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Speaker 3: Dodger's Territory. That is Clint Pacis. You know him, you

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Speaker 3: Clint is always a great job. We are here, we

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Speaker 3: Of course, has had every job in the great sport

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Speaker 3: to see us do it. The Dodgers, Clint did exactly

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Speaker 4: They did what they're supposed to do. They this is

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Speaker 3: To me, Clint, we don't have a closer problem. We

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and again you saw the Reds look foolish. The

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Speaker 3: a longtime baseball man was the former general manager of

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Speaker 3: the Philadelphia Phillies. You can find him on NBC Sports Philadelphia.

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Speaker 3: He is the co host of the Phillies Show and

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Speaker 3: just a good dude. Happy to have you, Reuben, Great

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Speaker 3: to be with you. Almost thus me at mono. Okay,

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Speaker 3: so this is a glad Yeah, it's good to see

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Speaker 3: you friends. So this is a very different Phillies team,

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Speaker 3: a very different Dodgers team than these two teams that

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Speaker 3: matched up in two thousand and nine. Rubin, you know

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Speaker 3: this club, the Phillies better than anybody. What is the

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Speaker 3: Phillies Achilles heel.

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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 1: I think it's it's been obvious over the last few

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Speaker 1: you know, with runners in scoring position, a couple of

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Speaker 1: the things that they struggled.

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Speaker 2: With during the course of the season. At times and.

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Speaker 1: When they're going well, they are making much better swing choices.

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Speaker 1: One of the things that they did a lot of

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Speaker 1: swinging the bats well as you might expect. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Schwarber has been swinging the bat well, was swinging the

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Speaker 2: And I think the other thing that I think they

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Speaker 1: Bit was the back end of the road of the bullpen,

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Speaker 1: I have with them right now. Stram has had a

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Speaker 1: Thompson go with some of those starters longer and longer,

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Speaker 4: We know, A big strength for that ball club is

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Speaker 4: the lineup, very very deep lineup. Big strength of the

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Speaker 5: Take advantage. We'll say of that. Maybe not as strong

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Speaker 2: The game I mean, I can't really struggle at the end.

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Speaker 2: I mean Blake Trinan and Tanner Scott.

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Speaker 1: It was pretty clear that those guys that they've been

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Speaker 2: Very well against the Phillies.

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Speaker 1: Lots of strikeouts, lots of swing and mess, and there's

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Speaker 1: no question that they have great stuff.

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Speaker 2: The key to the Phillies is to make sure and.

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Speaker 1: Hope that if those guys aren't throwing strikes with their

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I know you guys were talking about Sasaki getting slid

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Speaker 2: But it's really important for the Phillies to try to

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Speaker 2: do what they can.

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Speaker 1: They can to grind out at Batt's early in the

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Speaker 3: Oh, make no mistake about it, The Dolage bullpen is rough, Rubin,

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Speaker 3: they are rough. Let me ask you about Zach Wheeler.

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Speaker 3: How much more does Aaron Nola needing to step up

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Speaker 3: become a bigger issue in the postseason Because the Phillies

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Speaker 3: on the rest of the rotation. What do you need

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Speaker 2: Yeah, see, here's the thing. I think they're going to go.

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Speaker 1: I do believe that they're going to go with three

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Speaker 2: I think it's going to be If you, you know.

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Speaker 1: Ask me to to fill it out, it would be

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Speaker 1: Christopher Sanchez Suarez, and then it.

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Speaker 2: Would be Lozardo. You probably don't.

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Speaker 1: Use Nola until you get to the NLCS. If you

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Speaker 1: I think the loss of Zach Wheeler and you hit

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Speaker 2: The loss of Zach Wheeler does a lot of things

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, not just losing one of the best pitchers in baseball,

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Speaker 1: so that puts a little bit on the Phillies, and

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Speaker 1: it puts the heat on those starting pitchers who have

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Speaker 4: You know, some of the starting issues you got going

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Speaker 4: You know, Buttane in October is a different kind of

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Speaker 4: an animal. Also, Citizens Bank Park a different kind of animal,

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Speaker 4: the tenth man there in Philly. What kind of advantage

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Speaker 4: would you say home field advantage is for the Pills

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Speaker 4: against the Dodgers as the home team.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we well, first and foremost, I think the Phillies

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Speaker 2: They they pitched them well over the years, they play

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Speaker 1: Now it's a totally different gig when you're talking about

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, There's no doubt. But I do believe the

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Speaker 1: Citizens Bank Park is one of the toughest places to

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Speaker 1: a lot of people talk about it being nine innings

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Speaker 1: of hell, but you know, it's very loud, it's very raucous.

