1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,559 Speaker 1: And then in like could could improve they had maybe 2 00:00:03,600 --> 00:00:05,320 Speaker 1: you could throw your curve ball a little bit more, 3 00:00:05,320 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: and Kershon just goes, yeah, that'll never happen. 4 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:17,319 Speaker 2: Oh and good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the latest and 5 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:21,320 Speaker 2: live edition of Dodgers Territory. I am Alana Rizzo. That 6 00:00:21,520 --> 00:00:23,960 Speaker 2: is Clint Pascius, and we're going to change things up 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 2: a little bit today. Clint, we're gonna go ahead and 8 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:29,640 Speaker 2: kick things off with Behind the Seams and my friends, 9 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 2: you can take a victory lap. 10 00:00:32,280 --> 00:00:34,560 Speaker 3: We'll see, we'll see. Let's get into behind the Seams. 11 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:37,320 Speaker 2: Be a little nervous. 12 00:00:37,920 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 3: I thought I was waiting for a front and I 13 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 3: wasn't one hundred percent sure, but let's talk. Didn't happen? 14 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:47,239 Speaker 3: Do I have extra music somewhere? What's going on? Our 15 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:49,920 Speaker 3: pets heads are falling off, But the Dodger playing well, 16 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:53,080 Speaker 3: that's the important thing. We're listen. It's all live, guys. 17 00:00:53,120 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 3: Things happen, but uh, the Dodgers are playing well. We 18 00:00:56,720 --> 00:00:59,840 Speaker 3: were gonna maybe take a victory lap on the Gavin 19 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:02,840 Speaker 3: l situation. Gavin lux Core struggling a little bit to 20 00:01:02,880 --> 00:01:06,759 Speaker 3: open his season. Miguel Rojas in short time, far out 21 00:01:07,120 --> 00:01:11,840 Speaker 3: performing Gavin lux at the plate. But then Gavin goes 22 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:13,880 Speaker 3: and decides to have himself a hell of a game 23 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:17,040 Speaker 3: on Wednesday, drops a couple of hits, playing really really 24 00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:20,119 Speaker 3: nice defense at second base. It looks like maybe some 25 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:23,560 Speaker 3: changes in the stance in the swing and maybe just 26 00:01:23,680 --> 00:01:26,559 Speaker 3: maybe my almost victory lap as I do the Kermit 27 00:01:26,600 --> 00:01:29,000 Speaker 3: the Frog. We have the graphic there on the screen, 28 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:31,800 Speaker 3: my tweet of sipping the tee for my friend Blake 29 00:01:31,840 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 3: Harris's tweet. Gavin could be figuring some things out as 30 00:01:38,480 --> 00:01:39,680 Speaker 3: as it goes in baseball. 31 00:01:39,720 --> 00:01:42,040 Speaker 2: You know you have my theory on this though, Clint, 32 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:45,600 Speaker 2: I think that the reason that you're seeing these numbers 33 00:01:45,600 --> 00:01:48,560 Speaker 2: from Gavin is because he has so much pressure to 34 00:01:48,600 --> 00:01:51,440 Speaker 2: perform to prove that he belongs at the big league 35 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:54,800 Speaker 2: level on a consistent basis. He wants to show them 36 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 2: that the draft pick, that the opportunity to be the 37 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 2: starting shortstop last year prior to the injury, that the 38 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:04,280 Speaker 2: opportunity to put him in the lineup every single day 39 00:02:04,360 --> 00:02:08,080 Speaker 2: is not a mistake. Migil Rojas, a much more seasoned player, 40 00:02:08,240 --> 00:02:11,560 Speaker 2: a much more veteran player, doesn't have that same type 41 00:02:11,639 --> 00:02:14,520 Speaker 2: of pressure on him, So he's not going to press 42 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:16,360 Speaker 2: as much. Miguel's going to make the most that he 43 00:02:16,400 --> 00:02:18,440 Speaker 2: can with the time that he has, because he's already 44 00:02:18,480 --> 00:02:22,120 Speaker 2: gotten a relatively large contract. He already knows that his 45 00:02:22,280 --> 00:02:26,000 Speaker 2: place in this game is as a utility player. He's 46 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:29,520 Speaker 2: not going to be your everyday guy. Gavin is still 47 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:32,799 Speaker 2: young enough where he wants to be the everyday guy, 48 00:02:32,840 --> 00:02:36,400 Speaker 2: and at that draft pick, and with those expectations, he's 49 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:38,600 Speaker 2: supposed to be an everyday guy. I mean, is there 50 00:02:38,639 --> 00:02:40,960 Speaker 2: something to be said for that in terms of the 51 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:43,200 Speaker 2: numbers and the production that we're seeing from both of 52 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:45,079 Speaker 2: those guys in the time that they're given. 53 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,160 Speaker 3: Well, I mean, we saw that with migil Rojas last 54 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:51,880 Speaker 3: year kind of pressed into everyday duty with the injury 55 00:02:51,919 --> 00:02:54,600 Speaker 3: to Lux, and he did struggle. He was coming off 56 00:02:54,639 --> 00:02:57,160 Speaker 3: of a wrist injury, had a few things working against him. 57 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:59,200 Speaker 3: Did turn it on in the second half of the 58 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:01,440 Speaker 3: season later in the season, but with Lux, you know, 59 00:03:01,480 --> 00:03:03,840 Speaker 3: admittedly he's got a lot of things going on for him. 60 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:07,120 Speaker 3: He is coming off of a major knee injury, major 61 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 3: knee surgery, has not played baseball, you know, consistently for 62 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:15,800 Speaker 3: the better part of a year. I think the pieces 63 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:18,120 Speaker 3: are starting to fall a little bit for him now, 64 00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:21,440 Speaker 3: and they these two guys with Lux and Rojas right now. 65 00:03:21,520 --> 00:03:23,360 Speaker 3: The Dodgers don't want to call it, Dave Roberts does 66 00:03:23,400 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 3: not want to call it a platoon. It is a platoon. 67 00:03:25,880 --> 00:03:28,760 Speaker 3: That's what we're seeing. Gavin is not playing against our 68 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:31,880 Speaker 3: starting against left handed starters, and maybe that's helping him 69 00:03:31,919 --> 00:03:34,600 Speaker 3: kind of get a little bit on track. Some swing 70 00:03:34,720 --> 00:03:37,800 Speaker 3: changes we've seen in the in the box, in the stands, 71 00:03:37,880 --> 00:03:41,280 Speaker 3: so I think we're trending in the right direction. And 72 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:45,000 Speaker 3: admittedly I've been very, very harsh on Gavin over the 73 00:03:45,080 --> 00:03:46,960 Speaker 3: years because there is a lot of that. I agree 74 00:03:46,960 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 3: with you a lot of there's a lot of that pressure. 75 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:51,400 Speaker 3: There's a lot of you know, things that come with 76 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:53,920 Speaker 3: being that high draft pick, all of the pomp and 77 00:03:54,000 --> 00:03:57,000 Speaker 3: circumstance that I'm sure you remember in twenty nineteen when 78 00:03:57,000 --> 00:04:00,640 Speaker 3: he made that debut, and we've seen flash. 79 00:04:00,320 --> 00:04:00,920 Speaker 1: Of the brilliance. 80 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:03,480 Speaker 3: But we need him, the Dodgers need him to be 81 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 3: consistent and run with what they're giving him right now. 82 00:04:07,720 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 3: Because Dave said, you're gonna give him a long runway 83 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:10,600 Speaker 3: you're in. 84 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:12,600 Speaker 2: He deserves it. And the reason I say that is 85 00:04:12,640 --> 00:04:14,920 Speaker 2: because I remember when I back a million years ago, 86 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:18,239 Speaker 2: probably before you were even born. I was covering the university. 