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Speaker 2: Friedman is coming on the show momentarily. Clint, it's been

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Speaker 2: My goodness, I tell you you and I had a

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Speaker 4: He k waiting for it to be official. But love, love,

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Speaker 2: to that. Francisco, thanks for the super chat, my friend

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Speaker 1: Love Keith av and.

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Speaker 1: He as well, Thanks for having me on now.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you very much. We were just talking about

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Speaker 2: he said, No, I will at some point, is Kershaw? Obviously?

435
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Speaker 2: I know that he wants to be a Dodger. I

436
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Speaker 2: mean where do you where do you put him? And

437
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Speaker 2: and do you do you legitimately see him coming back

438
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Speaker 2: when he's healthy in you know, September October.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I think the one constant going back through

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Speaker 1: my ten years obviously Kersh and the impact that he's

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Speaker 1: had on the game, on the Dodgers. But the one

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Speaker 1: constant has been, you know, us having fun arguments about

443
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Speaker 1: when his return to play. He is so competitive and

444
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Speaker 1: wants to be back the next day, and I am

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Speaker 1: more cautious and want him back for a strong October run.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, it's important to him to be a Dodger.

447
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Speaker 1: It's important to us for him to be a Dodger.

448
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Speaker 1: I've said this in the past. Things are just right

449
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Speaker 1: in the world. When Clinton Kerschel is wearing a Dodger uniform.

450
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Speaker 1: I will view it as a real failure on my

451
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Speaker 1: part if he's not, and he deserves that, and you know,

452
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Speaker 1: talk about a statue, that's a real statue.

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Speaker 2: Maybe not with the not with the shirt off though celebrating.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna go ahead and make sure he puts his

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Speaker 2: jersey back on and give the.

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Speaker 3: People what they want.

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Speaker 4: Riz Come on, that's one guy you guys absolutely need back,

458
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Speaker 4: and another guy too, I think complete that at what

459
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Speaker 4: I said earlier, the Infinity Gauntlet is that Dave Roberts extension, which.

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Speaker 3: We hear is in the works right now.

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Speaker 4: Can you just talk about Dave and the growth that

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Speaker 4: he has made as a manager. I don't know that

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Speaker 4: anybody could have helped navigate the team with all the

464
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Speaker 4: injuries and all the stress that happened this past postseason.

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Speaker 4: I don't think anybody could have done it better than

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Speaker 4: Dave Roberts.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he was phenomenal. And you know, it's funny people

468
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Speaker 1: are like, oh, you know after the Padre series, like, oh,

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Speaker 1: Dave finally managed a good postseason series, And there's just

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Speaker 1: so much outcome around, so much of this, which I get,

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Speaker 1: like it's the world we live in and but I

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Speaker 1: don't think it was necessarily something where it's like he

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Speaker 1: wasn't managing. I think he's always been a good manager,

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Speaker 1: But like anyone that we work with are goals to

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Speaker 1: get better every year. Like the people who don't have

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Speaker 1: that growth mindset and are like, hey, I've got it

477
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Speaker 1: figured out, those are not the people we want to

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Speaker 1: work with. And so, you know, Dave has been really successful.

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Speaker 1: He's of the mind to grow and learn and get better.

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Speaker 1: You know, Like speaking for myself, I hope I'm better

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Speaker 1: at my job a year from now than I am today.

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Speaker 1: And so I think there's that natural kind of improvement

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Speaker 1: that you know comes with the territory of someone who

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Speaker 1: has that kind of growth mindset. So, you know, Doc

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Speaker 1: has been a big part of our past success. He

486
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Speaker 1: was a big part of our success lost October. But

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Speaker 1: I don't think it was necessarily in a way that

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Speaker 1: he wouldn't have done three or four or whatever years earlier.

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Speaker 1: And you know, there's just so much outcome based narrative

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Speaker 1: that comes that it's how to kind of sift through

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Speaker 1: that a little bit. But yeah, we've you know, been

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Speaker 1: through this a number of times with Doc and He's

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Speaker 1: talked about how much he wants to be here, We've

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Speaker 1: talked about how much we want on him here and

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Speaker 1: have been successful looking back. It's just not something where

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Speaker 1: I give any kind of play by play something. Whenever

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Speaker 1: there's something to announce, whatever you know, we'll be sure

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Speaker 1: and share it, all right.

