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Dodgers team preview w/Alanna Rizzo · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: For whatever reason, the Dodgers seem to reinvent guys where
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  Speaker 1: they didn't have success in other players. They come to
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  Speaker 1: LA and they find themselves again.
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  Speaker 2: Not gonna lie, I am what not gonna lie? Ilana?
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  Speaker 2: I know you're an Arizona spring training person, but I
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  Speaker 2: do that's bull crap. We have Arizona. We don't have
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  Speaker 2: Florida in between breaks. It gets crap. I'm sorry, producer lady.
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  Speaker 2: She might have to she might get the boot for
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  Speaker 2: this because it's just Arizona. Where's Florida? I need to see.
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  Speaker 3: We're on TV and nobody knows what you're talking about there.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well on the other place for viewed on YouTube
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  Speaker 2: and our breaks. Sorry, now let's talk about that.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, Okay, Well my thing was right now post of
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  Speaker 3: Dodgers territory. Sometimes on foul territory. We did just have
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  Speaker 3: Scott Bis on the show, and we were like, it's
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  Speaker 3: probably gonna be a tough act to follow. Let's get
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  Speaker 3: Alana because she's going to bring a smile to everyone's face.
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  Speaker 3: So you are given the next seat. How you doing.
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  Speaker 4: I'm good. Good to be with you, guys.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with everything that you're saying. I've been saying
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  Speaker 1: this for decades. The ownership group needs to spend money.
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  Speaker 1: And I obviously I know that everyone thinks I'm biased
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  Speaker 1: because I'm a Dodger girl. But every team of the
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  Speaker 1: thirty can spend money. Maybe not to the level at
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers camp, but every single team can spend money.
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  Speaker 4: They're just choosing not to do so.
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  Speaker 5: But happy to be with you.
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  Speaker 4: I wish I was in.
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  Speaker 1: Spring training right now. I'm heading down there in a
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  Speaker 1: few weeks because the weather in Massachusetts sucks.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, you chose in the Northeast sucks.
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  Speaker 2: You chose to live there. You got a little at
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  Speaker 2: It's someone else's nine degrees here. It's freezing in Florida.
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  Speaker 2: It's so cold I put a jacket on this one.
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  Speaker 3: No man, all right, So let's get to busy. We
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  Speaker 3: got ten minutes for team storylines for the Dodgers. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: you can hear a lot more on Dodgers' Territory, which
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  Speaker 3: airs multiple times a week. But let's set up the
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  Speaker 3: storylines here. First, are we We've got four definites that
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  Speaker 3: we're going to hit here, so and this team win
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  Speaker 3: back to back titles. I mean a lot of trolls
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  Speaker 3: on social media think the season's over already. So we'll
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  Speaker 3: ask a lota what that takes. Two way show, Hey
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  Speaker 3: time fifty to fifty last year at the plate, but
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  Speaker 3: now coming back to pitch. I'm curious too to see
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  Speaker 3: if a lot of things that'll affect his bat starting
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  Speaker 3: pitching shuffle, it's going to be fun. Who's going to
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  Speaker 3: be on the mound? Who's the starting five or really six?
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  Speaker 3: Obviously for the Dodgers six men rotation. Eventually, once you
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  Speaker 3: get through those opening off days in the first few
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  Speaker 3: weeks and then Mooky back to shortstop, what does that mean?
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's start at the top. We haven't seen
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  Speaker 3: back to back champs since the Yankees a quarter century ago.
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  Speaker 3: What does it take for the Dodgers to do this?
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  Speaker 3: Based on covering this game on a national level for years, Alana,
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  Speaker 3: and at least for me, I've been fooled many times
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  Speaker 3: where I'm like, oh, this team's really good, they could
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  Speaker 3: do it again, and they almost always crash.
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  Speaker 1: I think it has to be healthy, right, You have
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  Speaker 1: to have a team that stays healthy everybody at the
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  Speaker 1: right time, at the most important time of the season.
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  Speaker 4: Do the Dodgers have the talent to.
