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Jake Cronenworth on Dodgers-Padres heat, TV nicknames, Ball fam · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: It's a rivalry, yes, but it's just two really good
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Speaker 1: teams that just want to win and want to play
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Speaker 1: good baseball and they just want to beat the other team.
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Speaker 2: We're back, and so is Jake Cronin from the Patres
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Speaker 2: training us on FT for the first time.
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Speaker 3: Jake.
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Speaker 2: Great to have you on man. Thanks for the time.
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Speaker 2: As the season going for.
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Speaker 1: You, it's been good. What's up you guys, No, it's
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Speaker 1: been good, Man. I think we're in a good position
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Speaker 1: right now. It's it's been a fun year.
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Speaker 4: Aja. You just saw them, right.
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Speaker 1: I did.
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Speaker 5: I just saw them play the Royal Spits old team,
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Speaker 5: so I saw him play the game that was there,
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Speaker 5: the Padres on one. I believe they beat them, ceased
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Speaker 5: Delta on the seventh.
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Speaker 4: The chron Zone?
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Speaker 5: Did the chron Zone have any hits it? By the way,
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Speaker 5: I want to know who started the Chronzone?
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Speaker 4: Was it that night?
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Speaker 3: That's an all time nickname, probably one of the best
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Speaker 3: thing names in the league.
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Speaker 5: I love it. No, I don't want to.
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Speaker 4: Where it came from. I want to say it was
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Speaker 4: don Orsillo.
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Speaker 1: Like you know, he's got nicknames for everybody, and you
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Speaker 1: know how he is on the broadcast, He's just him
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Speaker 1: and mud are crazy and they get on these tangents,
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Speaker 1: and I think one day, like I want to say,
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, he just like somehow came up with
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Speaker 1: it just randomly.
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Speaker 4: I love it.
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Speaker 5: I love it. No, does it get your free jumbo
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Speaker 5: jacks though, because still because at one time he got
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Speaker 5: your free jumbo jacks. Get free umble getting free jumbo jacks. Oh, man,
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Speaker 5: that's bad. That's a bad agent. That's a bad agent.
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Speaker 5: You gotta I gotta get free jumbo jack. I think
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Speaker 5: one year thing, Jake.
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Speaker 3: We got to congratulate you newly married man. Congrats on that.
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Speaker 4: Thank you, great great man, awesome career.
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Speaker 3: Oh, thank you, man, I appreciate it. Great baseball family,
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Speaker 3: by the way, A lot of a lot of great
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Speaker 3: baseball players in that with you. Now, your father in law,
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Speaker 3: Gordon Beckham, your brother in law, your other brother, Lar
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Speaker 3: Brian Fletcher, who was my guy. That was my guy
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Speaker 3: coming up in the minor league. So if you ever
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Speaker 3: need any any b Fletch stories, I got you.
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Speaker 4: Oh I'm definitely gonna need some.
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Speaker 3: He did he did he DJ for you at your wedding.
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Speaker 1: No, he did not DJ. He was he was probably
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Speaker 1: busy dancing way too much.
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Speaker 4: He's the best. He's the best.
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Speaker 3: Congrats to you. Brook is awesome. Congrats to Brook as well,
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Speaker 3: and I hope you guys have a wonderful long marriage.
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Speaker 4: Thank you. Yeah, it's a that is a baseball family,
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Speaker 4: that's for sure.
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Speaker 5: Father does his father in law call him though and
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Speaker 5: say like, hey, you need to work on this when
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Speaker 5: you're hitting, or do you need to do this when
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Speaker 5: you're playing defense, because he was a middle infielder, so
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Speaker 5: now that you're in a second baseman, right, he probably
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Speaker 5: calls you up and says, you know, Jake.
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Speaker 4: The urn. No, he's awesome, man.
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Speaker 1: I mean he's always during the holidays and just like
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Speaker 1: random days in the off season, even during this he's
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Speaker 1: in just like text messages or even during holidays. Man,
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Speaker 1: it feels like, you know, the four of us, it's
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Speaker 1: just baseball top you know, twenty four to seven.
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Speaker 4: When we're at the house, it's it's pretty awesome.
