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  Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the World Series edition of Fair Territory.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Ken Rosenthal here with Alana Rizzo. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about all things World Series, the addition of Bobaschett
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  Speaker 1: to the roster, the situation with Alex Vesia. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to get into some other things going on in the
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  Speaker 1: sport as well, the Angels, the Giants, all kinds of things.
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  Speaker 1: But first Alana, Hello, how are you And it's good
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  Speaker 1: to be with you again.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, great to be with you too.
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  Speaker 3: Ken.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, the time we've been waiting for the rosters
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  Speaker 2: are out. What do you make of it?
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  Speaker 1: The big one is Bobachhett, the big addition now he
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  Speaker 1: was added to the roster, as was Ty France, and
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  Speaker 1: the Jays are dropping Yaiel Rodriguez the reliever and Joey
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  Speaker 1: low Perfito, who has added for Anthony Santander in the
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  Speaker 1: last round. Bashett obviously is major news. Now the next
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  Speaker 1: question is how are the Jays going to deplay Bobashett.
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  Speaker 1: They obviously feel he is healthy enough to play, even
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  Speaker 1: though he has not played since September sixth due to
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  Speaker 1: a left knees sprain. So do you use him as
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  Speaker 1: a DH Do you use him at shortstop doubtful because
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  Speaker 1: Andres heimen As is playing so well and Bobaschett's coming
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  Speaker 1: over for Knees Sprain. Or do you use him at
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  Speaker 1: second base, which is where he has taken ground balls
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  Speaker 1: the last couple of days. That's a position he hasn't
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  Speaker 1: played since twenty nineteen at Triple A. I don't see
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  Speaker 1: that happening to me. With Blake Snell, a left hander
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  Speaker 1: on the mound tonight, the obvious move is Bishett at
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  Speaker 1: DH George Springer in the outfield. Now, George Springer hasn't
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  Speaker 1: played the outfield since September twenty fourth, hasn't done it
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  Speaker 1: all that much this year. But when I asked manager
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  Speaker 1: John Schneider yesterday, can Springer play the outfield? Is he
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  Speaker 1: capable of doing that? Schneinder's answer was yes, absolutely he
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  Speaker 1: is so. Bogashett again is not on the roster just
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  Speaker 1: for appearance's sake. Maybe they will use him solely as
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  Speaker 1: a pinch hitter. I can kind of see that. But again,
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  Speaker 1: with the lefty on the mound Ilana tonight, the night
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  Speaker 1: we see Boba shed in my opinion, yeah, and it.
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  Speaker 2: Looks like Jario Rodriguez, Joey low Berfito, we're off. As
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  Speaker 2: you mentioned, Ken ty Franz also added to the roster.
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  Speaker 2: You look at the Los Angeles Dodgers side and they
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  Speaker 2: are out there without Alex Vesia at least for now.
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  Speaker 2: What more can you tell us.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he had what the Dodgers described as a family
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  Speaker 1: emergency over the last couple of days, so he is
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  Speaker 1: not going to be on the roster. There was some
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  Speaker 1: question over whether he would be added to the Family
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  Speaker 1: Emergency Bereavement list, which is something that would require him
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  Speaker 1: to be at a minimum of three days and a
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  Speaker 1: maximum of seven. As far as we know, he has
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  Speaker 1: not been put on that list. They announced their roster
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  Speaker 1: this morning. Will Klein was on it, others were on it,
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  Speaker 1: and Alex Vessia was not. So it seems to me
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  Speaker 1: that because of what happened with Alex Vessia, and we
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  Speaker 1: don't know more details just yet, he is not going
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  Speaker 1: to be available and the roster is set, and that
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  Speaker 1: is that. Obviously, it's a shame for the Vessi has
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  Speaker 1: been a terrific reliever for them all year. But the
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  Speaker 1: bigger concern, of course is Vessia and his family and
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  Speaker 1: everything going on with him, So our thoughts obviously go
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  Speaker 1: out to him as in addition to everything else going
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  Speaker 1: on here. But no, he will not be on the roster.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we certainly are thinking about Alex Vessia, his wife Kayla.