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  Speaker 1: Go back to the World Series, of course, and I
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  Speaker 1: think anything but a World Series appearance is going to
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  Speaker 1: be a disappointment for this club. I think if you
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  Speaker 1: look at the talent and the roster and the money
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  Speaker 1: that was spent in this offseason and last offseason obviously
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  Speaker 1: was sho Hey Otani. If the Dodgers don't get at
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  Speaker 1: least two or three or possibly four more World Series
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  Speaker 1: appearances slash championships in the next ten years, then everything
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  Speaker 1: that they did was likely a disappointment. This is a team, guys,
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  Speaker 1: as you know better than anybody, that is built for October.
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  Speaker 1: Barring some sort of catastrophic occurrence, the Dodgers will be
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  Speaker 1: in the postseason. If you look at the starting lineup there,
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  Speaker 1: you can see that. Obviously you have the big guns
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  Speaker 1: at the top with sho Hey Moki, Freddie Taoskar, thank
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  Speaker 1: goodness he is back in the four hole, Max Munsey,
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  Speaker 1: then Will Smith, and then the bottom part of the order
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  Speaker 1: Michael confordo knew to the team, Haisan Kim new to
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  Speaker 1: the team as well. Tommy Edmund given an extension early
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  Speaker 1: on in the offseason. This is a hell of a
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  Speaker 1: team and they have unbelievable arms, and they have unbelievable
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  Speaker 1: top to bottom as far as the lineup is concerned.
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  Speaker 1: But you need to make sure that these guys stay
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  Speaker 1: healthy throughout the year. Last year, was very concerned about
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers' starting staff going into the season, and it
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  Speaker 1: proved to be a narrative all season long, and I
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  Speaker 1: believe very heartily that they did not have enough starting pitching.
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  Speaker 1: Dave Roberts ends up doing the best job of his
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  Speaker 1: managerial tenure to work through a starting staff that was
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  Speaker 1: decimated by injuries, going to the young guys that didn't
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  Speaker 1: have any big league experience, working that elevator between TRIPLEA
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  Speaker 1: and the big leagues as well as any other team.
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  Speaker 1: They made it to the postseason, got through the Padres
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  Speaker 1: in the first round of the playoffs, which to me
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  Speaker 1: was harder than the Yankees in the World Series, and
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  Speaker 1: found a way to win using all of the different
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  Speaker 1: pieces that they had. But that takes a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people willing to buy into what the Dodgers are doing.
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  Speaker 1: It takes a lot of people being healthy at the
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  Speaker 1: right time. It takes all of that NBA load management
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  Speaker 1: that we've been hearing so much about to work these
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  Speaker 1: guys at the right time, get them built up where
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  Speaker 1: they're supposed to be, give them the rest that they're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be, which is going to be a challenge
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  Speaker 1: when you have three Japanese born pitchers in your starting rotation.
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  Speaker 1: When show Hey comes back to pitch the big leagues
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  Speaker 1: in May.
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  Speaker 4: It's gonna be interesting.
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  Speaker 1: But the Dodgers have the resources, the capability, and the
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  Speaker 1: buy in to be able to do so and go
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  Speaker 1: back to back and win another championship because who honestly,
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  Speaker 1: all things being equal, if everybody stays healthy and they're
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  Speaker 1: performing to their capabilities, who's gonna stop them?
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  Speaker 2: Nobody? Nobody, Homer, But that's no. I know you're not,
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  Speaker 2: but I'm gonna ask you. I'm gonna ask about show
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  Speaker 2: Ay in a second, and it's pitching. But I went
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  Speaker 2: on their depth chart, your psych injuries, injuries, injuries. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So they have ten ten starting pitchers listed, Blake Snell two,
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  Speaker 2: Cy Young's Yamamoto whatever he won in Japan a lot
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  Speaker 2: glassnew is one of the nastiest dudes in the league,
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  Speaker 2: show Hey. Depending on what they do with them. Sazaki
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  Speaker 2: is supposed to be the best pitcher ever from Japan. Gonsolin.
