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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: voter number seveny Rob Parker.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker. A

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Speaker 2: very special postseason edition on this Friday. Dropping Yes, former

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Speaker 2: Major league outfielder Jack Jones drops by. He'll give us

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Speaker 2: some insight. Also from New York, we'll talk to Mario Saliz,

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Speaker 2: who is the sports anchor for KNBC in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 3: That and much more. Let's go.

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Speaker 1: Better to lead off, it's getting robbed and keep them on.

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Speaker 1: Rob's hot take on the three biggest stories in Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball. Number one.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm not gonna take credit that I picked the

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Speaker 2: Dodgers and the Yankees to start the season that they

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Speaker 2: would both make it to the World Series, because now

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Speaker 2: it looks pretty obvious to me that the Mets are

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Speaker 2: dead and the Dodgers are probably gonna get there.

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Speaker 3: They're up three to one.

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Speaker 2: It just doesn't feel like the same Mets team that

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Speaker 2: had the magic that got those big hits that got

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Speaker 2: them to this point that they're even that close to

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Speaker 2: the World Series. Because when the playoffs start, I changed

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Speaker 2: my pick. I picked the Mets because I just thought

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Speaker 2: the Dodgers didn't have enough pitching. And you know, Game

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Speaker 2: three was crucial. You know Walker Buehler, who I was

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Speaker 3: I just I didn't see it. He got hit around

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Speaker 2: Doll by the Padres. I thought the Mets would get

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Speaker 2: to him, that would be the game to give them

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Speaker 2: an advantage, especially they once they bounced back from Game two,

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Speaker 2: because remember they lost nine to nothing, and right away

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Speaker 2: people were saying in La, oh, it's gonna be a

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Speaker 2: and I didn't think baseball doesn't work like that. But

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Speaker 2: that happening. So I'm gonna be wrong on this, even

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Speaker 2: though I picked it before the season. I should never

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Speaker 2: you shouldn't change your picks. But I really believe that

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Speaker 2: the Mets had a better shot at it because of

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Speaker 2: the Dodgers pitching and the magic of the home runs

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Speaker 2: and the big hits that the Mets were riding, and

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Speaker 2: sometimes teams, you know, ride streaks like that right into

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Speaker 3: We saw it last year the Arizona Diamondbacks.

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Speaker 2: Remember they were a wild card, and all of a

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Speaker 2: sudden they beat up all these good teams and wound

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Speaker 2: the World Series. I thought the Mets were going to

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Speaker 2: do a similar run like that. But the Dodgers, despite

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Speaker 2: Dodgers look like they're on their way.

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Speaker 1: Number two.

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Speaker 2: I know the sky's falling in the Bronx and Yankee

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Speaker 3: And I get it. You know, you get back to

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Speaker 2: that they looked like they were dead offensively, and then

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Speaker 2: Things look bad. But if that's what the Guardians needed

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Speaker 2: to win a game at home. If you're the Yankees,

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Speaker 2: you shouldn't feel that bad. The good news is Aaron

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Speaker 2: he had been scuffling for most of the postseason. Now

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Speaker 2: usually hits him in bunches. Stanton has been tremendous. You

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Speaker 3: Zero. I think they pitched fifteen and two third innings.

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Speaker 2: Unheard of in Major League Baseball that they didn't get

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Speaker 2: whether it be Game five in Cleveland a Game six

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Speaker 2: Series three. I know there are a lot of big

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Speaker 3: There are big moments in sports. I get it. I'm sorry.

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Speaker 3: Game winning walk off home runs.

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Speaker 2: There's nothing better if you go go back, go on

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Speaker 2: to Twitter and go see Fries and relive fries home

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Speaker 2: in that building. When you leave the yard to win

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Speaker 2: a game, especially in October, it's like it's unreal.

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Speaker 3: It's unreal.

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Speaker 2: You don't even have to be a Guardians fan or

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Speaker 2: know who Fry is or care about what was going

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Speaker 2: on if you're a sports fan in the moment and

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Speaker 2: the drama, because in baseball, especially the postseason, it's every

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Speaker 3: Not like the regular season.

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Speaker 2: If I go to a game and I'm with my buddy,

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Speaker 2: I'm talking, we're eating, we're drinking, you know, and and

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Speaker 3: In the postseason, you have to watch every pitch. Was

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Speaker 2: No, you get you get to reprieve, and then he

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Speaker 2: So you're watching every pitch, and every pitch matters to

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Speaker 2: I mean the Yankee to the two Yankee home runs

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Speaker 2: That's why I love baseball.

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Speaker 1: You get your podcast. Here comes the big interview headler.

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Speaker 2: It's so good, all right, now, let's welcome in Jock Jones,

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Speaker 2: former major league outfielder who played nine big league seasons

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Speaker 2: broken with the Minnesota Twins back in nineteen ninety nine.

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Speaker 3: Jock, what's up, my man? How are you problem?

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Speaker 5: I'm good, Bro? How about you?