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  Speaker 2: The Dodgers said it's with heavy heart that they're dealing
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  Speaker 2: with a deeply personal matter. Ben Casparius also left off
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  Speaker 2: of the roster. No Tanner Scott, he wasn't activated at
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  Speaker 2: Gardo Henriquez And as you mentioned, Ken Will kleinb we're
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  Speaker 2: added for Los Angeles for the Fall Classic. Let's talk
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  Speaker 2: about some not so obvious World series storylines. Ken Jay's
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  Speaker 2: ability to adjust to off speed stuff.
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  Speaker 1: What do you know, Well, in the first two rounds,
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  Speaker 1: we saw the Yankees and the Mariners try to fastball
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  Speaker 1: the Jays out of existence. It didn't work very well,
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  Speaker 1: and the Mariners kept pounding fastballs because that is what
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  Speaker 1: they do. This is who we are. We pound his
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  Speaker 1: own and the Jays basically not be held down. I
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  Speaker 1: would expect that the Dodgers are not going to fall
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  Speaker 1: into this same trap. I would expect that the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: are going to go more breaking ball with Snells starting
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  Speaker 1: tonight and onward, and if the jas can adjust to
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  Speaker 1: that because they're heavy first pitch swinging team, aggressive early
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  Speaker 1: incounts all the power to them. It's just a different
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  Speaker 1: look and they're going to get a different look from
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. One of the things the Dodgers do really well.
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  Speaker 1: We talk about their money endlessly, but they gain plan
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  Speaker 1: really well, and obviously right now their starting pitchers are
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  Speaker 1: executing at a level that we haven't seen in the
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  Speaker 1: postseason for quite some time. Ken.
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  Speaker 2: One of the things about the matchup between the Dodgers
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  Speaker 2: and whether it was going to be the Mariners or
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  Speaker 2: the Blue Jays, is that the Blue Jays don't have
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  Speaker 2: as many left handed starters in the starting rotation, but
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  Speaker 2: they do have some pretty darn good left handed relievers.
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  Speaker 2: How do you think that will affect the Freeman's of
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  Speaker 2: Tawny's and Munsies of the world.
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  Speaker 1: I would say a lot of they have left handed relievers.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how good they are now. Mason Fleuhardy
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  Speaker 1: has been pretty good and he's had a good run
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  Speaker 1: in the postseason. He's been someone actually who had to
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  Speaker 1: save against the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium. That game kind
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  Speaker 1: of swung the home field advantage for this series. If
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  Speaker 1: you look back on it now, Jays with ninety four
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  Speaker 1: wins Dodgers with ninety three. That game could have changed it.
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  Speaker 1: Brendan Little gave up the big game time Homer to
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  Speaker 1: cal Rally in Game five of the Alcs, and that
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  Speaker 1: was a situation where they wanted Rolli batting right handed.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't work out too well. Brendan Little has been for
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  Speaker 1: the JS until I would say the last month or so,
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  Speaker 1: a very effective reliever, but right now not as hot
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  Speaker 1: as he was earlier in the season. And then there's
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  Speaker 1: Eric Lower who is more of a swingman, not a
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  Speaker 1: matchup guy, but I would imagine that they'll have him
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  Speaker 1: on the Dodgers left handed hitters as well. So this
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  Speaker 1: is a pivotal question in the series. How will the
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  Speaker 1: J's hold down the Dodgers offense, Because if you remember,
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  Speaker 1: going back, even to the Wildcard round, the Dodgers faced
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  Speaker 1: great pitching with the Reds, they faced it with the
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  Speaker 1: Phillies for sure, and even with the Brewers. Now they're
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  Speaker 1: facing a staff where you Savage is really interesting and
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  Speaker 1: this is the first time they'll see him. It's probably
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  Speaker 1: going to be difficult, I would imagine, and then Gossman,
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  Speaker 1: who has been good, but we're getting later in the postseason. Now.
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  Speaker 1: This is not as dominant a group, in my opinion
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  Speaker 1: as some of the Dodgers' opponents earlier. So we'll see
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  Speaker 1: how it goes. But what I like about this series
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  Speaker 1: a lot. I'm interested in your opinion. It seems to
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  Speaker 1: me that people think, Eh, Dodgers in five, Dodgers will
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  Speaker 1: roll them. I'm not so sure that's going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Well can I want it to be entertaining. I did
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  Speaker 2: say Dodgers in six, just to be different than my Dodgers'
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  Speaker 2: territory co host Clint Pasias, who took the Dodgers in five.
