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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Thursday edition of Fair Territory. I'm

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Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal here with Alana Rizzo. Before getting started, I

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Speaker 1: want to thank Tim Kirkchin for hosting on Monday with Alana.

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Speaker 1: And I'm going to admitute, Alana, admitute right off the bat.

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Speaker 1: I've got a little bit of a WBC hangover. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to south through today. I'm playing hurt a little bit.

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Speaker 1: But man, that was something else.

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Speaker 2: I tell you it has come and gone. I hate

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Speaker 2: that every three years, but what a blast that it was.

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Speaker 2: And I tell you what, Ken, it was a lot

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Speaker 2: of fanfare, a lot of celebrations, but some moments really

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Speaker 2: stood out.

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Speaker 1: What for you? Well, Thank goodness. By the way, it's

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Speaker 1: only three years. I don't know if I can do

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Speaker 1: it every year, but let's start with one that I

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Speaker 1: know we've both identified. You take it away, all right.

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Speaker 2: Show Hey Otani. I mean, and I know everyone thinks

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Speaker 2: I'm a Dodger homer, but I think you just have

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Speaker 2: to be a baseball fan to appreciate. Maybe I don't

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Speaker 2: even have to be a baseball fan to appreciate with show,

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Speaker 2: Hey Otani not only getting emotional pre tournament when he

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Speaker 2: saw the Japanese flag. It was a beautiful, seamless transition

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Speaker 2: from the flag though Tani's emotion. But the grand slam,

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Speaker 2: the batflip, I mean, just everything that this guy does,

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Speaker 2: tremendous numbers of course during the WBC that just has

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Speaker 2: carried on from last season with the Dodgers. This matters, guys,

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Speaker 2: the base of the game, both domestically and internationally. Show

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Speaker 2: Heyo Tani. It was pretty pretty sweet to see ken

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Speaker 2: a lota.

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Speaker 1: I'll go with another one from the Japan side of

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Speaker 1: the tournament, the pool in Japan. This was when the

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Speaker 1: Czech electrician Andreas Satoria got an ovation in Japan. They

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Speaker 1: knew it was his final game. Now, the backstory with

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Speaker 1: Satoria is not just that he's an electrician, but that

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Speaker 1: he struck out Otani in the twenty twenty three WBC

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Speaker 1: And it was just a really sweet moment and he

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Speaker 1: was really just touching to see how the Japanese fans

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Speaker 1: i should say, And it was one of the more

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Speaker 1: heartwarming memories that will all take from the tournament.

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Speaker 2: It just goes to show you that just because you know,

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Speaker 2: you don't have to be the size of Aaron Judge

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Speaker 2: to make an impact in this game. I mean, this

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Speaker 2: is a very non assuming, unassuming person, and he delivered

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Speaker 2: brilliantly in both of the World Baseball Classics that he

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Speaker 2: well known name, Ken Vinnie pas Quentino obviously plays for

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Speaker 2: the Kansas City Royals, but he was the absolute ring

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Speaker 2: leader of Team Italy and being able to obviously have

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Speaker 2: the three home runs in one game, and then the

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Speaker 2: espresso shots for each home run, and then the double

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Speaker 2: kisses and all of the things. We know that that

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Speaker 2: Ned Coletti of course was the architect of the team

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Speaker 2: Quentino really was the rallying cry for Team Italy, and

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Speaker 2: the attention paid to Team Italy and Baseball has gone

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Speaker 2: up leaps and bounds because of this tournament and kind

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Speaker 2: of the Cinderella story of what Team Italy was supposed

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Speaker 2: to do, all led by Vinnie Paspuentino.

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Speaker 1: A lot of you're absolutely right, Team Italy in many

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Speaker 1: and those guys were a riot with the espresso chugging

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Speaker 1: and everything else that they were doing. The Armani jackets.

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Speaker 1: I remember at the start of the tournament. Initially the

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Speaker 1: espresso was too hot and the trainers of the athletic

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Speaker 1: their throats. That was just a fun team to be around,

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Speaker 1: and man, what a performance they had. Now I'll go

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Speaker 1: with another one right off the bat. This is advancing

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Speaker 1: to the championship game. Bryce Harper's two run game tying

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Speaker 1: homer in the eighth inning, not just the homer, but

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Speaker 1: the full Harper effect. The trot around the base is

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Speaker 1: At that moment, so many of us thought, Okay, US

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Speaker 1: you a funny story too, and a lot of you'll

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Speaker 1: appreciate this as a former sideline reporter during the Venezuela

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Speaker 1: I think it was in the eighth inning. I can't

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Speaker 1: They got it really going. Crowd was going nuts in Miami.

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Speaker 1: There's a ton of Venezuelan's in Miami. And I'm standing

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Speaker 3: Of the stands, water and beer and peanuts, and I'm

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Speaker 3: getting nailed and I turned around just kind of looked

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Speaker 1: And the answer, of course was no, I had never

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Speaker 1: seen anything like it. And congratulations the team venezuela amazing

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Speaker 2: It's such a beautiful tournament and the emotion was so real.

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Speaker 2: And I love what you said about Bryce Harper. Obviously

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Speaker 2: but pointing to the United States flag when he's rounding

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Speaker 2: you had mentioned it quickly, Ken, when Bryce Harper went

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Speaker 2: that was such a class act. Another moment that stood

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Speaker 2: and you know, it's like, I think it was PCA

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Speaker 2: cool moment. Because we've talked about it at length Ken

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Speaker 2: I would like to see baseball back of the Olympics

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Speaker 2: with major league players in the Olympics. It doesn't matter

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Speaker 2: what sport it is when you're watching the Olympics, right,

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Speaker 2: I always go back to when they're doing the cross

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Speaker 2: the name of the sport, but you're watching for the jersey.

