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Jose Soriano might just be the ace the Angels rotation has lacked; Breezy Nowlan joins · Halo Territory: A Los Angeles Angels Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Play Angel fans and welcome back to Halo Territory. We
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  Speaker 1: are part of the Foul Territory Network. I'm Mike D. Giovanna,
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  Speaker 1: former La Times baseball writer and host of the show,
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  Speaker 1: and we're joined today by Breezy noan longtime Angels fan
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  Speaker 1: and season ticket holder, making her second Halo Territory appearance
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  Speaker 1: this season. Breezy, welcome back to the show. How are
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  Speaker 1: you doing today?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing wonderful. Thank you so much for having me back.
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  Speaker 1: Great to have you back. We'll get a lot to
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  Speaker 1: discuss today, including Logan O'hoppies, Tuesday Night heroics, Joan Moncatta's
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  Speaker 1: falling stock, and some new Angel Stadium food options ahead
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  Speaker 1: of Friday night's home opener. First, you're going to explore
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  Speaker 1: one of the more encouraging storylines of this young season,
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  Speaker 1: pitcher Jose Soriana, who threw six shutout innings in the
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  Speaker 1: season opening win over the Hoon win over Houston Astros,
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  Speaker 1: and another six shutout innings in Tuesday nights. One of
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago Cubs now for the last seven years. Andy McCullough,
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  Speaker 1: the fine ball writer at the Athletic and a former
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  Speaker 1: Ela Times colleague of mine has put together what he
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  Speaker 1: calls the Aces Project, where he surveys a panel of
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  Speaker 1: twenty scouting, player development, and analytics experts to determine who
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  Speaker 1: Baseball's aces are. There were fifty pitchers on that list
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  Speaker 1: heading into this season. Derek Schouble and Paul Skeens were
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  Speaker 1: at the top of that list, but there are no
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  Speaker 1: Angels on that list. I can't say any Angel deserved
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  Speaker 1: to be on that list going into the season, But
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  Speaker 1: Breezy is Soriano making a push to be included on
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  Speaker 1: this list next season?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So I would say that it's a little too
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  Speaker 2: soon to know because I don't know if you remember
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  Speaker 2: last season, he was absolutely incredible on the road eight wins,
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  Speaker 2: three losses, and then at home he would just blow
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  Speaker 2: up for whatever reason. I think he was two wins,
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  Speaker 2: eight losses. So I personally am really looking forward to
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  Speaker 2: seeing how he does at Angel Stadium before you know,
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  Speaker 2: we get to ahead of ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, right now. The definition of an ace, I think
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  Speaker 1: is subjective. It's sort of in the eyes of the beholder.
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  Speaker 1: But for me, it starts with stuff. And you look
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  Speaker 1: at Jose He's got five pitches, four that he uses
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  Speaker 1: mainly he's got a sinker that's averaging about ninety seven
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  Speaker 1: ninety eight miles an hour, mixes up with an occasional
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  Speaker 1: four seamer and a pretty nasty knuckle curve that comes
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  Speaker 1: in at about eighty six miles an hour. And of
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  Speaker 1: course he's got that split finger. Now, that sinker I
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  Speaker 1: think is as probably as best pitch and used that
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  Speaker 1: to induce eighteen ground ball outs already in his first
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  Speaker 1: two starts. And that nule, Yeah, that knuckle curve. For
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  Speaker 1: fans watching the game Tuesday night, there was a great
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  Speaker 1: sequence in the fourth inning where he ran a splitter
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  Speaker 1: onto Nico Horner's hands for a strikeout. Then he got
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  Speaker 1: Danzby Swanson to swing at a curveball that I think
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  Speaker 1: wound up in the left handed hitters batter's box. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and then he struck Yeah. Then he struck out Swanson
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  Speaker 1: looking at a ninety nine mile an hour fastball on
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  Speaker 1: the outside corner. Also, for me, an ace is a
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  Speaker 1: perennial all star, a guy who delivers consistent quality starts
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  Speaker 1: and pitches deep into games, who can match up with
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  Speaker 1: opposing aces number ones, number two's thrives under pressure, who
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  Speaker 1: is mentally tough. I think, sorry, showed some of that
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  Speaker 1: toughness in Chicago two's and when he wasn't wearing any
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  Speaker 1: sleeves in like forty forty degree weather. But he's kind
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  Speaker 1: of I think he's got a little ways to go
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  Speaker 1: in some of these areas, and he you know, of course,
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  Speaker 1: has to do this in a complete season. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we're looking at his stats here if you're watching us
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  Speaker 1: on YouTube, a four point two six era last year.