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  Speaker 2: But one of the questions, or one of the discussions
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  Speaker 2: that we had yesterday can and I'm interested in your
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  Speaker 2: thoughts about it. How much do you think experience plays
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  Speaker 2: into this? The Toronto Blue Jays haven't been to the
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  Speaker 2: World Series, I believe since ninety three. You would know
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  Speaker 2: better than I. The Dodgers have been there as recently
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  Speaker 2: as last year. Not just the players that have the experience,
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  Speaker 2: it's Dave Roberts and his coaching staff as well. How
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  Speaker 2: much does that experience lend into what the Dodgers are
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  Speaker 2: experiencing this time versus what the Blue Jays are experiencing
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  Speaker 2: because it's new for the majority of them.
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  Speaker 1: I would say the biggest edge perhaps is with the
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  Speaker 1: managers because Dave Roberts has been through this time and
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  Speaker 1: time again. He has learned how to manage effectively in
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  Speaker 1: the postseason, and he's done it in different ways with
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  Speaker 1: the pullpen last year, with the rotation this year. He
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  Speaker 1: understands the urgency. John Schneiner does too for the Toronto
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  Speaker 1: Blue Jays, but it is newer for him and he
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  Speaker 1: had an experience with Brendan Little in Game five where
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  Speaker 1: maybe he should have used Jeff Hoffman, and he's kind
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  Speaker 1: of learning as he goes. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: he's done a really good job for them. So certainly
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  Speaker 1: Roberts has more experience and more experience on this the
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  Speaker 1: biggest stages. As for the players, keep in mind the
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  Speaker 1: Jays have some veterans who have been here. George Springer
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  Speaker 1: is one. Max Schurzer is another. Facet maybe not, but
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  Speaker 1: he is a veteran. And they have a pretty good
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  Speaker 1: mix of veteran players and less established players. And then
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  Speaker 1: they have a guy named Vladimir Guerrero Junior who seems
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  Speaker 1: too relish being on the stages. So I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that it's going to matter that much. It certainly helps
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  Speaker 1: them as well, being at home to start the series
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  Speaker 1: where they've been really good all season long, even though
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  Speaker 1: the first two games of the ALCS were dropped at
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  Speaker 1: Rogers Centers by the JS. I just expect they're going
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  Speaker 1: to be playing at their usual level. I don't expect
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  Speaker 1: them to be intimidated or stage fright, anything like that.
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  Speaker 1: That's not them.
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  Speaker 2: And can we know that you've been to multiple World Series,
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  Speaker 2: You've covered a lot of them. You know you've been
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  Speaker 2: to at least twenty, maybe closer to forty in terms
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  Speaker 2: of coverage. What are you looking the most forward to
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  Speaker 2: in terms of this particular matchup.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we haven't talked much about the possibility of the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers going back to back, and that's something that hasn't
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  Speaker 1: been done since the nineteen ninety eight to two thousand Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: That is something that is of course the backdrop to
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  Speaker 1: this series. And the other aspect of that is if
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  Speaker 1: the Blue Jays win somehow, if they upset the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 1: it seems to me that a lot of people who
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  Speaker 1: are not Dodgers fans are going to be very happy.
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  Speaker 1: And all those people who talk about the Dodgers ruining
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  Speaker 1: the sport and all of this, and Jason Stark has
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  Speaker 1: a wonderful article today explaining how they're not ruining the sport.
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  Speaker 1: Those people are going to be screaming louder when, if,
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  Speaker 1: and when the Dodgers do win the series. So it
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  Speaker 1: almost seems to me and people are going to take
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  Speaker 1: objection to this that for the sport as we go
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  Speaker 1: into a labor negotiation coming up. Not that the Jays
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  Speaker 1: are a small market team, they've got the fifth hard
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  Speaker 1: largest payroll. It seems to me that some of that
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  Speaker 1: talk would calm down if the Jay's won. So all
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  Speaker 1: of these things are kind of swirling around Alana, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm just looking forward to the games themselves because I
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  Speaker 1: expect they're going to be good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, obviously Canada cheering for the and I would imagine
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  Speaker 2: a lot of folks in the United States cheering for
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  Speaker 2: the Jays as well, Ken if they're not Dodgers fans.
