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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the gear end edition of Bear Territory.

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Speaker 1: I'm Ken Rosenthal here with Alana Rizzo. Alana, it's been

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Speaker 1: an amazing year in baseball, amazing year for the Foul

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Speaker 1: Territory Network, and here we are ready to wrap it up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been so fun to be with you again

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Speaker 2: this season, Ken, thanks for all of that. Looking forward

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Speaker 2: to this offseason getting done so we can get into

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Speaker 2: twenty and twenty six. But let's go back for a moment, Ken,

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Speaker 2: and we're going to revisit some of your two thousan.

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Speaker 3: Yes, you did a good job. You did a good job.

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Speaker 2: The top twelve story lines for the twenty twenty five

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Speaker 2: Major League Baseball season, A potential Dodger dynasty Hmmmmjan Soto's.

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Speaker 3: Worth and more.

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Speaker 2: Let's start with the World Series champs, Ken, the Los

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Speaker 2: Angeles Dodgers.

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Speaker 3: Dynasty or not? What say you? They got another championship? Now?

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Speaker 1: Well, yes, and you went back to back in this

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Speaker 1: day and age when it hadn't been done since nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety eight to two thousand. Absolutely, however you want to

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Speaker 1: look at it, they are the dominant team in the sport.

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Speaker 1: And while I did say that they were well positioned

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Speaker 1: to do this. I didn't necessarily imagine the path that

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Speaker 1: they took, not just in the regular season when they

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Speaker 1: were often kind of a maddening team to watch, also

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Speaker 1: in the postseason, when, of course, they came within two

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Speaker 1: outs of losing the World Series, when it required a

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Speaker 1: series of crazy things happening in the final innings of

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Speaker 1: Game seven for them to win the World Series. But

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Speaker 1: all's well, that ends well, and at least that prediction

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Speaker 1: proved somewhat correct.

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Speaker 2: All right, let me ask you this, then, Ken, considering

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Speaker 2: what you just mentioned, two outs away from losing the

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Speaker 2: World Series, considering how they got it done again, what

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Speaker 2: is it going to take to win a third consecutive title.

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Speaker 1: That's a good question, a Lona, And obviously the offseason's

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Speaker 1: not over yet, we don't have a full understanding of

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Speaker 1: what their team is going to look like. They fortified

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Speaker 1: the bullpen clearly with the addition of Edwin Diaz, and

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Speaker 1: it seems to me the one thing that has been

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Speaker 1: of great benefit to the Dodgers over the last many

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Speaker 1: years is their ability to retain a hunger. Now, it's

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Speaker 1: difficult during the regular season, and we've seen them at

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Speaker 1: times not check out during the regular season, but not

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Speaker 1: be fully engaged, and sometimes the way they handle their

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Speaker 1: players with regard to injuries, they kind of slow play things.

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Speaker 1: We've all seen that. But what it will take is

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Speaker 1: good health first and foremost. And it's tough when you

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Speaker 1: come off a postseason as draining as that one was,

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Speaker 1: especially on your pitching staff. We saw the effects of

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Speaker 1: twenty four on twenty five with some of their relievers

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Speaker 1: last year. But if they have good health and they

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Speaker 1: get an injection of offense that maybe was going to

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Speaker 1: come from some unexpected place, maybe one of their young outfielders,

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Speaker 1: maybe from a player they pick.

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Speaker 4: Up, that would help as well.

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Speaker 1: Because some of their position players, Mookie Bets, Freddie Freeman,

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Speaker 1: they're getting older, they're still productive and Bo had a

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Speaker 1: bad year, but they're going to be good players. It's

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Speaker 1: just that the Dodgers probably need a little bit more

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Speaker 2: I think they still need another outfield er time. We'll

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Speaker 2: tell Ken if they get one. Obviously, the closer position

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Speaker 2: is secured with Edwin Diaz. Let's move our focus from

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Speaker 2: Edwin Diaz's former team, the New York Mess. I'm not

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Speaker 2: certain Ken, as we sit here a week before the

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Speaker 2: new year. What the heck they're doing? But I can

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Speaker 2: tell you Wan Soto's going to be there for a

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Speaker 2: long time. Not an overpay yet for you. He wrote

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Speaker 1: Well, fifty one million a year is a lot of money,

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Speaker 1: and it's difficult for a player to exceed that in value,

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Speaker 1: and Juan Soto nearly did in his first year. And

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Speaker 1: his first year there were some rocky moments. He had

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Speaker 1: a difficult time early on, difficult transition. He seemed a

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Speaker 1: little bit out of sorts, and yet what happened in

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Speaker 1: the end. He finishes us with forty three home runs,

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Speaker 4: On base percentage. Pretty good year.

