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Speaker 2: Welcome to another edition of Dodgers Territory. I am your

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Speaker 2: host today, Clint Pisias. That is not Elana Rizzo. That

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Speaker 2: is the great Scott Garman. Of course, you know him

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Speaker 2: know er, big time ball knower. Thank you for pinch

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, it's great to be at Glint. Always exciting times.

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Speaker 3: Some stuff trickling out about the Dodgers. We're in this

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Speaker 2: A lot of people affected by devastating fires. Thankfully, Scott

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Speaker 2: But let's get into the big ticket because there is

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Speaker 2: some Dodgers news. So since we were last live here,

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Speaker 1: Traded to the Reds, of course didn't mention that and a.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, So with in regard to Gavin Lux, once the

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Speaker 3: first thing in my mind was, this is a move

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Speaker 3: But at that peak they could have bottled that up

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Speaker 3: And we'll get into that why it's a different scale

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Speaker 3: But with Gavin Lux, it was a time that they

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Speaker 2: And then that writing kind of gets louder on the wall,

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Speaker 3: I would love for it to be, you know, another reliever.

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Speaker 3: I'm not asking for a back end closer that's going

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's definitely something we could dive a whole lot into.

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Speaker 2: for one more starting pitcher because to open the season,

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Speaker 2: we know there will not be a show Heyo Tani

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Speaker 2: for at least the first two months.

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Speaker 1: We don't know what.

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Speaker 2: Or when Kersh, what he's going to look like, or

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Speaker 2: when Clayton Kershaw is going to be returning. We haven't

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Speaker 2: seen the likes of Dustin may or Tony Gonsolin on

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Speaker 2: a major league mount in a long time. We don't

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Speaker 2: know what the hell Bobby Miller is or where his

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Speaker 2: head is at heading into twenty twenty five. He's an option,

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Speaker 2: am it? Shean returning from injury? Nick's rosso returning from injury.

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Speaker 2: There's a lot of pieces, but it's like, is that

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Speaker 2: enough to get through the rigors of one hundred and

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Speaker 2: sixty two games? And I do wonder if they can do,

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Speaker 2: like you're saying, on the reliever side, somebody that's more

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Speaker 2: on the cheaper side, not necessarily gonna take a long

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Speaker 2: term deal, just somebody that'll be here for a little while.

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Speaker 2: Maybe somehow could stick around through one sixty two or

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Speaker 2: more so, do the Paxton thing, do the Ryan Yarborough

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Speaker 2: thing where you're here for a few months and hopefully

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Speaker 2: you earn a ring somewhere without doing much of the work.

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Speaker 2: There are some free agents out there. We do have

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Speaker 2: Roki Sasaki on this list. That is the Golden Goose.

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Speaker 2: This much we know, but I think this whole this

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Speaker 2: whole thing kind of populated in my head because we

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Speaker 2: know how much Jack Flaherty wants to be back in

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Speaker 2: a Dodger uniform. People are gonna be upset seeing Max

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Speaker 2: Schurzer's name on this list, but he is an option

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Speaker 2: who could potentially take a Verlander type one year deal. Listen,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna shut up here and I'm gonna say there

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Speaker 2: are options. There are some names that, yeah, those aren't

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Speaker 2: sexy names, but it's just about having somebody else that

466
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Speaker 2: could be a potential fifth starter, sixth starter for a

467
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Speaker 2: few months, bridge that gap where we're not burning out. Yamamota,

468
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Speaker 2: you're not burning out glassnow, you're not burning out These

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Speaker 2: dudes snell earlier in the season, when they're at their

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Speaker 2: most important, when they're at their most valuable in October.

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Speaker 2: Do you share at all my growing and budding concerned

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Speaker 2: about the starting pitching situation.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you can never have too much starting pitching,

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Speaker 3: especially with this Dodgers, you know team, That's just how

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Speaker 3: it is.

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Speaker 4: You can always bring in enough arms.

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Speaker 3: I think if they get to that point, I mean,

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Speaker 3: they're going to probably explore that side. The Dodgers have

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Speaker 3: some of these and some of these names you've got,

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Speaker 3: you know, so like you said, Bobby Miller, Landon Knak, Robleski,

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Speaker 3: Ben Casparius, who are ready to provide innings where needed.

