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Speaker 2: Hello everybody, and good afternoon. Welcome to this Monday live

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Speaker 2: I'm so happy to be back with you, guys. Clint

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Speaker 2: We appreciate it. Obviously, I am back from vacation. But

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Speaker 4: Let's do it.

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Speaker 2: All right, Roki Sasaki, it's all the rage right apparently,

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Speaker 2: you so much. First of all, Happy New Year. I

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Speaker 1: First off, Happy New Year to both of you guys.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was about to say that, Well one, Dave, again,

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Speaker 3: The players like what your players, these dudes who mean

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Speaker 2: No doubt about it. The Dodgers always good about those

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Speaker 2: What an off season that Andrew Friedman, this office and

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Speaker 1: It was a big part of the off seas and

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Speaker 3: Listen, that parade was something special for everybody. It took

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Speaker 4: How frustrating is it? And like just the joy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, it's funny. You know Vessia closed. You

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Speaker 1: of make our decision harder, because now if they're knocking

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Speaker 1: at the door and performing, those guys are going to

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Speaker 1: deserve innings. So if we can get those guys in

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Speaker 1: the fold and give other guys an extra rest, I

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Speaker 1: think that would be a benefit. But I think time

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Speaker 1: will tell.

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Speaker 4: You do add Blake Sell to the mix?

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Speaker 3: And I don't think, if I remember correctly, you weren't

439
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Speaker 3: at that press or just adding somebody the ILK a

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Speaker 3: two time cy Young Award winner to the fold. There

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Speaker 3: for the Dodgers, a team that just won a World

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Speaker 3: Series again, two time World Series Appy manager here, what

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Speaker 3: what does that bring to the mix for you? For

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Speaker 3: the starting rotation? Some of the younger guys coming into

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Speaker 3: the picture. Adding somebody like Blake's now.

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Speaker 1: I think it adds a guy that's, you know, won

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Speaker 1: the Ultimate Pitching Award, the cy Young he pitches in,

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Speaker 1: He's pitching the biggest ball games and has performed. From

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Speaker 1: everything I've heard, the work ethic is top notch. So

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Speaker 1: I think that guys can you know, certainly follow certainly

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Speaker 1: what Clayton, the culture he's created with our pitching staff,

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Speaker 1: and then obviously with Blake, what he's going to bring

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Speaker 1: the edginess to the staff, the makeup. I think Clint,

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Speaker 1: the thing that I really love is not only the talent,

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Speaker 1: but it's a guy that hasn't won a championship, so

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Speaker 1: it's hard to quantify hunger, and this guy wants it

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Speaker 1: really bad. That's why he chose to sign with the Dodgers,

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Speaker 1: bringing in a guy like Blake and Michael CONFORDO. I

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Speaker 1: just really like guys that haven't ultimately hoisted that championship

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Speaker 1: trophy because they're going to really push continue to push

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Speaker 1: the guys that already have done it even more.

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Speaker 2: I think it's great too that you guys were able

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Speaker 2: to sign Kim into the infield. But with that addition,

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Speaker 2: there's this subtraction of Gavin Luck, so you know, best

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Speaker 2: of luck to Gavin of course with Cincinnati, But how

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Speaker 2: do you see this infield playing out, Dave, because we

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Speaker 2: knew that if you know, obviously, if Tommy Edmond was

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Speaker 2: back and Bill Rojas is back, you have ct maybe

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Speaker 2: Kei k A, I don't know if he's going to

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Speaker 2: resign back. You have Muncie, you have Freddy Freeman, you

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Speaker 2: have Mookie back in that infield too. If you had

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Speaker 2: this pencil in a lineup, everybody that you have right

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Speaker 2: now that's healthy, how do you see that playing out?

