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Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Well, look who's back, Dodger manager Dave Roberts. Another World

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Speaker 2: Series title. Didn't need to make a proclamation in spring training,

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Speaker 2: didn't have to do any of that stuff. Just an

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Speaker 2: easy seven games and there you are winning again. I

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Speaker 2: guess can you compare the back to back the different

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Speaker 2: feelings that you had.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm glad your ho hum about it. It was

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Speaker 3: very difficult. Winning a championship is very difficult. Winning two

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Speaker 3: is even tougher. No, I mean, there's nothing like Game seven,

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Speaker 3: and a lot of things had happened. Guys stepped up,

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Speaker 3: and I'm just proud of the guys. There's a lot

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Speaker 3: of pressure points in that series, in the postseason and

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Speaker 3: certainly in the World Series. But it certainly wasn't easy,

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Speaker 3: and yeah, we've done something that hadn't been done in

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Speaker 3: twenty five years.

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Speaker 2: You look at pressure, and we could see pressure. It

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Speaker 2: was tangible when you're watching Game seven. But the pressure too,

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Speaker 2: You're supposed to win, expected to win by you know,

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Speaker 2: the media, of the you know, fans. It feels like

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Speaker 2: the difference in being an underdog in winning, like when

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Speaker 2: you won with the Red Sox as a player to

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Speaker 2: winning when you're the favorite, the different kind of pressures

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Speaker 2: are feeling that you.

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Speaker 4: Have with that, Yeah, you know, I guess, you know,

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Speaker 4: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I guess The thing about sports is, yeah, everyone's got opinions,

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Speaker 3: but you know, the David and Goliath narrative, fans, media

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Speaker 3: put things together that just aren't true, and to be

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Speaker 3: quite honest, people that have never been in the ring.

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Speaker 3: And the Blue Jays were a very good team. They

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Speaker 3: won the at least they won more baseball games than

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Speaker 3: we did. But we're Goliath, and so it was a

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Speaker 3: great series and we were trying to win the series.

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Speaker 3: They were trying to win World Series. I don't think

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Speaker 3: he was pressure. I think that what happens is as athletes,

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Speaker 3: as teams, you have expectations and goals for yourself.

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Speaker 4: And.

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Speaker 3: You know, you don't want more for yourself than I

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Speaker 3: think than fans.

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Speaker 4: Do.

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Speaker 3: You want to win, you expect to win. So I

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Speaker 3: don't think that our pressure or pressure from the fans

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Speaker 3: or media had any bearing on the game. We were

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Speaker 3: trying to win for each other in the city of

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Speaker 3: Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: Give me the move that maybe you were going to

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Speaker 2: second guess yourself in Game seven and you didn't.

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Speaker 3: Probably, Well, the easiest one is hitting for Miguel Ross.

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Speaker 3: He's a defensive guy. I inserted him in game six

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Speaker 3: to add some infusion and energy into our club.

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Speaker 5: And yeah, that's that's probably the one.

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Speaker 3: But you know, looking at the bench, it's tough to

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Speaker 3: pinch hit and anyone can say and you were probably

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Speaker 3: second guessing me saying you should hit for him, and

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Speaker 3: because the numbers say that, there's other guys that can

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Speaker 3: hit home runs in this but it's hard to come

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Speaker 3: off the bench. And I trusted my players, and you know,

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Speaker 3: he made me look good and he deserved that moment.

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Speaker 3: And in the postseason, what I have learned Dan is

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Speaker 3: you know, it's not about the numbers. You got to

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Speaker 3: trust your players. And my job is to know the players.

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Speaker 3: That's my job, ultimately, that's my job. It's not to

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Speaker 3: know statistics. It's about to know the heartbeat of the player.

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Speaker 3: And I do believe that you know, to win eleven

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Speaker 3: trust your players, to know your players, and that's what

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Speaker 2: But so you're saying gut feeling still has a place

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Speaker 2: in the game. It feels like we're so attached to analytics.

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Speaker 2: How much of what you did in Game seven was

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Speaker 4: It's all got.

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Speaker 3: I think that if you look back at twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: four in the postseason, it's the eye test, it's gut.

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Speaker 3: But people, if you look at twenty twenty, it's eye tests,

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Speaker 3: it's got. People can't get off the analytics for some reason.

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Speaker 3: So these are people that are just just stuck in

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Speaker 4: But if people that really want.

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Speaker 3: To, that really watched the game and know the game,

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Speaker 3: then they can see that analytics had nothing. It's about,

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Speaker 3: you know, coaches trusting their players and players stepping up

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Speaker 2: When you saw the collision in left center with Pios

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Speaker 3: What I was a bird's r answer, and I was unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: You know, they both went after it. Kek was trying

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Speaker 3: it's funny because uh key K laid down there for

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Speaker 3: dead and Pies asked me if he was okay.