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  Speaker 2: Don't forget though the Dodgers do have the entire country
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  Speaker 2: of Japan back in them with Sho hee O Tani
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  Speaker 2: and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, as well as Roki Sasaki. Of course,
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  Speaker 2: I kid, it's gonna be a fun, fun series, all right,
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  Speaker 2: get your questions in, guys on the chat for Ken Rosenthal.
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  Speaker 2: So much to talk about here as we're getting ready
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  Speaker 2: for Game one of the twenty twenty five World Series.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be back right after a quick break.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we welcome you back to Fair Territory with
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  Speaker 2: Ken Rosenthal. Time now to get some questions in the
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  Speaker 2: first question is in regards to matchup, and this one
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  Speaker 2: I believe is from Mikey Romeo, and it's about what
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  Speaker 2: matchup Ken, you're looking the most forward to. I would
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  Speaker 2: imagine they're talking about a hitter pitcher matchup. Mikey Romeo
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  Speaker 2: twenty one sixty six. Who do you want to see
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  Speaker 2: at the plate and on the hill.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with game one, Treya Savage versus the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: He has this unique high arm slot that players rarely see.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that anyone in the major leagues right
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  Speaker 1: now is even comparable to you, Savage. So the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: are going to be seeing him for the first time,
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  Speaker 1: but not really in the sense that they have the
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  Speaker 1: traject Machine. And if you haven't heard about this, that's
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  Speaker 1: a machine that can simulate any pictures, delivery and pitch shapes.
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  Speaker 1: You look at the video on the screen in the
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  Speaker 1: distance sixty feet six inches whatever it is, and that's
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  Speaker 1: the picture coming at you. So they were watching you
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  Speaker 1: Savage hitting off you Savage on the machine before they
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  Speaker 1: left for Toronto. Now it's not the same as doing
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  Speaker 1: it in the game, obviously, but it's pretty darn close.
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  Speaker 1: But that, to me is the most intriguing thing. When
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  Speaker 1: a team has not seen this guy, it's not easy
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  Speaker 1: to deal with his split, with his slider, with his fastball.
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  Speaker 1: He is a different look.
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  Speaker 2: Can some folks want to make a case that he
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  Speaker 2: only has six big league starts under his belt, had
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  Speaker 2: a meteoric rise obviously, Tray Savage, I'm talking about through
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  Speaker 2: the system and getting to the point where he gets
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  Speaker 2: the ball for Game one of the World Series. Should
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  Speaker 2: we look into that too much? Do you think the
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  Speaker 2: moment will be too big? How will you know when
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  Speaker 2: you watch this game tonight that he's on Just.
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  Speaker 1: If he's in the zone and commanding his pitches. I
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  Speaker 1: don't expect the moment to be big for him because
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  Speaker 1: he's done this against the Yankees. Now, he's done it
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  Speaker 1: twice against the Mariners and the Alcs. He has faced
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  Speaker 1: big moments. Now. Granted, this is Game one of the
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  Speaker 1: World Series, but a lot of this is a unique individual.
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  Speaker 1: He's twenty two years old and talks like he's thirty
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  Speaker 1: two when we interview him. It's not like you're interviewing
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  Speaker 1: a kid. He's got the presence and the fearlessness and
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  Speaker 1: all of those things that you would want. So I
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  Speaker 1: do not expect the moment to be too big for him. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers might be too big for him. It's Otani
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  Speaker 1: and Betts and Freeman and Munsey and Smith, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't expect them be nervous. Put it that way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Treya Savage certainly has a bright future
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  Speaker 2: in the sport. He does seem like he's ahead of
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  Speaker 2: his time in terms of his poison professional as the
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  Speaker 2: Next question is from Luke Artema seventy fifty six. Which
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  Speaker 2: bullpen has the advantage in this series? Can the Dodgers'
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  Speaker 2: bullpen has been suspect if you will, What do you
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  Speaker 2: think in terms of Luke's.