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Speaker 2: It's one of those cities where the fans actually.

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Speaker 1: Believe, and at times do believe, that they can affect

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Speaker 1: the baseball game. They can affect the outcome of the

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Speaker 1: And uh and it's it's a pretty good symbiosis between

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Speaker 1: veteran guys. They probably won't get too rattled by a

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Speaker 1: lot of that you know business. They go about their

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Speaker 1: business in a very professional way. I know Mookie Betts,

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Speaker 2: Bets that they are.

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Speaker 1: But that said, that Citizens Bank Park red October is

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Speaker 3: It's no joke, it's a blast. The Bank is such

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Speaker 3: a fun place to play. I know Dodger Stadium will

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Speaker 3: be loud, but there's just something about Philadelphia that is

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Speaker 3: it is absolutely intimidating, and covering a postseason game, there's

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Speaker 3: just it's a trip and a half. Let me ask

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Speaker 3: you this, put on your general manager hat. Would you

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Speaker 3: rather Reuben have the buy like the Phillies did in

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Speaker 3: keep it going? I mean, I know from a rest perspective, maybe,

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Speaker 3: but what's your preference?

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Speaker 1: I mean, for the Phillies in this particular instance, I

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Speaker 1: just in general, my general sense is that I'd like

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Speaker 1: You can get hot. I mean, guys have been hot

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Speaker 1: know after the All Star break. It really sort of

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Speaker 1: depends on the player. I think in this day and age,

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Speaker 1: you can do so many different things to.

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Speaker 2: Try to simulate. I know, they played yesterday on Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: They ended up playing, you know, a full intra squad game,

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Speaker 1: So I think that was important to see live pitching

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Speaker 2: So I as a.

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Speaker 1: General in a general sense, I would like to get

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Speaker 1: for teams to continue to play. But at the end

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Speaker 1: it counts. You got to hope the ball rolls the

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Speaker 1: right way. You know, he played baseball. And there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of luck involved in in the playoffs. I mean,

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Speaker 1: people talk about it all the time. Not necessarily the

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Speaker 1: And that's it in a nutshell, and hopefully for the

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Speaker 1: Phillies Hoples, you know, it works out for them.

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Speaker 3: Do you think the DS should be a seven game series?

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's a great question.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think that at some point that may

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Speaker 1: be a sticking point for this new bargaining agreement because

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Speaker 1: I do think that it gives the teams like this,

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Speaker 1: And there's arguably if the Phillies and the Dodgers are

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Speaker 2: Teams in baseball, you could sort of.

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Speaker 1: Sort of think that's the case, and I believe that

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Speaker 1: at some point, and this is A tough one for

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Speaker 1: the owners is you may shorten have to shorten up

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Speaker 1: the season, make it one hundred fifty four games.

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Speaker 2: They don't like that because the per cast a.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: We know that, but it's something that they should certainly consider.

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Speaker 2: And might.

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Speaker 5: Is did you have another one? I don't know?

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Speaker 3: Yeah I did. I just I didn't you know. I

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Speaker 3: could talk to Rubin for seventeen hours straight, So I apologize.

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Speaker 1: I've probably answered some of the questions with my own

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Speaker 1: lengthy answers.

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, OK. So you and I have had

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Speaker 3: many conversations. But for our viewers and our listeners on

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Speaker 3: this podcast, they may not have heard this story, and

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Speaker 3: I want you to share because it involves Dodger fans. Also,

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Speaker 3: could you please tell us the story that you are

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Speaker 3: the man that traded Chase Utley away, and you also

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Speaker 3: are the man that told Charlie Charlie manuel or that

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Speaker 3: he had that was it for him. But all for

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Speaker 3: good reason, All for good reason.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, really difficult decisions.

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Speaker 1: Those probably are are were some of the most difficult.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Chase is arguably one of my favorite players

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Speaker 1: of all time and favorite people that have ever ever

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Speaker 1: warned the Phillies' uniform, and I really felt like it

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Speaker 1: was a time in we were a time and transition.

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Speaker 2: There was no question that we were not going to

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Speaker 2: be a very good club for a long time.

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Speaker 1: I thought that he'd be a great piece to this organization,

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Speaker 1: just to keep him there so that he can help

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Speaker 1: teach these younger.

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Speaker 2: Guys as we move forward. But at the end of

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Speaker 2: the day, I was like, you know what, this is.

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Speaker 1: Going to be a horrible situation for him, and it's

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Speaker 1: going to be a losing situation, And to be frank

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Speaker 1: with you, I thought it was in the best interest

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Speaker 1: of the club and for him to get an.

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Speaker 2: Opportunity to go to la It was home for him.