87 00:04:18,279 --> 00:04:20,400 Speaker 2: I lived in Madison, Wisconsin, right, So I was covering 88 00:04:20,400 --> 00:04:22,839 Speaker 2: the University Wisconsin. I was covering the Brewers, the Packers, 89 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:24,400 Speaker 2: the Bucks, this that and the other thing. And I 90 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:27,040 Speaker 2: remember hearing about Gavin Lux when he was itty itty 91 00:04:27,040 --> 00:04:29,760 Speaker 2: bitty like coming up. And then he's, you know, a Kenosha, 92 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:34,080 Speaker 2: Wisconsin kid, not a year round baseball city state obviously, 93 00:04:34,520 --> 00:04:37,279 Speaker 2: so he comes with some high expectation. So the leash 94 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:39,039 Speaker 2: is gonna be long, at least to give him an 95 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 2: opportunity to prove like, this is why I was a 96 00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:44,480 Speaker 2: high draft pick. This is why the Dodgers saw they 97 00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:46,480 Speaker 2: saw me as their starting shortstop. 98 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:47,360 Speaker 1: All right. 99 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:49,520 Speaker 2: So we had a tweet here. If we can get 100 00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:51,839 Speaker 2: that back up, Jeremy, I'd appreciate that, because we always 101 00:04:51,880 --> 00:04:56,799 Speaker 2: appreciate you guys participating in our Dodgers' territory conversation before 102 00:04:56,839 --> 00:04:59,920 Speaker 2: we get into the job that NAC did Vince Ryder 103 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:04,159 Speaker 2: as dude, I'd rather have who. 104 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:09,560 Speaker 3: Is Austin Guffier. He's uh, is he fine? Well, yeah, 105 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:11,680 Speaker 3: he's he's been tearing it up. I think he's a 106 00:05:11,760 --> 00:05:14,599 Speaker 3: triple A right now, he's hitting the cover off the ball. 107 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:16,520 Speaker 3: The Dodgers have a few guys hitting the cover off 108 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:18,520 Speaker 3: the ball, which makes it a little bit tougher to 109 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:24,880 Speaker 3: watch Lux flounder. But again Lux deserves his time. It's 110 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:27,280 Speaker 3: very early in the season. Hey, you look at the standings. 111 00:05:27,279 --> 00:05:29,599 Speaker 3: The Dodgers are in first place. They can afford these 112 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:32,599 Speaker 3: kind of opportunities, especially when everybody else is hitting on 113 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:33,280 Speaker 3: all cylinders. 114 00:05:33,320 --> 00:05:36,080 Speaker 2: Now again, the thing is too though. You look at 115 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:37,680 Speaker 2: the fact. And I'm going to continue to bring up 116 00:05:37,760 --> 00:05:40,120 Speaker 2: Jackson Holiday when I talk about this stuff, because the guy, 117 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:43,280 Speaker 2: you know, number one prospect in all of baseball, I 118 00:05:43,279 --> 00:05:45,080 Speaker 2: think he has two hits so far in the big leagues. 119 00:05:45,080 --> 00:05:47,400 Speaker 2: It's not easy people. It is not like you're going 120 00:05:47,480 --> 00:05:51,760 Speaker 2: to come up here and automatically be in the Hall 121 00:05:51,800 --> 00:05:53,760 Speaker 2: of Fame or be an All Star. And Justin has 122 00:05:53,800 --> 00:05:55,680 Speaker 2: this to say, look at what Carol, Witt and Bolby 123 00:05:55,720 --> 00:05:57,839 Speaker 2: of accomplished in lists amount of time. As looks I 124 00:05:57,880 --> 00:06:00,640 Speaker 2: get it, like I get it. You know, Carroll was 125 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 2: the Rookie of the Year last year. Bobbywood, junior of 126 00:06:02,960 --> 00:06:07,200 Speaker 2: the Kansas City Royals, just had signed a massive contract. 127 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:10,479 Speaker 2: I mean, I understand, but again, a lot of pressure. 128 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:13,640 Speaker 2: I'm gonna give Gavin Lux the benefit of the doubt 129 00:06:13,680 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 2: that he's gonna figure this out because there's obviously something there. 130 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 2: And I don't like the fact that every time he 131 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 2: goes oh for something, he's probably looking over his shoulder 132 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 2: right like someone's coming for my job. That's a lot 133 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:29,680 Speaker 2: of pressure. I feel that way for him, and mcgil 134 00:06:29,720 --> 00:06:33,040 Speaker 2: rohess doesn't have that same type of pressure. But one 135 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:36,400 Speaker 2: kid that we can brag about, obviously Landon Neck picking 136 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:38,320 Speaker 2: up his first big league win. What'd you see from him? 137 00:06:39,080 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 3: I like what we're seeing from land and Neck in 138 00:06:41,839 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 3: his first two big league starts. He's getting himself into trouble, 139 00:06:44,440 --> 00:06:47,599 Speaker 3: but most importantly, he's pitching his way out of trouble. 140 00:06:47,720 --> 00:06:50,960 Speaker 3: Yes yesterday the Wednesday game, he did walk in a run, 141 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:54,719 Speaker 3: but after that mostly kept kept the wheels on the bus. 142 00:06:54,760 --> 00:06:56,680 Speaker 3: And that's where this team is at right now. They 143 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:58,280 Speaker 3: just need some dudes that are going to show up, 144 00:06:58,520 --> 00:07:01,480 Speaker 3: keep the wheels on the bus. Innings from the kid 145 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 3: three hits you got. Of course he's gonna walk. Some 146 00:07:04,440 --> 00:07:06,919 Speaker 3: guys did walk the bases, loaded walks that run in. 147 00:07:07,080 --> 00:07:09,760 Speaker 3: But I like what I'm seeing out of Land and 148 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:11,560 Speaker 3: Neck and another one of those guys that comes with, 149 00:07:11,840 --> 00:07:14,880 Speaker 3: you know, a lot of expectations. He was a relatively 150 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,080 Speaker 3: high draft pick all things considered. Draft, you know, Dodgers 151 00:07:18,080 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 3: don't draft very very high all the time. But kind 152 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:23,320 Speaker 3: of had his ups and downs in the minor leagues, 153 00:07:24,520 --> 00:07:27,200 Speaker 3: sort of had a breakout last year and he's riding 154 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:30,720 Speaker 3: it to his first career win with the Dodgers. Now, 155 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:33,360 Speaker 3: the first career win as a big leaguer. I'd love 156 00:07:33,360 --> 00:07:35,040 Speaker 3: to see that. And you hope he got the beer shower. 157 00:07:35,040 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 3: You hope he got everything thrown on him in the 158 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:40,080 Speaker 3: locker room. But this dude's kind of been a steadying 159 00:07:40,120 --> 00:07:43,520 Speaker 3: force in only two starts, something this team is very 160 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 3: much needed. 161 00:07:44,680 --> 00:07:46,280 Speaker 2: And I love the fact that he settled down. You 162 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:48,280 Speaker 2: mentioned it a little bit. I mean he ended up 163 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:51,880 Speaker 2: getting the last thirteen batters, you know, retiring that he faced. 164 00:07:51,880 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 2: I mean, that's pretty good. That's pretty good for a 165 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:56,480 Speaker 2: young kid. I mean, just don't start him in the 166 00:07:56,520 --> 00:07:58,640 Speaker 2: first inning. Just start him in the third. We'll just 167 00:07:58,680 --> 00:08:01,480 Speaker 2: have an opener for a first couple of innings. But 168 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:05,320 Speaker 2: you know what's it's Land and Knacks stepping up when 169 00:08:05,320 --> 00:08:07,920 Speaker 2: they needed some depth. It's also a veteran in Daniel 170 00:08:07,960 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 2: Hudson stepping up. And that's a guy again that's kind 171 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:12,040 Speaker 2: of going to be like an accordion. We're gonna use 172 00:08:12,040 --> 00:08:13,720 Speaker 2: you when we need you and kind of smash you 173 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:16,440 Speaker 2: back down when we don't. But Daniel Hudson proved to be, 174 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:19,880 Speaker 2: you know, another benefit to bringing him back to the Dodgers. 