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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, and I gotta admit it's on a

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Speaker 1: long day for me. I flew from Los Angeles yesterday

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Speaker 1: here I am show everything's cool, feel great. But this afternoon, Keith,

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Speaker 1: I was I could not lift my eyelids. I had

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Speaker 1: And now I feel good, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: I got my second win and all that. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: a lot of the ballparks. We know yesterday was the

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Speaker 1: Yankees and Giants, and a lot of other teams opened

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Speaker 3: A lot will open up tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: But the Los Angeles Dodgers tonight, after the ring ceremony,

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Speaker 1: they've won back.

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Speaker 3: To back easily.

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Speaker 1: Keith should have been knocked out by the Padres two

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Speaker 1: years ago, right, and that series.

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Speaker 3: Should have been beaten by the Blue Jays.

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Speaker 1: Blue Jays are like eight times to beat them in

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Speaker 1: now all the talk is they added Dz, they added Tucker,

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Speaker 1: them to three pet It hasn't been done since the Yankees,

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Speaker 3: When they won ninety six.

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Speaker 1: They didn't win in ninety seven, and then they won

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Speaker 4: baseball fan. May right, they were winning like crazy. You

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Speaker 4: were like, my god, this team is. It was a lock.

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Speaker 4: It was a guarantee. October comes until.

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Speaker 1: But you don't feel like the Dodgers, if they were

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Speaker 4: The Yankees had those thirty feels kind of grimy, know,

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Speaker 4: like you know, this is the deferrals. The Los Angeles

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Speaker 4: and bought players. Sure, but they had a core four, right.

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Speaker 4: I still when you go back like that World Series

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Speaker 4: I'll never forget it as long as I live.

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Speaker 1: And I thought to myself, they got Showhy on one

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Speaker 4: The twenty twenty four, the painful World Series that it was.

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Speaker 4: I was at those games. I watched Judge drop the

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Speaker 4: ball and whatever. But with this Dodgers team winning three

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Speaker 4: that's not good for baseball. It's also not good for

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Speaker 4: baseball when Kyle Tucker signs with them, when Edwin Diaz

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Speaker 4: use in watching? Just hand them the trophy. They're gonna

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Speaker 1: But last year, I'm gonna push back on this. They

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Speaker 3: It was up for grab.

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Speaker 4: They treated the regular season like exhibition. They knew way

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Speaker 4: we let's Blake Snell. Let's wait, Tyler Glass. Now, let's

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Speaker 4: you guys be good for October, for the postseason when

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Speaker 4: we really need y'all. Roki Sazaki, I mean they turned

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Speaker 4: get Suzaki and Yoshinobu, Yamamoto and Otani. He set up

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Speaker 4: He's a Unicorn player with a unicorn contract. They have

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Speaker 4: Tommy Edmunds deal. Why you can pay that man out straight.

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Speaker 1: All the money they make, they just gave up. They

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Speaker 1: And you know what, they have a one on a

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Speaker 1: the same percentage, right, So the Dodgers have all of

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Speaker 1: this stuff that benefits them that the rest of the

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Speaker 1: league is not benefiting from. If they win three in

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Speaker 1: And there's parody in the league like there usually is,

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Speaker 4: We don't want to see the Chiefs win three in

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Speaker 4: every NBA Finals. You know what I'm saying, Like I'm

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Speaker 4: hoping that somebody rises up. Maybe it's the Yankees, maybe

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Speaker 3: York Frank McCord. I know people will yeah.

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Speaker 4: That Lobert family divorce exactly like that set them up

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Speaker 4: it's just like and that that deal is still going

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Speaker 4: and shout out to the Doughters and the Goggenheim partners

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Speaker 1: And they and then they brought to the Lakers, you

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Speaker 1: the time. No, those were all players developed by the Yankees,

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Speaker 1: Andy Pettitt, Mariano Rivera, they were Hall.

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Speaker 4: Of famers, but at the same time.

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Speaker 1: And and and uh pisada like like when you when

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Speaker 1: In the Dodgers situation, I know it doesn't feel good,

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Speaker 3: They really weren't. The Padres choked.