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Speaker 1: I know that he wanted to stay in Philadelphia, but

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Speaker 1: I told him, I said, listen, Andrew Friedman, in that organization,

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Speaker 1: they know.

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Speaker 2: What they're doing. I think you're gonna I think it's

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Speaker 2: going to be a plus for you.

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Speaker 1: And I think he's found out if you probably if

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Speaker 1: he asked him now, that he was fairly grateful for that.

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Speaker 2: I know he would love to have been a for

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Speaker 2: a long time, but.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna end up being a really important piece and

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Speaker 1: has been an important piece for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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Speaker 2: He's the consummate professional.

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Speaker 1: I love the guy, and that was a tough decision

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Speaker 1: as far as Charlie is concerned.

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Speaker 2: That that was heart wrenching for me.

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Speaker 1: Never have I been on a podium and started, you know,

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Speaker 1: bawling like a child, just because Charlie was one of

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Speaker 1: the reasons why I became a Cleveland, Indian way back

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Speaker 1: when in ninety four.

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Speaker 2: He basically helped get me traded over there. That's when

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Speaker 2: my relationship started with him.

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Speaker 1: And then when we brought him over, when Jim Tomy

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Speaker 1: came and brought him over as an advisor, Ed Wade

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Speaker 1: did a heck of a job of really in a

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Speaker 1: lot of ways taking a chance on having him be

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Speaker 1: the manager.

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Speaker 2: We took a lot of heat for that, and Ed

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Speaker 2: took a lot.

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Speaker 1: Of heat for it, but he ended up being one

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Speaker 1: of the best managers they've ever had here and brought

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Speaker 1: us a world helped bring us world championship again.

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Speaker 2: We were through that transition.

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Speaker 1: I really just did not want Charlie to have to

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Speaker 1: deal with, you know, a sixty win team, and that

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Speaker 1: was a very I just didn't want to have him

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Speaker 1: go through that and we ended up making a decision

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Speaker 1: to change over to Ryan Sanmdberg at that time.

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Speaker 2: God bless him, God rest his soul. Ryan.

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Speaker 1: You know, I felt like he would be a nice

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Speaker 1: transitional manager for the organization, but hey, it didn't.

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Speaker 2: Work out all that great unfortunately.

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Speaker 1: But Charlie is still in the organization, I think during

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Speaker 1: doing the same sort of thing that Brian Snicker probably

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Speaker 1: going to be doing with the Atlanta Bulli, which is

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Speaker 1: very appropriate. Charlie's a great person, great friend, and and

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Speaker 1: that was again one of the more difficult decisions to

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Speaker 1: have to make.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, from the Dodgers perspective on this one, we very

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Speaker 4: much appreciate Chase Sudley because.

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Speaker 2: I can bet that you do.

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Speaker 4: There's still some of the culture that he brought over

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Speaker 4: here in that trade, still kind of passing on, passing

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Speaker 4: down different generations of baseball player. There's instrumental in what

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Speaker 4: Key Key Hernandez has eventually become. And also being a

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Speaker 4: postseason weapon. I do have some beef with you being

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Speaker 4: a part of that nine team that took advantage of

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Speaker 4: a of an organization that at the start of that

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Speaker 4: series we hear about the announcement of the Frank McCourt

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Speaker 4: and Jamie McCourt divorce and you guys had to go

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Speaker 4: and beat us, and you know, anyways, that's a whole

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Speaker 4: other story.

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Speaker 7: Listen, listen, I got I got a very brief you know,

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Speaker 7: uh talk with Frank mccorty. He could have hired me

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Speaker 7: and we could have you know, I could have slid

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Speaker 7: over there, but he decided to go somewhere else with details.

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Speaker 7: So you know, I got sort of screwed out of

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Speaker 7: that deal.

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Speaker 2: Anyway.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, as far as Chase is concerned, I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: one of those guys that really does make a huge

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Speaker 1: impact on an organization in a lot of different ways.

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Speaker 1: I always felt like it's so important to have those

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Speaker 1: types of players be part of an organization to help

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Speaker 1: with those transitional moments and uh, and to help people

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Speaker 1: in the dugout in the clubhouse and create a culture

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Speaker 1: to that you know that that people don't talk about.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of people don't talk about the importance

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Speaker 2: of culture. Well, culture means a lot in that clubhouse.

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Speaker 1: And and I think that Chases one of those people

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Speaker 1: that certainly brings brings that positive culture to an organization.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, final one we have for you before we let

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Speaker 4: you get out of here. The Phillies lose to the

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Speaker 4: Dodgers in this Division series if and then the counterpoint

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Speaker 4: to it, they win If.

