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Speaker 1: For him to be that honest about man, this really

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Speaker 1: Does it concern me in a three game series? Yes?

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Speaker 1: What up everybody? And welcome to this Thursday live edition

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Speaker 1: of Dodger's Territory. That is Clint Phacius. I am Alana Rizzo.

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Speaker 1: Get those questions in on the YouTube channel, the YouTube chat.

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Speaker 1: We will answer them here on the show. All right, Clint,

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Speaker 1: did you have a good week since I talked to

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Speaker 3: Personally fine, had a couple of jobs.

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Speaker 1: Not Dodger wise, rights wise.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's a little frustrating. I guess we did

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Speaker 4: learn some things from the Arizona Diamondback. So let's dive

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Speaker 1: People are bummed man starting fires in the parking lot

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Speaker 1: at Dodger Stadium. I mean it's a little bit aggressive

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Speaker 1: just because you know, the Dodgers didn't do so well

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Speaker 3: You know? I mean maybe not in May.

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Speaker 4: May is not the time to h to voice your

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Speaker 3: But that's it.

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Speaker 4: That was an interesting scene. What a terrible parking spot

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Speaker 4: for that particular fan to be right in the middle

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Speaker 1: It's always a shit show trying to get in and

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Speaker 1: We didn't start the fire? Well, somebody started it, deeer.

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Speaker 1: I don't know who the hell it was, but somebody

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Speaker 3: Do we know what happened to?

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Speaker 4: People in the chat know what happened with this whole

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Speaker 4: fire situation. I just I learned it was a Mazda

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Speaker 4: that's a hell of a tailgating and that's why you

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Speaker 4: can't tailgate at Dodger Stadium anymore. Maybe maybe fire has

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Speaker 1: All right, are you you seem pissed about the Dodgers

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Speaker 4: I wouldn't call myself angry. I would call myself tired

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Speaker 4: more than anything. It's been a long week, and then

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Speaker 4: maybe the Dodgers looked a little bit tired out there

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Speaker 4: You know, glass Noow kind of didn't have it. He's

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Speaker 4: it's May, it's May. I'm not terribly worried at this point.

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Speaker 3: Are you worried at all? Riz, No, I'm not worried.

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Speaker 1: I never worry about this team until the first round

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Speaker 1: By the way, did you notice that Jock Peterson continues

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Speaker 4: For Jock now getting some booze. I think we could

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Speaker 4: to talk about Jock Peterson getting booed at Dodger Stadium,

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Speaker 4: because that's always an interesting conversation when a former you know,

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Speaker 3: But it's funny to me right now. It's funny to

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Speaker 1: What is the statute of limitations on booing a former player?

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Speaker 2: But I think the shock value of him a meet

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Speaker 2: like still freaking out from twenty sixteen, when he hit

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Speaker 2: It doesn't add up. I'm not the one doing it.

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Speaker 2: It's just who are those fans?

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Speaker 4: in the NLS as Jack Peterson, he loves beating this team.

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Speaker 4: But we remember Joctober very funly. I think a lot

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Speaker 4: every second he is on the screen at Dodger Stadium

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Speaker 3: I think you had a tweet you'd put out at.

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Speaker 2: Because it's literally in his name, it's literally yeah, had

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Speaker 2: He sees the ball well, he punishes miss and you

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Speaker 2: So the Diamondbacks, I feel we'll get into it more,

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Speaker 2: where it just added up went Diamondbacks way all right?

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Speaker 1: So why not just throw out four fingers every time

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Speaker 1: it's a bad thing to walk him every time. Yes,

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Speaker 1: it's not just Christian Walker that we can be mad about.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about the fact that the offense looks like crap.

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Speaker 2: It's been it's been rough. So I know I looked

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Speaker 2: It's not that same type of pressing matter for me.

