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Speaker 3: the triumphant return of my co host Wesley Avula.

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Speaker 2: Would you have for breakfast today?

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Speaker 3: my co host is chef Wesley Avila, And from the

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Speaker 3: it simple today. Three chunks. First one on the Edwin

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Speaker 1: But I wanted to say three years and sixty nine million.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, get out of you know, he's in Queen's Ye,

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Speaker 2: We'll have a twelve piece of bucket of oriol instead

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Speaker 1: He could have easily gone somewhere else.

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Speaker 3: Yes, which perfect for all sides. He goes out a champion.

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Speaker 1: Tell people who Kyle Tucker is.

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Speaker 2: I don't know, man, it's it's rough, but he.

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Speaker 3: So you could see a situation where you know, Mooki's

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Speaker 2: We are said to be in on him, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: Probably, Yeah, he's the big get this. So he hasn't signed.

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Speaker 3: That's the person who we should mention, we should we

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was very uncertain whether he would be coming back,

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Speaker 2: No, they're not.

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Speaker 1: That's a huge value that you It's not going to

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's putting them out of the World Baseball Classics.

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Speaker 3: And we'll finish up our hot stove talk with one

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Speaker 3: But did you want to cover any other free agency

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Speaker 2: The only last hot stove? But these are these are

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I qualify this big asterisk. This is just just rumors.

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Speaker 3: He's a rare commodity right now, and he is at

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Speaker 3: But is he worth what he will cost?

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Speaker 2: It's like prospects. My only worry is these young guys

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Speaker 3: We are obviously a very veteran heavy older team right now,

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Speaker 3: and that's common if you're gonna be a championing in.

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Speaker 1: The World Series every year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you have all these guys that are at their peak,

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Speaker 3: or we're not a young team that we're just like

447
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Speaker 3: letting the kids play and see what happens. Like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: we are older and so, but we have a lot

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Speaker 3: of great talent behind those guys. Oh, Yeah, that's attractive

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Speaker 3: to other organizations who might want to trade, you know,

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Speaker 3: one of their more talented older.

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Speaker 1: Establishing for fun guys.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, which they develop and sometimes sometimes they hit, sometimes

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Speaker 2: they don't.

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Speaker 1: You never know that.

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Speaker 2: That happened with Michael Bush. Michael Bush is killing it

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Speaker 2: in Chicago. Now. That happened with Jordan Alvarez was a

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Speaker 2: Dodger coming up in the pharm system. They traded him, yea,

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Speaker 2: and he was a bomber for the Astros, you know

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Speaker 2: what I mean. He still is like every time he's

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Speaker 2: up there, it's like it's like Vlad. It's like, God,

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Speaker 2: this guy's gonna hit something out the dome, you know

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Speaker 2: what I mean. So it happens, but I mean, i'd

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Speaker 2: it's like what I'd rather win now. It's of course

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Speaker 2: you want to win now, you know. I mean, that's

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Speaker 2: all that matters is right now, long trim you deal

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Speaker 2: with then when it comes up.

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Speaker 3: Well, we got a couple more months for the rest

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Speaker 3: of the chips to fall and we'll see what happens

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Speaker 3: with Kik. But in the meantime, if you're just missing

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Speaker 3: baseball the way we are, this is a good off

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Speaker 3: season for that because the world Baseball Classic is happening.

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Speaker 2: It's back.

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Speaker 3: So that was the off season news and scuttle, But

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Speaker 3: our discussion of the World Baseball Classic comes after the break.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back to the show. In our third and final chunk,

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Speaker 3: Chef Wes and I discuss the World Baseball Classic.

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Speaker 2: The World Baseball Classic, if you don't know, it's very

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Speaker 2: similar to the FIFA World Cup, which is happening this

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Speaker 2: summer as well. But to be honest, for me, I'm

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Speaker 2: more excited about the World Baseball Classic. Yeah, because you

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Speaker 2: get these teams of super teams so fun, like you

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Speaker 2: look at oh, you know the DR, Oh my god,

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Speaker 2: Team Japan, Team USA, like it's just like the best

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Speaker 2: of the best guys and they play with such passion

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Speaker 2: it's incredible. And then you see them when they're like

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Speaker 2: in Chinese, Taipei or you know, in South Korea, and

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Speaker 2: you see these like fans, how rabid they are for

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Speaker 2: their teams to win.