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Speaker 3: And I think those are guys who I love the

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Speaker 3: fact that they got their feet wet in twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: four quite a bit because Barrius especially Robleski can do it.

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Speaker 3: I know it's not the flashiest of names, but you're

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Speaker 3: going to need some like James James Packson esque arms

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Speaker 3: who go out there. They're going to make you every

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Speaker 3: single start when they're available, They're going to take the

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Speaker 3: ball as it goes. The Dodgers are running a six

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Speaker 3: man rotation, so that will provide them. It calls for

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Speaker 3: more arms and more options, but it does provide that

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Speaker 3: extra rest.

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Speaker 4: Where the Dodgers' arms need it.

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Speaker 3: That's just how it is. They have this formula set

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Speaker 3: in place. Roki Sasaki, I've sat on our channel that

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Speaker 3: I believe it's a better than fifty percent chance that

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Speaker 3: the Dodgers are signing Roki Sasaki, I said it was

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Speaker 3: about I think a fifty like a sixty sixty five

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Speaker 3: percent chance for me just reading the tea leaves reading

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Speaker 3: how that goes. I think the Dodgers are set on that.

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Speaker 3: But also you have to be wary of how much

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Speaker 3: he's going to give. You're going to It's going to

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Speaker 3: take some work. He's he's not a project. He is

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Speaker 3: a prospect, so you need to give him some time

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Speaker 3: to temper the expectations. But he will provide innings. But

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Speaker 3: I think, Clint, to your question, I do think that

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Speaker 3: if there's an name out there that Dodgers can bring

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Speaker 3: in for a half a season and then you have

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Speaker 3: no problem, you know, defaing him or trading him somewhere else.

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Speaker 3: After that, I think they'll take care of it. They're

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Speaker 3: going to have their eyes on both fronts. I see

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Speaker 3: some other people ask me about some relief pitcher options there.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I said Kainlee I talked about Tommy Kainley Yates.

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Speaker 3: If they want to go Ryan Stanik route, I'm just

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Speaker 3: talking about guys who have closed at the back end

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Speaker 3: of games before.

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Speaker 4: That's it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, now there's a I think the important thing we

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Speaker 2: can do to button this up and we'll move on.

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Speaker 2: We're not the smartest ones here. We know the Dodgers

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Speaker 2: are the smartest ones. They're thinking the same shit. We're

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Speaker 2: all thinking here together, guys.

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Speaker 1: They want one more Rokie.

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Speaker 2: Andrew Freeman said this very recently, and he's, you know,

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Speaker 2: just echoing something he's told us for months. That is

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Speaker 2: like their number one priority. They're going all in, doing

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Speaker 2: everything they can to land Roki Sasaki. And then suddenly

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Speaker 2: that starting pitching pitching question does and it's not it's

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Speaker 2: not going to keep me up as much. Yeah you

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Speaker 2: will a little bit for sure, because like you said,

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Speaker 2: he's still young. You still have to kind of develop him,

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Speaker 2: develop him, get him, you know, acclimated to the States

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Speaker 2: and whatever. Maybe he doesn't even make the opening day

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Speaker 2: five or whatever it is. But the more arms the better.

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Speaker 2: Just so we're not at a point where Ben Casparis

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Speaker 2: is needing to start games for the team or you know,

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Speaker 2: meaningful games, I should say, or a stretch of games

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Speaker 2: or the same with Landon Knack or whatever.

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Speaker 1: That's why you just want one more dude, and.

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Speaker 2: I'll keep saying it to be that Paxxton guy and

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Speaker 2: it will happen. You got what six weeks until spring training,

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Speaker 2: a condensed spring training kicks off.

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Speaker 3: So.

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Speaker 2: Just uh, we'll be ready. We'll be ready for the

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Speaker 2: next edition for this uh, for this team. But we

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Speaker 2: are going to get into Last Licks a little bit

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Speaker 2: different version of Last Licks today. Guys with Last Licks

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Speaker 2: Today don't have a dog. It's more of a general

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Speaker 2: thought of Obviously with the fires going on, there's a

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Speaker 2: lot of displaced people, families, but also pets, so there

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Speaker 2: are there are some services available, there's some help out there, shelters,

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Speaker 2: there's there's animal shelters that are available to help you out.

