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Speaker 1: Well, it's the players, the fans, and even the broadcasters

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Speaker 1: are running on fumes. Eighteen innings. A guy who's been

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Speaker 1: around iconic moments his whole life, Derek Jeter, five time

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Speaker 1: World Series champ, fourteen time All Star. That was crazy.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's really interesting. I made this point about

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Speaker 1: you several times over the last ten years that even

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Speaker 1: great baseball players, their numbers often go down in the postseason.

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Speaker 1: You're facing better pitching. It's harder yours didn't You were

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Speaker 1: the same guy. So Freddie Freeman's got that ability to

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Speaker 1: just he's Freddie Freeman in Atlanta in la regular season?

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Speaker 1: Is there a trick to it? Because you're facing better pitching,

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Speaker 1: you're in high leverage situations. I mean, the crowd's on you.

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Speaker 1: How did you like just you were just the same

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Speaker 1: Derek Jeter? I feel that with Freeman. Is there a

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Speaker 1: secret way to do it.

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Speaker 3: I don't know if there's a secret way to do it, Colin,

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Speaker 3: but I think it's more of just approaching every game

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Speaker 3: like it's a regular season game. You know, you have

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Speaker 3: to pride yourself on consistency, and it's not like you

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Speaker 3: show up in a World series and games saying, oh

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Speaker 3: a World series. Let me try to do more. You know,

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Speaker 3: Freddy's an unbelievable hitter, you know, And I guess the

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Speaker 3: best thing I can say about Freddie is I'm more

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Speaker 3: surprised when he doesn't come through as opposed to when

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Speaker 3: he does, because you've seen him do it so much

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Speaker 3: over and over and over regular season, postseason. It doesn't

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Speaker 3: matter and he does. He's the same person, you know,

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Speaker 3: He's got the same demeanor. You know, he's had twenty

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Speaker 3: five at bats last night, whether he got out or

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Speaker 1: You know, Derek, your great Yankee teams had this ability

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Speaker 1: You know, there was Pisada and you and Mariano, and

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Speaker 1: like when you are a good athlete, but you're around

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Speaker 3: A hundred percent? How about how about Will clin though,

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Speaker 3: I mean he wasn't even on the roster. He's in

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Speaker 3: I know what you're saying, Colin. A lot of times,

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Speaker 3: So we've had players, you know, like you mentioned, that

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Speaker 1: What's this guy here? And when you watch Otani, are

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Speaker 3: Both? Absolutely? Both. Look. I mean starting pitchers, you pitch

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Speaker 3: I can't. I don't get it. I don't even know

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Speaker 1: You know, it's interesting. I like starting pick. My theory

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Speaker 3: I think it's hard. Look, the Dodgers showed it last

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Speaker 3: But that's hard to do, especially when you start playing

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Speaker 3: I was joking with with Dave Roberts last night and

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Speaker 3: But you sit back, you rely on your starters, and

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Speaker 3: it's fun to watch. But the Dodgers are peaking. They've

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Speaker 1: I thought baseball was at its best and I was

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Speaker 1: also the players. Is that the Dodgers now off a championship,

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Speaker 3: Well, I'd be very careful to count them out. You know,

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Speaker 3: Toronto's had their backs against the wall from you know,

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Speaker 3: they've overcome adversity. Look, I said it before, I think

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Speaker 3: If you lose, it's tough, man, It's a tough pill

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Speaker 1: Yeah. The one of the things I remember years and

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Speaker 1: years ago, somebody asked you you were in a slump,

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Speaker 1: and you said, you said, man, I don't overthink it.

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Speaker 1: It couldn't hit against Milwaukee like he was struggling until

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Speaker 1: different times in the postseason that get into slumps. How

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Speaker 3: I've always thought it was easier, you know, because when

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Speaker 1: Great seeing you Derek, You Someboddy appreciate it, all right,

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Speaker 6: All right, let's start with those Baltimore Ravens who are

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Speaker 6: So the dogs have been barking on Thursday this season.

