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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 admitt it right off

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

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

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Speaker 1: little bit. But man, that was something else.

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

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Speaker 3: I hate that every three years, but what a blast

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Speaker 3: that it was. And I tell you what, Ken, it

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Speaker 3: was a lot of fanfare, a lot of celebrations, but

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Speaker 3: some moments really stood out.

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Speaker 2: What for you?

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Speaker 1: Well, Thank goodness. By the way, it's only three years.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if I can do it every year,

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Speaker 1: but let's start with one that I know we've both identified.

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Speaker 1: You take it away, all.

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Speaker 2: Right, Show Hey Otani.

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Speaker 3: I mean, and I know everyone thinks I'm a Dodger homer,

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Speaker 3: but I think you just have to be a baseball

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Speaker 3: fan to appreciate. Maybe I don't even have to be

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Speaker 3: a baseball fan to appreciate with show, Hey Otani not

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Speaker 3: only getting emotional pre tournament when he saw the Japanese flag.

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Speaker 3: It was a beautiful, seamless transition from the flag though

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Speaker 3: Tani's emotion. But the grand Slam, the batflip, I mean,

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Speaker 3: just everything that this guy does, tremendous numbers of course

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Speaker 3: during the WBC that just has carried on from last

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Speaker 3: season with the Dodgers. This matters, guys, the base of

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Speaker 3: the game, both domestically and internationally. Show Heyo Tani. It

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Speaker 3: was pretty pretty sweet to see ken 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: were embracing this player from the Czech repub or Chechia,

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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 3: It just goes to show you that just because you know,

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Speaker 3: you don't have to be the size of Aaron Judge

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Speaker 3: to make an impact in this game. I mean, this

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Speaker 3: is a very non assuming, unassuming person, and he delivered

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Speaker 3: brilliantly in both of the World Baseball Classics that he

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Speaker 3: well known name, Ken Vinnie pas Quentino obviously plays for

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Speaker 3: the Kansas City Royals, but he was the absolute ring

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Speaker 3: leader of Team Italy and being able to obviously have

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Speaker 3: the three home runs in one game, and then the

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Speaker 3: espresso shots for each home run, and then the double

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Speaker 3: kisses and all of the things. We know that that

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Speaker 3: Ned Colletti of course was the architect of the team

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Speaker 3: Quentino really was the rallying cry for Team Italy, and

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Speaker 3: the attention paid to Team Italy and baseball well has

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Speaker 3: gone up leaps and bounds because of this tournament and

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Speaker 3: kind of the Cinderella story of what Team Italy was

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Speaker 3: supposed to do, all led by Vinnie Pasquentino.

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

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Speaker 1: ways was the story of the tournament. This was our Cinderella,

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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: 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: Why because of the team of course that they faced

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Speaker 1: and Team Venezuela what a tremendous run to the WBC title.

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Speaker 1: Their first WBC title, it was their first final, and

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Speaker 1: as well, greeting the members of Team Venezuela after the game.

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Speaker 1: But the Venezuelan passion that we saw and the emotion

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Speaker 1: one of the cooler things that I can remember in

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Speaker 1: and a lot of you'll appreciate this as a former

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Speaker 1: when they made their run. I think it was in

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Speaker 1: Crowd was going nuts in Miami. There's a ton of

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Speaker 1: They're right behind you. Know, there's usually a netting that

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Speaker 1: you're right there. And at one point when that rally

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Speaker 1: I turned around just kind of looked around and this

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Speaker 1: Venezuelan and fans said, Ken, have you ever seen anything

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Speaker 1: like this? And the answer, of course was no, I

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Speaker 1: had never seen anything like it. And congratulations the team

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Speaker 1: venezuela amazing performance and just cool to see how they

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Speaker 3: It's such a beautiful tournament and the emotion was so real.

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Speaker 3: And I love what you said about Bryce Harper. Obviously

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Speaker 3: he was the offense in the final game for Team USA,

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Speaker 3: but pointing to the United States flag when he's rounding

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Speaker 3: lasting moment in a victory for the United States, but

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Speaker 3: you had mentioned it quickly, Ken, when Bryce Harper went

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Speaker 3: that was such a class act. Another moment that stood

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Speaker 3: and you know, it's like, I think it was PCA

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Speaker 3: cool moment. Because we've talked about it at length Ken

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Speaker 3: how the WBC some guys say perhaps it's a little

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Speaker 3: I would like to see baseball back of the Olympics

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Speaker 3: with major league players in the Olympics. It doesn't matter

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Speaker 3: what sport it is when you're watching the Olympics, right,

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Speaker 3: I always go back to when they're doing the cross

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Speaker 3: the name of the sport, but you're watching for the jersey.

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Speaker 3: You're not watching for the sport. And I think that's

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Speaker 3: what makes this so unbelievable to watch, is when you

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Speaker 3: out to me too. But when you're talking about Venezuela

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Speaker 3: A you henne O Suarez with the emotion he has

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Speaker 3: the Venezuelan flag draped over him coming out of the

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Speaker 3: We all know what's happened to Venezuela in terms of

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Speaker 3: civil unrest over the course of the last five, six, seven,

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Speaker 3: h I tell you it was a very special moment.

