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Chris Taylor Joins Dodgers Territory · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: I have a reserve personality, and people see that shyness
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Speaker 1: as innocents or I don't know what it is.
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Speaker 2: I promise you I do a lot wrong.
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Speaker 3: What's going on?
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Speaker 1: Everybody?
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Speaker 4: Welcome to the live Thursday edition of Dodgers Territory. I'm
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Speaker 4: Alana Rizzo. That is Clint to see us. We're so
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Speaker 4: so much. Two time World Series Champion Chris Taylor CT
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Speaker 4: three coming up on the show in just a few moments.
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Speaker 4: But before we welcome and Chris, let's get to the
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Speaker 4: big ticket.
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Speaker 5: Let's do it.
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Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 3: So, as we.
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Speaker 4: Speak right now, not to say you should leave us
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Speaker 4: to go over there, but as we speak right now,
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Speaker 4: Tanner Scott is being introduced officially by the Los Angeles
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Speaker 4: Dodgers so Roki Sasaki. A couple of days ago, Tanner
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Speaker 4: Scott right now. Welcome to the club, sir, happy to
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Speaker 4: have you in that bullpen. And perhaps Kirby Yates, Clint,
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Speaker 4: Bob Nightingale is the only one that I have seen
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Speaker 4: report that Kirby Yates could be headed to the Los
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Speaker 4: Angeles Dodgers, perhaps with Michael Kopek expected to miss a
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Speaker 4: little bit of time.
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Speaker 3: I don't know that that's the case.
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Speaker 4: Not to discount what Bob is saying, but Brandon Dome's
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Speaker 4: assistant or GM of the Dodgers came out and said
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Speaker 4: that Kopeck is fine. He doesn't anticipate any problems right now.
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Speaker 3: How are you reading into this?
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Speaker 4: As you can see Bill Plunkett saying that Kopeck was
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Speaker 4: grinding the last October like many of us were. He's
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Speaker 4: well into his offseason throwing program, So no concern. Are
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Speaker 4: you concerned, Clint Pesius?
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Speaker 5: I don't know that I'm concerned yet. A couple things
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Speaker 5: to dive into here. Obviously we have Kirby Yates. We
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Speaker 5: will say, you know, far from official. I would argue
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Speaker 5: that Ken Rosenthal poured a little bit of cold water
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Speaker 5: on Bob Nightingale's report there. But focusing on the Coopex side,
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Speaker 5: of of course, he's a very important part, very integral
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Speaker 5: part of this Dodgers bullpen. This what could be a
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Speaker 5: very very good Dodgers bullpen. I really like the part here.
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Speaker 5: Our friend Bill Plunkett says, the reports are overblown. It
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Speaker 5: did kind of surface and everybody sort of got very
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Speaker 5: very scared on the internet very quick, like, oh man,
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Speaker 5: what's going on with Michael Kopek. I'm not terribly worried.
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Speaker 5: I agree with the idea that, yeah, everybody is going
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Speaker 5: through something at that point in the season. Michael Kopek state,
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Speaker 5: you know, a state available for this team all the
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Speaker 5: way through the World Series run. So it's not something
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Speaker 5: I'm worried about. Now, let's switch to the addition the
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Speaker 5: potential edition edition of Kirby Yates. It's just another fantastic
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Speaker 5: move for the Dodgers. You got Tanner Scott being official
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Speaker 5: as we speak. That raises the ceiling, and this is
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Speaker 5: something I talked about on my show. You got a
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Speaker 5: ceiling razor and a floor razer in Kirby Yates, who
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Speaker 5: was arguably the second best reliever in the American League
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Speaker 5: last year behind Emmanuel class A. Just more brilliance from
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Speaker 5: the Dodgers front office.
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Speaker 3: It's just stupid.
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Speaker 4: I mean, if you think about it, even I was like,
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Speaker 4: oh my god, Kirby Yates too, you know, like, but
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Speaker 4: my goodness, you get obviously you get Blake Trynon back right.
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Speaker 4: We did that early on, and then they signed Tanner Scott,
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Speaker 4: which is all we were asking for. And then, by
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Speaker 4: the way, they may get Kirby Yates as well game over.
