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Speaker 1: Hell, everybody, and welcome to a brand new episode of

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Speaker 1: Dodgers Territory.

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Speaker 2: I'm Alana Rizzo. That is Katie Wu.

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Speaker 1: Clint Pesius is with his boys in glen Dale at

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Speaker 1: Cambell Becker and she's taken in some Cactus League actions,

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Speaker 1: so good on him. So you're gonna be with Katie

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Speaker 1: and I for the remainder of this show. Don't forget

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Speaker 1: of the rage is the WBC. So let's get to

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Speaker 1: that in the big ticket, and with good reason. We're

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Speaker 1: talking about the World Baseball Classic. By the way, guys,

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Speaker 1: Marty Caswell of Friar's Territory is going to be joining

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Speaker 1: us momentarily to talk about the Friars as a competitor

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Speaker 1: in terms of the Dodgers in the National League. But

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Speaker 1: let's talk about Team USA. Katie, Italy, thank you, thank you,

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Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. Because they beat Mexico last night,

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Speaker 1: they advanced, and that also means that Team USA advanced,

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Speaker 1: albeit they're in to the quarterfinals regardless of how they

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Speaker 1: got there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, crisis avertant for Team USA and Mark DeRosa. That

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Speaker 3: could have been a pretty nasty kind of discourse. I'm

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Speaker 3: not here to say what happened, Alana. You and I

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Speaker 3: both know this. As reporters, there are always things went

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Speaker 3: on behind the scenes and aren't going to be addressed

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Speaker 3: in press conferences or answered during on field interviews or

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Speaker 3: in scrums later. That's just kind of the nature of

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Speaker 3: the game. It's our job to try to get people

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Speaker 3: to answer, but there's always going to be some kind

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Speaker 3: of underlying circumstance. So I'm not going to speculate on

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Speaker 3: if dro thought that the that Team USA already qualified

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Speaker 3: or not. I think more so it's a reflection of

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Speaker 3: Team USA as a whole. Dero is going to have

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Speaker 3: to answer that he's the manager, he's the one at

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Speaker 3: the podium. But you have an entire coaching staff, you

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Speaker 3: have a front off if you will, a general manager,

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Speaker 3: you have a pr staff. Everyone needs to be collectively

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Speaker 3: talking so things like that don't happen. And you know,

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Speaker 3: I'm going to give Mark de Rose the benefit of

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Speaker 3: the doubt. Maybe he did misspeak, but there's there was

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Speaker 3: a better way to recover from that. Luckily for Team USA,

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Speaker 3: they can chalk it up to as a learning opportunity

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Speaker 3: and not the storyline of what, you know, the most

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Speaker 3: colossal talented team the US has assembled. We can actually

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Speaker 3: focus on the baseball now and not focus on what

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Speaker 3: would have been the biggest upset in WBC history in

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Speaker 3: my opinion.

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Speaker 1: I mean, oh mercy, what a blunder had it have been,

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Speaker 1: had the US not advanced because of some miscalculations or

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Speaker 1: whatever the situation was. To your point, this team is

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Speaker 1: so talented, but that being said, they are in the

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Speaker 1: quarterfinals against Team Canada, which is also a team that

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Speaker 1: you cannot take lightly. Let's bring this back to the

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Speaker 1: Dodgers for a hot second. Katie ned Colletti, former Dodgers

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Speaker 1: general manager, is largely irresponsible for putting this team Italy together.

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Speaker 1: He's the general manager for Italy. And I also want

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Speaker 1: to give Vinny Pesquentino some props, who I know is

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Speaker 1: not a Dodger but is a friend of the program

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Speaker 1: on foul Territory. He did a lot of recruiting for

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Speaker 1: Team USA and excuse me, Team Italy, and it just

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Speaker 1: paid a lot of dividends. Are you like in the

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Speaker 1: energy that you're seeing so far in this WBC.

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Speaker 3: I love the energy. I'm actually here in Miami for

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Speaker 3: the WBC right now, which is why my lighting looks

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Speaker 3: like I'm coming to you guys from space. So sorry

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Speaker 3: about the actual look of the show today. Hotel WiFi

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Speaker 3: is not always the most glamorous. But the main reason

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Speaker 3: why I pitched to the Athletic to please, please please

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Speaker 3: send me to the WBC is because of the environment.

