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Speaker 1: What is going on, party people? I am not Alana Rizzo.

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Speaker 1: is Jeff Snyder. Of course, he hosts the Locked On

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Speaker 1: Dodgers podcast. There are so many podcasts out there for

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Speaker 2: Anyways, beyond all, quit your job and watch Dodger shows.

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Speaker 1: You know, yeah, yeah, you don't need to work, guys,

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Speaker 2: We got some stuff going on, guys. Chris Taylor was released.

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Speaker 1: Over the weekend, the Dodgers were sweep by the Angels. Listen,

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Speaker 1: into the big ticket right now. Jeff, i'd ask you,

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Speaker 1: He's proven enough and Dalton Rushing, they made a move,

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Speaker 5: Yeah, this has been a very emotional week for all

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Speaker 1: Yeah, in the business of making the Dodgers better. And

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Speaker 3: And they will get past the personal issues pretty quickly.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, baseball's a business, this much. We know.

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Speaker 1: But first we're gonna throw to our friends, my friends

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Speaker 1: And I saw this comment mister Classic players are uneasy

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Speaker 3: Can do anything with a fine tooth comb. Fine tooth

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Speaker 3: There's there's really only three names that I think are

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Speaker 1: But anyways, this helps the team get better, and and

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Speaker 1: And you know, there's not really anybody else knocking, you know,

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Speaker 1: Alana's not here today if you guys couldn't tell, but

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Speaker 6: Always thinking about Dodgers territory. I'm on vacation today, but

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Speaker 6: You know, this is a guy that has given everything

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Speaker 6: who's Chris Taylor. I didn't know a lot about him,

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Speaker 6: and I tell you what, I'm glad I got to

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of buttons it up. Well there

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Speaker 2: Down the road.

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Speaker 1: But I think we've covered this much enough and we

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Speaker 1: But hey, Jeff, I don't know if you're watching, but

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Speaker 1: You know, they love seeing Otani fail and everybody loves

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Speaker 1: Of course, I think you guys got some man's last

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Speaker 2: What's wrong with the Dodgers?

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Speaker 3: I mean, the only thing wrong with them is they

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Speaker 3: Hopefully the last time. But this was a definitely a

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Speaker 3: with Taylor is because this is a thing that we

437
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Speaker 3: will still remember in three weeks, is Chris Taylor getting released.

438
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Speaker 3: We're not gonna remember this because three weeks from now,

439
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Speaker 3: three months from now, the Dodgers will be in first place,

440
00:22:01,480 --> 00:22:03,840
Speaker 3: the Angels will be in last place, and we will

441
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Speaker 3: not remember other than you know. It's kind of like

442
00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:11,000
Speaker 3: that the triple play the Padres turned last year, that

443
00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:14,080
Speaker 3: stupid game ending triple play which clinched a playoff spot

444
00:22:14,119 --> 00:22:16,919
Speaker 3: for the Padres, and after how the rest of the

445
00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:19,440
Speaker 3: season went, we can now watch that play and just laugh.

446
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:23,320
Speaker 3: Oh remember how excited they were and how they thought

447
00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:25,680
Speaker 3: that gave them a chance. Angel fans don't even think

448
00:22:25,680 --> 00:22:27,640
Speaker 3: this gives them a chance. They just think, hey, look

449
00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:30,520
Speaker 3: we won our World Series. Hey look, Mookie Betts was right.

450
00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:34,320
Speaker 3: This was our World Series and we won it. So congratulations.

451
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Speaker 3: I hope they get the rings. I hope they get

452
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Speaker 3: the parade. I hope you know they sell it extra

453
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Speaker 3: seven tickets to put them up to twenty thousand and

454
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Speaker 3: seven per game. And you know, I have nothing against

455
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Speaker 3: the Angels. I don't care. They're in a different league

456
00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:54,200
Speaker 3: than the Dodgers. Literally and whatever the non Literally, I've

457
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Speaker 3: got an English grahane on the wall right now. Figuratively

458
00:22:56,400 --> 00:23:02,800
Speaker 3: that's the word sweet weep. So, yeah, it sucks. It's

459
00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:04,879
Speaker 3: no fun to watch your team lose three straight games.

460
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Speaker 3: That's my entire takeaway from that. It made me glad

461
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Speaker 3: that I have a policy of not getting upset about

462
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Speaker 3: regular season games.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, as I like to call you much occasionally, much

464
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:15,639
Speaker 1: to your chagrin, I have to call you the voice

465
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Speaker 1: of reason, and I share that sentiment as well.