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Speaker 4: I mean, that is one heck of a Dodgers' bullpen,
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Speaker 4: and I like the I like the bullpen even before
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Speaker 4: the Tanner Scott signing, so I really really like the
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Speaker 4: bullpen now. But that leads me to the next question
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Speaker 4: for you, Clint. You have there's not enough room on
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Speaker 4: the Dodgers need a seventy man roster. There's not enough
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Speaker 4: room right now. So what would happen in terms of
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Speaker 4: getting Kirby Yates onto this roster if you figure that
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Speaker 4: is the case. We remember we talked about the fact
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Speaker 4: that the Dodgers can start moving guys around on February.
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Speaker 4: They can go a little earlier than twenty eight other teams.
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Speaker 4: The Potter or excuse me, the Cubs can do it too.
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Speaker 4: Because of that series in Tokyo. What are some movable
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Speaker 4: pieces in your mind that the Dodgers could move in
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Speaker 4: order to get Yates on the roster.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean if it all depends on if he's
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Speaker 5: okay waiting. And this is where we also talked a
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Speaker 5: good little bit about, like the Kicky Hernandez situation, people
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Speaker 5: are okay waiting, it's not going to be as big
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Speaker 5: of an issue. I just posted the screenshot there. Of course,
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Speaker 5: Bob Nightingale mentioning Dodgers are looking to shop some pieces.
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Speaker 5: One of those guys being an obvious piece in Ryan Brazier,
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Speaker 5: who had some injury issues last year, kind of had
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Speaker 5: some up and downs, but was an important part of
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Speaker 5: that World Series run. But there's somebody like him. There's
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Speaker 5: maybe a Michael Grove who can find himself available in
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Speaker 5: a trade. Bobby Miller is a name I've seen some
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Speaker 5: fans try to throw out here and there. I don't
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Speaker 5: think the team looks to move Bobby Miller because he's
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Speaker 5: still young. Team can He's got a hundred mile hour
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Speaker 5: fastball when he's right, He's got a nasty change up.
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Speaker 5: I threw out the idea on on Twitter the other day,
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Speaker 5: and I'm not asking for it, I'm not a proponent.
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Speaker 5: I'm not pushing for it. I'm just saying, if they
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Speaker 5: really wanted to be creative, they could also look to
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Speaker 5: maybe move like a Tony Gonslin or a dust In
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Speaker 5: May in some sort of deal. And I understand you're
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Speaker 5: kind of selling low on dudes like that at this
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Speaker 5: point in the offseason, but you could potentially move those
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Speaker 5: type of dudes and you get another dude who maybe
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Speaker 5: is guaranteed to get you more innings in Jack Flerty,
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Speaker 5: who very much wants to return to the Dodgers. So
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Speaker 5: there are there's some pieces.
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Speaker 4: Jack Flerty was just on foul Territory with the Boys
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Speaker 4: talking about his whole free agency stuff. And I also
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Speaker 4: like the fact that Jack tweeted, listen, one team is
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Speaker 4: not ruining baseball. The other twenty nine are not doing
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Speaker 4: what they can do. So I like the fact that
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Speaker 4: he wants to be on the Dodgers. He's not there
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Speaker 4: right now yet, he's still supporting all of the offseason
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Speaker 4: moves that they're doing. We're gonna welcome in CT three
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Speaker 4: here momentarily as we get him linked up. We're just
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Speaker 4: working on some technical things right now with him. It's
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Speaker 4: difficult too, because as we talk about this, you know,
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Speaker 4: you never want to see some of these guys get moved.
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Speaker 4: But the idea is to run it back right, and
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Speaker 4: there's some massive, massive pieces and you and I talked
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Speaker 4: about this on Monday, how Andrew Friedman's like, let's get
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Speaker 4: these pieces now and not worry about getting big pieces
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Speaker 4: at the deadline. Let's just tweak what we need to
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Speaker 4: do with the deadline. I mean, do you think honestly
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Speaker 4: that going into the season, this is the best laid
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Speaker 4: team that we have put together?
