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Speaker 1: Michael Kopek had the same kind of struggles a little

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Speaker 2: Hello everybody, and welcome to Dodgers Territory. So happy that

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Speaker 2: am Alana Rizzo. That is Clint Piscias. We are your

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Speaker 2: of May Day. Of course, former Big Leader, is going

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Speaker 2: to join us here momentarily looking forward to that. Make

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Speaker 2: of the things. Cubs, I'm tired of you, Clint Pacias.

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Speaker 2: Let's get to the big ticket.

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Speaker 3: So it's very tired, Clint.

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Speaker 2: The Cubs got swept. I got swept right out of

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Speaker 3: Friend Dodgers got swept by the cub.

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Speaker 2: They meant the frickin Dodgers got swept right out of

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Speaker 2: Wrigley Field. I'm glad we're done with the Cubbies this year.

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Speaker 2: Perhaps they're better than we thought they were, but that's okay.

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Speaker 2: Better on April twenty second and twenty third than October

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Speaker 2: twenty second and twenty third. Your biggest takeaway, sir, of

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Speaker 4: Short series. Yeah, and I'm so done facing the Cubs.

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Speaker 4: But it's are the Cubs better than we thought they were?

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Speaker 4: Of course, you have a lot of relievers blow having

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Speaker 4: to blow their load in this series. Jack Dryer for

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Speaker 4: worn out. Relievers dodge a bullpen, leeds baseball in innings

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Speaker 3: Was a tough watch of a series. I'll settle on

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Speaker 2: I think things will even themselves out. I am not panicking.

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Speaker 2: I refuse to panic. One thing I've learned about this

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Speaker 4: Can we panic a little bit while still knowing they're

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Speaker 2: Whilst I mean you can sure. I mean you're you're

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Speaker 2: it's a it was a crappy series and their home

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Speaker 2: I'm more concerned about Blake Snell not coming back soon.

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Speaker 4: That is not good, and that is something that is

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Speaker 4: But that's a big blow for, like I said, already

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Speaker 2: They're going to get more reinforcements coming back. You mentioned

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Speaker 4: You know he's funny, huh it is.

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Speaker 4: Go ahead, Well, first we got to hear from our

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Speaker 4: Whoa, but this is a guy of course, spent a

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Speaker 2: We were just talking, of course, Trevor about the Dodgers

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Speaker 2: Clinton and I were talking about depth sometimes lack thereof,

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Speaker 1: One thing I've been doing a lot when getting questions

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what is this four out, five out save that

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Speaker 2: Explain that to me? And also how long can a

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Speaker 5: Those are the two things he does.

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Speaker 1: It was talked about a lot going into spring training.

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Speaker 4: Well, Yeah, I was having this conversation or a similar

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Speaker 4: I think a cutter would help him out a whole bunch,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's a I think that's a great option.

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Speaker 1: hard to kick up some dust. As my pitching Ghastu

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Speaker 1: cliber and used to say, just go pick up from dust.

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Speaker 4: And obviously, I mean you're somebody I've started your career

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Speaker 4: kind of starting a little bit, and I think you

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Speaker 4: found a decent niche there in the bullpen. So you're

440
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Speaker 4: speaking from experience there. It feels like Bobby just go

441
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Speaker 4: out there, let it eat with two pitches is really

442
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Speaker 4: going to help his career out. So maybe you know,

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Speaker 4: get on the phone, give him a call, give him

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Speaker 4: some encouragement.

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Speaker 3: And we'll go from there.

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Speaker 4: Another thing I did want to ask you about a

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Speaker 4: lot of brings up dustin may and you kick aside

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Speaker 4: the start that he had in Chicago.

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Speaker 3: He's looked really, really good.

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Speaker 4: Coming back from missing the greater part of the last

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Speaker 4: four years with some injuries. Tough on him, you know,

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Speaker 4: battling back. You gotta love the kid, the Tanasi Tanasi

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Speaker 4: to do that. But you had talked about on your

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Speaker 4: show May Day, which we do want to make sure

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Speaker 4: we talk about as well.

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Speaker 3: You had mentioned on.

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Speaker 4: Your show the idea last year was the endemic of

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Speaker 4: all of the pitching injuries and it's been that way

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Speaker 4: for a number of years now getting worse and worse,

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Speaker 4: and you had mentioned, you know, kind of bringing that

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Speaker 4: arm slot lower, bringing the arm slot lower. Dustin may

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Speaker 4: is somebody who has really really you look at the

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Speaker 4: numbers here, how much lower that arm angle is here

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Speaker 4: in twenty twenty five versus you know, past points.

