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Andy McCullough: Dodgers World Series prep, Shohei breaking records · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Hey, Andy McCulla is back on the show. We love
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  Speaker 1: having you on here, so thanks again for the time Andy.
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  Speaker 1: Give him a follow app by McCullough. You can also
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  Speaker 1: check out his book The Last of His Kind, which
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  Speaker 1: is quite relevant right now as we see the very
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  Speaker 1: very twilight of Clayton Kershaw's career here. Maybe he'll pop
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  Speaker 1: into a game or two in the World Series. Anyway, Andy,
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  Speaker 1: good to see you. So, first off, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: haven't had a show since the Dodgers absolutely finished dominating
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers.
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  Speaker 2: So your thoughts on the.
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  Speaker 1: Series as a whole and how they look heading into
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  Speaker 1: the World Series because you covered this team you know,
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  Speaker 1: on the beat for a while too, Like, is this
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  Speaker 1: as good as it gets right now?
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  Speaker 3: I mean they're certainly playing at an extremely high rate,
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  Speaker 3: and they're pitching is so strong right now.
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  Speaker 4: I mean the starting pitching you know, snow Yamamoto, Glass,
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  Speaker 4: now the other I forget the fourth guy's name. They
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  Speaker 4: were all really really good against the Brewers. And so yeah,
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  Speaker 4: they get a good amount of time off. They're going
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  Speaker 4: to a you know team in Seattle or Toronto, who's
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  Speaker 4: you know, gonna have to go to a game seven
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  Speaker 4: and use their bullpen. Even with the you know, the
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  Speaker 4: days off, there will be a little gas. The Dodgers
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  Speaker 4: can set everything up, you know, So Snell and Yamamoto
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  Speaker 4: and some order are set up for one and two
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  Speaker 4: and then back again for five and six, and so yeah, Like,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if this is like the best Dodgers
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  Speaker 4: team of this group, of this sort of era, but
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  Speaker 4: it's certainly one that peaked at exactly the right time.
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  Speaker 5: Well, they didn't know what they planned on the whole year.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know why everyone's so surprised.
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  Speaker 2: Listen.
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  Speaker 5: Only one of us had them won in their power
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  Speaker 5: rankings the entire year, and you know how much I'd
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  Speaker 5: love power ranking, So I just want to say that
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  Speaker 5: I had him won the entire year.
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  Speaker 2: Never faltered, unlike a lot of people on this show.
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  Speaker 5: But this is what they were set up for the
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  Speaker 5: regular They knew they were going to make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: They weren't worried about it.
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  Speaker 5: They said, oh, this guy's a little sore, will give
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  Speaker 5: them time off, this guy, this, this guy that, blah
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  Speaker 5: blah blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 2: They got in the postseason.
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  Speaker 5: Everyone was worried because they had to play the the
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  Speaker 5: Reds who they dispatched like two to seven and two
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  Speaker 5: games or whatever it was, right, and then they had
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  Speaker 5: to go play the Brewers, who had the best record
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  Speaker 5: in baseball, and they dispatch them. Then they had to
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  Speaker 5: go you know, it's like come on, like it was,
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  Speaker 5: there was never the game. The Phillies were the ones
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  Speaker 5: where were like, Okay, they have a chance. Right now
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  Speaker 5: we're in the World Series. I know they have time off,
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  Speaker 5: but did they care who they play? Because this team
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  Speaker 5: was set up to win these series with overwhelming starting pitching,
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  Speaker 5: overwhelming number of arms in the bullpen, and an overwhelming
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  Speaker 5: lineup made up of MVPs at all stars.
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  Speaker 2: This is the team that they envisioned.
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  Speaker 5: And now last year they might not have had it,
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  Speaker 5: but here they are again and we can see how
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  Speaker 5: good they are.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I'm sure, like you know, from a
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  Speaker 4: in a in like a real like small context or whatever,
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  Speaker 4: they probably would like prefer to play the Mariners just
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  Speaker 4: because their offense strikes out a little bit more Toronto,
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  Speaker 4: you know, puts the ball in play, and so that
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  Speaker 4: can be a great quality at this time of year.
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  Speaker 3: But in general, they don't care. They're set up really well.
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  Speaker 4: They're gonna have Blake Snell going in game one and
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  Speaker 4: Yamamoto behind them, and they have Shoheotani leading off every
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  Speaker 4: like they're they believe they're the best team in baseball.