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  Speaker 2: We've seen what he can do when he's healthy. Kershaw,
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  Speaker 2: first ballot Hall of Famer Dustin May if he's healthy, gosh,
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  Speaker 2: I mean he's nasty. Landaak did stuff for him last year.
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  Speaker 2: Eva Chien did something for stuff for him. That's ten okay,
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  Speaker 2: So okay, Let's say they lose three of those guys.
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  Speaker 2: They's top seven. Most teams don't even have five, hardly, right, So,
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  Speaker 2: and they'll go out and get someone else if they
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  Speaker 2: have to. So it's an incredible It's just it's just
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  Speaker 2: too much, too much, it's too much.
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  Speaker 1: It's an it's an insane amount of talent. Aj I
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  Speaker 1: agree with you on that. But it's also a testament
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  Speaker 1: to the fact that people want to go to LA.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, for obvious reasons. LA is a destination, and
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  Speaker 1: this is an ownership group that puts their money where
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  Speaker 1: their mouth is. I mean, how many teams can be
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  Speaker 1: sponsored by their own ownership group with the patches on
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  Speaker 1: the on their jerseys they're sponsored by Guggenheim. Guggenheim owns
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  Speaker 1: the team. I mean, that's just a very interesting flex.
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  Speaker 1: But you have a guy that was willing to tie
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  Speaker 1: his contract one of the best players that we've ever seen,
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  Speaker 1: a generational player in sho Hey Otani tie his contract
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  Speaker 1: to President of Baseball Operations Andrew Friedman, So if Andrew
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  Speaker 1: goes someplace.
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  Speaker 5: Else, sho Hey has the opportunity to move.
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  Speaker 1: Also, that is an unbelievable amount of confidence in the
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  Speaker 1: front office. And let's think about this for a hot second.
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  Speaker 1: There's only seven hundred and eighty players that are good
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  Speaker 1: enough in the world to start a season on a
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  Speaker 1: major league roster. I think you would beg to differ that.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of really, really, really smart businessmen, right.
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  Speaker 1: I think more people can be owners than can be
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  Speaker 1: major league baseball players. The talent is with the player,
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  Speaker 1: and if the player is choosing where he wants to
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  Speaker 1: go and quote unquote creating these super teams like they
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  Speaker 1: do in NBA, that says something about the Dodgers. That
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  Speaker 1: says something about the culture that they have created that
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  Speaker 1: people want to play there. Tay Oscar wanted to come
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  Speaker 1: back to LA. Keik obviously wanted to come back to LA.
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  Speaker 1: Clayton is going to be one of the only guys
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  Speaker 1: to finish his career in the same exact uniform he's
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  Speaker 1: there he's obviously on the sixty dayil now, but he's
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  Speaker 1: going to come back, perhaps in June, earlier than most
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  Speaker 1: people anticipated. This is a destination now. The Dodgers ownership
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  Speaker 1: group puts players on the field to give them the
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  Speaker 1: most amount of success. For whatever reason, the Dodgers seem
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  Speaker 1: to reinvent guys where they didn't have success in other players.
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  Speaker 1: They come to LA and they find themselves again. Blake Snell,
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  Speaker 1: two time Cy Young Award winner, Tyler Glass now wanted.
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  Speaker 4: To be there.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a culture that they've cultivated. It's a winning culture.
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  Speaker 1: I'll never forget when Jock Peterson was in the clubhouse
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  Speaker 1: at Campbelback Ranch three or four years ago when AJ
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  Speaker 1: Pollock was a free agent and decided to sign with
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  Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Dodgers. Before a poor thing he was
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  Speaker 1: traded to the White Sox. No disrespect Aj. He comes
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  Speaker 1: into the Camelback Ranch clubhouse and Jack Peterson, all of
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  Speaker 1: the outfielders were together in the in terms of their
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  Speaker 1: locker positioning.
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  Speaker 4: He said, welcome to the big leagues.