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Speaker 3: In his career.

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Speaker 4: Can you explain to our audience here a bit what

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Speaker 4: what that does both you know, for stuff, but also

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Speaker 4: for the the longevity of a pitcher's career.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a great question.

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Speaker 1: And I'm glad you brought up Dustin because I actually

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Speaker 1: didn't know that he had dropped his arm angle that much.

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Speaker 1: And it seems like this is a pattern. I did

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Speaker 1: a breakdown on my show may Day a couple last week,

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Speaker 1: I guess, and we talked about Paul Skins, Paul Reagan's

475
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Speaker 1: and Gyrek Kocher, all three guys who've all dropped their

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Speaker 1: arm slots also. So like when you see guys like

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Speaker 1: that all saying I want to throw more innings, I

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Speaker 1: want to stay healthy, and then they all do the

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Speaker 1: same thing. There's probably something in the in the guyst

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Speaker 1: that that people are talking about and they're making changes

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Speaker 1: on It seems like, Dustin's one of those guys. So

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Speaker 1: lowering your arm slot sounds like a simple fix. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of things that go into that. There were

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Speaker 1: a couple of studies done. One was released in February,

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Speaker 1: the other one was released in March, so this is

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Speaker 1: really recent. The first one in February basically looked at

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Speaker 1: twenty one different indicators on a picture's motion and then

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Speaker 1: try to determine how much each one of them affected

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Speaker 1: your stress on your elbow specifically, and so this was

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Speaker 1: in relation to Tommy John. One of the things they

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Speaker 1: found was arm angle makes a big difference. They didn't

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Speaker 1: know how much, but they were like, that's one of

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Speaker 1: the biggest factors. And there's a couple mechanical adjustments that

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Speaker 1: affect your arm angle the most outside of just dropping it.

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Speaker 1: So the next one then was like, okay, so how

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Speaker 1: much does the arm angle affect it? So they focused

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Speaker 1: mostly on that. They tested about eighty pictures I think

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Speaker 1: of seventy five or eighty different pictures which they had

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Speaker 1: data on, and they roughly came down to every ten

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Speaker 1: degrees you drop your arm, five less newtons on your arm.

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Speaker 1: The average is like eighty six, so it comes out

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Speaker 1: to about five percent less stress, which is significant to

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Speaker 1: say the least. And this is shoulder and elbow and so.

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Speaker 1: But what it comes down to, it's not about just

505
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Speaker 1: like whatever your mechanics are and then you just drop

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Speaker 1: your arm. Whatever that is. A lot of it came

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Speaker 1: had to do with trunk tilt. What trunk tilt is

508
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Speaker 1: is your glove side. But basically the angle of your

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Speaker 1: shoulders towards the ground on your glove side and your

510
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Speaker 1: arms sid when you release the ball. So some guys

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Speaker 1: lean really hard to their glove side and that raises

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Speaker 1: their arm naturally. In the case of Crochet, for he's

513
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Speaker 1: a prime example. There's if you look at overlays from

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Speaker 1: last year to this year, it is insane how much

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Speaker 1: less tilt he has. He's way more upright, and so

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Speaker 1: therefore his arm has come down basically into a natural

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Speaker 1: slot in his joints, and so his wrist stopped kind

518
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Speaker 1: of flexing. Some guys, sometimes your your wristal flex one

519
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Speaker 1: way or the other to compensate versus a change in

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Speaker 1: another place. That's what pitching is. Baseball is in general,

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Speaker 1: everyone's compensating because something else hurts a little bit, and

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Speaker 1: you're like, Okay, I'm gonna use this little more, and

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Speaker 1: you just automatically do it because that's how you were,

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Speaker 1: that's how you learned to play. And over time you

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Speaker 1: can get weird injuries happening. So a lot of guys

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Speaker 1: are cleaning this up to where there's no compensation and

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Speaker 1: your arm is naturally in your in your shoulder joint

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Speaker 1: where you have the most range either way, and it's

529
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Speaker 1: move moves the most smoothly. And in order to do that,

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Speaker 1: most guys are raising themselves up and sitting up taller.

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Speaker 1: So just judging by what I've seen from Dustin May,

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Speaker 1: that does seem like the case, like trunk tilt is

533
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Speaker 1: the issue, and and it's caused a lot lesser in

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Speaker 1: his arm and he's still got the velocity. Like the

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Speaker 1: biggest thing was they said, you don't lose a lot

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Speaker 1: of You know, you can drop your arm quite quite

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Speaker 1: a few degrees before you start getting the reduction in velocity.