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  Speaker 1: Question, I would say both are suspect, and the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: then would have the advantage because their starters are going
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  Speaker 1: deeper into games. This thirty five to forty game stretch
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  Speaker 1: that they've been on, the starters have been incredible. So
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  Speaker 1: I would say the Dodgers have the advantage typically because
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  Speaker 1: we're not going to see their relievers as much. And
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. I know Mike Petrillo and MLB
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  Speaker 1: dot Com has mentioned and others have too, that Sasaki
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  Speaker 1: because he's not striking out guys. What he's doing is
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  Speaker 1: a little bit smoking mirrors, all right, But he's doing it.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see how that all plays out. But yes,
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  Speaker 1: I would not say either team as a particular advantage
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  Speaker 1: in that regard. Both bullpens are capable of being had. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I love this next question. Toronto is a beautiful city.
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  Speaker 2: Canada is a beautiful country. I love this question. Do
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  Speaker 2: you see this World series igniting talks about a team
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  Speaker 2: coming back to Montreal. We'll see that support fandom, fan
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  Speaker 2: base in baseball in Canada, it's big. It's not just
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  Speaker 2: hockey there They love their baseball.
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  Speaker 1: As well, no question, and some of the TV ratings
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  Speaker 1: for the Alcs Game seven especially were off the charts
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  Speaker 1: for Rogers. Now, Rogers has the rights in Canada, just
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  Speaker 1: as Fox has them in the United States, and Game
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  Speaker 1: seven the average viewership was six million in a country
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  Speaker 1: of forty million. That's an amazing number. Now what does
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  Speaker 1: it mean from Montreal. I don't know that it means anything.
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  Speaker 1: It seems to me that Nashville is a strong favorite
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  Speaker 1: whenever baseball does expand for one of the teams and
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  Speaker 1: the other team would be out west. Montreal is a
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  Speaker 1: city that once supported baseball, and you can make a
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  Speaker 1: strong case that the strike of nineteen ninety four ninety
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  Speaker 1: five is what did in baseball in Montreal, and that
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  Speaker 1: was through no fault of the people living there or
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  Speaker 1: the fans there. But I just don't see Montreal being
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  Speaker 1: at the forefront of expansion talks. It just doesn't seem
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  Speaker 1: like it has been that way in recent years.
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  Speaker 2: out on Netflix. All right after the break, Ken and
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  Speaker 2: I are going to discuss our dude and dorks of
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  Speaker 2: the week. We'll be right back, bet.
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  Speaker 1: Dude, Dude, dude, dud.
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  Speaker 2: Ken, Let's give somebody some praise. Who is your due
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  Speaker 2: to the week?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go with San Francisco Giants President of
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  Speaker 1: Baseball Operations, Buster Posey. Now, the hiring of Tony Botello
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  Speaker 1: as manager could be great, it could be a disaster.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that it's going to be somewhere in between.
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  Speaker 1: But what I admire about Posey here is the guts
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  Speaker 1: that he has shown since taking this position. This is
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  Speaker 1: a former player moving into the front office in the
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: highest role possible, and he is just doing some things
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  Speaker 1: that have been unconventional, to say the least, this hiring
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  Speaker 1: being most of all, you see here the quote from
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  Speaker 1: Scott Ostler, the brilliant Commiss San Francisco Chronicle. Buster Posey
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  Speaker 1: didn't just think outside the box and hiring Tony Battello
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  Speaker 1: to be the new manager of the San Francisco Giants.
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  Speaker 1: He's thinking outside the warehouse where the boxes are store.
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  Speaker 1: That is a great line. I wish I could write
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  Speaker 1: like that, And Scott's right, it's completely outside the box.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what, it's different and maybe it works
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  Speaker 1: and maybe Buster Posey looks really good. He made a
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  Speaker 1: daring trade as well for ralphae Old Devers, and people
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  Speaker 1: in the industry are like, oh, they take on all
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: that money. Well, they couldn't get a star any other way.