175 00:08:20,280 --> 00:08:23,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, veteran leader this team has absolutely needed in the 176 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:27,040 Speaker 3: bullpen at this point in time. Gotta love Danny Hudson 177 00:08:27,040 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 3: coming back from missing the better part of two years 178 00:08:29,720 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 3: with knee injuries. Thought about hanging up the spikes this 179 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:38,160 Speaker 3: offseason to now be essentially a massively important piece. This 180 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:40,400 Speaker 3: is a minor league signing in the offseason, you know, 181 00:08:40,480 --> 00:08:43,599 Speaker 3: and being a massively important piece, kind of bridging the 182 00:08:43,760 --> 00:08:47,280 Speaker 3: gap through some injuries with Blake Trin and with Bruce 183 00:08:47,320 --> 00:08:50,000 Speaker 3: dark Gratterol who's going to be missing more time. So 184 00:08:50,160 --> 00:08:52,840 Speaker 3: a lot of things. We talked about it on Monday, 185 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:55,760 Speaker 3: that Sunday game being a get right game. Now we 186 00:08:56,160 --> 00:08:58,440 Speaker 3: can say they got right, and they got right in 187 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:01,199 Speaker 3: these two games. And one guy who has very much 188 00:09:01,520 --> 00:09:04,719 Speaker 3: been right, we'll call him the greatest showman. We got 189 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:05,880 Speaker 3: to talk show Hey Otani. 190 00:09:05,960 --> 00:09:09,080 Speaker 2: Guys, Oh, I love this the greatest Showman. By the way, 191 00:09:09,080 --> 00:09:11,440 Speaker 2: before we get into show hey really quick, I do 192 00:09:11,520 --> 00:09:14,080 Speaker 2: want to say you were the one that said, we'll 193 00:09:14,120 --> 00:09:15,920 Speaker 2: see if they win a couple of these games on 194 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:18,360 Speaker 2: the road, it'll be more of like that Sunday game 195 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:20,240 Speaker 2: at home was a get right game. That looks like 196 00:09:20,280 --> 00:09:23,680 Speaker 2: they are proving you right. So show Hey Otani, Clint, 197 00:09:23,720 --> 00:09:25,760 Speaker 2: we were talking about this earlier on our production call. 198 00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:30,520 Speaker 2: He has sneakily quietly been the best in baseball in 199 00:09:30,559 --> 00:09:34,120 Speaker 2: almost every single offensive category. And I'm thinking this guy's 200 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 2: getting off to a slow start. Everybody was waiting for 201 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:37,800 Speaker 2: him to hit his first home run as a Dodger. 202 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 2: Then he's first in almost every category that matters. 203 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:43,240 Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I guess you can justify a seven 204 00:09:43,360 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 3: hundred million dollar contract. 205 00:09:44,559 --> 00:09:46,520 Speaker 2: And we will be talking I don't know about that, but. 206 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:51,320 Speaker 3: Two million dollar contact. He is only getting a you know, 207 00:09:51,400 --> 00:09:53,600 Speaker 3: oh poor show hey, getting two million dollars a year 208 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:55,960 Speaker 3: for the next ten years. But we will be talking 209 00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:57,679 Speaker 3: more show Hey, coming up in a little bit, guys, 210 00:09:57,840 --> 00:10:00,240 Speaker 3: with our guest Andy McCullough, who should be joining us 211 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:03,520 Speaker 3: very very soon. But since hitting that homer. I think 212 00:10:03,800 --> 00:10:06,440 Speaker 3: I have the number somewhere else. Joe Hey posting an 213 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 3: OPS over thirteen hundred since hitting that first home run 214 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 3: at Dodger Stadium, though the batting average over four seventy. 215 00:10:14,920 --> 00:10:17,920 Speaker 3: I think at this point of course, entering play on Thursday, 216 00:10:18,320 --> 00:10:22,840 Speaker 3: this dude is pretty flipping good at baseball and I 217 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 3: love watching him. I love watching this guy every single day. 218 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:28,120 Speaker 3: I know that's not really breaking news there, but he 219 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:30,840 Speaker 3: is fun to watch play baseball. 220 00:10:31,280 --> 00:10:33,040 Speaker 2: One thing that's crazy, too, is if you look at 221 00:10:33,080 --> 00:10:35,839 Speaker 2: the top ten hardest hit balls by Dodgers this year, 222 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:38,360 Speaker 2: show Hey Otani has nine of them and James Outman 223 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:41,199 Speaker 2: has won. It's insane. It's like a bunch of Sho 224 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:43,600 Speaker 2: Hay's heads and then Outman's like right in the middle. 225 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 2: So it's like Otani Otani, Otani, Otani, Outman, Otani Otani 226 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:49,800 Speaker 2: Otani Otani. Andy McColl is getting ready to join this 227 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:51,920 Speaker 2: yere but Fabi and Ardaia said the same thing. He's like, 228 00:10:51,920 --> 00:10:54,440 Speaker 2: it's the hardest hit ball period by a Dodger by 229 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:58,400 Speaker 2: nearly three miles per hour. I mean, the kids just 230 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:02,120 Speaker 2: smashes the ball, just absolutely rakes and It is awesome 231 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:04,680 Speaker 2: to see him again very quietly, because show Hay is quiet, 232 00:11:05,240 --> 00:11:09,240 Speaker 2: very quietly becoming or not becoming, continuing to be one 233 00:11:09,280 --> 00:11:13,080 Speaker 2: of the best to play in this game. Sarah Lang's 234 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:16,480 Speaker 2: the great Sarah langs Otani already had two unanimous MVPs 235 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:19,439 Speaker 2: and is off to his best start through twenty six games, 236 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:22,400 Speaker 2: which is insane. He could be on his way to 237 00:11:22,520 --> 00:11:24,959 Speaker 2: his third MVP. And here I was thinking, like, when's 238 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:28,640 Speaker 2: Otani gonna get going? Well, Rizzo, he's gotten going, He's gone. 239 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,760 Speaker 3: Yeah, he is full tilt. We are seeing the best 240 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:34,360 Speaker 3: of show Hao Tony. That was one of those things 241 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:37,880 Speaker 3: you kind of hoped with Sho Hao Tani just focusing 242 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:41,520 Speaker 3: on the hitting this season was you could see the 243 00:11:41,559 --> 00:11:43,880 Speaker 3: best of the best of show. Hey, and I believe 244 00:11:44,240 --> 00:11:47,280 Speaker 3: we one hundred percent are, But let's continue that conversation 245 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:52,320 Speaker 3: with our guests. The Athletics senior writer senior graded everything. 246 00:11:52,400 --> 00:11:55,160 Speaker 3: Andy McCulla set us up better than I did Alta. 247 00:11:55,600 --> 00:11:58,800 Speaker 2: Andy McCulla does a tremendous job writing for the Athletic. 248 00:11:58,840 --> 00:12:02,000 Speaker 2: Of course, Dodger fans know him well, Kansas City Royals 249 00:12:02,040 --> 00:12:04,240 Speaker 2: fans know him well. He was there in the heyday 250 00:12:04,280 --> 00:12:08,840 Speaker 2: you know, the ned yost Eric Hosmer day of the 251 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:11,120 Speaker 2: Kansas City Royals. And now he's doing a tremendous job 252 00:12:11,400 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 2: as one of the lead writers for The Athletic. And 253 00:12:13,440 --> 00:12:17,880 Speaker 2: oddly enough, somehow Andy McCullough was able to get Clayton 254 00:12:17,960 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 2: Kershaw to agree to do a book on him. It 255 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 2: is available for pre order now. It's available on May seventh, 256 00:12:25,679 --> 00:12:27,240 Speaker 2: which is coming up in just a week. Is called 257 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 2: The Last of His Kind Clayton Kershaw by Andy mccullch Andy, 258 00:12:30,800 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 2: thanks for being with us and congratulations on this. I 259 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:36,280 Speaker 2: have to ask you first, how did you get Kersh, 260 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:38,520 Speaker 2: who can be a little prickly, How did you get 261 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:40,400 Speaker 2: Kersh to agree to do this? Because he's not a 262 00:12:40,440 --> 00:12:41,959 Speaker 2: guy that likes to talk about himself. 