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Speaker 1: FT Live postgame show presented by Fox One. One game

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Speaker 1: to Go. But first, let's recap what we just saw.

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Speaker 1: Venezuela heading to the WBC Final for the first time.

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Speaker 1: Italy had an insane run, the Cinderella story, but they

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Speaker 1: were stopped here after a two to nothing lead, they

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Speaker 1: go down by a four to two final. It's bron

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Speaker 1: Kratz and Todd Father. That was a fun one and

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Speaker 1: Todd we had talked about how Venezuela had.

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Speaker 2: Some big names in their lineup.

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Speaker 1: Italy held them down for a while, but eventually they

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Speaker 1: got to Michael Lorenzen and and that was it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there was an opportunity there too, you know, for

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Speaker 3: Italy to kind of get a couple more runs here

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Speaker 3: and there, but Venezuela's bullpen came through and they found

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Speaker 3: a way to get the strikeout or the ground out

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Speaker 3: or what have you.

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Speaker 4: There.

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Speaker 3: Give credit to Venezuela and they never backed down. That's

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Speaker 3: why you played nine innings all with two outs, and

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Speaker 3: it was just it was truly remarkable watching this team

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Speaker 3: come through four to two win another low scoring game.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was.

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Speaker 3: It was fun game to watch and the crowd was

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Speaker 3: waiting to get fired up and then next you know,

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Speaker 3: the seventh inning, the music went off, an infield single

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Speaker 3: by Ronald Acuna, and then there was an opportunity. What

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Speaker 3: they wanted to do to keep Lorenzen in or out.

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Speaker 3: We can talk about that as we move forward. But again,

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Speaker 3: Venezuela coming through Italy, what a great run. That's their

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Speaker 3: first loss in this tournament or in this Classic. I

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Speaker 3: should say so, give kudos to them.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, nobody even thought Italy was gonna advance,

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Speaker 5: thought it was gonna be us in Mexico. Italy wins

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Speaker 5: their pool advances, gets to this point, had to lead.

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Speaker 5: I mean, they had the game under control. I'm gonna

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Speaker 5: have to go and say Omar Lopez made a move

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Speaker 5: that we didn't see last night. Obviously we're seeing these

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Speaker 5: games back to back. Pool hosts did not make the

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Speaker 5: move when and Austin Wells was on second base late

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Speaker 5: in the game, I think it was a seventh Glabor Torres,

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Speaker 5: who's definitely coming out for defense anyway, because Andre Simenez

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Speaker 5: is on the bench, Clabor Torres is on first base

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Speaker 5: and they put Andre Semenez in. He ends up scoring

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Speaker 5: the run. They end up getting four hits in a

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Speaker 5: row no dingers for them. It was one of those

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Speaker 5: things that you go, is this the script of how

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Speaker 5: it was gonna happen? For Like, if you told me

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Speaker 5: there's no dingers in the game, I would say Italy

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Speaker 5: wins it.

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Speaker 6: And Italy I think.

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Speaker 5: They drew five walks, including a including an intentional walk.

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Speaker 5: Was it was definitely a game that was able to

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Speaker 5: be won by Italy. But Venezuel's bullpen, to me, was

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Speaker 5: really the stopper here tonight.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the chance for Italy was kider Montero losing it

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Speaker 1: three consecutive walks.

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Speaker 2: Italy took advantage.

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Speaker 1: They put up a two spot early in that game,

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Speaker 1: and there was one danger if you remember earlier, did

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Speaker 1: you say none, I mean none during that run?

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Speaker 2: But Gino Swarez, yeah.

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Speaker 5: Right right right, yeah, none, you're saying none during that

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Speaker 5: for that three run inning.

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Speaker 1: Three run all on two outs, right, two out knocks

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Speaker 1: for the team to just keep things rolling. So Venezuela

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Speaker 1: just too much for Italy here. Let's talk about the

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Speaker 1: decision first off play manager for a moment. Todd Father,

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Speaker 1: did you feel like Michael Lorenzen ran out of gas

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Speaker 1: or were they putting together good at bats?

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Speaker 2: He didn't. I mean he was good.

