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Tokyo Series G2 Reax: Dodgers sweep Cubs, Roki’s debut, Cubs flub · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: They're not going to stack up against the Dodgers on paper.
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  Speaker 1: The Cubs have to get a lot out of their
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  Speaker 1: starting rotation. The Cubs have to get a lot out
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  Speaker 1: of their defense.
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  Speaker 2: Two games down in the MLB season and the Dodgers
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  Speaker 2: are still on the pathway through one sixty two And oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's the Tokyo Series postgame show powered by MLB nine
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  Speaker 2: Innings Scottie Brown with Eric Kratz and I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: have to start right at the top here. Yes, it
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  Speaker 2: was awesome to have this series in Japan. It was
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  Speaker 2: insane attendance. There were so many cool things that went
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  Speaker 2: down over the past week. But also as far as
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  Speaker 2: locking in on today because we did a postgame show
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  Speaker 2: yesterday too. Roki Sasaki debuted your thoughts.
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  Speaker 1: Day and Age where we're in right now for everybody listening,
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  Speaker 1: I showed the splitter the day and Age is spinning
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  Speaker 1: the ball, spinning the ball. He came out, showed a
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  Speaker 1: pitch that we're not we haven't seen. We haven't seen
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  Speaker 1: a forkball at that velocity in a long time. Did
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  Speaker 1: he have some nerves yes? Did the Cubs do a
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  Speaker 1: good job of not chasing out of the zone, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: But what he showed with that splitter, forkball, knuckle split,
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  Speaker 1: whatever you're gonna call it, just shows they got somebody
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  Speaker 1: that is going to grow in the big leagues, and
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  Speaker 1: those two pitches just heater splitter. He's gonna dominate a
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  Speaker 1: lot of lineups.
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  Speaker 2: He was feeling it in the very beginning of the game.
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  Speaker 2: The first inning. He was only ninety nine and one hundred,
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  Speaker 2: I mean rounding up from ninety eight point whatever, but
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  Speaker 2: sitting ninety nine one hundred. It ended up ticking down
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  Speaker 2: a couple miles per hour on the heater. But he
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  Speaker 2: was feeling it in the first and then eventually mixing
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  Speaker 2: in that splitter, which goes in you know, a variety
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  Speaker 2: of directions right, it can break down to the right,
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  Speaker 2: it can break down to the left, which is not
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  Speaker 2: common for someone with a splitter like that. So it's
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  Speaker 2: got the most drop already in Major League Baseball, about three.
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  Speaker 3: And a half feet.
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  Speaker 2: It's got the least spin, at least according to what
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  Speaker 2: we've been able to track so far in spring training.
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  Speaker 3: Is that what you saw one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: The normal splitter I think ranges anywhere from like twelve
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  Speaker 1: hundred to thirteen fifty RPMs. Fastballs spin at about twelve
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  Speaker 1: hundred and four. Seam fastballs spin even higher than that.
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  Speaker 1: Breaking balls spin even more. The less spin you have
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  Speaker 1: on the more that ball is going to break, the
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  Speaker 1: more the air is going to push on it. Rookie
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  Speaker 1: Sasaki's average splitter that he threw in spring training this
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  Speaker 1: year was at five point fifty. Essentially, you're throwing a knuckleball,
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  Speaker 1: and people will say, well, knuckleball doesn't even spin. It
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  Speaker 1: actually has rotation, just not a lot, and that ball
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  Speaker 1: is going to hit seams in different directions and take
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  Speaker 1: it in different directions. That is a little preview of
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  Speaker 1: why I chose who my player of the game was,
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  Speaker 1: But we'll wait to get to the player of the game.
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  Speaker 1: That pitch is something that we don't see.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, fifty six pitches total from Rokie, three innings, one hit,
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  Speaker 2: one run, three strikeouts, and five walks. Like you mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: we did see a little bit of nerves, just like
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  Speaker 2: Yamamoto last year in his debut in Korea. Obviously he
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  Speaker 2: figured it out. So everyone's in good shape and the
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  Speaker 2: Dodgers offense is still really good. It felt like a flashback.
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  Speaker 2: First home run of the twenty twenty five MLB season.
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  Speaker 2: Who but Tommy Tanks. I mean, he's huge Kratz, He's
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  Speaker 2: a monster. He's actually had seven home runs in the
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  Speaker 2: regular season with the Dodgers since he was traded to them.