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  Speaker 1: They struck out on all those free agents. So I
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  Speaker 1: just admire the way he's going about it, and whether
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  Speaker 1: he succeeds that remains to be seen.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they lost out on Shoho Atani, they lost out
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  Speaker 2: on Aaron Judge. They made that big move for Rafael Devers.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully it pays dividends for them in the future. My
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  Speaker 2: Dude of the Week Ken is a baseball lifer don
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Mattingly Donnie Baseball, who of course has been around this
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  Speaker 2: game for a very long time thirty six years in fact,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: almost four decades, and he's never been to the World Series,
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  Speaker 2: not as a player. Of course, his unbelievable career was
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: shortened by injuries. He very much could be in the
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame had he kept going. You know, he
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  Speaker 2: hasn't been there as a manager, he has not been
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  Speaker 2: there as a coach until now. So congratulations to Donnie Baseball,
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  Speaker 2: obviously a part of John Schneider's staff with the Toronto
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  Speaker 2: Blue Jays. I'm happy for him. I'm so happy for Laurie,
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  Speaker 2: his wife, their kids, Preston Mattingly, who obviously is with
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: the Philadelphia Phillies. Just congratulations and good luck to Donnie
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  Speaker 2: Baseball in terms of that. Time now for the dork
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  Speaker 2: of the week, and you and I typically split this up,
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  Speaker 2: but I think this is a question of this could
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  Speaker 2: potentially be our dork of the year on those are
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  Speaker 2: my words, not your words, But why don't you go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and start us off? Who is the dork of
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  Speaker 2: the week this week?
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  Speaker 1: Certainly the dork of the week now Dork of the
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  Speaker 1: year will deal with it another time a lota, But
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  Speaker 1: we're going to divide this up because we each have
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  Speaker 1: reasons why we want to name this person dork of
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  Speaker 1: the week, and it's going to be Artie Moreno, the
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  Speaker 1: Angel's owner, and I'm going to name him dork of
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  Speaker 1: the Week for giving Kurt Zuzuki's new manager a one
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  Speaker 1: year contract. One year managers typically get three or even four,
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  Speaker 1: And in this case, it seems that Moreno wants to
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  Speaker 1: keep his options open in case there's a lockout next
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  Speaker 1: year and doesn't want to pay a manager in that circumstance.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: I don't know that that is entirely his motivation. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: he just wants to see whether Kurt Zuzuki can do
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  Speaker 1: this job. But Suzuki enters his final year, Menazi in
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: the GM enters his final year. And here's the problem.
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  Speaker 1: When you're on a one year deal as a manager.
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  Speaker 1: Players know it, man, they know you're a laying duck,
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  Speaker 1: and they know that your authority is only going to
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  Speaker 1: extend so far. So Kurt Suzuki, who has a chance,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure to be a good manager, even though he's
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  Speaker 1: never had a coaching or managing position. He's playing from
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  Speaker 1: behind before he even starts, and that's no good.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead a lot before I get into my reasons, though,
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  Speaker 2: let's follow up on that a little bit. Ken is
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  Speaker 2: the reason to take the job just to get your
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  Speaker 2: foot in the door as a manager, to say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: it's on my resume now I'm a big league manager.
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  Speaker 2: There's only thirty jobs in the bigs. What's Suzuki's incentive here?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's just that Alana, You're right, And to me,
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  Speaker 1: that's a little bit flawed logic because this franchise is
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  Speaker 1: so difficult to win with with moreno running the team
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  Speaker 1: the way he does. You inherit all the inherit, all
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  Speaker 1: the problems that the previous managers all had, and it's
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  Speaker 1: an uphill fight. I just don't see it ending well
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  Speaker 1: for Kurt. And I hate saying that because I like Kurt.
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  Speaker 1: He's a good baseball person. Obviously, he was a great
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  Speaker 1: catcher for many years, a World Series champion, But he's
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  Speaker 1: in tough here.
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  Speaker 2: Let me ask you this, do you think the reason
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  Speaker 2: Albert Poolholtz or Tory Hunter were no longer under consideration
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  Speaker 2: is a they're like, I'm not only taking a year,
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  Speaker 2: Or do you think Kurt Suzuki was more qualified just
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: being that he is a catcher and he's been in
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  Speaker 2: the system already as a special assistant.