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Speaker 5: And it's hard to say no, hard to argue like, no,
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Speaker 5: We've seen better teams. I mean that twenty twenty two
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Speaker 5: team that went out in one one hundred and eleven games,
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Speaker 5: that was a phenomenal baseball team, but very clearly had
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Speaker 5: some issues, had some holes in its game, and that's
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Speaker 5: where you know they got bounced in that first round.
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Speaker 5: But I mean, if you're talking about talent, like I said,
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Speaker 5: floor dude, floor razors and ceiling razors and being a
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Speaker 5: club that is built to try to run it back
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Speaker 5: this team, you can't find a better stacked team compared
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Speaker 5: to the league and compared to teams you know over
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Speaker 5: the last Yeah, we'll just say the Guggenheim era. You
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Speaker 5: can't find a team with more talent than the Los
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Speaker 5: Angeles Dodgers. So well, will there be question marks?
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Speaker 4: For sure?
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Speaker 5: You don't know what second base is going to look like.
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Speaker 5: Maybe the guy who's joining us in a second, Chris Taylor,
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Speaker 5: is part of that mix. You don't know how Mookie
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Speaker 5: handles short all the way, all that kind of stuff.
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Speaker 5: There are certainly some questions along the way. But Dodgers
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Speaker 5: are an incredible spot. And you know what's funny, the
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Speaker 5: off season eight over yet, Yeah.
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Speaker 4: That's hard to believe. Spring training in about three and
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Speaker 4: a half weeks. All right, back in a second with
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Speaker 4: Appreciate Hunger Root being a part of the show, but
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Speaker 4: even more.
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Speaker 3: C T three, two time.
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Speaker 4: World Series champion joining us on Dodgers' territory right now.
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Speaker 3: Chris, thank you.
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Speaker 4: I know that you and your wife Mary have been
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Speaker 4: so busy and so involved in wildfire relief through the
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Speaker 4: Chris Taylor Foundation.
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Speaker 3: So thanks for taking the time to be with us.
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Speaker 3: How are you, my friend?
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Speaker 1: Absolutely, thank you for having me. I'm doing great. Been
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Speaker 1: a busy off season, but I'm enjoying it and getting
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Speaker 1: excited for the season to come around.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, what excites you the most? I don't know if
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Speaker 3: you're like us, Chris.
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Speaker 4: Every single time we turn around, someone's being signed by
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Speaker 4: the Los Angeles Dodgers, We're like, holy crap, what a team.
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Speaker 4: What are you most excited about when you get to
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Speaker 4: camel back in a few weeks.
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Speaker 2: Uh, A lot.
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Speaker 1: I mean just to see the guys, you know. I
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Speaker 1: mean spring training is always exciting. It's like a fresh start,
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Speaker 1: new year. But yeah, just to to see the guys again. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: there's gonna be a ton of excitement around the team,
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Speaker 1: so the energy's gonna be great with all the fans,
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Speaker 1: some new additions, We brought some guys back, so yeah,
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Speaker 1: we should have a really strong team and it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be fun.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, hell of a run. Congrats, you know,
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Speaker 5: we love seeing this. You guys finally get that parade
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Speaker 5: that we were robbed of in twenty and robbed of
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Speaker 5: for different reasons in twenty seventeen perhaps, but you know,
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Speaker 5: how enjoyable was that parade, knowing that after just an
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Speaker 5: overall for the team, a tough season, injuries really injuries decimated,
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Speaker 5: that's the biggest thing. But to come put it all
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Speaker 5: together and it results in this moment that's got to
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Speaker 5: be something pretty dang special. And then of course the
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Speaker 5: World Series parade through La just talk about that for.
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Speaker 1: The fans, Yeah, I mean you kind of said it right.
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Speaker 1: It felt like that parade was long overdue, for especially
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Speaker 1: us guys that were on that twenty twenty team and
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Speaker 1: for me being on this team since twenty sixteen. You know,
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Speaker 1: I know how hard it is to win a World Series.
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Speaker 1: We've been there a couple times before we finally won,
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Speaker 1: and then we didn't get to celebrate that parade. So
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Speaker 1: this year was special because we won that that picture
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Speaker 1: you showed, that's that's what it's all about, right, That's like,
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Speaker 1: that's why you go through the grind of the season
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Speaker 1: and they put in all the work and all the
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Speaker 1: ups and downs for that moment to share that with
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Speaker 1: your family and then to share it with your teammates
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Speaker 1: and to finally be able to have that parade for
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Speaker 1: the entire city.
