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Speaker 2: Hello everybody, and welcome to this live edition of Dodgers

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Speaker 2: Territory right here on the Foul Territory Channel. I am

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Speaker 2: Alona Rizzo. My co host, as always is Clint p Cis.

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Speaker 2: of that in a little bit. And Clint, before the

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Speaker 2: Dodgers hit the road, we had discussed that Sunday's game

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Speaker 2: was a get right game and I texted you the

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Speaker 2: other day I said, looks like they've had a lot

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Speaker 3: What's your takeaway?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, you lose one, you lose the getaway

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Speaker 4: Day game there in Toronto, but you're still five and

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Speaker 5: So I like what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: All Right, signed out to get into the big ticket

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Speaker 2: as the show gets underway. All right, Clint, you had

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Speaker 2: mentioned a good five and one road trip so far.

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Speaker 2: And one so far, and it looks like the hitting

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Speaker 5: Yeah, overall, everybody's hitting.

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Speaker 4: you like them showing the fight. You like them They're

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Speaker 5: Did you Enjoyani?

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Speaker 4: I guess we'll say, is it getting the first laugh

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Speaker 2: And he did actually get on a plane and go

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Speaker 3: Boo birds were out as they should be, right.

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Speaker 2: how many times do you get booed just when you

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Speaker 5: Come on, you think I go to the grocery store.

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Speaker 4: He went to Anaheim, wasted a number of years there.

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Speaker 5: And it's fun to see him. I mean a lot

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Speaker 3: So we'll talk to him about this recent road trip.

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Speaker 3: You great to see, thanks for being with us.

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Speaker 1: Good to see you guys. Thanks for having me on today.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate it very much and glad to be back in

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but Tim, it was a good road trip. You'll

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of it obviously were the bats,

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Speaker 4: They're looking a lot better coming out of that homestand

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Speaker 2: You knew Muki when he was in Boston, and Muki

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Speaker 2: You've seen him develop what's been the most impressive thing

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Speaker 1: The impressive thing is that he can come in from

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Speaker 3: Maybe a premonition.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he was always trying to say, hey, put me

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Speaker 4: You kind of wonder, are you Maybe you could point

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Speaker 1: You know, clet I think when you talk about past

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Speaker 2: He's hitting three ten right now, Tim. I know it's

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Speaker 1: You know, I'd be surprised if he went back anytime soon.

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Speaker 4: Grove should have gone one hitting or two. But what

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Speaker 4: are your how do you feel about, you know, the

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Speaker 4: bullpen games early this early in the season and kind

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Speaker 4: of you know, powering your way through, trudging through the

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Speaker 4: injuries that this team has had in the pitching staff.

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Speaker 1: Well, I think, uh, you know, the bullpen games right

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Speaker 1: now are Baseball's version of load management, you know, like

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Speaker 1: they talk about that in the NBA all the time, right,

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Speaker 1: you know, with the Yoshinubu Yamamoto, he pitched once a

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Speaker 1: week in Japan. He's basically been doing the same thing here.

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Speaker 1: And a lot of it is because they're taking advantage

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Speaker 1: of the days off, and also they'll have a bullpen

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Speaker 1: game and it gives somebody like Tyler Glasnow an extra

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Speaker 1: day's rest, and you know that doesn't hurt him either.

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Speaker 1: He's been pitching lights out. You know, James Paxton's been

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Speaker 1: pitching pretty well. He'll go tonight here in Arizona. You know,

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Speaker 1: I just think that the Dodgers are being very very

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Speaker 1: cautious with their starters. They know they got a couple

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Speaker 1: of big ones coming back. When Walker Bueller's almost back,

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Speaker 1: He's supposed to start and triple a tomorrow, I think,

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Speaker 1: and then he should be back after that because he's

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Speaker 1: exhausted his his IL stint, so he'll be back in

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Speaker 1: the rotation at some point, you know, sometime on the

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Speaker 1: homestand I think, and then you know, that guy named

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Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw that we all have seen pitched so well before,