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Speaker 2: over one hundred and fifty games. It's a you know,

430
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Speaker 2: terrific metric. Mookie Bets among shortstops with one hundred innings

431
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Speaker 2: dead last, dead last, like he's negative fifty six point six,

432
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Speaker 2: Like he's dead last, negative four outs above average, Like

433
00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:30,120
Speaker 2: he's having a tough time and he's had some fatigue

434
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Speaker 2: with it, and we might see it start to bleed

435
00:19:31,680 --> 00:19:34,840
Speaker 2: over there. Because his offense trended up early on, and

436
00:19:34,880 --> 00:19:36,400
Speaker 2: it was the same way when he was at second

437
00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:38,959
Speaker 2: base last year, like he played well, but now like

438
00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,960
Speaker 2: you know, you to your point a lot of that.

439
00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:43,840
Speaker 2: It's it's a large sample size now and if things

440
00:19:43,840 --> 00:19:46,600
Speaker 2: aren't going all peachy for Mooki at shortstop and he's

441
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Speaker 2: having some errors, some frustration might to bleed in. So

442
00:19:50,680 --> 00:19:53,439
Speaker 2: that's where I feel it's kind of trending. So it

443
00:19:53,480 --> 00:19:56,119
Speaker 2: could be impacting one or the other. But his mookie Bets'

444
00:19:56,200 --> 00:19:59,160
Speaker 2: offensive numbers and may have really shown that he's taken

445
00:19:59,200 --> 00:20:01,760
Speaker 2: a massive step b from his early seeds like March

446
00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:04,800
Speaker 2: and April, and he's still an above average player, but

447
00:20:05,160 --> 00:20:07,600
Speaker 2: certainly nothing like you know what he was early on.

448
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Speaker 3: So to I did a whole video on this Mookie thing.

449
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna add some thoughts to it as well and

450
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Speaker 4: kind of piggyback off of you guys. And we saw

451
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Speaker 4: this with Moki last year where he was far and

452
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Speaker 4: away the best player in baseball in the month of August,

453
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Speaker 4: but then he ran himself into the ground.

454
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Speaker 3: He got tired.

455
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Speaker 4: The swing, I wouldn't say got lazy or sloppy, but

456
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Speaker 4: things happened where he was chasing numbers. He was tired

457
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Speaker 4: in September and that very much carried into October. Mookie

458
00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:41,120
Speaker 4: is no Spring chicken anymore. He needs some days off.

459
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Speaker 4: This was something I was complaining about on my channel,

460
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Speaker 4: you know, in the early parts of the offseason, in

461
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Speaker 4: the early parts of spring training. He should not be

462
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Speaker 4: playing every single day anymore. Nobody should be playing every

463
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Speaker 4: single day anymore. But on top of it, with Mokie,

464
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Speaker 4: you're there at the ballpark, Scot. I know Blake is

465
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Speaker 4: there as well.

466
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Speaker 3: You see it.

467
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Speaker 4: He's there putting in work at shortstop. He's putting a

468
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Speaker 4: half day's work before the game, trying to get better

469
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Speaker 4: at the position and running himself into the ground. And

470
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Speaker 4: by the way, it is May twenty third, a little

471
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Speaker 4: bit too much too early.

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Speaker 3: I feel for Mook.

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Speaker 4: Maybe they should have kept him kind of getting the

474
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Speaker 4: air quote days off at second base in there here

475
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Speaker 4: and there. But I think they got to give him

476
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Speaker 4: a little bit more time. Do you think that could

477
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Speaker 4: help Mooky a little bit more in this transition, this

478
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Speaker 4: long transition to becoming a shortstop.

479
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Speaker 2: It could be like he's right, he's ninth in the

480
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Speaker 2: National League and innings played at shortstop, so he's up

481
00:21:34,359 --> 00:21:36,840
Speaker 2: there like that's a lot for him. Like it's a

482
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Speaker 2: different thing when it's you know you it's a job

483
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Speaker 2: you've been doing every single day for you know, however

484
00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:43,720
Speaker 2: many years Mooki's been in the league. Right field, he

485
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Speaker 2: could wake up and you know, roll out of bed

486
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Speaker 2: and go play a gold glove ride field. That's fine

487
00:21:47,680 --> 00:21:50,560
Speaker 2: second base, it's something he came up doing. But at

488
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Speaker 2: the big league level, it's a whole different animal. It's

489
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Speaker 2: a whole different thing. And when it's coming easy, then

490
00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:57,719
Speaker 2: it feels easy. When you face a little bit of hurdles,

491
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Speaker 2: then you're saying, Okay, now there's some things I have

492
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Speaker 2: to work on, and then it's a whole different cat.