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  Speaker 1: So was Toy. So I don't know that he's more
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: qualified than Tory in that regard with Pooholes, it seems
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  Speaker 1: it was contractual. He's under contract to the Angels with
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  Speaker 1: his personal service thing. He wanted some kind of arrangement
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  Speaker 1: that Ardie Marino did not want to give him. Whether
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: it's years, money, whatever, the number or problem was not sure,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: but that was the issue and Tory. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: Tory would have taken one year, and I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: they just didn't see Suzuki as a bed fit as
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  Speaker 1: a manager. I don't know the answer to that, but
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  Speaker 1: given where this process started with Albert the favorite, it
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  Speaker 1: was a surprising.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would think a year deal is kind of
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: a slap in the face for me. Can the reason
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: is that just what you see, Kokuchi was saying that
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: the air conditioning did not work all year. This is
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: a major league franchise, guys, you know the general manager
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: plays the dumbest man ever. As far as an Angel's
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  Speaker 2: post for HVAC help, what are we doing? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's just it seems so ridiculous. You can't make this up.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Sam Blum, who covers the Angels for the Athletics, says
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  Speaker 2: the Angels posted a job for an HVAC air conditioning
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  Speaker 2: technician today today, what are we doing? You have a
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: major league club that doesn't have air conditioning in certain
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: areas of their clubhouse. I mean, it just seems unbelievable
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  Speaker 2: that this continues to happen. But again, it's not just
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  Speaker 2: this little and this is a minor issue, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: I mean what you're going to talk about next, in
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: terms of the owner facing the franchise and long term
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  Speaker 2: loyalist loyalists to testify, that's even a bigger issue in
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  Speaker 2: terms of why this man could easily be dork of
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  Speaker 2: a year.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what you're talking about, Alana is the Tyler Skaggs
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  Speaker 1: trial and the Angels are being sued by the family
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: of Skags. And we've been following this and being aware
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: of it, and had Ardi Moreno settled this lawsuit, then
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Mike Trout wouldn't have had to testify, testify about some
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: uncomfortable things that he was a part of in the clubhouse.
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  Speaker 1: To me, their longtime former PR man would not have
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: had to testify and basically said nothing. They wouldn't have
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: put all of these people in uncomfortable positions. Now, I
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: don't know what Ardi Moreno's thinking is there why he
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: wanted to proceed with the suit. Maybe he just feels
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: he's in the right here. The Angels are in the
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: right and we're not given in I can understand that.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: But as a result of not going to a settlement,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: here is where we are, and this is what has happened.
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  Speaker 1: It's kind of laid bare what was going on with
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  Speaker 1: the Angels for a few years there, and it's not
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  Speaker 1: pretty at all.
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  Speaker 2: My next thought here is Anthony Rendon, who I have
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: played more major league games then in the last four years.
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  Speaker 2: It still owed thirty eight million dollars Ken Rosenthal, this
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: has to be one of the worst contracts in Major
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  Speaker 2: League history in terms of time on the field versus
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: amount of money given.
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  Speaker 1: I would agree with that a lot. It's certainly true.
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  Speaker 1: Josh Apmel didn't work out too well for them, Albert
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: Pooholes did really work out too well for them. They
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: have not done well with some of their long term deals,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: even Trout. You can argue they're not getting the return
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: there that they thought they were going to get initially.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: So the way this franchise is run, to sum this
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: all up, in general, has been incompetently and we talk
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: about the Rockies a lot and how insular they are
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: and how they do things different than the rest of
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: the teams in Major League Baseball. The Rockies, seemingly under
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Walker Montfort now are trying to at least hire a
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  Speaker 1: general manager from the outside. It'll start being less insular.