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Speaker 1: They had the Dodgers on the road, and the Yankees

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Speaker 1: had a chance big time, and so did the Blue Jays.

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Speaker 1: And and I'm not taking anything away from the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: Haes batting average in the World Series is two forty,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. He hasn't won any MVPs,

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Speaker 1: he hasn't had any big hits like that. It's amazing

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Speaker 1: because guys, they have enough talent that all you need

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Speaker 4: But that's why you stacked the deck and you put

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Speaker 4: as many good players on a team as possible, right,

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Speaker 4: same way about you know the Yankees, Judge can't do

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Speaker 3: What were you if they win again?

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Speaker 1: And and well fans because you know, we talked about

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Speaker 1: the Evil Empire used to be the Yankees. People looked

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Speaker 1: back in the mix of going out because when Steinbrenner

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Speaker 1: the father ran the team, money was not an option.

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Speaker 1: Like whatever he wanted he got. Hall is different. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not saying he hasn't paid because he paid Judge,

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Speaker 4: The Yankees don't play They're like, dude, you know what,

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Speaker 3: We're giving you all this money.

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Speaker 4: Judge, you gotta pay for his suite, pay for his family,

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Speaker 4: You can't win in there. It doesn't have that feel.

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Speaker 4: They're spending money. They got the third highest payroll in baseball.

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Speaker 4: they could have got Yamamoto, they didn't want to bid

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm to tell me.

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Speaker 4: I never heard anybody get a louder roll called it

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Speaker 4: He helped me hit the home run the Senders there I had.

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Speaker 3: Be back, I bet you did. That was some home

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Speaker 4: What in the bad against Gudness And he knew he

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Speaker 4: But you know, good for Wan Soto. He got his

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Speaker 1: You're on the Odd Couple on Sports Radio.

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Speaker 7: What's up, Jake, Good afternoon, Good evening, gentlemen. Listen, I

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Speaker 7: gotta put down my little baby violins after listening to

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Speaker 7: this is blasphemous. I mean, he knows. Garry Sheffield was

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Speaker 7: a great Dodger and to hear him say these blasphets.

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Speaker 7: What I heard was from the Yankees, of all teams.

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, Wait a minute, that was his son.

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Speaker 1: I want to make sure you didn't You didn't.

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Speaker 4: Miss hear that.

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Speaker 7: He's got to honor the name a little. He's basically

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Speaker 7: saying the Dodgers are better managed. But of all teams,

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Speaker 7: coming from the Yankees, Yeah, I could see if it's

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Speaker 7: a you know, a mid market team, the Twins or

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Speaker 7: the Royals, they have a better connection to Japan. But

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Speaker 7: like maybe they developed it. It was the same thing

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Speaker 7: that market. They found Fernando. They do defer deals. It's

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Speaker 3: No, you're right, what everybody can't do?

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Speaker 4: What do Jay?

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Speaker 3: You're right here?

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Speaker 4: You you're right.

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Speaker 1: But I don't know if everybody's going to take uh

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Speaker 3: Do you know what I mean?

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Speaker 4: Sunny California, closer flight to Japan and you get to

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Speaker 4: play with superstars. They have the most attendance in baseball there.

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Speaker 4: Every night they sold four million to every night. The

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Speaker 4: place is packed. It's a different kind of thing. Can't

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Speaker 4: beat them, join them that Like you literally had Blake

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Speaker 4: Snell and Tyler Glass now talking about, Hey, we lost

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Speaker 3: No doubt.

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Speaker 1: Andrew and Bakersfield, California. You're on the couple of Fox

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Speaker 8: What's up?

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Speaker 7: Guys?

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Speaker 8: Uh, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 8: I have to say your last name should be Sentient

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Speaker 8: because you are a Homer. Come on.

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Speaker 3: Of course he's a Yankee guy in New York. There's

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Speaker 8: Right, So I'm a Dogger guy, and I'd say that

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Speaker 8: feels different. It's more homegrown. You have Corey Seger. You

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Speaker 4: Corey Seeger is on the Ranger, right, I mean what.

