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Speaker 2: What up, everybody, and welcome to the Monday episode of

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Speaker 2: Dodgers Territory.

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Speaker 3: I am Alana Rizzo. That is Clint Pacius.

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Speaker 2: Katie Wu will be joining us momentarily as we are

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Speaker 2: finally in the.

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Speaker 3: First week of the regular season. It begins this week.

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Speaker 2: We will no longer Clint have a weekend without baseball

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Speaker 2: until November.

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Speaker 3: What say you?

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Speaker 1: I am very excited. It's crazy. I want to watch

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Speaker 1: real baseball, meaningful baseball. You kind of got a little

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Speaker 1: last night. Dodgers playing in a big league stadium. If

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Speaker 1: that's still what we want to call Angel Stadium. It's fun.

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Speaker 1: And if they can do more of the damage they

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Speaker 3: I agree.

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Speaker 2: We are happy that you guys are here. Please stick

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Speaker 2: with us all season long. We are entering our third

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Speaker 2: big ticket. Wow, I didn't see this coming, to be

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Speaker 1: Clint, Yeah, that's the big thing, And I think that's

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Speaker 1: nine things we're watching, I do want to address the

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Speaker 1: I guess we'll call it Andy McCullough sized elephant in

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Speaker 5: So I put together my list, and I want you

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Speaker 5: a NO. Because I'm black and white. He's a NO.

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Speaker 5: I love your applicants. I love that, I love that

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Speaker 5: he can note. How is he no Dodgers Rogers?

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Speaker 4: It has nothing to do.

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Speaker 6: With Dodgers, It has nothing to do with Dodgers. He

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Speaker 6: he's the only starter for the Dodgers that that pitched

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Speaker 2: How is he not an ace? If Showey wasn't on

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Speaker 7: Well, so it's not love him, it's not Alana, it's

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Speaker 7: not a talent issue. And again he's applying like he's

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Speaker 7: but he simply did not. And again, Yamamoto is like

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Speaker 7: the greatest pitcher probably in Japanese history. He won the

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Speaker 7: Solomara three times. You know, like he's shown what he's

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Speaker 7: capable of these past couple of seasons. He's also like

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Speaker 7: never thrown one hundred and eighty innings in a big

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Speaker 3: Of that, like, isn't it somebody that just dominates? Like

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Speaker 3: what it tell me? Again, the criteria make sure.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's uh kind of like the Supreme Court definition

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Speaker 7: of pornography. I guess, like you know, when you see it,

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Speaker 7: I just think no, Like I think I think that

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Speaker 7: it'd be really weird to see him pitch on Games

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Speaker 7: But like, if he puts it together another season, yeah,

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Speaker 2: All right, let's be clear, Yamamoto did make exactly thirty

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Speaker 3: Did he have one hundred and eighty innings?

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Speaker 8: No?

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Speaker 2: But I mean, I will say this though, about Andy

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Speaker 2: much more to this than just that little snippet. So

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Speaker 2: I want to be fair. I don't want to throw

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Speaker 2: these guys under the bus. But there were so many

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Speaker 2: different categories. There were only two unanimous aces in terms

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Speaker 3: Only two, okay.

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Speaker 2: And then there were different tiers of guys and there

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Speaker 3: Like, so upset about the whole thing.

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Speaker 2: It came out, it came out wrong, and I was like,

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Speaker 3: But to me, he is a bona fide ace. Now again, they.

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Speaker 3: But he's an ace, man, He's an ace. Like what

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Speaker 2: So I encourage you to listen to the entire interview

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Speaker 2: what these guys were talking about, because just that snippet

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Speaker 2: alone is not fair. But the Internet blew up because

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Speaker 2: of that little that little.

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Speaker 1: Piece rightfully, so either way, at the end of the

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Speaker 1: one of the criteria he mentioned was, like you said,

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Speaker 1: He missed one hundred and eighty innings by six and

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Speaker 1: forty innings in the postseason. He also put the goddamn

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Speaker 1: this is where you know, I have a lot of

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Speaker 1: about somebody like Tyler klaus Now and is he an ace?

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Speaker 1: Do you to find him as an A? So on

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Speaker 1: and so forth. He took a number of steps forward

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Speaker 1: both starting and in relieving. This is where you look at.

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Speaker 1: I had the argument last night Madison Bumgarner good regular

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Speaker 1: There are there are a bunch of gray lines, but.