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  Speaker 1: Not great. Off to a great start this year, but
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  Speaker 1: you know, when you know, all star appearances, maybe that
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  Speaker 1: changes this year. What is the longevity, you know, consistency
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  Speaker 1: aspect part of what's going to sort of get him
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  Speaker 1: to the next level.
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  Speaker 3: Oh absolutely, Like I said, like, I think.
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  Speaker 2: Him being able to do that at home is really
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  Speaker 2: what's going to make or break him, I think, And
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  Speaker 2: it's the consistency piece. Of course, staying healthy has been
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  Speaker 2: an issue. But I will say watching the game, especially
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  Speaker 2: last night, he seems a lot more calm, which I
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  Speaker 2: think maybe it seems like the whole team in general
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  Speaker 2: has been focusing a little bit more on their mind set.
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  Speaker 3: Minus Mancatta.
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  Speaker 2: But but yeah, like it does seem like he just
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  Speaker 2: seems much more composed and yeah at forty degree weather
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  Speaker 2: and just like not having anything underneath, like just rock
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  Speaker 2: in the jersey, like he had to be so locked
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  Speaker 2: in mentally, which I think is a really good indicator
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  Speaker 2: of what's to come, hopefully and to to get the
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  Speaker 2: opening day start and have that confidence I think is
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  Speaker 2: really really important, especially to somebody like him. That's you know,
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  Speaker 2: I saw on Twitter. I think yesterday, you know, everyone's
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  Speaker 2: like cy young maybe you know, so I think the
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  Speaker 2: more people that are starting to notice him and you know,
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  Speaker 2: hopefully the pressure doesn't get to him. That's you know,
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  Speaker 2: first and foremost.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, probably a little too early to be talking so young.
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  Speaker 1: But another thing, and this might come maturity to me.
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  Speaker 1: And Ace is sort of the leader of that pitching staff,
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  Speaker 1: you know, think of Max sure as are justin Verlander
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  Speaker 1: in their primes. Jared Weaver, you know, back when he
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  Speaker 1: was in Anaheim. I don't know with Sorry, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know him that well. I talked to him quite a
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  Speaker 1: bit last year. He seems very shy. Obviously he's from
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  Speaker 1: the Dominicans, so there's a bit of a language barrier.
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  Speaker 1: So it sort of remains to see be seen how
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  Speaker 1: much of a leadership role he takes. But certainly you
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  Speaker 1: can lead by example by going out there and giving
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  Speaker 1: your a team a chance to win every time you start.
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  Speaker 1: And I think when you know these caliber of pitchers
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  Speaker 1: take them mound, the team feels better about their chances too.
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  Speaker 1: So let's turn our attention to Logan o'happy. As we know,
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  Speaker 1: it's been a rough start for the Angels catcher. He
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  Speaker 1: made three throwing errors in the three losses of the
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  Speaker 1: two in Houston. In the first game in Chicago and
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  Speaker 1: he had that controversial failure to challenge potential third strike
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  Speaker 1: call and Sunday's lost to Houston. That was very costly,
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  Speaker 1: very costly. But he did come up huge Tuesday night
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  Speaker 1: with a two out, two run single in the sixth
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  Speaker 1: inning for the Angels only runs of the game. And
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  Speaker 1: what I liked about that, I bet was not just
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  Speaker 1: the result, was how he made an adjustment right in
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  Speaker 1: the middle. He falls behind one and two to film.
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  Speaker 1: Mayton is a pretty good reliever. Not sure why, but
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  Speaker 1: Mayton has hung a curve and Logan just jumped all
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  Speaker 1: over it, ripped that one hopper past Alex Bragman at
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  Speaker 1: third base. You feel like with that start, Logan kind
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  Speaker 1: of needed this for his confidence.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I think his offense when he's doing well offensively,
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  Speaker 2: he definitely seems to do better defensively more than him hitting, though.
