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Speaker 2: But everybody, and welcome to Dodgers Territory on this fine

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Speaker 2: Thursday afternoon. I'm Alana Rizzo. That is Clint Piscis. We

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Speaker 2: All right, let's get to it, Clint Pascius, let's get

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Speaker 3: Let's do it.

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Speaker 2: All right, So the Dodgers are on the verge. I

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Speaker 2: They face Paul's schemes today. This is a young man

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Speaker 2: He is getible? So how do we get to Paul

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Speaker 3: They are eleven to four against teams with a five

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Speaker 2: It doesn't need to be inspiring every single day. I

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Speaker 2: It's an unrealistic expectation. You guys, they want to win

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you've said it all. I mean, it's

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Speaker 2: They slide taoscar over the left. Edmund is in center field.

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Speaker 2: You slot everybody where they're supposed to be. Again, we're

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Speaker 2: getting reinforcements back, guys. I get it. The postseason starts

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Speaker 2: You're allowed to do so. They don't need a pep talk,

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Speaker 2: All right, we want to welcome in our friend, the

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Speaker 2: executive editor over at Dodgerblue dot com. Sometimes you'll find

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Speaker 2: him on Dodger Heads right here on YouTube. Matthew Moreno

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Speaker 2: And again we've kind of had a bit of Oh

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Speaker 2: my goodness, Pet's heads are falling off, Matthew. We talked

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Speaker 2: and the Pirates. What are you seeing from this club?

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Speaker 2: What gives you pause and what are you looking forward to?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean a lot of what you guys just

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Speaker 2: Matt What is your opinion on flipping the switch? Can

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm somebody who thinks that that does exist, and

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Speaker 2: Matthew is wrong. You are wrong. It does not exempt

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Speaker 1: I think you know, especially when you have veterans right

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Speaker 5: Make up for it.

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Speaker 1: I think typically you'll see teams, you know, playing a

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Speaker 2: All right, I want to ask you a question before

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Speaker 2: I get back to Clint really quickly. I want to

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Speaker 2: Rose has an interesting point. I want your take on it. First,

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Speaker 2: it's wait till the All Star break. Then it's wait

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Speaker 1: He does, And I am somebody you know over on

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Speaker 5: Fair to question that.

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Speaker 1: So then, like would would anybody be like fully shocked

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Speaker 3: want to know, how shocked are you that? Michael F Conforto,

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Speaker 1: Not shocked yet, I will be shocked if Max Muntsey

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Speaker 5: Taoscar her Net.

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Speaker 1: Like, I think that's a bigger issue than maybe confordo

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Speaker 1: continuing to start.

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Speaker 2: I have a question for you in the catching situation

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Speaker 2: when it comes to your and my Los Angeles Dodgers, Matthew,

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Speaker 2: both Will Smith and thank goodness that the X rays

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Speaker 2: were negative. Will Smith and Dalton Rushing got a little

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Speaker 2: bit banged up recently in respective games. That makes me

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Speaker 2: nervous though this team is two weird injuries away in

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Speaker 2: a catching situation to be in real trouble. How do

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Speaker 2: you feel about the catching situation if you have to

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Speaker 2: not saying that they need to, but in the event

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Speaker 2: that something happens to both Will Smith and Dalton Rushing,

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Speaker 2: who comes in and I would imagine because they're the

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Speaker 2: only ones that are on the forty man right now,

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Speaker 2: So who comes in and is in a catching position

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Speaker 2: heading into the postseason. Is this an area of concern

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Speaker 2: or am I making it out to be one and

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Speaker 2: it's actually not.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think it's it's a valid concern.

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Speaker 1: I think some fluky things would have to happen, you know,

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Speaker 1: if if Will Smith were to unfortunately miss you know,

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Speaker 1: significant amount of time. I think the Dodgers are confident

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Speaker 1: in Dalton Rushing, and I think he would be okay,

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Speaker 1: like there is going to be a drop off. Will

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Speaker 1: Smith is having a very productive season. You know, he

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Speaker 1: went through his own little stump like every player does.