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Speaker 2: I think it I think it also depends on what

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Speaker 2: is an ACE on any of the thirty, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: But if you're if you're also on a team, you know,

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Speaker 2: let's say you are Tyler Glasnow and you're on a

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Speaker 2: Tyler Glasnow is not an ACE. But if Tyler Glasnow

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Speaker 3: Tyler Glass now is their ace. He's the best, But

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Speaker 3: to me, it's the best pitcher on your staff.

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Speaker 1: Mm hm anyway, period, Well wait, we got Katie here.

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Speaker 1: I'd asked on the side, Katie, do you have any

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Speaker 1: and blue and get to our nine things?

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Speaker 4: Well, you know what, you guys had it covered.

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Speaker 8: I was listen behind the scenes and snaps and points

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Speaker 8: for both of you.

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Speaker 4: I love the aces project that the athletic does.

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Speaker 8: I can see both sides of the argument, though I

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Speaker 8: am with you, Clint, what you do in the postseason

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Speaker 8: will determine if you're an ACE or not. Yamamoto's coming

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Speaker 8: in obviously, all right.

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Speaker 2: All right, let me ask you this then, if what

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Speaker 2: postseason determines if you're an ACE. Some would argue that

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Speaker 2: Clayton Kershaw then is not an ACE because he didn't

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Speaker 2: have the greatest postseason record over the course of what

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Speaker 2: is a first ballot Hall of Fame, you know, career.

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Speaker 2: So is Clayton Kershaw not right now? Not to date,

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Speaker 2: but is Clayton Kershaw and ACE.

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Speaker 8: And that's what makes us exercise so fun or nuanced

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Speaker 8: or annoying, depending on because everyone you think about Clayton Kershaw,

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Speaker 4: Nobody was touching him in the National League.

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Speaker 8: So to say that he isn't an ACE because he

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Speaker 8: me out on that.

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Speaker 4: To say Yamamoto isn't.

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Speaker 8: An ACE because you know, we're only taking into consideration

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Speaker 8: I think that I think the ACES project got it

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Speaker 8: right for right now. The two undisputed aces in Major

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Speaker 8: League Baseball are pall schemes in tech Schoogle, but.

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Speaker 4: Yamamoto is going to be in that here.

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Speaker 8: I think when we do this next year, like definitively

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Speaker 8: no arguments, we're not even talking about it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what Andy was saying. He's applying, he's an

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Speaker 1: And it's important. And that's where Alana you said, you

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Speaker 1: need the full context, and that's where we you know,

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Speaker 1: let's tell everybody go watch that episode of Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: that happened. I think it was Friday, maybe Thursday last week?

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Speaker 1: Good Friday? Yeah, yeah, good stuff. There, We do have more.

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Speaker 1: We got to get to the list. I keep burying

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Speaker 2: All right, guys, we welcome you into Bleeding Blue. Elana Rizzo,

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Speaker 2: Katie Wu Clympasias. These are nine things that we want

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Speaker 2: to watch for over the first month and change of

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Speaker 2: the season. Katie, I'll give you honors. What are your

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Speaker 2: first three?

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Speaker 8: I'll start with Tyler Glass now his final tune up

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Speaker 8: at Angel Stadium last night. I actually made my return

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Speaker 8: to Dodger Stadium, back to my real job, or to

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Speaker 8: the Dodgers team, and he was fantastic. Dave Roberts said

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Speaker 8: before the start of that game that this was the

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Speaker 8: best that we've ever seen Tyler Glass now, and he

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Speaker 8: followed it up with eleven strikeouts, all on the curve ball.

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Speaker 8: That thing was nasty, just simply dominated that Angel's lineup.

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Speaker 8: And when we talk about this rotation, there's a lot

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Speaker 8: of concern over Roki Sasaki. The Dodgers need some length

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Speaker 8: and Tyler Glass now they're going to need him in

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Speaker 8: April to be that length. And he has just looked

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Speaker 8: so mechanically sound. The sequencing has looked really good. The

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Speaker 8: whole arsenal's working really excited to see what Tyler Glass

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Speaker 8: now can do. Are we going straight into the next

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Speaker 8: two things? Yep, yep, go for it number two. I'm

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Speaker 8: big on ti Oscar Hernandez bounce back ear. He heard

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Speaker 8: the noise. He heard the noise. You know, the Dodgers

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Speaker 8: could have wanted to trade him. He came in, trimmed down,

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Speaker 8: new position, moves to left field, and he had a

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Speaker 8: baller spring. He looks really good, really confident. Four homers,

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Speaker 8: and I think up to eight extra base hits. I

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Speaker 8: think with ti Oscar being in the kind of the seventh, sixth,

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Speaker 8: seventh area of that I didn't mean to do that.