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  Speaker 2: I thought the fact that he did challenge the ball,
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  Speaker 2: I think it was to Bregman. Yeah, and it was
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  Speaker 2: a ball, but it was I mean, it was literally
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  Speaker 2: right on the line.
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  Speaker 3: It was so close.
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  Speaker 2: So the fact that he was able to just you know,
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  Speaker 2: like jump back in and not second guess himself even
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  Speaker 2: though it happened to still be a ball, I think
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  Speaker 2: that was really important.
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  Speaker 3: Like, I think that was more exciting.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, the fact that he got the the hit that
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  Speaker 2: ended up making us win the game is great for
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  Speaker 2: his confidence. But I think mentally, to see that he
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  Speaker 2: was able to make the adjustment and challenge the call
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  Speaker 2: rather than getting stuck in his like oh maybe it wasn't,
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  Speaker 2: maybe it is, you know and freeze, that's a good
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  Speaker 2: sign that he really is working on his mentality.
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  Speaker 1: And to Logan's credit, he kind of downplayed the whole
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  Speaker 1: redemption angle after the game in a conversation with reporters,
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  Speaker 1: including Jeff Fledger of the Orange County Register. And I
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  Speaker 1: think this is a lot talking about what happened last
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  Speaker 1: year with him, which was a brutal, brutal year at
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  Speaker 1: the plate and behind the plate. Logan said, crap happens.
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  Speaker 1: It just seems like a lot because it's stockpiled into
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  Speaker 1: the first few games. But there's no reason to panic.
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  Speaker 1: I already went through that last year. I already went
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  Speaker 1: through the ups and downs of it last year, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm not putting myself through that mental torture again. You
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  Speaker 1: just go attack day to day, attack the process, what
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  Speaker 1: will do tomorrow, and view the result as a distraction. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we said many times how tough a year it was
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  Speaker 1: for Logan, But is this maybe a sign of some
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  Speaker 1: maturity from him and a sign that moving forward he's
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  Speaker 1: not going to let these these valleys affect them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, I think the results will speak for itself.
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  Speaker 2: Right. I think it's one thing to be able, And
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  Speaker 2: I think Sam Blum said it on Your Guys' podcast
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  Speaker 2: last week, where it's like, yeah, sure you can. He's
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  Speaker 2: really good at speaking to the media and kind of
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  Speaker 2: knowing what to say and keeping his head up when
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  Speaker 2: you know he's in front of the cameras and it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: but what does that look like? After the game. What
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  Speaker 2: is he doing after the fact. So I think the
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  Speaker 2: results are going to speak for itself. The fact that,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, he did jump right back in and
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  Speaker 2: question the strike zone, that's great. I do one hundred
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  Speaker 2: percent agree to that. He needs to take the pressure
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  Speaker 2: off of himself.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure it was.
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  Speaker 2: A little humbling that the Angel Stadium took his picture
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  Speaker 2: off of the you know, the billboards when you go
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  Speaker 2: into the stadium. I was personally really surprised by that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think that that was uh for me. I know,
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  Speaker 2: my ego would be like a little bruised. I'd be like, wow, okay,
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  Speaker 2: you put me up there and I take you down.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like I got traded like the other guys
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  Speaker 2: that went off the wall.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I don't know if.
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  Speaker 2: If that all is part of it, if that they're
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  Speaker 2: behind the scenes really working on his mental game and
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  Speaker 2: just saying, hey, you know, that was a lot. We'll
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  Speaker 2: we'll take it, you know, we'll take some pressure off
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  Speaker 2: of you and.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see how he does.
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm really excited to see how he is
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  Speaker 2: in person when the cameras are not on him while
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  Speaker 2: he's warming up for you know, right before he goes
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  Speaker 2: on the on deck circle, before he goes up to that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I feel like I have a really cool
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  Speaker 2: vantage point of the players and how they're processing things.
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  Speaker 2: Like Taylor Ward was always like so cool, calm and collected,
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  Speaker 2: just so focused. So yeah, I think that'll be interesting
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  Speaker 2: to see on Friday night to see if I can
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  Speaker 2: notice any sort of difference.