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Speaker 4: He says, forget that do you have the ball?

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Speaker 3: And he said, yes, I do have the ball, and

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Speaker 3: So it was it was but again, and it's like

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Speaker 3: Miguel Ross coming out of Game seven because he just

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Speaker 3: expended all energy. It's like, that's just what fans live for,

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Speaker 3: and that's what our players gave.

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Speaker 4: Both teams.

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Speaker 2: The play at the plate. How close that was? Are

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Speaker 2: you ready then to ask for replay?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 3: That was like I was asking for replay right from

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Speaker 3: say for sure? And I was with Will Smith last

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Speaker 3: night and he goes, I honestly did not realize that

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Speaker 3: I took my foot off the plate to then have

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Speaker 3: the wherewithal to put it down. And that's the thing,

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Speaker 3: is that but even the play for me to take it,

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Speaker 3: good throw for Will to field it get his foot

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Speaker 3: back down. I mean, oh my god, it's a heartache series.

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Speaker 2: I'm talking to Dave Roberts, Dodger manager Yamamoto reminded me

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Speaker 2: of Pedro. Remind me of Pedro Martinez? Are they similar build,

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Speaker 5: Similar build, very similar size.

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Speaker 3: You know, obviously Pedro, you know, sort of a similar

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Speaker 5: And just same mindset.

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Speaker 3: You know, Pedro on game days, I've never seen he's

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Speaker 3: an assassin and Yamamoto is an assassin. What he did

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Speaker 3: is stuff like Pedro asked Sandy Kofasque asked, obviously.

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Speaker 4: What mad bummed in I did.

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Speaker 3: And I don't know if it was twenty twelve or

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Speaker 3: twenty fourteen, one of those Giants years, but yeah, I mean,

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Speaker 2: But if you would have said, hey, beginning of the series,

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Speaker 2: a Japanese born player is going to win MVP.

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Speaker 4: Jo Hey all day, yeah, all day.

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Speaker 2: But what did you learn about him in this world

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Speaker 2: series or in the playoffs that maybe you didn't know?

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Speaker 3: Yeah okay, okay, yeah, not the World there is the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: So I actually I knew that he's a killer. I

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Speaker 3: this year. Having just a tremendous years being a stop

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Speaker 3: per force, pitching huge and big games, going complete game

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Speaker 3: doing what he did in Milwaukee was incredible, complete games,

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Speaker 3: one run. I think the first yeah, gives up a

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Speaker 3: after that, then the next game, complete game, and then

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Speaker 3: in Game three, eighteen innings, I think he was like

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Speaker 4: He's like, I'm ready to go down there.

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to let a position player pitch in

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Speaker 3: the game in a World Series game, and this is

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Speaker 5: And so that showed me a lot. Freddy walks it off.

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Speaker 3: And then so yesterday or Game seven obviously was no surprise,

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Speaker 3: but to go three innings was incredible.

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Speaker 2: But Otani and your you say him throughout the season

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Speaker 2: ramping him up. Was he coming in in game seven

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Speaker 3: No, no, because he started Game seven okay, and then

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Speaker 3: so once he was done, he gave us three innings,

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Speaker 3: and then I was like, you know what, I think

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Speaker 3: he just wasn't a sharp Get him off the pitching,

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Speaker 3: lock in on the hitting, and then we had some

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I thought the way you ramped him up the entire

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Speaker 2: season was interesting. You know, when you have that kind

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Speaker 2: he's got three. Like you, you got to be careful

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Speaker 4: I guess like you do.

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Speaker 5: And it was it's hard not to be greedy.

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Speaker 3: But we went one inning, we remain steadfast one and

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Speaker 3: he won in two innings, two innings, three innings. And

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Speaker 3: then you know at the end that was the first

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Speaker 3: time because all year he had seven, eight, nine, ten

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Speaker 3: you know, this guy's coming off to Tommy Johns. He is,

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Speaker 3: he's our team MVP, and so he's two players and

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Speaker 3: one so we couldn't get greed with him. So three days.

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Speaker 3: It wasn't terribly sharp. He gave us three nings. That

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Speaker 4: Nice.

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Speaker 2: What should I bring up to him?

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Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, I think was going in Game seven?

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Speaker 3: He was it was either going to be the next

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Speaker 3: hitter or certainly if they tied it up, if Kirk

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Speaker 3: tied it up, right there, Kirk Clayton was going to

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Speaker 2: How nervous were you when he was on the mound

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Speaker 2: when he got that.