263 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:44,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, I will say, I don't want to betray his 264 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 1: confidence too much, but he did. I sent him an 265 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:48,520 Speaker 1: early copy and he did tell me today he does 266 00:12:48,559 --> 00:12:49,520 Speaker 1: not plan on reading it. 267 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:52,960 Speaker 2: Not surprised. 268 00:12:53,240 --> 00:12:56,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, no, So, I mean, you know, on the one hand, 269 00:12:56,400 --> 00:12:58,880 Speaker 1: I think like, yeah, he is a fairly private person 270 00:12:58,960 --> 00:13:02,080 Speaker 1: in a fairly guarded person, but he's also like very 271 00:13:02,120 --> 00:13:06,440 Speaker 1: available in that you know, he has times built into 272 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:09,160 Speaker 1: his schedule where He's available to talk to the media 273 00:13:09,240 --> 00:13:13,000 Speaker 1: basically every day, and so you know, it's not like 274 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 1: a hard person to find per se. And I, you know, 275 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 1: in in May of twenty twenty two, I, you know, 276 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:20,800 Speaker 1: I live in New York. Now I used to live 277 00:13:20,840 --> 00:13:22,800 Speaker 1: in LA, but I flew to LA and I approached 278 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:24,560 Speaker 1: him and basically just told him, you know, hey, look, 279 00:13:24,600 --> 00:13:27,559 Speaker 1: I think that you know, I'm interested in writing a 280 00:13:27,559 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 1: book about you. I think you know, your career is 281 00:13:30,559 --> 00:13:32,760 Speaker 1: worthy of kind of like a you know, full scale 282 00:13:32,760 --> 00:13:35,880 Speaker 1: sort of biographic treatment. I think the book would be 283 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:38,080 Speaker 1: better if you participate. I'm going to try and do 284 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:39,600 Speaker 1: it either way, but I think it would be better 285 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:41,800 Speaker 1: if you're a part of it. And he was like, okay, yeah, 286 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:45,400 Speaker 1: sounds good. And you know, it wasn't like a big negotiation. 287 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:48,559 Speaker 1: There was no discussion with you know, agents or handlers 288 00:13:48,720 --> 00:13:50,480 Speaker 1: or anything like that. I mean, he kind of just 289 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 1: you know, he agreed to it, went home and I 290 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:54,960 Speaker 1: think talked to his wife Ellen, and you know, she 291 00:13:55,120 --> 00:13:58,120 Speaker 1: was on board, and yeah, it was pretty like straightforward. 292 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:00,920 Speaker 1: I think that he understood that at some point someone 293 00:14:01,080 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 1: was going to try and write a book about him, 294 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:05,560 Speaker 1: and it was probably better to you know, at least 295 00:14:05,559 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 1: have his voice in there, if that makes sense. 296 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:11,040 Speaker 3: Yeah, we know, Andy that you interviewed more than two 297 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:13,080 Speaker 3: hundred people. That's what it tells us when you're reading 298 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:16,400 Speaker 3: about this book. Did you uncover anything that was kind 299 00:14:16,440 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 3: of unexpected when you're researching Clayton Kershaw this deep. 300 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, there was a lot of stuff. There was 301 00:14:22,720 --> 00:14:24,360 Speaker 1: There was a there was a lot of stuff that 302 00:14:24,640 --> 00:14:26,720 Speaker 1: that I didn't know about that hadn't been reported about. 303 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 1: I don't know how much like too much I want 304 00:14:29,560 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 1: to spoil person. I'm not good at this. If you 305 00:14:31,400 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 1: couldn't already tell you know, like there was a there 306 00:14:36,080 --> 00:14:38,720 Speaker 1: was a time in the minor leagues when he flipped 307 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:42,040 Speaker 1: his car, you know, and you know, had a very 308 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:47,160 Speaker 1: scary accident, you know, driving home from visiting his girlfriend 309 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:49,680 Speaker 1: now wife at Texas A and M. That I had 310 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:51,920 Speaker 1: never heard about. It's never been reported. 311 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:53,560 Speaker 2: I think. 312 00:14:53,640 --> 00:14:56,640 Speaker 1: You know. What was the most interesting for me really 313 00:14:57,080 --> 00:14:59,520 Speaker 1: was spending time with him in this past year in 314 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:03,120 Speaker 1: twenty two three, is he was dealing with the shoulder injury. 315 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:06,160 Speaker 1: As he was dealing with, you know, just how challenging 316 00:15:06,200 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 1: it was to pitch last year, and kind of having 317 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:13,840 Speaker 1: an inside look at like what it is like, what 318 00:15:14,080 --> 00:15:19,480 Speaker 1: it requires to be at his level, what it requires physically, mentally, 319 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:23,680 Speaker 1: you know, emotionally, spiritually, all that to be as equipped 320 00:15:23,680 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 1: as he is every fifth day to compete, and the 321 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 1: stresses on him, you know that that places I found 322 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:31,000 Speaker 1: that to just be really, really fascinating. 323 00:15:31,080 --> 00:15:33,160 Speaker 2: I guess he's on his way to Cooper's town, Andy. 324 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:36,840 Speaker 2: I don't think there's anybody that can think otherwise. If 325 00:15:36,920 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 2: they do, they need their head examined, and they've not 326 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 2: been paying attention to what Kersha has done over the 327 00:15:40,600 --> 00:15:43,720 Speaker 2: last decade and change. Hopefully though we see him on 328 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 2: the hill again prior to that. Do you think that's 329 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 2: the case. 330 00:15:46,880 --> 00:15:48,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, his hope is to be back in 331 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: July or August. You know, he's coming back from obviously 332 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:53,800 Speaker 1: major shoulder surgery. You know, capsule surgery is no joke. 333 00:15:53,960 --> 00:15:57,040 Speaker 1: It's a it's a real you know, several times during 334 00:15:57,040 --> 00:15:59,440 Speaker 1: this process, so you know, I thought to myself, like, man, 335 00:15:59,680 --> 00:16:02,560 Speaker 1: most pitchers kind of get gapsule surgery and they get 336 00:16:02,560 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 1: a real estate license, you know. And he's kind of 337 00:16:05,080 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 1: decided to you know, he decided to just go under 338 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:10,640 Speaker 1: the knife and try and come back and so you know, 339 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:13,160 Speaker 1: it feels dumb to bet against him, you know, at 340 00:16:13,160 --> 00:16:16,160 Speaker 1: the same time, like it's a it's a huge surgery, 341 00:16:16,280 --> 00:16:18,280 Speaker 1: and you know it's it's it's gonna you know, it's 342 00:16:18,280 --> 00:16:19,840 Speaker 1: gonna be a challenge to come back from. But he's 343 00:16:19,880 --> 00:16:21,920 Speaker 1: you know, hopeful to be back this summer. You know, 344 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:25,200 Speaker 1: he's kind of on track, but you know, hasn't been 345 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:27,400 Speaker 1: a pitching in games or anything like that, and it's 346 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:30,480 Speaker 1: still sort of building up the strength and so yeah, 347 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 1: it's it's I I suspect he will be back. What's 348 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,040 Speaker 1: he gonna look like? Who can say? I mean, he 349 00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:37,840 Speaker 1: had a fairly destroyed shoulder last year and had the 350 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:41,240 Speaker 1: second lowest ERA in baseball besides Blake Snell among guys 351 00:16:41,240 --> 00:16:43,320 Speaker 1: with like one hundred and thirty innings. So like, he 352 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:46,160 Speaker 1: obviously is still very, very good at this. It's just 353 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 1: kind of a matter of, like, you know, physically what 354 00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:49,680 Speaker 1: he's what he's capable of doing. 