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  Speaker 1: Now and welcome back to Halo Territory. We're joined today
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  Speaker 1: by Breezy Nolan, long time Angels fan and season ticket holder.
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  Speaker 1: Angels did get some pretty nice relief work Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 1: Chase Silseath through a scoreless seventh inning, Drew Pomerantz through
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  Speaker 1: a scoreless eighth, and I liked how Kurt Suzuki used
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  Speaker 1: his bullpen in the ninth. He kept Pomerants the left
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  Speaker 1: hander and two face the left handed hitting Pete Crow
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  Speaker 1: Armstrong and uh, not sure why p Pca was trying
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  Speaker 1: to bump with two strikes, but he fouled it off
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  Speaker 1: for a strikeout. Then Kurt goes to, uh, Jordan, you
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  Speaker 1: call him Romano. I called him Romano. I guess we're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to call him Romano. And he gets the last
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  Speaker 1: two outs for the save. The fans know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: given the choice, I'd rather have a dominant closer like
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  Speaker 1: Edwin Diaz or Mason Miller to pitch the ninth. But
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  Speaker 1: sometimes when you're when you don't have that clear cut
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  Speaker 1: ninth inning guy. You have your force to go to
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  Speaker 1: matchups and and managers do stuff like this said, the
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  Speaker 1: fans know of that, notice that stuff breezy and and
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  Speaker 1: you think that was sort of a learning learning experience
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  Speaker 1: for Kurt in his first year's manager.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I know that I noticed those things. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know if that's like a Angels fan. You know,
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  Speaker 2: we talked about it before that they do have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of families and a lot of people that just
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  Speaker 2: come for fun, So maybe the average fan wouldn't notice
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  Speaker 2: something like that, but I definitely, you know, the people
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  Speaker 2: around me and my section were always like lefty, lefty, matchup,
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  Speaker 2: we love to see it, let's go.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I completely agree.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's we're definitely missing Kenley Jensen's Janssen's presence,
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  Speaker 2: so and Ben Joyce obviously and Stevenson who were not
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  Speaker 2: going to be seeing unfortunately. So yeah, it's definitely.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like.
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  Speaker 2: Kurt has a very good perspective of who to go
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  Speaker 2: to because he is a catcher and to know, you
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  Speaker 2: know what he would probably prefer in those moments. So
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  Speaker 2: I think he's doing a good job at at least
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  Speaker 2: from what I you know, obviously we've only had you know,
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  Speaker 2: a week of baseball, not even but yeah, I think
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  Speaker 2: so far he's doing a good job, and I think
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  Speaker 2: that the fans who are paying attention can see that
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  Speaker 2: as well.
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  Speaker 1: One player who is not doing a very good job
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  Speaker 1: is he on Mancatta, the third baseman. He's two for
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  Speaker 1: seventeen in his first five games with two errors. Then
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  Speaker 1: at the third ning of Monday Night six two loss
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  Speaker 1: of the Cubs Chicago head Runners, on second and third
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  Speaker 1: with one out, Carson Kelly lines out to parazit second.
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  Speaker 1: Proza double clutches, but he gets to throw to a
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  Speaker 1: third in time to double up the runner, but instead
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  Speaker 1: of putting his foot on the bag like a first
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  Speaker 1: basement would, Moncatta tries to tag the eye out the
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  Speaker 1: runners safe. Moys's by Asteros hits the next pitch for
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  Speaker 1: a two run single and a six to zero lead.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty much game over at that point. Moncatta did hit
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  Speaker 1: a two run homer in the seventh, but he showed
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  Speaker 1: for me he showed a lack of awareness again in
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  Speaker 1: the ninth, when there were two outs, two on, and
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  Speaker 1: he failed to challenge a first pitch strike that was
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  Speaker 1: clearly a ball. Daniel still had two challenges left in
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  Speaker 1: that ninth, then why not spend one there? Maybe he
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  Speaker 1: draws a walk, brings a tying run to the plate.
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  Speaker 1: So it's been a rough start, Breezy. How are Halo
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  Speaker 1: fans feeling about their third baseman right now?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think Swilly said it best on Twitter
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  Speaker 2: the other day. She was like, is our third baseman
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  Speaker 2: always going to be cursed?