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Speaker 3: I was nervous in that game Game three, Game three,

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Speaker 3: I bring him in in a basis loaded situation, and

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Speaker 3: it goes back to again, it goes back to trust

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Speaker 3: your players. Clayton and I have been through so much

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Speaker 3: in my ten years with him, eighteen years obviously in

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Speaker 3: his career, and we've had some loads, certainly together, and

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Speaker 3: then we had some highs. But again, I'm gonna if

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Speaker 3: it's going to go down, I'm gonna I'm gonna bet

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Speaker 3: on playing Kershaw and I've proved that time.

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Speaker 4: And time again.

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Speaker 2: How was the celebration?

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Speaker 5: Oh so last year was insane.

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Speaker 3: We didn't get it in twenty twenty so sort of

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Speaker 3: kind of butted up together in twenty four. But last

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Speaker 3: yesterday's parade or two days agost parade was It was

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Speaker 3: the best.

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Speaker 4: The bet they did.

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Speaker 3: They went up themselves, more people, a longer parade route.

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Speaker 4: Players were just overjoyed. It was fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Damn, you're getting used to this.

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Speaker 3: I would say it's it's I enjoy it. I wouldn't

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Speaker 3: say get used to it. We already talked about the

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Speaker 3: players already talked about a three pt I talked about

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Speaker 3: a three peat. So I'm not making any guarantees, but

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Speaker 3: I already cleared it with pat Riley on the three

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Speaker 3: p Term, so we're excited.

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Speaker 5: I just think with us, you got to find some carrot.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: It's like we started out in South Korean twenty four,

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Speaker 3: and so we've had the longest season, the shortest offseason

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Speaker 4: So the three Peter is it for us?

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Speaker 2: I mean you should. You want to win, you expect

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Speaker 2: Congrats, congrat Thank you, Dan, I appreciate you man. All right,

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Speaker 4: Right, take care and tell Clayton I said hello tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Are we gonna play the JJ Watten game before we

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Speaker 2: bring on JJ Watt Pauline.

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Speaker 6: We have to play it and have him give the answer.

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Speaker 4: Okay, okay, are you ready?

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Speaker 6: You tick markin?

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Speaker 6: The game is total number of surgeries during during JJ

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Speaker 6: I can't give it out. But Dan, you're gonna go last, Fritzy.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonna go with my favorite number of eleven Marvin eighteen,

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Speaker 4: Guys don't have procedures.

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Speaker 2: That's illegal procedure on your part right there?

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Speaker 8: How does Paulie know the answer? Because I don't have

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Speaker 2: The longest we're talking to JJ Watt he'll be on

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Speaker 2: How's it been broadcasting a game in which your brother's

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Speaker 4: Honestly, it's not nearly as bad as I think.

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Speaker 8: I'll talk to him before the game. I talked to

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Speaker 4: I really like that.

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Speaker 2: I said, you got to be ready for it because

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Speaker 2: there's no energy there when you go to a game.

447
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Speaker 2: There's energy, like it's tangible when you're like I feel this,

448
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Speaker 2: Like that's as close as you'll get to playing again.

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Speaker 2: And now I just saw where Drew is going to

450
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Speaker 2: be an analyst being out on the road with Fox.

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Speaker 2: But that energy, that's as close as you can replicate

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Speaker 2: it to actually playing in a game.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, And like you said, like for for athletes who

454
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Speaker 8: have been in it before, it tricks you into getting

455
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Speaker 8: back into that mindset where you can get as close

456
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Speaker 8: to that flow state as possible, where you're just letting

457
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Speaker 8: your instincts and everything take over, whereas kind of like

458
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Speaker 8: you said in the studio, you have to manufacture it

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Speaker 8: for yourself a little bit more to get it going.

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Speaker 2: Best team you've seen this year is who.

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Speaker 8: When the Colts offense is humming the Colts offense for sure,

462
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Speaker 8: team as a whole, the Rams is very good. We

463
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Speaker 8: saw the Rams early on. The Rams are very good.

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Speaker 8: And again this is just teams that I've called this year.

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Speaker 8: We haven't called in the others, but that Colts offense. Man,

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Speaker 8: we watch them against the Chargers and it was play

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Speaker 8: at will, like Tyler Warren running wide open, Jonathan Taylor

468
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Speaker 8: running down, they got Alec Pierce going like That offense

469
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Speaker 8: when it is at its best is unstoppable.

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Speaker 2: You know, some people looked at the Jets and said

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Speaker 2: they did great at the trade deadline. What do you

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Speaker 2: think when you unload a couple of star players.

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Speaker 8: I think they got a good haul for what they

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Speaker 8: gave away.

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Speaker 4: I think it's the question of what are they going

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Speaker 4: to do with that? And what gives you confidence in that?

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Speaker 8: Because you gave away young players that you drafted with

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Speaker 8: a very similar haul.

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Speaker 4: That you just got.

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Speaker 8: So you know, I love seeing the graphic that people

481
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Speaker 8: just put out where like the last time they had

482
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Speaker 8: those three first round picks it was you know Breecee Hall.