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Speaker 1: Him telling us old stories when he played, obviously, Gordon
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Speaker 1: telling stories, Brian telling stories, and me, and it's just
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Speaker 1: it's just an awesome, awesome environment.
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Speaker 5: Hey, have you talked to Gordon yet and said that
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Speaker 5: you're the best player in the family. Make sure that
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Speaker 5: you tell him that. I said that you're a better
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Speaker 5: player than he was, because I was there when he
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Speaker 5: came up and he tried their he tricked third base.
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Speaker 5: That skid didn't work, so we you know, then he
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Speaker 5: had to become a utility guy. At least you've locked
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Speaker 5: down first and second, you know, and plus your left
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Speaker 5: handed better hit her, so you can pass that along from.
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Speaker 4: Me, I'll say. I'll say Scott's probably the best player
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Speaker 4: in the family.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he played fifteen years in the big league,
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Speaker 1: so he's kind of got the one up on everybody
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Speaker 1: right now.
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Speaker 3: Scotty, he's a legend. Hey, I got a question about
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Speaker 3: about your about your skipper, so Shields, I mean, so
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Speaker 3: me me. He and I go way back. He started
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Speaker 3: a travel like baseball organization down to Charlotte, and so
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Speaker 3: when I was playing coming up, we would play his
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Speaker 3: team a lot. I got to Double A, he was
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Speaker 3: in Springfield, Triple A in Memphis. I got to the
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Speaker 3: big leagues. He was he was in Saint Louis. So
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Speaker 3: we've never been together, but have always been kind of
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Speaker 3: along the same path. And he as a guy that
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Speaker 3: was on the other side. He always had this kind
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Speaker 3: of reputation from guys that weren't on his team as man,
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Speaker 3: he never he went in a player, you know, he's
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Speaker 3: you know, what does he know? He never got to play.
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Speaker 3: And then the more you talk to people that played
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Speaker 3: for him, all you hear is just the most amazing
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Speaker 3: things about Shield and you know, a lot happened recently
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Speaker 3: and he sticks up for his players. So what's it.
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Speaker 3: I want to know, what's it like to play for
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Speaker 3: a guy like shild.
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Speaker 4: Yeah. I think.
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Speaker 1: The biggest thing, I think is like his emphasis of
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Speaker 1: you know, togetherness of the group, you know, and he
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Speaker 1: pairs that with the structure of our day is and
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Speaker 1: you know it, I think it shows like the way
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Speaker 1: we play, it's it's very the group is super close,
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Speaker 1: and I think you can see that in the games
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Speaker 1: that we're playing. You know, it's not like we haven't
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Speaker 1: been blowing teams out a lot, but it's kind of
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Speaker 1: like we're in these battles every night. We're winning one
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Speaker 1: nothing like yesterday. We're winning these close games. And I
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Speaker 1: think that's something from last year when he was first
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Speaker 1: hired to now that's kind of stemmed into our play
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Speaker 1: and you know, you see it with the rest of
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Speaker 1: our coaching staff as well, and you know just how
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Speaker 1: close the group is and.
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Speaker 4: And how kind of in the same direction everybody is moving.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I love he's that success everywhere he's been.
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Speaker 5: I love felt hilarious when I go to his office. No,
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Speaker 5: we're going to his office and talk to him, and
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Speaker 5: he doesn't even let us ask one question because he's like,
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Speaker 5: all right, interview over, thanks, guys, appreciate it. So he's
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Speaker 5: the he's the best. He'll get into a little bit.
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Speaker 5: I want to go to your rivals a little bit,
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Speaker 5: to Dodgers. We have Max Munci on here. We've had
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Speaker 5: some Dodger guys on here and they all say, you know, oh,
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Speaker 5: the Padres there, they're kind of not really our rival.
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Speaker 5: But I was there in twenty two when you got
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Speaker 5: a huge hit against them to win that series in
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Speaker 5: San Diego and you guys beat them and sent them home.
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Speaker 5: How do you feel about that rivalry because I feel
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Speaker 5: like it's a great rivalry and I love I've done
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Speaker 5: Dodger Padre games this year. I love it. It's like
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Speaker 5: the best atmosphere, especially in San Diego. It's the best atmosphere.