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Speaker 4: Was years ago. Corey Seeger won with the Rangers in

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Speaker 1: When you look at the Dodgers, though it's Mookie came

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Speaker 8: It's how they got There was more honest, I believe.

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Speaker 4: No, it wasn't. There's nothing honest about joining the super team.

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Speaker 4: It's nothing nothing honest about. Hey, we're gonna give you

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Speaker 4: more money than everybody, but we're gonna defer. We're gonna

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Speaker 4: kick the can down the road. All like, Come play

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Speaker 4: with the Unicorn, come play with Otani.

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Speaker 3: Thank thank you, Andrew appreciate that.

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Speaker 4: Corey.

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Speaker 1: Seeger Frank in Virginia. You're on the odd couple of

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Speaker 9: All right, brother, thanks for taking the calls.

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Speaker 3: Good to talk, no doubt.

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Speaker 9: Listen some of the other calls to stole my thunder.

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Speaker 9: But I'm a long time Dodgers fan Ian rooting for

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Speaker 9: the Dodgers in nineteen fifty three, My my, my dad

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Speaker 1: Hey, let me say this, everybody who was black in

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Speaker 9: So that's how I kind of got into the Dodger fandom.

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Speaker 8: Uh.

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Speaker 9: But as some of the other callers have who preceded

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Speaker 9: me and mentioned, uh, every team, including the Yankees, had

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Speaker 9: opportunities watch you tay every game, but the one like

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Speaker 4: They do the yes networking, but it's not the same

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Speaker 4: League Baseball. They own it, but they still got to

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Speaker 9: Certainly, they're not they're not. They're not the little switters

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Speaker 9: of the poor that they're not hurting for.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 4: No, the most valuable franchise in the sport.

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Speaker 9: So they, along with the other teams who are in

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Speaker 9: a similar financial certain evans, could do the same thing

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Speaker 9: that the Dodgers are doing. The Dodgers' front office is

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Speaker 9: just better, that's the bottom. Yeah, they know how they

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Speaker 9: work the system, and they just do it better than

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Speaker 1: And you know what, Frank, it's hard to argue with

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Speaker 1: that because they're right now, they're head and shoulders above

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Speaker 1: the rest, and it helps when you have unlimited money.

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Speaker 1: But thanks for the call, Frank Appreciator, squeeze one more

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Speaker 1: in and Ala call it from the Commonwealth. That's why

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Speaker 1: from Massachusetts. You're on the odd couple of Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: What's up, Drey, how you doing?

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Speaker 10: Thanks for taking the call, Listen. I got no problem

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Speaker 10: that prosperity has made its way out west and the

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Speaker 10: Dodgers of late have been stacking championships, you know, thinking

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Speaker 10: That's a different story. But I got no problem that

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Speaker 10: they've been prosperous and they've been winning. I don't think

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Speaker 10: the Yankees are that far behind. They're winning regular you know,

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Speaker 10: they're they're stacking up wins in the regular stacking up

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Speaker 10: wins in the regular season. They just haven't put it

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Speaker 10: together when it matters most. They haven't had that postseason

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Speaker 10: success like the Dodgers, who have been in a couple

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Speaker 10: of battles right before they had this good run. Might

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Speaker 10: have been some things going on when they faced Houston

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Speaker 10: that shouldn't have been going on, right, but they had

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Speaker 10: those hearts that the heartbreak and now they figured out

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Speaker 10: they got they got a system. Obviously, they got show

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Speaker 10: Way in there, you know, and and it's rolling. So

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Speaker 10: I think it's good people you need stars and that

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Speaker 10: they become villains brother Mark. So the Dodgers now have

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Speaker 10: it going, you know, loved in La. Everywer out there reviled,

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Speaker 10: you know, but I think that ad and people want

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Speaker 10: to see that. It's back to the Yankees. Are we

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Speaker 10: little sisters of the poor here in the Big Apple? Okay,

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Speaker 10: richest city in the world.

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Speaker 2: Forget about it.

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Speaker 10: Okay, put together some wins in the postseason, Dee throwing

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Speaker 10: the Dodgers right, and all will be well. Thanks taking

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Speaker 10: the call.