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Speaker 2: Andrew Friedman got me into the most exclusive restaurant in

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Speaker 2: Tampa Bay when Morgan Wallen canceled his concert and I

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Speaker 2: texted and I said, I have a night free. Can

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Speaker 2: you get me to this restaurant? He did, So I'm

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Speaker 2: going to ask you this, Can you get me two

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00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:32,240
Speaker 2: tickets to the Tokyo series because they're impossible with Otani

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00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:36,119
Speaker 2: Sasaki Yamamoto and him and auga. So let me know

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Speaker 2: if you want your girl to come on the charter

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Speaker 2: with you. Oh yeah, yeah, that's right. You know, if

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Speaker 2: you want your girl to come on the charter with you, again,

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Speaker 2: you let me know. Andrew, you are wonderful. Congratulations, you're

510
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 2: not getting fired. You are the best at what you do.

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Speaker 2: We appreciate you very much. Thanks for taking time to

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Speaker 2: be with Clinton and I on Dodger's territory, my friend, of.

513
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Speaker 1: Course, Thank you guys for having me on enjoyed it all.

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Speaker 2: Right, Andrew Friedman, the best president of baseball ops for

515
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Speaker 2: the Dodgers. Let's get to Leslick's.

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Speaker 3: Let's do it.

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Speaker 2: All right. Paisley, guys, she is so sweet. Look at

518
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,879
Speaker 2: that little side eye. She's a little flirt. So you

519
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 2: know she'd be great if you're a single guy. I

520
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:21,800
Speaker 2: want to attract the ladies. Paisley could be your wingwoman.

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Speaker 2: She is getting Spade tomorrow. She's a great gal. She's

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Speaker 2: an Australian Shepherd mix. She's about one year old. She's

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Speaker 2: fully vaccinated. She's working on potty training. She's doing really

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Speaker 2: well with that. She's great on a leash. She's good

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Speaker 2: with other pups. If you're interested, she's being fostered right

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Speaker 2: now in Santa Clarita, California. Reach out to me or

527
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:46,840
Speaker 2: Clint or Gidry's guardian and adopter. She's available and she's wonderful.

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Speaker 2: All right, Clint thought for the road. I love this.

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Speaker 2: I can't wait until you and I can see it

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Speaker 2: in person at camel Back Ranch. But look at this

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Speaker 2: a new look for twenty twenty five. This is at

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Speaker 2: Camelback Ranch, Dodgers Spring Training. I believe this was from

533
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Speaker 2: the right, John su who who's already there all of

534
00:29:03,920 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 2: the World Series championships obviously if you look at twenty

535
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Speaker 2: and twenty four the two most recent. But that's awesome.

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Speaker 2: I mean, this is they're always doing stuff to elevate

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Speaker 2: the fan experience and I'm super psyched to see this

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Speaker 2: in the flesh.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they keep doing making improvements to Camelback Ranch.

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Speaker 3: They understand one of the things.

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Speaker 4: Andrew talked about there, it's not just about you know

542
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 4: what we see at the immediate top of the organization.

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Speaker 3: It's all the way to the very bottom.

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Speaker 4: And it's something we've talked about a lot with people

545
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Speaker 4: this offseason, you know, JJ Cooper Baseball America and I

546
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,360
Speaker 4: talked about it last week, Fobby and Ardaia as well.

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00:29:40,760 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 4: They invest in every aspect of this organization and doing

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Speaker 4: something like that. Yeah, it's simple, but that's also I'm

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00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 4: pretty sure on like a brand new building which helps

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Speaker 4: with player growth development, all that kind of stuff. It's

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Speaker 4: just a perfect, perfect organization. And I'm saying that slightly

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Speaker 4: to if you do get those Tokyo tickets, I can

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Speaker 4: be one of the tickets.

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Speaker 2: Oh no, the two tickets is for you and I

555
00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 2: let's go, oh yeah, due, we gotta take you got

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Speaker 2: to take international and uh and go to Tokyo and

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Speaker 2: do it. We have to learn Japanese first though. Honestly,

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Speaker 2: to Andrew Friedman, thank you so much for being here.

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Speaker 2: That's huge, such great information. I love what he said

560
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Speaker 2: about KIK, about the leadership stuff and the off season.

561
00:30:23,120 --> 00:30:25,360
Speaker 2: You know, a little insight on kersh kind of what

562
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Speaker 2: goes through a president of baseball operations mine. It's not easy.

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Speaker 2: I don't envy the choices that they have to make,

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Speaker 2: but do all of you listening and watching. Thanks for

565
00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:35,080
Speaker 2: being with us. Clint and I are going to be

566
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Speaker 2: back on Thursday for another live edition. We're going to

567
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Speaker 2: try to get KIK on soon. Hopefully the Dodgers make

568
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Speaker 2: it officials soon. Thanks for being with us. We appreciate

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Speaker 2: you guys. We'll see on Thursday.

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Speaker 3: Go bye,