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Speaker 1: It's a great question. I'm very actually grateful that I

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Speaker 1: don't have to answer that question right now, but I

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Speaker 1: will try. I will try, because as we've seen, things

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Speaker 1: do happen over the course of a season. But MOOKI

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Speaker 1: right now, Alana is at shortstop. I think with Tommy,

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Speaker 1: you know, we can look at probably as it looks

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Speaker 1: right now, with confordo in in left Tao and right

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Speaker 1: obviously we've got the corners in the infield taken care of.

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Speaker 1: You would see Tommy in center field, uh, and then

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Speaker 1: you know with Kim mixed in there at second base,

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Speaker 1: and honestly, we saw him in the in the series

485
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Speaker 1: earlier when we went to South Korea last year. I

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Speaker 1: haven't seen a whole lot looking forward to get to

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Speaker 1: know him more. But in centerfield, James Outman and Pahes

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Speaker 1: are still really alive, and Tommy obviously has the ability

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Speaker 1: to play second base too. So there's still some moving

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Speaker 1: parts that we have time to kind of figure out.

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Speaker 1: But I do feel that Mooki in the infield is

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Speaker 1: something that I feel really good about.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you got yourself if a heck of a ball

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Speaker 3: club lining up, there also heck of some ball clubs

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Speaker 3: in the National League West NL best as I like

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Speaker 3: to call it, Giants made some moves, adding Willia Domas,

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Speaker 3: you got the Diamondbacks adding Corbyn Burns to that already

498
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Speaker 3: pretty dang good starting rotation, Dodgers adding of course Blake

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Speaker 3: Snell amongst other pieces. I know it's hard to sit

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Speaker 3: here in January and worry about the competition around the team,

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Speaker 3: but how good is this NL West? And you know,

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Speaker 3: Dino Eebel was with us shortly after the World Series

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Speaker 3: and talked about how important having these teams challenge the

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Speaker 3: Dodgers late into the season, how important that was for

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Speaker 3: you guys in October. So how good is it for

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Speaker 3: you to see the NL West continue to get better

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Speaker 3: and you know, just general thoughts about the competition coming

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Speaker 3: for this upcoming season.

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Speaker 1: They've you nailed it, Clint. I do think it is

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Speaker 1: the NL best. I like that one. I got to

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Speaker 1: use that one more. I think with obviously with Buster

512
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Speaker 1: taking over the ranks, you can start to see more

513
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Speaker 1: of kind of they're trying to get back to who

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Speaker 1: they were when they won those three championships, and Willy

515
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Speaker 1: is a guy that a lot of people coveted. They're

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Speaker 1: they're going to continue to get better and be a

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Speaker 1: thorn in our side, I'm sure. But the Diamondbacks, certainly

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Speaker 1: getting Burns to go along with Gallon and Merril Kelly

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Speaker 1: makes them very very formidable and p fat over there,

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Speaker 1: and with the position player group very athletic, they're only

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Speaker 1: going to get better. And obviously with us and the

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Speaker 1: Padres and with what we did with those guys in

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Speaker 1: the DS last year and how talented they are, I

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Speaker 1: do think that it is the best division in baseball,

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Speaker 1: top to bottom. I'm just happy we don't have to

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Speaker 1: play each team eighteen times and sort of beat each

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Speaker 1: other up like we did in the past. But I

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Speaker 1: do think to Dino's point about playing to the end

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Speaker 1: of the season, the end of the season prepared us

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Speaker 1: for playoff baseball right after the regular season. So I

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Speaker 1: don't know if that's the kind of the script to

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Speaker 1: play till Game one sixty two, but it was certainly

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Speaker 1: a benefit this year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, Dave.

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Speaker 2: I always appreciate you taking the time, and I mean

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Speaker 2: this from the bottom of my heart. This year was

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Speaker 2: the best managerial job you have ever done in the

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Speaker 2: tenure of being in the game. So thank you for

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Speaker 2: taking the time to be with us. Appreciate you. Have

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Speaker 2: a great rest of your offseason. It doesn't you don't

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Speaker 2: have much longer. You guys are going to Glendale in

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Speaker 2: four weeks, so enjoy the rest of the time and

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Speaker 2: we will see you soon.