355 00:16:50,400 --> 00:16:52,960 Speaker 3: Yeah, we know. Uh, Clayton does not want that last 356 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:56,200 Speaker 3: image of him on the mound to be that Game 357 00:16:56,240 --> 00:16:59,000 Speaker 3: one start against timing Backs and the NLDS. I don't 358 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:02,960 Speaker 3: think anybody wants that to be the situation. Clayton has 359 00:17:03,000 --> 00:17:06,360 Speaker 3: been kind of a master of reinventing himself. We've seen 360 00:17:06,400 --> 00:17:09,160 Speaker 3: the velo kind of drop. We've seen him really lean 361 00:17:09,240 --> 00:17:11,560 Speaker 3: on that. We'll call it a slider because he hates 362 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:15,480 Speaker 3: calling it a cutter. But he's adapted, he's adjusted. I 363 00:17:15,520 --> 00:17:17,480 Speaker 3: love what you call the book the title of the book, 364 00:17:17,520 --> 00:17:20,119 Speaker 3: the last of his kind, because that is a perfect title. 365 00:17:20,280 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 3: He is somebody that will adjust with the game and 366 00:17:23,240 --> 00:17:26,639 Speaker 3: with his body, even when that shoulder is falling off. 367 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:31,080 Speaker 3: We know Clayton is somebody that was kind of reluctant 368 00:17:31,080 --> 00:17:34,119 Speaker 3: to get into the analytic game, kind of get behind 369 00:17:34,240 --> 00:17:36,760 Speaker 3: that in front of the edgeotronic camera and all that. 370 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:40,160 Speaker 3: I'm sure you got a little bit about a little 371 00:17:40,280 --> 00:17:43,560 Speaker 3: from Kersha about his feelings his thoughts on analytics, and 372 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:44,639 Speaker 3: you speak to that a little bit. 373 00:17:44,880 --> 00:17:47,800 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I don't think he's anti analytics per se. 374 00:17:48,080 --> 00:17:50,760 Speaker 1: I think that he is always it's very difficult to 375 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:53,679 Speaker 1: get him to change what he wants to do. Like, 376 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:57,439 Speaker 1: for example, the first year that Andrew Friedman and Farhan 377 00:17:57,560 --> 00:18:00,320 Speaker 1: Zaiety were in charge of the Dog or so the 378 00:18:00,359 --> 00:18:02,480 Speaker 1: spring of twenty fifteen, they met with every player on 379 00:18:02,520 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 1: the forty man roster and they basically made you know, 380 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 1: these these presentations. There was like strengths and weaknesses, you know, 381 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:11,520 Speaker 1: and and uh so they sit with Kershaw. He just 382 00:18:11,560 --> 00:18:13,359 Speaker 1: won the MVP. You know, he had one of the 383 00:18:13,400 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 1: best seasons in you know, modern baseball history in terms 384 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:18,919 Speaker 1: of pitching. And they're going through all the pluses and 385 00:18:18,960 --> 00:18:22,280 Speaker 1: strengths and you know, you know, the strikeouts controls, the 386 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:25,119 Speaker 1: running game, throws strikes, you know, blah blah blah, like 387 00:18:25,160 --> 00:18:28,680 Speaker 1: the limits damage and then in like could could improve 388 00:18:28,760 --> 00:18:30,760 Speaker 1: they had maybe you could throw your curve ball a 389 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:33,240 Speaker 1: little bit more, and Kershaw just goes, yeah, that'll ever happen, 390 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:39,280 Speaker 1: and that he's just you know, he's a stubborn person. 391 00:18:39,359 --> 00:18:41,440 Speaker 1: But I think the stubbornness is part of what makes 392 00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:44,840 Speaker 1: him great and one of the challenges, I think, and 393 00:18:44,880 --> 00:18:47,160 Speaker 1: one of the part of the things that is charged 394 00:18:47,240 --> 00:18:50,560 Speaker 1: charted through this book is like how to stay ahead 395 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:54,440 Speaker 1: of the curve, how to stay elite while yeah, and 396 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:57,359 Speaker 1: change while not losing sight of who you are. And 397 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:00,680 Speaker 1: so actually I don't want to like too much disagree. 398 00:19:00,760 --> 00:19:02,760 Speaker 1: Like you described him as like a master of evolution, 399 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:06,080 Speaker 1: Like I think, you know, it's early in the book. 400 00:19:06,119 --> 00:19:09,640 Speaker 1: He's there's like a little nugget where he was talking 401 00:19:09,640 --> 00:19:11,400 Speaker 1: to his wife Ellen and they were talking about Zach 402 00:19:11,440 --> 00:19:13,800 Speaker 1: Grenk and Kershaw was saying something the effective like, you know, 403 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:17,800 Speaker 1: Zach reinvents himself every three to five years and new sequences, 404 00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:19,560 Speaker 1: all this new stuff. And she was like, well, you 405 00:19:19,600 --> 00:19:22,440 Speaker 1: don't do that at all, and he's like, no, I'm 406 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:24,280 Speaker 1: just trying to figure out how to make what I 407 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:27,680 Speaker 1: do keep working. And what he does is he throws 408 00:19:27,720 --> 00:19:31,919 Speaker 1: fastballs and sliders glove side down and that and that's it. 409 00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:34,399 Speaker 1: That's what he does. And it's like he has done 410 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:37,560 Speaker 1: that basically for sixteen years, and he does there's other 411 00:19:37,680 --> 00:19:40,359 Speaker 1: variance to it. You know, he changes things, there's curdaball stuff, 412 00:19:40,400 --> 00:19:43,280 Speaker 1: but that's really what it's about is fastballs and slider's 413 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:46,600 Speaker 1: glove side down, and like he kind of just sticks 414 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:49,560 Speaker 1: to the strings and is still waiting essentially for the 415 00:19:49,560 --> 00:19:51,480 Speaker 1: industry to be able to catch up to it. 416 00:19:51,880 --> 00:19:54,359 Speaker 2: Man, I'm looking at these videos from the twenty twenty 417 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:57,000 Speaker 2: World Series, which is just so it was so incredible 418 00:19:57,040 --> 00:19:58,719 Speaker 2: to be there in such a weird year to do 419 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:00,800 Speaker 2: it in and you know, obviously and as you know, 420 00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:03,760 Speaker 2: every year this team is put together to win it again. 421 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:07,159 Speaker 2: So let's talk about the current Dodgers. Obviously we help 422 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:11,000 Speaker 2: Pershaw's back in the summer, but Joe Otani obviously one 423 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 2: of the best in the game to ever do it. 424 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 2: What has been your your thought about how he has 425 00:20:15,840 --> 00:20:19,080 Speaker 2: integrated himself into the clubhouse, into the team, and just 426 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 2: talk about one of his kind, just how he is. 427 00:20:23,359 --> 00:20:25,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think it's you guys were talking 428 00:20:25,880 --> 00:20:27,680 Speaker 1: a little bit about like you were saying so many 429 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:29,760 Speaker 1: effects like kind of waiting for him to get going, 430 00:20:29,920 --> 00:20:32,840 Speaker 1: and I was kind of thinking that, like relatively recently too, 431 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 1: And then I checked his Baseball reference and it's like 432 00:20:35,320 --> 00:20:37,879 Speaker 1: he's got a twelve hundred ops. You know, it's just 433 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:39,959 Speaker 1: kind of like he's had some spots with like runners 434 00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:42,159 Speaker 1: and scoring position where he hasn't come through, and you're like, 435 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:45,040 Speaker 1: but then you look up and you're like, he's hitting 436 00:20:45,080 --> 00:20:49,119 Speaker 1: three seventy five. Yeah, I mean, I think to be 437 00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:52,080 Speaker 1: doing what he's doing at the plate at a time 438 00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:55,200 Speaker 1: when like he was, you know, basically at the center 439 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:59,440 Speaker 1: of this massive scandal for like a month and had 440 00:20:59,480 --> 00:21:03,920 Speaker 1: the person who is effectively his one sort of known 441 00:21:04,040 --> 00:21:06,320 Speaker 1: friend in the world to find out to you know, 442 00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:09,520 Speaker 1: betrayed him. To the you know, to the extent that 443 00:21:09,560 --> 00:21:13,400 Speaker 1: Ipa Mizahara allegedly did. I mean, it hasn't affected him 444 00:21:13,400 --> 00:21:15,240 Speaker 1: at all on the field, which is just sort of 445 00:21:15,440 --> 00:21:18,160 Speaker 1: you know, it says says a lot at the very 446 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:22,359 Speaker 1: least about his ability to compartmentalize, you know, to to separate, 447 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:24,679 Speaker 1: you know, whatever is going on outside the ballpark. And 448 00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:27,440 Speaker 1: I think as we've as we've learned in the past month, 449 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:29,879 Speaker 1: we have no idea what's going on outside the ballpark 450 00:21:29,920 --> 00:21:33,400 Speaker 1: when they're not like so it's not even you know whatever. 