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Speaker 1: Instant reaction, and then on the back end, some thoughts

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Speaker 1: on where I was really wrong this football season with

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Speaker 1: one team in particular. Congratulations to the Dodgers winning their

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Speaker 1: eighth World Series title. I think I'm very clever headline

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Speaker 1: Walker Bueller's two days Off Ferris Bueller Walker Anyway, I

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Speaker 1: love Dave Robbers, who deals because of the Dodgers' payroll

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Speaker 1: like an all star team. There's a lot of pressure

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Speaker 1: a World Series and then Dodgers as a manager. And

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Speaker 1: his resources. Now, I felt very strongly tonight that it

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Speaker 1: I thought they gave the game away. And the fifth

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Speaker 1: innings of the craziest thing I've ever seen. Over the

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Speaker 1: Has that ever happened in a World Series game? Five

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Speaker 1: It's just it's just, you know, Kershaw to Otani to Betts,

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Speaker 1: going to get a big hit. I mean, Aaron Judge finally,

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Speaker 1: And despite what happened in the World Series, the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: And it's just I mean, for him to be as

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Speaker 1: like Otani really needs to be a Dodger. It's nothing

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Speaker 1: But let's not forget what he produced. For a majority

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Speaker 1: I don't worry about getting week to week predictions right

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Speaker 1: Arizona can beat anybody with those weapons. Minnesota can play

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Speaker 1: and that next group should be winning playoff games the volume.

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