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Speaker 2: Of Los Angeles.
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Speaker 1: You know, I think we get wrapped up, We get
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Speaker 1: caught up in our own bubble, so to speak. No
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Speaker 1: pun intended with twenty twenty, but we you know, we
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Speaker 1: obviously see the fans at the stadium, which is like
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Speaker 1: fifty thousand people, right, but you don't realize how much
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Speaker 1: support you have from all over the world. Now you know,
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Speaker 1: we're like a worldwide team now that you're bringing in
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Speaker 1: some of these international signings, and you know, to see
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Speaker 1: La show out like that for the parade was unbelievable
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Speaker 1: and it really put things in perspectives like how big.
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Speaker 2: A following we have.
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Speaker 1: Obviously we know it, but to see it firsthand was
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Speaker 1: it was special.
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Speaker 3: It really was a site to behold.
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Speaker 4: It's so insane to see everybody in the streets cheering
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Speaker 4: you guys, and obviously but now you know, look how
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Speaker 4: good you guys had of a year last year. But
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Speaker 4: it's what have you done for me lately, Chris Taylor.
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Speaker 4: We're going to expect you guys to run it back.
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Speaker 4: Let us speak to the twenty twenty five season. In
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Speaker 4: the second half of twenty twenty four. You had a
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Speaker 4: really good, really good season. You made the most of
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Speaker 4: your opportunities. What can you take from the second half
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Speaker 4: into the off season into spring training to get where
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Speaker 4: you want to be offensively in a year ahead.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just a good for my confidence to
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Speaker 1: kind of bounce back a little bit, and not even
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Speaker 1: not even bounce back to the player I know I'm
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Speaker 1: capable of or the player I want to be this
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Speaker 1: coming season, but just to bounce back from.
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Speaker 2: Where I started to.
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Speaker 1: Contribute in some way. That was my only goal after
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Speaker 1: the start of my season. You know, I wanted to
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Speaker 1: help the team win anyway I could, and I wanted
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Speaker 1: my goal was to be a role in the postseason
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Speaker 1: some way. I wanted to help the team some way,
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Speaker 1: and you know, to be able to be on the
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Speaker 1: postseason roster. I'm playing a few games and be there
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Speaker 1: when we won the World Series beyond the field, when
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Speaker 1: we threw the last pitch. That was special for me
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Speaker 1: and going into this season trying to build off of that.
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Speaker 1: My goal is never to be a bench player or
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Speaker 1: a role player off the bench. My goal is to
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Speaker 1: be an everyday player, and I'm attacking the off season
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Speaker 1: that way. And I'm working on some like building on
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Speaker 1: some stuff that I was working on at the end
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Speaker 1: of the year, and I'm going into spring training hoping
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Speaker 1: to you know, have a turnaround and you know, really
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Speaker 1: contribute this season.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I wondered if if you could kind of expand
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Speaker 5: on that at all, because you know, read quotes from
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Speaker 5: you talking about some of the swing changes you tried
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Speaker 5: to implement last year leading to some of the issues
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Speaker 5: that were going on. Obviously there's some health issues as
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Speaker 5: well in there. Where do you feel the swing is
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Speaker 5: at now? What sort of things are you working on?
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Speaker 5: I think I think I remember something about you trying
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Speaker 5: to like level out the swing more and that's just
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Speaker 5: maybe not your game. Where is the swing at now?
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Speaker 5: And what sort of things have you guys been working
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Speaker 5: on in the cage?
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Speaker 1: I feel really good right now. Like I said, I built,
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Speaker 1: I'm building off of what I kind of found at
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Speaker 1: the end of the seas and trying to improve those things.
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Speaker 1: I'm not making any like huge changes, you know. I'm
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Speaker 1: just trying to pick a few key things with my swing,
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Speaker 1: things that I know are important for me that when
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Speaker 1: they're right, that's when I'm at my best. And I'm
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Speaker 1: trying to make those two or three things my main
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Speaker 1: focus every day for the off season. And I think
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Speaker 1: I've fallen into the trap of chasing different targets throughout
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Speaker 1: the course of the season, and and it can be
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Speaker 1: a slippery slope and it can sometimes make things worse.