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Speaker 1: Now, According to Fangrafs dollars metric, which translates war into

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Speaker 1: what a player is worth in a dollar form, he

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Speaker 1: was worth about forty six point four million, a little

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Speaker 1: great year. No one would say otherwise. Even after that

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Speaker 1: rocky start. The question is one, can he be even better?

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Speaker 1: I don't know how much better he can be, but

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Speaker 1: Mets have lost Juan Soto's partner in crime from a

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Speaker 1: slugging perspective, Peter Alnso.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, where do you go from here? If

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Speaker 1: Really?

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Speaker 2: Moreover, where do you go Ken? If you were one Soto?

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Speaker 2: He had a tremendous twenty twenty five. I think he

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Speaker 2: very much lived up to the contract going into it.

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Speaker 2: But next year, even more pressure on him considering the

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Speaker 2: core group is gone.

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Speaker 1: That's a fair point, Alana, And I wouldn't say more

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Speaker 1: pressure just yet, because I assume they're going to put

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Speaker 1: The pressure of having that seven sixty five out there

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Speaker 1: but he seems to have adapted to it pretty well

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Speaker 4: Once more.

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Speaker 2: Everybody wants Ken Rosenthal to be a pontificator coming into

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Speaker 2: the season. Get that crystal ball out, Ken, what's going

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Speaker 2: to happen? You did a good job with the Dodgers.

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Speaker 2: You did a great job with Wan Soda. Let's talk

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Speaker 2: about the trade deadline. We thought it was gonna star

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Speaker 2: Sandy Alcontra of the Miami Marlins. Can you wrote all

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Speaker 2: Contra the Miami Marlins Ace soon will be a walking

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Speaker 2: trade rumor a transaction waiting to happen seven point two

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Speaker 3: What do you make of it?

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm gonna give myself a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: the first half he was still coming back from Tommy John.

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Speaker 1: He wasn't good, or at least wasn't as good as

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Speaker 1: guy that ultimately could be traded. But they now intend

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Speaker 4: At least for the start of the season.

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Speaker 1: They are a team that won seventy nine games, surprisingly

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Speaker 1: wrong about al Contra. I just thought he would be

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Speaker 2: I did too, but I also thought he was going

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Speaker 2: be on a different team heading into twenty twenty six. Really,

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Speaker 2: at the end of twenty twenty five, you also listed

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Speaker 2: Ken and many people did as well. Luise Robert still

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Speaker 2: sorry about that.

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Speaker 1: Well, Luis Robert should have been traded in my opinion,

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Speaker 1: I wrote that I was critical of the White Sox

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Speaker 1: up his twenty million dollar option, which they did. They

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Speaker 1: but I thought he should have been dealt. He didn't

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Speaker 4: Trout, it's just the.

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Speaker 1: Contract, it's just his unwillingness to go and the fact

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Speaker 1: then the question will surface ornew about maybe Mike Trout

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Speaker 4: But he has really shown no willingness to do that.

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Speaker 1: And you can look at that positively, you can look

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Speaker 4: He wants to win in Anaheim.

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Speaker 1: As crazy as a proposition as that might seem.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he seems very loyal to the Angels. Perhaps you

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Speaker 2: the ones that gave him two big deals. Are there

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Speaker 2: trade names ken that we should already be thinking about

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Speaker 2: for the twenty twenty sixth season. Who comes to mind?

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Speaker 1: Oh, well, for the deadline. It's a little bit early

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Speaker 1: now that we're thinking might get traded Ka tel Marte,

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Speaker 1: If they fall out of it. Now, they've kept Joe Ryan,

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Speaker 1: say it's the Brewers and they keep per Alta and

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Speaker 1: That's just an example. I don't expect it to happen,

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Speaker 1: but that's the kind of thing I'm talking about.

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Speaker 2: Ken, you mentioned the Twins, you mentioned the Brewers. Neither

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Speaker 2: one of those teams were in your top five of

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Speaker 2: teams that had the most pressure going into twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: I think your list was great and you were spot

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Speaker 2: the list Ken was talking about coming into twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 2: the Cubs, the Blue Jays, Ken, the Mariners, the Orioles

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Speaker 3: How do you think those clubs did well?

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Speaker 1: The Blue Jays and Mariners did great, and the Blue

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Speaker 1: all these questions about Vladimir Guerrero Junior. Was he going

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Speaker 1: they had really a year for the Ages. The Mariners

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Speaker 1: too came a long way, played in the Alcs, went

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Speaker 1: to seven games. The Ools had a lot of pressure

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Speaker 1: And the reason for that, Alana is they finished last

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Speaker 1: Dude, Dude, dude.

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Speaker 2: All right, we've had fifty one of these so far. Ken,

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Speaker 3: Here it is. Let's start with your dude of the year.

