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Speaker 1: From the Berkshars to the sound from wherever you live

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Speaker 1: in MLB America. This is Inside the Parker. You give

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Speaker 1: us twenty two minutes and we'll give you the scoop

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Speaker 1: on Major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of Fame

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Speaker 1: voter number seventy, Rob Parker.

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Speaker 2: Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker. What

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Speaker 2: a special Shohei Oltani edition of Inside the Parker with

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Speaker 2: Jerry Harriston Junior, the former Major League infielder and outfielder

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Speaker 2: and analysts for the Dodgers on the Spectrum sportsnet LA.

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Speaker 2: Also Manti Bolanos, she's a weekend host on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Will also get her perspective.

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Speaker 1: Let's go better up to lead off, it's getting robbed

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Speaker 1: and keep them on. Rob's hot take on the three

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Speaker 1: biggest stories in Major League Baseball. Number one, it is

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Speaker 1: the perfect marriage.

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Speaker 2: I don't care what anybody says, show hail tany going

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Speaker 2: to the Los Angeles Dodgers, a blue blood franchise, ten years,

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Speaker 2: seven hundred million dollars. I know the money's eye popping

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Speaker 2: and people can't get over it. The athletes and other

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Speaker 2: sports got dwarfed in the NFL. Those guys are looking

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Speaker 2: like seven hundred, like what and even in the NBA.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think show Hat's contract bigger than maybe

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Speaker 2: the best players in all the other leagues combined. I mean,

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Speaker 2: that's how big it is. But the point is it's

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Speaker 2: perfect for baseball. I do not I repeat, I don't

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Speaker 2: hate Toronto. I think it's a great international city and

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Speaker 2: we know the Blue Jays history. They won back to

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Speaker 2: back World Series in the nineties. But show Hay needs

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Speaker 2: to be on a team in the United States for baseball.

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Speaker 2: This is going to help the sport grow. The sport.

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Speaker 3: There's a big difference.

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Speaker 2: I know that Anaheim and Los Angeles only forty three

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Speaker 3: When you talk about.

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Speaker 3: It's a big difference.

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Speaker 2: And for baseball's sake, show Hey being with the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: Number Two, the Dodgers didn't.

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Speaker 2: Do anything illegal by deferring ninety seven percent of show

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Speaker 3: He's only gonna make twenty million.

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Speaker 2: Out of the ten year deal that that's currently So

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Speaker 2: it's two million a year for ten years, and then

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Speaker 2: the other six hundred and eighty million will be deferred

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Speaker 2: and payout through I think I read somewhere twenty forty

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Speaker 2: have to address this as far as competitive balance and

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Speaker 2: a team kicking the can down the road to dominate

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Speaker 2: or leverage, and I think that's what So you might

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Speaker 2: already alerted the Commissioner's office that they don't think this

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Speaker 2: that they could defer that amount of money. Ninety seven

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Speaker 2: anywhere nobody does that, but Otani was able to do

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Speaker 2: to win. The Dodgers have won one World Series and

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Speaker 2: I was twenty twenty since nineteen so it's been. As

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Speaker 2: Do not go to confetti r Russ and buy your

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Speaker 2: because the pitching is still questionable and suspect it really is.

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Speaker 2: The front of the podcast Jerry Harriston, junior of course,

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Speaker 2: former Major league infielder and outfielder and an analyst on

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Speaker 2: Spectrum Sports net LA. Jerry, Happy holidays, Welcome to the podcast,

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Speaker 2: my friend that talk with you man no doubt, and

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Speaker 3: Not in the baseball.

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Speaker 2: World, the sports world, I mean the Dodgers. Indeed, with

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Speaker 2: the signing of Shohail Tandy moved the needle.

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Speaker 3: Of course.

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Speaker 2: On Thursday's gonna be introduced the seven hundred million dollar

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Speaker 2: deal ten years with the Dodgers. Just your thoughts real quick, Jerry,

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Speaker 4: When I heard the announcement, I mean I was through

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Speaker 5: Yeah, nobody, nobody does what he does. Of the five

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Speaker 4: The best that feel the planet in all eyes will

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Speaker 4: perfect marriage. When you combine the best athlete on the

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Speaker 4: it is a perfect marriage. So I was from the

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Speaker 3: Uh, there's no doubt about that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, if you handcuffed them with that contract,

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Speaker 3: And as you know, in baseball, you could.

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Speaker 2: and do things. But Jerry, here's the thing. You know,

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Speaker 3: And I just never believed that thought. I thought his.