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Speaker 1: And you know, that's kind of been my focus this
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Speaker 1: off season, is not to get off track. I talked
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Speaker 1: with the hitting coaches at the end of the regular
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Speaker 1: season and kind of came up with a plan going
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Speaker 1: into the off season, and we pinpointed a few things
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Speaker 1: that were very important for me to have success, and
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Speaker 1: that's been our focus.
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Speaker 4: It's great wholesale changes necessary, kind of stick to what
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Speaker 4: got you there. And I remember when you got to LA, Chris.
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Speaker 4: I remember when there was the trade and Zach Lee
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Speaker 4: ended up going to Seattle and this guy by the
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Speaker 4: name of Chris Taylor comes over to Los Angeles and
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Speaker 4: it was just so good to get to know you
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Speaker 4: and become such an instrumental part of what LA was about.
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Speaker 4: And such big postseason moments and stuff. Not to say
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Speaker 4: that you're done anytime soon, but if you've taken a
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Speaker 4: moment now that you've hoisted a Trophy twice to just
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Speaker 4: kind of reflect on the career that you've had so
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Speaker 4: far with La and how much of a how much
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Speaker 4: of a change just that one trade caused in your life.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it was.
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Speaker 1: It was life changing to say the least, you know,
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Speaker 1: not only for my baseball career, but for my entire life.
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Speaker 2: LA is my home now.
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Speaker 1: I met my wife here, we have a son, a
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Speaker 1: fourteen month old, So my complete like that one day
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Speaker 1: of getting traded to the Dodgers completely transform my life
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Speaker 1: in the best way possible. And I'm so thankful for that.
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Speaker 1: I truly believe that was fate. And you know, I'm
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Speaker 1: so blessed to have the opportunity to be a Dodger
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Speaker 1: and live in this city. And it's been unbelievable.
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Speaker 5: Speaking about the great city of Los Angeles. Obviously, so
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Speaker 5: much devastation has gone on with these wildfires. You and
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Speaker 5: your foundation and your wife have done your part to
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Speaker 5: pledge some help, some financial support to victims of these fires,
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Speaker 5: people that have been affected. Could you just kind of
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Speaker 5: speak more to you know, what you guys can do
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Speaker 5: and what you hope other people can help, either victims
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Speaker 5: or the CT three Foundation do to continue to help
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Speaker 5: people bounce back and rebuild from the devastation devastating fires.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that was We had that fundraiser on our Instagram
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Speaker 1: page and.
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Speaker 2: The people really showed out.
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Speaker 1: We were not expecting to get that big of contributions,
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Speaker 1: raising over fifty thousand dollars on a on an Instagram fundraiser.
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Speaker 1: It was incredible. We did not expect that. So completely
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Speaker 1: blown away by the support, which just shows that people
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Speaker 1: are looking to help, right, They want to help. They
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Speaker 1: know they've seen firsthand a lot of them the devastation
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Speaker 1: that the fires have had. And I think people are
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Speaker 1: just looking to give back, and you know, I think
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Speaker 1: that's why we we do our This is going to
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Speaker 1: be our second polar Plunge this year on February second,
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Speaker 1: and we added the LA Fire Department Foundation as a
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Speaker 1: second beneficiary to the Friendship Foundation, and you know that
18:50
Speaker 1: was very important to us. And we're yeah, hopefully all
18:55
Speaker 1: my teammates. You know, I think almost my entire team
18:58
Speaker 1: showed up.
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Speaker 2: Last year.
18:59
Speaker 1: It was a day after Dodger Fest, which is it's
19:02
Speaker 1: fortunate everybody's in town and it's a it's a good time.
19:05
Speaker 1: You know, we just all get in the water, you
19:06
Speaker 1: can see on the picture there guys were body surfing
19:10
Speaker 1: back in.
19:11
Speaker 5: There's a lot of abs out there as well.
19:17
Speaker 1: There's all that's the thing about baseball, there's all kinds
19:20
Speaker 1: of bodies.
19:25
Speaker 4: Yeah, Michelle Ce Michelle Sie is a big fan of yours.