451 00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:36,840 Speaker 1: And I think it's still it's an interesting process where 452 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:40,159 Speaker 1: you know, he's he's trying to integrate himself into the 453 00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:43,240 Speaker 1: Dodgers clubhouse. At the same time, you know, it's like, look, 454 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:45,240 Speaker 1: there's a lot of guys. There's a lot of you know, 455 00:21:45,359 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 1: really talented, really uh you know, prolific sort of players 456 00:21:51,040 --> 00:21:52,679 Speaker 1: who are kind of doing their thing. You know, Freddie 457 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:54,639 Speaker 1: Freeman knows what he needs to do when he comes 458 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:56,440 Speaker 1: to the ballpark. You know, Mookie Bets knows what he 459 00:21:56,480 --> 00:21:57,800 Speaker 1: needs to do when he comes to the ballpark. Or 460 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 1: Tani's in that same bucket where like he shows up 461 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:02,639 Speaker 1: and he knows the five six things he has to 462 00:22:02,640 --> 00:22:05,359 Speaker 1: do to get ready, and so you know, sometimes that 463 00:22:05,520 --> 00:22:08,720 Speaker 1: is a is a solitary pursuit, as it were. But 464 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:11,360 Speaker 1: I think in the past, you know, week two weeks, 465 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:14,440 Speaker 1: you know, the coaches, you know, Dave Roberts, they've been 466 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:16,600 Speaker 1: a little bit more proactive about, you know, trying to 467 00:22:17,000 --> 00:22:18,879 Speaker 1: talk to him about, you know, various things with his 468 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:21,040 Speaker 1: approach with mechanics all that stuff. I mean, it's they're 469 00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:22,919 Speaker 1: in this, they're still in this. They're in this weird 470 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:26,120 Speaker 1: place where they're like fascinating by him, clearly, but they're 471 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:28,200 Speaker 1: also trying to make him better or at least trying 472 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:31,360 Speaker 1: to help him, you know, optimize. And you know, it's 473 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 1: just gonna it's gonna be really interesting to watch to 474 00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:36,000 Speaker 1: see if you know, he can even level up even 475 00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:38,680 Speaker 1: more as a hitter, because he's obviously like it's pretty 476 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 1: freakish right now. 477 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:44,160 Speaker 2: A couple of other questions really quickly for me, do 478 00:22:44,240 --> 00:22:48,000 Speaker 2: you think or do you subscribe to the thought that 479 00:22:48,040 --> 00:22:50,720 Speaker 2: he should just focus on hitting and not worry about pitching. 480 00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:56,800 Speaker 1: I mean, I I I've wrote about this maybe last year, 481 00:22:56,920 --> 00:22:59,280 Speaker 1: Like I was pretty convinced, like when he came into 482 00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:00,520 Speaker 1: the league. It's like he's he's not going to be 483 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:02,800 Speaker 1: able to do this, like he's gonna get hurt, and like, hey, 484 00:23:02,800 --> 00:23:05,760 Speaker 1: look I was right. No, never mind the stuff that 485 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:07,640 Speaker 1: happened in those years where he was you know, Babe 486 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 1: Ruth and a twelve win player, you know, all that 487 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,920 Speaker 1: sort of stuff. So like, look, yeah, it's pretty clear 488 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 1: his body can't do both. Like it's just the body is. 489 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:20,320 Speaker 1: The body's providing the answer. However, you're gonna tell him no, 490 00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:22,480 Speaker 1: like we're gonna you're gonna say no, don't do this. 491 00:23:22,640 --> 00:23:25,240 Speaker 1: Like he's shown that he can do it, Now can 492 00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 1: he do it long term? You know, obviously not. He's 493 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:32,040 Speaker 1: had two elbow reconstructions in the past, you know, six years. 494 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,399 Speaker 1: That said, like, if he's able to come back and pitch, 495 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:38,480 Speaker 1: you know, give you one hundred innings in addition to 496 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:40,840 Speaker 1: what he's doing at the plate. You know, yeah, it 497 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:45,879 Speaker 1: seems worthwhile to do it. But if he's gonna be 498 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:49,919 Speaker 1: like a twelve hundred ops dh Like, yeah, I almost 499 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:52,400 Speaker 1: would rather have that. I don't know, it's a it's 500 00:23:52,440 --> 00:23:54,880 Speaker 1: a as Dave Roberts would say, it's a high class problem, 501 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:56,440 Speaker 1: you know, I. 502 00:23:56,359 --> 00:24:00,320 Speaker 3: Mean, yeah, you can have a nine hundred ops you know, 503 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:03,479 Speaker 3: at the plate, and you could also have yourself twelve 504 00:24:03,480 --> 00:24:06,560 Speaker 3: wins and twenty starts. You don't know how I guess 505 00:24:06,640 --> 00:24:08,959 Speaker 3: really that is more of the question. They signed him 506 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:11,440 Speaker 3: to this massive deal ten years, seven hundred million dollars. 507 00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 3: I think most Dodgers fans really want to see him 508 00:24:15,160 --> 00:24:18,960 Speaker 3: do both for the entirety of his career as a 509 00:24:19,000 --> 00:24:21,600 Speaker 3: baseball guy. You're somebody who's watched this game, covered this 510 00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,200 Speaker 3: game for a long time. Now, what is that in 511 00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:28,040 Speaker 3: the realm of reality? Like, do we see him pitching 512 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 3: and hitting into you know, age thirty nine, age forty? 