466
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Speaker 2: Like this series, it sucks.

467
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Speaker 1: It's frustrating, but these things happen over the course of

468
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Speaker 1: a long season.

469
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Speaker 2: The thing that makes it, I don't.

470
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Speaker 1: Know if it's more difficult to kind of palette or

471
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Speaker 1: stomach right now, is just it's really setting the team up.

472
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Speaker 1: What we're seeing right now more of the pitching staff.

473
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Speaker 1: It's setting this team up for kind of extended failure,

474
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Speaker 1: or at least a little stretch of failure, because the

475
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Speaker 1: pitching staff to say it's taxed would be an understatement

476
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Speaker 1: because the starting rotation continues to not get it done.

477
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Speaker 2: You had Sunday, bloody Sunday.

478
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Speaker 1: With Tony Gonsolin kind of struggling early with a thumb

479
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Speaker 1: issue that affected his command. Not that he wanted to

480
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Speaker 1: assign any blame to that, but Gonsolin puts up his

481
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Speaker 1: first real stinker start of the four.

482
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Speaker 2: That he's had this year. Uh. You know Clayton Kershaw.

483
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Speaker 1: I haven't talked about him much online, but he struggled

484
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Speaker 1: with command. Uh you know since or in his first start, uh,

485
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Speaker 1: since the you know surgery, his his season debut.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Dustin May wasn't fooling anybody on Friday, And that's leading

488
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Speaker 1: to the bullpen just getting beaten and battered. And we're

489
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Speaker 1: seeing some real struggle struggles with two guys in particular,

490
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Speaker 1: Alex Vesia and everybody's favorite lover, Anthony Bonda. They really

491
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Speaker 1: love giving up Homer's right now. And I don't know

492
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Speaker 1: if it's a symptom of the overuse or if maybe

493
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Speaker 1: just the command. Maybe they're a little bit off right now,

494
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Speaker 1: but it's it's been I don't want to say, I mean, yeah,

495
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Speaker 1: tough to watch, it has been tough to watch.

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Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on.

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Speaker 1: The state of this rotation and you know, really or

498
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Speaker 1: I guess really the entire pitching staff and help being

499
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Speaker 1: on the horizon for this team.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the starting rotation doesn't concern me as much. Obviously

501
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:12,919
Speaker 3: there's concerns because they're not getting deep in games. But

502
00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:16,800
Speaker 3: I do expect Kershaw to improve. I think that was

503
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Speaker 3: a an relatively expected lack of command in his first

504
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Speaker 3: game pitching in ten months, you know, in Dodger Stadium,

505
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Speaker 3: in a real game. That meant something. Tony Gonsolin, I

506
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:32,639
Speaker 3: think it was a fluke. I think it was definitely

507
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Speaker 3: related to the thumb, and so both of those guys

508
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Speaker 3: I expect to probably be better the next time out.

509
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:38,679
Speaker 3: Dustin May, I have no idea what we have in

510
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:42,440
Speaker 3: Dustin May. He's in the rotation for now, just like Landonak.

511
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Speaker 3: Both of those guys maybe get bumped from the rotation

512
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Speaker 3: if and when guys get healthy. The bullpen right now,

513
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:54,520
Speaker 3: like the state of the current bullpen is really bad.

514
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Speaker 3: You look at the Dodgers have an entire elite bullpen

515
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Speaker 3: on the injured list right now between you know, Graderol Enriquez, Kopek, Phillips,

516
00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,320
Speaker 3: Tryanan and Yates. Like, that's six guys, that's almost an

517
00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 3: entire bullpen who are somewhere between good and great. And

518
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,320
Speaker 3: instead what they have in the act of bullpen is

519
00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 3: Luis Garcia and Ryan Lutis.

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Speaker 2: And you know insert other names here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, and then you've got Anthony Bonda, who

522
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:31,360
Speaker 3: apparently is bad now, and you know, maybe they can

523
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Speaker 3: figure that out. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, man.

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Speaker 1: I feel like the clock struck midnight on Bonda because

526
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Speaker 1: if you look at the career stats, these are a

527
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Speaker 1: lot more in line with what he had over the

528
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Speaker 1: first x amount of years in his career as opposed

529
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Speaker 1: to that that.

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Speaker 2: You know outlier last year.

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Speaker 1: I really hope I'm wrong on that. I think a

532
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Speaker 1: lot of people would hope that we're wrong on that.