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Speaker 8: I think saw it like and you're like, okay, so

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Speaker 8: you're giving away young talented players to hopefully find more

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Speaker 8: young talented players. Yeah, I just don't know where the

486
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Speaker 8: what the plan is there, and where the confidence should

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Speaker 8: come in finding that success.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what would make me nervous is when you know,

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Speaker 2: fans will say we got all these draft picks and

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Speaker 2: I say, well, who's drafting? Because that's really the key,

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Speaker 2: and your goal is to find players like Sauce Gardner

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Speaker 2: and Quinn Williams.

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Speaker 8: Is't this That's That's my thing, is like we can

494
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Speaker 8: have you got all the draft picks in the world,

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Speaker 8: a Sauce Gardener and a Quinn Williams. Those are hard

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Speaker 8: to hit and you had two of them in your

497
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Speaker 8: building and now you're going to have to go out

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Speaker 8: and replicate it. But it goes very back to our

499
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Speaker 8: conversation from earlier. A GM can come in and say

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Speaker 8: those weren't my guys. Now, you've got to give me

501
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Speaker 8: time to get my guys. Give me these draft picks

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Speaker 8: and you start. Now, maybe they do it, maybe it's

503
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Speaker 8: maybe it works incredibly well, but it's extremely hard to

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Speaker 8: hit in the draft.

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Speaker 2: Is there a quarterback you didn't get that you've seen

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Speaker 2: when you've gone to a game?

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Speaker 4: What do you mean sacked? Oh? Pat?

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Speaker 8: I've never I never sacked Pat Malmes, So yeah, does

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Speaker 8: he remind you of that?

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Speaker 4: I saw him last summer and we talked about a

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Speaker 4: little bit.

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Speaker 8: But now he's good Man, he's good Tom. Tom likes

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Speaker 8: to say that I never got him. We've had this

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Speaker 8: conversation one hundred times. But I got him in the playoffs.

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Speaker 8: It just doesn't counts as an official sack.

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Speaker 2: What about Rogers?

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Speaker 4: I got Rogers twice in one game.

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Speaker 8: I did the belt celebration after the first one, and

519
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Speaker 8: he threw six touchdowns over my head.

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Speaker 4: So that was a mistake.

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Speaker 2: Who talked the most out of Mahomes, Brady and Aaron Rodgers?

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Speaker 4: Not a ton of talking, Not a ton of talking.

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Speaker 8: Rogers a little bit, Brady, if you got him fired

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Speaker 8: up like you could get you get him fired up.

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Speaker 4: Pat. Pat wasn't didn't talk a whole lot. Now Andrew

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Speaker 4: Luck talked a.

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Speaker 8: Lot, but that was just nice, like we would just

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Speaker 8: have full blown conversations, just literal.

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Speaker 2: Like did it did it still? Did it sound like this?

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Speaker 6: Oh, you're a great defensive end, high motor, what.

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Speaker 4: Ahead, key man?

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Speaker 2: Well, he had a defensive mentality to playing offense.

533
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Speaker 4: It felt like he was the best man.

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Speaker 8: I love playing Andrew like literally had the most respect

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Speaker 8: for him. Hit him probably harder than I've hit anybody

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Speaker 8: else besides Ryan Fitzpatrick, and every time he popped back up.

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Speaker 2: What happened to Ryan Fitzpatrick.

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Speaker 8: I had a game where I had I got fifteen

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Speaker 8: quarterback hits, zero sacks, and I was just laying the

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Speaker 8: hammer time after time after time, and they were on

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Speaker 8: a two minute drive at the end of the game

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Speaker 8: and I'm swear I hit him four times in a row,

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Speaker 8: four knockdowns. Every time I was like, that's it, he's

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Speaker 8: not getting back up, and every time he popped back up.

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Speaker 8: So we have actually were teammates after that, and I

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Speaker 8: shared those stories and I don't know what it is,

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Speaker 8: but that man, he's got a little he's got some

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Speaker 8: juice to his game.

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Speaker 4: I love it. I love fits well.

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Speaker 2: I remember Michael Strahan was telling me he had so

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Speaker 2: much respect for Tom Brady when they hit him in

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Speaker 2: that super Bowl, like they they were, they dominated that

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Speaker 2: super Bowl, that defensive one. He said, we hit him,

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Speaker 2: We hit him every time. He said he never complained.

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Speaker 2: He complained about his offensive line, but he never said

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Speaker 2: you would just say, good hit and get back up.

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Speaker 2: But that is that more frustrating If a quarterback goes

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Speaker 2: he good hit, pops back.