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  Speaker 4: As you said, you know, it's not that they don't
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  Speaker 4: care about the regular season per se, but they have
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  Speaker 4: in the past few years really stopped.
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  Speaker 3: They've just become fixated on, like.
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  Speaker 4: How do we get to October one as healthy as possible?
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  Speaker 4: And so, you know, Blake Snell was given probably a
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  Speaker 4: little bit more time this summer to recover from a
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  Speaker 4: you know, a shoulder injury than he put he would
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  Speaker 4: have had on a team that felt like it needed
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  Speaker 4: to do everything he could in the regular season. They
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  Speaker 4: have targeted players in acquiring them who have more upside
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  Speaker 4: than reliability. So like Snell and glas now come to mind, right,
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  Speaker 4: these are not guys who are gonna throw two hundred innings.
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  Speaker 3: There are guys.
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  Speaker 4: These are guys though, who if you give them the
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  Speaker 4: ball in a playoff game, you feel pretty good about it.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they've carried Key k Hernandez these last two
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  Speaker 4: years knowing that in the regular season he's maybe not
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  Speaker 4: an elite player, but once the calendar turns to October.
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  Speaker 4: He's a really, really vital part of their offense. And
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  Speaker 4: so yeah, I mean they've made a lot of concessions
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  Speaker 4: and that, like they're not trying to win one hundred
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  Speaker 4: and ten games during the regular season.
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  Speaker 3: They're trying to win the last game in the postseason.
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  Speaker 6: This team, after they beat the Yankees last year, they
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  Speaker 6: got a little bit drunk and talked a little bit
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  Speaker 6: of smack on the Yankees. This is the most smack
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  Speaker 6: talk you've ever heard from Dave Roberts. His comments when
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  Speaker 6: he was on the podium. That does that make you
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  Speaker 6: feel like they hear people saying they're ruining baseball and
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  Speaker 6: they're saying poo on you guys. And is that the
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  Speaker 6: most smack talk you've ever heard from Dave Roberts.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was That was pretty good. That was pretty strong.
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  Speaker 4: I mean I think, yeah, they clearly are aware of
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  Speaker 4: what the narratives are. You know, they're not like shut
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  Speaker 4: off from the world. I just I don't know how
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  Speaker 4: much that affects guys on a day to day basis,
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  Speaker 4: because like, playing baseball is extremely hard, as you know,
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  Speaker 4: you guys know, and like being good at it is
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  Speaker 4: even harder and so like, I don't know how much
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  Speaker 4: it's creeps into their like day to day preparation things
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  Speaker 4: like that, but yeah, like offspring training all day, they
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  Speaker 4: all had to answer questions about how they were you know,
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  Speaker 4: quote unquote ruining baseball during the season. You know, they
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  Speaker 4: had to deal with the idea of like, oh, you
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  Speaker 4: guys are really underplunt performing what your expectations were. And
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  Speaker 4: so yeah, when you get a chance to win the Pennant,
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  Speaker 4: you know you can do a little bit. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you can treat it like it's you know, taste myself
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  Speaker 4: Tuesday and really gloat and enjoy it.
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  Speaker 3: And they've earned it.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, listen, listen, listen.
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  Speaker 5: I think the Dodgers are the best team. Okay, I've
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  Speaker 5: said it from day one. But here's my thing. There's
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  Speaker 5: this whole narrative. Now, if the Dodgers win the World Series,
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  Speaker 5: it's more of a thing a case for a salary cab,
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  Speaker 5: and it's.
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  Speaker 2: More it's so bad for a bit.
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  Speaker 5: I disagree, because you know what it shows me, if
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  Speaker 5: you spend you got a chance to win, if you
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  Speaker 5: go out and build organizational depth and you do the
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  Speaker 5: right things in the minor leagues, because there are a
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  Speaker 5: bunch of guys on this team that were brought up
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  Speaker 5: through the system and have helped contribute. Will Smith comes
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  Speaker 5: to mind right off the top of my head. Right,
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  Speaker 5: Andy Piez is another guy that came through the system
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  Speaker 5: and now they are here helping. Okay, if you do
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  Speaker 5: it right and you spend money the right way, then
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  Speaker 5: you actually get to win. The fans come out, the
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  Speaker 5: TV market's better, people buy you know, now there's only
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  Speaker 5: one show. Hey, I get it, but I don't understand
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  Speaker 5: this narrative of oh man, the Dodgers are gonna win,
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  Speaker 5: so we need a salary cap. NFL has a salary cap.