533
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I agree, there's so many quality arms that

534
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:55,359
Speaker 1: that we're left waiting on Kopek as well, one of

535
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Speaker 1: those guys you mentioned. You know, he's he struggled a

536
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Speaker 1: bit in his you know, attempted ramp up at on

537
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:06,080
Speaker 1: minor league rehab assignment. What he gave up five runs

538
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 1: in his first inning recorded or his first outing, gave

539
00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:10,160
Speaker 1: up our recorded no outs.

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Speaker 3: Then he throw three strikes out of twenty three pitches.

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Speaker 2: Though, well that's good, I mean that plays. Oh no,

542
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:16,919
Speaker 2: it doesn't play.

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Speaker 1: And then you know, somebody asks in the chat, like,

544
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,359
Speaker 1: where the hell is is Bruce Dar? He's still not

545
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:24,679
Speaker 1: you know, I think August is kind of the target

546
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:29,399
Speaker 1: for Bruce Dar. I've seen some murmurs that maybe Kyle

547
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Speaker 1: Hurt is somebody who could be available later.

548
00:27:31,400 --> 00:27:34,000
Speaker 2: On in the season, like later later later on in the.

549
00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:36,880
Speaker 1: Season for this team as he bounces back from from

550
00:27:36,920 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 1: Tommy John surgery. But still it kind of feels like,

551
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:43,200
Speaker 1: right now what we see is kind of what they have,

552
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 1: and that's a bit concerning. And you know, other names

553
00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:48,400
Speaker 1: on the forty man if if they decide to pull

554
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:51,040
Speaker 1: a Nick frosso lever or I haven't looked at what

555
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,639
Speaker 1: Jackson Ferris has done in more recent vintage. Bobby Miller

556
00:27:54,680 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 1: continues to be somebody who loves to walk a bunch

557
00:27:56,640 --> 00:28:00,320
Speaker 1: of dudes but can sometimes put together decent starts. Maybe

558
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:02,879
Speaker 1: it's time for him to move to the bullpen. It

559
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: feels to me like suddenly.

560
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:06,680
Speaker 2: You know, what is it?

561
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:11,800
Speaker 1: Five months ago, Andrew Friedman said this that the goal

562
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 1: is to not buy in July. It feels like this

563
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 1: team needs to be buyers, and not just for a

564
00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 1: couple of sprinkling pieces. Suddenly they kind of need some

565
00:28:20,400 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 1: serious help at least it feels that way.

566
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Speaker 2: Am I overreacting?

567
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:28,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, you might be. It's May nineteenth right now. Yeah,

568
00:28:28,840 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 3: my father in law's birthday, by the way, Happy birthday. Ready,

569
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:38,280
Speaker 3: But the the trade deadline is two months away to

570
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 3: over two months away. We don't know who's going to

571
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 3: be available from other teams. We don't know who's going

572
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 3: to be available for the Dodgers. You know, I think

573
00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:49,640
Speaker 3: it's reasonable to think that Kopek and Phillips and Trinan

574
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 3: and Yates might be back by then. You know, Enriquez

575
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 3: was just shown throwing in in Arizona. You know he

576
00:28:57,080 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 3: might be back by then. The five of those six

577
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 3: guys could be back, at which point they're replacing the

578
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,880
Speaker 3: guys who like Luis Garcia and Ryan Lutis and you

579
00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 3: know the JP Fire Eyes and Roll and you know,

580
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 3: Luke Trevino was good in his first appearance. We'll see,

581
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Speaker 3: if you know, maybe lu Trevino is this year's Anthony

582
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:19,600
Speaker 3: Bonda or Ryan Brazier or whoever you know, but it's

583
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 3: way too soon to think that. But I have no

584
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 3: idea what this bullpen's going to look like like if

585
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 3: everybody was healthy right now, or if all these guys

586
00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 3: were injured. I feel like I would have just as

587
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:33,960
Speaker 3: much idea what the bullpen's going to look like in July,

588
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 3: no matter what, because we knew that Blake Trinden was

589
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 3: seventy four years old, and we knew that Kirby Yates

590
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:43,160
Speaker 3: was seventy nine years old, you know, and so the

591
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 3: fact that they're injured isn't that surprising. You know, Evan

592
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:50,080
Speaker 3: Phillips hopefully is back soon, and effective Kirby Yates, it

593
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:52,880
Speaker 3: didn't look like a big thing. So you know, they

594
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 3: might have to buy in July. But I don't know

595
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,200
Speaker 3: that we know anymore than we would if everybody was

596
00:29:58,240 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 3: healthy right now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just kind of you know, weather the storm.

598
00:30:02,880 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: That's what it feels like. This team's gonna have to do, luckily,

599
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 1: uh what three more games before they.