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  Speaker 2: Five of them have come against the Cubs. Because remember
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  Speaker 2: last year at the back to back two homer games,
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  Speaker 2: and they were like Tommy Tanks. So that was where
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  Speaker 2: the nickname came from. And we saw that play out
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  Speaker 2: here eventually Kik eventually Otani.
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  Speaker 3: Which we'll get to, but they put up some runs today.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, it's almost like Tommy Edwin was a
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  Speaker 1: free agent that the Dodgers. Oh wait, no, it wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: It was just another trade that they were able to
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  Speaker 1: go pick him up. Oh and he was on the
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  Speaker 1: IL when they picked him up, he was coming off
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  Speaker 1: an injury. There is some level of obviously skill and
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  Speaker 1: status that this dude is an elite player. Yes, but
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  Speaker 1: it's confidence too. This is a dude they picked up
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  Speaker 1: last year he was on the IL from the Cardinals
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  Speaker 1: looking to get rid of players. They were like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll definitely take him. Oh and we're going to give
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  Speaker 1: you a contract extension and you win the NLCS MVP Oh,
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  Speaker 1: and now you're protecting the show Heyo Tani. When Freddy
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  Speaker 1: and Mookie Betts go out, you talk about Swiss army knives,
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  Speaker 1: It's like, Oh, he can play second, he can play center,
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  Speaker 1: he can play shortstop. He was protecting Sho Heo Tani
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  Speaker 1: in the Dodgers lineup. To me, that's the most versatility
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  Speaker 1: that you can get. Oh and he hit a right
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  Speaker 1: handed dinger on the second day of the season.
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  Speaker 3: And who else always up in big moments.
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  Speaker 2: Key k Hernandez made it five to one later in
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  Speaker 2: the game in the fourth, one hundred and ten miles
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  Speaker 2: an hour off the bat from Kyk.
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  Speaker 3: He just loves these moments.
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  Speaker 1: The ball was cranked. Kk's gonna give you his fifteen
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  Speaker 1: homers a season. That ball hit the back wall the
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  Speaker 1: Tokyo Dome. I saw Joe Adele when we were hitting
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  Speaker 1: over there hit the lights on the back wall above
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  Speaker 1: where Kik hit. That was a tank. Anything off of
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  Speaker 1: that back wall is crushed, and he crushed it. He
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  Speaker 1: was actually struck out steal through a nice back door
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  Speaker 1: slider to him and Alan Porter Froze could have give
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  Speaker 1: him this one. We've ben strike three fout off a
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  Speaker 1: couple pitches heater in We'll see you.
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  Speaker 2: I do want to bring up that comment I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: at from Sicilian he said, no bets, no Freeman in
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  Speaker 2: this series.
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  Speaker 3: Good point.
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  Speaker 2: It's only two games, but man, they looked good and
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  Speaker 2: we'll get to the Cubs in a moment. But sho
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  Speaker 2: heyo Tani. Two strikes on him makes it six two.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, he's not going to leave without smashing a danger.
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  Speaker 2: And I feel like the expectations for him are jaded
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  Speaker 2: at this point where everyone's like, yeah, he homered.
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  Speaker 3: Of course he homered.
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  Speaker 2: The pressure that was on his shoulders to not just
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  Speaker 2: deliver and you know, have his team obviously play well,
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  Speaker 2: but to hit a homer. Everyone was like, oh, this
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  Speaker 2: is the Babe Ruth of our time period. We want
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  Speaker 2: a homer and you can you can see him clenching
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  Speaker 2: his teeth when he made contact because he's hoping that
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  Speaker 2: it goes right so that he can knock this off
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  Speaker 2: his checklist and say, hey, I played him from front
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  Speaker 2: of my home country with the defending champs, and I
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  Speaker 2: gave them what they came for.
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  Speaker 1: Believe this was a homer. Tough angle thought it thought
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  Speaker 1: they reached over. There's no way Major League Baseball is
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  Speaker 1: overturning without conclusive evidence. The Shoheo Tani in Japan a
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  Speaker 1: home run that's called on the field oh way conspiracy
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  Speaker 1: theories aside two pitches before, two pitches before he hit
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  Speaker 1: the homer. Pearson thrown ninety nine to one hundred, big
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  Speaker 1: huge donkey with short pants. He was throwing gas. He
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  Speaker 1: threw a heater that show Hey just watched. It looked
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  Speaker 1: like he slowed it down. Next pitch he threw him
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  Speaker 1: a breaking ball that I saw later in a dugout.