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Speaker 1: I will Alana and Clint and I love what you

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Speaker 1: guys do, and at one point, I think it would

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Speaker 1: be fun to dissect some games and I'll give you

547
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Speaker 1: guys a behind the curtain look at some of the

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Speaker 1: postseason decisions that I made. I think that'd be good

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Speaker 1: for your listeners as well. We'll figure out the timing.

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Speaker 1: I'll uh put it in your guys's court to figure

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Speaker 1: some timing out. But we'll make that happen too. But

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Speaker 1: thanks guys for all your support.

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Speaker 2: All right, maybe we'll maybe we'll do a show from Camelback.

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Speaker 4: I'm in. I'm very al Dan.

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Speaker 3: The last time, oh not quickly, last time you were

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Speaker 3: here on with us, I said, go win us another one.

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Speaker 4: You did it. So I'm gonna tell you again, go

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Speaker 4: win us. Another one done.

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Speaker 1: It's happeningank you.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, We appreciate you. Dodgers Nation looks all right,

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Speaker 4: thank you.

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Speaker 2: All right, guys, So we all know that I'm a

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Speaker 2: big supporter of dogs that need homes, rescue and adoption

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Speaker 2: and those types of things. But right now there's a

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Speaker 2: big need in the LA area obviously for wildfire relief

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Speaker 2: for our community. So Gudry's Guardian Foundation was given a

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Speaker 2: very nice donation from Christina Gatewood. She's a big supporter,

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Speaker 2: huge Dodger fan. You can win a signed c D

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Speaker 2: by the one and only Taylor Swift. It's the Tortured

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Speaker 2: Swift CD. All of the proceeds will go to wildfire

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Speaker 2: relief to organizations in the Los Angeles area that need

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Speaker 2: our help with displaced pets and those types of things.

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Speaker 2: So go to thirty two auctions, dot Com, slash TSCD

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Speaker 2: and Clint. I wanted to let you know the Los

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Speaker 2: Angeles Dodgers have just put out a press release, so

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Speaker 2: I'm going to read it so I don't get anything incorrect.

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Speaker 2: You can see it there on your screen, but basically

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Speaker 2: I'm going to paraphrase here. As the people of Los

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Speaker 2: Angeles and its surrounding communities begin the long recovery from

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Speaker 2: the devastating fires, twelve professional sports organizations, so you can

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Speaker 2: see all of the organizations there. The angel City obviously,

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Speaker 2: the Angels, Chargers, Quippers, Dodgers, Ducks, Galaxy, King's, LAFC, Lakers, Rams,

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Speaker 2: and Sparks have pledged a combined donation of more than

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Speaker 2: eight million dollars to support victims in need as well

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Speaker 2: as those fighting the fires. You can also see the

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Speaker 2: organizations that are going to be benefited from this generosity,

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Speaker 2: the American Red Cross, Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation, California

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Speaker 2: Fire Foundation, Eaton Canyon Fire Relief and Recovery Fund, World

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Speaker 2: Central Kitchen, California Community Foundation, Wildlife Recovery Fund, Team Rubicon,

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Speaker 2: and various local animal rescue organizations. So thank you very

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Speaker 2: much to the Los Angeles Dodgers and the other eleven

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Speaker 2: professional sports teams in our community for understanding the great

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Speaker 2: need that is there for the citizens of Los Angeles

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Speaker 2: in the greater LA area.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's awesome, that's incredible. And this is what you

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Speaker 3: know big time corporations do. By the way, people, because

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Speaker 3: I saw some annoying stuff online like why haven't the

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Speaker 3: Dodgers done anything about this? It takes time to pool

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Speaker 3: the resources, get the right things in place, so you

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Speaker 3: don't just you know, we live in this world where

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Speaker 3: you need to be first or you need to say

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Speaker 3: something or else that means you're against what's happening. No,

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Speaker 3: smart people, the people that run the Dodgers, who sorry

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00:32:12,200 --> 00:32:14,280
Speaker 3: to blow some people's minds, they are smart people who

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Speaker 3: run the Dodgers, even when they lose some.