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Speaker 3: Man? October baseball? I'm good. You know how that is? Right?

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Speaker 5: It's nothing like it. Man.

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Speaker 6: If you don't you don't like sports, if you don't

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Speaker 3: What I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: Like when I hear these people try to make some

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Speaker 2: excuse on what I'm like, Dude, what if you were

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Speaker 2: watching Thursday night and you were watching that Guardian's Yankees game.

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Speaker 2: I don't care who you're rooting for if you have

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Speaker 3: That was incredible. First let's start here, Jock.

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Speaker 2: The Yankees look dead, They're down three to one, and

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Speaker 6: I mean, those guys are game changers, man. They can

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Speaker 2: And then you know, it looks like, okay, that's like

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Speaker 5: Zero three absolutely, And.

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Speaker 3: Again ye gets a two run home runner. Tidy game.

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Speaker 6: I mean again, there's a guy that can change the

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Speaker 6: mean he he put more. He put energy right back

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Speaker 6: it took the airt of the stadium. He put it

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Speaker 2: And then we need to go to of course extra innings,

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Speaker 5: I'm getting them right now just thinking about it.

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Speaker 6: That guy's been as clutch as you could be in

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Speaker 5: And now we got a series, right.

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Speaker 3: Obviously you're down three, you're in trouble.

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Speaker 3: But there's two schools of thought. And I've always said this.

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Speaker 3: The Tigers got him and the Yankees got him.

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Speaker 3: And that's like, that's a that's.

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Speaker 3: You gotta have a track record, am I right?

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Speaker 3: Basis, there's no doubt about it.

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Speaker 5: Or it's not that they it's not that they have

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Speaker 6: They got some life into him. They got some life

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Speaker 2: They held out. There's no doubt. But here's my pushback

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Speaker 3: As far as home runs per bat in the postseason.

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Speaker 5: Some guys just lock in.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, especially for that that home run for Judgia,

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Speaker 6: The first handful of games he was pulling off everything

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Speaker 2: dot com. Let's go and finish up with the Dodgers

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Speaker 2: and the Mets. I thought the Mets had an advantage.

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Speaker 5: Yep.

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Speaker 6: And to go out and do what he did last

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Speaker 2: Yeah, big, big for the Dodgers if he's back, Yeah

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the Dodgers are going to finish it out.

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Speaker 6: As much as I hate to say, I think the

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Speaker 2: And that would be one half of Major League Baseball's

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Speaker 3: And I don't care what anybody says.

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Speaker 2: If you're major League Baseball and you see the Dodgers

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Speaker 3: I mean, are you kidding? Is that a dream? If

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Speaker 5: It absolutely is a dream.

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Speaker 6: B the old Brooklyn Dodgers Los Angeles Dodgers against the

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 3: Well, well yeah, go ahead. Who do you think?

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Speaker 2: Who do you think when last one? Who do you

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Speaker 5: I think I think I think Cleveland will ride the

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Speaker 2: All right, So you got to two Guardians type the

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Speaker 2: name is Jack Jones, former Major league outfielder my Man.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate you. Thanks for your insight, Rob.

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Speaker 5: Thanks Man always anytime.

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

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

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Speaker 3: Now, let's welcome in. Mario Salise.

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Speaker 2: He is the sports anchor for KNBC and Los Angeles,

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Speaker 3: What's up, Mario, Welcome to the podcast.

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Speaker 7: Hey, it's nice to be in New York. Beautiful sunny day.

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Speaker 8: Man. You know, we talked about this.

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Speaker 8: It's not looking good.

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, Mario, I'm with you. They look bad.

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Speaker 2: And it was you know this, The Dodgers pounded them

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Speaker 7: We kept saying, it's a World Series or bust, right,

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Speaker 7: guys yesterday. I actually talked to a bunch of them,

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Speaker 7: but specifically Phillips, you know, Honeybunton, And I asked him, Hey,

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Speaker 7: can you taste the champagne? Can you taste the World Series?

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Speaker 7: And I know he gave me the canned answer. He goes,

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Speaker 7: you know what, man, I don't really think about that,

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Speaker 7: but can you imagine you've gone through all this, you know,

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Speaker 7: hard work and spent all this money. You know, everyone's

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Speaker 7: thinking about the World Series. So he just said, we're

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Speaker 7: I'm taking it one day at a time. I asked

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Speaker 7: the Oscar what about the World Series? He smiled from

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Speaker 7: ear to ear and he said, I can already taste it. Matt,

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Speaker 7: I'm so excited about finally participating in October baseball?

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Speaker 8: Who else Payas also is looking forward to it? These

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Speaker 8: are guys that know that it's within reach. They can

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Speaker 8: taste that champagne.

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Speaker 7: I know it would you know taste a lot sweeter

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Speaker 7: in Los Angeles back in Travis Ravine. But they're gonna

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Speaker 7: pop some quarks to if they can. It should be

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Speaker 7: a really good matchup.

