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Speaker 1: From the Berkshars to the sound from wherever you live

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Speaker 1: in MLB America. This is inside the Parker. You give

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Speaker 1: us twenty two minutes and we'll give you the scoop

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Speaker 1: on major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of Fame

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Speaker 1: voter number seventy Rob Parker.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into the podcast.

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Speaker 3: I'm your host, Ben twenty twenty fourth season is upon US.

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Speaker 3: Saint Louis Cardinals right fielder Jordan Walker joins us.

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Speaker 2: Can't wait to talk to him.

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Speaker 3: Also, there's a new podcast about the Dodgers. Ryan Bursinger

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Speaker 3: will join us to talk about it. Is called the

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Speaker 3: Sick Podcast. The Dodgers Owe that plus foul a fair.

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Speaker 2: Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Better up to lead off, it's getting robbed and keep

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Speaker 1: him on. Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories

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Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball. Number one.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: About you, but you cannot deny that there's a different

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Speaker 3: swagger about the New York Yankees.

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Speaker 2: We get it.

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Speaker 3: They opened this season in Houston. They won all four

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Speaker 3: games there. That was a house of horrors for them

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Speaker 3: for a long time. They won all four games and

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Speaker 3: impressive fashion. They go to the Diamondbacks to the desert

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Speaker 3: in Arizona, they win two out of three. They win

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Speaker 3: six of their first seven games, all on the road.

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Speaker 3: We see the swagger that Juan Soto has, and we

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Speaker 3: also know that Marcus Stroman, one of their pitchers now

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Speaker 2: He has mad swagger. It just feels different.

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Speaker 3: The Yankees have fallen into this whole routine of having

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Speaker 3: no name outfielders around Aaron Judge and no name players

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Speaker 3: at third base, and people were like, who are these guys?

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Speaker 2: And they just didn't feel like they had any Jews.

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Speaker 3: No one's going to be the prisoner of the moment,

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Speaker 3: No one's crowning the Yankees World Series champs.

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Speaker 2: But this team feels different.

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Speaker 3: It feels like you want to watch them, like they

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Speaker 3: think all along this is where the Yankees should have been,

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Speaker 3: not where they were. And I know they won a

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Speaker 3: And if you're a Yankee fan, I don't know how

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Speaker 3: you don't feel excited about the twenty twenty fourth season.

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Speaker 1: Number two.

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Speaker 3: The vagabond Oakland A's are going to be on the

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Speaker 3: move after the twenty twenty fourth season, which will be

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Speaker 3: their fifty seventh season in Oakland. Don't forget the Athletics

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Speaker 3: played in Philadelphia. So now it was announced on Thursday

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Speaker 3: Right now, the announcement is twenty twenty five through twenty

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Speaker 3: the d Jolas Stadium isn't done in Las Vegas. So

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Speaker 3: they're gonna play at Sutter Health Park, the home of

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Speaker 3: the Triple A Sacramento river Cats. Wow, that will be

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Speaker 3: a major league stadium for at least three years. And

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Speaker 3: it makes sense because they're not getting any fans in Oakland.

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Speaker 3: People aren't going to go to the game. It was

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Speaker 3: A's will now be at this park, which has a

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Speaker 3: I know people in Sacramento are going to be thrilled

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Speaker 2: But we'll see here it is the A's heading to

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Speaker 3: It's already bad that the Mets are off to a

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Speaker 3: their owner, Steve Cohen, one of the richest guys.

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Speaker 2: In sports, think he's the richest.

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Speaker 3: On a period, one of the riches go on CNBC

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Speaker 2: I don't think fans want to hear that. It's like,

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Speaker 3: To win another championship for the Mets, who haven't won

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Speaker 2: It's been a long time.

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Speaker 3: To say it's like a civic responsibility or a happenstance

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Speaker 3: Because the Mets have the highest payroll in baseball, so

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Speaker 3: All right, we shall see if Steve Cohen is just

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Speaker 2: It's so good. All right, now, let's welcome into the podcast.

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Speaker 3: Jordan Walker, outfielder for the Saint Louis Cardinals, and uh, Jordan,

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Speaker 3: welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 4: Appreciate you having me, brother, Thanks, thank you, thank.

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Speaker 2: You so much.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's start with the home opener in Saint Louis,

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Speaker 3: which is today. What is it like in Saint Louis

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Speaker 2: Tell me what opening day is like.

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Speaker 4: It's unreal, man, It's it's really unreal. We were in

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Speaker 4: The fans are everywhere hours before the games celebrating. We

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Speaker 3: That is about saying I call it the baseball capital

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Speaker 3: Let's talk about your second year and what do you

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Speaker 3: Do you take a look at things that didn't work

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Speaker 3: Is there anything about trying to hit with more power

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Speaker 3: Our guess the Jordan Walker from the Saint Louis Cardinals outfield.

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Speaker 3: Of course, the Cardinals open up the season in Saint

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Speaker 4: I put a lot of work into it in the offseason.