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Speaker 5: I mean, heck, I was there for the Royals on
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Speaker 5: Saturday all had forty three thousand people. Every night. San
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Speaker 5: Diego has got to be top three parks to watch,
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Speaker 5: especially when Dodgers commit.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we had it was sold out the
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Speaker 1: other night against the Nationals on a Tuesday night. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's the fans there. I mean, obviously the weather in
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Speaker 1: the stadium are amazing, but like I mean, they show
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Speaker 1: up every night to cheer us on. And I think,
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Speaker 1: you know, ever since I've been here, it just seems
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Speaker 1: like every year it continues to just get better. And
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Speaker 1: I mean I think you see the way we play
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Speaker 1: on the field as well, like that them being there
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Speaker 1: every night, and I mean it's forty two thousand just
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Speaker 1: behind us. That's I mean, it's a huge advantage for us.
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Speaker 1: But no, to the to the rivalry thing, I think,
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Speaker 1: you know, it was funny. I saw the clip of
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Speaker 1: Jackson was on Mookie's podcast to when we played them
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Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, and I think they said it
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Speaker 1: best man, It's it's a rivalry, yes, but it's it's
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Speaker 1: just two really good teams that just want to win
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Speaker 1: and want to play good baseball, and they just they
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Speaker 1: just want to beat the other team.
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Speaker 4: It's not like this.
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Speaker 1: You know those old Red Sox Yankees rivalries where it's
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Speaker 1: like a fist fight every night. You know, it's one
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Speaker 1: of those rivalries. It's two really good teams with really
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Speaker 1: good players on each side, and I think just the
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Speaker 1: competitive competitiveness of each side and each guy on the teams, like,
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Speaker 1: it's just we just want to go out there.
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Speaker 5: All right, so I gotta asked. There's a couple of
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Speaker 5: questions I have about this one. Do you hate the Dodgers?
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Speaker 5: Do you hate the Dodgers as a player? Do you
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Speaker 5: hate the I mean not saying you hate Mooky, but
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Speaker 5: do you hate maybe do you hate the blue and
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Speaker 5: the fans? Because I know as a white sock, I
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Speaker 5: didn't hate the Cubs players, but I did, well, there
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Speaker 5: was a couple I did, but I didn't. I hated
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Speaker 5: more of like the thought of the Cubs. Right, so
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Speaker 5: it was a padre. Do you hate the Dodgers not
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Speaker 5: the players because MOOKI Freddie those guys are great, But
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Speaker 5: I mean, do you hate the thought of the Dodgers
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Speaker 5: versus the Padres.
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Speaker 4: That's a tough one. Like I it's weird.
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Speaker 1: I think if early in my career maybe, but like now,
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Speaker 1: I think it's like I've come to like, you know,
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Speaker 1: each place is each team in each stadium we play
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Speaker 1: in with their fans is so unique and it's a
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Speaker 1: different experience. Like I think everywhere we go is so cool,
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Speaker 1: like seeing how fan bases have their own teams backs.
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Speaker 1: You know, I think we've done a good job of
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Speaker 1: like not saying, oh, we hate this team, we hate
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Speaker 1: this team. We just want to go out there and
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Speaker 1: win every night, Like depending no matter who we're playing.
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Speaker 1: Obviously it's probably it is heightened more when we play
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Speaker 1: them because they're in our division, and if we want
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Speaker 1: to want to win the division, we gotta we gotta
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Speaker 1: beat them.
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Speaker 4: And I think that's just the hard truth. Okay.
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Speaker 5: So then Joe Kelly came on here yesterday on the
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Speaker 5: show and we asked him, I said, if you could
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Speaker 5: play for the Astros who he hates, the Athletics, the
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Speaker 5: White Sox, the Rockies, or the Padres. The Padres were
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Speaker 5: the first team he eliminated. He's like Padre's out before,
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Speaker 5: like even before we even got started. He's like Padre's
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Speaker 5: out right. And he ended up picking the Rockies out
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Speaker 5: of those five teams. He said, I'd rather pick than
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Speaker 5: the other four. So I don't know. I mean, maybe
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Speaker 5: that's how Dodger guys feel about the Padres, some of
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Speaker 5: them at least.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know that. I mean, I think it's
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Speaker 1: a person by person basis, Like you know, do I
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Speaker 1: want to beat them every night?