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Speaker 2: A lot of tweeted this earlier this week, you know,

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Speaker 2: check out everything. Actually we move that so people can

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Speaker 2: see more information. But if you're in the area, if

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Speaker 2: you're affected by the fire, if you need to evacuate

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Speaker 2: and you can't take the animal, don't leave your animals

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Speaker 2: at home. That is unfair to them. They have very

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Speaker 2: little control of what they can do. Take care of

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Speaker 2: your pets.

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Speaker 1: They are your family.

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Speaker 2: Try to get them to somewhere safe along with you,

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Speaker 2: because they deserve it.

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Speaker 1: That that's that's about it. That's that's all I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: say about that point.

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Speaker 2: Visit Gidreyesguardian dot org as well if you are able

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Speaker 2: to foster or help out other animals. It's a big

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Speaker 2: time passion for Alana Rizzo and she'd appreciate the heck

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Speaker 2: aut y'all if you can help her out.

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Speaker 1: That's about it.

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Speaker 4: Terrific stup there.

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Speaker 3: It's just a lot of people, a lot of animals

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Speaker 3: in need right now. Everybody needs to rally together, do

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Speaker 3: whatever you can. If you're from southern California, if you're

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Speaker 3: just observing from Afar, open heart, have an open heart

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Speaker 3: at this time. A lot of people are affected by this.

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Speaker 3: It's affected close friends around me. It's a loss, some

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Speaker 3: homes lost, some living situations, tough times.

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Speaker 4: Just open heart right now. That's all I can ask for.

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Speaker 2: Where I said, yeah, exactly on that note, we are

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Speaker 2: going to hit the wrap it up button here, but

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Speaker 2: you are going I'm gonna be live later today, You're

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Speaker 2: gonna be live later. Today, tell the people what you

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Speaker 2: got going on to also help folks out at Dodger Blue.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, everybody tuning in tonight at seven to ten pm.

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Speaker 4: That's I believe right where.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna kick off live right there over on the

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Speaker 3: Dodger Blue channel on Dodger of Blue nineteen fifty eight.

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Speaker 4: You can find us on YouTube.

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Speaker 3: However, Blake Williams and myself we're going to be doing

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Speaker 3: a stream chatting, but we're also going to be raffling

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Speaker 3: awesome stuff. All proceeds going to relief efforts, everything, every donation,

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Speaker 3: everything we do, We're going to be raffling off some

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Speaker 3: Blake this morning, and you know people at Dodger Blue

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Speaker 3: and we're going to do whatever we can to help

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Speaker 3: out the best we can. So just if you have

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Speaker 3: a chance to tune in, donate whatever you can. We'll

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Speaker 3: make all donations available to where the money's going there.

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Speaker 3: But if you could tune in, Blake and I are

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Speaker 3: going to be chatting some Dodgers.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 1: That's awesome man. You guys always do really great stuff

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Speaker 1: over there. Check them out.

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Speaker 2: Dodger blue dot com. Give him a follow on the

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Speaker 2: social media as well. You see it there on the

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Speaker 2: screen at Scott Gearman. It's easy because it's his name.

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Speaker 2: I will also be live today on the YouTube Machine

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Speaker 2: three pm Pacific time.

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Speaker 1: My buddy Casey Porter from Dodgers Daily will be joining

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Speaker 1: and we are.

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Speaker 2: Talking more Dodgers and we're going to really have a

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Speaker 2: focus on the prospect side of kind of continuing the

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Speaker 2: conversation Scott.

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Speaker 1: And I had here today.

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Speaker 2: Who are some other names that are maybe off the

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Speaker 2: rate but in the organization that could help the team

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Speaker 2: this season. So tube in three pm Pacific time. All

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Speaker 1: But that's about it. Scott.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate you join in today as always as it's blast

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Speaker 2: talking to you. My friend Alana will be back with

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