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Well, it's a great day at
Dodgers Stadium, Dodger Royalty back here and

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surprisingly not against the San Francisco Giants. Where's Mattcain when he wants them?

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That's the one and only. Andre
Ethier. Thanks a lot for the time

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and great to see your whole family
out here. Yeah, I appreciate it.

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No fitting game for our first game
of the twenty four season. Then

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a Dodgers Giants game. So found
our way up here from been hanging down

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in the South coast Laguna area and
found our way up here today for this,

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you know, first game of the
series. Dude, does Dodgers Giants

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still get you going the way it
used to when you played? Uh?

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Yeah, I think it does.
I think it ebbs and flows right like

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they obviously are having a little bit
of a down year and and I guess

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at downtime last couple of years,
and I guess the the you know,

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the intestinia rubs off a little bit
more, especially when you know this team's

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playing so well coming into it for
you know, multiple season, multiple years

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in a row against them. But
it's still means a lot, obviously,

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you know, for the both cities, both fan bases, and it's uh,

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you know, excited to seeing.
Like you said, he brings up

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old memories. We're just talking about, uh Tim Linzacam and those guys with

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a couple buddies of mine the last
couple of weeks, about how good of

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pitchers those guys were and those teams
those giants have, and you know,

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there's a lot of history between these
two ball clubs. Whenever I think Dodgers

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giants, Andre Ethier and Matt Kain
come to mind. You know that you

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did pretty well against Kane when you
guys faced off. What is it about

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certain pictures and especially on teams that
are wearing that orange and black. Yeah,

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I don't know. That's a weird
thing. Right. You can face

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a guy and I think I forgot
the guy who was these either these are

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either Marquis or someone else who I
felt like I struggled really badly against.

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But then there's guys like Lincacum.
I hit well, you know, guys

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who are dominant pitchers. I hit
well. And you see a guy like

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Matt Kain and for some reason,
it was just that one person, it

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didn't matter what he threw, you
were able to get hits off of my

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told my said, I think it
was like towards the end of our career

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when I have, you know,
all these at bats, sixty seventy at

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bats against them, and you know
everyone had been making a big thing about

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it, you know, about us
face and you get each other for maybe

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what might be the last time ever, you know, after all these years.

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And I remember one of that bats
in that game, he threw a

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really good cutter in off my fist. I hit it, jam shot.

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It barely landed over his head in
the end field grass between second and the

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pitcher for a base hit. And
I you know, that pretty sums that

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pretty much sums up that whole uh, you know, matchup all those years.

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I was gonna get a hit no
matter what he threw in the quality

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of pitch, it was going to
work out to be a hit for me.

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And I remember just shaking his head
at me and laughing, because you

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know, it doesn't matter off the
barrel, off the fist, I'll still

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getting hits off him. You're a
great student of the game. You know

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the history of the game, and
certainly you played your entire major league career

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wearing a Dodger uniform. When did
you start to realize how serious it was

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as far as a rivalry between the
Dodgers and Giants. It's day one day

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that first time you go up there, the first time, you know,

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I didn't know anything about it.
You didn't understand the intensity of it.

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First time you probably go in there
as a player, You're just like,

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wow, you know, these fans
really do not like the Dodgers. They

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really do not the Dodger players.
And we know some of the fun uh

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you know, shenanigans that were going
on in the stadiums, you know,

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with the fans and interactions with them
when those series were going on. So

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yeah, I learned from day one
that it means a little bit more.

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It doesn't matter whether it's April or
whether it's September and both teams are out

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of the playoffs, it still means
a lot. All right, Andre,

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Eh, you're back at Dodgers Stadium, where you a little jealous when you

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saw me talking to Joe Kelly because
you know you're not here every day.

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I've got to find new players to
connect with. I'm actually I think me

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and Mariacchi Joe are are better friends
and probably be you or him or me

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and him or me and you.
So you know, I know you have

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to clean on to who you have
to clean on too when Austin Barnes has

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probably pushed you aside after all these
years, so you're looking for whoever he

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can and uh, I'm glad,
Mariachi Joe's taking care of you. Hey,

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Barnes tried to show off that he
grow that he's all grown up when

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I when he came up and he
walked up on you. He's not little

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Barnes anymore. He's trying to show
his big brother. You know, I'm

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the man now. He's uh he's
been a good player for uh for quite

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a bit and you got to give
him his nod. And uh, I'm

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just glad he can take you under
the wing, uh when you need it.

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I'm too big for his wing.
I don't know that big Homer that

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wing stretched big. It's a big
Hope wing now. So uh, you

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know, I'm glad to see a
lot of these guys playing. Well,

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you know, Keik you having that
big game the other day and sorry he

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came against uh ken Lee and uh
you know his outings, but uh,

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you know, excited, you know, hopefully seeing here uh kersh at the

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end of this week and getting a
chance to you know, see how this

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team's gonna shape up for the second
half, and uh, you know,

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they definitely have the offense and the
firepower to go out and do it.

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You know, you're just hoping that
the you know, the pitching and everything

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holds up and lines up the right
way at the right time of the year.

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And you're starting to feel it,
right, You're starting to feel the

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air turn. You're starting to feel
the calendar turned to the part of the

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year when it's time to get to
work and really start putting those games you

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know behind you in the spot where
you can go and have a little comfort

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going into the you know, into
the run there in September and line up

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the right way you want for the
playoffs. Andre Ethier before you go and

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spend more time with the family.
Yesterday show, hal Tani hit a home

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run four hundred and seventy three feet
to the top of the left field pavilion.

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Have you ever seen a lefty hit
it that far? No? And

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I tried. I tried many times, the batting practice many times the game.

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I think the batting practice as closest
I ever got was probably where that

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Starluck sign is and I probably hit
the Starlucks sign. I don't know what

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was there at the time, but
it would probably hit right around there.

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But I mean, you know,
we're standing here looking and that's a whole

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nother two signs, so probably what
one hundred one hundred and twenty feet farther

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to center, which I don't know
what that adds on to it. And

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to do it in a game off
a pitcher, it's pretty impressive. And

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yeah, I mean everything he does
is you don't you like, is this

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it? And then he does something
else every time and I think that's that's

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what the most impressive thing about show
is. And he's gonna come back and

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pitch. You always heard that question. Let's just be happy. Let's be

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happy for what we're seeing right now, just on the offensive side, because

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it's pretty unbelievable. And you just
don't think he could come back and and

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keep up the pace or do anything, you know, do the way he's

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doing, and he just keeps finding
a way to do it. And uh,

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it's it's hard not to admire it
from a you know, from a

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former player side, and I know
fans are in awe when every time they

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ask me. That's one of the
first things fans ask me, is you

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know, what do you think about
show Ay? And I tell him I'm

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just as in a as you guys
are, and uh, it's impressive to

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see. And I can't believe this
team gets to have them, that you

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know this long they're gonna get to
have them. It's awesome to hear that

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from a former player that spent his
entire career at Dodger Stadium in a big

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way to be just as much in
awe of Otani as we are. Love

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having you back here. You got
that summer glow tan to you, just

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like you did when you played out
here. Now you enjoy the family.

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You look relaxed. The kids say
that they're keeping you under control at home,

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so that's a good thing. Yeah, I'm not afraid of the sun

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like you. I went zero SPF
for the last four days, so I'm

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not afraid to go zero SPF on
this sun here. So I soaked it

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up, drew every last way I
could into southern California sun of my time

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at least right now, and look
forward to being back here at the stadium

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for the second half. There.
He is forever dodger Andre Ethier