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Speaker 1: He was mixing and matching like he was against USA

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Speaker 1: for a while, and then all of a sudden, Venezuela

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Speaker 3: Yeah, his his change up was really good, his breaking

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Speaker 4: I just did.

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Speaker 3: I felt like he ran out of gas. He looked exhausted.

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Speaker 3: He was getting up in that forty mark of pitches,

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Speaker 3: and you know, some of these guys haven't double them all.

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Speaker 3: These guys haven't done this, you know, pitching in big

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Speaker 3: games for one and pitching that many pitches trying to

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Speaker 4: Cervelli didn't do it.

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Speaker 3: And then after the knock there, I thought that should

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Speaker 3: in again and Aries got another single. Yeah, I could

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Speaker 3: say that right now. I'm not the manager, but you

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Speaker 3: got to see somebody's labor, and you went out and

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Speaker 4: I'm sure he's like, no, I got this.

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Speaker 3: But you got to be the guy as the manager

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Speaker 3: to make the tough decisions, and in my opinion, they

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Speaker 3: had the bullpen to do it. They came out and

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Speaker 3: locked down as you saw, so could have should have

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Speaker 3: and that's what worked for him in the beginning. It

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Speaker 5: Yeah, kudos to Venezuela for putting the ball in play

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Speaker 5: and not trying to go deep off of me. Lorenzo

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Speaker 5: wasn't going to let him go deep. He was not

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Speaker 5: going to let them beat him with the loan ball,

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Speaker 5: and they kind of made the adjustment there. But I

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Speaker 5: also think Cervelli he knew what he had. He knew

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Speaker 5: he had Nichols for an inning, He knew he had

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Speaker 5: rom aer Naccio for an inning. It was one of

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Speaker 5: those things I think he needed. He needed seven out

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Speaker 5: of Nola and Lorenzen. It was an amazing I honestly

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Speaker 5: had no idea they were going to go go with Lorenzen,

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Speaker 5: but I think they just figured, hey, these are four,

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Speaker 5: nine innings, because as the bullpen gets a little bit,

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Speaker 5: you know, past those guys, they didn't really you saw

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Speaker 5: but they added runs on off of some of the

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Speaker 5: go to. So that's why he stretched Lorenzo a little

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Speaker 2: So who stood out?

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Speaker 1: Let's pick a player of the game, presented by MLB Ribles.

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Speaker 1: You want to pick a name who wants to go

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Speaker 1: with it first? Where maybe you guys agree on the

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Speaker 1: same player top bother do you want?

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Speaker 3: I think I think we agreed on this one, mikeel Franco.

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Speaker 3: I think listen, four to two ball game, it's going

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Speaker 3: to be really hard to pick somebody unless they got

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Speaker 3: a three, three run homer or a big matchup. But

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Speaker 3: you got to go with the biggest hit of the game. Uh,

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Speaker 3: the base hit the left to give them the lead

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Speaker 3: for good pretty much. So two for four, he's back

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Speaker 3: in four to thirty five, coming out of his shell again.

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Speaker 3: A couple of years ago, this guy was unheard of,

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Speaker 3: and now all of a sudden this last year and

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Speaker 3: now he's a name that everybody knows about. Came up big,

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Speaker 3: nice line drive to left field, Acuna went first to third.

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Speaker 3: The wheels were spinning there too, So give credit where

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Speaker 3: it's due.

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Speaker 4: Franco for sure.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Michael Garcia Garcia, excuse me, Garci Garcia, but oh well,

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Speaker 1: Michael Franco. Uh, you guys played against back in the day.

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Speaker 4: I know, I get those two mixed up all the time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we got a new mikel taking over and a

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Speaker 1: Richard kel Kratz. Remember we talked about him a couple

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Speaker 1: of years or a couple months ago getting paid, and

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Speaker 1: he's having the time of his life right now. He's

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Speaker 1: set for life financially, He's playing on a competitive Royals team.

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Speaker 1: He gets to play with Bobby Witt every day during

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Speaker 1: the regular season, and he's playing on a Venezuela team

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Speaker 1: that has a freaking party. You know, I love parties.

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Speaker 1: I'm watching this as like a raver, and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: these guys are putting on a freaking dance party before

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Speaker 1: and after the game.