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Speaker 8: Of the starting lineup, he brings a different kind of

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Speaker 8: power to what the Dodgers can. I mean, you don't

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Speaker 8: need a lot of power right when you're the Dodgers

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Speaker 8: and you have the first five in that lineup. But

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Speaker 8: if Oscar Harnanda's is sitting seventh for you, and he's

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Speaker 8: a motivated ti Oscar Hernandez, he wasn't oblivious to the noise.

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Speaker 4: I'm all in. So those are two positives. My last one.

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Speaker 4: I don't want to say it's.

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Speaker 8: A negative, and I honestly don't even think I'm that concerned.

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Speaker 4: It's just worth one monitoring.

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Speaker 8: Emmett Shean's vlow a little down in spring, but spring

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Speaker 8: numbers are exactly that we know. I don't pay a

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Speaker 8: lot of stock into those, but when you look at this,

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Speaker 8: this is a really helpful graphic. Actually, that wall right

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Speaker 8: there in the fifth where the bilo starts to drop

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Speaker 8: is going to be worth monitoring over his first at

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Speaker 8: least two starts in a regular season, because spring training

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Speaker 8: the only thing you want to do is get your

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Speaker 8: arsenal in and make sure you leave healthy. So I'm

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Speaker 8: not too concerned over the below in spring. But if

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Speaker 8: that trend continues into the regular season, then I think

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Speaker 8: we're having a different conversation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's worth noting. Again, he's somebody who started a

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Speaker 1: little behind the eight ball. He was dealing with an

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Speaker 1: illness and all that. But you know, Katie, we talked

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Speaker 1: before about Robleski. He's somebody who could pick you back

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Speaker 1: off of she end and maybe just get him through

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Speaker 1: four innings or whatever, as long as he has a

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Speaker 1: long I guess you know, it has enough time to

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Speaker 1: build up. Hopefully this doesn't mean anything, but I love

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Speaker 1: that fully agree. So something we need to be watching

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Speaker 1: over the first month and change of this season ALTA.

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Speaker 1: You want me to go next? I do, all right,

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Speaker 1: this is what I got. I'm cheating to start us

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Speaker 1: out here. I'm going with a two fer and it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be Blake Trying and Tanner Scott Tanner Scott. We

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Speaker 1: got the full Tanner Scott experience in Anaheim last night.

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Speaker 1: Did for the most part, have a very good, very

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Speaker 1: consistent spring training, but then you know gets tagged for

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Speaker 1: four runs, three run Homer two Jorge Solaire and hopefully

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Speaker 1: at something where he is in the season of putting

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Speaker 1: things behind him. He needs to put that behind him

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Speaker 1: and be ready for opening Day. Get it out of

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Speaker 1: the way, get all the bad stuff out of your

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Speaker 1: system now. In the same token, we saw a lot

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Speaker 1: of inconsistency from Blake Trnon last year. We know how

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Speaker 1: important these guys are going to be on the trust tree,

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Speaker 1: So who are these guys gonna be in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 1: I think we're gonna learn a lot in the first month.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm watching because the Dodgers are not three

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Speaker 1: peting without at least one of those guys being somebody

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Speaker 1: that Dave Roberts can trust in October. It's just the

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Speaker 1: way it needs to go moving on. So there's my

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Speaker 1: one and my two will make the third one simple.

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Speaker 1: Something we've talked already a whole bunch about. I almost

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Speaker 1: wanted to make this list Sands Roki Sasaki, but we

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Speaker 1: got to talk about Roki Sasaki is something you're watching

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Speaker 1: because there's been so much cyber ink spilled about him,

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Speaker 1: and I am watching that thing I keep talking about

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Speaker 1: with the armslot, with the delivery and that pro nation.

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Speaker 1: Will they scrap the two seamer. That's going to be

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Speaker 1: the biggest thing I'm watching because it's affecting his fastball

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Speaker 1: and his fork ball splitter. That's those are the three

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Speaker 1: biggest things I'm watching, along with Tayoskar kicking some mass.

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Speaker 2: I would love to see Taoskar kicking some left field ass,

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Speaker 2: all right.

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Speaker 3: For me, it's Mooky Betts.