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Speaker 2: Our guest is Mario Salise, KNBC main sports anchor on

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Speaker 2: the News and of course, hosts of The Challenge Sunday

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Speaker 2: nights after Sunday Night Football on KNBC Channel four. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean it looks like it. Obviously, it's not over

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Speaker 2: till it's over. I've seen teams come back from three

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Speaker 2: to o to Yankees had a three old lead on

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Speaker 2: the Red Sox and wind up losing four straight. I

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Speaker 2: believe the Dodgers are gonna win. It just feels like that,

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Speaker 2: and the Mets don't feel the same to me.

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Speaker 3: Show.

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Speaker 2: Hey, a very weird series in that when no one's

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Speaker 2: on base, he hasn't been able to get hits, but

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Speaker 2: when people are on base, he's lights out.

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Speaker 3: It just seemed strange, doesn't it?

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: It had, And that was I think the big question

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Speaker 7: mark what's going on? Why isn't Dave Roberts moving him

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Speaker 7: a little bit further up in the lineup? But what

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Speaker 7: happens yesterday? He comes on top of the first boom

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Speaker 7: solo homer. So let's put an end to that theory

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Speaker 7: that you can't hit with.

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Speaker 8: No one on board. Man, this guy can do it

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Speaker 8: all right.

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Speaker 7: He's just such a unicorn, and he's a phenomenal guy

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Speaker 7: to watch even you know, people here in New York

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Speaker 7: they appreciate good baseball. Every time he comes up to

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Speaker 7: the plate, everyone is just paying attention.

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Speaker 8: This guy is a is.

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Speaker 7: A special human being, a special player, and it's been

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Speaker 7: a great privilege being able to watch him up close.

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Speaker 8: During this entire season with La We saw him with

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Speaker 8: the Angels.

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Speaker 1: It just wasn't the.

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Speaker 3: Same thing, no doubt.

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Speaker 2: Last thing, Mookie Bets broke out to four RBIs right,

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Speaker 2: four hits career highs in the postseason. Mookie Bets is

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Speaker 2: a big part of making this team go as well.

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Speaker 2: You know, there was a scuffling. You remember he had

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Speaker 2: that Ozero for twenty two stretch at one point to

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Speaker 2: start the playoffs. But he's really turned it on lately.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, he totally has now batting two ninety three postseason baseball.

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Speaker 7: The cool thing about it his lineup and even though

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Speaker 7: as you said, Mochi's bat finally has woken up. I

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Speaker 7: was talking to the Oscar yesterday after the game, and

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Speaker 7: I said, isn't it an amazing thing to be on

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Speaker 7: a team where if one guy doesn't doesn't respond or

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Speaker 7: is you know, hitting a pretty flat streak, the other

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Speaker 7: guys are going to pick him up and they're going

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Speaker 7: to pick up the slack. And he smiled and he says,

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Speaker 7: you know what, I know what you're talking about. You're

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Speaker 7: talking about me, And it's okay because I'm not hitting

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Speaker 7: right now, but everyone around me is getting it done.

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Speaker 8: So as a team, they're just firing in all similars.

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Speaker 7: And I know it's a cliche phraise, but every guy

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Speaker 7: is just locked in, ready to go.

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Speaker 8: Every single guy in the lineup yesterday.

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Speaker 7: Got on base one way or another, whether you know

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Speaker 7: whether they got hit by a or walked, or.

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Speaker 8: They hit singles or doubles or homers.

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Speaker 7: Everyone on board yesterday and that's pretty spectacular.

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Speaker 3: So there it is, Mario. You think this series is

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Speaker 3: over tonight?

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Speaker 2: Today's game starts this afternoon in New York, So you

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Speaker 2: think it's all a wrap.

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Speaker 5: Uh?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I don't think the Mets can come back from

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Speaker 7: this deep hole. I don't know if it happens today,

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Speaker 7: maybe the Mets wake up early and get it done

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Speaker 7: early today and get out of here and go back

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Speaker 7: to La. But I think the Dodgers have it in

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Speaker 7: the bag. Whether it's today or back at Travis Ravine,

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Speaker 7: one way or another, they're gonna get it done.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: His name is Mario Salise, giving us the insight. He's

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Speaker 2: covering the Dodgers in New York Friday, Game four, Game five,

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Speaker 2: Dodgers up three games to one.

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Speaker 3: Mario, we appreciate it. Thank you, my man, travel safe.

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Speaker 8: My pleasure to rob.

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Speaker 7: See you Sunday night. Man, We're gonna make fun of

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Speaker 7: you on Sunday. If the Dodgers already got this thing wrapped.

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Speaker 2: Up, it wouldn't be the first time you making fun

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Speaker 2: of me on a Sunday.

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Speaker 8: You know, buddy, it's all good faith. You know, it's

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Speaker 8: all love, man, no doubt.

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Speaker 3: You know. We have fun every Sunday night.

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Speaker 8: Appreciate alright, welly,