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  Speaker 5: Patrick mahomes in the Super Bowl every year. NBA has
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  Speaker 5: a salary cap. Lebron James and his three amigos are
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  Speaker 5: in the NBA.
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  Speaker 2: Finals every year. Look at Florida.
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  Speaker 5: Florida owns the Stanley Cup, right, we own the Stanley
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  Speaker 5: Cup the state of Florida.
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  Speaker 2: It's now the Florida's Cup. We give up Lord Stanley. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: but why is this such a narrative?
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  Speaker 5: And I love Dave Roberts pushing back on it because
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  Speaker 5: I think it's good for the game.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, that's that's certainly an argument.
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  Speaker 4: I think just the idea that, look, the salary cap
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  Speaker 4: is something that the owners have wanted since the dawn
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  Speaker 4: of free agency. It's like a decades long goal that
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  Speaker 4: they've wanted to put in and for obvious reasons, it's
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  Speaker 4: been a like a red line that.
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  Speaker 3: The union you know, will not cross.
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  Speaker 4: And so I think the idea that what happened in
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  Speaker 4: the series between the Brewers and the Dodgers would change
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  Speaker 4: the opinions of small market owners who want.
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  Speaker 3: A cap is silly.
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  Speaker 4: However, it what majorly what the what the owners want
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  Speaker 4: is to like, for lack of a better term, see
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  Speaker 4: the clouds of an idea of that there should be
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  Speaker 4: a cap, that that that there needs to be competitive
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  Speaker 4: balance through a cap. There they're trying to win a
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  Speaker 4: public relations battle going into you know, sort of the
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  Speaker 4: CBA talks like, I don't know if it's going to
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  Speaker 4: be successful. But just the fact that we're talking about
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  Speaker 4: this now, we weren't having these conversations in like twenty
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  Speaker 4: fifteen or twenty sixteen about you know, the necessity for
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  Speaker 4: a cap. So I think they're like they're already sort
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  Speaker 6: Okay, writers, you have to you have to answers yes
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  Speaker 6: or no, and that's it. Writers are fans of baseball teams. No, Okay,
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  Speaker 6: that's obvious. We talked about this all the time on
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  Speaker 6: the show. I was like, is this a truck question?
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  Speaker 3: Okay?
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  Speaker 6: I was like, how can you how can you not
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  Speaker 6: be a fan of show? Heyo Tani, like how how
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  Speaker 6: is a writer? Is it hard to see what he
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  Speaker 6: does day in and day out to not be a
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  Speaker 6: fan because fans are in all fans are for fanatic?
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  Speaker 6: How can you not?
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  Speaker 4: Well, what if you're just jealous of other people? What
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  Speaker 4: if you're just like I wake up and I'm thirty
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  Speaker 4: eight and my left foot hurts constantly, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: I have to take like medicine for my gout and
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  Speaker 4: this guy, you know, can do anything he wants on
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  Speaker 4: a baseball field on command, Like, yeah, I would that
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  Speaker 4: would be a little frustrated with that, But yeah, in general, right,
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  Speaker 4: like he's he's a freak. Like there's you know, there's
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  Speaker 4: never been a player like him, or at least I
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  Speaker 4: mean the Babe Ruth stuff. It's like that was a
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  Speaker 4: long time ago, and Ruth didn't do it for all
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  Speaker 4: that long. You know, he stopped doing it. He went
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  Speaker 4: to the Yankees going, you know, being a two way player.
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  Speaker 4: So I think just Otani's flair for the dramatic, his
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  Speaker 4: ability to put exclamation points, you know, on games and
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  Speaker 4: to take games over, it feels unprecedented. It's it's remarkable
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  Speaker 4: to watch. And I've just you know, been I was
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  Speaker 4: at the first greatest game ever he played in Miami
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  Speaker 4: last year, and I think he was able to top
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  Speaker 4: that the other night in LA That was that was
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  Speaker 4: something else.
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  Speaker 6: That's why I was gonna ask you that was gonna
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  Speaker 6: be my question. Did he top that fifty I think
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  Speaker 6: it was the fifty to fifty game we had ten
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  Speaker 6: RBIs and all that stuff. Did he top it because
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  Speaker 6: of the stage or did he top it because of
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  Speaker 6: what you saw out there, in the fact that they
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  Speaker 6: were running their best pick out there? The Marlins I
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  Speaker 6: think he hit one of his own. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 6: the position player not to be rude.