600
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:08,880
Speaker 2: Get a much needed day off.

601
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 1: And this was I think the most difficult stretch of

602
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:17,320
Speaker 1: their schedule, at least not in terms of quality of opponent.

603
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,880
Speaker 1: Even though Apparently that's a problem because they lose, you know,

604
00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 1: one to the Athletics, and they lose three to the Angels,

605
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:27,480
Speaker 1: which is always fun to watch. But you know, playing

606
00:30:27,520 --> 00:30:30,400
Speaker 1: what was it the twenty games, not at twenty games,

607
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 1: nintheen games of twenty days something like that.

608
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Speaker 2: They've they've been playing a lot of baseball and.

609
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Speaker 3: It doesn't get much easier over the next three weeks.

610
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:38,400
Speaker 3: So they've only got like two days off in the

611
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 3: next three weeks or something like that. So yeah, it's

612
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 3: a bad time to be short on pitching. Yeah, and

613
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:49,160
Speaker 3: that's why you see guys like Luis Garcia pitching three

614
00:30:49,160 --> 00:30:51,480
Speaker 3: games in a row. It's like, hey, guess what, dude,

615
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,320
Speaker 3: we don't care about your arm. This is why, this

616
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:56,080
Speaker 3: is why we're paying you money to go out there

617
00:30:56,080 --> 00:30:58,479
Speaker 3: and be our sacrificial lamb. But yeah, in a one

618
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:00,640
Speaker 3: run game, they would much rather run out. Better picture,

619
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:02,720
Speaker 3: in a tie game, the would much rather not have

620
00:31:02,880 --> 00:31:05,600
Speaker 3: Anthony Bonda go back out for a second inning. But

621
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:07,720
Speaker 3: the options aren't there right now.

622
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Speaker 1: They're not there, and they might not be there for

623
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 1: a little while. But Jeff, I appreciate you hanging out

624
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,000
Speaker 1: with me. The show is run long so I'm gonna

625
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,920
Speaker 1: quickly talk about a dog before I end up wrapping up.

626
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 1: You want to you want to look at this dog

627
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 1: with me?

628
00:31:21,840 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 3: I love looking at dogs.

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Speaker 2: Clark right, We're gonna look at this dog for a

630
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 2: lot of guys.

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Speaker 1: This is last Licks, and as usual on last Licks,

632
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 1: we have ourselves a good Papperoni. This is Lolita. She

633
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: is a two month year old a two month year

634
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 1: old two month old pity mix and she listen, listen.

635
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 1: Sometimes words are hard. I got a lot of buttons

636
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 1: in front of me, man, let me tell you that much.

637
00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: But this is a loving Pepperoni that needs some love,

638
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,640
Speaker 1: needs a home. Could also probably use some support through

639
00:31:53,360 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 1: Gidrey's Guardian. They're always looking for any sort of donations,

640
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: any sort of help, but do reach out to Alana

641
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:03,479
Speaker 1: or Gidrey's guard Ardian dot org for if you're interested

642
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: in adopting that dog or any other dogs any way

643
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:09,240
Speaker 1: that you can help out Gidrey's and Alana. She would

644
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,719
Speaker 1: very much appreciate it. That's probably about time to hit

645
00:32:12,720 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 1: the wrap it up button, because listen, we could talk

646
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 1: about the Dodgers all day long, as we usually do,

647
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 1: but we like lockdown. Try to keep this to about

648
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: a thirty minute show. You will be live later on tonight.

649
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm gonna do an All Dodgers

650
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 1: tonight because I got some things going on at work

651
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 1: that I got to deal with. But either way, make

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Speaker 1: sure you give that man a follow at SNYD. Dog

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you joining me. Watch him on Lockdown Dodgers

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Speaker 1: every single day of your life, or at least five

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Speaker 1: days a week, sometimes more.

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Speaker 2: That's it. Any final thoughts before I sign off.

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Speaker 3: I'm glad I looked at that cute doggie.

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Speaker 2: That's what we want to hear.

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Speaker 1: Guys, Please like the show, rate the show on your

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Speaker 1: podcast platform, subscribe to the show. We are super close

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Speaker 1: to ten thousand subscribers. Alana and I would very much

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Speaker 1: appreciate it if you would be the ten thousandth couldn't

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Speaker 1: do it without.

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Speaker 2: You quite literally. We will be back.

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Speaker 1: I think Alana and I will be back postgame on Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: not Tuesday, Wednesday night, so we will see you then.

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Speaker 2: Bye,