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Speaker 4: I listen, I it wasn't one of those guys because

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Speaker 4: So when you talk about shoe Otani, he is worth

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Speaker 4: I think fanatics just talked about this yesterday. He just

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Speaker 4: People are gonna want to see him on TV. People

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Speaker 3: All that stuff is amazing.

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Speaker 4: And you mentioned that Sui with the Yankees, that was

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Speaker 3: No doubt.

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Speaker 2: You talked about it before the last two years. Over

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Speaker 2: And you know, and you know, Jerry, because you played

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Speaker 4: So you know what it's like absolutely, And that Yankee

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Speaker 4: that's what it's about. Yes, the money is great and

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Speaker 2: You expect that for the Dodgers, be in no doubt,

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Speaker 2: his name is Jerry Harrison Junior, one of the best

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Speaker 2: on breaking down baseball, former Major League infield on outfielder. Hey, Jerry,

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Speaker 2: always a pleasure man. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays to you

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Speaker 2: and your family. And if there's more big Dodger news,

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Speaker 3: You already know that.

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Speaker 4: Always available for you. Rob, always a pleasure talking base

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Speaker 2: No doubt.

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Speaker 3: Stay well, Jerry, you too.

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Speaker 1: When Rob was a newspaper columnist, he lived by this

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Speaker 1: mottol if I'm writing, I'm ripping. Let's bring in a

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Speaker 2: Now, let's welcome in Monty Bolanos, who is a Fox

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Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, Hi Rob, it's my pleasure.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for having me, no doubt.

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Speaker 2: And obviously the baseball world has been turned upside down

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Speaker 3: I said, yeah, I know, right, did that happen? You

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Speaker 2: And Mancy I said, I was on Channel four KMBC

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Speaker 2: I said, I don't speak Japanese, but I'm assuming that

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Speaker 7: Yeah, but not for a while, right, He's not gonna

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Speaker 6: I just did not know that this was allowed.

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Speaker 2: To be honest with you, to this degree exactly. I

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Speaker 6: I mean I wanted to cry a little bit. I

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Speaker 7: I think like seeing it visually is where you're like,

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Speaker 2: Wow, Okay, no, it's incredible. It's an incredible number. And

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Speaker 3: The NFL and those guys they're like, oh my god

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Speaker 2: You don't know how many tweets and stuff I saw

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Speaker 3: He's pitching and hitting right now. You know what I mean?

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Speaker 7: Right, No, he is changing game before our eyes. I

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Speaker 6: It's crazy.

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Speaker 2: It is crazy. And I've always said that too, Like

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Speaker 3: You know, That's another thing.

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Speaker 3: So so when they tell kids that they can't do

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Speaker 2: You know, to specialize and be a kid show, right

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Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, Rob so I yeah, I was working

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Speaker 7: at the Dodgers today.

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Speaker 6: I've already lost track of life. Today's Thursdays. On Tuesday,

438
00:24:14,920 --> 00:24:15,399
Speaker 6: I went.

439
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 7: To work at the Dodgers and the amount of people

440
00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:22,920
Speaker 7: that already showed up to buy a show Hey Otani

441
00:24:23,080 --> 00:24:26,920
Speaker 7: jersey was insane. Every single person coming into the store

442
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,040
Speaker 7: was buying one. And let me tell you, we don't

443
00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:32,159
Speaker 7: have the show hey Otani jerseys. Like if you go

444
00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:34,320
Speaker 7: online and you order it says it's a pre order.

445
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Speaker 6: We don't have those.

446
00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:39,240
Speaker 7: We have the plane blank jerseys that are not the

447
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:43,160
Speaker 7: authentic ones. They're the replicas where you can add his name.

448
00:24:43,720 --> 00:24:47,359
Speaker 7: And that's exactly what people were doing. So we were

449
00:24:47,480 --> 00:24:51,159
Speaker 7: making jerseys on the fly, could not keep them on

450
00:24:51,320 --> 00:24:53,080
Speaker 7: the shelves. Like. They would make one and somebody would

451
00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:54,880
Speaker 7: come and buy it, like but we had to tell

452
00:24:54,920 --> 00:24:56,800
Speaker 7: them like, this is the this isn't the actual one

453
00:24:56,880 --> 00:24:58,800
Speaker 7: you would get online, this is what we can give

454
00:24:58,840 --> 00:24:59,359
Speaker 7: you right now.

455
00:25:00,240 --> 00:25:03,520
Speaker 6: Did not care. They still they still bought it.