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Speaker 1: But it's been a strong year for him. So rushing

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Speaker 1: wouldn't necessarily match that production. But I think he could be.

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Speaker 1: He could hold his own well enough. He's you know,

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Speaker 1: he's gotten basically a full year of experience, which is helpful.

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Speaker 1: He's not you know, maybe a September call.

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Speaker 5: Up type thing. But yeah, I mean if something.

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Speaker 1: I did think that last night, you know, when rushing

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Speaker 1: toon with that foul ball off its hand. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: Max Munsey's not on the roster right now. I know

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Speaker 1: in the past he's been touted as the emergency catcher,

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Speaker 1: so just.

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Speaker 2: Wants he gaya catch? That's that's what Clint.

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Speaker 3: It's time, baby, It's time.

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Speaker 5: Was close.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, you know, if if they need to

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Speaker 1: make a roster I'm not one hundred percent sure how

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Speaker 1: to pronounce his last name. Uh, he just was like

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Speaker 1: he was acquired in the three team train. I think

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Speaker 1: Ben something with an R.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I don't even want to try because I'll butcher it.

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Speaker 1: But I mean you're looking at something like that, Who's

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Speaker 1: who's going to have to come up? And all the

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Speaker 1: points we discussed about what the Dodgers need to go

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Speaker 1: right in the playoffs, like it could be washed away,

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Speaker 1: but it's a it's a it's a reasonable concern.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there you go. Uh yeah, it's the reasonable concern.

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Speaker 1: But I think some fluky things would have to happen

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Speaker 1: for that to become like a real issue for them.

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Speaker 2: I agree, I agree, I'm just creating problems that aren't there.

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Speaker 2: But I think Clint just wants to he gay to

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Speaker 2: catch and I'm like, no, no, no.

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Speaker 3: Listen, we've been waiting for it for at least what

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Speaker 3: six in eight years now, it's about time to let

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Speaker 3: Kei k Katz just get one more thing. He could

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Speaker 3: wear the little helmet he wears when he pitches as well. Matt,

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Speaker 3: I want to double back to the outfield, the CONFORDO

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Speaker 3: the ta Oscar kind of conversation we had. We had

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Speaker 3: Dave on the show two weeks ago ish, and to

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Speaker 3: be fair, I probably should have been a little more

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Speaker 3: direct with him in the ti Oscar questions He's he

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Speaker 3: had brought up at the time, like I like the

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Speaker 3: focus he seems to in so many words, get better

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Speaker 3: when he's playing better competition, and you should, in theory,

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Speaker 3: be playing better competition in the playoffs. Still, that doesn't

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Speaker 3: necessarily fix the fact that he is not the best

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Speaker 3: defensive outfielder in baseball. He might not be the best

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Speaker 3: right fielder on this team if we're underselling it by

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Speaker 3: a lot. Do you think this team, for lack of

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Speaker 3: a better way of saying it, smartens up and stashes

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Speaker 3: him again in left field come October or even come

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Speaker 3: Edmund coming back.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I'm torn on this because what you know, Dave.

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Speaker 1: I've been there when Dave has been asked this question

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Speaker 1: several times, several different ways, and the first, like the

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Speaker 1: most we've sort of gotten out of him is, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's a good thought, I think was how he worded

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Speaker 1: it in terms of potentially moving to Oscar Hernandez to

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Speaker 1: left field. But he has also continued to say, like,

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Speaker 1: it's not something we're really thinking about doing right now.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's not front of mine type thing. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I think when Tommy Edmund comes back that'll

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Speaker 1: be most telling, because I don't think the Dodgers will

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Speaker 1: get to October, and that would be the first time

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Speaker 1: that they move ti Oscar Hernandez to left field.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, if.

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Speaker 1: Edmund comes back, and as you guys mentioned, you know,

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Speaker 1: he's been focusing on centerfield on his rehab assignment. If

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Speaker 1: he plays center field for the Dodgers and Andy pa

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Speaker 1: Has goes to left field, and my assumption, my read

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Speaker 1: on that is going to be, well, this is just

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Speaker 1: what they're deciding to Oscar hernandezys, He's said two things.