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Speaker 4: Like I want to. I want to go out there
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Speaker 4: and beat him ten nothing. I want to beat him
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Speaker 4: one nothing. You know, A win's a win. I don't know.
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Speaker 4: That's a hard question.
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Speaker 3: M but you got that and then you got what
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Speaker 3: months he said on here a couple of days ago
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Speaker 3: about how the Dodgers only have one rival and is
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Speaker 3: the it's the Giants, which I know, you know, you
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Speaker 3: can you can be political on here and you know
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Speaker 3: say that, but that's gotta that's gotta eat at you
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Speaker 3: a little bit. It's got to be talked about in
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Speaker 3: the clubhouse a little bit.
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Speaker 1: No, I mean, I like you looked at you look
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Speaker 1: at like history between those two teams, and yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: way more significant probably in the course of you know,
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Speaker 1: since they've been been around, Like, yeah, those teams have
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Speaker 1: had some huge battles, you know, but I think for us,
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Speaker 1: like there's a group.
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Speaker 4: Like viewing, like you know, us versus the Dodgers.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean over the last five years, like it's
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Speaker 1: been a battle every single year against those guys. You know,
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Speaker 1: we beat him in twenty two in the playoffs. They
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Speaker 1: beat us last year in the playoffs and going to
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Speaker 1: win the World Series. So yeah, I think you know,
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Speaker 1: between us two within the last handful of years, like
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Speaker 1: that's for sure a rivalry.
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Speaker 3: Can I just say that you've been very politically correct
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Speaker 3: throughout all these questions. No, no, no, Billboard material were
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Speaker 3: great answers.
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Speaker 5: True, true, But before you go now, also, I want
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Speaker 5: to say this, Joe Kelly did say that he wishes
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Speaker 5: the Padres and the Dodgers could play in the World
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Speaker 5: Series because last year the two best teams were the
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Speaker 5: Padres and the Dodgers, and he thought that was World
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Speaker 5: Series worthy. So I know it won't happen because the
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Speaker 5: way the playoffs are set up, but I kind of
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Speaker 5: agree with him. You guys were the probably the second
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Speaker 5: best team, and by the way, I hate to bring
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Speaker 5: this up, But you guys.
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Speaker 1: Had them, you had them.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I know it's baseball and you never know, but gosh,
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Speaker 5: I thought y'all had him.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that one hurt.
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Speaker 1: I mean, that's you know, I think everybody in our
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Speaker 1: clubhouse like the way we played in the second half.
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Speaker 1: I mean, OSCO, I don't think I had never been
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Speaker 1: around a group that was more confident going into the
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Speaker 1: postseason than ours last year.
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Speaker 4: And I think it was just the.
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Speaker 1: Way we were playing, the way we matched up against
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Speaker 1: teams that we were playing are potentially going to play
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. From a starting pitching standpoint, from a
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Speaker 1: bullpen standpoint, which was, you know, our bullpen.
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Speaker 4: In the second half is unstoppable. You know, they just
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Speaker 4: they beat us in those last that's those last two games.
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Speaker 4: That was it. Many They matched up.
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Speaker 1: Really well and they they threw their guys out there
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Speaker 1: and that was that was That was like the perfect
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Speaker 1: example of like the old quote, it's just baseball like
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Speaker 1: that that's.
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Speaker 4: Going to happen.