456
00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:05,199
Speaker 3: I have been in the.

457
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:06,920
Speaker 6: Tour department at Dodgers.

458
00:25:07,119 --> 00:25:09,320
Speaker 7: For like, I think I'm going on like eight years

459
00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 7: right when we had Kenta Mayda, when we had you Darvish,

460
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:18,760
Speaker 7: when we had Hinjin Reu. The international guests that were

461
00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 7: coming through our gates was so high. And imagine now

462
00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:26,640
Speaker 7: was show hey because he is at a next level

463
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 7: Like you can't say he's not.

464
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,680
Speaker 6: He is a next level sensation.

465
00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:36,680
Speaker 7: And it's it's crazy how in twenty four hours, forty

466
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 7: eight hours, you can already see the impact that he

467
00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:44,680
Speaker 7: has going down the street, going down the street, he

468
00:25:44,920 --> 00:25:45,639
Speaker 7: was playing.

469
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Speaker 6: Down the road.

470
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Speaker 2: I know, It's not like he's just got to the

471
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Speaker 2: United States and we haven't seen him. He's been here

472
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Speaker 2: for six years.

473
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Speaker 6: Right stock down the street.

474
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Speaker 2: And and the other thing is didn't the outseell the

475
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Speaker 2: jerseys of Messystan.

476
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 7: Ronaldo, Yes, both of them in forty eight hours broke

477
00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:07,280
Speaker 7: that record.

478
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:10,879
Speaker 6: And you know soccer soccer players internationally.

479
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:12,400
Speaker 2: Are big time, big time.

480
00:26:12,400 --> 00:26:15,560
Speaker 7: Right, So like I tried to get a leone l

481
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,119
Speaker 7: Messi jersey in Miami. I wanted that pink one and

482
00:26:18,280 --> 00:26:20,439
Speaker 7: like it was instantly sold out. I'm sure I can

483
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 7: get one now, but he already broke their records. Last

484
00:26:23,080 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 7: I checked, there was still no official number. I'm wondering

485
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:28,840
Speaker 7: if they're still adding it up, but no, Yeah, he

486
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:34,480
Speaker 7: he is, you know, unprecedented. What sho hee o Tani is.

487
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:39,119
Speaker 2: Our guest is Monte Bolano. She is a weekend host

488
00:26:39,280 --> 00:26:43,600
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio and a tour lead at Dodger Stadium.

489
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Speaker 3: Tell me about.

490
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:49,000
Speaker 2: Giving people, uh the tours and what it is like

491
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:52,600
Speaker 2: and just like the balls that you've had at Dodger Stadium,

492
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:54,440
Speaker 2: you know, since the news broke.

493
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:59,879
Speaker 6: Oh, everybody is so excited because I think people works

494
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:00,760
Speaker 6: expecting it.

495
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,639
Speaker 7: You kept hearing these teams, these are the top teams

496
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 7: that are looking into it. But I think there was

497
00:27:05,840 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 7: always like, oh, he's gonna go to Dodgers. He's gonna

498
00:27:08,000 --> 00:27:09,879
Speaker 7: go to the Dodgers. So I think it's just a

499
00:27:09,920 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 7: little bit of release and a lot of excitement. And

500
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:16,440
Speaker 7: every single person coming through the door, you know that

501
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,679
Speaker 7: I was there on Tuesday now is like, Okay, so Yamamoto,

502
00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 7: what are we doing?

503
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:22,639
Speaker 6: Are we getting him? Like what's the deal with that?

504
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,880
Speaker 7: Like people have already just like associated that we're gonna

505
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:29,040
Speaker 7: get both of them. Especially Oh, It's like that's that's

506
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:32,720
Speaker 7: what everyone's talking about, especially because of this deferred situation

507
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 7: where shoh is giving up most of the money. They're like,

508
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:39,440
Speaker 7: this is this is perfect for Yamamoto. And then you

509
00:27:39,560 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 7: know there's that picture that ran Dietro Satday and I

510
00:27:42,119 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 7: posted with both of them. Apparently Yamamoto is now following

511
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 7: Bobby Miller and following like other Dodger players. It is

512
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 7: people are the Internet, you know, not the swifties, but

513
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 7: the Internet sleuths are in there.

514
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:56,720
Speaker 6: They are finding these.

515
00:27:56,600 --> 00:28:01,200
Speaker 7: Little details that really point like Yamamoto is coming to

516
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:05,199
Speaker 7: the Dodgers. But there is you know, people out there

517
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 7: saying that the Yankees are still the favored team for Yamamoto.