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Speaker 5: He's willing to play any position.

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Speaker 1: He's also most comfortable in right field, which I know

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Speaker 1: sounds well ironic considering some of the as we've seen there.

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Speaker 1: But if you know, maybe the Dodgers will just respect

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Speaker 1: that and respect him and leave him there and put

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Speaker 1: pat Has in left field. But if Edmund comes back

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Speaker 1: and you know, by the middle of September, the middle

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Speaker 1: of this month, pa Has is playing right field, then

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Speaker 1: you know, I think we will have our answer there.

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Speaker 2: Matt. Before we let you go, this is the question

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Speaker 2: of the day team you are most nervous about facing

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Speaker 2: in a five game series.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to skirt the question, but really,

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Speaker 1: like not, there isn't necessarily one that jumps out.

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Speaker 5: I guess.

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Speaker 1: If you want to say Philly, I mean Phillies, but

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Speaker 1: that matchup is isn't necessarily like we would have to

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Speaker 1: see how the bracket obviously ends up.

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Speaker 2: No, like, there's no there's no bracket. There's no bracket.

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Speaker 2: You just say, if you had if it wasn't ended

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Speaker 2: today and you had to face a team tomorrow five

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Speaker 2: game series, who scares you the most? Or who are they?

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Speaker 2: Who are they less matched up with? That doesn't even

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Speaker 2: make sense. Who are they the most poorly matched up with?

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Speaker 1: I guess if if you put it that way because

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Speaker 1: of what we've also seen during the regular season, maybe

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Speaker 1: the Brewers. But you know, I know, like they're dealing

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Speaker 1: with some injuries now. And look, I'm not trying to

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Speaker 1: skirt around the court. I just think, like I said,

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Speaker 1: the Dodger, like they have so much talent, but you

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Speaker 1: put them in a five game series, if the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: play seventy five to eighty percent of their kind of

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Speaker 1: capabilt their potential, like I think that they're favored against

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Speaker 1: every opponent, it wouldn't matter.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they just need to get better. They need to

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Speaker 3: find that switch and flip it and everything will be

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Speaker 3: better and hopefully they start doing that today facing Paul

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Speaker 3: Skeins Matthew, we appreciate the time. I man always good

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Speaker 3: talking Dodger Baseball with you. Tell the people where to

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Speaker 3: find you if they don't know how to find you,

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Speaker 3: and then we'll get the hell out of here.

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Speaker 5: Yeah. No, I appreciate it. Thank you guys for having

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Speaker 5: me on.

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Speaker 1: We published a bunch of daily content on Dodgerblue dot com.

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Speaker 1: Find us on YouTube, Instagram, Twitch, Can I say Twitter?

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Speaker 1: fifty eight. I'm sure I know a lot of the

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Speaker 1: live shows, So thank you for that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we appreciate the time. Guys. We'll be back after

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Speaker 3: a quick word from our friends at foul Territory.

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Speaker 6: We're throwing a curveball at you this week for our

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Speaker 6: arena club segment. As AJ has opened up a Pokemon

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Speaker 6: slap pack. Did you say it? Pokemon?

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Speaker 3: Flapman?

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Speaker 6: Pokemon? Don't ask me to say what that card is,

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Speaker 6: but we're doing with that card. I already sold it,

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Speaker 6: get back baby. I bought it and then I got

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Speaker 6: more money than I paid for the pack, so I

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Speaker 6: sold us straight back. You bought it for, you sold

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Speaker 6: it for, and you can go get yourself something that

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Speaker 6: you maybe know how to pronounce.

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Speaker 5: Yes, what it is?

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Speaker 1: I said it because I saw certain people open in

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Speaker 1: Pokemon and they were making money, and guess what I got.

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Speaker 3: Lucky made money off of it.