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Speaker 4: You know, I wanted to get to, you know, enjoy defense,

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Speaker 3: Tell me about your love for baseball and how you

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Speaker 4: It really started with my dad and my granddad. They

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Speaker 4: Who knows what could have happened, man, But I just

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Speaker 3: And baseball for a lot of young people, it's a

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Speaker 3: I think a lot of kids can't deal with that.

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Speaker 4: You know, you got accept failure because it's gonna happen. Man.

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Speaker 4: As you said, the greatest one fail out of seven

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Speaker 4: But you know, I think it just looked past that

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Speaker 2: I'm cheating some other people.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, but do you feel that absolutely?

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Speaker 1: A big week in the big leagues. Who's who's a believe?

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Speaker 3: Is it foul or fair to say that La Angels

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Speaker 5: However, it's undeniable that Ron Washington doesn't see this team

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Speaker 1: It's time for the pocket protector Centro. The analytic numbers

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Speaker 3: Well, maybe Anthony Masterson is his name, BS analytics is

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Speaker 6: two thousand Yankees? Twenty twenty four has a lot to

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Speaker 1: He turned money into more money. Now it's time for

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Speaker 4: Love that Money, Love that.

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Speaker 7: Money, Rob Brand New week in a Major League Baseball

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Speaker 7: Another week in the books. You're Yankees white hot starts

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Speaker 2: So one, two and three. That's what we got on Friday, Rob.

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Speaker 1: When Rob was a newspaper columnist, he lived by this motto.

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Speaker 1: If I'm writing, I'm ripping, Let's bring in a writer

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Speaker 3: Now let's welcome into the podcast. Ryan Berschinger, who is

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Speaker 3: one of the hosts of the sick podcast The Dodgers Zone. Ryan,

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the podcast, my.

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Speaker 8: Friend, oh Rob, thank you, thank you so much for

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Speaker 3: Yes, So let me see it's you Ryan, It's Monty

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Speaker 2: So the trio will do all things Dodgers.

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Speaker 8: Correct, That's right, the Holy triumvirt of Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 8: We are uniting to talk all things Dodgers throughout the

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Speaker 3: And there's plenty to talk about. We can start here.

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Speaker 3: The Dodgers are off to a good start seven and two,

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Speaker 8: It's incredible. They've scored now at least five runs in

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Speaker 3: I'm glad you brought that up because I do believe

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Speaker 2: And can I just give you he's the major league leader?

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Speaker 8: notice that especially he's raking when when runners are not on,

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Speaker 8: because guys are trying to attack him because they know

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Speaker 8: they've got Otani and Freddie behind him, and he's he's

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Speaker 8: making a he's punishing pitch right now. And so I

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Speaker 8: think that you're going to see this high level of

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Speaker 8: production from Mooki throughout because that's just how good of

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Speaker 8: a player he is.

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Speaker 2: No doubt.

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Speaker 3: Our guest is Ryan Berschinger from the Sick podcast The

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Speaker 3: Dodger Zone, joining us here on Inside the Parker, and

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Speaker 3: the elephant in the room is of course the investigation

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Speaker 3: by Major League Baseball in the FEDS into this whole scandal.

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Speaker 2: It was a cloud over the Dodgers for a while.

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Speaker 3: Like I said, they have started seven and two through

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Speaker 3: their first nine. Does this thing kind of quiet down

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Speaker 3: until something comes along and people kind of forget about it?

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Speaker 3: Or is it still for Dodger fans? Is this something

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Speaker 3: that they would be worried about?

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Speaker 8: You know, I think it's already quieted down a good amount.

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Speaker 8: I think, especially given the fact that the team is

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Speaker 8: winning and the offense is performing incredibly well. Like I said,

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Speaker 8: if Otani was slumping at a level where he was going,

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Speaker 8: you know, having an zero for twenty streak, then I

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Speaker 8: think people would have started to really freak out. But

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Speaker 8: the fact that he he's only had really two or

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Speaker 8: three hitless games to start the season shows that he

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Speaker 8: really isn't super bogged down by this whole process. And

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Speaker 8: the team again, I mean, at least five runs in

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Speaker 8: every game to start the season, that's a historic rate.

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Speaker 8: The team clearly is not really bothered by the whole thing.

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Speaker 8: I think that a lot of these stories that kind

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Speaker 8: of hang over the baseball season to start the season

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Speaker 8: are I don't want to say overblown, because they're definitely

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Speaker 8: big important things, but once teams get out on the field,

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Speaker 8: and especially if they start winning, you kind of forget

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Speaker 8: about all those things. Especially with the Otani stuff. How

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Speaker 8: a lot of that has really blown over, and we

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Speaker 8: are all kind of aware, like this is going to

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Speaker 8: be a long process and we have no idea when

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Speaker 8: it's actually going to be resolved. The fact that the

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Speaker 8: team is winning is showing that it's really not bothering

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Speaker 8: them at all, and the fans are feeling the same

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Speaker 8: way because they're seeing the team win and they're going,

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Speaker 8: you know what, this this will be resolved. Whenever it's resolved.

