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Speaker 1: Everybody? Welcome to the Thursday episode of Dodgers' Territory on

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Speaker 1: Alana Rizzo. That is Clint Piscius. This is our third

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Speaker 1: of the things. We are working our way to ten

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Speaker 1: that have been with us since the beginning. Clint, it

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Speaker 1: was a good series. Trevor May should be joining us

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Speaker 3: I'm looking forward to talking pitching with Trevor. I'm definitely

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Speaker 4: But hey, Dodger sweat, that's what we wanted, right, that's

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Speaker 4: what we're looking for, the Dodgers to beat down on

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Speaker 4: those lowly Rockies. It could have been, should have been

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Speaker 4: you needed three wins out of it, and we'll talk

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Speaker 3: Why it, you know, could.

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Speaker 4: Have been better and why it wasn't as great as

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that news was kind of coming out, Clint,

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Speaker 4: Not for me, not terribly surprising. It's kind of who

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Speaker 4: For us to not have to see somebody like Bobby

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Speaker 1: I think the only thing that you can expect from

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Speaker 4: Michael Grove made twelve starts for that team. That team

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Speaker 3: A new stance.

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Speaker 4: You know, he likes changing the stance, changing the hands

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Speaker 4: every couple of minutes. You know, that's sort of a

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Speaker 4: Jock thing that I'm really surprised because that if I

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Speaker 4: recall that that ballpark.

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Speaker 3: In Texas is every bit of a hitters ballpark is

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Speaker 3: it'll come.

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Speaker 1: It'll come for Jock. Hopefully it does not come over

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Speaker 1: the course of this weekend, but I think it will

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Speaker 1: come for Jock Peterson and Young Jock if you will.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, this is a good series because I like

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Speaker 1: to see how we fare against pitchers, and I think

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Speaker 1: all three of those guys are aces as far as

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Speaker 1: the you know, they to call them the Yankees, the

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Speaker 1: Rangers are concerned.

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Speaker 4: Between the two of our Japanese aces, who are you

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Speaker 4: more excited about watching? Like Yama my Cy young Pick.

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Speaker 4: I'm so far looking pretty good with that one, or

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Speaker 4: seeing another start under Roki Sasaki's belt and continuing to build.

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Speaker 1: The thing that Yeah, the thing that I am excited

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Speaker 1: to see is just the continued development. Again, we just

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Speaker 1: talked about it, like you can't develop within a game, right,

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Speaker 1: but you can develop in the bullpen sessions and uh

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Speaker 1: and those types of things. And I think having his

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Speaker 1: third start of the year was the best I think,

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Speaker 1: and I'm excited to see what he can do in

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Speaker 1: the in the fifth inning, however, and excuse me, is

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Speaker 1: fifth start. But how long can can a pitcher get

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Speaker 1: away with just having two pitches? Right? I think that's

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Speaker 1: the biggest thing. I know. They canntinue to work with

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Speaker 1: him on another off speed pitch, but again, the league

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Speaker 1: will catch up to you. So I'm interested to see

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Speaker 1: the development of that and how he adjusts. Yam has

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Speaker 1: been really, really good and to your credit, to your credit,

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Speaker 1: he looks every bit of a cy Young Award candidate

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Speaker 1: for this season, and I'd like to see, you know,

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Speaker 1: I always like watching Oppenheimer pitch, So I'm excited about

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Speaker 1: this season. Are this series.

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Speaker 3: I think it's a great series.

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Speaker 4: And then after that, a nice Monday off day two

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Speaker 4: more with the Cubs, and then mercifully we are done facing.

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Speaker 3: The Chicago Cubs.

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Speaker 4: I'm very much looking forward to not seeing the Cubs

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Speaker 4: for a little while. But yeah, no good stuff against

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Speaker 4: You got the twenty twenty three World Series champions facing

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Speaker 3: That's going to be a fun time.

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Speaker 1: Just turn seventy. Happy birthday, Bruce Bochie, his grandson. We're

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Speaker 1: I always appreciate the opportunity to talk about a dog

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. All right, are we talking about the

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Speaker 1: Arizona diamond Clinic?

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Speaker 3: See yeah, check this out.

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Speaker 4: Of course, our foul Territory territory network continues to grow.

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Speaker 4: We now have a Diamondbacks show Snakes.

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Speaker 3: What is it called snake.

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Speaker 4: Something around Snake's territory that makes enough sense. One of

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Speaker 4: the hosts there, Jesse Friedman, joined the Foul Boys, I

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Speaker 4: think today talking about, you know, the state of the

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Speaker 4: Diamondbacks because obviously the Diamondbacks we expected entering the season

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Speaker 4: are going to be very very good ball club, but

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Speaker 4: everybody is a very good ballplug the ball club outside

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Speaker 4: of the Colorado Rockies when you're talking about the National

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Speaker 4: League West.

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Speaker 3: But I guess.

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Speaker 4: There is some conversation that they had today that I

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Speaker 4: think we can kind of have a little fun with

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Speaker 4: before getting out of here.

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Speaker 3: So let's listen to Jesse Friedman and the boys.

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Speaker 7: I mean, I've covered pretty much every Diamondbacks Dodgers game

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Speaker 7: in person here over the last few years, whether in

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Speaker 7: Arizona in Arizona or over in Los Angeles, and the

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Speaker 7: Diamondbacks have played the die really tough over over the

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Speaker 7: past few seasons. Granted, part of that is that Christian

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Speaker 7: Walker would just turn into a superhuman every single time

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Speaker 7: he entered Dodgers Stadium. He had one of the most

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Speaker 7: unbelievable three game series that I've ever seen there last July.

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Speaker 7: I think he hit four home runs over the course

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Speaker 7: of those three games. So it'll be interesting to see

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Speaker 7: what it looks like without him on this team anymore.