493
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Speaker 2: So I feel like he's going through a little bit

494
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Speaker 2: of that right now. Again, it just falls back to

495
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Speaker 2: is this their long term option? I I know you

496
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Speaker 2: both would agree that Miguil Rojas is a perennial Gold

497
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Speaker 2: Glove talent at shortstop, and I don't like it's not

498
00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:18,600
Speaker 2: that they're not using him, but they're limiting him because

499
00:22:18,960 --> 00:22:21,119
Speaker 2: he's up there in age too. His legs have for

500
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Speaker 2: the for two seasons in a row. In spring training,

501
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Speaker 2: Miguel Rojas is his legs have kind of you know,

502
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Speaker 2: having a slow build up towards the regular season. So

503
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Speaker 2: I don't know if they're tempering that a bit. But

504
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Speaker 2: with Max Munsey out, they've had to shift some guys around.

505
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Speaker 2: But I think that mcguil Rojas at shortstop would give

506
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Speaker 2: them a lot of boost. And it just puts me

507
00:22:40,240 --> 00:22:42,520
Speaker 2: in a spot where I keep saying, man, I really

508
00:22:42,520 --> 00:22:45,480
Speaker 2: wish Mookie Bets was just playing second base instead, because

509
00:22:45,520 --> 00:22:47,119
Speaker 2: we would know what he'd be getting. It's not as

510
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Speaker 2: taxing of a position. And it's someone like in Miguel

511
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Speaker 2: Rojas who's been doing this his entire career and at

512
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Speaker 2: an incredibly high level, and it's not It is this

513
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Speaker 2: crazy of me to say a lot of that. Man,

514
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Speaker 2: we are kind of not using Miguel Rojas, who is

515
00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:03,399
Speaker 2: a gold Glove caliber shortstop just on their bench, and

516
00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:05,520
Speaker 2: they're not using him enough. It kind of feels like.

517
00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, we had him on the show a couple of

518
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Speaker 1: weeks ago and he was talking about, you know, kind

519
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:12,760
Speaker 1: of his tutorial to Mooki about how to play a

520
00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:15,320
Speaker 1: really good defensive shortstop. And it's tough. That's is why

521
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:18,440
Speaker 1: roster construction is so important. You pray that everybody stays healthy.

522
00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:21,040
Speaker 1: But let's say we fixed the situation. Miguel goes to

523
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Speaker 1: short Gavin's at second, or Mooki's at second, or Mooki's

524
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Speaker 1: back in the outfield. You still need a left fielder

525
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Speaker 1: that knows what the hell they're doing, and you still

526
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Speaker 1: need production from the bottom of the lineup. That's that's

527
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Speaker 1: why this game will keep you up at night. Scott,

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Speaker 1: we appreciate you as always. Your INSIGHT's fantastic. Thanks for

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Speaker 1: being here on Dodger's Territory. We will see you soon,

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Speaker 1: my friend.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for having me on. It's great.

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Speaker 2: It's great to be here. Thanks everybody a lot. A

533
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Speaker 2: terrific job, Clint, terrific job.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk soon, all right, Scott Yeerman of Dodger Blue,

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Speaker 1: we appreciate it, and Clint, you and I are going

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Speaker 1: Time now, Clint, for last licks before we get your

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Speaker 1: final thoughts on things, I want to introduce you to

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Speaker 1: a pup named Reed. He's at the San Bernardino Shelter

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Speaker 1: in San Bernardino, California, and he has until four pm

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Speaker 1: All right, my friend, there was a bit of history

584
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Speaker 1: on this date twenty two years ago. Sean green I

585
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Speaker 1: know you've been a Dodger fan your entire life. What

586
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Speaker 1: do you remember about that?