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Speaker 8: We feel confident that Otani's gonna be fine. So yeah,

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Speaker 8: I think it's kind of already blown over a good amount.

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Speaker 8: Eventually we'll get some resolution, but until then, the Dodgers

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Speaker 8: are playing well and that's all that matters to the fans.

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Speaker 3: Last thing, Yamamoto's had two starts in a Dodgers juniform.

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Speaker 3: The first one awful, second one much better. What are

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Speaker 3: the expectations of him?

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Speaker 8: He's he should be a Rookie of the Year, Like

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Speaker 8: he's he's that good of a pitcher. He came into

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Speaker 8: the league with already people were saying he has the

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Speaker 8: best splitter in the league. His breaking stuff is phenomenal.

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Speaker 8: He of course, is adjusting to the American game. In Japan,

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Speaker 8: pitchers pitch once a week as opposed to every five days.

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Speaker 8: So you saw the Dodgers already roll out a bullpen

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Speaker 8: game after they went five deep through the rotation. That's

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Speaker 8: to give these starters a bit of extra length to

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Speaker 8: start the season, especially for Yamamoto, who needs that extra

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Speaker 8: time to adjust to a regular throwing schedule. He did

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Speaker 8: get shelled in South Korea, but also a K pop

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Speaker 8: band was performing before the game and delayed his warm

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Speaker 8: up by like forty five minutes. So we'll just you know,

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Speaker 8: I don't I don't want to blame k pop because

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Speaker 8: K pop fans are gonna come after me if I do,

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Speaker 8: but we're gonna kind of blame the K pop band

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Speaker 8: for that start.

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Speaker 2: For Yamamoto.

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Speaker 8: We saw the real Yamamoto, and in his first home start,

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Speaker 8: he would have gone at least six innings because of

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Speaker 8: the rain delay, he got cut to five. But in

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Speaker 8: those five innings he was he was incredible. He struck

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Speaker 8: out the side in his first inning. He looked phenomenal.

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Speaker 8: And that was on a rainy day in Los Angeles too,

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Speaker 8: where you figure it's harder to get a grip on

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Speaker 8: the ball. So yeah, the expectations are he's going to

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Speaker 8: be a frontline starter already and probably a pretty easy

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Speaker 8: shot for Rookie of the Year this season.

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Speaker 3: All right, tell everybody about your podcast how they can

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Speaker 3: subscribe and can't wait.

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Speaker 8: That's right, it's the Sick Podcast, The Dodger Zone. You

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Speaker 8: can find us on YouTube. You can find us on

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Speaker 8: all your podcasting platforms. You can watch the show on

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Speaker 8: YouTube with us, So subscribe there, follow the pod on

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Speaker 8: on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and wherever you get your podcasts.

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Speaker 8: We're going to be covering the team throughout the season.

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Speaker 8: We have a lot of fun doing.

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Speaker 2: It, all right, Ryan, We appreciate you man.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for the knowledge and check it out The Sick Podcast,

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Speaker 3: The Dodger Zone.

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Speaker 8: That's right, thanks, Rob.

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Speaker 1: Now bring in the closer. Here's why MLB is better

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Speaker 1: than the NFL or NBA, and it isn't even close.

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Speaker 3: Reason number four hundred and fifty five why Major League

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Speaker 3: Baseball is better than the NBA and better than the NFL.

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Speaker 3: Did you see the reception that Colorado's Rockies Chris Bryant

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Speaker 3: got at Wrigley Field.

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Speaker 2: Did you see that?

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Speaker 3: It was incredible? My goodness, gracious, it was amazing. The

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Speaker 3: crowd gave him a standing ovation. He's wearing the opponent's colors.

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Speaker 3: But people will never forget twenty sixteen when the Cubs

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Speaker 3: finally won the World Series, and that team, he was

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Speaker 3: a Rookie of the Year, he was an MVP in Chicago,

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Speaker 3: all those good things for Chris Bryant and fans, they

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Speaker 3: will never ever forget that, no matter what uniform you

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Speaker 3: have on, no matter what you know.

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Speaker 2: We hear in the.

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Speaker 3: NFL sometimes players go and sign with another team and

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Speaker 3: they just say, oh, that guy's dead to us. They

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Speaker 3: wouldn't do that in baseball, especially if you help that

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Speaker 3: team win. And that's what Chris Bryant did in Chicago.

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Speaker 3: So that was amazing to see the ovation that he got.

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Speaker 3: In the words of New York TV legend the late

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Speaker 3: Bill Jorgenson and thanking you for your time this time

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Speaker 3: until next time.

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Speaker 2: Rob Parker out. He can't get it.

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Speaker 1: This could be an inside of Parker. See you next week,

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Speaker 1: same bat time, same Matt station.