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Speaker 8: Up, it's no because I don't want him to be hurt,

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Speaker 8: like that's like a communisconception. But it's more frustrating to

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Speaker 8: me when he looks at the ref for a flag,

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Speaker 8: because that does work, like the ref will eventually throw

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Speaker 8: that flag.

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Speaker 4: So I don't want like I can't stand it when

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Speaker 4: they just I'd love it.

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Speaker 8: I would respect a quarterback when he just pops up

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Speaker 8: and he appreciates that this is a violent game.

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Speaker 2: Okay, but do you say like stump.

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Speaker 4: Being a wolves.

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Speaker 8: Nah, you gotta be a real punk to get me

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Speaker 8: to say something like that.

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Speaker 4: Like there's there's some young kids there. There are a

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Speaker 4: couple of young kids.

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Speaker 8: Who later in my career, I'd hit him and they

575
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Speaker 8: would whine, and I'd be like, you don't have the right.

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Speaker 4: To whine here, man.

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Speaker 8: How's your soccer team? We're doing good, man, we're doing good.

578
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Speaker 8: Espaniel's doing really well. We're in six in La Liga

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Speaker 8: and Burnley's currently out of the relegation zone in the

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Speaker 8: Premier League.

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Speaker 4: Big match coming up this weekend, so a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: Is your son going to play football or soccer?

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Speaker 8: We're definitely gonna have him in soccer to start, because

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Speaker 8: of the ball skills and the agility. But I mean,

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Speaker 8: let's be honest here, Dan, he's in a ninety nine

586
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Speaker 8: percentile for height and weight.

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Speaker 4: He's uh, he's not gonna have the.

588
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Speaker 8: Endurance to be out there running around for ninety minutes

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Speaker 8: on a pitch.

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Speaker 4: He's a big boy.

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Speaker 2: Is he bench is he bench pressing?

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Speaker 8: He does wheelbarrow walks right now, so he's big on

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Speaker 8: the wheelbarrow walks.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, old old school.

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Speaker 4: I like it.

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Speaker 2: Great to talk to you, Safe travels, and uh, thanks

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Speaker 2: for joining us.

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Speaker 4: Thank you guys. Have a great day, miss y'all.

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Speaker 2: That's a JJ. He's got the uh Jags and the

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Speaker 2: Texans coming up. One of his old teams there had

601
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Speaker 2: the Colts and the Steelers and uh Burnley. Burnley is

602
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Speaker 2: out a relegation Seaton, I think so. Yeah. That was

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Speaker 2: an Espanol hat that he was wearing too, So he's

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Speaker 2: he's got a little foot in Spain foot in England.

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Speaker 4: It's pretty good. It's pretty good.

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Speaker 2: and the first question I asked was, how's retirement.

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Speaker 4: Day one? Pretty good? Yeah, so far, so good.

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Speaker 2: You know what's gonna happen though, You know how your

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Speaker 2: body adapts to certain times of the year. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: you know, come February, you're gonna be bringing the kids outside,

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Speaker 2: You're gonna get loose, You're in a long tossing and

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Speaker 2: all of that. So get ready for that because you're

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Speaker 2: gonna face that. Plus everybody's gonna be out of the

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Speaker 2: house and you're gonna be like, what am I doing?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, everybody says there are a lot of guys that

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Speaker 9: I talked to you said, Opening day is the day

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Speaker 9: where you're like, man, I'm not there. You know, it's

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Speaker 9: a weird. So I Opening Day is gonna be a

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Speaker 9: weird one. But to be fair, I haven't been in

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Speaker 9: spring training in a couple of years. I've kind of

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Speaker 9: planned some surgeries pretty well, kind of missed spring training,

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Speaker 9: So that'll be that won't be too new for me.

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Speaker 2: What was this World Series like as opposed to the

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Speaker 2: other ones.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean last year was really cool because we

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Speaker 9: got the parade, you know, I think you know, after

633
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Speaker 9: the COVID World Series not getting to do the parade

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Speaker 9: or anything, and then getting to do that last year.

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Speaker 4: It was kind of a celebration of almost two.

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Speaker 9: World series, you know, and so that that was awesome.

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Speaker 9: But for me personally to be a part of this

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Speaker 9: one more than I was last year and to get

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Speaker 9: to see you know, just to feel feel a little

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Speaker 9: bit more a part of it, and then the parade

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Speaker 9: this year was insane. It was it was so much bigger,

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Speaker 9: so much longer, so many people, and that's just really special.

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Speaker 9: You know, your last one to get to kind of

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Speaker 9: celebrate with the fans and you know, tell them thank you,

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Speaker 9: tell them how much they you know, supported us and

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Speaker 9: our team and me personally for so long.

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Speaker 4: And it was just so fun. Man, it was so cool.

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Speaker 2: The importance of having your kids at an age where

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Speaker 2: they can appreciate seeing dad out there.