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Speaker 1: It's basically when you get to zero degrees directly side

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Speaker 1: arm and below that's when velocity drops. When you start

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Speaker 1: to get in the submarine, your velocity just goes off

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Speaker 1: a cliff. But above that it's it's almost nominal. And

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Speaker 1: so these guys all throw high nineties up to one hundred.

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Speaker 1: They're like, I would love to continue throwing high nineties.

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Speaker 1: That would be nice because it's kind of my thing.

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Speaker 1: And so far, so good for pretty much everyone on

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Speaker 1: that list. They've all maintained their velocity. Maybe a slight

547
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Speaker 1: kick down, but nothing concerning it all.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's crazy that people can still survive throwing. Oh no,

549
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Speaker 4: they're only throwing ninety two, ninety three, ninety four.

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Speaker 3: You know, back in my day that was a hell

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Speaker 3: of a fastball.

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Speaker 4: But all of a sudden, if you're not throwing, you know,

553
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Speaker 4: throwing ninety nine or one hundred and one, you know you're.

554
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Speaker 3: Not a man.

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Speaker 4: You don't belong in this league. I had one this

556
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Speaker 4: and we have another one last quick, hard hitting question

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Speaker 4: from the audience here.

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Speaker 3: Jr. Had this a little while ago.

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Speaker 4: Why doesn't this guy's couches match? So we're very interested

560
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Speaker 4: because we got the couch set up behind you there.

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Speaker 1: One's a chair's a chair an they were purchased at

562
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Speaker 1: drastically different times. Anyone who's ordered a couch or a

563
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Speaker 1: chair recently just know that by the time you get it,

564
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Speaker 1: you forgot what you ordered.

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Speaker 5: That's all I see this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, people don't want to see and one of them

567
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Speaker 3: pull out.

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Speaker 5: There's only so many options, guys. I don't know. I

569
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Speaker 5: don't know when comes up here.

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Speaker 2: Cover the educator not only on your couches mismatching or

571
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Speaker 2: your furniture mismatching, but the baseball and pitching. The art

572
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Speaker 2: of pitching is appreciated. Of what we don't want to

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Speaker 2: let you go without talking about.

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Speaker 7: May Day.

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Speaker 2: Every Monday, two hours. Tell us what we can learn

576
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Speaker 2: by watching you? How do we find you all the things?

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Speaker 1: Yes, every Monday, one pm Pacific time, I'm live on

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Speaker 1: May Day. The first hour is on the Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel, so you don't got to go anywhere new,

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Speaker 1: and the second hour is on my channel, Trevor may

581
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Speaker 1: Baseball that's also on YouTube, or you can watch the

582
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Speaker 1: whole thing via Twitch as well, and we basically do

583
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Speaker 1: what I just did. Find some find a couple subjects,

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Speaker 1: get some deep dives, do some player breakdowns, some guys

585
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Speaker 1: that are hotter or not so much, and try to

586
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Speaker 1: figure out what's going on. And then the second hour

587
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Speaker 1: is a whole lot of community stuff. You could ask

588
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Speaker 1: questions in the chat I talked to chat. We do games,

589
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Speaker 1: we do nastiest pitches of the week. We got a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun stuff. So it's a really really good

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Speaker 1: time with where you get kind of both both the

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Speaker 1: scripted deep dives stuff and the community driven kind of

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Speaker 1: stream stuff. It's been a good time.

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Speaker 5: Awesome.

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Speaker 4: Well, I appreciate it talking baseball with you here. We both,

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Speaker 4: I think hopefully everybody appreciate it talking baseball with you.

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Speaker 5: Mate.

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Speaker 3: Guys, make sure you check out.

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Speaker 4: May Day, make sure you go follow Trevor on the socials,

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00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:17,440
Speaker 4: follow him home. You could ask him about the couches there.

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Speaker 4: Don't do that, that would be weird. But thank you

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Speaker 4: for the time Trevor, and we'll hopefully chat again soon.

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Speaker 5: Of course, thanks for having you guys.

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Speaker 3: All right, Lona, let's go ahead and throw the last licks.

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Speaker 2: That's good, all right, guys, last licks. We're going to

606
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Speaker 2: introduce you to Becky. This little girl is in Texas actually,

607
00:27:38,160 --> 00:27:40,719
Speaker 2: so if you're a Dodger fan in Texas, please spread

608
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Speaker 2: the word. She's a seven month old pity mix. She

609
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Speaker 2: needs an adopter. This poor little girl was astray and

610
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 2: unfortunately she got her foot, her front left foot stuck

611
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Speaker 2: in some sort of trap that was set for her,

612
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 2: and unfortunately, when she tried to free herself and escape,

613
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Speaker 2: she mutilated her foot and we had to have her

614
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Speaker 2: leg amputated. But she's doing great, doing really really well.