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Speaker 1: he's still not out of the mix. Last time I

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Speaker 1: talked to him a couple of weeks ago, he said

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Speaker 1: he's feeling really good. He's been throwing the baseball, you know,

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Speaker 1: July ish, August maybe, but as long as he's healthy

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Speaker 1: down the stretch. So you know, you got guys like

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Speaker 1: that still on the way back. And as far as

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Speaker 1: the bullpen goes, I mean, all in all, it hasn't

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Speaker 1: been that terrible, especially on this road trip. You know,

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Speaker 1: Joe Kelly came in, punched him out the other day.

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Speaker 1: Evan Phillips, even when he struggled, even when he showed

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Speaker 1: he was human in Washington when he walked three, he

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Speaker 1: still got out of it without giving up a run.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, the bullpen's been pretty good. I

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Speaker 1: don't really have any complaints about the bullpen at all

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Speaker 1: right now. I think that, you know, even to Bill

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Speaker 1: Chris Mack getting another chance, he looked pretty good yesterday.

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Speaker 1: So they've got depth, they've got people they can bring up,

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Speaker 1: people they can add and subtract. And the bullpen is

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Speaker 1: a moving piece the whole year anyway.

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Speaker 2: And Vinzia had a good outing his last time out,

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Speaker 2: always emotional, always good to see that. Let me ask

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Speaker 2: you this I'm not going to commit that the Red

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Speaker 2: Slacks are going to be sellers yet. I think the

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Speaker 2: Red Slacks are performing better than we thought they were.

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Speaker 2: They have the best starters er in the league. Is

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Speaker 2: their room if they sell for ken Lee to come back?

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Speaker 3: In your opinion my.

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Speaker 1: Opinion, I think the fans would love to see Kenley back.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to see ken Lee now that the pitch

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Speaker 1: clock is here, because the last time we had ken

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Speaker 1: Lee Jansen, there was no pitch clock. So I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you wanted to read, you know, chapters of a

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Speaker 1: book in between pitches, you could do that. But he's

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Speaker 1: he's really good. His cutter's still good, ill effective. Would

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Speaker 1: there be room for him? I don't know that he'd

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Speaker 1: be the closer because Evan Phillips, I think is really

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Speaker 1: locked down that role and he's done a great job.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, if you could have a guy that

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Speaker 1: can come in and get three outs for you late

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Speaker 1: in the ball game, seventh eighth inning, you know, I

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Speaker 1: don't care what his name is, but if it's Kennley

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Speaker 1: Jansen and he's the guy doing it, I think that'd

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Speaker 1: be fun to see and everybody, you know, he loves

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Speaker 1: LA people around La love him and they remember all

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Speaker 1: the good things he did for the Dodgers. I think

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Speaker 1: that that could be kind of a fun thing. But

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Speaker 1: you know, the Red Sox, if they keep winning some

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Speaker 1: games here and there, a lot of they're not going

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Speaker 1: to be as anxious to sell.

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Speaker 2: I agree, not writing them off yet, not writing them

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Speaker 2: off yet.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And the Dodgers, we know they have they have some

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Speaker 4: guys on the al that could come back and maybe

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Speaker 4: take any potential spots that Kenley could fill. Uh So

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Speaker 4: there's time until trade deadline. Tim, we gotta get you

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Speaker 4: one more before we do. Let you get out of here.

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Speaker 4: But this is the first matchup between the Dodgers and

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Speaker 4: the Diamondbacks this season. Of course, the last time leaves

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Speaker 4: an ugly impression on Dodgers in their memory. What are

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Speaker 4: you looking forward to in the series with the Diamondbacks

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Speaker 4: in Arizona?

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Speaker 1: Short memories, That's what I'm looking for, you know. Dave

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Speaker 1: Roberts has said that there is no carryover with this,

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Speaker 1: there's no meaning to it at all. He said, the

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Speaker 1: names that they brought in this year kind of you know, Negate,

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Speaker 1: all that stuff, and they're just going in like it's

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Speaker 1: a fresh series, and they're not concerned whatsoever about what's happened.

