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Speaker 1: Roger Stadium last night, down by two in the bottom

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Speaker 1: Shohei Otani on deck, I like our chances.

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Speaker 2: Smoke the third Machado steps on.

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Speaker 1: The bag, they go all the way around.

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Speaker 2: The turn a triple play in the game.

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Speaker 1: Impossible, incredible, and it's down to two in the National

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Speaker 1: League West. In five seconds, the game is over. The

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Speaker 1: Padres clinched the playoffs and gain a game on us

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Speaker 1: in the standards.

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Speaker 2: Never seen a triple before, ye never seen one before.

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Speaker 1: I never seen one in the game that liftime. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to Dodger Blue Dream Daily. I'm Richard Parks II. It's

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Speaker 1: September twenty fifth, twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 2: The Dodgers are in.

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Speaker 1: First place, but the Padres are gaining on us, and

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Speaker 1: after last night's devastating loss to our rivals from the South,

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Speaker 1: our lead over them in the division has shrunk to

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Speaker 1: just two games. We've got two more games left to

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Speaker 1: play against them in this series, and just five total

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Speaker 1: games left in the season. It's that moment when things

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Speaker 1: really speed up. Today on the show, we're going to

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Speaker 1: briefly recap last night's game, and then we're going to

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Speaker 1: zoom out to go through the beats in a story

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Speaker 1: that some believe is trumped up about the rivalry between

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Speaker 1: the two teams who are now duking it out for

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Speaker 1: the top spot in the NL West with just days

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Speaker 1: left to play. We're going to look back at a

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Speaker 1: few events that paint a picture of how our little

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Speaker 1: siblings to the south feel about the boys in Blue

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Speaker 1: and give you a taste of how we feel about

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Speaker 1: them from a standpoint of journalistic non bias, of course,

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Speaker 1: but with some spicy quotes from my friend chef wes Ovula,

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Speaker 1: they're trash. Uh oh, chef bringing the heat. That's what's

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Speaker 1: in okay about last night. Overall, our pitching is our

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Speaker 1: main concern. But last night the pitching wasn't really the problem.

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Speaker 1: Landon Nack wasn't excellent. Padre starter Michael King pitched a

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Speaker 1: much better game, But more concerning than that, the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: stranded seven runners. We were only two for ten with

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Speaker 1: combined oh for eight, a troubling reminder of last year's

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Speaker 1: disappointing performance for these two in the playoffs and in general.

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Speaker 1: We just didn't play a very good baseball game. Mookie

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Speaker 1: got picked off at third base and Tao made a

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Speaker 1: when Landon Knack thought that Freddy was holding a runner

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Speaker 1: on it. The Padres, on the other hand, had an

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Speaker 1: and better hitting, and they just looked like they wanted

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Speaker 1: it more. They played with fire, we played flat, And

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Speaker 1: why does it sting particularly bad when it's the Padres.

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Speaker 3: That's what.

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Speaker 1: I was talking to my friend Wes Avula about this recently.

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Speaker 1: The way I used to feel when we played the Giants,

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Speaker 1: Like when we were kids, I hated the Giants and

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Speaker 1: I was always very excited when we played the Giants.

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Speaker 1: It actually felt like the teams had a rivalry. I

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Speaker 1: don't feel that with the Giants anymore. No, they do

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Speaker 3: They've become. You see the energy in a Giants game

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Speaker 1: It's like not our rivalry with the San Francisco Giants

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Speaker 1: to when those teams were still in New York. It's

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Speaker 1: so Cow versus nor Cal. It's binary. It's long standing,

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Speaker 1: it's tradition. But recently the Padres have supplied to the

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Speaker 1: Giants as our main rivals. Some might argue that this

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Speaker 1: We always get heated when we're talking about the Padres.

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Speaker 3: They're trash. They're a trash organization. They really are.

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Speaker 1: And why is that. Let's sum it up with three

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Speaker 1: examples from the last three seasons. In twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers won one hundred and eleven games. The Padres

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Speaker 2: Really going down to yellow and brown. That's what's in.

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Speaker 1: And after they did, they became famous in the baseball

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Speaker 2: They did not, by the way, that's.

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Speaker 3: What what about the Padres putting the Clayton Kershaw mem

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Speaker 1: The following year and twenty twenty three, during a game

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Speaker 1: at Petco Park in San Diego, the Padres knocked out

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Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw in the fifth inning, and on the jumbo

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Speaker 1: tron they displayed an image of Kershaw with animated tears

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Speaker 1: coming out of his eyes, a mem that took the

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Speaker 1: rivalry to new levels. Stay classy, San Diego, and.

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Speaker 2: The baseball season is rolling and we had some thief

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Speaker 2: in Los Angeles in there Carezo.

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Speaker 1: Earlier this season, will Smith, our catcher, got into a

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Speaker 2: Profer got top Jump to.

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Speaker 1: After a misunderstanding where Profar thought he was getting thrown

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Speaker 1: at and Smitty was like, I don't know why he

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Speaker 2: And then he basically gets the game winning hit.

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Speaker 1: Especially after Profar came through with a big hit in

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Speaker 2: So don't ever call him irrelevant.

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Speaker 1: And as to how much of this is real hard

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Speaker 1: and they seem to really really want to win, because

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Speaker 1: historically they have not as much as the Dodgers. We've

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Speaker 1: Wes appears in.

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Speaker 3: Dodgers are not scrappy at all. Let me come on,

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Speaker 3: let's be real like they're not.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, what's missing is just a little bit more attitude.

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Speaker 1: In the play, they're too.

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Speaker 3: Nice, like Freddie's the mayor of first base. Mookie smiles

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Speaker 3: and all the guys are just happy. I mean, we're

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Speaker 3: But shouldn't be smiling that much.

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Speaker 1: During the game last night, when Mooki made it to

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Speaker 1: between pitches. You could tell they were talking about each

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Speaker 1: other's shoes. And then during an awkward play in which

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Speaker 1: Taskar Hernandez attempted to steal second Muki got picked off

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Speaker 1: of third base. That was in the first inning, and

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Speaker 1: Muki didn't make it as far as third base. Again,

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Speaker 1: whether or not this rivalry is real, whether the Kershaw

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Speaker 1: mem truly cut through or just rolled off his back

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Speaker 1: like an irrelevant elephant. Either way, the best thing that Dodgers'

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Speaker 1: players could do at this point in the season is

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Speaker 1: act as if this rivalry is real. Play with that fire.

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Speaker 1: No more sneaker talk, Not tonight. We need to win

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Speaker 1: Game two of this series because that is what's in.

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Speaker 1: I'm Richard Parks the third. Thank you for listening.

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Speaker 2: That's what