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Speaker 1: I think that that, I think that the Phillies will

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Speaker 1: win if they they can knock those starters out early,

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Speaker 1: as we talked about.

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Speaker 2: I mean, otherwise, if they if the starters.

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Speaker 1: Are getting them to swing and miss at the two

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Speaker 1: to one and three to one and two to zero

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Speaker 1: breaking ball out of the zone and they are fishing

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Speaker 1: on it.

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Speaker 2: Then it's going to be tough for the Phillies to win.

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Speaker 1: And and you know, conversely, I mean it's all about

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Speaker 1: whether or not the Dodgers can handle.

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Speaker 2: That Phillies pitching.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think that the Phillies have done generally

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Speaker 1: a pretty good job on that front part of that lineup,

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Speaker 1: and I know there's some depth in there.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure as Will Smith going to be able

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Speaker 1: to be healthy enough to be able to play.

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Speaker 2: I'm not even sure.

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Speaker 5: The expectations he should be around.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if he's around and playing, then that makes it

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Speaker 1: even deeper, right, that makes it even more difficult because

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Speaker 1: he's had such a great turnaround season. But I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's all about making sure that the Phillies, that the

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Speaker 1: Phillies will win if they can really handle the Mookie

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Speaker 1: bets Freddie Freeman, Otani Trio.

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Speaker 2: If they can't, look out, it could be troublesome.

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Speaker 3: Ruben Tomorrow Junior, always a pleasure getting your insight on

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Speaker 3: this great game of ours. You can catch Rubin and

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00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,480
Speaker 3: his cohorts on the Phillies Show. It's a long time

590
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:51,440
Speaker 3: podcast that they've been doing a great job with for

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Speaker 3: many many years, and that's right on our Foul Territory

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Speaker 3: platform as well. Best of luck in this five game DS.

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Speaker 3: We appreciate your time. We'll talk soon.

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Speaker 2: My friend and I have a little bet there alon

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Speaker 2: on you and me. We have to figure one out.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: You know what's going to be wine. Whatever it is,

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Speaker 3: it's going to be wine. So if I would if

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Speaker 3: we went straight up, if we went straight up, you

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Speaker 3: wiwe me. If you guys win straight up, I owe you.

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Speaker 2: You got it, claim nights to see it. Guys, have

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Speaker 2: a great day, Good luck. Hopefully it goes to five

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Speaker 2: because that would be cool.

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Speaker 3: That'd be awesome. Sounds good. We'll talk to you soon,

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Speaker 3: my friend. Always awesome, you know, getting the other perspective

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Speaker 3: from the other side, right, I mean, Phillies are a

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Speaker 3: good team. They are a very very good team, and

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Speaker 3: this is going to be a hell of a series.

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Speaker 3: But the Dodgers are too. I didn't even get your

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Speaker 3: your take on show Hey o Tani being officially announced

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Speaker 3: as the game one starter of the DS How do

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Speaker 3: you feel about that?

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Speaker 5: I like it a lot.

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Speaker 4: I mean, this is a dude who and the way

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Speaker 4: the series is set up where you have a game

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Speaker 4: on a day off game on day off, U if

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Speaker 4: Sho Hay is able to go four or five, six

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Speaker 4: innings or whatever it is, that the bullpen should still

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Speaker 4: be able to be set up to cover a lot

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Speaker 4: of innings for this team.

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Speaker 5: So I think it's the right call.

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Speaker 4: And then Glass now kind of can be the hopefully

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Speaker 4: table setter to a two nothing series advantage for the Dodgers.

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Speaker 4: So you know, Rubin there talking about the Phillies needing

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Speaker 4: to get creative with their starting rotation really only having

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Speaker 4: kind of three guys they trust. As we know what,

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Speaker 4: the Dodgers have four five if you count Kershaw six

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Speaker 4: if you count emasan they are in a very bountiful

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Speaker 4: spot when it comes to starting rotation. But in terms

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Speaker 4: of show, hey, game one. Absolutely give it to me.

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Speaker 4: And that's a dude who's been on the biggest stages.

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Speaker 5: He can handle Citizens Bank Park.

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Speaker 3: No, I love it, and I love the fact that

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Speaker 3: I just feel so good about our starting depth now,

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Speaker 3: I really do. I didn't feel that way all year long,

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Speaker 3: obviously with the injuries and some of the production issues.