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Speaker 6: Too, exactly. But of course, if you're into sports cards,

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Speaker 6: that is something that you can find a ton of

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Speaker 2: All right, guys, I want to introduce you to Sonny.

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Speaker 2: He is a three year old shepherd mix. He is awesome,

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Speaker 2: loves loves, loves other dogs, loves kids, loves people. He's

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Speaker 2: super calm. He loves to play, but he's also snugly vaccinated, newter,

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Speaker 2: totally healthy, loves to play fetch, loves to play with

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Speaker 2: water coming out of the garden hose. He is being

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Speaker 2: He's being fostered right now. One thousand oaks. Thousand oaks

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Speaker 2: is not where's it. Yeah, yeah, thousand oaks and he

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Speaker 2: just seeds an adoptor. He's he's a good, good, good boy.

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Speaker 2: Please reach out to Gidri's guardian dot org or just

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Speaker 2: hit me up with my social channels. I can get

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Speaker 2: you more information about Sinny.

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Speaker 3: Does it come with the putting green? I mean it

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Speaker 3: looks like a cool little putting green.

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Speaker 2: We can arrange that for you, no problem. You adopt him,

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Speaker 2: I'll get you a pudding.

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Speaker 3: Oh there, oh, everybody, somebody clipped that clip that? Oh god, riz,

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Speaker 3: we got Paul Skeens versus Blake Snell tonight the Marquy

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Speaker 3: matchup between the Dodgers and the Pittsburgh Pirates. What do

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Speaker 3: you like about this matchup?

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Speaker 2: I mean, this feels like a postseason matchup, right, And

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Speaker 2: I do feel very poorly for a future Dodger Paul

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Speaker 2: Skeens because he's so good and his team is so bad.

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Speaker 2: But he's a tremendous talent. He'll be a lot of

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Speaker 2: fun to watch. But I love Blake Snell. I mean,

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Speaker 2: two times cy Young Award winner Paul Skin's very likely

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Speaker 2: going to get the cy Young Award in the National

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Speaker 2: League this year. Last year went to Chris Sale, but

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Speaker 2: he was Rookie of the Year last year. Paul Skeins

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Speaker 2: was just a good matchup. Two guys that obviously went

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Speaker 2: at the top of their game are the best in

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Speaker 2: the game. So I'm excited about that. Feels very postseason

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Speaker 2: ish to me, but I would like to get a

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Speaker 2: win against the Podres or excuse me, against the Pirates.

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Speaker 2: I know it's not going to be easy against Skeens,

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Speaker 2: but he is gettable. He just pitched against the Red

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Speaker 2: Sox and he is gettable.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the Dodgers need to get him. And they've been

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Speaker 3: doing this in these series of late against the sub

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Speaker 3: five hundred teams. Like I spoke about earlier in the show,

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Speaker 3: they tend to win the final game. They've done that,

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Speaker 3: I think the last two series against well last two series,

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Speaker 3: I forgot exactly what it was. But anyways, the point

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Speaker 3: is just go win some f and ball games. That's

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Speaker 3: what they got to do. And it starts today and

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Speaker 3: then you got to go sweep the Orioles and then

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Speaker 3: you just keep it going from there. That's I don't

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Speaker 3: care about a switch. It's about time you to start

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Speaker 3: figuring out how to play good, clean baseball against teams

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Speaker 3: that should be beat.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, and don't overlook the Orioles. They just

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Speaker 2: slipped the Padres. I know the Padres are reeling, but

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Speaker 2: the Orioles are still a major League Baseball club. So

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Speaker 2: you guys, thanks for being here. We do appreciate all

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Speaker 2: your comments. I love that you don't agree with us.

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Speaker 2: As long as it's always respectful conversation, we're happy to

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Speaker 2: have it. So thanks for being here, and Clint and

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Speaker 2: I will be back on Monday with a brand new

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Speaker 2: episode of Dodgers Territory, hopefully talking about what one's five

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Speaker 2: more wins at that point. So you guys, then do

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Speaker 3: It by any