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Speaker 6: Think about a calendar year.

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Speaker 5: We're not even at opening day yet, and mikekel Garcia

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Speaker 5: did not even start opening day for the Royals at

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Speaker 5: talking about a nice little five year piece that he

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Speaker 5: has to be thinking that they want some revenge, but

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Speaker 5: they also have to sit here and go, a man,

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Speaker 5: where are we at with our bullpen? Because their bullpen

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Speaker 5: could have been the MVP of the game. With Avila

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Speaker 5: giving you thirty two pitches and two in a thirds innings.

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Speaker 5: You had Daniel Palencia who came in didn't shut the

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Speaker 5: to them too. After Caterer didn't do well, it looked

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Speaker 5: Italy for not chasing.

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Speaker 2: Oh, they didn't nibble at all.

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Speaker 1: At one point I remember soon you know, it might

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Speaker 1: a minute on Team Italy, Todd Father and how special

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Speaker 1: this run was, what you saw from this team and

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Speaker 1: what it does for the country of Italy that finally

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Speaker 1: had baseball center stage. Right they're watching a national television

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Speaker 1: that are going to see how fun this is and

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Speaker 1: that the next team for Italy that's great, like this

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Speaker 3: It's very inspirational, basically what you alluded to. I mean,

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Speaker 3: if you're from Italy, you talk soccer, you talk other sports,

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Speaker 4: I know Mike Piazza lives out there.

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Speaker 3: He's trying to brew up all these younger Italianos to

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Speaker 3: get going, get a baseball batman and enjoy this wonderful game.

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Speaker 3: This is truly remarkable for them. You saw a lot

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Speaker 3: of unsung heroes, a lot of names that eventually you

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Speaker 3: big leagues and take off. They were awesome. They were awesome,

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Speaker 3: they were fun to watch. They beat the United States

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Speaker 3: of America, a team that might win the whole thing.

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Speaker 3: I mean, they can always look back on that they

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Speaker 3: Baseball Classic. There's a lot of good athletes, a lot

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Speaker 3: of American Italians that have played this baseball game that

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Speaker 3: are wonderful at this game. And you know, I can't

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Speaker 3: wait to see what they do in the Olympics too.

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Speaker 3: You never know what's going to happen. So kudos to them. Cheers,

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Speaker 3: how you doing all that good stuff? And have another

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Speaker 3: express th Baby. It was fun to watch.

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Speaker 5: I can't I can't wait until Andrew Fisher comes on

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Speaker 5: the show. So when Todd gets him on the show

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Speaker 1: Oh well, the American fans, it's gonna be a super

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Speaker 5: Tomorrow, I think I can take advantage of the fact

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Speaker 2: Cubs please. And Omar Lopez has like snuck a comment

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Speaker 4: Blah blah blah. They're gonna keep ringing.

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Speaker 3: Guess what I didn't see The phone didn't work that day,

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Speaker 5: They're just physically not going to be able to.

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Speaker 1: for Venezuela.

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Speaker 2: So it's you know, heavily tilted in the US favor.

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Speaker 1: Coming off a day off, a day of rest, some decisions,

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Speaker 1: Let's do this I'll give you two decisions to make

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Speaker 1: third base and catcher Gunder Henderson coming off a big game,

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Speaker 1: but you're gonna have a lefty in Eduardo Rodriguez. Gunner's

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Speaker 1: a lefty and Bregman's alrighty. And then also i'll give

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Speaker 1: you the catcher decision. Will Smith three for ten in

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Speaker 1: this World Baseball Classic, but he did catch in the

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Speaker 1: last game. Cal Raley is zero for ten or over

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Speaker 1: nine make it in the World Baseball Classic. I mean,

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Speaker 1: these are incredibly small sample sizes. But what would you

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Speaker 1: do with those two spots.

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Speaker 2: If you're Mark de Rosa?

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Speaker 3: How about this? Since I'm played third base, He'll do

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Speaker 3: the catcher one. I'll do the third base one.

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Speaker 4: How about that? Good for me?