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  Speaker 1: And this was already after Aj had been in the
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  Speaker 1: big leagues with the Arizona Diamondbacks for quite some time.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a different culture in LA and although it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be very difficult to repeat, this team certainly
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  Speaker 1: has the mentality and the resources and the one to
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  Speaker 1: do so.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so real quick, Alana, what's show are you going
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  Speaker 2: to give them in twenty five because I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that fifty but I'm not talking about offensively but pitching wise.
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  Speaker 2: We saw them throw a bullpen. They're gonna be obviously
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  Speaker 2: extra cautious of them, but they can't send them on
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  Speaker 2: a rehab assignment, So how are they gonna handle this?
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna start, and then they're gonna have one of
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  Speaker 2: their ten other starters piggyback them and pick up those
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  Speaker 2: extra innings because this is gonna be one you talked
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  Speaker 2: about Dave robertson his best job last year, but Howie
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  Speaker 2: handles not only show Hey, but Suzaki and some of
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  Speaker 2: the other guys that are coming off injuries, is gonna
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  Speaker 2: be kind of a tough thing for him.
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  Speaker 4: No question about it.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's gonna be the biggest puzzle piece
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  Speaker 1: of all AJ is how are these guys going to
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  Speaker 1: manage the workload?
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  Speaker 4: Build up?
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  Speaker 1: The start is Dustin may goan to be a starter,
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  Speaker 1: or is Dustin Megan to be in the bullpen. I
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  Speaker 1: want Dustin May and Tony Gonsolin as a bullpen piece
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  Speaker 1: because we have so many starting arms in that But
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna have to work up these guys and build
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  Speaker 1: them up to the point where they can possibly be
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  Speaker 1: starters just because of injury. We know that Tyler Glass, now,
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  Speaker 1: who I love, is injury prone. We don't know what
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  Speaker 1: Blake's I mean, Blake Still's probably gonna I have to
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  Speaker 1: shoulder the majority of innings for this Los Angeles Dodgers team.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is a guy that has realistically and
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  Speaker 1: historically posted pretty much every fifth day. I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: look at the Dodgers' starting staff. In the first month,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be run as a five man rotation, whereas
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  Speaker 1: all along we thought it was gonna be six men.
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  Speaker 1: But because of the off days in March and April,
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  Speaker 1: you can run it as a five man rotation until
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  Speaker 1: show Hay gets back in all.
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  Speaker 4: Likelihood in May.
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  Speaker 1: Now that being said, they're gonna be incredibly cautious with him,
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  Speaker 1: right Obviously they're going to do so because they have
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  Speaker 1: the arms to not push him. Plus he also has
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  Speaker 1: a seven hundred million dollar price tag to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that they don't push him, and you're probably gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to save show Hey from show Hey and make sure
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  Speaker 1: that as a training staff, you're making sure that he's
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  Speaker 1: ready to go. He had that first bullpen session. That
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  Speaker 1: was the first time fans and the media got to
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  Speaker 1: see shohe Otani in a Dodger's uniform as a pitcher,
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  Speaker 1: and he looked really good. He only threw like, what
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  Speaker 1: fourteen pitches. It was all two seam four seam fastballs,
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  Speaker 1: but he looked really good. Dave Roberts was pleased with
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  Speaker 1: what he saw, the way the ball was coming out
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  Speaker 1: of his hand. They're really good at being able to
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  Speaker 1: manage the workload of all of these different guys, and
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  Speaker 1: I have to say they're very honest with them too,
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  Speaker 1: in terms of the communication with the training staff and
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  Speaker 1: how things are going. I mean, Shobey, if you paid
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  Speaker 1: attention to the bullpen session, he was having active conversations
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  Speaker 1: with everybody that was watching in terms of the training staff,
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  Speaker 1: Dave Andrew Friedman, those types of things.
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  Speaker 5: So they'll be very cautious. But the I mean the
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  Speaker 5: luxury that the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: Have, they have so many really good aces in the
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  Speaker 1: starting staff, including Roki Sasaki, who obviously is a non
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  Speaker 1: roster in vitee, but everybody knows he's going to be
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  Speaker 1: on the big league roster when camp opens.
