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Speaker 1: Welcome to the fair territory, everybody. I live from my

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Speaker 1: But I want to start today by talking about the

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Speaker 1: entire postseason. Five thoughts I have on the postseason. I'm

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Speaker 1: First thought, we go back to Monday night in one

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Speaker 1: of the better postseason games we have seen, one of

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Speaker 1: the ones that we'll remember. I'm talking, of course about

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Speaker 1: Braves five Phillies four. What amazing performances we saw in

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Speaker 1: Remember the Braves were down won nothing in this series.

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Speaker 1: They were no hit for the first five and two

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Speaker 1: They won it on a two run go ahead homer

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Speaker 1: If the game had ended right there, it's not gonna

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Speaker 1: But it got even better. It got even better because

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Speaker 1: second one of the great center fielders in our game today,

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Speaker 1: Ozzie Alby's the cutoff man, but it just so happens.

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Speaker 1: Austin Riley, there's that guy again, is in the right

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Speaker 1: amazing game. I encourage you to read Jason Stark in

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Speaker 1: The Athletic Today for all the details and all the

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Speaker 1: craziness just recapped by him as only he can. All right,

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Speaker 1: that's thought number one. Thought number two stay in the

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Speaker 1: National League. The Dodgers. What I'm thinking here is that

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Speaker 1: they're starting pitching situation. Let's call it has finally caught

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Speaker 1: way to put it. Now. I'm not going to make

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Speaker 1: They are without Julio Urias, who is under investigation by

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Speaker 1: the league for domestic violence. This would be a second

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Speaker 1: offense by him, and effectively there without Clayton Kershaw, the

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Speaker 1: old Clayton Kersh. Don't tell me about October Kershaw. I'm

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Speaker 1: That's why he's pitching the way he's pitching. So when

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Speaker 1: only reason the Dodgers are down to nothing. To the Diamondbacks,

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Speaker 1: And all the credit to the Diamondbacks, We'll talk about

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Speaker 1: All right, thought number three, This one's not going to

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Speaker 1: be popular, but I'm thinking that Carlos Korey is re

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Speaker 1: this postseason so far. Game one of the Wildcard Series

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Speaker 1: And that decision probably was the reflection of collaboration, because

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Speaker 1: I've called them paper tigers in print. They are paper

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Speaker 1: So long story short, I don't see this as any

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Speaker 1: What do you have with you in the camerawell doing

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Speaker 1: so it depends on the camera. Well, some are better

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Speaker 1: we're gonna call it these days, kind of keep track

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Speaker 1: and I do when I'm in a situation where there's

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Speaker 1: that's the other thing. So that's how I get through it.

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