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Speaker 7: But yeah, I don't think that the Diamondbacks are are

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Speaker 7: intimidated by by anyone in this league, and based on

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Speaker 7: what we've seen from them so far and certainly what

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Speaker 7: this starting rotation I think still could be. If Corbyn

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Speaker 7: burns and Zach Gallen and some of these guys that

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Speaker 7: you expect to be really good kind of find their way.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: I think they certainly can compete when when they're playing

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Speaker 7: the Dodgers, it's.

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Speaker 4: Always about it's always opposed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but if you if, if you, we have set

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Speaker 1: the bar, so if you're always trying to see how

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Speaker 1: you measure up, you're going to measure up to the

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Speaker 1: team that just won the World Series. You're going to

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Speaker 1: try to measure up to the team that wins the

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Speaker 1: Division damn year every year for the last twelve years,

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Speaker 1: minus that one season that the Giants bested us by

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Speaker 1: one game. But Jesse's right, I mean Christian Walker turned

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Speaker 1: into you know, he man, and then you know, the

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Speaker 1: Dodgers have not always played the Diamondbacks well. But if

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Speaker 1: you take a look at the NL West Clint right now,

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Speaker 1: San Diego Padres at fifteen and four, San Francisco at

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Speaker 1: thirteen and five. Some folks would say San Francisco's strength

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Speaker 1: of schedule has been pretty soft, but whatever, they're still

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Speaker 1: winning the games that they should. Dolay. The Dodgers are

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Speaker 1: fourteen and six, the Diamondbacks eleven and seven, So each

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Speaker 1: team obviously is well above five hundred in terms of

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Speaker 1: their respective win loss record. But if you take any

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Speaker 1: of those and you look at the American League, Clint

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Speaker 1: right now, the best record in the American.

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Speaker 3: League, which is what eleven.

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Speaker 1: And seven, which is the Yankees are, and which is

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Speaker 1: what the Arizona Diamondbacks. So not only would the Padres

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Speaker 1: the Giants, but the Dodgers would also have the best

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Speaker 1: record in the American League if you move them from

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Speaker 1: the senior circuit to the junior circuit. So this is

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Speaker 1: a fun division and is what you want, right You

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Speaker 1: want the adversity. You want the best teams to play

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Speaker 1: because then when you get to the postseason, you know

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Speaker 1: that you've been tested.

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Speaker 4: Like I'm gonna throw this one on the screen because

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Speaker 4: I can and I see it right here, Kenny Chung,

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Speaker 4: the NLS is brutal and will continue to be the

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Speaker 4: most competitive in MLB this season. Fully agree with that,

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Speaker 4: and we talked about that with Dave Roberts. We talked

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Speaker 4: about that with Dino Ebl as well, and we also

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Speaker 4: talked about it ourselves here on the show. Especially you know,

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Speaker 4: after the Dodgers won the World Series, the importance of

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Speaker 4: the Dodgers having good competition, particularly in the division, that

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Speaker 4: just helps everybody. It helps them play better, playing for

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Speaker 4: something meaningful down the stretch, It just it helps they

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Speaker 4: have the mindset of still trying to They don't have

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Speaker 4: to restart essentially like what we saw in years past.

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Speaker 4: Twenty nineteen, I mean they locked up the division super early.

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Speaker 4: I think the same in twenty two, twenty three. They

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Speaker 4: just play better when they're playing for something towards the

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Speaker 4: end of the season, keeps that competitive, the competitive juice

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Speaker 4: is flowing, and then you get into the postseason and

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Speaker 4: you don't get bounced by the Diamondbacks or the Padres

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Speaker 4: in the first round.

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Speaker 3: So this is good. This is what I always wanted.

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Speaker 4: I want the NLS to be good and.

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Speaker 3: Would like to start playing some NLS teams. By the way,

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Speaker 3: freaking scheduling.

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Speaker 1: I know how we don't how we don't play. I

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Speaker 1: don't think we play the Potters until like mid June, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's something, it's something insane. But I love

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Speaker 1: the rivalry it has. And I used to be the

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Speaker 1: one that was like Giants and Dodgers, that's the rivalry.

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Speaker 1: Dodgers and Pottery is not the rivalry. It is it

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Speaker 1: is more of a recency rivalry, but I like it.

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Speaker 1: I like when these two teams are good. It's it's

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Speaker 1: just better for baseball. It's better for the division, it's

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Speaker 1: better for the fans, it's better for LA it's better

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Speaker 1: for San Diego, all of the things. Clint, before we

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Speaker 1: go on our final thought here, I know you don't

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Speaker 1: have a show tonight.

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Speaker 3: Because I'm going to the bar.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well that's that's something maybe for another

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Speaker 1: show called called Alcoholics Anonymous.

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Speaker 3: Yes, okay, okay.

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Speaker 1: Before we say goodbye, much love and respect out to

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Speaker 1: the great Manny Mota, who just recently I can't talk,

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00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 1: suffered a stroke, but he's doing really well. I had

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Speaker 1: a conversation with his son, Jose Mota, who's also on

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers Spanish broadcast, and he's doing really well. He's

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Speaker 1: recovering nicely. They don't anticipate any long term effects of anything.

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Speaker 1: So we love you Manny. He's a Dodger staple, obviously,

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Speaker 1: he's always at spring training driving his little bike around.

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Speaker 1: We love you and we're thinking about you. So Clint

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Speaker 1: and I are going to be back on Monday, so

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Speaker 1: tune in, Bring friends, Smash that like and subscribe button.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate you guys, always being with us. We do

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Speaker 1: this for you. We appreciate you very much. So we'll

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Speaker 1: see you then. Until then, go Dodgers.

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Speaker 3: Bye,