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Speaker 4: My dude of the year.

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Speaker 1: This is something of a consolation prize for him, an

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to lead right into your due to

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Speaker 3: Of the Year. I love this so much for you,

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Speaker 1: ridiculous that he has earned Dork of the Year. He

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Speaker 1: is part of the foul Territory Network. He is a

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Speaker 1: big part of the Foul network. Territory network, and.

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Speaker 4: His name is Aj Prazinski.

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Speaker 1: And why is he the dork of the year, you

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Speaker 1: may ask. Let's go back to May eighth. AJ was

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Speaker 1: doing a game somewhere I was doing a game somewhere else.

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Speaker 1: And what happened was he tweeted or not tweeted. He

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Speaker 1: texted us in a group text watch and learn kids,

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Speaker 1: enjoy your rain delay. At that point his game was on.

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Speaker 4: My game was not. We were in a rain delay.

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Speaker 1: I believe this was in Atlanta. Well, what happens minutes later?

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Speaker 1: AJ's game goes into a rain delay and you can

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Speaker 1: see my response. You beg for it, Aj, and the

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Speaker 1: baseball gods got you. That's the kind of conduct we've

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Speaker 1: come to expect from Aj Prizinski over the.

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Speaker 4: Years, and he got nailed.

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Speaker 1: AJ.

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Speaker 4: Congratulations.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it's a big Yeah.

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Speaker 2: It should be the Pretty Hall of Pretty Good too.

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Speaker 2: I think he's in that as well. So it's a

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Speaker 2: Dork of the Year for Ken Rosenthal and Hall of

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Speaker 2: Pretty Good Agent. You know, I sent him a text

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Speaker 2: the other day. I said, Hey, any of your UF

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Speaker 2: people have an Airbnb that I can I can rent

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Speaker 2: out next year? And all he said was like for

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Speaker 2: Morgan Wall And I said, yes, you think he ever.

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Speaker 3: Got back to me? No he did not.

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Speaker 2: He did not, All right, my my dork of the year.

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Speaker 2: It is the Angels franchise for a variety of reasons. Ken,

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Speaker 2: I mean, they have misstepped on so many different things,

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Speaker 2: but I think most recently in October a couple of

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Speaker 2: different things. When you you decide to not in October,

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Speaker 2: when you decide to sign a manager Kurt Suzuki to

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Speaker 2: a one year deal, I mean, what kind of what

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Speaker 2: kind of confidence do you think that says as far

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Speaker 2: as your commitment to him and how you think he's

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Speaker 2: going to do. And of course the GM also has

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Speaker 2: one year left Manasi, and so maybe they're tied together.

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Speaker 2: You say, Kakuchi saying the air conditioning didn't work all

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Speaker 2: year in the weight room.

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Speaker 3: I don't care.

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Speaker 2: You're a major leagu friend, you have a gazillion dollars,

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Speaker 2: but your AC doesn't work. And then the GM plays

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Speaker 2: the dumbest man ever as the Angels post a job

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Speaker 2: for HVAC help.

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Speaker 3: I mean that's just one, you know, three, just three

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Speaker 3: quick examples that we can think of for the Angels,

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Speaker 3: and obviously wasting all that money on Anthony Rendon.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of there's a lot of things that

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Speaker 2: I can think of, but the Angels, you guys are

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Speaker 2: my dorks of the year. Let's get it together, Anaheim,

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Speaker 2: let's get it too together.

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Speaker 4: Well, actually it might happen.

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Speaker 1: I don't know when it's going to happen, and maybe

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Speaker 1: it won't happen until there's a new owner, because Arty

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Speaker 1: Moreno is the root of a.

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Speaker 4: Lot of these problems.

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Speaker 1: And on a heck, we should mention too, the whole

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Speaker 1: Tyler Skaggs trial and everything that happened there in the

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Speaker 1: settlement at the end, and everything that we learned about

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Speaker 1: the Angels through that process. It's a whole different thing.

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Speaker 1: It's a tragedy. It's well different than baseball, but it

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Speaker 1: is too something that was marking the Angels twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: So the Angel yep, their dorks of the year. Aj Prazinski,

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Speaker 1: You're my dork of the year. I love you, brother,

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Speaker 1: but you're still the dork of the year.

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Speaker 2: We are thankful to you guys for being here. You

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Speaker 2: are all our dudes and dudets of the year. Thank

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Speaker 2: you for watching and listening all your long Fair territory

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Speaker 2: returns on Monday, January fifth, at ten am Eastern. Enjoy

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Speaker 2: the rest of the holidays, have a very happy new year.

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Speaker 2: We are on to two thousand and twenty six. Can

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Speaker 2: have a good one

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Speaker 4: You too, Elana, thank you,