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Speaker 3: You see all the different styles of play and the

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Speaker 3: different styles of fandom are on display.

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Speaker 1: That team from the.

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Speaker 2: DR it's so stacked, it's like so scary. It's like,

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Speaker 2: damn dude, Like how that would be like if there

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Speaker 2: was a team on the East Coast. That was like, ok,

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Speaker 2: we want to beat the Dodgers. That's who we would

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Speaker 2: have to assemble to beat the Dodgers.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, a team like that, Yeah, but it would never

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Speaker 3: be put to No major league team could figure that out.

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Speaker 3: And you get fun things like Freddie Freeman plays for

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Speaker 3: Team Canada. You see guys who you might not even

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Speaker 3: know that they are associated with that you know that

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Speaker 3: these are you know, their parents, countries or whatever, and

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Speaker 3: they'll go.

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Speaker 2: Play and it's your opportunity to cheer for the rival

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Speaker 2: all star on a team that you would normally boo

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Speaker 2: right and heckle yeah. And because they're on t USA

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Speaker 2: or your team that whichever you're supporting Gilfree And that's

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Speaker 2: where I really got to like, you know, Kyle Schwarber

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Speaker 2: and JT Realmudo.

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Speaker 3: And that's where I first saw Roki Sasaki and Yoshinoba

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Speaker 3: Yama oh yeah.

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Speaker 2: Crushing it for Team Japan.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and being like damn in particular, I remember, oh

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Speaker 3: my gosh. And then you get these great moments like

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Speaker 3: most famously it's every two years, right.

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Speaker 1: Four years, every four years as well.

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Speaker 3: Really Okay, So in the twenty twenty two World Baseball Classic.

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Speaker 3: There was just like the quintessential, like the moment that

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Speaker 3: if you wanted a script, like the best kind of

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Speaker 3: most dramatic finish to a game. Show Hey Otani on

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Speaker 3: the mound facing off against Mike Trout, Show Hey for

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Speaker 3: Team Japan. Mike Trout his teammate for Team USA eight.

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Speaker 2: Teammate like, how do you get better than that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: They like they hit behind each other during the regular season,

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Speaker 3: but they had to face off and show Hey struck

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Speaker 3: him out, and it was just.

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Speaker 2: It was incredible.

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Speaker 6: Otani's ready, Trout's ready. Three two, Hey struck him out.

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Speaker 6: Otani strikes out Trout, and Japan's back on top of

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Speaker 6: the baseball world.

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Speaker 2: And that was the one that won the game. It's yeah,

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Speaker 2: World Baseball Classic. If you haven't watched it, or you

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Speaker 2: kind of like, well, I don't really pay attention, it's

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Speaker 2: not my team, watch it. It makes for great baseball.

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Speaker 2: It's great watching. It's a lot of fun. People get

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Speaker 2: really into it, and they have really cool too. They

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Speaker 2: got like the ye the cool hats and cool stuff

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Speaker 2: that they wear. And then sometimes you'll see teams come

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Speaker 2: out of nowhere, like Team Mexico is not stacked with

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Speaker 2: all Stars. But they play very very well together and

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Speaker 2: they almost beat Team Japan to get to the final. Yes,

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Speaker 2: and then Japan came back at the end and took

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Speaker 2: them out. But like teams like you know that you

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Speaker 2: would think would crush, it didn't do too well like

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Speaker 2: the dr I do. I'm like, you look at the

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Speaker 2: team then, and you look at this year's team, it's

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Speaker 2: like everybody a Star, All Star, All Star, All Star,

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Speaker 2: All Star, Hall of Fame, Hall of Fame, first ballot,

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Speaker 2: Hall of Fame. It's like, how can they lose? It's

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Speaker 2: you know, it's like.

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Speaker 3: Well, so what do we know about what Dodgers are

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Speaker 3: involved in the WA?

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Speaker 2: Will Smith is playing, he's the catcher.

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Speaker 1: For obviously they call him America's catcher.

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Speaker 2: America's catcher. You got basically three of the Dodgers pitching

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Speaker 2: on their yams. Is pitching show Hay's pitching?