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Speaker 6: The Minnesota Vikings Colin have a big game Sunday at

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Speaker 1: I don't know how you don't like the Lions this week? Wow,

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Speaker 6: Kevin O'Connell in a you know, they gotta gotta have

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Speaker 6: I mean, the defense does not look good. They got

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Speaker 6: Essentially, JJ McCarthy has one good quarter in the two

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Speaker 5: Remember that one?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Detroit were my bears earlier.

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Speaker 6: Is that because you're bashing Caleb Williams this week, they're

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Speaker 1: I'm offering. Yes, I'm contextualizing. I'm not bashing.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, fine, final story, Colin, Yeah, here we go.

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Speaker 6: It's Wemby time. I know you were watching last night.

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Speaker 1: Look at these numbers. So Yo Kitsch is the best

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Speaker 6: I don't want to fat shame anyone, but just he

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Speaker 6: Luca gained weight in Dallas. Remember they started to fat

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Speaker 1: Tell you something. Eaton's good out here. He's very good.

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Speaker 5: Well, that's the news, and thanks for stopping by the

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Speaker 1: That was very nice of Derek Jeter to stop by.

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Speaker 1: Game four World Series tonight. It was interesting. I was

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Speaker 1: weather turns, guys take four weeks, not two. But I

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Speaker 1: thought last week the most interesting game was Bears and

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Speaker 1: the Ravens in Baltimore, and then Lamar couldn't play, and

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Speaker 1: it was funny. I thought about going to X and saying, okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm pulling that out of the Blazing five. But I

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Speaker 1: thought Harba off by Huntley has been around a while. Well,

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Speaker 1: they're getting really healthy, and I don't trust the Bears

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Speaker 1: on the road, and I don't trust NFC teams against

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Speaker 1: the Ravens in Baltimore. And you end up watching that

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Speaker 1: game and there was a really bad interception. Caleb threw

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Speaker 1: from his own end zone, and you know, the coach

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Speaker 1: is like, he shouldn't have thrown it there. Caleb's like

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Speaker 1: a good guy, jumped the route. It was a really

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Speaker 1: bad pick. And I've seen you notice in Chicago, I've

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Speaker 1: had multiple people say you're too you're too hard on Caleb.

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Speaker 1: And I saw a column today that said, you know

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Speaker 1: he's fine, relaxed. Well, the difference is when you get

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Speaker 1: Ben Johnson, the hottest coach, and have the third easiest

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Speaker 1: schedule and spent one hundred million on your O line

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Speaker 1: upgrades and honestly, Roma Dunze, DJ Moore, Loveland, Luther Burden,

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Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift, the Bears have really good offensive skill. People

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Speaker 1: like way above average. Well, Fine's not good enough. And

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Speaker 1: I think he has been fine, but you know, I mean,

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Speaker 1: like you want to see a notch above fine against

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Speaker 1: the Bears schedule. I mean even playing the Ravens, they

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Speaker 1: got a huge break. They didn't have to face Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 1: So now their defense is a bit overrated too. It

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Speaker 1: takes the ball away, but yards per play they give

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Speaker 1: up about five and a half six yards to play.

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Speaker 1: It's not a great defense. It's a playmaking defense. But

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Speaker 1: Nick Wright, who was a fan of Caleb, you know,

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Speaker 1: I think he had the Bears last year this year

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Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl. I think on the idea that

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Speaker 1: everything with Caleb and Caleb he's fine, Caleb.

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Speaker 7: Williams being just fine is a disaster, and I would

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Speaker 7: have eliminated that as going into last year, I would

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Speaker 7: have said that the only chance Caleb Williams is not

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Speaker 7: at the very least very good is catastrophic injury. He

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Speaker 7: is a year and a half in still shaky at

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Speaker 7: what should be the easiest stuff, and that is concerning.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, it's we all.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 1: The other thing is when you watched Jaden Daniels last

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Speaker 1: year as a rookie chop it up, and you watched

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Speaker 1: Drake may or bow Nicks, there's a comp I mean,

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Speaker 1: you're looking at people to the same age, so, you know,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of it's where you land like bow Nicks.