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  Speaker 1: He went, he kind of went, now, it just spins
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  Speaker 1: like it backs up, and they were like yeah, like
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  Speaker 1: they were talking about what the pitch was. After that,
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  Speaker 1: they zoomed in on him. After that breaking ball, they
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  Speaker 1: zoomed in on him, and he just he just had
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  Speaker 1: to smile on his face. I was like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 1: he is going to crush a dinger here because that
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  Speaker 1: breaking ball he knows it's not He doesn't have to
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  Speaker 1: fear for his life on that breaking ball. So he
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  Speaker 1: got ready for ninety nine and one hundred hit a dinger,
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  Speaker 1: Show Hey doing Show Hey.
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  Speaker 2: Things, and then they intentionally walked him later on in
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  Speaker 2: the game. Too, which, hey, you're playing a baseball game.
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  Speaker 2: And also, let's not forget the Cubs actually sent the
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  Speaker 2: potential tying run to the plate with Matt Shaw late
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  Speaker 2: in this game, so it's not like this was a blowout.
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  Speaker 2: You got to play ball. Let's step aside. We'll talk
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's get to the Player of the game
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  Speaker 2: hand out the honors. This was not a vote, This
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  Speaker 1: Will Smith? Will Smith is one hund player of the game. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't do anything crazy. K hit a dinger, Edmund
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  Speaker 1: hit a dinger. Show, Hey hit a dinger. Will Smith
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  Speaker 1: had to catch that pitch that everybody was watching, and
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  Speaker 1: we just talked about breaking it down. It's going this
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  Speaker 1: way that way, and he did an amazing job. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: there's five walks. That's not Will Smith's fault. The fact
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  Speaker 1: that he was able to get back there, the fact
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  Speaker 1: that he outlasted Carson Kelly, the Cubs catcher with less
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  Speaker 1: pass balls, with that pitch coming in there and Carson
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  Speaker 1: Kelly just had regular speedballs and heaters. Oh yeah, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, he got a couple knocks while he was
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  Speaker 1: over in Japan. I think he had five walks, three walks. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: a couple walks, a couple of knocks. Good start to
• 10:39
  Speaker 1: the season. Who dealt with an ankle contusion, which everyone's like, oh,
• 10:45
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. It was nine months ago. He's dealing
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: with it with for nine months and then you take
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  Speaker 1: a fourteen hour flight. Some catchers don't play both games.
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  Speaker 1: He went out there, did it and he controlled the splitter.
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  Speaker 1: We gotta we gotta give a we gotta give a
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we do. You're right.
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  Speaker 2: We should ask kote I Sanga because he seems to
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  Speaker 2: be good at that. He's got the ghost fork and
• 11:08
  Speaker 2: he just named one the other day that's super slow curveball.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about that on FT at some point. I
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: don't even know if you've seen that one yet, but
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  Speaker 2: I'll show you anyway. I do want to get to
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  Speaker 2: the Cubs because we're like ten minutes in and this
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: is a postgame show for both sides. We do also
• 11:23
  Speaker 2: have a Dodgers territory postgame show for you if you
• 11:25
  Speaker 2: want to check that out after this one. We did
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: that yesterday too, Alana and Clint having a time, probably
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  Speaker 2: having a cocktail because the party continues.
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  Speaker 3: For the Dodgers. What about the Cubbies?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, towards the end of the game, they showed
• 11:38
  Speaker 2: a couple shots of Craig Counsel and he looked genuinely pissed.
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: Season number one for him as highest paid manager up
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: until now when Dave Roberts has taken over on a
• 11:47
  Speaker 2: year by year basis, was a disappointment for the Cups.
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: It was a massive disappointment for Chicago. They came up
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  Speaker 2: short again. They didn't have the firepower necessarily on the roster. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: fast forward offseason looks like a much better bullpen on paper.
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  Speaker 2: Add Kyle Tucker to the mix. Here comes Matt Shaw,
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  Speaker 2: one of their top prospects, if not their top prospect.