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Speaker 3: You got shaded.

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Speaker 4: Nobody's saying their little sisters are the poor. But the

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Speaker 4: weather in LA is better, the team is stacked better.

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Speaker 4: They defer all that money over there. Like I said, attendance,

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Speaker 4: the loophole that they have with their TV deal. The

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Speaker 4: grass is greener over there. There are some guys that

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Speaker 4: don't want to play in New York. The fans are tougher.

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Speaker 4: They get booed here, they boo aeron Judge. Listen, the

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Speaker 4: Yankees aren't far behind what I am saying is it

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Speaker 4: is not good for baseball. If the Dodgers win a

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Speaker 4: third World Series in a row and we lock out,

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Speaker 4: fans are gonna say, well, would you expect to happen?

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Speaker 4: They get everybody. It wasn't like that with the Yankees winning,

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Speaker 4: like baseball profited off of more Yankee fans being born

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Speaker 4: across the globe and that inner life and Y being

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Speaker 4: a popular brand and hat and the Core four getting

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Speaker 4: it done and a couple players that they bought. The

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Speaker 4: way that the Dodgers are doing it, it is just

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Speaker 4: not natural. It is just not right. And there are

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Speaker 4: jealous owners and jealous fan bases. And I'm telling you,

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Speaker 4: if they win this third one and we lock out,

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Speaker 4: it's gonna be a conversation about how do we level

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Speaker 4: the playing field with la All Right?

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Speaker 3: Coming up?

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Speaker 1: Is there a WBC curse going on? We need gonna

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Speaker 1: get to that, But first let's get you caught up.

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Speaker 2: With Yeah, Monty, Fox Sports Radio has the best sports

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Speaker 2: talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows

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Speaker 3: All Right, Monty, thank you appreciate it. Having a great Night.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it is Monty. Uh yeah, it is the

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Speaker 1: odd couple. On the TV theme song Thursday, Rob Parker,

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Speaker 1: Keith McPherson in for Kelvin Washington. Keith and I will

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Speaker 1: be back tomorrow here from New York as well. Kelvin

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Speaker 1: joins us back on Monday here on the show. So

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Speaker 1: a lot going on the next couple of days. But

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Speaker 1: first let's get here Keith and talk about the WBC.

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Speaker 1: Rob g Maybe you can name some players who are

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Speaker 1: not off to a good start after playing in the WBC.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, one of them, no bigger name than three time

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Speaker 11: mb BRO the year Aaron Judge had himself. You know,

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Speaker 11: the Yankees won pretty easily. Golden Sombrero Knight, four strikeouts

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Speaker 11: for the Yankee Slugger. But he wasn't the only WBC

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Speaker 11: Team USA member to struggle. You guys talked about it

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Speaker 11: as well. Paul Skens, arguably the greatest picture of baseball

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Speaker 11: right now, had himself a day now. Not only it

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Speaker 11: was his fault, there was some fielding errors, but last

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Speaker 11: I checked his era a after one start is in

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Speaker 11: the sixties, guys, So rough start for him. And last

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Speaker 11: but not least, going back to that Yankees game from

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Speaker 11: the San Francisco Giants. Logan Web had a huge year

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Speaker 11: fifteen wins last year, led the majors in winning innings.

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Speaker 3: Pitch kind of got.

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Speaker 11: Lit up there second inning alone, first time he allowed

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Speaker 11: five runs and innings since twenty twenty three, in the

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Speaker 11: first time he'd ever allowed five runs period at home.

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Speaker 11: So three guys, all Team USA WBC players all came

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Speaker 11: out the gates struggling and.

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Speaker 3: Keith, who are you adding one more guy?

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Speaker 4: Who?

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Speaker 3: Bryce?

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Speaker 4: And Bryce tonight? Also Rob g what do you have

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Speaker 4: for four and two strikeouts? I'm looking through everybody else

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Speaker 4: you know who had a good day? Trek Scooble because

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Speaker 4: he said no, I can't pitch in the final. I'm done.

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Speaker 3: Trek Scouoble look good.