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Speaker 4: Games and whatever.

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Speaker 3: It takes time to figure out what the hell a

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Speaker 3: bunch of people are going to do to help a

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Speaker 3: community like this. So you don't want to jump the

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Speaker 3: gun and say the wrong things or do the wrong things.

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Speaker 3: So I applaud the Dodgers and all of those organizations

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Speaker 3: for stepping up to the plate. So many people have

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Speaker 3: helped through this tragedy and it's been incredible. And again,

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Speaker 3: the help, the need for help is far from over.

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Speaker 3: So everybody keep doing what you can to support That's what.

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Speaker 4: I got to say about it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you probably all of us listening and watching

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Speaker 2: right now know somebody personally that has lost everything. I

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Speaker 2: personally know five people that their homes have burned to

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Speaker 2: the ground. So there's a great amount of need out there.

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Speaker 2: You know, there's something that anybody can be doing. It

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Speaker 2: doesn't necessarily have to be monetarily. There's a way to

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Speaker 2: help your fellow citizens. And this is what is so

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Speaker 2: great about LA people showing up and showing out, coming

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Speaker 2: together as a community. So good on you for the

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Speaker 2: twelve sports clubs, including the Angels, you know, like Angels,

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Speaker 2: all of them. They all came together to do something

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Speaker 2: important for the community.

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Speaker 3: Or the first time ever. I don't have something bad

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Speaker 3: to say about the Angels.

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Speaker 2: D Angels when it comes to this type of stuff.

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Speaker 2: They're helping to all professional sports teams in LA. All right,

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Speaker 2: before we say goodbye to our listeners and our viewers, Clint,

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Speaker 2: what do you got coming up? On All Dodgers with

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Speaker 2: Clint Basie.

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Speaker 3: Us Tonight we will be live six pm Pacific time

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Speaker 3: talking more about the Dodgers. We got a whole bunch

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Speaker 3: of Rokie to talk about. I do want to talk

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Speaker 3: more about that Flaharty kind of blurb. Just everything catching

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Speaker 3: up on everything that's going on with the team. We

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Speaker 3: didn't talk about the arbitration deals last week, so we'll

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Speaker 3: talk about all of that. Comments, voicemails will be live,

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Speaker 3: and one last shout out I did want to throw

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Speaker 3: out there before we leave. I want to shout out

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Speaker 3: his partner Blake Williams. They did an incredible thing last

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Speaker 3: week on their channel during their live stream. They ran

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Speaker 3: the whole thing as a kind of you know, all

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Speaker 3: super chats. The benefit the proceeds were benefiting, you know,

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Speaker 3: more people need here in lay. The community showed out

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Speaker 3: during that. They raised I don't know it was it

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Speaker 3: was a lot of money. It was an insane amount

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Speaker 4: It was awesome.

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Speaker 3: So I just want to shout them out for doing

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Speaker 3: a really, really effing cool thing. There's a reason we

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Speaker 3: work with them. They're good people. Yeah and yeah, just

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Speaker 3: that's about it. So tubin and we'll see what happens

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Speaker 3: in my channel tonight.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's like I said, there's something that every

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Speaker 2: single person out there can be doing something for somebody else.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, coming up on Thursday, a brand

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Speaker 2: new live edition of Dodger's Territory. Myself clemt Pasius. Eric

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Speaker 2: Stephen from True Blue, True Blue las p Nation is

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Speaker 2: going to be joining us on Thursday. Thank you for watching, everybody.

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Speaker 2: Thanks to Dave Roberts for coming on the show. We

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Speaker 2: appreciate you. Bring a friend, smash and subscribe. We appreciate

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Speaker 2: you guys listening, and we will see you on Thursday.

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Speaker 2: Go Dodgers Day.

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Speaker 4: Bye,