518
00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:12,440
Speaker 6: But that's what everybody is like kind of waiting on

519
00:28:12,600 --> 00:28:12,879
Speaker 6: right now.

520
00:28:13,080 --> 00:28:16,879
Speaker 2: Yeah, they say Yamamoto is more of a out front

521
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,440
Speaker 2: kind of star, wants to be on the bigger stage,

522
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:22,920
Speaker 2: you know, bigger stage and New York and Broadway.

523
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:24,680
Speaker 3: It would kind of do that. That's why I think

524
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:30,040
Speaker 3: they believe the Yankees have an advantage. Yeah, just an edge.

525
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:32,360
Speaker 3: I don't think that it's of the overwhelming edge.

526
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:33,400
Speaker 2: But that's the talk.

527
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 3: And we already saw what the Yankees didn't getting Wan Soto,

528
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 3: so they're yeah, making moves.

529
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:40,520
Speaker 2: They didn't make the playoffs last year. You know, that's

530
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:44,120
Speaker 2: not acceptable in the Bronx. Absolutely not so so definitely.

531
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 2: But give me a story to that. I kind of

532
00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 2: heard that after the signing of Otani that they canceled

533
00:28:52,200 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 2: the tours at the at Dodger Stadium.

534
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 3: What was that all about it?

535
00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 7: Yeah, so it was actually quite funny. This is last Wednesday,

536
00:28:59,200 --> 00:29:01,360
Speaker 7: and we're giving tours and we're busy. We have a

537
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,560
Speaker 7: lot of private tours, so we have public tours, we

538
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:05,720
Speaker 7: have private tours, we have private events.

539
00:29:05,880 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 6: Like it could be a very busy day.

540
00:29:07,520 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 7: And it was like Wednesday, maybe like one o'clock in

541
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,840
Speaker 7: the afternoon, and our boss comes to where the tours

542
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 7: are where we start at top deck, that's where everything

543
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,719
Speaker 7: gets started typically, and she's like, so, we just got

544
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,440
Speaker 7: an email and we're gonna have to cancel tours Friday.

545
00:29:22,880 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 7: And then she shows us the notice. Because this isn't normal.

546
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 7: We don't cancel tours. We have tours three hundred and

547
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 7: sixty five days a year, except on Christmas Day we

548
00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 7: are closed or if maybe there's a concert, you know,

549
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 7: and we can't do tours because of the concert. But

550
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 7: other than that, we run tours pretty much year round

551
00:29:40,600 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 7: and not it's not normal for them to suddenly ask.

552
00:29:44,080 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 6: Us to cancel tours. And this notice said we need.

553
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:50,600
Speaker 7: To cancel tours on Friday because we have to make

554
00:29:50,600 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 7: an announcement. They even said that we have to make

555
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:55,960
Speaker 7: an announcement. So we were like, what this never happens,

556
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 7: and our minds just went down the rabbit hole of

557
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 7: its showing show Hey, it's happening, Oh my goodness. But

558
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:04,840
Speaker 7: then we were like, okay, what if it's not show hey? Okay,

559
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:06,960
Speaker 7: everybody relaxed, like what if it's not and we started

560
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 7: thinking like, oh, maybe Kershaw's retiring and they want to

561
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:12,800
Speaker 7: make an announcement like so many other things. Then we

562
00:30:12,880 --> 00:30:16,600
Speaker 7: thought Yamamoto, maybe we just we were like, there's no

563
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,320
Speaker 7: way that it's show hey, and people like it's not

564
00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 7: trending yet, like that people don't know about it. But

565
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 7: it wasn't that they were signed that they were signing him.

566
00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 7: He was visiting that day and they literally just kind

567
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:30,960
Speaker 7: of closed down the store. If you didn't need to

568
00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:32,640
Speaker 7: come into work, they didn't want you to come into

569
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Speaker 7: war I.

570
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:33,360
Speaker 3: Didn't want.

571
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:40,480
Speaker 7: Exactly, and like they blocked off the player parking is

572
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 7: what I heard. Like they just really were extra extra careful,

573
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:49,120
Speaker 7: extra secretive, which is kind of funny because Dodger Stadium

574
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:51,560
Speaker 7: is kind of isolated, you know, like you can't really

575
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 7: go in there. You can walk on the outskirts of

576
00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 7: the street and you can't see inside.

