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Speaker 2: Good Monday afternoon to you guys. Welcome to Dodgers Territory.

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Speaker 2: It is episode one oh one. I am Alana Rizzo.

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Speaker 2: That is Clint Piscias. We actually had our one hundredth

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Speaker 2: episode of DT last Thursday. Chris Taylor kind enough to

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Speaker 2: join us on that episode and on episode one oh one.

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Speaker 2: Bill Plunkett, who does a great job covering the Dodgers

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Speaker 2: has for decades. He works for the OC Register. He

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Speaker 2: is joining us today, So again, thanks for being here.

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Speaker 2: You guys like subscribe all of the things. All right, Clint,

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Speaker 2: Let's get to it the big ticket.

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Speaker 1: Let's do it.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: I can feel it, Clint. Spring turning is palpable. You

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Speaker 2: know why because that means FanFest is coming up, and

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Speaker 2: And then the subsequent spring training season coming up.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it just means that we actually get to

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Speaker 4: Freddie Freeman, Taskar Hernandez, Chohio Tani at Cammebelback Ranch.

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Speaker 4: We get to see video of these dudes yucking it up,

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Speaker 4: hitting baseballs, the crack of the bat, the beauty that

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Speaker 4: is Camelback Ranch. My god, I love this time of year.

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Speaker 4: It's my favorite holiday in February. Pitchers and catchers reporting.

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Speaker 2: fact that it's pitchers and catchers reporting and not Valentine's Day.

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Speaker 2: But that's for another program. My thing about truck Day

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Speaker 2: moved down to Arizona for six weeks, right, just like

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Speaker 2: on the hotel pill could you play? He's probably like, sure, Alana,

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Speaker 2: do you think, Clint, are the biggest storylines headed into

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Speaker 2: They had a heck of an offseason. What are you

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Speaker 2: I feel it's so funny though you see Roki Susaki

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Speaker 1: Are they ever done? I don't think they're ever done.

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Speaker 4: Hey, maybe the Dodgers have this secret handshake agreement with him.

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Speaker 1: instantly became front page news in Japan. I was interviewed

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Speaker 1: over over and over all season long because I asked him.

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Speaker 1: First of all, I asked him, Wanshan Yankee, that how's

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Speaker 1: I was, you know, big news in Japan. I asked him,

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Speaker 1: if you remember in May, the city of Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: announced that it was show Heyo Tani Day. And the

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Speaker 1: unique part was they didn't just proclaim one day, show

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Speaker 1: Heyo Tani Day. Every May seventeenth, for as long as

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Speaker 1: Show Hey is with the Dodgers will now be show

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Speaker 1: Heyo Tani day in La so I asked him, you know,

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Speaker 1: how do we celebrate show Heyo Tani Day? Should we

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Speaker 1: bring you know, a tree in the house and decorate?

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Speaker 1: Can we decorate the house? Do we give gifts on

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Speaker 1: show Heyo tany Day? He said no, no to all that,

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Speaker 1: and I said, okay, well, is it like Thanksgiving where

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Speaker 1: we have to have a special certain meal every year

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Speaker 1: on show Heyo Tani Day? What should we eat on

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Speaker 1: your day? And he said sushi and then he turned

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Speaker 1: and started to walk away. He got a couple steps away,

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Speaker 1: turned back and said, or pizza. So this is the

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Speaker 1: kind of hard hitting journalism that you can get for

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Speaker 1: your your money if you buy that book.

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Speaker 2: I tell you what, though, they're eating it up. They

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Speaker 2: are flying off the shelves already in Japan. You can

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Speaker 2: see the empty spaces there on the show Heyo Tani bookcase.

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Speaker 2: And then you can pre order Bill Plunkett's book La

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Speaker 2: Story featuring Show Heyo Tani. You can do that right now.

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Speaker 2: We'll go ahead and put it up on our socials

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Speaker 2: as to where they can pre order.

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Speaker 4: Bill.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Look forward to reading your coverage

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Speaker 2: and listening to everything over the course of your time

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Speaker 2: at Camelback and thanks for being on best of luck

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Speaker 2: with the sale of the book.

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Speaker 1: Great to see you, Thank you very much. Guys. Two

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Speaker 1: weeks from today we're pictures and Catchers.

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Speaker 2: That's amazing. Off season flew by. All right. Bill Plunkett

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Speaker 2: with the Southern Calidi forty news group the OC Register,

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Speaker 2: of course, doing a great job. Love to see it.

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Speaker 2: Get that book. Let's pre order that for Bill. Let's

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Speaker 2: help him out. And now let's get the last licks

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Speaker 2: Clinton to the Moon. All right, DT, fam, let me

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Speaker 2: introduce you to Malibu. This baby girl is a two

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Speaker 2: year old American bulldog mixed. She's so sweet. Look at

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Speaker 2: her house cute, she looks in her Costco sweater or

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Speaker 2: whatever the heck that thing is. She's great and no, no,

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Speaker 2: they're not. She's great in the car, she's great on

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Speaker 2: the leash. She's great. She's a spade. She's lovable, she's

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Speaker 2: good with other dogs. She's awesome. She's available for adoption.

