean,

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Speaker 2: is it sexy? No? But scoring runs is the name again,

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Speaker 2: but maybe he has a little more power than we think.

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Speaker 2: And so I'm thinking a Rise can do that. And

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Speaker 2: if he can, if his history and his baseball card

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Speaker 1: Chris, You're so right there. And to get on base

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Speaker 1: and getting runners in runners in scoring position is a

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Speaker 1: big problem the Giants had in the past couple of years.

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Speaker 1: But let's talk about another player, a two time goal

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Speaker 1: glove winner, and Patrick Bailey won his second goal glove

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Speaker 1: this past year. But the offense numbers just haven't been

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Speaker 1: there this spring. Hitting the ball better, going the opposite way.

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Speaker 1: The Giants are using him in the middle of the order,

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Speaker 1: a little bit more pressure on him, but he's coming

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I think that's the thing with Patrick Bailey is that, obviously,

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Speaker 2: was able to do both, but you have to look

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Speaker 2: long season, and so it's early with him and the hitting,

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Speaker 2: and you'd like to get a little more out of him.

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Speaker 2: And maybe it's just as simple as like maybe Losa

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Speaker 2: maybe at this point, hopefully Patrick the last couple of years,

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Speaker 2: the season. And granted we're just taking injuries out of

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Speaker 2: You see some of the same guys got better scattering

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Speaker 2: for Patrick Offensively. I'm not saying he's going to be

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Speaker 2: the lead offensive dog. I don't think that's his responsibility.

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Speaker 2: If he can provide a little bit more and put

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Speaker 2: to be on base or at least drive some guys in.

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Speaker 2: I think that's gonna get added. Plus, you just don't

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Speaker 2: want to have dead spots in the lineuports and automatic

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Speaker 2: Giants are going up against these teams that don't have

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Speaker 2: a lot of automatic out saykay, the Dodgers, you want

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Speaker 2: to be able to compete every day, just have a

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Speaker 1: Chris Alvarez joined me for a few more minutes on

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Speaker 1: sports phone KMBR. Well, like you said, less than two

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Speaker 1: up to Sacramento for an exhibition game. All eyes on

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Speaker 1: a rookie twenty one years old, Bryce Eldridge having some

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Speaker 1: good games, a couple bad games, but again he's learning

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Speaker 1: to hit. He's learning hit a good lefties and righties.

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Speaker 1: Now playing pretty good first base. Where do you see

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I think that's the thing too, is that you've

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Speaker 1: Well, Chris, you follow the Golden State Warriors. Remarkable. You

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it sure means a lot with a healthy Steph

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Speaker 1: catching up with you. Spring has sprung, Baseball's coming up

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Speaker 2: All right, thank you so much, Bill, get to talk

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Speaker 2: to you.

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