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Speaker 4: How important was that to you? Yeah, I'm thankful for that.

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Speaker 4: You know. My oldest three, I think will definitely.

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Speaker 9: I don't know, do you remember stuff when you're five?

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Speaker 9: I think you do. Yeah, my my it's close. But

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Speaker 9: at least my.

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Speaker 4: Oldest too, I think, had a blast.

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Speaker 9: You know, my oldest son, Charlie got to be in

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Speaker 9: the dugout a lot this year, got to be in

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Speaker 9: the you know, shag BP do all the stuff, and

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Speaker 9: so he was super invested in.

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Speaker 4: It this year.

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Speaker 9: And I'm thankful they'll remember me that I had a

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Speaker 9: job at some point.

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Speaker 4: You know, it'll be good. It was just it was

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Speaker 4: so fun and memorable.

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Speaker 9: And I mean my wife rock stars, she's pregnant right

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Speaker 9: now and traveling from Toronto to Dallas and school back

667
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 9: to LA to Toronto, I.

668
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 4: Mean, just doing it all.

669
00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 9: So it was it's good to be home and good

670
00:31:55,720 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 9: to get to celebrate with the fans.

671
00:31:57,760 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 2: Have you seen the video of your wife and this

672
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,480
Speaker 2: stands when you're on the mound. Oh my god.

673
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 4: She's not a reliever wife, Dan, She's a starter wife.

674
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:10,120
Speaker 9: That's just that's just too much stress to not know

675
00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,800
Speaker 9: when you're coming in and to get to do all that.

676
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:15,520
Speaker 4: But yeah, I think she was. She was feeling it,

677
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 4: uh to say the least.

678
00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:19,440
Speaker 2: Okay, but are you nervous in that moment?

679
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean for sure. I think I think we

680
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 4: all are.

681
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 2: I don't know if you allow yourself to get like

682
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:28,920
Speaker 2: you have to play a mind game that I got

683
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 2: to be confident. I can't have any doubt or be nervous.

684
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:33,720
Speaker 4: I think you have.

685
00:32:33,840 --> 00:32:36,200
Speaker 9: Both, though I think it's not doubt, like you you're

686
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 9: confident you can do your job. But you know, warming

687
00:32:39,840 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 9: up in the pen, hearing that phone ring kind of

688
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:43,800
Speaker 9: all new stuff for me.

689
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 4: It's like that phone rings it's like an adrenaline pump,

690
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 4: you know, And so you know, all that running in, trying.

691
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 9: To feel your legs and trying to execute pitches and

692
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 9: all that. You know, at the end of the day,

693
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:58,360
Speaker 9: I'm just so glad I got that out because that

694
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:00,360
Speaker 9: was the last time I ever pitched, and.

695
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:03,840
Speaker 4: You know, it could have gone sideways. So I'm just glad.

696
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 9: I'm just glad I got that last out and I

697
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:07,680
Speaker 9: thought it was going to be a bigger out, but

698
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 9: we ended up playing like seven more innings.

699
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 4: You know, so I think, uh, it's just it.

700
00:33:13,640 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 9: Was a crazy game. And like I said last time,

701
00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 9: a Dodger stated and fish it was awesome.

702
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 2: Dave Roberts said that you were probably coming in in

703
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 2: game seven.

704
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, so I had no idea there was one out.

705
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 9: So when Kirk grounded into that double play, I thought

706
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 9: I was coming in the game like tie game, Uh,

707
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 9: extra innings. I'm pitching with two outs, and I left

708
00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:41,160
Speaker 9: you up to bat, and then Bardo, our bullpen coach,

709
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 9: just said, hey, we just want to you know.

710
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 4: I had no idea, no idea. That was amazing though.

711
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 2: So it's a delayed reaction.

712
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 9: Yeah, I just I didn't believe in my first and

713
00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 9: then yeah, I turned around, saw everybody out there and

714
00:33:59,000 --> 00:33:59,560
Speaker 9: ran out.

715
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 4: There and got to celebrate again. Man, just amazing.

716
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 2: Talking to the Dodgers Clayton Kershaw no former Dodger Clayton Kershaw, yeah,

717
00:34:07,320 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 2: or Dodger unemployed. What are you going to do the

718
00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:10,720
Speaker 2: rest of your life?

719
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 9: I don't know, man, you know, I've got a lot

720
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 9: of kids, so obviously I'll do that for a while.

721
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 9: And I love baseball.

722
00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:20,239
Speaker 4: I do. I love baseball. I have a passion for it.

723
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:22,279
Speaker 9: I feel like I can help in some regard, in

724
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 9: some way, but I have no idea what that looks like.

