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Dodgers Win 8th Title · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Hello, Thursday. Welcome to the program here. Glad to have
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  Speaker 1: you with us here on a Thursday afternoon on sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio AM thirteen hundred the Zone. My name is Craig
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  Speaker 1: wya do. Thank you very much for joining us. Glad
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  Speaker 1: to have you with us on this Thursday afternoon. We're
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  Speaker 1: Join us for that one as we'll be out there
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  Speaker 1: with Coach Terry at six o'clock. We'll look forward to that,
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  Speaker 1: but up till then two to five here on the program.
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  Speaker 1: A lot to get to on the program today, and
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  Speaker 1: we're happy to bring it to you. We of course
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  Speaker 1: includes the producer for this program. It's Cameron D.
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  Speaker 2: Parker.
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  Speaker 1: The on the burst tipiggest stands for Dallas, as in
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  Speaker 1: the team that he roots for but refuses to watch
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  Speaker 1: on television. Would it be too presumptuous of me to
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  Speaker 1: suggest to you that just today today only Cameron.
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  Speaker 2: The D can stand for Dodgers.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, congratulations to you, Craig Way and the Los Angeles
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  Speaker 3: Dodgers for winning the World Series yesterday. H fantastic end
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  Speaker 3: to what they called a crazy year and it certainly was.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean down five nothing in that game, down
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  Speaker 3: two to one to the Padres before the World Series.
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  Speaker 3: Did they come back down five to nothing in that game?
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  Speaker 3: The Bronx is going crazy. You're thinking, uh, oh, first
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  Speaker 3: ever team to go be down three to zero the
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  Speaker 3: fours of game six, you're going back to Los Angeles
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  Speaker 3: and then the fifth that he happened and the rest
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  Speaker 3: is history. So congrats to Craig. Why who who's dotting
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  Speaker 3: is Los Angeles Dodgers uniform?
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  Speaker 1: I got the I got the Dodger row jersey, the
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  Speaker 1: authentic road jersey on the day to Payterriot. Yes, And
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  Speaker 1: for folks, I know there's probably a few of you
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  Speaker 1: out there going, why in the world's he a Dodger fan?
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  Speaker 1: What is the deal with that? He didn't grown in California,
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  Speaker 1: never the lived in California. You know what, what's the
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  Speaker 1: situation with that? I did just very quickly in a
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  Speaker 1: nutshell For those who didn't know, when I grew up
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  Speaker 1: in North Carolina, there was no major League baseball team.
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  Speaker 1: Still isn't no major League baseball team. The other closest
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  Speaker 1: ones were Atlanta, which is three hundred and thirty miles away,
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  Speaker 1: and Washington when the Senators were there, so a little
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  Speaker 1: long way off.
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  Speaker 2: Neither were good at the time.
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  Speaker 1: My dad, when I was a little kid, used to
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  Speaker 1: tell used to tell me stories and my other younger
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  Speaker 1: brother coming at night.
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  Speaker 2: We were talking baseball and stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And he had grown up a Yankee fan, and in fact,
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  Speaker 1: he went to two World Series games in the early
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  Speaker 1: fifties fifty two and fifty three when the Yankees played
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers, and saw two World Series games when he
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  Speaker 1: got to sit in the center field bleachers on his
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  Speaker 1: army id, his GIID for one dollar, got to sit
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  Speaker 1: in the World Series game, to watch a game in
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  Speaker 1: fifty two, in a game in fifty three, to see
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers and the Yankees. So he used to tell
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  Speaker 1: me these stories as a Yankee fan, and I like
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  Speaker 1: the team named Dodgers. My favorite color was blue. And
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  Speaker 1: then the you know it is with kids, you know,
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  Speaker 1: easily impression and all that. In the first package of
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  Speaker 1: baseball cards I opened up. There was Bill Russell, the
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  Speaker 1: Dodger shortstop. So I was hooked then and have been
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  Speaker 1: ever since. Long suffering, been through the lean times and
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  Speaker 1: the good times as well.