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Speaker 1: It's an advantage getting Sean Payton, Patrick Mahomes gets, you know,

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Speaker 1: Andy Reid, by the way, Josh Allen the Bills made

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Speaker 1: the playoffs the year before he got there. Sean mcdermot's

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Speaker 1: more than capable Lamar Jackson got. I don't think it's

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Speaker 1: a coincidence. Lamar Jackson got the Ravens infrastructure, the Bears

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Speaker 1: don't have any of that. We think Ben Johnson's really good,

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Speaker 1: but the ownership's week the front office is eh. So

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Speaker 1: he you know, Caleb did not inherit any Reid in

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Speaker 1: And I think there's a real a linear line. There's

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Speaker 1: a real line here between where you land and how

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Speaker 1: well you do. I like Kyler Murray, who would be

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Speaker 1: great in Arizona, you know what I mean? Like so

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Speaker 1: like almost everybody would work if the Rams drafted you

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Speaker 1: or Kansas City drafts you. I think it's I think,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's very difficult to be good

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Speaker 1: in Chicago at quarterback ownership, front office. It's not ideal.

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Speaker 1: It's one of the poorer ownership groups. Not to mention

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Speaker 1: in Chicago a lot of cold weather games, windy and cold,

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Speaker 1: so that that adds to it. But overall, I don't

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Speaker 1: think everything's fine, And if it is, that's not where

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Speaker 1: you want to be, you know, twenty some games into

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Speaker 1: your career. So watching that. We just had Derek Jeter

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Speaker 1: on there's a line from the office and I don't

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Speaker 1: know exactly what it is, but it's like, it's too bad.

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Speaker 1: People don't know they're in the good old days until

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Speaker 1: they're out of the good old days. It's kind of

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Speaker 1: a classic line from the Office and what we are

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Speaker 1: watching in baseball right now, the quality of talent that's

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Speaker 1: never been like this. So first of all, NBA is

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Speaker 1: very global soccer, very global. Football is very domestic to

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Speaker 1: this point. But I mean o Tawni and Yoshi. I

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Speaker 1: mean Yoshi is throwing games, his last two starts, complete games, unhittable,

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Speaker 1: and what Otani's doing. I've always wondered, will the NFL

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Speaker 1: ever become more international? You know, football everywhere else, but

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Speaker 1: here is a different sport. But it's just I'm so

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Speaker 1: glad that Otawni ended up going. You know, he was

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Speaker 1: considering I don't know if he considered the Yankees, he

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Speaker 1: considered the Blue Jays, Toronto International City, he considered Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: and Los Angeles was a better fit because he was

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Speaker 1: with the Angels. But it's just incredible. I always thought

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Speaker 1: like the best team athlete I ever saw was Michael

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Speaker 1: Jordan in terms of he was the best scorer, he

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Speaker 1: was the most relentless. He was the most clutch. He

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Speaker 1: was a great on ball defender. He didn't elevate necessarily

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Speaker 1: every teammate like Lebron does. But Michael was the best

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Speaker 1: team athlete when you consider the pitching. I think go

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Speaker 1: Tani is the greatest team sport athlete in the history

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Speaker 1: of America. It's just insane just being a great pitcher.

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Speaker 1: It's just Derek Jeter on Oltani earlier.

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Speaker 3: He's arguably the best offensive player in baseball along with

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Speaker 3: Aaron Judge, and everyone's seeing Vladimir Guerrero, so you can

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Speaker 3: make a case for him being the best offensive player

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Speaker 3: and pitching wise. I mean what he's been able to do.

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Speaker 3: If you just take away everything offensively, you know, he

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Speaker 3: could be the best pitcher in the game. It's like

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Speaker 3: he's the six foot two little leaguer that's twelve years

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Speaker 3: old that absolutely dominates in little league and he's doing

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Speaker 3: it at the major league level.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and pitching is so Derek Jeter pointed out, you

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Speaker 1: got to take four days off after you pitch. It's

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Speaker 1: mentally and physically exhausting. Here's Dave Roberts. Here's his locker

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Speaker 1: room speech after the eighteen inning win.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna need every single body.

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Speaker 1: This is just not rhetoric, this is just not talk.

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Speaker 1: Tonight prove that we're gonna need every single person on

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Speaker 1: this roster help us in a baseball game. Those guys

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Speaker 1: games everything they had tonight to beat us, and none

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Speaker 1: of us waivered.