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Speaker 3: I mean, Yama has been amazing all season long, but

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Speaker 3: obviously with glasnow down, with Snell down, we didn't know

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Speaker 3: what was happening. With Sasaki, showhy wasn't stretched out. But

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Speaker 3: I feel great about how good this starting staff is

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Speaker 3: and the piggybacking opportunities that can give you length out

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Speaker 3: of the bullpen. I really like that a lot. And

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Speaker 3: Dave's bullpen, trust Tree, how do you feel about I mean,

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Speaker 3: I Alison shaky. Well, he's pushed all the right buttons.

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Speaker 3: He did last year when this bullpen was better, but

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Speaker 3: still we were wondering, what, you know, some of the

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Speaker 3: moves were gonna be. Yeah, it's a little shaky. I

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Speaker 3: guess a lot of it depends too on who makes

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Speaker 3: the roster and how you maneuver those parts. It's all

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Speaker 3: matchup based obviously with the Phillies.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, you gotta assume there's gonna be some some

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Speaker 4: changes for this roster.

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Speaker 5: You're gonna get more pitching back, You're gonna add some lefties. Probable, Definitely.

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Speaker 4: Clayton Kershaw wouldn't be shocked to see Anthony Bonda back

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Speaker 4: in that roster with like we were talking about earlier

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Speaker 4: as well. Also wouldn't be shocked to see, you know,

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Speaker 4: a Casparius go in for a Henriquez or something like that,

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Speaker 4: even though like his.

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Speaker 5: I think his splits were actually reversed this year. I

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Speaker 5: gotta double check on that.

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Speaker 4: But the Dodgers are still in a very good spot

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Speaker 4: in terms of the trust tree. What I like and

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Speaker 4: what I'm kind of going laying my head, you know,

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Speaker 4: to bed at night feeling a little bit more confident

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Speaker 4: about it, is like, hopefully they got the the issues

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Speaker 4: out of the way, hopefully getting Henriquez, you know, getting

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Speaker 4: the jitters out of the way, and in his first

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Speaker 4: time being in a postseason game. Really that mattered in

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Speaker 4: quite some time, because we talked about it last night

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Speaker 4: on my other show. He relieved Clayton Kershaw in that

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Speaker 4: awful start against the Diamondbacks, that nobody wants to remember.

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Speaker 5: Uh kersh got what won out. So I barely count

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Speaker 5: that as.

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Speaker 3: Anything, honestly, like I forgot about it. Probably that.

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Speaker 5: Never happened. But the Dodgers in a very very good spot.

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Speaker 4: And I think, you know, some people will question the

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Speaker 4: idea of Dave pulling the right levers, but she going

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Speaker 4: to she In in that spot, that was the right

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Speaker 4: time to do it. That's the reason he's on this

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Speaker 4: roster is to be a leverage guy. He told us,

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Speaker 4: They've told us he's gonna be a leverage guy going

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Speaker 4: to Vessia. He didn't expect Vessi to not have it,

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Speaker 4: and and Dave didn't expect Edgardo Henrikaz to not know

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Speaker 4: where the baseball was.

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Speaker 5: Uh So that's just kind of where they're at.

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Speaker 4: They still have very very good, very talented players, and

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Speaker 4: hopefully they use that you know, postseason spring training with

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Speaker 4: the Reds to iron out those kinks.

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Speaker 5: That's that's my hope.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean absolutely, I don't know that I could

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Speaker 3: have said it better myself, it's all, you know. I'm glad.

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Speaker 3: I'm glad that we can reset. That's another thing too

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Speaker 3: quickly before we move on to to Lids. I want

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Speaker 3: to talk about them because they're a new partner here

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Speaker 3: for us and I'm psych to have them on board.

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Speaker 3: But that's another thing too. I love about not having

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Speaker 3: that third game is you get another full day off.

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Speaker 3: You can completely reset. I know the team we were

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Speaker 3: gonna have Kiky Hernandez or at least I asked Key

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Speaker 3: Gay to come on the show today, but they're flying

701
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:44,360
Speaker 3: right now. They're flying to Philly right now, So you

702
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Speaker 3: get that extra opportunity to reset, to give guys a

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Speaker 3: blow to, you know, kind of lay it out the

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Speaker 3: way that you want it to be in terms of

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Speaker 3: your staff. So that's that's another benefit too of not

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Speaker 3: having to go to three games, you know, like everybody

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Speaker 3: else and the league is going to have to do.

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Speaker 3: By the way, I don't know if you guys noticed

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Speaker 3: my sick lid literally Liz is a new partner for

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Speaker 3: us here on Dodgers Territory and on they network.

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Speaker 5: What I got something about that hold on? I want

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Speaker 5: people to see this, who.

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Speaker 3: Look at you?

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Speaker 5: Is that? So I know I got one on the

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Speaker 5: way that looks that's a that's a sharp hat.