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Speaker 3: I'm starting Alex Pragman left on right matchup. I think

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Speaker 3: Gunner Henderson is going to fully understand that. I know

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Speaker 3: he looks good. He can he can ultimately do a

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Speaker 3: sweat like say in the fifth, sixth, seventh inning they

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Speaker 3: bringing a right hand, or you definitely put Gunner Henderson

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Speaker 3: in there. You gotta play with the matchups. In my opinion,

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Speaker 3: you gotta play the game. Yeah, you got to take

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Speaker 3: all the psyche out of it and understand. Listen, guys,

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Speaker 3: we're trying to win this game. I want my best

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Speaker 3: hitters up at the best possible times. Alex Pragman been

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Speaker 3: there before, a veteran guy. I could see him having

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Speaker 3: a really good game tomorrow against the left handed pitcher.

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Speaker 4: I would start Bragman for sure, and.

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Speaker 5: I would I would concur because if you look at

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Speaker 5: the stat page against Edwardo Rodriguez, the most likely starter

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Speaker 5: for Venezuela number eight all time hits against Edwardo Roriguez,

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Speaker 5: Alex Bregman. He's got nine hits and twenty seven at bats,

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Speaker 5: three dangers, eight steaks. So Gunner's hot, I get it.

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Speaker 5: Bragman's not. But Bragman's got He's seen him well, let's

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Speaker 5: put it that way. See, and there's not much of

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Speaker 5: a matchup. Cal Rawley's one for three against Eduardo Rodriguez

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Speaker 5: and Will Smith. I think it's like one for six

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Speaker 5: or seven. To me, I think Will Smith is the

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Speaker 5: guy because of the fact that you can still bring

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Speaker 5: Cal in and you don't lose any advantage if you

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Speaker 5: do need to make a change. But I think I

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Speaker 5: think Will prove that he's played well. I really think

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Speaker 5: it's I think I think it's six and one half

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Speaker 5: A does another. You're not going to make a wrong

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Speaker 5: decision with either of those guys. They're both winners and

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Speaker 5: they both can can put the ball in the seats.

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Speaker 2: At some point, who is going to start?

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Speaker 1: Do you think it'll be because, oh, you think it'll

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Speaker 1: be well, I was going to say, because they've been

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Speaker 1: going basically every other but I mean now they're coming

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Speaker 1: off a day off here. It's not like a rest

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Speaker 1: playing time situation. Also, you shouldn't be worried about that

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Speaker 1: at this point, there's one game left.

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Speaker 2: Are you worried that Kyl Rale he's not going to

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Speaker 2: be ready for the season or something. It's not about that,

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Speaker 2: you know.

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Speaker 6: It's about the win. They're looking for the win. Again.

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Speaker 5: I would maybe even again think about moving Harper down

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Speaker 5: in the order somewhere. See what that could get you.

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Speaker 5: But I mean, I think we're splitting hairs. The reality is,

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Speaker 5: d row stay out of the way. We know it's

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Speaker 5: a must win game. The players will play, They're going

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Speaker 5: to be hyped for it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be awesome. It's gonna be great.

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Speaker 1: USA versus Dominican Republic was epic and you can't ask

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Speaker 1: for much better star power here in the lineups.

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Speaker 2: We just saw it with USA.

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Speaker 1: Dr Venezuela's had a really good run too. I know

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Speaker 1: they lost the Dominican Republic at the end of pool play,

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Speaker 1: but they beat the defending champs in Japan. They came

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Speaker 1: back late. Italy had a strong ball club, they came back.

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Speaker 1: I think this will be a good game. I know

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Speaker 1: you guys are saying, maybe USA opens things up.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I could see Venezuela's lineup keeping up with these guys too.

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Speaker 1: Nolan McLain, let's finish with this is a young pup.

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Speaker 1: He's got six stuff and DeRosa can mostly go bullpen

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Speaker 1: game here if he senses much trouble. This is almost

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Speaker 1: going to have World Series Game seven vibes. But Nolan

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Speaker 1: McLain was shook a little bit. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: that's the right way to put it, but Team Italy

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Speaker 1: got to him. And if you know, you're an American fan,

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Speaker 1: and that ends up being the problem. McLean get in

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Speaker 1: trouble early, giving up a few runs. It brings up

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Speaker 1: the classic. Hey, you know, do we have the best,

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Speaker 1: most battle tested pitchers in this moment, is this who

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Speaker 1: we should have in this spot? Again, I'm not going

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Speaker 1: off of talent. Nolan McLain looks like he's going to

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Speaker 1: be a number one in ace in the league, but

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Speaker 1: we've seen a handful of starts in the big league

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Speaker 1: so far, so he just I mean, this is by

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Speaker 1: far the biggest game that he's ever pitched in his life.