513 00:24:32,119 --> 00:24:35,679 Speaker 1: I mean, you know my instinct is no. But like 514 00:24:36,080 --> 00:24:38,159 Speaker 1: he you know, I think this was the same thing 515 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:42,399 Speaker 1: I was referencing. Like he's expanded the understanding of what 516 00:24:42,560 --> 00:24:45,480 Speaker 1: is possible, you know, the humans can do, like on 517 00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:48,400 Speaker 1: a baseball field, right like he If you had talked 518 00:24:48,400 --> 00:24:50,879 Speaker 1: about this ten years ago, you'd be like, no, a 519 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:54,119 Speaker 1: human being cannot do that. Well, he's demonstrated that it 520 00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:57,120 Speaker 1: can be done. He's put together, you know, three seasons 521 00:24:57,119 --> 00:24:59,639 Speaker 1: where he was able to do both at such an 522 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:04,840 Speaker 1: elite level. So I, I, uh, while the sort of 523 00:25:04,920 --> 00:25:07,679 Speaker 1: logic and the actual aerial tables and the basic you know, 524 00:25:07,840 --> 00:25:10,520 Speaker 1: just facts of coming back from you know, a second 525 00:25:10,880 --> 00:25:13,320 Speaker 1: Tommy John or elbow reconstructure or whatever the heck they're 526 00:25:13,440 --> 00:25:15,520 Speaker 1: saying the surgery is a brace or something. I don't know, 527 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:20,520 Speaker 1: his elbows really messed up. The basic facts of that, 528 00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:23,000 Speaker 1: you know, suggest that he can't do it. But he's 529 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:26,720 Speaker 1: proven people wrong his entire career, you know, and I 530 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:28,680 Speaker 1: am I am sure the Dodgers will give him a 531 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:30,200 Speaker 1: chance to do it again next year. 532 00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 2: Where were you when there was Toronto Otawni gait. I 533 00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:38,560 Speaker 2: don't know that there has been an off season. I 534 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:42,119 Speaker 2: remember vividly when we were all together. I think it 535 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:44,120 Speaker 2: was in San Diego at the winter meetings the year 536 00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:47,240 Speaker 2: that the Dodgers signed Kenley Jansen to the extension, Justin 537 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:49,359 Speaker 2: Turner to the extension, and they signed Rich Hill. And 538 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:54,040 Speaker 2: I remember, like Dylan Hernandez like this just couldn't handle anything. 539 00:25:54,160 --> 00:25:56,240 Speaker 2: I mean, it was there was so much going on. 540 00:25:56,920 --> 00:26:01,000 Speaker 2: So what did you think about the fiasco of just 541 00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:02,919 Speaker 2: kind of where is Otani gonna sign? 542 00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:05,840 Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I think I think that 543 00:26:05,920 --> 00:26:08,399 Speaker 1: it's uh, that was a very strange day. I was. 544 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:13,200 Speaker 1: Where was I I was with my family for early Christmas. 545 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:15,800 Speaker 1: I have a very large family, and so we all 546 00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:18,119 Speaker 1: have various significant others, and so my family likes to 547 00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:21,040 Speaker 1: uh do Christmas like two weeks ahead of time, I guess. 548 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:24,160 Speaker 1: So we were down the Jersey Shore together and uh 549 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,280 Speaker 1: and so I told my mom. I was like, hey, sorry, 550 00:26:26,320 --> 00:26:28,919 Speaker 1: I can't really come to dinner right now. I have 551 00:26:29,000 --> 00:26:32,960 Speaker 1: to make phone calls for a little while. But uh, yeah, 552 00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:40,200 Speaker 1: I a really bizarre story. I think I found Otani's 553 00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:45,560 Speaker 1: insistence on privacy or whatever the heck was going on 554 00:26:45,640 --> 00:26:50,040 Speaker 1: the industry is just absolute terror about discussing his free 555 00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:53,080 Speaker 1: agency to be just silly, and I actually thought it 556 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,359 Speaker 1: was refreshing, even if he didn't necessarily mean to do 557 00:26:55,359 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 1: it on purpose, for Dave Roberts to come out and say, yeah, 558 00:26:57,800 --> 00:26:59,399 Speaker 1: we met with Otani, we'd like to sign him. He's 559 00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,119 Speaker 1: the best player. Yeah, I just you know, I I 560 00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:05,960 Speaker 1: know that that was not team's intention to make a 561 00:27:06,000 --> 00:27:08,639 Speaker 1: huge scene out of that, but I did appreciate it. 562 00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:11,520 Speaker 1: So yeah, I just I found the process to be 563 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:15,040 Speaker 1: just kind of a bit silly, and that day was 564 00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:20,159 Speaker 1: by far the silliest. I would say the Blues have 565 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:22,520 Speaker 1: that the shark tank guy throw out the first pitch 566 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:23,040 Speaker 1: this weekend. 567 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,639 Speaker 3: That would be funny, the most the most famous plane 568 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:27,440 Speaker 3: we got John Boy waking up early in the morning 569 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,960 Speaker 3: to put together plane Gate or whatever the hell it was. 570 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:32,720 Speaker 3: That was a funny day and it was a great 571 00:27:32,800 --> 00:27:35,480 Speaker 3: day for all Dodgers fans. The next day where show 572 00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:37,919 Speaker 3: Hey did what everybody thought he was gonna do. He 573 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:42,040 Speaker 3: broke the news himself on Instagram. Now he is a 574 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,879 Speaker 3: Dodger for for life. And uh, you know what. That 575 00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,879 Speaker 3: plane is on its way to Toronto after this final 576 00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:51,760 Speaker 3: game for real in Washington. And it is for real. 577 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:54,119 Speaker 3: This is not a drill, guys, It is for real. 578 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:56,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, Andy, what. 579 00:27:56,400 --> 00:28:00,520 Speaker 2: Was the most rewarding thing about putting this book together? 580 00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:02,000 Speaker 2: And again, you can get it now and you can 581 00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:04,399 Speaker 2: pre order it. It's available base The Last of his 582 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:08,359 Speaker 2: Kind Clayton Kusha and The Burden of Greatness, written by 583 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:10,840 Speaker 2: the Great Andy McCullough. What was What do you take 584 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:14,240 Speaker 2: away from this as your most proud moment? 585 00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,080 Speaker 1: I mean, just kind of getting to the end. I 586 00:28:17,119 --> 00:28:20,560 Speaker 1: mean I had a feeling when I kind of filed 587 00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:24,440 Speaker 1: I filed most of it, finished most of it in September, 588 00:28:24,880 --> 00:28:27,520 Speaker 1: and just a real feeling of satisfaction of having done it. 589 00:28:27,520 --> 00:28:29,560 Speaker 1: It's something I'd wanted to do. You know, my whole 590 00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:31,200 Speaker 1: career is write a book. And I know a lot 591 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,919 Speaker 1: of friends who have done it and talked about the experience, 592 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:37,359 Speaker 1: and it was just something that you know, I had 593 00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:39,080 Speaker 1: always wanted to do, and I worked really hard. You know, 594 00:28:39,120 --> 00:28:40,760 Speaker 1: I have a cat that wakes me up every day 595 00:28:40,760 --> 00:28:43,440 Speaker 1: at four in the morning and so to be fed, 596 00:28:43,480 --> 00:28:45,200 Speaker 1: and so I would get up and feed the cat 597 00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:47,720 Speaker 1: and then write from like four to six or seven, 598 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,120 Speaker 1: you know, And so a whole summer of doing that 599 00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:55,040 Speaker 1: was very strange. So getting to the end and just 600 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:57,240 Speaker 1: kind of you know, kind of putting the finishing touches 601 00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,680 Speaker 1: on the bulk of the book was really rewarding, but 602 00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,200 Speaker 1: in a less like personally, you know, less about me. 603 00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,600 Speaker 1: I mean, I just really enjoyed talking to all the 604 00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:09,240 Speaker 1: people I got a chance to talk to, Like I 605 00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,120 Speaker 1: never would have had a reason to call like Randy 606 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:15,120 Speaker 1: Wolf or you know, Juan Pierre, Orlando Hudson or just 607 00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:17,040 Speaker 1: you know, all these guys who had just great memories 608 00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:20,400 Speaker 1: of Kershaw but just great like perspective on baseball, and 609 00:29:20,480 --> 00:29:23,760 Speaker 1: you know, so just getting to connect with with some 610 