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Speaker 2: Oh man. I love the way that A. J. Prelor
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Speaker 2: assembled the bullpen for that second half, the way it
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Speaker 2: was trading for guys. I hope that more contenders kind
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Speaker 2: of think about things that way. One more on the
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Speaker 2: rivalry part, and I'm going to take you to a
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Speaker 2: different rival that's not in top three. Probably the Washington
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Speaker 2: Nationals were like they said something along the lines of
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Speaker 2: like fleeced on the trade with obviously Soto. Moving over
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Speaker 2: to you guys, you spent some time with Sodo. So
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Speaker 2: your thoughts to that and how that era played out,
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Speaker 2: And then I will actually point out the aftermath of
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Speaker 2: how eventually the Pods trade Soto. One of the pieces
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Speaker 2: that returned was Michael King, who's been a number one
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Speaker 2: starter when he's on the mountain when he's healthy for
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Speaker 2: you guys, So your thoughts on the little playful poke.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean when you look at it in the moment,
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Speaker 1: I think any team back in twenty twenty two, when
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Speaker 1: you could have gotten any and you know, anybody was
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Speaker 1: on the block for Juan Soto, Like, when you have
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Speaker 1: a player of that caliber and you have the ability
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Speaker 1: to get them as a GM, you it's hard to
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Speaker 1: say no, you know. I mean, he'd been probably top
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Speaker 1: three player in baseball, So you've been in the league
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Speaker 1: at the point and it's like, man, we're getting a
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Speaker 1: guy who's gonna change this lineup from the minute he
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Speaker 1: gets there. And you're not only getting him for you know,
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Speaker 1: just after the trade deadline and he's hitting free agency
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Speaker 1: the next year, you're getting from the next year as well.
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Speaker 1: So it's like, you know, you can say, now, you
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Speaker 1: know a few years down the road, like oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know that, you know the trade, you know this
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Speaker 1: and that. But to your point, like we got Michael King,
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Speaker 1: we got Randy Vasquez, who's been incredible for us this year.
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Speaker 4: You know those.
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Speaker 1: Pieces that we got, you know, you look down the line,
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Speaker 1: like we end up getting Dylan Ceas, we end up
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Speaker 1: getting these guys, and you know, yes, the Nationals.
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Speaker 4: Got got five great players.
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Speaker 1: And you know they're all probably gonna have really good careers,
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Speaker 1: and you know, three of them are off to really
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Speaker 1: great starts this year. You know, it's it's hard to say,
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Speaker 1: but you know, I think the pieces we got in
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Speaker 1: return are really really good and they've they've cotributed for
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Speaker 1: us in an awesome.
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Speaker 4: Awesome way.
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Speaker 5: Jake is the NLS the best division in baseball.
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Speaker 4: I mean this is my sixth year now and since
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Speaker 4: I've been in.
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Speaker 5: Well, take out, take out the Rockies, take out the Rockies.
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Speaker 5: The other four teams the best sport take out the Rockies.
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Speaker 4: I mean I I would say yes.
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Speaker 1: I mean you look at the last you know, shoot
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Speaker 1: five years, I would say yes. I mean, you know,
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Speaker 1: we're in the NLCS and twenty two, the d Backs
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Speaker 1: are in the World Series in twenty three. The Dodgers
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Speaker 1: win the World Series last year, and you look at
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Speaker 1: how competitive this division is. I mean, it's not just
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Speaker 1: one team or two teams that are kind of just
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Speaker 1: you know, taking over you know, those top three spots,
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Speaker 1: you know, I.
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Speaker 4: Mean, it's it's it's those four teams.
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Speaker 1: Us the Dodgers, the d Backs and the Giants, Like
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Speaker 1: you know, Giants had one hundred and whatever, one hundred
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Speaker 1: and five wins in twenty one, you know, I mean
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Speaker 1: I would say yeah. I mean the starting pitching in
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Speaker 1: this division is just outrageous.
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Speaker 2: Hey, I'm gonna mix in one fan question here. So
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Speaker 2: in our chat, they said, why does Donnacillo call you
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Speaker 2: the what is it? Adorable little second basement? Our adorable
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Speaker 2: little second basement. No, it's it's mud grant. Why does
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Speaker 2: he say that?
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Speaker 1: I don't know, I know about it all the time,
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Speaker 1: and he has no good answer about why it is
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Speaker 1: and he.
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Speaker 4: Comes in the clubhouse and he's wearing his bucket hat.
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Speaker 1: He looks like he looks like he's on the TV
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Speaker 1: show Gilligan's Island, So I call him.