19:28
Speaker 3: Obviously a big fan of the Dodgers.
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Speaker 4: She tweeted earlier she wanted to know if you were
19:32
Speaker 4: gonna wear floaties again, Cet when you do the polar Plunge.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm gonna do this year, but
19:39
Speaker 1: I gotta do something creative, right, Uh you know we uh, well,
19:44
Speaker 1: we'll see. I got to think about it, but maybe
19:48
Speaker 1: we'll hand out some T shirts or something. But it
19:51
Speaker 1: would be cool if we could have everybody dress up
19:54
Speaker 1: or get creative with what they're wearing.
19:57
Speaker 4: You're gonna have the flippy floppies with it, no doubt
20:01
Speaker 4: about that. So you got the second annual CT three
20:04
Speaker 4: Polar Plunge coming up on February second. Obviously everybody contributing
20:08
Speaker 4: to the wildfire relief as well, So thank you so
20:11
Speaker 4: much to you and to Mary and to THEO who's
20:14
Speaker 4: out there as well doing all the stuff for the community.
20:17
Speaker 4: I look back at the career that you've had so
20:20
Speaker 4: far with LA and I just feel like there's still
20:23
Speaker 4: so much that this team wants to achieve as a
20:26
Speaker 4: member of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Chris, how much can
20:29
Speaker 4: you appreciate if you do, I don't want to put
20:30
Speaker 4: words in your mouth, but the job that the ownership
20:32
Speaker 4: group does, giving you guys the tools and the players
20:35
Speaker 4: that surround you to run it back. I mean at
20:38
Speaker 4: spring training everyone's hopeful, right, but the Dodgers have a
20:42
Speaker 4: legitimate chance every single year.
20:43
Speaker 3: Can you speak to that.
20:45
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's what every player wants. I think
20:47
Speaker 1: that's a big reason guys want to come play here.
20:51
Speaker 1: They know that the guys up top want to win
20:54
Speaker 1: a World Series, and the goal each and every year
20:56
Speaker 1: is to want to win a World Series, just like
20:58
Speaker 1: the players. Unfortunately, it's not that way in every organization.
21:03
Speaker 1: So we are very lucky. Every off season it feels like,
21:06
Speaker 1: whether it's the off season or the trade deadline or
21:09
Speaker 1: whatever it is, we're always making moves with an intention
21:13
Speaker 1: to win this year. And that's why I want to
21:16
Speaker 1: be here. I've always said the most important games of
21:21
Speaker 1: my life and the biggest moments of my career are
21:24
Speaker 1: always in October. It's you know, there's big games in
21:28
Speaker 1: the regular season, but once you get a taste of
21:31
Speaker 1: playing in the postseason, nothing really compares to that. And
21:34
Speaker 1: that's my goal. I want to be there in the postseason.
21:37
Speaker 1: And that is really, that's truly what really matters at
21:41
Speaker 1: the end of the year. And I think when I
21:43
Speaker 1: look back at my career, those are going to be
21:45
Speaker 1: all the memories I have that really stick out.
21:48
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm barring or mcgeddon. The Dodgers are in the
21:50
Speaker 4: postseason every single year. Let me ask you this. When
21:54
Speaker 4: you hear folks say that the Dodgers are ruining baseball
21:57
Speaker 4: by all of the signings and deferrals, what is your
22:00
Speaker 4: sort of that.
22:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I mean I've seen a few people comment
22:06
Speaker 1: on this, and I kind of agree with them. I
22:08
Speaker 1: think we're doing all the right things. You know, the
22:11
Speaker 1: goal should be for every team to win this year,
22:14
Speaker 1: and I think that's what makes it most exciting. And
22:19
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think they should be mad at us.
22:21
Speaker 1: They should be mad at their own teams for not
22:24
Speaker 1: making those moves, you know, And and it's I think
22:29
Speaker 1: a counter argument could also be, you know, it's good
22:33
Speaker 1: for baseball to have a villain, right and if we
22:35
Speaker 1: have to be the villain, then that makes for more entertainment.