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  Speaker 2: And for folks, what's suffering? Listen last night?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was their second World title in the last
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  Speaker 1: five years, but folks had always been wanting to put
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  Speaker 1: an asterisk around that one. In twenty twenty because of
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  Speaker 1: the shortened season due to the pandemic, they played sixty
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  Speaker 1: games and they were far and away the best team
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  Speaker 1: that won forty three of the sixty in the regular
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  Speaker 1: season and went on through the playoffs and won it.
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  Speaker 2: But still in the minds of some they didn't consider that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a full tile.
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  Speaker 1: Even Alex Vdugo kind of said as much, but he
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  Speaker 1: was just kind of feeling salty because he was involved
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  Speaker 1: in the Mookie.
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  Speaker 2: Bets trade and made him mad. He didn't want to
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  Speaker 2: leave La and.
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  Speaker 1: Went to Boston and then of course down with the Yankees,
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  Speaker 1: and he turned out to be the final out of
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  Speaker 1: the ballgame last night, And so there was that Prior
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  Speaker 1: to that. The last time they won a World Series
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  Speaker 1: was nineteen eighty eight. The Kurt Gibson home run'd been
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  Speaker 1: thirty six years since they'd won a World Series in
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  Speaker 1: a full season, so yeah, there was some long suffering
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  Speaker 1: years in there, but I was obviously thrilled and excited.
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  Speaker 1: My wife Lindon I watched it and we were pretty
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  Speaker 1: we were on pins and needles. And I watch seriously
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  Speaker 1: conservative estimate somewhere between one hundred and one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty games a year of the Dodgers because having the
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  Speaker 1: baseball package and they play a lot of late night
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  Speaker 1: West Coast games, so I'd say probably in the neighborhood
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  Speaker 1: of one hundred and ten of their one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: sixty two I watched this year, So yeah, fully invested
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  Speaker 1: as a fan in the gear and I saw him
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  Speaker 1: in Houston play this year, and I've been to two
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  Speaker 1: of their World Series games, won in Boston when Mooie
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  Speaker 1: Betts was playing for the Red Sox when they won
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  Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen, and then in the pandemic here in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty, got the seem in Arlington and Globe Life
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  Speaker 1: Game one was right down close to the field, seeing
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  Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw pitch against the race.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm fully into it.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I'm a Dodger fan, but I'm also a
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  Speaker 1: big baseball fan, and it was quite quite a night
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  Speaker 1: in a number of ways. Well, we're talk more about
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  Speaker 1: that coming up. Also, just to let you know what
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  Speaker 1: else is coming up on the program. In the three
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  Speaker 1: o'clock hour, Gene Watson, our MLB insider works with the
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  Speaker 1: Chicago White Sox, will join us one final time this
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  Speaker 1: season to recap the season and the World Series. That'll
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  Speaker 1: be in the three o'clock hour. In the four o'clock hour,
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  Speaker 1: we told you about this yesterday, we'll talk get into
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  Speaker 1: some in depth on the College Football Playoff with Rich Clark,
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  Speaker 1: the executive director of the College Football Playoff. He'll join
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  Speaker 1: us on the program. He did a webinar yesterday that
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  Speaker 1: I was linked into and watched, and he'll join us
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  Speaker 1: on the program in the four o'clock hour to talk
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  Speaker 1: about that. So we've got inconceivable. A little bit later
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  Speaker 1: on this hour, we'll talk some NBA, also some NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Is an NFL game to night. The Texans are playing
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  Speaker 1: the night playing the New York Jets. We'll get into
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  Speaker 1: all of it. I promise we'll get to all of
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  Speaker 1: those things. Now. As far as the series goes, there
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  Speaker 1: was a lot of you know, it was a great
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  Speaker 1: deal of excitement about it being Yankees, Dodgers, and two
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  Speaker 1: of the Hallmark franchises, and the two were meeting for
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  Speaker 1: the twelve time, more than any other pairing of teams
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  Speaker 1: in World Series history, and so there was all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of history that was spilled out in this Freddie Freeman
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  Speaker 1: becoming the first guy to homer in four consecutive games
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  Speaker 1: of a World Series, and it made it six in
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  Speaker 1: a row, going back to two games with Atlanta against
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  Speaker 1: Houston three years ago in twenty twenty one. So he
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  Speaker 1: holds the Major League record for most consecutive games with
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  Speaker 1: a home run hit in World Series play at six,
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  Speaker 1: two with Atlanta and then four in a row with
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 2: And he would come up with a gigantic hit last night.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't a homer, but a big hit.