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  Speaker 4: To another big league club, But he did that in
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  Speaker 4: like a day game against the Marlins in September.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, this was game four of the NLCS.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the Brewers had the best record in baseball
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  Speaker 4: and we're playing for their, you know, their postseason lives.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, so yeah, to hit three home runs and
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  Speaker 4: throw you know, six scoreless with ten strikeouts and look
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  Speaker 4: really really dominant at times as a pitcher, I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's that's the greatest. I'd love to see a better
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  Speaker 4: postseason game. I look forward to what the World Series
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  Speaker 4: has has in store for us.
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  Speaker 6: Is should he have pitched Game one in the sense
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  Speaker 6: that he was ready? And I know, if we look
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  Speaker 6: back at it, he you know, Blake Snell and Yamo
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  Speaker 6: they did what they did. I'm saying in that moment, man,
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  Speaker 6: if they had lost that game and they felt Shoho
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  Speaker 6: Tani was their best option, should he or maybe he's
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  Speaker 6: not their best option.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they I just don't think he is.
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  Speaker 3: I just don't think he is their best option.
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  Speaker 4: And I think there are you know, there are there
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  Speaker 4: are like not there's ancillary effects to him pitching, Like
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  Speaker 4: the data is what it is, that like he is
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  Speaker 4: in general, you know, last Friday night, notwithstanding, he is
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  Speaker 4: generally less effective as a hitter when he pitches, and
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  Speaker 4: there also is a cost the next day. So setting
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  Speaker 4: it up the way they did so that he would go,
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  Speaker 4: you know, game four makes sense. And look, I think
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  Speaker 4: Snell is probably their best pitcher, but like we're really
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  Speaker 4: picking a knits between him, Yamamoto, and Otani. They're all
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  Speaker 4: really really good. But I just think you set it
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  Speaker 4: up to have Snell and Yamamoto in one and two
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  Speaker 4: so they can come back for five and six. It
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  Speaker 4: just makes more sense from a scheduling perspective.
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  Speaker 1: Andy, this is gonna sound crazy or maybe not, but
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  Speaker 1: do you think that other owners around baseball are watching
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  Speaker 1: show hey right now and going, you know, maybe we
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  Speaker 1: should have called his rep a few years ago and
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  Speaker 1: been like one billion dollars right, like, just say something
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  Speaker 1: so crazy to see if it was all about signing
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  Speaker 1: with the Dodgers, or if he would have considered some
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  Speaker 1: other option from a team that said we love you
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  Speaker 1: even more than they do and we're going to do
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  Speaker 1: something crazy. Because marketing wise, obviously, what he's doing on
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  Speaker 1: the field. I mean, he's might be the biggest bargain
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  Speaker 1: in the sport. And even forget the deferral stuff, right, Like,
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  Speaker 1: his contract in net present value is worth less than
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  Speaker 1: Vlatty juniors and Laddy Junior is great. But when you
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  Speaker 1: look back, I'm like, damn, I think more teams should
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  Speaker 1: have gone after him, and I think there are teams
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  Speaker 1: that would have made money off him marketing wise to
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  Speaker 1: make the books even up. I mean, the Dodgers are
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  Speaker 1: going to profit like crazy oft of him.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think though the deferrals are everything though,
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  Speaker 4: because it wasn't a matter of like he wanted a
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  Speaker 4: historic contract, right, but he did not want a historic
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  Speaker 4: contract that he felt would hamstring the team from doing
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  Speaker 4: anything else. And so they, you know, he along with
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  Speaker 4: his agent, you know, Neiswellela, they created this sort of
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  Speaker 4: structure that he's getting paid two million dollars a year
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  Speaker 4: during the ten years. The first ten years of his
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  Speaker 4: ten years was actual playing career. And so that's a
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  Speaker 4: structure that any owner probably would have been okay doing.