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  Speaker 3: Like That's kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of how it has felt for a very long time. People,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they look really good on another team as
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  Speaker 2: a third base and they come over and it just
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  Speaker 2: we're like, where did where did that?
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  Speaker 3: Where did that go where?
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  Speaker 2: You know? But I think at the same time, it's
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  Speaker 2: like pretty well known that Mancata is not super into it,
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  Speaker 2: Like there's it's it's giving Anthony Rendon unfortunately, and it
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  Speaker 2: looks like he just doesn't really want to be.
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  Speaker 3: There, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And and I've thought Candelario, he he looked great last
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  Speaker 2: night at third. He had a throwing error, I believe
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  Speaker 2: at one point. But you know, I would much rather
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  Speaker 2: watch somebody who looks like they're really in the game
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  Speaker 2: and when they're making that many mental errors, especially not
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  Speaker 2: challenging a ball that was very clearly a ball that
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  Speaker 2: shows that you're just you're not there mentally, and so
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  Speaker 2: I really appreciated that. Yet again Kurt took him out
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  Speaker 2: and replaced him, and it's like, hey, you know, if
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  Speaker 2: you don't want to be here and be in this
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  Speaker 2: with this team, like the fact that Mike Trout is
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  Speaker 2: looking like Mike Trout again and we didn't go out
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  Speaker 2: and like stack the team, and that there's somebody just
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  Speaker 2: like whatever. You know, it's so frustrating as a fan
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  Speaker 2: to just be like, we have been waiting for this
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  Speaker 2: Mike Trout, you know, and the fact that like its
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  Speaker 2: just that this is the depth that we have is
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  Speaker 2: so infuriating. And I can't even imagine, you know, how
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  Speaker 2: it feels to be on that team and and to
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  Speaker 2: know that you know, there was no support and you know,
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  Speaker 2: it's just it's it sucks.
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  Speaker 3: It totally sucks.
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  Speaker 1: I think Mark Trumbo, our co host on the show,
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  Speaker 1: said the best the other day. He looks disinterested. Not
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  Speaker 1: a good adjective you want attached to you as a ballplayer,
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  Speaker 1: and that has to change pretty quick or we may
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  Speaker 1: not be seeing much more of you on around Anaheim
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: We're going to change gears completely right now and get
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  Speaker 1: a fans perspective on some of the new dining options
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  Speaker 1: at the Big A, where the Angels will play host
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  Speaker 1: to the Seattle Mariners and Friday Night's home opener. Breezy
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  Speaker 1: sampled a bunch of food before the Dodgers Angels Freeway
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  Speaker 1: Series game in Anaheim a few weekends ago, and let's
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  Speaker 1: start to go with a video that she put together
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  Speaker 1: of the experience.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, guys, is Breezy with Halo Territory. I don't know
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: how I got the credentials for this. We are going
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: to go inside and try a bunch of new food.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: I have really stupid dietary restrictions and a lot of
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: the stuff I can't eat.
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  Speaker 3: So Emily is here is done? No, it's at least yeah.
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  Speaker 2: You will know that I critique the Angel's food a lot,
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  Speaker 2: and as I'm looking around at all of this food,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: I still think that they missed the mark by like
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: a long shot.
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  Speaker 3: It looks like a heart attack.
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  Speaker 2: Like for those people who have dietary restrictions, for.
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  Speaker 3: Those who like to eat a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Healthier, You're not really gonna find it on any of
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: the new menu items. Okay, I'm gonna go with the
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: pink cups. There is a lime included and taquens it's
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: pink pineapple.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Huh, that's pineapple. Okay, okay, we'll be getting that again.
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  Speaker 2: The pork chili verde mac and cheese.
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  Speaker 5: That's a heart attack and a cup for sure, like
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: big fans, a little picked to it. Chicken mac and
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  Speaker 5: cheese situation giving cheese.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's really good.
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  Speaker 5: Actually, oh my god, like I'm pretty into this. I
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  Speaker 5: got ten out of ten. Would order glazy.
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  Speaker 3: Mm hmm. That is good.