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  Speaker 1: So there was that bit of history you pointed out camera,
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  Speaker 1: and the Yankees were trying to become the first team
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  Speaker 1: not only to achieve what was pretty much looked as
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  Speaker 1: being impossible, overcoming a three to nothing deficit to win
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  Speaker 1: a World Series, but in the history of the World Series,
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  Speaker 1: no team had ever been able to move it beyond
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  Speaker 1: game five, and in fact, twenty four times a team
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  Speaker 1: had been up three games to none, twenty one of
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  Speaker 1: the twenty four it ended in the next game a sweep.
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  Speaker 1: There had not been a World Series where a team
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  Speaker 1: was up three games to none that even got extended
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  Speaker 1: to a fifth game since nineteen seventy. The Reds were
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  Speaker 1: down three games to none to Baltimore, they won Game four,
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  Speaker 1: and then the Orioles clinched it in Game five, so
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  Speaker 1: no team had ever even gotten into Game six. The
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  Speaker 1: Yankees appeared to be in prime position to do that
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  Speaker 1: for two reasons. One, they jumped all over Jack Flarerty,
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  Speaker 1: the Dodger starter who did not have it last night.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge hit a home run, John Carlo Stanton hit
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  Speaker 1: a home run. Jass chisholmhit a home run. They're up
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  Speaker 1: five to nothing and they're rolling. Not only that, Garrett
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  Speaker 1: Cole was looking unhittable on the mouth, in fact, he
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  Speaker 1: was unhittable for the first four innings. Also, in the
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  Speaker 1: fourth inning, Aaron Judge made a great leaping catch against
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  Speaker 1: the fence to take away extra basis from Freddie Freeman.
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  Speaker 2: So you're thinking Judge is back.
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  Speaker 1: All rise, he hit the home run, he made the
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  Speaker 1: great catch, Aaron Judge was in was he was back.
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  Speaker 1: This Yankee team looked completely different than you know, the
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  Speaker 1: first three ball games, even different in the Game four.
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  Speaker 2: They looked aggressive.
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  Speaker 1: It looked like for sure this thing was going to
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  Speaker 1: head back to Los Angeles for Game five. And then
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  Speaker 1: in this point was raised and I'm in complete agreement
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  Speaker 1: with it. If this thing gets to game six in LA,
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  Speaker 1: I think all the pressure would have shifted to the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers because they're up three to nothing. An no team
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  Speaker 1: that ever even let get the game six. Now, what's
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  Speaker 1: going back to game six? And you had Rodin ready
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  Speaker 1: to go for the Yankees? Heel could go in game seven. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers would have Yama Mota ready for Game six
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  Speaker 1: and if necessary, Walker Buler.
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  Speaker 2: For Game seven.
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  Speaker 1: But it just it all the momentum riding in the
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  Speaker 1: way the Yankees were swinging the bats and all this,
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  Speaker 1: and even when they weren't scoring, they were keeping the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers pitching on the ropes. Dave Roberts was having his
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  Speaker 1: pitcher after pitcher. All of a sudden it became a
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  Speaker 1: bullpen game because Flairdy lasted just an inning and a third.
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  Speaker 1: So now he's just he's burning up pitchers, going through
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  Speaker 1: just trying to keep the Dodgers on the fringe of contention.
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  Speaker 1: Then we get to the fifth inning, Garrett Cole was
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  Speaker 1: not allowed to hit, he'd walked a baut Her, not
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  Speaker 1: allowed to hit. Key k Hernandez comes to the plate.
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  Speaker 1: He's batting I believe, sixth, and he lines a single
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  Speaker 1: the left. Okay, so Garrett Cole showed a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of the human touch.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, he's human. He gave up a base hit. In fact,
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  Speaker 2: in maybe even think of Rocky for he's.
