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Speaker 3: For the last Let's ask Fabian shop Pete Roseby in

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Speaker 4: Okay, Bobby and our diet joining us, by the way,

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Speaker 2: And that's fine, but then there are a lot of

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Speaker 4: Yes, all right, let's dive into the Dodgers, Fabian, What

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Speaker 7: Is there a chance they optioned him to triple A

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Speaker 3: Okay, how important is you own moto now? I mean,

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's been their best pitcher this season, I think,

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Speaker 1: sure there was some trepidation, like, all right, how is

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Speaker 1: everything's all indications have been He's held up great, he's

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Speaker 3: Makes sense, makes sense. Before we let you go by

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Speaker 3: the way, I see your helmet behind you. I'll take

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, go devils. I went to a su I

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Speaker 3: I saw that behind you. This is the Pat Tillman. Oh,

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Speaker 3: I love that with the people that died. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: one of my helmets. That's nice, that's super cool.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, this is the digital camo.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, crats right, digital camera?

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Speaker 6: Did you camo? Yeah? Did you cam? Slick looking helmet, though,

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Speaker 7: One day I'll tell my story about Pat Tillman connection

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Speaker 4: I would love to hear it sometime. Fab me On

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Speaker 4: one of those old school contact extraordinaries. I want to

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Speaker 2: They are way down, way down. But he is giving

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Speaker 4: So I think he's so good that he is one

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Speaker 6: He's fine.

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Speaker 3: His numbers are still good. He just can't score any

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Speaker 3: I think Skien strikeouts are way down. But plus people

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Speaker 6: That's how guys used to do it.

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Speaker 4: You're gonna get contact on the splinker. Sometimes it's just

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Speaker 7: He's learning to pitch differently with runners in scoring position.

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Speaker 7: That's a maturation that like usually happens in year three

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Speaker 4: One part that I think we're all gonna disagree on

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Speaker 6: For the most part, that's guys that have been to

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Speaker 3: But I'm talking like the people we talked to on

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Speaker 1: It is what it is.

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Speaker 3: You don't get to three counts, you don't get the

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Speaker 6: They throw one up there. He freaking wax it. Yep.

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Speaker 6: third deck is real.

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Speaker 7: I think part of them, I think part of both

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Speaker 7: of those teams losing at home is it's not a

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Speaker 7: big league park and there's very little margin for variants.

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Speaker 7: So you have to learn to play at a big

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Speaker 7: league park or at a minor league park. That's differently.

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Speaker 7: That's different than a big league park. And I get it,

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Speaker 7: you're playing the other team's playing in the same park,

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Speaker 7: but you're doing a day in and day out.

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Speaker 6: And when you come into.

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Speaker 7: Tampa and the dudes are going OPO that usually don't

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Speaker 7: go APO, it's a completely different scouting report, way to

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Speaker 7: pitch guys. And you got to learn that for more

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Speaker 7: games than the other team because the other team's out

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Speaker 7: of there in three days. So I think it's a

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Speaker 7: disadvantage for the teams didn't play