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Speaker 3: Just stick a look at this. So this is my

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Speaker 3: this is my nod to obviously Yama Moto for shoving

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Speaker 3: and Sisaki for shoving. Okay, so it was like the

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Speaker 3: the Yama to Sasaki thing. Obviously it's the Japanese hat, guys,

720
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Speaker 3: at case you're wondering, and the United States hat obviously

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Speaker 3: such a massive japan influence on the Los Angeles Dodgers

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Speaker 3: with Shoheo Tani obviy but obviously Yoshiobu Yamamoto and obviously

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Speaker 3: Rokie Sasaki are three of our our arms from the

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Speaker 3: wonderful country of Japan. And obviously I just I love

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Speaker 3: this And by the way, you guys can now get

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Speaker 3: it too, because lydds is a part of our show.

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Speaker 3: And you can get twenty percent off by texting two

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Speaker 3: nine zero one seven. It's right there, text territory obviously

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Speaker 3: for Foul territory, Dodgers territory, all of the territories. Text

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Speaker 3: territory to two nine zero one seven you get twenty

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Speaker 3: percent off your next purchase of any headware or apparel

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Speaker 3: at any US Lids store. There are some exclusions, but

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Speaker 3: I love it because first of all, I just think

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Speaker 3: this hat is sick, and it's such a global game,

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Speaker 3: and it's like a. It's a beautiful, beautiful spot.

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Speaker 4: So representing the Dodgers, you know greatly, with Otani, with Roki,

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Speaker 4: with of course Yamamoto, who shoved last night. Lyd's always

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Speaker 4: to go to spot for all things MLB hats, Jersey's apparel.

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Speaker 4: It could also be your go to spot for tops

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Speaker 4: trading cards guys, including Bowman Chrome, which is now available.

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Speaker 5: Bowman Chrome is.

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Speaker 4: The chase for the hottest prospects first card, including autographed cards.

743
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Speaker 4: There's a unique inserts latest crop including young rising stars.

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Speaker 4: So if you guys have been collecting stuff for years,

745
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:06,520
Speaker 4: obviously I collect a lot of random things.

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Speaker 5: Cards aren't my bag, but if cards are your bag.

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Speaker 2: Hey, that's the thing.

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Speaker 3: If you've been doing it for a long time or

749
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Speaker 3: you're just getting started, like, that's the place, right, I mean,

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Speaker 3: I know some people have been doing it forever and

751
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Speaker 3: some people are just kind of getting into the game,

752
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Speaker 3: and Liz is the place to do it. So we're

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Speaker 3: happy that you guys are here, and thank you, Liz.

754
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Speaker 3: We appreciate it very much.

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Speaker 5: What do you say we talk about a doggo? Let's

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Speaker 5: do it all right?

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Speaker 3: All right, guys, this is Lulu Bean. She is a

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Speaker 3: shepherd and we believe border Collie mix. The DNA kid

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Speaker 3: has been ordered, she has been swabbed, it has been

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Speaker 3: sent to the lab. Now we are just waiting for

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Speaker 3: the results. But this sweet pup was going to be

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Speaker 3: put down just because she had a cold. Yes, you

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Speaker 3: heard that right. They were going to kill her because

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Speaker 3: she had a cold. So she is now on medication

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Speaker 3: for an upper respiratory infection that is healing nicely. She's

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Speaker 3: feeling much better. When she is completely healed, we will

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Speaker 3: get her to a spa so she can be groomed

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Speaker 3: and have a bath, and then we're going to make

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Speaker 3: sure she's healthy enough to get spayed. So we're looking

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Speaker 3: for donations right now. She's not quite ready to be adopted.

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Speaker 3: She wants to heal and we want to make sure

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Speaker 3: she's spade and she's you know, all of the things.

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Speaker 3: So please if you can a buck helps, a dollar, two,

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Speaker 3: a million dollars show Hey, if you want to have decoy,

775
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:27,520
Speaker 3: donate a billion dollars to Guidry's Guardian Foundation, that would

776
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Speaker 3: be great. Guidry's Guardian dot org is the place to

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Speaker 3: do it. We appreciate it very much. All right, I

778
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 3: know you've been hell busy because you directed foul Arts

779
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 3: or a fair territory. Today you're doing this show. Of course,

780
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:40,760
Speaker 3: you did everything last night with Scott, but you also

781
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:44,239
Speaker 3: have all Dodgers with Clint Pisias. When is that next?

782
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 3: And what are you guys talking about?

783
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:48,399
Speaker 5: No rest for the wicked or something, or more so

784
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:50,840
Speaker 5: for the weary, because your boy is definitely drained. I

785
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Speaker 5: did get my coffee going in my lovely, lovely worded coach.