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  Speaker 1: Got you know or whatever, you know, the drago that.
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  Speaker 2: That he bleeds like everybody else.
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  Speaker 1: Well, so then it looked like with the next man
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  Speaker 1: coming to the plate, Tommy Edmund that it was going
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  Speaker 1: to be a routine fly ball to center and it
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  Speaker 1: was going to be out number one with a runner
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  Speaker 1: at first base. Aaron Judge comes running in and the
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  Speaker 1: Fox camera showed this on replay. You couldn't see it
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  Speaker 1: in real time, but John Smalllt, who I think is
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  Speaker 1: an outstanding analyst, pointed it out. He said Judge took
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  Speaker 1: his eyes off the ball, just for a moment to
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  Speaker 1: see if Hernandez was straying too far from first base,
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  Speaker 1: and in that moment he lost. The ball went right
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  Speaker 1: off his glove, he dropped it and then he scrambled,
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  Speaker 1: picked up, fired to second. Hernandez was able to hustle
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  Speaker 1: and slide in the second. So now you have runners
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  Speaker 1: at first and second with no out. Okay, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but we you know, we've we've seen cold work through
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  Speaker 1: issues in the past, and he probably able to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Then comes Will Smith. He hits a ground ball in
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  Speaker 1: the hole at short and then Volpi Anthony Boltby picks
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  Speaker 1: it up. He really only has one play and that's
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  Speaker 1: to go to third, and so he did. The problem
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  Speaker 1: was the throw bounced in. So now that's a second
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  Speaker 1: error in the inning on the feeler's choice, and now
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  Speaker 1: the bases are loaded with nobody out. Well, then Cole
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  Speaker 1: seems to settle back in. He then strikes out Gavin
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  Speaker 1: Lucks for out number one. He strikes out Shoeo Tani
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  Speaker 1: for out number two. It looks like he's got it
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  Speaker 1: recovered and he's going to get out of the inning,
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  Speaker 1: and it really looks like it when he gets Mookie
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  Speaker 1: Betts to have a hit. A top spin ground ball
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  Speaker 1: spinning toward first, it looks like it's going to be
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  Speaker 1: a routine three to one play to the bag, and
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  Speaker 1: the inning's going to be over or maybe even three unassisted.
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  Speaker 1: Problem was Anthony Rizzo. When the ball was spinning with
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  Speaker 1: all that top spin, it kind of curved towards second,
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  Speaker 1: and so when he went and scooped it up, that
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  Speaker 1: stopped any four momentum he might have had gone to the.
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  Speaker 2: Bag at first.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, Garrett Cole, who started to run the bag, said
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  Speaker 1: he took the wrong angle and then he just froze.
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  Speaker 1: He stopped, and so Betts was easily able to beat
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  Speaker 1: Rizzo to the bag. So the inning's still going. It's
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  Speaker 1: still two outs. A run has scored, but it's still
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  Speaker 1: five to one. It's still two outs. All Garrett coll
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  Speaker 1: has to do is get one more out. Freddie Freeman
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  Speaker 1: rips a line drive single the center to run score
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  Speaker 1: five to three. Still, he only needs one more out
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  Speaker 1: to get out of the inning. Taey Oscar Andiz rips
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  Speaker 1: a double to the gap in the left center. Now
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  Speaker 1: the game is tied at five. And then he got
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  Speaker 1: out of the inning. And even though the Yankees went
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  Speaker 1: back up on the sack pine six. The Dodgers came
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  Speaker 1: back with a pair of sack flies, one in the eighth,
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  Speaker 1: one in the ninth, and so they get the win.
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  Speaker 1: So it was stunning to a lot of people to
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  Speaker 1: see the way that that kind of melt down.
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  Speaker 2: And we'll recap a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: We need to break there's a couple of quotes I
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  Speaker 1: want to get to and get your thoughts on it
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  Speaker 1: cam about how this wound up, and then we're going
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  Speaker 1: to get into some football as well. So in an
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  Speaker 1: amazing end to the World Series and quite unexpected and
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  Speaker 1: yet maybe not. We'll get to that coming up when
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  Speaker 1: we continue on Sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone
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