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Speaker 3: I was lucky enough to cover pool play in Miami

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Speaker 3: in twenty twenty three, saw some insane games from dr

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Speaker 3: from Puerto Rico, and what sticks out to me about

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Speaker 3: this tournament is just the passion in which players. I mean,

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Speaker 3: we saw the Dominican Republic Venezuela game yesterday. Fernando Tatis

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Speaker 3: And this is the kind of emotion that I think

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Speaker 3: and kissing in the dugout like fire me up. I

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Speaker 1: The double kiss is my favorite thing in the world.

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Speaker 1: And I said this earlier on foul Territory. Today, I

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Speaker 1: think that they should take that espresso machine, Katie, and

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Speaker 1: I think they should auction it off to the highest bidder,

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Speaker 1: and however much money that they earn for that person

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Speaker 1: to put that espresso machine in their kitchen, that money

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Speaker 1: should go to the Italian American Baseball Foundation that gives

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Speaker 1: scholarships to kids in the community and obviously promotes the

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Speaker 1: back to baseball at hand. Here we sit on March twelfth.

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Speaker 1: Opening day is less than two weeks away. You a

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Speaker 1: couple of days ago put out a mail bag for

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Speaker 1: the Athletic Katie. What do people want to know? Going

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Speaker 3: Big Surprise, there is a lot of discourse about our

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Speaker 3: pal Roki Sasaki and Alana. You and I are on

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Speaker 3: different sides of the Sasaki hill, but that's okay. We

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Speaker 3: as a new reporter coming into be I genuine generally

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Speaker 3: to know? I can always go into a situation and

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Speaker 3: So I understand he's a very He's a catalyst for

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Speaker 3: There's no need to turn them into a high leverage reliever,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, everybody was after him. The Dodgers got him.

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Speaker 1: Let's go by him, do it the right way to

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Speaker 1: certainly happy as well with what he's doing, because that matters.

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Speaker 1: It matters that it trickles over into other things in

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Speaker 2: Another question that it seems like a.

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Speaker 1: Lot of people have, Katie, is what is going to

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Speaker 3: It's good to be with you.

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Speaker 2: Or we're talking about the biggest competitors for the Los

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Speaker 2: I think that right now, as the roster is constructed,

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Speaker 1: One thing about the Padres, and you know this scene

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Speaker 1: You've covered this team for so long. You've been in

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Speaker 2: But they keep that bullpen intact. You know as well

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Speaker 1: Yeah, with Mason Miller as your closer, you can kind

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Speaker 1: of go backwards from there. Marty Kaswill always doing a

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Speaker 1: great job covering Diego Padres. You can catch her on

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Speaker 1: Friar Territory on the Foul Territory Network along with Heath

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Speaker 2: Marty, thanks for your time. We appreciate it very much.

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Speaker 3: Thanks a loan.

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Speaker 2: It's great seeing you again.

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Speaker 1: Always a pleasure getting the perspective of the other teams

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, let's talk about Peyton. We've brought this

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Speaker 1: So if you guys could help with some donations for

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Speaker 1: get Peyton the care that she needs. All Right, we

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Speaker 1: welcome you back here to Dodger's territory, Clint. We'll be

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Speaker 1: back with us on Monday. Katie, any thought for the road,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you this. There's your thought for the road,

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Speaker 1: I'll give it to you. What are you most looking

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's such a good question, because I the last

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Speaker 3: have said that about WBC pool play in twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 3: So I'm so excited to see some of these teams,

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Speaker 3: the underdogs team Italy has been so fun to watch.

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Speaker 3: I know the WBC not everyone is a big fan,

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Speaker 3: and there's so many different storylines. My goal simply to

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Speaker 3: a lot for us to break into and hopefully no

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Speaker 1: So best of luck obviously, to Will Smith, to Yoshinobu Yamamoto,

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Speaker 1: to sho hey Otani in their respective games. Clayton Kersha

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Speaker 1: Rosa has a exchanged Clayton Kersha out, so that's okay.

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Speaker 2: It looks like he's.

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Speaker 1: Going to be I think he's going to be in

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Speaker 1: the game with Canada, but moving forward to the semi

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Speaker 1: finals and the final, I don't think Kirsha is going

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Speaker 1: to be available. All right, guys, enjoy the WBC. Thank

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