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  Speaker 3: They lose both games.
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  Speaker 2: Tucker, you know, had the late double or whatever. They
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  Speaker 2: made a little push late against Alex Vessio, one of
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: twenty closers for the Dodgers. But what did you think
• 12:21
  Speaker 2: of this series? For these for these two games, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Saya Suzuki didn't do much. Some of their big boys
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  Speaker 2: were just okay. They did actually put together I think
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  Speaker 2: more hits than the Dodgers in this second game. I
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  Speaker 2: think they had eight hits, but it just wasn't enough.
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  Speaker 2: Justin Steele was just saying.
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  Speaker 1: It was you know, you know, there's there's not a
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  Speaker 1: lot you can glean from a sweep when you go
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  Speaker 1: over to Japan against clearly the best team on paper
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  Speaker 1: in baseball. They're not going to stack up against the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers on paper. What do the Cubs have to do?
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  Speaker 1: The Cubs have to get a lot out of their
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  Speaker 1: starting rotation. The Cubs have to get a lot out
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  Speaker 1: of their defense. To me, I thought their defense really
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  Speaker 1: was good. Besides Bertie's throwing air in the fifth inning yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: I think they showed a lot. Matt Shall showed a
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  Speaker 1: lot as a rookie, being able to get out there
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  Speaker 1: make some plays for the boys. Dancy Swanson's always going
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  Speaker 1: to be solid, So it's going to be starting pitching
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  Speaker 1: in defense, which is crazy for a team that traded
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  Speaker 1: for Kyle Tucker. To me, he's going to have a
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  Speaker 1: great year. But if Michael Bush is your third lefty
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  Speaker 1: in the top four, of your lineup when you're out
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  Speaker 1: there day in and day out, and that's the protection
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  Speaker 1: you have. I just feel like the depth of this
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  Speaker 1: lineup isn't going to give them enough to fight through
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: hiccups like Justin Steele had today. Justin Steele's gonna get
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  Speaker 1: his games where he gets six to eight punch outs,
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  Speaker 1: He's going to go six seven innings. But you need
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  Speaker 1: to have a lineup that can come through for your
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  Speaker 1: pitching staff when they have a little bit of off days.
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  Speaker 1: And I just don't I don't see it. I don't
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  Speaker 1: see they had a lot of good plate discipline. I
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  Speaker 1: don't see that damage. And it only gets tougher when
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: you go back to Chicago.
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  Speaker 2: My thing is Kyle Tucker is going to need to
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  Speaker 2: look like he did for half a season last year.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you only played half a season he had
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: the injury. But if he looks like that version of
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker where he was on pace for like forty
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  Speaker 2: some odd home runs and he's just a top I
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  Speaker 2: don't know, ten or even five player in the sport,
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  Speaker 2: it changes things. So he's going to have to be
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  Speaker 2: that level for me for the offense to take a
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  Speaker 2: step up, because otherwise, like you said, the defense should
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  Speaker 2: be pretty similar, maybe a tick worse.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure. Shaw still has work to do there.
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  Speaker 2: He did have a mistake yesterday, right, he had a
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  Speaker 2: little throwing blit yesterday, and then.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, Yeah, I was the only air very good defense.
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  Speaker 2: Also, I like Saya Suzuki had much better than I
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  Speaker 2: than I do having him in the field. The bullpens
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  Speaker 2: should be better, rotation should be in a similar spot.
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  Speaker 2: Is the offense going to bang enough for them to
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  Speaker 2: actually take a step and be, you know, the division champs.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't look like a team that's going to be
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  Speaker 2: dominating by any means. It doesn't look like we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: see them, you know, run away with the division like
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  Speaker 2: the Brewers did last year.
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  Speaker 1: When you talk about Tucker having a really good year,
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  Speaker 1: who protects him? That's that's why I look at the lineup.
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  Speaker 1: Is Nico Horner protecting Kyle Tucker? Hehaps in the in
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  Speaker 1: the leadoff spot, good on base so Tucker can get RBIs,
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  Speaker 1: But ultimately who protects your MVP? And I don't I
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: don't see that right now in this lineup because teams
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: are just gonna crush them with lefties if it's bush,
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: is Justin Turner going to protect Kyle Tucker only when
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: lefties are out there? Is that the most viable situation
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  Speaker 1: for this team. I get it, Turner can't play Hunterton's
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  Speaker 1: sixty two games, But where is that protection going to
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  Speaker 1: be after you pick up that superstar? Or is it
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  Speaker 1: going to be a superstar that's just sitting out on
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  Speaker 1: an island by himself.