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Speaker 1: The scene in Miami is out of control, and you

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Speaker 1: can embrace it and relish it. But Kratz, like you know,

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Speaker 1: when you're working with a young pitcher like this trying

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Speaker 1: to navigate through a moment, you can see a trey

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Speaker 1: a savage moment, or sometimes the moment gets a little

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Speaker 1: big and you know you might overthrow.

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Speaker 5: Might you might spin that slider a little bit. I mean,

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Speaker 5: the man can spin it. That slider is going to

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Speaker 5: be going right to left. Are they going to chase?

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Speaker 5: That's the biggest thing. If they're not chasing, then he's

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Speaker 5: got to bring that slider onto the plate, and a

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Speaker 5: strike slider as a hanging slider, I don't care. I

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Speaker 5: don't care if you're throwing the meat or if you're

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Speaker 5: throwing to the Venezuelan MVP lineup. That they have out there.

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Speaker 5: So to me, it really has to be can he

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Speaker 5: keep the ball on the plate and can he keep

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Speaker 5: it down in the zone and really if he wants

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Speaker 5: to know what the atmosphere is going to look like.

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Speaker 5: We just kind of go back to the last WBC

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Speaker 5: in the semi finals. A lot of people forget that

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Speaker 5: Venezuela was there. They had the US and until Trey

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Speaker 5: Turner hit that big home run, Venezuela was going to

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Speaker 5: the finals.

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Speaker 6: So it's it's.

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Speaker 5: Nothing new for Venezuela because there's a lot of repeat

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Speaker 5: guys on that team and they're gonna come out They're

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Speaker 5: gonna come out swinging. But if I look at the roster,

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Speaker 5: if I look at the pitching roster, supposedly Clay I

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Speaker 5: thought Clay Holmes was taking off. Maybe I'm incorrect, but

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Speaker 5: Clay Holmes is still on there.

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Speaker 1: No, No, I mean you might be knocking on paper

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Speaker 1: on the roster, but I mean he went back to Metsican.

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Speaker 2: I think he's.

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Speaker 6: Done because he didn't pitch.

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Speaker 5: So he's another one because I saw him in the

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Speaker 5: dugout and I didn't know if he just did the

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Speaker 5: whole Tarik Scuball thing because in the last game he

567
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Speaker 5: was in a dugout. And the reason I say that

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Speaker 5: is because Scoobale was off this list. But the bullpens rested.

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Speaker 5: So even if McLean falters in the first inning, second

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Speaker 5: inning last night, I mean last game, he struck out.

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Speaker 5: I think he struck out the side to start the

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Speaker 5: game off, and then he faltered, he might he might

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Speaker 5: be allowed to give up two base runners and then

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Speaker 5: they're going right.

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Speaker 6: To the pen.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. And and you're putting a button on this too. USA.

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Speaker 4: They got a hit.

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Speaker 3: They got a hit, So two things gotta combine for them.

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Speaker 3: I think both will do well. But if Usay is

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Speaker 3: clicking on all cylinders hitting, put the pressure on or

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Speaker 3: on them early and often, you know, could be could

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Speaker 3: be a big you know, three innings in the beginning,

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Speaker 3: could be four to five nothing before you know.

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Speaker 4: And that's that's the plan. We'll see how it works out.

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Speaker 4: That Scotti b.

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Speaker 2: I'm pumped. This is gonna be good. We appreciate it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: on Saint Patty's Day.

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Speaker 1: So, I mean, you got all kinds of cultures mixing

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Speaker 1: and mashing together for this one. You got a little

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Speaker 1: little green beer American flavor, Venezuela having you know, about

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Speaker 1: to watch the biggest game of their life if you're

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Speaker 1: rooting for Venezuela and it's all going down in a

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