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Speaker 1: So my question to you, Keith, though, is if your

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Speaker 1: management ownership going forward, do you go like, I don't

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Speaker 1: know if I want my guy pitching into WBC or

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Speaker 1: playing if they're going to be off to a bad start,

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Speaker 1: Like a lot of guys won't won't partake in the

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Speaker 1: home run derby because you don't want to mess their

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Speaker 1: swing up, even though you know some guys have had

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Speaker 1: the problems with the.

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Speaker 4: Real conversation that's gonna be had. And I do believe

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Speaker 4: when we lock out December first and they have the

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Speaker 4: new CBA agreement, they're gonna talk about moving this tournament

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Speaker 4: to July. They're gonna talk about making this two week

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Speaker 4: run the All Star Break.

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Speaker 3: Not All Star Break, but not to take away the

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Speaker 3: All Star Game. I don't want to hear it.

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Speaker 4: I still should have the All Star Game, but they're

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Speaker 4: not gonna. They're gonna have to. It's gonna be one

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Speaker 4: or the other. You can't have the All Star Game

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Speaker 4: home run Derby what they can have a whole tournament.

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Speaker 4: It's the same guys, tatist take away All Star Game.

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Speaker 4: I al love the All Star Game to I go

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Speaker 4: to as many of them as I can.

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Speaker 1: But and the Derby is a big time people watch

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Speaker 1: the Derby, unlike the dunk Be on Netflix too.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they have it, but.

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Speaker 4: This is what I feel. I feel like this is

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Speaker 4: the last one, especially for two reasons. It just peaked

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Speaker 4: in viewership ten point eight million people watch the final

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Speaker 4: that's in the NBA Finals. And then Mark de Rosa

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Speaker 4: came out and said, hey, we had restrictions. If people

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Speaker 4: only knew like Mason Miller. I couldn't go to them.

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Speaker 4: The Padres didn't want us to, Like they want to

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Speaker 4: be able to use these guys with no restrictions fully

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Speaker 4: ramped up. And that's the thing. This is in reverse.

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Speaker 4: You are putting these guys in a high stakes, high

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Speaker 4: leverage situation and they just started getting going. I don't

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Speaker 4: care if they were working out in January, February, whatever.

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Speaker 4: They're just starting to get their pitches up, their swings up.

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Speaker 4: And I definitely think it's throwing some guys off, at

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Speaker 4: least for one game. We can look at a small

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Speaker 4: sample size of guys that played and say, those guys

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Speaker 4: aren't as locked in as we expected them to be,

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Speaker 4: but they just had to play in a high stakes,

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Speaker 4: postseason type environment.

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Speaker 10: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: I think.

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Speaker 1: They'll look at it, but ultimately it's not going to

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Speaker 1: stop the Stars from playing. Like I get it. A

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Speaker 1: handful of guys right just got off. It's just one game.

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Speaker 1: If Judge's two home runs tomorrow, well people say it

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Speaker 1: was a w No.

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Speaker 4: I said, it's one game. It's one game. So when

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Speaker 4: I'm in Anthony, I just looked at Roman. Anthony, leading

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Speaker 4: off for the Red Sox, had three hits. He was fine.

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Speaker 1: Fine, he's WBC and he was fine right for the

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Speaker 1: first game of the year for the Rudd. He's a

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Speaker 1: stud man, that dude is already. You know.

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Speaker 3: They love him.

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Speaker 4: And if O'Neill can catch the ball, Paul Skens might

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Speaker 4: have got out of that first inning.

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Speaker 1: And do you remember Anthony had one of the worst errors.

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Speaker 1: Do you remember the ball that went through his legs

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Speaker 1: in the outfield first? Was that his first game?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they were hard on him out there in right

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Speaker 4: field in Boston.

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Speaker 1: Well, come on, man, you can't miss that ball, if

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Speaker 1: you remember, I remember watching that going, my god, can

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Speaker 1: you imagine starting a career with a ball going oh no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: he's the stud. He smoked the ball in Yankee Stadium.

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Speaker 1: I was right behind home plate. He hit one that

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Speaker 1: just ended the game. I went home.