577
00:30:55,840 --> 00:31:00,120
Speaker 6: It's not like Angel Stadium or even Petco Park. You know, oh,

578
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:01,760
Speaker 6: like you're on the street and it's like right there.

579
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:02,680
Speaker 6: Dodger Stadium.

580
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,440
Speaker 7: You actually have to get inside through security drive in

581
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:06,880
Speaker 7: and then you're at the stadium.

582
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 6: So it was funny that they went so you know,

583
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 6: crazy on it.

584
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 7: When you can't access the stadium, I'm like, nobody's gonna

585
00:31:14,840 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 7: see anything. But they were extra extra careful and it

586
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 7: was a fun of fun forty eight hours.

587
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 6: So we were just like waiting.

588
00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:24,479
Speaker 7: We were like, okay, let's see if if they actually

589
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 7: do announce show hey today, And little did we find out.

590
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:30,480
Speaker 6: We found out after the fact that he was visiting.

591
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:32,760
Speaker 6: So that's fine.

592
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 2: All I know now was when I need some inside

593
00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 2: information on something happening with the Dodgers, I could just say, Manti,

594
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 2: did they cancel any tours?

595
00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 6: You know exactly?

596
00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:44,040
Speaker 3: Might give me an idea that something's happening.

597
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 2: But anyway, Monty, let everybody know about your radio show

598
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:50,400
Speaker 2: every Saturday.

599
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 7: Yes, so Alex Curry, who you have seen, she was

600
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,240
Speaker 7: filling in for the Herd yesterday. She was the Angel

601
00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 7: sideline reporter for ten years. She covered the King, She's

602
00:31:59,560 --> 00:32:01,960
Speaker 7: been all over the play. She does slipping podcasts with

603
00:32:02,040 --> 00:32:05,400
Speaker 7: Ben Verlander. Now she and I host the show every

604
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:09,680
Speaker 7: Saturday from one to three pm, so four pm Eastern

605
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 7: times a six pm Eastern time, and we really discuss

606
00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 7: it all, not just football.

607
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 6: We do baseball, We do basketball.

608
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:19,000
Speaker 3: Well, I know you guys do baseball, no doubt, Yes,

609
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:20,040
Speaker 3: of course. Yeah.

610
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 2: And I think you know what's funny now because Chris

611
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,560
Speaker 2: Buscharan on The Odd Couple talked about this and we

612
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 2: always do baseball. But yeah, there's been a lot of

613
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 2: shows of the last couple of weeks now doing baseball.

614
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 7: You know, have you noticed that, like, yes, baseball usually

615
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 7: it wasn't even a topic of conversation. It wasn't even

616
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 7: on the radar, And it was I I never understood

617
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 7: that because even before show, hey, like Aaron Judge, like,

618
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 7: why are we not talking about that?

619
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Speaker 6: We're not talking about Julio Rodriguez and the Mariners.

620
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:55,440
Speaker 7: Like you know, luckily, Alex and I are are plugged

621
00:32:55,480 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 7: into baseball, so this is not new for us.

622
00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 6: And I'm glad that people are talking about it.

623
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 7: I am glad that show hal Tani is bringing into

624
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 7: the surface all of the changes happening in the sport.

625
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 7: It's really great. People are loving that it's faster. I mean,

626
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 7: I think it's not as great of an in game experience.

627
00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:15,160
Speaker 7: If you're physically there, it's going too fast. You got

628
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 7: to get a drink real fast. The game's over.

629
00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 6: Before you know it.

630
00:33:18,120 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 7: But in the grand scheme of things, the game is

631
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:25,000
Speaker 7: more fun and more exciting, and you know, show hal

632
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:26,680
Speaker 7: Tani is adding to that.

633
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:27,760
Speaker 6: So it's really really.

634
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:30,680
Speaker 2: Great, no doubt. Her name is Monty Belan'll check her

635
00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:34,480
Speaker 2: out on Fox Sports Radio on the weekends and sometimes

636
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 2: even on the odd couple. All right, Monzi, appreciate you.

637
00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.

638
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:42,240
Speaker 6: No, thank you, Rob, this was so fun any time.

639
00:33:42,880 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 6: I'm sure we'll see each other again soon.

640
00:33:45,480 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 3: All right, thank you.

641
00:33:53,280 --> 00:33:55,640
Speaker 2: In the words of New York TV legend the late

642
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:59,080
Speaker 2: Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time this time until

643
00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 2: next time. Rob Parker out he can't get it. This

644
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 2: could be an inside of Parker.

645
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Speaker 4: See you next week, same bat time, same bat station,