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  Speaker 1: The Angels, you look at them, it's the already show
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: all the time, And my goodness, when are we going
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: to see this team be a representative franchise again in
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: a large market? People talk about the Dodgers, this the
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Dodgers that. Yeah, the Angels have a lot of the
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: same advantages the Dodgers do, and they squandered them, starting
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: with Otani, but including many other things. So it's just
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: a shame what has happened here, And it's a shame
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: what's happened with that team. It's tough to be a
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: fan of that club right now, and it's going to
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: be difficult until there's some real changes in either the
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: way Moreno operates or the sale of the club.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I was going to say. A sale
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: might be the only thing that saves this franchise. Ken Rosenthal,
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: what what if the Dodgers ended up signing Anthony Rindon.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Thank goodness he didn't want that Hollywood lifestyle because maybe
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers would not be in the World Series. I
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: know it doesn't come down to one guy. That being said,
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: we're going to say goodbye right now for our folks
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: watching us on TV. Thank you so much. We'll see
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: you next time. We have a couple more minutes with
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  Speaker 2: the YouTube family right after this. All right, if you're
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: still with this, that means that you're on YouTube. We
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: appreciate you guys supporting us Ken Congratulations your twentieth World
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  Speaker 2: Series for you on Fox. A great crew over there,
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: of course, not your twentieth World Series, but your twentieth
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: with them. That's exciting. I mean, tell us why you
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: still get the juice out of doing maybe that's not
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: a good phrase in baseball, while you still get jazzed up,
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: if you will, for covering the World Series. And I
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: would imagine there's still a big part of you that's
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: just a fan of this great game.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's basically it a lot, and the excitement comes
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: from this uncertainty and what's going to happen here and
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: the stories that we are going to get one way
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: or the other and that's what drives me always just
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: covering the stories and talking to the people and telling
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: those stories, whether television, print, however you want to do it,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: that is what is it for me. And that's the
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: fun part. The competition of that, trying to be the
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: best you can be, trying to get things that other
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: people don't have, all of that. But before I even
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: go any further, actually forget going any further with me,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: I want to mention our producer, Pete mccheska. This is
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: his final world series. He's done twenty two of them,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: and he is going out with this World series. He's
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: going to continue to do football, but he has been
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: to me incredibly welcoming this whole time, and especially at
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: the start when they had not had a print reporter
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: at Fox do Sideline. Joe Buck and Tim McCarver. Of
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: course we're very supportive as well. But Pete, he's been
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: the guy for a long time and that job is
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: not easy. He does it extremely well and it's been
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: a joy working for him.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: So yeah, that's great.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: I hopefully we're still pet out with a really good
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: world series.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Let's put it badfully. It's entertaining and everything works in
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: the truck as it's supposed to work. Congratulations to Pete
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: and best of luck as you continue your career covering football.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Of course for Fox, I'm looking forward to just good games.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: I want to be competitive, you know, I'm excited for
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: a lot of reasons. But this is the greatest game
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: in the world, and I'm just grateful that we get
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: to cover it, not only here unfair territory, but obviously
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: watching you and the guy's on Fox and talk about
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: the crew a little bit, Ken, I mean, it's incredible.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: You have Big Poppy, you have obviously Derek Jeter, Hall
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: of famers, Kevin Burkhardt does a tremendous job you of
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: course for Ducci, and not to mention the guys in
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: the booth, Hall of Famer John Smoltz of course, and
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: our buddy with the Dodgers, Joe Davis. It's just a
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: great crew, it.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Is, and it's been that way ever since I've been there,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: with Joe Buck and Tim McCarver. We have Bill Webb
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: at that time was the director. Now it's Matt Gangle.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Bill Webb was a revolutionary directory changed the way baseball
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: was shown on television, and Matt Gangle has taken it
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: to another level. I always look at it this way.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Alone it I feel like I'm part of an all
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: star team with this group. And it's not just the
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: people you just mentioned, and you know this from working
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: in TV. It's all of the people behind the scenes
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: in the truck manning the cameras, the audio people. Everyone
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: that works on these broadcasts is big time, really great
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: and I'm grateful just to be a part. Honestly.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well good luck. I can't wait to watch your
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: coverage tonight. We appreciate it. Game one of the World
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Series on Fox of course, everybody tuning in, thanks for
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: watching and listening today, everybody, we appreciate it. Fair Territory
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: is back on Monday. Today's Foul Territory coming up. Todd Frazier,
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: Eric Krat, Scott braun Has, John Smolt, Kevin Plar and Braves.
• 29:30
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• 29:34
  Speaker 2: Terry with myself and Clymphesias, we'll have live postgame shows
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: right after every World Series game. Let's do it.