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  Speaker 6: All right, now you have to listen to the wording
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  Speaker 6: so that we get this right. Can Mookie Betts play
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  Speaker 6: a championship level shortstop or is he better suited for
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  Speaker 6: the team and right field?
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  Speaker 1: I believe Mooki Betts is a better Gold Glove right fielder.
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  Speaker 1: But when you have Taoscar Hernandez in the outfield, when
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  Speaker 1: you have Michael Confordo now in the outfield, when you
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  Speaker 1: have Todmy Edmond who can play all over the place
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  Speaker 1: as your center fielder, Mookie Betts, who is very selfless,
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  Speaker 1: is going to be back at shortstop. Can he play
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  Speaker 1: a championship caliber shortstop? Absolutely? I think Mooky above anybody,
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  Speaker 1: is the best athlete, period, regardless of what the position
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  Speaker 1: is that he's playing. He's the best athlete on the field,
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  Speaker 1: not just for the Dodgers, but probably.
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  Speaker 4: In all Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: He needs to cut down on the defensive woes, but
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  Speaker 1: obviously that's something that he knows that he needs to
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  Speaker 1: work on. We had conversations on Dodgers' territory with Dino Ebel,
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  Speaker 1: who is obviously the Dodgers longtime third base coach. Now
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  Speaker 1: he's you know, they're kind of switching roles with Chris
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  Speaker 1: Woodward being back in the mix, but Dino is going
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  Speaker 1: to be handling the outfielders now, Chris Woodward is going
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  Speaker 1: to be handling the infielders again. So both Chris Woodward
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  Speaker 1: and Dino Ebel have commented on the extra work that
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  Speaker 1: Mooki has already put in knowing that he's going to
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  Speaker 1: be back in the infield as the Dodgers shortstop.
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  Speaker 5: Will he improve over where he was last year as
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  Speaker 5: the shortstop?
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely?
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  Speaker 1: It's m mookie Bet that we're talking about. Is he
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  Speaker 1: a natural born shortstop? No, But the man is a
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  Speaker 1: right field you know, gold glove right fielder. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to be fine at shortstop and he doesn't have to
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  Speaker 1: shoulder all of the load because the Dodgers in field,
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  Speaker 1: obviously h is pretty good in terms of who they
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  Speaker 1: can maneuver and all of the moving parts of that infield.
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  Speaker 3: Well a lot more every single week, multiple times per
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  Speaker 3: week from Alana and Clint Pius plus Vip guests. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they crush it. They get everybody.
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  Speaker 2: He'll beat some of these Dodger guests with us.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as soon as you get me backstage at
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  Speaker 1: Morgan walland like you promised, I'll.
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  Speaker 4: Get you all the guests. All the guests well canceled.
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  Speaker 2: They knew you were coming and got canceled.
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  Speaker 4: You listen.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, well, I'm going at to Gillette in August
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  Speaker 1: August twenty second. If you can get me behind the
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  Speaker 1: scenes there, then then I'll get you all the guests
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  Speaker 1: that you want.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean I have to be there though, that's
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  Speaker 2: the problem.
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  Speaker 4: That's fine. You can stay with us, you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, if I really want to go to Gillette. I
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  Speaker 2: actually did go to Jeete once. It was nice.
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  Speaker 6: He always stays in five star hotels, Okay, Hona, so
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  Speaker 6: he doesn't stay in guest bedrooms, especially houses with Catcher's
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  Speaker 6: mits on their mantle.
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  Speaker 5: I married a Catcher.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I mean, I don't know what that
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  Speaker 4: says about me, but it is what it is.
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  Speaker 3: There's so much Catcher talk going on here right now.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just on the outside. But you can get a
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  Speaker 3: lot more on Dodgers' territory. I mean recent guests include
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  Speaker 3: far Anxiety, Andrew Friedman. Basically everybody currently on the team
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  Speaker 3: too has been on the show as well. Want to
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  Speaker 3: good to see it. We'll see on Dodgers territory later.
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  Speaker 4: All right, guys, take care. Good to talk to you
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  Speaker 4: as always, See you soon.