22:40
Speaker 1: I think, you know, guys having Shohe and Freddie and
22:46
Speaker 1: Mookie and Roki and Yoshi and all these guys on
22:49
Speaker 1: the same team playing on TV for one of the
22:54
Speaker 1: biggest franchises and sports, I don't see how that could
22:58
Speaker 1: be bad.
23:00
Speaker 5: Get backing off of that, people that have something negative
23:04
Speaker 5: to say about all of the work this team is
23:06
Speaker 5: doing in the offseason and even last year probably didn't
23:09
Speaker 5: see this team, you know, in August and September when everybody,
23:13
Speaker 5: every player, every pitcher were just falling like flies with injury.
23:17
Speaker 5: I want to this is kind of selfishly for me.
23:20
Speaker 5: I want to go back to we heard on Mookie
23:23
Speaker 5: Betts podcast, amongst other spots, Dave we manager Dave Roberts
23:27
Speaker 5: had a message to the team early in September, after
23:31
Speaker 5: you guys learned Tyler Glass now probably out for the
23:33
Speaker 5: season and the postseason and all that the rare closed
23:37
Speaker 5: door meeting from Doc. What kind of was the message
23:40
Speaker 5: there and how did that prove to or help to
23:44
Speaker 5: galvanize the boys and get over that hump that he'd
23:48
Speaker 5: been chasing since you know twenty twenty.
23:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, we were in Atlanta at the time. I think,
23:56
Speaker 1: as you said, glass Now had just been injured, Stone
24:01
Speaker 1: had just come off being out for the year.
24:07
Speaker 2: We had a few other pictures. I think Kershaw was out.
24:12
Speaker 1: And at the time, I think we only had like
24:16
Speaker 1: three or four starting pitchers that were healthy. A lot
24:20
Speaker 1: of those that guys that have been in Triple A
24:22
Speaker 1: most of the year. So we were definitely grinding a
24:26
Speaker 1: little bit, and doctors called the guys together. I mean,
24:30
Speaker 1: the vibe was down a little bit obviously with the
24:32
Speaker 1: news of glass Now. I think with everybody, the staff,
24:36
Speaker 1: the players, front office, and he called that meeting and
24:41
Speaker 1: kind of just told us like, we're gonna do this
24:46
Speaker 1: thing together. He believes in us. We're gonna lean on
24:50
Speaker 1: one another and guys are gonna.
24:52
Speaker 2: Have to step up.
24:53
Speaker 1: Basically, guys that haven't contributed up to this point are
24:57
Speaker 1: gonna have to step up and be those guys. And
24:59
Speaker 1: we where the Dodgers. We have the deepest organization and
25:04
Speaker 1: all of baseball on our mind, and guys have been
25:07
Speaker 1: waiting for the opportunity and they're going to have it now.
25:09
Speaker 1: And yeah, I think it just kind of re energized
25:13
Speaker 1: us and gave us that push on the back half
25:16
Speaker 1: of the season and into the postseason.
25:18
Speaker 5: All right, well, we'll let you get out of here.
25:20
Speaker 5: On what I'm gonna call a dumb one, another selfish one.
25:23
Speaker 5: For friends on the internet, we talked about seeing on
25:26
Speaker 5: the internet a whole bunch Dodgers are bad for baseball.
25:29
Speaker 5: Chris Taylor. If you've been on the internet at any
25:31
Speaker 5: point in your life, you've seen Chris Taylor has never
25:33
Speaker 5: done anything wrong in his life. When you see that,
25:36
Speaker 5: what is that kind of I see it, a listit
25:38
Speaker 5: a smile right away. What does that do for you?
25:40
Speaker 5: And is that just one of those things that's the
25:41
Speaker 5: funny secondary stuff of being a pro baseball player.
25:46
Speaker 1: It's yeah, it's funny to me because it's so wrong,
25:50
Speaker 1: and my wife can attest to that. I mean, I
25:56
Speaker 1: think maybe it's just one of those things where I
25:58
Speaker 1: have a reserved person and I think it does take
26:02
Speaker 1: a little while to get to know me, and people
26:06
Speaker 1: see that shyness as innocence or I don't know what
26:09
Speaker 1: it is, but I promise you I do a lot wrong.
26:13
Speaker 2: He should see.
26:13
Speaker 5: Such juvenile rap sheet. I mean, so many thefts.
