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Andrew recaps Clayton Kershaws 3.000 strikeout · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: you exactly.
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  Speaker 2: So.
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  Speaker 1: I always find it very interesting the day before a holiday.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody times it out perfectly. Our morning show down in
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  Speaker 1: the Alamo City, I feel like they wrestle to figure
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  Speaker 1: out who has the day before Fourth of lyoff and
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  Speaker 1: and try to get that four day maybe even a
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  Speaker 1: five day vacation if you can swing it. But we
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  Speaker 1: got to start here. This is the biggest story of
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  Speaker 1: the day. And it's ironic that our friend Craig Way
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  Speaker 1: is not here to talk to us about it, because
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  Speaker 1: it is a Dodgers baseball story that is right on
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  Speaker 1: fifteen occasions. Clayton Kershaw had two strikes to an opening
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  Speaker 1: hitter in front of fifty three thousand fans. They clapped,
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  Speaker 1: they yelled, they hopped up and down, they got excited
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  Speaker 1: until finally he reached the historic mark. And here's what
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  Speaker 1: it sounded like when he had his three thousandth career strikeout.
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  Speaker 2: Gravine risers ready to erupt, and you.
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  Speaker 1: Can hear that applause. You can hear those cheers of
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  Speaker 1: the fifty three thousand fans in attendance to see Kershaw's
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  Speaker 1: three thousand strikeout. Now he has all exaclades. It's three
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  Speaker 1: times styt Young, a winner, the former MVP in twenty fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: ten All Star Games five era titles, A Championship ring.
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  Speaker 1: He might be the greatest pitcher of his generation. Fourth
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  Speaker 1: left hander to reach three thousand strikeouts, joining in my
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  Speaker 1: mind the goat of pitchers. It's Randy Johnson, Steve Carlton
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  Speaker 1: and C. C. Sabathia, which I will tell you when
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  Speaker 1: you go to your fourth or July party tomorrow, throw
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  Speaker 1: that little tidbit out there, say that there is a dimingback,
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  Speaker 1: a Philadelphia Philly and a Yankee who joined Kershaw. And
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  Speaker 1: I want to see how many people actually get it right,
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  Speaker 1: because technically, Ran Johnson played for a bunch of teams.
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  Speaker 1: He's probably most famous for winning World Series MVP in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and one with Kurt Shilling. Steve Carlton obviously
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  Speaker 1: he's affiliate, but you know he also played for the
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  Speaker 1: Cards and CC Sabathia. I thought of him as a
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland Indian, maybe a brewer. They threw out he was
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  Speaker 1: a Yankee, and I was like, okay, I guess he's
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  Speaker 1: a Yankee. So all of these guys played on different teams.
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  Speaker 1: Kershaw currently the only one who is going into the
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame as a Dodger, The only one of
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  Speaker 1: those three, I should say, who's played for one team
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  Speaker 1: his entire career. He's also the third active player to
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  Speaker 1: join the three thousand strikeout list. He joins Max Schurzer
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  Speaker 1: and Justin Verlander, who are the two others in many
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  Speaker 1: people's mind. The quote goats the greatest of all time,
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  Speaker 1: of his generation. It's ironic that this you have these
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  Speaker 1: three guys Scherzer, Verlander, Kershaw. For the longest time I
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  Speaker 1: would have put really had a Kershaw in a different
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  Speaker 1: class insurreser. But now all three of them World Series champions,
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  Speaker 1: all three of them World Series winners, three thousand strikeouts,
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  Speaker 1: they're all gonna be Hall of famers as well. It's
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  Speaker 1: one of those things that is just truly incredible. He's
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  Speaker 1: one of five to accumulate with one team. So the
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  Speaker 1: others who played espied a little earlier, carl Or Johnston,
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  Speaker 1: Carlton Sabbathi all played multiple teams. Kershaw joins Walter Johnson,
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  Speaker 1: Bob Gibson, Carlton obviously and John Smoltz all as guys
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  Speaker 1: who did it all with one team.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Kershaw went on to talk about how he put up
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  Speaker 1: a ton of stocking his team early on. He felt
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  Speaker 1: very good and oh, by the way, the Dodgers ended
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  Speaker 1: up winning that game five to four in a comeback victory.
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  Speaker 1: You wonder how much you had to pay to get
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  Speaker 1: into the stadium for a game like that when you
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  Speaker 1: know there's a chance that Kershaw gets strikeout number three thousand.