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Speaker 3: Quit. We continue to fight. That's who we are.

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Speaker 6: Hey, we got again yet heard let's starting heroes on

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Speaker 6: base nine times?

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Speaker 3: That's what. Okay, leave it all out there.

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Speaker 1: You ready to go to Mark. There's no letter. You

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Speaker 1: don't see a lot of baseball locker room speeches. I

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Speaker 1: didn't even know they had them. That's pretty good. No,

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Speaker 1: it's here's the line. By the way, I wish there

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Speaker 1: was a way to know you're in the good old

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Speaker 1: days before you actually left them. We are in the

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Speaker 1: good old days of baseball. I mean what guys can

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Speaker 1: do now because it's a global sport, so you get

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Speaker 1: these international players. I mean, just look at the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: roster right now. I mean it's just incredible how good

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Speaker 1: it is you're you're watching. This is the most talented

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Speaker 1: baseball team of all time by far. Multiple guys throwing

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Speaker 1: one hundred miles an hour, international stars, power hitters. It's

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Speaker 1: just you know, Tommy Edmund is classic. So he was

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Speaker 1: a I think he won a Gold Glove in Saint

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Speaker 1: Louis and he was like a two sixty two sixty

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Speaker 1: five hitter in Saint Louis, and you you bring him

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Speaker 1: to the Dodgers and you surround him with these great players.

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Speaker 1: Tommy Edmunds last night, he once again, Tommy edmund makes

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Speaker 1: a great defensive play like he he would be a

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Speaker 1: he would be a high end player on any team.

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Speaker 1: Like that play right now we're showing you on tv

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Speaker 1: ID is a great Major League Baseball World Series play.

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Speaker 1: I mean Taoscar Hernandez gets lost in this lineup. Remember

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Speaker 1: last year they went to New York. The Dodgers did

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Speaker 1: Taoscar Hernandez like own the series. Taoscar Hernandez is the

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Speaker 1: star on many teams in this sport. Tommy Edmonds the

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Speaker 1: best defensive player on most teams in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 1: I mean, the idea of these guys with the Dodgers,

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Speaker 1: they get overshadowed. The talents insane and Freddie Freeman. He's

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Speaker 1: almost better in the postseason than he is in the

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Speaker 1: regular season. Jeeter earlier on him.

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Speaker 3: Approaching every game like it's a regular season game. You know,

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Speaker 3: you have to pride yourself on consistency, and it's not

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Speaker 3: like you show up in a World Series and games say,

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Speaker 3: oh my goodness, all of a sudden, now I'm playing

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Speaker 3: in the World Series. Let me try to do more.

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Speaker 3: You know. Freddy's an unbelievable hitter, you know, And I

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Speaker 3: guess the best thing I can say about Freddie is

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Speaker 3: I'm more surprised when he doesn't come through as opposed

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Speaker 3: to when he does, because you've seen him do it

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Speaker 3: so much over and over and over regular season, postseason,

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Speaker 3: it doesn't.

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Speaker 1: Matter between the Braves and the Dodgers. I mean, it

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Speaker 1: feels like and then that wild Series against the Podres,

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Speaker 1: It's like, I feel like I've seen every Freddie Freeman

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Speaker 1: postseason at bat. It feels like they've all been big.

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Speaker 1: You know. It's not like he ever, you know, between

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Speaker 1: the Braves, because he was with the Braves, he was

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Speaker 1: in so many big games, and now he's with the

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Speaker 1: Dodgers and they're all big games. It's I mean, Freddie

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Speaker 1: Freeman has really become a household name. Obviously he's helped

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers, but the Dodgers have helped make him. I mean,

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Speaker 1: the Braves are a massive franchise, but they feel more

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Speaker 1: regional in about a six state southern footprint. It's just

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Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman has become He has got a Jeter quality.

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Speaker 1: He feels like a better player in the playoffs, and

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Speaker 1: he's a Hall of Fame player in the regular season

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Speaker 1: as well. That is really rare. Blue Jays Dodger Stadium tonight,

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Speaker 1: Game four, We're all rooting for nine innings. That's a

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Speaker 1: hurd