725
00:34:27,080 --> 00:34:29,439
Speaker 9: I obviously don't, you know, feel the need or want

726
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,799
Speaker 9: to travel too much right now. So you know, there's

727
00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 9: some cush gigs out there, you know, some special assistant

728
00:34:35,640 --> 00:34:38,400
Speaker 9: jobs and different things like that that if the Dodgers

729
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:40,959
Speaker 9: are gracious enough to let me do that at some point,

730
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:44,040
Speaker 9: I think I'd definitely be interested in that. But you know,

731
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 9: we have a baby coming in December, and everybody says

732
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:48,319
Speaker 9: I have to figure out how to play golf, so

733
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:49,279
Speaker 9: maybe I'll try that.

734
00:34:49,520 --> 00:34:53,160
Speaker 4: I don't know. I really don't have any idea. It's

735
00:34:53,200 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 4: kind of nice, though, the no plan plan.

736
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 2: It's kind of be weird though. You're watching the ninth

737
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:01,399
Speaker 2: inning from the bullpen. Yeah, yeah, so you don't even

738
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 2: have comfort, you don't have company. It's just you and

739
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,520
Speaker 2: the bullpen catcher. I'm guessing. Yeah.

740
00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 9: I mean, you know, there's a few guys, a few

741
00:35:10,719 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 9: of us left down there. But hey, what an amazing

742
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,480
Speaker 9: what Yama did. I mean, that was I don't think.

743
00:35:16,480 --> 00:35:19,320
Speaker 9: I don't know if you'll ever see that again in baseball.

744
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,080
Speaker 9: It's like a guy that pitched Game six, come in

745
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 9: and not just get one or two outs, but go

746
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 9: too and I think it was two and two thirds

747
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:31,440
Speaker 9: or something. So it's just just incredible, superhuman.

748
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:33,360
Speaker 4: Stuff from Yama.

749
00:35:33,360 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 9: And there's a lot of guys that went out of

750
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:37,400
Speaker 9: their comfort zone for us to win this World Series.

751
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 9: And I think that's what makes the Dodgers so special.

752
00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:40,839
Speaker 7: Man.

753
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 4: A lot of superstars.

754
00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:43,760
Speaker 9: Obviously, but a lot of guys willing to go above

755
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 9: and beyond to help us, which.

756
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:46,520
Speaker 4: Is really cool.

757
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:50,360
Speaker 2: Yamamoto, I said this to your manager, former manager. He

758
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:55,360
Speaker 2: reminded me of Payedro Martinez, similar size and just feels

759
00:35:55,360 --> 00:35:56,919
Speaker 2: like he can throw every single day.

760
00:35:57,560 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean, I cannot believe what he did and

761
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:02,880
Speaker 9: how I mean, I don't know how he felt the

762
00:36:02,920 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 9: next day for him to do that. Man, just like

763
00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 9: and he's you know, he's been on the Japanese schedule,

764
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:12,479
Speaker 9: you know, coming over from Japan, and then even this year,

765
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:14,720
Speaker 9: you know, Doc protected him a lot, you know, basically

766
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 9: pitching on a weak rest for six days.

767
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 4: The whole time.

768
00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 9: So for him with no days to go out there

769
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:23,760
Speaker 9: and do it, I'm thankful for Y'ama.

770
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 4: He got me one more World Series. So thank you Yama.

771
00:36:26,160 --> 00:36:26,800
Speaker 4: It was amazing.

772
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 2: Did you ever pitch to Otani? Yeah with the Angels.

773
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 4: Yeah.

774
00:36:33,160 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 9: Check the numbers. Damn check the numbers. I never gave

775
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 9: up a hit to show me, and I will have

776
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:40,600
Speaker 9: that for the rest of my life. I think he

777
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:42,319
Speaker 9: was like, oh for ten or eleven or something.

778
00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:42,720
Speaker 4: Wow.

779
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:45,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you don't rub that in, do you.

780
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:48,480
Speaker 4: I haven't told him yet. I didn't know how he

781
00:36:48,520 --> 00:36:49,360
Speaker 4: would take it.

782
00:36:49,239 --> 00:36:52,920
Speaker 2: But I got the numbers. He's oer for eleven with

783
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:54,240
Speaker 2: four strikeouts.

784
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 4: Yeah it feels good.

785
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 2: He owned the greatest player in the history of the sport.

786
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,239
Speaker 4: Yeah it feels great. I'll take that all day.

787
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:05,959
Speaker 2: Did anybody ever ask you how to pitch him knowing

788
00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 2: your success?

789
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:09,120
Speaker 4: I mean guys asked me on our team.

790
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 9: Obviously, I would never say anything to anybody else, but

791
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,520
Speaker 9: I think I just you can't throw middle speed pitches.

792
00:37:15,239 --> 00:37:17,800
Speaker 4: And unfortunately now that's all I throw is middle speed.

793
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:19,879
Speaker 4: I don't know if that would have done very well.