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  Speaker 2: Really it looks like a sushi roll hot duck.
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  Speaker 3: If you're an everything bagel lover, this is where it's
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  Speaker 3: AT's struggling off. Nothing special, got lobster. Let us run.
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  Speaker 3: Oh oh that's good. Start really good.
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  Speaker 2: You're sitting here drying foods while the Dodgers are taking
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  Speaker 2: batting practice.
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  Speaker 3: That looks good. I will be getting this. Okay. This
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: is the not chicken burger. I don't know what they.
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  Speaker 2: Are, but it's good.
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  Speaker 5: If you are a barbecue person in the chicken boige.
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  Speaker 3: There you go, and I have whole a lot of flavor.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: Like it's nothing special, shares. It's a buffalo. That's a
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: buffalo wing wang. Honestly, it tastes like Domino's buffalo. I
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: try this salad now them that smells good dressingorn yea
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  Speaker 3: not a lot of flavor. Yeah, I hate when you're right.
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  Speaker 3: It's really annoying. Do you buy chocolate strawberry waffle? That's
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: the one she will remember? Do you? Oh, that's a
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: currently definitely tree sledges.
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  Speaker 2: This is a brickie overpowered by the brownie.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: You can't really taste the cold keep trees. Letch just
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  Speaker 3: take a huge fan of that take away.
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  Speaker 2: You're definitely still gonna find better food at Daughter Stadium
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  Speaker 2: and at Paco Park.
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  Speaker 3: Who said that?
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: I would still really love healthier options. We'll see this
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  Speaker 2: is breezy and Emily with Halo territory.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for that, My goodness. So they expect you
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  Speaker 1: eat everything on that table.
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  Speaker 3: I did not. That was all Emily, all right?
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  Speaker 1: So so what was the star of the table there?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so I wouldn't eat a lot of it, but
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  Speaker 2: I did still try the crispy chicken mac and cheese.
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  Speaker 2: Just the chicken, and it had like this country gravy
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  Speaker 2: in it.
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  Speaker 3: It was so good.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: That one is at concession stand to thirty seven that
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: fans can go and get it, because I know a
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: lot of people were asking me about it after I
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: posted the video. And then also the lobster raps just
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: because it is actually a healthier option and it was
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  Speaker 2: really really good and really flavorful.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: I cut it out of the video.
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  Speaker 2: But Emily was like, oh, there's no way I'm trying
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: the lobster thing like that looks. She's like, I don't
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: like the lobster. And then she tried it and she
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: was like, I was really good. So you think you
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: don't like lobster? You know it was. It was a
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  Speaker 2: twenty out of ten for me.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: So wow, Why in general does the food at the
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Big A not quite measure up to La and San Diego?
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: So for one, they both just have way more options
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  Speaker 2: of like actual restaurants that people are familiar with. And
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: then two for those that are like trying to actually
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: spend a little bit more money at the baseball stadium,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: the I forget like what they're called a Dodger Stadium.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: It's not the Diamond Club. It's down like the third
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: and first baseline. Maybe it's a Lexa, No, the Lexus Club.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Is the Diamond Club. I don't know, but they get
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  Speaker 2: their own restaurant. And that restaurant, I mean the meals
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  Speaker 2: that they make. There's like fresh salmon, and I mean
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: just I've I've have so many pictures on my phone
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  Speaker 2: of the different types of food that both stadiums provide people.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: With that are looking to spend a little bit more money.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: I know several people in the dugout suites that are
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: spending a lot of money and their menu was like,
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: you know, chicken tenders and pizza, and they're like, we
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: don't even want to order this, you know, like for
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: the caliber of people that they get in those suites
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  Speaker 2: and that they're you know, hey guys, this is what
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: we're offering you. It just you know, they're I've heard,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I've had a lot of conversations with them.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: They're just like, it doesn't make sense why we're not treated,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: you know, differently, that we should be getting different types
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  Speaker 2: of menu options. So that's what I'm here to do.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: I'm here to speak for them because they're not being heard.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: What healthier options could Anaheim provide that maybe Petco Park
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: and Dodger Stadium were.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Offering, you know, to me, it's more so like the
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: way that they go about it, where they're providing like
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: a bunch of different side dishes and then people can
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: go up and just choose them. And I know it's
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: kind of similar in the Diamond Club, but any time
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  Speaker 2: I've gone, they still don't have a lot of gluten
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  Speaker 2: free options or dairy free options, you know, like I'd
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: have to go talk to somebody on the side and
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: then they will go and make me something like and
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: that just feels gross too, Like I don't want to
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: have to go and like feel like, oh a bother
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  Speaker 2: and have somebody make me a special dish like that
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: just seems kind of ridiculous. Get with the times, a
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: lot of people have dietary issues.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: And you know, and.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Just just have them available, you know.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: So well, I have to say, as a fan growing
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: up in the sixties and seventies to see things at
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the ballpark like beef strogging off and lobster reps. I mean,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: when I was a kid, I want to Shaye Stadium
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: and Yankee Stadium. I think the fair pretty much consisted
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: of cold hot thugs, those huge pretzels, knishes which were
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: kind of cool, peanuts, and cracker Jack, chocolate malts. That's
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: about it. But you're in a different generation here, and
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: so are baseball fans. Like how important is food to
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: the fan experience right now?