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Speaker 2: The health, the strength that his body is going to

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Speaker 2: have again because he is healthy, because he's not worried

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Speaker 2: about gaining that weight back, he's not sick, and also

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Speaker 2: he has a whole year of being a shortstop under

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Speaker 2: his belt. So that is something I'm really looking forward to.

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Speaker 2: Could this guy be the best number three hitter in

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Speaker 2: all of baseball? If you go by the way that

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Speaker 2: Muki Bets handles everything, why not everything he does it's

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Speaker 2: like midus, it turns to gold because he has the

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Speaker 2: work ethic, the competitive spirit. I love that about him.

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Speaker 2: And now he's adding in that new training. He's taking

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Speaker 2: a page out of Yoshinobu Yamamoto's book the javelin throwing,

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Speaker 2: the shot put throwing. Now he's holding, you know, people

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Speaker 2: on his shoulders trying to do that as well, kind

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Speaker 2: of centering himself, the balance all of the thing.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: Yata sense, Yoshinobu's trainer, is starting to become one of

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Speaker 2: Muki's big trainers and like kind of a pillar of

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Speaker 2: mental strength and fortitude as well as the physical side

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Speaker 2: of things that he's continued to work on. So Muki

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Speaker 2: Bets I'm watching after him. I think it's going to

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Speaker 2: be a really good bounce back year from Muki, both

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Speaker 2: mentally and physically for me. Blake Snell, everybody knows that

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Speaker 2: Blake Snell tends to be a second half of the

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Speaker 2: year starting pitcher.

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Speaker 3: We know that to who.

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Speaker 2: Much is given much as he got a massive contract.

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Speaker 2: To me, he was the best free agent starter coming

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Speaker 2: off of the books last season. Obviously, he was down

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Speaker 2: the first few months of the season. He's down now

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Speaker 2: at least for opening Day and a few weeks after that.

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Speaker 2: So will he be ready to go by the end

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Speaker 2: of April? And how does the rest of the rotation

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Speaker 2: shift around his progress, his health, his availability. So I'm

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Speaker 2: keeping an eye out on two times syng Award winner,

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Speaker 2: one in each.

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Speaker 3: League, Blake Snell.

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Speaker 2: Finally, this is a guy, guys that we or me

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Speaker 2: or some of us want to descend to the moon

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Speaker 2: about fourteen months ago. And Andy pa has and the

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Speaker 2: growth that he has had obviously running routes, defensively handling

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Speaker 2: a pretty big center field at Dodger Stadium where he

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Speaker 2: has you know, eighty one games where he's manning center field.

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Speaker 2: New guy on your right, same guy, but different position. Well,

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Speaker 2: if you look at him, it this way, new guy

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Speaker 2: obviously on your left, the new new guy.

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Speaker 1: I love this.

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Speaker 3: Sure you like that?

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Speaker 2: You know he's also Dave Roberts pick to quick this season, right,

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Speaker 2: I mean he's getting better offensively before our eyes that

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Speaker 2: you know, he's running better routes. Defensively, he's getting better.

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Speaker 2: He turns twenty six this year. Perhaps the age and

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Speaker 2: the maturation, and again having a full season under his

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Speaker 2: belt last year, I think can only pay dividends this season.

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Speaker 2: And again I'm looking forward to that, looking forward to

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Speaker 2: finding about all of these nine things as we make

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Speaker 2: our way into April.

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Speaker 1: Be fun season, and again we are we are thrilled.

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Speaker 1: We're stoke that Katie's going to be along for the ride,

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Speaker 1: getting us a whole bunch of behind the scenes stuff,

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Speaker 1: and you know, further legitimizing the show that we do

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Speaker 1: our best to delegitimize daily. Make sure you get that

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Speaker 1: like button and then describe. That's about it. You guys

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Speaker 1: want to talk about some dogs and then get out

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Speaker 1: of here, always all right, here them some dogs.

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Speaker 2: I wanted to tell you guys that Peyton made it

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Speaker 2: out of her splenectomy surgery really really well.

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Speaker 3: She's doing well. We're just waiting to hear the results.

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Speaker 2: So thank you for everyone that has donated to Peyton's

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Speaker 2: vet bills. We have a couple of pups that really

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Speaker 2: definitely need their Forever Home.

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Speaker 5: This is Chip.

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Speaker 3: He's a two year old mixed breed.