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Speaker 4: Gilligan, but I don't know that. He said that last
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Speaker 4: year in spring training, and I was like, what does
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Speaker 4: that even mean?
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Speaker 5: Wow? Well, all right, So I got to ask before
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Speaker 5: we have to let you go, was what was a
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Speaker 5: better year for you personally? Michigan wins the National Championship
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Speaker 5: in football or Ohio State wins last year, but Michigan
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Speaker 5: beats them in the big game. So which one makes
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Speaker 5: you happier? As a former Michigan Wolverine.
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Speaker 1: I would say the National championship year, just we beat Michigan,
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Speaker 1: or sorry, we beat Ohio State.
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Speaker 4: I was at that game.
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Speaker 1: That game was awesome, like freezing cold, and it's always
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Speaker 1: a noon.
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Speaker 4: Game in an arbor, freezing cold.
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Speaker 1: You get up at seven am to tailgate, and they
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Speaker 1: had interception with like fifty seconds left.
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Speaker 4: Ohio State was driving down the field.
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Speaker 1: They converted two plays for like thirty five yards and
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Speaker 1: it was just like what just happened? And then interception
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Speaker 1: and then I got to go to the National championship,
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Speaker 1: which was awesome, and you know, I feel bad for
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Speaker 1: Washington fans because at the stadium in Houston it was
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Speaker 1: like seventy five percent Michigan fans. I mean it was
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Speaker 1: it was a Michigan home game. And then last year
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Speaker 1: was so frustrating because you like the quarterback situation. We're
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Speaker 1: playing a new guy every week. We're throwing in guys
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Speaker 1: on different downs depending on the situation. But every year
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Speaker 1: is a great year.
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Speaker 4: When we beat Ohio State, that's that.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, they people can say Ohio State
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Speaker 1: fans can say, yeah, they won the national championship, but
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Speaker 1: you didn't beat Michigan. And you saw it after the game,
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Speaker 1: like those like the huge fight on the field, guys
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Speaker 1: are getting pepper sprayed, like that's that's the rivalry and
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Speaker 1: that is the game, and it's the game for a reason.
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Speaker 5: By the way, first of all, who planted it? Didn't
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Speaker 5: you guys who planted the flag? There was someone that
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Speaker 5: planted in one team planted a flag. Was a Michigan
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Speaker 5: planning the flag state? And then second all know what
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Speaker 5: wit Witt will never get to do celebrate a national
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Speaker 5: championship in football. Sorry, sorry with big year Lenora Sellers.
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Speaker 3: He's been front runner big year.
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Speaker 1: You know what I will I will say I remember
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Speaker 1: sitting on the couch and washing South Carolina play Michigan
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Speaker 1: in the Outback Bowl in Tampa, and Jadeveon Clowney late
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Speaker 1: the biggest that I've ever seen in my life.
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Speaker 4: I was.
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Speaker 1: I don't even I didn't even think I was at
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Speaker 1: Michigan yet. Actually it was my I was my freshman
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Speaker 1: year May and that was insane.
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Speaker 3: I was there. Yeah, I was in the I was
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Speaker 3: like the the end kind of by the by the
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Speaker 3: end zone, and you couldn't really because we the defense
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Speaker 3: was in front of us, the offense on the other side,
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Speaker 3: and so you couldn't see the play. You just saw
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Speaker 3: a helmet go flying.
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Speaker 4: It was it was Yeah. The helmet went like twenty
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Speaker 4: yards towards the end zone. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And the thing right before that play, there was a
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Speaker 3: measuring and there Michigan was this this yeah, this much
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Speaker 3: short and they gave him the first down anyway.
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Speaker 4: And I'm gonna play.
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna cut because they're coming right against break. But
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Speaker 2: uh Aj is very happy. We got some football talk
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Speaker 2: in at the buzzer.
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Speaker 5: This great two thousand six Jarvis Moss block field goal too.
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Speaker 1: By the way, step.
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Speaker 4: We can go on out, Jake. Awesome to have you on.
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Speaker 2: Really appreciate it. Man, thank you for joining us.
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Speaker 4: We'll get you down the road. Absolutely appreciate you guys,