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Speaker 4: That was a very very fun game. Five for five

588
00:26:22,240 --> 00:26:25,399
Speaker 4: goes Greenee. You got four home runs in there, still

589
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Speaker 4: an MLB record for a single game, nineteen total bases

590
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Speaker 4: goes off against the Milwaukee Brewers, and you know, it's

591
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Speaker 4: just ilicit's good feelings looking back to that very you know,

592
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Speaker 4: it's funny. It's only what two thousand and two and

593
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Speaker 4: and the video quality. Thank you for for where you're

594
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Speaker 4: at today, by the way, because you could try to

595
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Speaker 4: find a game from like, like you know, two thousand

596
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Speaker 4: and nine, and it looks like it was from nineteen

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Speaker 4: forty seven. But I don't know how much you paid

598
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Speaker 4: attention to that game. I'm sure you did because Greenee

599
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Speaker 4: was one of those guys that it's just very very

600
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Speaker 4: fun to watch and also very frustrating for some Dodgers

601
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Speaker 4: fans at different points in time. But that game was

602
00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 4: was quite insane. And I'll tilt up ever so slightly

603
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 4: because I got framed up in there. They gave away a.

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Speaker 3: Commemorative bat, which was really really cool. There was a.

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Speaker 4: Stadium giveaway one of the I think a lot of

606
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Speaker 4: fans argue one of the best stadium giveaways of all

607
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Speaker 4: time was that bat with that historic great game back

608
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Speaker 4: in the day at Miller Park.

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Speaker 3: So Sean Green shout out.

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Speaker 1: I always love back giveaways where they serve alcohol. That

611
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,080
Speaker 1: makes a ton of sense to me. Who is going

612
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Speaker 1: to be the next Dodger that has a day like this?

613
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Speaker 1: Six AB, six hits for home runs, seven RBIs nineteen

614
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Speaker 1: total basis, Who's the next Sean Green?

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Speaker 4: Let me put on my no stra dumbass hat right here.

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Speaker 4: I don't think it's a very far stretch to say

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Speaker 4: it's going to be a fellow by the name of

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Speaker 4: shoe Hey Otani. He's got nine more years. That will

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Speaker 4: really ten full years to try to do it.

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Speaker 1: Show has that's a good song, that's not really going

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Speaker 1: out on a limb. But I think I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I think Freeman can do it.

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Speaker 2: I do.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know there's less amount of time for Freddy,

625
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Speaker 1: obviously just because of a contract situation. But I think

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Speaker 1: Freeman has a shot.

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Speaker 4: The four homers though, that's where it gets tough for

628
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Speaker 4: Freddy because if he hits four homers, he's mad. That's

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Speaker 4: not a good game to him. He doesn't want him runs.

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Speaker 4: He's out there trying to drop that long ball.

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Speaker 1: He says, yes, well, just just don't try to pinch

632
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Speaker 1: hit for show hate, because he has such confusion when

633
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Speaker 1: that happens. This was so cute. I love Taoscar Fernandez's reaction.

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Speaker 1: They are such buzzies, Bud, He's I love them so much,

635
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Speaker 1: but he honestly thought he was going to get pinch

636
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Speaker 1: hit for. So Miguel Rojas, our guy that we wanted short,

637
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Speaker 1: is going up there and Show Hayes like what the

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Speaker 1: actual f Dave like, what is happening?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: He's so innocent, though. It's so cute his face.

641
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Speaker 3: His reactions.

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Speaker 4: You know, what a waste for all those years in

643
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Speaker 4: Anaheim and hey, it got in my daily my playing

644
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Speaker 4: boom already sell the team. But what a waste all

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Speaker 4: of those years when we could have been seeing all

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Speaker 4: this great stuff from show. Hey, Otani happy he's in

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Speaker 1: I love it all right. It's always a pleasure to

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Speaker 1: be with you on this half an hour. A programming

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Speaker 1: Monday for Memorial Day for observance of that, of course,

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Speaker 1: but we will be back on Thursday. Clinton I will

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Speaker 3: Cheers, guys,