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Speaker 2: Was abandoned near Griffith Observatory, kind of in a Los

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Speaker 2: feeless area. He is a go go boy, great with

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Speaker 2: other dogs, totally healthy, up to date on everything you know. Active,

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Speaker 2: would be a great hiking buddy, walking buddy, running buddy.

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Speaker 3: So please consider Chip for adoption. He's, like I said,

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Speaker 3: he's about two years old.

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Speaker 2: This is Daffodil. She is about ten years old. A

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Speaker 2: small Golden Retriever. She's about forty pounds. Sweet, sweet, sweet

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Speaker 2: little lady. She's very low maintenance, does not need to

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Speaker 2: be hiking, and still has a lot of love to give.

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Speaker 2: So if you're looking for a pup, please consider checking

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Speaker 2: out Gidriy's guardian dot org.

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Speaker 1: Really cool. Help people, I'll help the doggos out. Everybody

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Speaker 1: needs a dogo or something like that. Baseball the Road

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Speaker 1: we always love people love wondering about former Dodgers and

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Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. It's one of the easiest

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Speaker 1: aggregate columns you could write on the Internet. What is

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Speaker 1: this former Dodger doing? We had a couple of friends,

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Speaker 1: uh today and over the weekend. I guess now they're

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Speaker 1: without jobs, Alana. You saw just before we went live,

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Speaker 1: Austin Barnes officially cut did not make the team.

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Speaker 2: I'm a massive fan of Austin Barnes and obviously his

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Speaker 2: wife Nicole and a good family, but Austin is not

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Speaker 2: a member of the Mets. Also CT three, Chris Taylor

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Speaker 2: opted out of his contract with the Angels guys because

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Speaker 2: he was not going to make the opening day roster.

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Speaker 2: He said, nay on TV, I am not going to

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Speaker 2: triple A, so he's out and.

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Speaker 1: A triple A come on, that's true too.

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Speaker 2: Walker Bueler did make the Padres opening day roster, So

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Speaker 2: there you have it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Katie, what about you? What are you looking forward

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Speaker 1: to as you you really sink your teeth into a

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Speaker 1: regular season gig with the Stuff team.

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Speaker 8: Exactly that we have these exhibition games Freeway series tonight

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Speaker 8: and tomorrow. I was at the one at Angel Stadium,

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Speaker 8: but doing the kind of dress rehearsals at Dodger Stadium

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Speaker 8: feels real. I'm nervously mapping out how to avoid traffic

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Speaker 8: like this is my life once, but it was a

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Speaker 8: different kind of atmosphere and maybe I was just really

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Speaker 8: amped because I've been away from the team for a

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Speaker 8: considerable time. When I came to the eighth changel Stadium yesterday,

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Speaker 8: it just felt like we were so close to playing

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Speaker 8: real baseball, and we kind of know what this opening

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Speaker 8: day roster is going to look like.

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Speaker 4: We kind of know what the plan is going to be.

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Speaker 8: Thursday can't come quick enough, Yamamoto, Zach Gallon.

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Speaker 4: I'm ready to just do the job. That's what I'm

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Speaker 4: most excited to do. I'm excited to do the job.

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Speaker 4: Spring was cool.

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Speaker 8: You find your footing, you get to know the players,

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Speaker 8: the organization, but now you get to really do the

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Speaker 8: job as a reporter and analyze these games and these

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Speaker 8: situations in these matchups, and I'm really excited to start

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Speaker 8: doing that again.

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Speaker 1: Hey, well, we'll be here doing the job, Alana, We

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Speaker 1: all three of us should be here on Wednesday, twelve

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Speaker 1: o'clock specific time. I think we're probably due for a

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Speaker 1: prediction show, so that should be in there as well,

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Speaker 1: and then postgame me Alana, Katie has a real job,

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Speaker 1: so Alana and I will be here. We will be

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Speaker 1: here after the game after the Dodgers beat the Diamondbacks

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Speaker 1: on Thursday. Make sure you guys get yourself some swag

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Speaker 1: some stuff. Tell them about it, Alana. They want that shirt,

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Speaker 1: they want the mug, they want the cups. I guess

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Speaker 1: I already did scan the QR code.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, just scan that code.

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Speaker 2: Go to Dodgers Territory Shop dot com and don't forget

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Speaker 2: to like subscriberrys five stars. Clinton and I and Katie

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Speaker 2: will be back on Wednesday, and here we go.

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Speaker 3: You guys, we'll see you. Then go Dodgers.

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Speaker 1: Bye,