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Speaker 4: I just left after that. He's he's going to be

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Speaker 4: a dog. But I'll say this, the World Baseball Classic

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Speaker 4: is a good thing if you love baseball. Was fun,

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Speaker 4: It was a good tournament. Shout out to the Venezuelan

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Speaker 4: team then winning it. But Major League Baseball now knows

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Speaker 4: they have something. Twenty years it took for this to

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Speaker 4: build up, and they're going to try.

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Speaker 1: And so now my biggest question would be, and I

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Speaker 1: agree with you in the twenty years, but are you

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Speaker 1: going to be fully committed to it in three years

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Speaker 1: and let people just play right, not the restrictions.

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Speaker 4: I still don't, I know, because the business is business, right,

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Speaker 4: you need him for this one sixty two and trying

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Speaker 4: to get here's.

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Speaker 1: The only question about d Row I'm asking if Mason

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Speaker 1: Miller is going to pitch to close out the game,

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Speaker 1: pitch one inning or what?

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Speaker 3: Right? Why can't he what?

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Speaker 8: What?

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Speaker 4: I guess he gave the padres his word they would

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Speaker 4: only use him in a situation where they were the lead.

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Speaker 4: But if you're pitching for three it didn't make sense

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Speaker 4: to me.

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Speaker 3: What's the difference if if I.

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Speaker 1: Hold him right, hold him, hold him in the top

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Speaker 1: of the night, and then we win it in the

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Speaker 1: bottom of the night.

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Speaker 3: They do it all the time. Closers will pitch the

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Speaker 3: Knight without the lead.

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Speaker 4: He was mad they put that silver metal on him.

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Speaker 3: He took it right.

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Speaker 4: He wanted he wanted to compete.

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Speaker 3: He didn't. He was like, what is it like?

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Speaker 4: He wanted to compete, He wanted to be in that game,

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Speaker 4: and it was Garrett Whitlock who they used.

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Speaker 1: But I'm saying who was the other guy who took

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Speaker 1: his metal off right away to the schwarp, Kyle Schwarber.

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Speaker 3: They both were live.

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Speaker 4: I mean, you're on American soil with you USA across

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Speaker 4: your chest. You lose in the final back to back

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Speaker 4: World Baseball Classics. It's not a good look. It's not

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Speaker 4: a good look.

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Speaker 3: No, not at all. Man.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be an interesting baseball season, and I do

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Speaker 1: I just there's some added juice and everybody.

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Speaker 3: Knows I'm a baseball fanatic.

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Speaker 1: And make sure you check out my podcast Inside the

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Speaker 1: Parker drops. Uh the audio version. Audio version drops every Thursday.

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Speaker 1: The YouTube version drops every Friday. If you're you know,

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Speaker 1: want to watch the podcast?

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Speaker 3: What about you? What do you have? Uh? As far

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Speaker 3: as live streams or podcasts.

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Speaker 4: I would say right now, I am a live stream

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Speaker 4: I am live streaming on YouTube, building my YouTube channel,

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Speaker 4: and I am in the early stages of launching what

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Speaker 4: I want to launch. But you know, you know I

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Speaker 4: got it. I gotta zip the lip. You know, if

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Speaker 4: I got something to promote, I will promote it like

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Speaker 4: you'll see me promote when I'm on this show. This

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Speaker 4: is my third episode on The Odd Couple, will be

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Speaker 4: on tomorrow, and I got some stuff in the works,

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Speaker 4: but I just know, uh, loose lips sink ships. And

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Speaker 4: I'm blessed to have a lot of opportunities, whether it's

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Speaker 4: to start popping up. So what I always tell folks

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Speaker 4: is follow me at keep my feerson on social media

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Speaker 4: wherever you use social media, and you'll see I do

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Speaker 4: a lot of work. I work hard and I don't

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Speaker 4: waste to day. So yeah, we'll see each other soon.

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Speaker 3: No doubt we'll see each other tomorrow. Matter of fact.

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Speaker 1: All right, it's a last call time here on The

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Speaker 1: Odd Couple.

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Speaker 1: If you weren't able to get in on the program,

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Speaker 1: I can't believe the show's over already.

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Speaker 3: Holler at us.

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