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Speaker 1: Is it confirm that pitching.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be great to see some of the

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Speaker 3: Dodgers play in these games, but there also are some

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Speaker 3: complicating factors that should be taken seriously. I saw a

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Speaker 3: headline the other day that Dave Roberts was quoted as

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Speaker 3: saying that he doesn't want him to pitch. Yeah, but

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Speaker 3: wanting that's a big thing with the WBC because players

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Speaker 3: can decide to play. I don't think there's ever anything

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Speaker 3: in any contract that says that you can't. But you

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Speaker 3: are risking injury for example, RT the time you play,

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Speaker 3: and so you're basically playing high stakes competitive baseball right

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Speaker 3: out of the gate after a shortened off season, leading

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Speaker 3: right into Opening Day and spring training and opening Day

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Speaker 3: it even like overlaps with spring training.

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Speaker 1: I think it does, and so that can be a

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Speaker 1: concern for me.

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Speaker 2: Like as a fan, it's like I want to want

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Speaker 2: to see it. You want to see and Yam's pitch,

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Speaker 2: you know, you want to see I'd love to see

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Speaker 2: all these all stars playing for Team USA as well,

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean. You want to see them,

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Speaker 2: not just like I'm a you know, making all this money,

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Speaker 2: I don't need to do that, But like, I think

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Speaker 2: it's great for baseball. It makes it more interesting. And

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Speaker 2: you see some players that will never play on the

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Speaker 2: same MLB team playing together on their country's team.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like a fantasy league or something like that.

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Speaker 3: It's very fun and players talk about it is like

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Speaker 3: that was their favorite baseball experience ever, because.

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Speaker 2: Some of these players also will never get to a

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Speaker 2: championship unfortunately, exactly, they will never get a World Series.

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Speaker 3: And there's that famous moment where Mookie and Mike Trout

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Speaker 3: were both playing for Team USA last time, and they

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Speaker 3: were like in the locker room suiting up and Mike

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Speaker 3: Trout turns to Smooky and he's.

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Speaker 2: Like, is this what the playoffs are like? That?

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Speaker 1: Yes? Yes, He's like, hey, moo, this is what the

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Speaker 1: World Series is like.

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Speaker 3: Because Mike Trout is a career usually will never sniff

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Speaker 3: the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: Never. Oh my gosh, it's that sucks man.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So this year, you know, I'm really rooting for Team USA,

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Speaker 2: but it's just like a good baseball like fun thing

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Speaker 2: because Japan is so dominant. Yeah, they won it last time.

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Speaker 1: I want to see Japan in the US, you know,

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Speaker 1: going at it again.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah yeah, oh yeah, it's gonna be fun. So

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Speaker 2: makes you tune in and watch the WBC. Some of

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00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:05,080
Speaker 2: the games have already sold out, so the stadium's already

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Speaker 2: like filling up and they they are playing here. So

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Speaker 2: where are they playing this year? I think they're playing

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Speaker 2: in Arlington, Arlington, Texas. Uh, Miami. Uh huh, and those

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Speaker 2: were the like the main like quarterfinals and finals or

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Speaker 2: semi finals will be playing in Miami and Arlington, like

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Speaker 2: where the Rangers play.

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Speaker 3: Right, So very exciting. I can't wait to tune in

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Speaker 3: what else we got.

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Speaker 2: I think that's that's pretty caught up right now.

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Speaker 1: Well, thanks for taking the time slumming.

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Speaker 2: It slumming it worth with liquor parking only violators will

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Speaker 2: be told.

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Speaker 3: Nobody's minded that we were just doing our podcasting right here,

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Speaker 3: but we did patronize the establishment.

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Speaker 2: Not buying any alcohol.

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Speaker 3: No, I've got some nice non alcoholic drinks here that

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Speaker 3: we've been enjoying, and it's been fun to chat and

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Speaker 3: catch up.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely all right, thanks for listening. Yeah, Happy holidays.

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Speaker 1: Happy, it's going to be a good new year. Talk

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Speaker 1: to you soon.

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Speaker 2: Dodger Blue Dream is written and produced by Richard Parks

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Speaker 2: a third. This episode was story edited by Cait len Esh.

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Speaker 2: the Blasting Company, and Richard Parks a third. Follow us

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