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Speaker 3: Oh peez.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, we'll be live tonight either eight thirty or nine. Myself,

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Speaker 4: Jeff Snyder, Kevin Skinner also doing more series preview, Things

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00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 4: to like, things to not like against the Phillies. This

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00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,560
Speaker 4: is the matchup, well, this was the matchup we wanted

791
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Speaker 4: because that means the Dodgers are advancing in the postseason.

792
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 4: You gotta be still a little frightened at the Phillies.

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00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 4: Very very good, very very good ball club. And we've

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00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:22,719
Speaker 4: talked a lot about that, and you know, hopefully we

795
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Speaker 4: have a two game advantage before this team comes back home,

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00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 4: before we do sign off. There's something I wanted to

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Speaker 4: bring up since it is an off day, since we

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Speaker 4: don't got to worry about baseball, like other idiots have

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Speaker 4: to worry about baseball today with three game threes going

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Speaker 4: on for people on the Twitter verse, twitter sphere or whatever.

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Speaker 5: Back in my day, it was called back in my day.

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Speaker 3: I know, I get it, you're almost forty year old.

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Speaker 3: But it's called X now. That's what the kids are calling.

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00:37:51,120 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 5: It way back when. Back in my day we called

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Speaker 5: it Twitter.

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Speaker 4: And there's this thing that's been going on, I think

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Speaker 4: since twenty nineteen. It's called this is bracket season. For

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Speaker 4: folk in the know. McKenna here, McKenna Martin. She is

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Speaker 4: a Dodger fan, rabid Dodgers fan, and every year since

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Speaker 4: I believe twenty nineteen, she has been doing this thing.

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Speaker 4: It's oh, it's eighth apparently I learned how to read

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Speaker 4: hashtag words. Is a thing called the Hottest Dodger Bracket.

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Speaker 4: And for people, let me put this up, people who

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Speaker 4: love brackets. This is for you. People who love hot dudes.

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Speaker 4: This is for you. If you think the Dodgers are hot,

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Speaker 4: I don't know, that's your own prerogative there. The important

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00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 4: thing is there is a raffle and donation component to

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Speaker 4: this as well. You could just fill it out and

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Speaker 4: have fun and raise awareness but October is Domestic Violence

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Speaker 4: Awareness a month. As you see on the screen, this

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Speaker 4: is in partnership with Peace over Violence.

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Speaker 3: Which is awesome. That's a big initiative. Actually, this is huge.

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Speaker 4: And what's phenomenal about this, and about Dodgers fans in particular,

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Speaker 4: is that this year they set a it was a

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Speaker 4: seven thousand dollars col the seven thousand dollars goal, they're

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Speaker 4: already at sixty two hundred dollars donated from Dodgers fans,

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Speaker 4: one hundred and forty donors. I've chipped into that, but

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Speaker 4: that would bring the total to over forty thousand dollars

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Speaker 4: raised for Piece over Violence over the years, which is

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Speaker 4: just insane. It's wonderful to see how great this Dodgers

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Speaker 4: community is coming together on something important, which is of

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00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:24,720
Speaker 4: course the Dodgers being hot and all that kind of stuff,

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Speaker 4: but more so Peace over Violence. It started back when

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Speaker 4: we don't need to talk about Julio Urias, but apparently

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Speaker 4: I need to talk about Julio Urias a number of

836
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Speaker 4: years ago, back when he had his first suspension. But anyways,

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Speaker 4: and then the Bower thing and all that. But the

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Speaker 4: important thing is you guys can support it. I'll have

839
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Speaker 4: the links in the description, or you can go to

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Speaker 4: what is it linktree dot com slash McKenna martin nineteen.

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Speaker 4: I will have all that in the description, and beyond that,

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Speaker 4: I'll be posting my bracket because I have time. I'll

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00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 4: be posting my official bracket. It might get an upset,

844
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Speaker 4: but I will be posting it on my Twitter today.

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Speaker 3: So you're gonna choose the hottest Dodgers all the way

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Speaker 3: to the finish line.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean I'm I'm the guy. I'm obviously

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Speaker 4: the guy. I'm the most qualified to be doing this.

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Speaker 3: I can see science, I see. Yeah, yeah, you have

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Speaker 3: put the resume of choosing which guys are hot over

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Speaker 3: to the next guy. I too will choose, and my

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Speaker 3: hottest guy is the one that comes through with runners

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Speaker 3: in scoring position the most. That's my hottest Dodger.

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Speaker 5: Okay, well be happy, well done.

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Speaker 3: So that's if you want to be on my list.