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Speaker 2: You're not watching for the sport. And I think that's

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Speaker 2: out to me too. But when you're talking about Venezuela

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Speaker 2: A you henne O Suarez with the emotion he has

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Speaker 2: the Venezuelan flag draped over him coming out of the

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Speaker 2: the game. Can he had tears on the mound coming

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Speaker 2: We all know what's happened to Venezuela in terms of

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Speaker 2: civil unrest over the course of the last five, six, seven,

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Speaker 2: eight years. But for Venezuela to be able to say

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Speaker 2: I tell you it was a very special moment. I'm

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Speaker 1: Well thanks, Alana. It was a privilege and a pleasure.

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Speaker 1: It was just so much fun. And I always tell

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Speaker 1: but what I always tell people is just watch the games.

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Speaker 1: this WBC. Now back to the major league portion of

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Speaker 1: not necessarily surprising. Treya Savage, the great rookie who had

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Speaker 1: four on fatigue is his situation. Jose Berrios, he has

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Speaker 1: rotation that is still pretty good. Don't get me wrong.

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Speaker 2: thank goodness that Dylan Cease went there right, Thank god

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Speaker 2: that Max Shr's really wanted to go back to Toronto obviously.

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Speaker 2: Kevin Gossman just said yesterday on foul Territory because foul

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Speaker 2: Another bit of news, if you will say a Suzuki,

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Speaker 2: do you have an update with him and the Cubs

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Speaker 1: Patrick Mooney has reported that they're continuing to evaluate him

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Speaker 1: and it's a strange posterior cruciate living. It's obviously not ideal,

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Speaker 2: All right, welcome you back to Fair Territory with Ken

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Speaker 2: Take the silver lining.

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Speaker 2: All right, Ken, I think I'll go first on my

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Speaker 1: major league manager. And I know everybody wants to hire

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Speaker 1: the next big college manager, the next thirty one year old.

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Speaker 1: I about a guy who's kind of been in the

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Speaker 1: trenches forever, a guy who has paid his dues. We've

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Speaker 1: gotten away from that. It bothers me, we've gotten away

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Speaker 1: from that. Here is a candidate who would make a

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Speaker 1: lot of sense the next time openings arise. Omar Lopez

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Speaker 1: due to the week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I loved his embrace with Francisco Cervelli after Italy

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Speaker 2: lost to Venezuela as well. All right, time now for

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Speaker 2: our dork of the week. All right, Ken, I'm going

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Speaker 2: to go to the Giants. They're gonna make their foul

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Speaker 2: poles with a Chick fil A sponsorship. Listen, I love

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Speaker 2: Chick fil A. I'm always bummed when I want Chick

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Speaker 2: fil A and it's on a Sunday because they're closed.

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Speaker 2: I love the chicken sandwich, extra pickles, It's amazing. But Ken,

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Speaker 2: there's not a Chick fil A in the ballpark. There's

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Speaker 2: not even a Chick fil A in San Francisco. What

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Speaker 2: are we doing?

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Speaker 1: I don't know what we're doing a lot, but I

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Speaker 1: know this. The Giants are going to get a check

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Speaker 1: from Chick fil A, and that's what they want a check.

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Speaker 1: So this is what drives teams, It's what drives the league.

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Speaker 1: It's what drives really the entire American economy. Everybody looking

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Speaker 1: for the next check. World no different ourselves than individuals,

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Speaker 1: So I get it. It's just a little weird that

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Speaker 1: there's no Chick fil A available at the park or

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Speaker 1: in the city.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta go to you gotta go to Oakland

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Speaker 2: to get your sandwich ken. All right, who's your dork

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Speaker 2: of the week?

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Speaker 1: My dork of the week are all of those people

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Speaker 1: out there who believe the Team USA players did not

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Speaker 1: care as much as the players from Venezuela, the players

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Speaker 1: from the Dominican Republic. No, they might not have shown

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Speaker 1: that they cared as much as those players did. They

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Speaker 1: didn't have the outward passion that we saw from the

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Speaker 1: other countries. But obviously they cared, and they cared a lot.

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Speaker 1: You saw that when they walked off the field after

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Speaker 1: getting to Meddle. Some of them were taking metals off.

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Speaker 1: They didn't want silver and this whole notion of the

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Speaker 1: other countries want it more. Well, I would say the

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Speaker 1: Dominican Republic probably wanted it more than the United States.

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Speaker 1: But did they win. No, they got beat by the

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Speaker 1: United States because guess what, the US guys wanted it to.

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Speaker 1: So it's so funny to me. Ten years ago, fifteen

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Speaker 1: years ago, we had the unwritten rules. We were talking

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Speaker 1: about celebrations by certain players in a negative way. Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, how can you do that? It's an offense

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Speaker 1: to the game. Now, if you don't do that, that's

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Speaker 1: an offense to the game.

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Speaker 2: Just stop it.

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Speaker 3: These guys cant your mind.

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Speaker 2: All you need to know, America is that we got

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Speaker 2: a massive smile and a woo out of Paul Skiings.

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Speaker 2: That's how much they care. Paul Skiin smiled. Everybody. Thanks

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Speaker 2: for getting in your questions for Ken. We appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Ken as always, thank you for all of the insight.

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Speaker 2: Don't forget everybody. Fair Territory returns on Monday with Ken.

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Speaker 2: Until then, have a great wait. Don't forget Dodger's territory

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Speaker 2: this afternoon at three pm Eastern. Take care of everybody.

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