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  Speaker 4: I think the thing is, though, it's not like every
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  Speaker 4: owner had a chance, because not every owner runs a
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  Speaker 4: team like the Dodgers, who are in the postseason every year,
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  Speaker 4: who have you know, a good farm system, who have
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  Speaker 4: shown the ability to add at the deadline, who made
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  Speaker 4: themselves a destination you know for all these other teams
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  Speaker 4: and have the you know, the sort of history, and
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  Speaker 4: so yeah, I just don't know if, like you know,
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  Speaker 4: Steve Cohen said like we'll give you two billion dollars
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  Speaker 4: or something like that, I don't know if it would
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  Speaker 4: have made a difference because he wasn't in it for
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  Speaker 4: making immediate riches. He was in it for sort of
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  Speaker 4: a bigger legacy sort of idea, if that makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 6: It was kind of easy for them to say this
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  Speaker 6: because they were up three to zero and show Hey
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  Speaker 6: was pitching Game four, and they said, yeah, he might
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  Speaker 6: be available for the bull for out of the bullpen
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  Speaker 6: in Game seven. Because of how this is working out,
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  Speaker 6: Do we see him out of the bullpen? We've all
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  Speaker 6: talked about it, how they can't because he's dhing he
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  Speaker 6: comes in out of the bullpen, do we see it?
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  Speaker 6: Because if there's something I'm looking forward to this in
• 15:11
  Speaker 6: this series because I think the Dodgers are going to
• 15:14
  Speaker 6: win it pretty handily. That is what I want to see.
• 15:17
  Speaker 6: I want to see shohe Otani come out of the bullpen. Why.
• 15:21
  Speaker 6: I don't know why, because like he's just done everything,
• 15:25
  Speaker 6: and that's the one thing we haven't seen him doing
• 15:26
  Speaker 6: in a big league game yet.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 15:28
  Speaker 4: I mean you are asking for a big hurdle though,
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: and that the Dodgers have to lose twice in order
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: to at least get there, right, Yeah, I mean I
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: think it's it's certainly within the realm of possibility, and
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: I suspect that the Dodgers are, you know, sort of
• 15:41
  Speaker 4: drawing up contingencies of like if they can do it,
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: if you could start you know, game four and then
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: be available in some capacity in game seven. But yeah,
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: there is the whole sort of warming up aspect that
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: is somewhat challenging, you know, when he's dhing. So yeah,
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: it's it's yeah, I suspect that if they make it
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: to a game seven, he'll be available. Like what the
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: mechanics are of that, I'm not totally sure to be honest.
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: Okay, Edie, you were talking about show Hey. Forget show Hey.
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: Let's talk about something.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: A little more near and dear to your heart. That's
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: what I want to see happen.
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: The Dodgers are about to clinch the World Series and
• 16:16
  Speaker 5: you know who they bring in to clinch it, Clayton Kershaw.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: They have a big enough lead and they bring him in.
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: Now, wouldn't that be a cool like, wouldn't that be
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: the best way in the world to go out for him?
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: Is say they're whatever game they're in and they're winning.
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: This thing, and they have a five or six run lead,
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: and they bring in Curse to get the final out
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: and the crowd gets to, you know, give him his flowers.
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: He gets to get his flowers, and he's the one
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: that gets Wouldn't that be the best ending to a
• 16:43
  Speaker 5: storybook Hall of Fame Dodger career?
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: That would certainly be, yeah, the movie version of how
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: it ends? And I wouldn't I don't know.
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: I mean, Dave Roberts does have a flair for the
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: dramatic in sometimes in his managerial moves, but he's been
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: pretty coldly efficient, say, and there's also you know, the
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: the rookie Sasaki factor. He's been quite good for them.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: They really really like what they're getting out of him.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: In the closing role. So I don't know if they'd
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: want to mess with that.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: But if you were drawing it up and like how
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: to put a bow on Kershaw's Hall of Fame career
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: and to do something that you know would be remembered forever,
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: that would certainly be up there.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it would be good for book sales.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: You could write another book.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: On the roundtable to his pod, so it would help
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: you the little chichin.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're still doing book plates. Someone send me an email,
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: please book plates.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: I hope. And there's no code because we have a
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: lot of codes on this show. No code, but the
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: code is make Andy happy.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: I think they're just giving them away at this point.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: I think that.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: I think there's just there's thousands of copies still available.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: They're just being donated to libraries everywhere.
• 17:53
  Speaker 6: They're propping up tables that are uneven.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 17:57
  Speaker 6: I mean, I know somebody, I know somebody. He wrote
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: a book. So I'm just just saying that's true. That's true.
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: Well for our two authors, A J. And me are
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: saying bye and thank you. Andy, you're the man.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: Thanks for hopping on with us, appreciate it and we'll
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: catch it soon.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: Okay, no problem, Thanks for having me.
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