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00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 3: That's that's the guy. By the way, I will do

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Speaker 3: what I did last year. I will donate five hundred

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Speaker 3: dollars to their cause. There you have it.

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Speaker 5: What a guy, What a guy. You are.

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Speaker 4: Appreciate you, Rizzy, you are the best, the final thing. Uh,

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Speaker 4: and I guess if you guys donate, please let us

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Speaker 4: know somehow. We'll try to find a I'll try to

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Speaker 4: find a way to send people something.

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Speaker 5: I don't know. I don't even know if I can

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Speaker 5: do that, but I will.

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Speaker 4: Let's talk one more bit of Dodgers, one more bit

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Speaker 4: of NLDS before we signed off. It's a longer show,

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Speaker 4: but we're not going to be here for post game Saturday.

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Speaker 4: I won't be here, by the way. I'm going on

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Speaker 4: quick vacation, which should guarantee a game and win because

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00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 4: they always win when I can't. So I ask Ruben

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Speaker 4: tomorrow the Dodgers, Sorry, the Phillies lose. If the Dodgers win.

873
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:08,840
Speaker 5: If.

874
00:41:10,360 --> 00:41:14,600
Speaker 3: The Dodgers win, if their starting staff can go deep

875
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:16,960
Speaker 3: into the game, all I'm asking for is six. If

876
00:41:16,960 --> 00:41:19,399
Speaker 3: we can line up seven, eight and nine, I feel good.

877
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 3: I need show Hay, I think show hey can. He's

878
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 3: going to be efficient, He's going to give you six,

879
00:41:26,239 --> 00:41:28,759
Speaker 3: He's not going to give up an earned run, and

880
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:31,640
Speaker 3: the bullpen's going to figure it out. The Dodgers win

881
00:41:31,960 --> 00:41:35,359
Speaker 3: if we can set up our bullpen just the seventh, eighth,

882
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:38,319
Speaker 3: and ninth. And let me tell you something else. The

883
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:41,479
Speaker 3: Dodgers also win, and I mean this sincerely. Game one

884
00:41:41,719 --> 00:41:45,360
Speaker 3: is massive. Yeah, whoever wins Game one has I know

885
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 3: statistically they do, but I'm just saying for a mental

886
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:51,840
Speaker 3: approach and like a psyche approach, Game one is massive,

887
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 3: absolutely winning Game one.

888
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 5: You know, I liked Rubin's thought process as well.

889
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 4: Just you know, take care of the important guys, you know,

890
00:41:59,040 --> 00:42:02,239
Speaker 4: the MV three and you might win being show Hey,

891
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 4: Mookie and and Freddy, there's more guys. I wanted to

892
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:07,839
Speaker 4: do this the final thing will do just highlighting these

893
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:10,280
Speaker 4: guys in this series. Mookie bets six for nine, three doubles,

894
00:42:10,280 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 4: three RBI, Tascar Hernandez four for ten, two Homer six

895
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:16,360
Speaker 4: RB I Key k Hernandez four for eight in the series,

896
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:17,240
Speaker 4: three runs scored.

897
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 5: And how about some special shout outs to my boy,

898
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:25,200
Speaker 5: little little Ben Rovett with three hits, two runs scored

899
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:31,800
Speaker 5: before and importantly two sacrifice bunts. Let's hear it first, listen.

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00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 4: I love good bunt stuff and Ben Rovett has been phenomena.

901
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:38,320
Speaker 3: I cannot lie.

902
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 4: Micky Row, Mickey Roe stepping in where maybe Tommy Edmund can't,

903
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:45,120
Speaker 4: and three dropping in three hits and five at bats

904
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 4: two runs.

905
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:46,200
Speaker 2: Uh.

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00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 4: The Dodgers are very good baseball team, guys. This is

907
00:42:48,760 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 4: gonna be a fun series. Treat it as a fun series.

908
00:42:52,960 --> 00:42:55,719
Speaker 3: Are way better than the Phillies. Starting pitchers. Dodgers are

909
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:58,840
Speaker 3: gonna be fine. If the Dodgers starters can go relatively

910
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:00,400
Speaker 3: deep in the game. This team is going to be

911
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 3: fine because I'm not worried about the Dodgers offense at all.

912
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:04,840
Speaker 3: So there. Yeah, all right, you guys. I don't know

913
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:06,920
Speaker 3: yet what's happening on Saturday when you to speak to

914
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:11,919
Speaker 3: the boss and find out what's happening. So we'll see

915
00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:13,840
Speaker 3: you Saturday or we'll see you Monday. I don't know

916
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 3: what we're doing yet, but go Dodgers. Thanks for being here, guys.

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Speaker 5: Bye.