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  Speaker 1: It's a Dodgers team that is filled to the gills
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  Speaker 1: with talent, coming up a World Series championship, filled to
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  Speaker 1: the gills with payroll, and it all paid off last night.
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  Speaker 1: I continue to think to myself as we've gone through
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  Speaker 1: Kershaw's career because if you remember, he came in as
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  Speaker 1: a flamethrowing lefty. He's worked his way into having an
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  Speaker 1: incredible curveball. He's an MVP obviously, and he was also
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  Speaker 1: a playoff choker for the longest time. He was a
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  Speaker 1: guy that when you talked about the big moment, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of guys on the list you would have
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  Speaker 1: picked ahead of him. He gets that World Series ring
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  Speaker 1: last year, he kind of is able to shrug off
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  Speaker 1: some of those doubters. He's able to shrug off the
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  Speaker 1: playoff choking label. And now, look, I'm a big baseball guy, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: You hear me wax poetically about the game anytime I
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  Speaker 1: come on the air. I love baseball. I wonder where
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  Speaker 1: this pert's Kershaw all time, because he's still to me
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  Speaker 1: in that list of all time great pitchers for the
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  Speaker 1: twenty first century. I don't know if I put him
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  Speaker 1: on that list of guys all time with Bob Gibson.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, former Dodger City Kofax would be on my
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame Mount Rushmore as well. But it feels
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  Speaker 1: like this was an accumulation of an entire career and
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  Speaker 1: last night, in front of fifty three thousand fans, strikeout
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  Speaker 1: number three thousand for Kershaw feels more like a coronation.
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  Speaker 1: If there was any sort of question about this guy
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  Speaker 1: being a first ballot Hall of Famer, that those completely
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  Speaker 1: evaporate with him being able to get to this mark.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm excited. Obviously. The Dodgers are the preemptive favorite
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  Speaker 1: you look at the standings, they are a team that
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  Speaker 1: it is battled back from a slow start fifty five
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  Speaker 1: to thirty two on the season. Right now, eight and
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  Speaker 1: a half game lead on the Padres, a nine game
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  Speaker 1: lead on Cole's Giants. They feel like the team in
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  Speaker 1: the National league that is primed to make a deep
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  Speaker 1: rum and as we get into a quote unquote the
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  Speaker 1: dog days of summer, right, this is a time period
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  Speaker 1: where there's not a lot of other sports going on.
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  Speaker 1: I implore you with the way that baseball has been played,
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  Speaker 1: very good teams the National League Central, not the best
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  Speaker 1: teams in the world, but it's a very tight race
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  Speaker 1: currently for that division. And you wonder as we get
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  Speaker 1: closer to the trade deadline coming up in a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks, if there will be some movement, if there
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  Speaker 1: will be some players getting moved. So if there's a
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  Speaker 1: time to get on the baseball bandwagon, if there's a
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  Speaker 1: time to get on to watch some of these guys
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  Speaker 1: and some of these players and some of these teams
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  Speaker 1: move around, this would be the time to do it.
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  Speaker 1: In my mind, and I'm happy for Kershaw. I'm very
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  Speaker 1: anytime any of these guys who I saw and grew
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  Speaker 1: up with and watched for a long period of time,
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  Speaker 1: any of these guys who have a chance to do
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  Speaker 1: something the legendary and cement themselves in the history of
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  Speaker 1: the game, especially a game like baseball that is so
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  Speaker 1: rich and so the tapestry is so magnificent when those
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  Speaker 1: guys can get into that list and put themselves in
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  Speaker 1: those conversations. I personally very excited to say that I
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  Speaker 1: was able to watch their career from start to finish.
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  Speaker 1: And we'll see where Kershaw and the Dodgers end up
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  Speaker 1: in the regular season. If they win the Pennant again
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  Speaker 1: this year, if they win the World Series again this year,
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  Speaker 1: then Kershaw is a no doubt Hall of Famer. But
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  Speaker 1: to stick around for as long as he has to
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  Speaker 1: get strike out number three thousand, it means something to me.
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  Speaker 1: It does, It truly does. So. Okay that we've waxed
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  Speaker 1: poetically enough about the sport of baseball and Kershaw, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk about what this means for the Dodgers a
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  Speaker 1: little bit later on in the show as well. But
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