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:25,360 Speaker 1: of these people. Actually I'll tell you I know, sorry, 611 00:29:25,400 --> 00:29:27,800 Speaker 1: I know him going along. But there was one guy 612 00:29:27,840 --> 00:29:30,040 Speaker 1: in particular who I really really liked talking to. His 613 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:35,080 Speaker 1: name was Dave Previosi. He played with Kershaw when in 614 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:39,320 Speaker 1: when Kershaw was in rookie ball in Vero Beach and 615 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:41,680 Speaker 1: Kirshall was eighteen years old, and Priviosi was like a 616 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:45,360 Speaker 1: twenty three year old guy out of Boston College. He 617 00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:47,560 Speaker 1: threw like seventy five miles an hour. He was just 618 00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:49,640 Speaker 1: he was like very aware that he had no chance 619 00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 1: in baseball, but he really enjoyed the summer he spent, 620 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,080 Speaker 1: you know, kind of like getting a chance to be 621 00:29:56,160 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 1: a professional and to you know, live a version of 622 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:01,960 Speaker 1: the dream. And he was so impressed with how you know, 623 00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:04,719 Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw and Preston Maddingly don Son, who's now the 624 00:30:04,880 --> 00:30:08,400 Speaker 1: assistant general manager of the Phillies, the way they conducted himself. 625 00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:13,440 Speaker 1: And he he was really, he was really he followed 626 00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 1: Kershaw's career all through. Hey, you know this guy he 627 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:19,160 Speaker 1: left baseball and got a job, you know, working in 628 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:24,560 Speaker 1: Boston or whatever. And and when I when I talked 629 00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,280 Speaker 1: to him, he asked me, He's like, hey, if you 630 00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:29,320 Speaker 1: talk to Clayton, can you ask him if he remembers me? 631 00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 1: And and so I said, I said, hey, I talked 632 00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:35,240 Speaker 1: to this guy, and Kershaw like looked at the ground 633 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:39,640 Speaker 1: and he was like, like I went to Boston College, right, 634 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:41,480 Speaker 1: and he like told a little story about him. And 635 00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:43,760 Speaker 1: when I texted this guy Dave, you know, David Berbillos, 636 00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:46,720 Speaker 1: he just seemed like so touched, you know, and that 637 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,600 Speaker 1: like he's still you know that that Kershaw remembered him, 638 00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:51,480 Speaker 1: and you know he had played like a small part, 639 00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:53,040 Speaker 1: you know, with this person. And so it's just like 640 00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:55,360 Speaker 1: little things like that that happened a lot along the 641 00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:58,280 Speaker 1: way that I found to be really enjoyable. 642 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:02,080 Speaker 2: That's awesome. Where can you get the book, Andy tell 643 00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 2: us our viewers and our listeners. 644 00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:08,080 Speaker 1: Sure, yeah, wherever you buy books, you know, your local 645 00:31:08,280 --> 00:31:12,040 Speaker 1: indie bookstore, Barnes and Noble, Amazon Bookshop dot Org. I 646 00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 1: don't have a preference. I was told to try and 647 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:17,120 Speaker 1: spread it out as much as possible, So like, wherever 648 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,040 Speaker 1: you feel comfortable buying books. 649 00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,160 Speaker 2: That is the quote of the year so far for 650 00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:26,360 Speaker 2: Dodgers territory. Andy McCullough, Where can I get your book? 651 00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 2: Wherever you buy books? Just you know wherever it's true 652 00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:30,160 Speaker 2: by books. 653 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,400 Speaker 1: If where the place that you go to buy books 654 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,240 Speaker 1: is the place I would like you to buy this book. 655 00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:41,760 Speaker 2: Andy McCullough, tremendous job. Congratulations. I look forward to reading it. 656 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:43,880 Speaker 2: Thank you for taking the time to be here on 657 00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:47,040 Speaker 2: Dodgers territory and your insight on theat on the great Cursha, 658 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 2: the last of his kind, and the burden of greatness. 659 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:52,600 Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Andy. We'll talk to you soon soon. 660 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,560 Speaker 2: All right, Andy McCullough with the athletic and Clint, it 661 00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,720 Speaker 2: is now time for last licks. And we have a 662 00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:03,239 Speaker 2: special pup and this actually his name is also and 663 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:06,040 Speaker 2: he actually has a home. But unfortunately he was just 664 00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:09,960 Speaker 2: diagnosed with cancer. So we are trying to raise some 665 00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:14,000 Speaker 2: funds to help get him as comfortable as possible and 666 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,080 Speaker 2: get him the medication that he needs to try to, 667 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:18,640 Speaker 2: you know, prolong his life as much as possible. So 668 00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,000 Speaker 2: let's take a look at him there. He is also 669 00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,880 Speaker 2: chomping on a bully stick. You can you can help 670 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:28,320 Speaker 2: us out by going to Gidreysguardian dot org any any 671 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:32,360 Speaker 2: amount five dollars, three dollars, five hundred dollars, whatever you 672 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,960 Speaker 2: can do to help because obviously that costs are huge 673 00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,240 Speaker 2: and we're trying to see what we can do to 674 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:41,160 Speaker 2: to help him extend his life. He was a dog 675 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,200 Speaker 2: that was rescued, uh through my organization. We got him 676 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,200 Speaker 2: up to Canada into a forever home and now let's, uh, 677 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:50,600 Speaker 2: let's help him extend his life if we can, yeah. 678 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:54,520 Speaker 3: Help anyway, you guys. Can A's another adorable pupper on 679 00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:55,000 Speaker 3: this show. 680 00:32:55,720 --> 00:32:57,720 Speaker 2: Oh he's such a good boy. Well, I think that's 681 00:32:57,760 --> 00:32:59,000 Speaker 2: gonna do it for us, right are we? 682 00:32:59,040 --> 00:32:59,200 Speaker 1: Are? 683 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:02,200 Speaker 2: We good to? And he Cola was fun. I appreciate it. 684 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:04,600 Speaker 2: By the way, Dave Roberts is going to be on 685 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,680 Speaker 2: Foul Territory tomorrow, so make sure you check that out. 686 00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:12,000 Speaker 2: Dave Roberts Dodgers skipper on Foul Territory. Clint has a 687 00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:15,600 Speaker 2: Thursday Thursday tonight on All Dodgers. Join Clint over there. 688 00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,600 Speaker 2: You can subscribe, you can like on YouTube and anywhere 689 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:20,520 Speaker 2: you get your podcasts, and if you like what we're doing, 690 00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,080 Speaker 2: check us out and help us out too. 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