615
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Speaker 2: Tripods can still have wonderful, full lives. And she is

616
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Speaker 2: awesome and she's sweet and she's kind and she's spade

617
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 2: and she's vaccinated and she's wonderful. So if you are

618
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Speaker 2: in the Austin, Texas area, please spread her around and

619
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Speaker 2: share her and you can hit me up of course

620
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 2: on social if you need any help.

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Speaker 3: Listen, we love a good tripod. We love a good tripod.

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Speaker 2: Sweetheart. She's a sweetheart, and she's young. If she doesn't,

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Speaker 2: I mean honestly, like a few more months and she

624
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Speaker 2: won't know any different, right, Like, So she's great and supported.

625
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Speaker 2: Oh she's so sweet.

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Speaker 4: But these are so they're so strong, and that's barely

627
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Speaker 4: going to affect her.

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Speaker 2: I'm not going to affect her.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

630
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Speaker 4: One of the things that affected us all about ten

631
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Speaker 4: years ago today was the great race between Adrian Gonzales and.

632
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Speaker 3: Our friend David Vasse. Take us through this moment.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this was this was in this was in San

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Speaker 2: Diego and look at Vance Lake. So remember when Dave

635
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Speaker 2: Vessey decided that he could race Adrian Gonzalez the then

636
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Speaker 2: first basement of your Los Angeles Dodgers, and Dave was

637
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Speaker 2: wearing like some random shoes from Justin Turner, I think,

638
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 2: and they basically raced and Vesse got his ass kicked.

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Speaker 2: I don't even think. I don't even think like Gonzo

640
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Speaker 2: was like even putting that much effort into it. And

641
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 2: he must have beaten Dave by like twenty thirty yards.

642
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:31,880
Speaker 2: And I was the MC for that and had I

643
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Speaker 2: can't believe that was ten years ago. But that's that's insanity.

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Speaker 3: That's wild.

645
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Speaker 4: I I love how quickly dv started pulling up because

646
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:40,400
Speaker 4: he's like, I'm getting my ass beat here.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he's such a punching bag, Dave, but the

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Speaker 2: players love him, Like I remember one time, I think

649
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Speaker 2: I said this before. You know, one time in spring

650
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Speaker 2: training when Canley was still here, he picked Vessey up

651
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Speaker 2: one arm and one leg and was just helicopter hanging

652
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Speaker 2: him around the spring training facility a cam and I

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Speaker 2: was like moving tables and chairs so Dave Vessey's head

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Speaker 2: wouldn't smash into the furniture. But yeah, he's a good sport.

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Speaker 2: But he got his butt kicked by by Adrian Gonzalez.

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Speaker 2: So you have it ten years ago on this day.

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Speaker 4: That's that's pretty funny. I mean they let him, they

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Speaker 4: let him have it. He deserves it too, He deserves

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Speaker 4: all the good and the bad with it. We love

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Speaker 4: DV But that's about it on this edition of the show.

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Speaker 4: If you guys want to find more of me, I

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Speaker 4: don't know, Like I think people are just tired about

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Speaker 4: talking about the Dodgers right now.

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Speaker 3: I'm okay.

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Speaker 4: Given everybody in the evening off, maybe I don't know,

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Speaker 4: I might film some content. I got some things going

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Speaker 4: on at real flesh job, as I call it, so

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Speaker 4: I got to figure that out. But otherwise I would

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Speaker 4: just tell people to do this. You should subscribe here

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Speaker 4: to our YouTube channel, Dodgers Territory. We are getting close

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Speaker 4: to ten thousand subscribers.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 4: Subscribe to my personal YouTube channel All Dodgers with Clint

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Speaker 4: Pasia's It's there.

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Speaker 3: It's there, check it out.

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Speaker 4: Search for me on the Google machine, find me FRG

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Speaker 4: usually have the links.

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Speaker 3: And whatnot when I am going live.

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Speaker 4: But guys, the Dodgers will endure and survive.

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Speaker 3: We will be fine, We will be.

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Speaker 2: Happy, just just fine. We're gonna be back on Monday.

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Speaker 2: Clinton and I will be with the brand new show.

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Speaker 2: Have a good weekend. We'll be talking about lots of w's.

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Speaker 2: I can feel it, go, Dodgers.

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Speaker 3: Skeen's, Yamamoto tomorrow. That's gonna be fine.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Bye,