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Speaker 1: What's happened happened. It was ugly last fall. We all

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Speaker 1: remember it, we all would like to forget it. So

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Speaker 1: it's time to flush that down the toilet and start

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Speaker 1: brand new. And you know, tonight's the night they do that.

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Speaker 1: They're playing well right now on the road, and you

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Speaker 1: know it's going to be an interesting game. I think

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Speaker 1: tonight because I always look at it from a fans

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Speaker 1: point of view too. In the back of their mind,

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Speaker 1: they're like, yeah, you know, we want to get these

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Speaker 1: guys and sweep them and stuff. But you can't swep

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Speaker 1: them if you don't win the first game. So you

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Speaker 1: got to win the first game today, see what happens.

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Speaker 1: But I don't think there's gonna be much carry over

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Speaker 1: at all. I don't think the guys really are thinking

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Speaker 1: about that at all. It's just game number thirty one,

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Speaker 1: with one hundred and thirty one to go.

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Speaker 3: James Paxon on the hill for the Dodgers tonight.

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Speaker 2: Of course it's Tommy Henry for the Diamondbacks, who's done

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Speaker 2: a nice job in the absence.

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Speaker 3: Of Merrill Kelly.

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Speaker 2: I think history though, Tim Nevertt is on our side

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Speaker 2: as we say goodbye to you. Over the course of

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Speaker 2: the time, since twenty twenty, the Dodgers have a forty

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Speaker 2: six to fifteen advantage over the Arizona Diamondbacks. We're just

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Speaker 2: gonna forget about the NLDS. Tim Neverett, our friend, we

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Speaker 2: appreciate you very much for being here today. Thanks so

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Speaker 2: much for taking some time for us to be on Dodgers' territory.

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Speaker 1: Anytime. Always good to hear your guys' voices, that's for sure,

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Speaker 1: all right.

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Speaker 2: Tim Neverrett does such a great job on AM five

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Speaker 2: seventy and sports and at LA. It was fun to

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Speaker 2: talk to him, of course, right on the on the

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Speaker 2: pulse of everything that's going on. Clint, all right, it

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Speaker 2: is time, my friend, for last licks. All right, So

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Speaker 2: All right, what is your take, mister Pisias on the

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Speaker 2: series against the Arizona Diamondbacks tonight Listen, the Dodgers have

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Speaker 2: fording half game advantage in the division. It could go

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Speaker 2: either way. If they sweep this series, they have a

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Speaker 2: seven and a half game lead. If they lose all

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Speaker 2: three games, they're down to one and a half game.

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Speaker 2: So it's an important series.

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Speaker 4: I think, yeah, I mean, it's just another series, but

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Speaker 4: it's also a very important series because I think Dodgers

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Speaker 4: fans really want to see Game one. They really really

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Speaker 4: want to see a suite. But best way to fight

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Speaker 4: those demons of October pass is to sweep your way

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Speaker 4: through Arizona, come back home with a hell of a

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Speaker 4: road trip at what would that be?

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Speaker 5: Eight and one? I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Math is not my forte but not the most important series.

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Speaker 4: If you do end up losing two of three, just

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Speaker 4: don't get swept. That's your most important thing. Don't do

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Speaker 4: not get swept in Arizona.

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Speaker 3: All right, it would be eight and one.

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Speaker 2: You are correct, it could have been nine to zero,

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Speaker 2: as we just heard Tim Nevertt say. Apart from that

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Speaker 2: great outfield defense by the Toronto Blue Jays, that's going

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Speaker 2: to do it for us here on Dodgers' Territory.

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Speaker 3: If you like what you do, please subscribe to us.

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Speaker 2: We're on the Foul Territory channel right there on YouTube

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Speaker 2: do the exact same for Clint Show All Dodgers.

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Speaker 3: We'll see you next on Thursday for another live edition.

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Speaker 5: Take Carol bye,