794
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:24,320
Speaker 9: Now, man, those like the slider change up mid eighties

795
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:26,960
Speaker 9: upper eighties. I don't care how good it is. I

796
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,400
Speaker 9: don't feel confident throwing that stuff. So you got to

797
00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:32,120
Speaker 9: throw really hard or throw soft.

798
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 2: Like okay, But at what point do you know I

799
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:39,120
Speaker 2: can't do this. I can't fool people like I can't

800
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:40,720
Speaker 2: be Clayton Krushel anymore.

801
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:42,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I.

802
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:45,400
Speaker 9: Think over the course of this season, I really started

803
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:47,760
Speaker 9: to feel it more like I was able to pitch okay,

804
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 9: you know, and had a decent season, which I'm super

805
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 9: thankful for, and I was healthy for it. But you know,

806
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:55,880
Speaker 9: sometimes you look up there and I was throwing you know,

807
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,840
Speaker 9: eighty seven eighty eight mile an hour fastballs, and I

808
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 9: felt healthyletely healthy, and you know, it just it just

809
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 9: felt like it was the right time, Like this was

810
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:08,360
Speaker 9: not going to work for that much longer. And so

811
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 9: in the day and age that we have now of velocity,

812
00:38:12,160 --> 00:38:16,920
Speaker 9: like even ninety one ninety two is not potentially enough,

813
00:38:17,000 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 9: like you can get away with it as a starter

814
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,840
Speaker 9: if you know what you're doing. But it just didn't

815
00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:23,840
Speaker 9: really feel like I had I had enough in the

816
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 9: tank to do it for.

817
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 4: One more year.

818
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 9: And you know, Ellen and I even going into the

819
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 9: season where like, hey, this kind of feels like the

820
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 9: last one.

821
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 4: And so.

822
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 9: You know this last month, knowing that it was over

823
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 9: and getting to do this the way it was, just

824
00:38:37,120 --> 00:38:38,280
Speaker 9: couldn't write a better script.

825
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 4: Man, is unbelievable.

826
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,239
Speaker 2: If you were going to name your soon to be

827
00:38:42,239 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 2: born baby after one of your teammates, former teammates, who

828
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 2: would it be.

829
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:48,839
Speaker 9: Well, I'm having a girl, but if I was having

830
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:52,360
Speaker 9: a boy, I guess the question is who do I

831
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:57,359
Speaker 9: like the most man?

832
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:03,839
Speaker 4: Right now? Maybe Yoshinobu.

833
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 2: Just Yoshi, right, yeah, yeah, you go Yoshi.

834
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 4: I was a big Mario Kart fan growing up. You go, Yoshi.

835
00:39:10,600 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 2: Hey, congratulations, And I still go back. I get people

836
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 2: during COVID when you were in your office and you

837
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 2: were showing how you grip. I mean you were our

838
00:39:20,080 --> 00:39:22,960
Speaker 2: first zoom guest and when you showed us all of

839
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 2: your pitches. I still have people saying how much they

840
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:30,080
Speaker 2: appreciated that and learned from that. And I always go

841
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:33,279
Speaker 2: back to that, because do you have a baseball by

842
00:39:33,320 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 2: you here?

843
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:38,839
Speaker 4: Yeah? Give me fifteen seconds. Oh wait, nope, I got one,

844
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 4: got it?

845
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 2: Okay, give me the grip of your last pitch as

846
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 2: a major leaguer.

847
00:39:44,719 --> 00:39:45,640
Speaker 4: All right, I was a slider.

848
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,719
Speaker 9: I threw all sliders because basically my fastball on their

849
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 9: slider are the same pitch.

850
00:39:49,840 --> 00:39:50,439
Speaker 4: So I just.

851
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 9: So I just kind of did this. It's like a

852
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 9: four seing grip, but I just get the top. I

853
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,239
Speaker 9: think this is like a I think he opened beer

854
00:39:59,280 --> 00:39:59,680
Speaker 9: cans with this.

855
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:03,879
Speaker 2: You might be using that a lot, Yeah, I might.

856
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 9: And then I just kind of angle my fingers so

857
00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:09,720
Speaker 9: it's it's literally like a fastball with a slight angle

858
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 9: of the fingers and uh yeah, I threw that slider

859
00:40:13,239 --> 00:40:16,320
Speaker 9: the most of any pitch for the last few years

860
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:18,800
Speaker 9: and saved my career.

861
00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:20,400
Speaker 4: Got to stick around a little longer.

862
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:24,320
Speaker 2: Well, congrats, congrats with the baby coming up and in retirement.

863
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:25,720
Speaker 2: We appreciate your time, Clayton.

864
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 4: Thanks man always full man. Appreciate it.

865
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 2: Clayton Kershaw