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Speaker 2: Please reach out if you're interested in learning more about

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Speaker 2: Malibu baby Girl. She's such a sweet, sweet, sweet, sweet

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Speaker 2: sweet girl. All right, this is super cool, Clint. Before

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Speaker 2: we get to what is coming up on all Dodgers

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Speaker 2: with Clint Pisias tonight. How about this little video from

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Speaker 2: Miguel Rojas, basically the way he welcomed Roki Sisaki to

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Speaker 2: the team. Let's take a look.

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Speaker 5: I love that back to the roots.

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Speaker 4: It is a throwback seeing in backball back in seventy two,

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Speaker 4: of course, very famously worn as he saved the no

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Speaker 4: No for Clayton Edward Kershaw. So that's a pretty cool

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Speaker 4: throwback and a nice nice gesture to Mickey Rowe passing

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Speaker 4: the torch of number eleven to Roki who's gonna be

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Speaker 4: hopefully wearing it in Dodger blue for a very, very,

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Speaker 4: very long time.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I think that goes without saying. I love

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Speaker 2: the fact that he's a veteran guy and is still

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Speaker 2: willing to give up because he didn't have to. The

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Speaker 2: veterans don't have to do that, and I think Miguel

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Speaker 2: Rojas has earned his stripes right. He didn't have to

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Speaker 2: do that, but he understands the importance of what Roky

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Speaker 2: Sosaki means to the team, and you know, he's a

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Speaker 2: team player. Miguel Rojas always has been a team player.

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Speaker 2: I think that's super cool of him to give up

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Speaker 2: that number and the way that he did it, that

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Speaker 2: theatrix and the cinematography of it all was very cool.

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Speaker 5: I'm waiting for the Porsche though, Like, what kind of car?

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Speaker 5: What is roke gi.

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Speaker 1: Me?

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Speaker 5: He doesn't have any?

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Speaker 2: I mean, but well eventually, I mean maybe not seven

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Speaker 2: hundred million, but it.

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Speaker 4: Technically is making more on his signing bonus this year

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Speaker 4: than Otani's gonna make from the Dodgers.

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Speaker 5: Right, isn't that a thing?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? That two million dollar a year. Boy, I tell

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Speaker 2: you what, sho heo. Tani is really struggling. All right,

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Speaker 2: let me ask you this what is coming up? My

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Speaker 2: friend on All Dodgers with Clint Pass.

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Speaker 4: We got more Dodger talk coming at you tonight six

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Speaker 4: pm Pacific time, live on my channel, All Dodgers with

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Speaker 4: the Me. You know, the Clint passis Tube in subscribe.

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Speaker 4: I do want to dive more into the non roster

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Speaker 4: invite t list for this team, more of the headlines

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Speaker 4: that we should be looking at for this Dodgers team

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Speaker 4: as we head into spring training, because as as well

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Speaker 4: built and as well structured as this roster is, there

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Speaker 4: still are always question marks for teams heading into spring training.

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Speaker 5: So I'm looking.

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Speaker 4: Forward to talking people in the chat. Appreciate our chat

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Speaker 4: showing up showing out here on today's edition of Dodgers Territory.

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Speaker 4: And one thing, we also got a note thanks to

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Speaker 4: our crack team, Sarah on on Slack letting us know

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Speaker 4: that Kevin from the Office joined the boys on Foul

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Speaker 4: Territory last year.

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Speaker 2: Brian Bombgartner, Right, isn't that his actual name, Kevin from

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Speaker 2: the Office is Brian Bomgardner. Yeah, he's on left year.

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Speaker 5: Have it legally changed? Just Kevin from the Office.

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Speaker 2: Kevin from the Office. I know, like he can't. He

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Speaker 2: honestly could never be in another role, Like no one's

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Speaker 2: ever gonna take him seriously. But that's gonna do it

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Speaker 2: for this edition of Dodgers Territory. Thank you so much

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Speaker 2: for watching. Don't forget, bring a friend, Smash that subscribe

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Speaker 2: button like a subscribe. We're over eight thousand subscribers. We

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Speaker 2: appreciate you guys so very much. Thank you to Bill

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Speaker 2: Plunkett for coming on the show. And we're gonna go

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Speaker 2: ahead and post where you can pre order la story.

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Speaker 2: I'm off on Thursday, so it's just gonna be Clint

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Speaker 2: and I don't know, maybe the Cupid talking about why

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Speaker 2: Clint hayes Valentine's Day coming up on Dodgers territory.

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Speaker 4: Later, listen, listen. Something else is better, and that's pictures

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Speaker 4: and catch up reporting. Okay, bye,