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: I think it's huge.
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: You know, if at the end of the day games
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: are starting at six thirty eight, you kind of have
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: to get there around like five point thirty five forty five.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: You know that you're going to be eating dinner there,
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: And if you're spending a significant amount of money on
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: a ticket, like you want to be able to have
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: a nice meal. And I know, especially as a season
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: ticket holder, I'm there all the time, and like the
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: last thing I want to do is eat a chicken
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: tender every night of the week, you know, like I
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: will literally feel so sick that week is over.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Nine year old might like that. A nine year old
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: might like that menu, but.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Totally yeah, but not me, you know, I will. I
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: will be very inflamed and very upset and uh yeah
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  Speaker 2: and so and I think that they're kind of I
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: think that's why some season ticket holders are giving up
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: their seats. They feel like they're not being thought of
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: in that way. I've had a lot of discussions with
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: people about that too, Like you know, they feel like, sure,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: there people are the menu is directed towards those one
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: off people that are showing up, and you know, oh cool,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: I can have a Burger tonight, like it's my cheap nine.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: It's like, okay, but.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: What about the season ticket holders that do go to
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: forty games a year, you know, like we don't want
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: to have the same nasty cheeseburger, you know, three nights
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: a week, and you know the times are just that
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: people want healthier options. So yeah, I wish, I wish
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: already would would think of those things.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna we're gonna close the show. We're
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: gonna have a little fun with this one with a
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: tweet that was referencing our co host Mark Trumbo. And
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: if you're watching on YouTube, you'll see if you're listening
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: on the audio pod. I'll try to describe it, but
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: it came from Angels Win last night. It says Mark
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Trumbo's face, it never changes. There's a grid with the
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: I think eight or twelve Mark Trumbo's shots. One says surprised,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: one says joyful, angry, sad, stoked, laughing, confused, discuss it.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: They're all the same. I have to admit Mark definitely
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: puts the stow in stoic and is not quite the
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: man of a thousand faces. Breezie, what do you think
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: we could do to, you know, get a little more reaction,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: get a little more facial expression, you know, get a
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: little bit more emotion out of our co host Mark Trumbull.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Any suggestions, any thoughts?
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: You know, when I I was on last time, one
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: of my friends texted me and he was like, man,
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: you even gotta got Marked to crack a smile. So
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: I would say, I think you just need to have
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: me on a little bit more. I say that landish stuff,
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: and he's I think it like he smiled, but I
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: think it was more of like a oh no, like
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: what it's gonna come out of this person's mouth. So
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: maybe just like keep him on his toes a little
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: bit more and then you get more reaction out of him.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Well, listeners, viewers, if you have any suggestions on how
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: to get Mark to change some facial expressions, write them
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: in the comments section, send him to the Hill of
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Territory page or account on X and we're going to
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: close our show with that. Breezy. Once again, thank you
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: for joining us. We'll check in probably shortly after opening day.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: We'll see out there this weekend, and for all fans,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: please like and subscribe, and that's gonna be it for
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Halo Territory.