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Speaker 2: Welcome back, Welcome home for anxiety. I know that this

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Speaker 2: you can bring back all of the goods to the

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles Dodgers, where you belong. In all seriousness, though,

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Speaker 2: welcome back. It's great to have you kind of just

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Speaker 2: explain how this all all went down and why you're

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I appreciate all of that. Alan, It really

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Speaker 1: is great to be back with the Dodgers. Obviously, great organization,

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Speaker 3: Back farhand, pleasure to meet you, hoping hopefully we can

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Speaker 3: this year. I do want to ask you how much

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's just gonna be People are probably

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Speaker 1: You know, maybe it has to do with my own

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Speaker 1: So I mean, if you're a competitor, you want to

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Speaker 1: NIG success, There's no question about that. But I think

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we saw the bar really raised in

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Speaker 3: the NL West this offseason. Kind of talk about the

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Speaker 3: competition that Dodgers will be facing this coming season. Arizona

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Speaker 3: looking great, obviously, San Francisco made some moves, the Padres

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Speaker 3: kind of making some move late moves late. What can

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Speaker 3: the Dodgers to kind of help it was it raising tide,

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Speaker 3: it helps the Dodgers. It feels like to me.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, look, you're the hunted in this division,

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Speaker 1: great job landing Willie Adamis. That's been a hole for

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Speaker 1: I think it's the best division in baseball. It's really competitive,

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Speaker 2: We let you go just one quick one. How does

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Speaker 1: It was really interesting for me being around the last

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Speaker 1: So I just saw an incredibly motivated group of players,

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Speaker 1: But anybody who's worried about the level of motivation of

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Speaker 1: I heard some of Andrews interview and him talking about

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Speaker 1: and you really see that everywhere you look when you

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Speaker 3: That is far anxiety the special advisor or the average advisor.

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Speaker 3: To thank you, Mark Walder and the Los Angeles Dodgers farhead,

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Speaker 3: we appreciate the time, looking forward to hopefully you getting

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Speaker 3: a ring with this team in twenty twenty five and

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Speaker 3: appreciate the time.

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Speaker 1: Again, thanks so much. Great talking to you guys.

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Speaker 2: Yes and thank you to far Anxiety for being on

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Speaker 2: the show. Go Dodgers Clinton, I'll see on Monday.

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