26:17
Speaker 4: I think I'm going to ask both of the both
26:21
Speaker 4: of the Mary Taylor's about that. I'm going to ask
26:24
Speaker 4: Mary Taylor the mom, and I'm going to ask Mary
26:26
Speaker 4: Taylor the wife about that. To see what Chris Taylor
26:30
Speaker 4: has done wrong in his career.
26:33
Speaker 1: Nothing criminal, like I'm not intentionally doing anything wrong, but
26:39
Speaker 1: accidentally I make a lot of mistakes.
26:42
Speaker 4: Well, Chris, we appreciate you, looking forward to seeing you
26:45
Speaker 4: at Campbell back again this year, and looking forward to
26:47
Speaker 4: seeing what the daughters can do in the upcoming season.
26:50
Speaker 4: Thanks for everything that you guys do with the CT
26:52
Speaker 4: three Foundation. You can certainly continue to contribute to all
26:56
Speaker 4: the fire relief stuff through Chris's foundation, and you can
26:59
Speaker 4: also help with the polar Plunge coming up with the
27:02
Speaker 4: CT three Foundation on January second. Get involved, help and Chris,
27:07
Speaker 4: best of luck to you. Thank you so much for
27:08
Speaker 4: being on god Your's territory. We appreciate you.
27:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you guys for having me appreciate this.
27:14
Speaker 4: Chris Taylor, two time World Series champion, appreciate it very much.
27:17
Speaker 3: Clint, let's get to last licks.
27:19
Speaker 5: Let's do it.
27:24
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27:28
Speaker 4: Chris Taylor and his foundation doing some great things. Gidry's
27:31
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27:53
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27:57
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28:01
Speaker 4: in Los Angeles, helping animals and those in need. So
28:05
Speaker 4: we appreciate you guys for doing that and helping the
28:08
Speaker 4: folks in LA. All right, Clint, what's coming up on
28:10
Speaker 4: All Dodgers with Clint Passias?
28:13
Speaker 3: Obviously Tanner Scott is official.
28:14
Speaker 5: Now yeah, I mean next to next dream we do,
28:17
Speaker 5: we'll be talking all about the latest signings, diving into
28:20
Speaker 5: some of the things that Roki Sasaki said at his
28:23
Speaker 5: presser yesterday. You know, breaking or chattering the glass there
28:28
Speaker 5: spoiler alert, that's the words I'm looking for. Uh, it's
28:31
Speaker 5: an exciting it's exciting to see Roki Sasaki and Dodge Blue.
28:35
Speaker 5: And I'm I'm very very I'm just ready for spring
28:38
Speaker 5: training to happen already. I want to see these boys
28:41
Speaker 5: throwing baseballs. I want to see pictures on the mound.
28:44
Speaker 5: I want to see John Sue who shots of Dodgers
28:48
Speaker 5: at spring training with the better looking uniforms again, not
28:51
Speaker 5: those stupid.
28:51
Speaker 3: Sea Yes, the numbers are well and the numbers are
28:54
Speaker 3: big again. Numbers are Bicky wearing eleven. The name is big,
28:58
Speaker 3: the numbers are big.
28:59
Speaker 4: So thank you for and Nike for figuring that crap out,
29:02
Speaker 4: because those were horrible. So I'm glad to see that again.
29:06
Speaker 4: Thanks to Chris Taylor for coming on the show. Bill
29:08
Speaker 4: Plunkett actually is going to join us on Monday. Bill
29:11
Speaker 4: Plunkett has been a long time beat writer covering the Dodgers,
29:14
Speaker 4: and he also just wrote a book on Show Hey Otani.
29:17
Speaker 4: It's already on sale in Japan. It's selling out in Japan.
29:20
Speaker 4: They cannot get enough Show Hey in Japan, and it
29:23
Speaker 4: is for pre order now in the United States. So
29:26
Speaker 4: we'll chat with Bill on all things Dodgers coming up
29:29
Speaker 4: on Monday. Until then, my friends, have a good weekend.
29:33
Speaker 4: Clint Pasius and again guys, thanks for being with us.
29:37
Speaker 3: Go Dodgers.
29:37
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29:40
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29:42
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