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Speaker 3: I'm so psyched that you were able to be their

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Speaker 3: phenomenal coverage all around the board, and I can't wait

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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: people I remember saying this before the tournament. I believe

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Speaker 1: get it. If you don't believe that it should be

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Speaker 1: taking place in spring training when we're getting ready for

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Speaker 1: the major league season. I understand that concern, that criticism,

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

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Speaker 1: The games are amazing, and we saw that again in

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Speaker 1: this WBC.

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Speaker 4: Now back to the major league portion of our program

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Speaker 4: and our schedule. We've got some news out of Blue

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Speaker 4: Jays camp this morning, and it's disturbing news, not necessarily surprising.

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Speaker 4: Treya Savage, the great rookie who had that amazing run

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Speaker 4: in the postseason last year, is going to start the

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Speaker 1: Now they've been slow playing with him. They feel he's

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Speaker 1: going to be okay. But this is the fourth Blue

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Speaker 1: will start the season on the IL Shane Bieber, of course,

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Speaker 1: fatigue is his situation. Jose Berrios, he has a stress

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Speaker 1: fractor in his elbow. Boden Francis has already undergone season

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Speaker 1: ending UCL surgery, So they're left with a rotation that

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Speaker 1: is still pretty good. Don't get me wrong. It's Gossman

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Speaker 1: and Cease and Scherzer and Cody Ponce and Eric Lauer,

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Speaker 1: We need you, buddy. So that's where the Blue Jays are.

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Speaker 5: It's not ideal, obviously, but what they'll try to do

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Speaker 5: is obviously get through with the rotation pieces that they have,

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Speaker 5: and then as these players come back from their injuries,

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Speaker 5: they should be in a better place, assuming, of course,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right about the remainder of the rotation.

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Speaker 3: god that Max Shr's are really wanted to go back

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Speaker 3: to Toronto obviously. Kevin Gossman just said yesterday on foul

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Speaker 2: So they still have some good guys there.

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Speaker 3: But it's a shame to hear that the left shoulder

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Speaker 3: impigment with excuse me, with your savage is a right

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Speaker 5: All right?

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Speaker 3: Another bit of news, if you will say a Suzuki,

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Speaker 3: do you have an update with him and the Cubs can.

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Speaker 1: No the Athletics. Patrick Mooney has reported that they're continuing

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Speaker 1: to evaluate him and it's a strange posterior cruciate living.

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Speaker 1: It's obviously not ideal, but Craig Counsel believes that it's

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Speaker 1: actually good news. You see they tweet from Patrick there yesterday.

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Speaker 1: The club is going to wait until the weekend before

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Speaker 1: making a decision on his Opening day availability. Opening day

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Speaker 1: is overrated. If the guy's not ready for opening day,

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Speaker 3: Welcome you back to Fair Territory with Ken Rosenthal Ken.

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Speaker 3: Our first question here on Grill and Ken is from

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Speaker 3: Elvis Santoyo. When discussing a player's decision to participate in

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Speaker 3: I mean, he's nineteen years old, Kenny's already married. There's something,

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Speaker 3: Of course, I enjoyed getting to know him a little

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Speaker 1: bit different than some of his past teams because the guys,

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Speaker 1: the younger guys, were quieter and he wasn't so sure

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Speaker 1: them there. And he has a terrific personality. He's got charisma,

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Speaker 1: he has all the things you would want in a

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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: How 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 due.

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Speaker 5: To the week.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I loved his embrace with Francisco Cervelli after Italy

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Speaker 3: lost to Venezuela as well. All right, time now for

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Speaker 3: our dork of the week. All right, Ken, I'm going

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Speaker 3: to go to the Giants. They're gonna make their foul

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Speaker 3: poles with a Chick fil A sponsorship. Listen, I love

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Speaker 3: Chick fil A. I'm always bummed when I want Chick

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Speaker 3: fil A and it's on a Sunday because they're closed.

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Speaker 3: I love the chicken sandwich, extra pickles, It's amazing. But Ken,

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Speaker 3: there's not a Chick fil A in the ballpark. There's

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Speaker 3: not even a Chick fil A in San Francisco.

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Speaker 2: What 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, So.

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Speaker 5: I get it.

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Speaker 1: It's just a little weird that there's no Chick fil

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Speaker 1: A available at the park or 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 the 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 3: Just stop it.

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Speaker 2: These guys can off your mind.

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Speaker 3: All you need to know, America is that we got

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Speaker 3: 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.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for getting in your questions for Ken. We appreciate it.

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Speaker 3: Ken as always, thank you for all of the insight.

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Speaker 3: Don't forget everybody. Fair Territory returns on Monday with Ken.

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Speaker 3: Until then, have a great wait. Don't forget Dodger's territory

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