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  Speaker 2: There's definitely people that are gonna watch in theirs, some
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  Speaker 2: right now that are watching live, like, all right, let's relax.
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  Speaker 2: The second game of the season. The Cubs A row
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  Speaker 2: and two totally agree, understood. We're only telling you what
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  Speaker 2: we're working with here the first couple of games of
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  Speaker 2: the season and what we see and also what we
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: spoke about in the offseason. We didn't say it was
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: a bad team. It's just that none of us said, Wow,
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: this is it. They did it. They finally put together
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: another dominant looking ball club. You know, it looks good,
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  Speaker 2: not great.
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  Speaker 1: If only there was another all star level bat that
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: was out there towards the end of the offseason. Now
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: you have some protection for Kyle Tucker, but they weren't
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: willing to go far enough. And I don't think it's
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  Speaker 1: because Matt Shaw's gonna be a bad player that I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying that. I think Matt Shall is going to be
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  Speaker 1: a solid player. It would be great to have Matt
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  Speaker 1: shawl and that other person that was still out there.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, hey, look bottom corner of the screen right here.
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  Speaker 2: This show north Side territory for Cubs fans. We also
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  Speaker 2: have Dodgers territory for Dodgers fans. Two more things I
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  Speaker 2: want to do. Number one, Our dude, Derek find the scenes.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Asked Ai for some nicknames for the devastating splitter that
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: Roki Sasaki has, and he came up with or Ai
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: he she or whatever you want. Came up with the
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: following names, The Silent Drop, the Vanishing Tide, the Hidden Blade,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: the guillotine or in Japanese that would be kuba nagashi.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: What do you like?
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: Guillotine probably the best, Maybe like Japanese theme, like a tsunami,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: the tsunami because it just comes in and waves. I
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: don't know, I don't know. I like the guillotine the best.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but kuban, oh gosh, it was what I would
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: want it to be called. I want the Japanese termininology
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: because or the Japanese language description.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: It just sounds better.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Okay, Now what I really want is a snack, and
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: you might be wondering what I'm talking about. But my
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: friend Evan Drelik, who writes for The Athletic, is out
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: in Tokyo and he went up to one of the
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: food stands and found something called krats. Look at this
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: little snack cratz. But still they tried their best and
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: they put together something that looks like it has maybe
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: a nut mix to it. It was at one of
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: the food stands where he said it was fantastic. Of course,
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: I was actually recently in Japan as well, a couple
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: months ago. It is just next level in terms of food.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: There's the stand in case you want to go to
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Tokyo inside the Tokyo Dome and find it where you
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: can find krats snacks.
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: There you go, Krats, no royalties.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: I always knew that I made an impression when I
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: went to Tokyo both times, and now all those things
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: are coming to Fruition. It's showhey for lotions, handshakes, perfumes,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: cologns fortnite, it's me for beer nuts.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Yep, it's a pepper bacon snack is what I'm being told.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: Ah, let's get it. I hope el Evan Drelik bought
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: me some and is sending them. I need a box.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I need a case of crats. Can't get your crats
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: without crats.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: I'll ask him if he can send us some since
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: you got to get through customs. Anyway, this was awesome.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining us for a little
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: early morning f T and then we have our regular FT,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: which is also earlier in the morning. Still this week,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: as we're leading up to spring training games that start
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: on the East Coast at one o'clock Eastern time. We're
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: in Red Sox camp in Fort Myers, Florida for FT.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Obviously we'll hit other newses while there are a few
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: baby signings in terms of how much money, but big names.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Craig Kimbrel was just signed to the Braves. We'll get
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: to that. We'll get to Kobe Mayo upset about being
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: optioned by the Orioles.
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: That's a good story right there.
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Anyway, again, thank you to everyone that was watching this,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: and also to MLB nine Innings for powering up our
• 20:18
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• 20:21
  Speaker 2: put this all together. And there's a little more on
• 20:24
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• 20:27
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• 20:30
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• 20:35
  Speaker 2: we'll see it later today