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Talk. Like the back Damn Cats, Dodgers had a chance to get a

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sweep in the Bronx, only lose
in the finale eight six to four of

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the final, they lose to the
Yankees on this Sunday night, everybody and

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welcome into Dodger Talk on AM five
to seventy LA Sports Live Everywhere on the

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iHeartRadio app. The Dodgers will fly
home tonight after taking two to three from

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the Yankees in New York. But
they had a chance tonight to get the

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sweep over the Yankees after taking the
first two games of this series. Tyler

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Glass now on the mound, they
fell behind early. They tied it up

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thanks to Mookie Betts in the fifth. Ta Oscar Hernandez, who was absolutely

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on fire over the weekend in New
York, gave the Dodgers the lead in

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the top the six, only to
see Tyler Glass Now give it back.

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In the bottom half of the six. Anny and the Dodgers would get to

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within one run only to see Aaron
Judge give the Dodgers a two run deficit

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the chase they can get no closer, as the Yankees win the series finale

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tonight six to four eight six six
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six nine eight seven two five seventy
is the number A lot to talk about

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in this game tonight, Teoscar Hernandez
red hot two for four, double,

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a home run, and RBI hits
three home runs in this series. This

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is a guy who's been absolutely on
fire going into tonight's and this is a

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Dodger team that relied a lot on
him in this three game series, and

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the bottom of the lineup came through
at times in this series. Tonight they

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had five of the Dodgers nine hits
the Dodgers make that's seven of the nine

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hits the Dodgers had offensively tonight,
So they picked up the slack when need

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be, and the Dodgers had a
chance to tie or take the lead in

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the ninth inning, albeit with two
outs, only to see Clay Holmes strikeout

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Mookie Betts into indie game and the
Yankees get the series way finale six to

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fourth. Dodgers still take two to
three, another five hundred east coast road

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trip. They had a five hundred
east coast road trip before coming home for

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three games against the Rockies, and
they go back out on the road.

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They drop two of three to Pittsburgh, and then they take two of three

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against the New York Yankees. But
the biggest thing that stock out to me

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tonight was Andy Pajes. And I
don't want to pile on a young man

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who has done really everything that's been
asked of him in his brief time in

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the major leagues, and he's going
to be a really good player and is

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a really good young player. I'm
a big fan of Andy Pajes. But

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tonight he made two airs, and
one of which was crucial. Both of

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them actually led to runs or one
of them led to runs, and the

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other one cost the Dodgers runs.
In the third inning, Andy paz misplayed

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a ball in right center field.
Now he's running towards the alley. He

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gets to the warning track, jumps, the ball goes off his glove,

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and Aaron Judges ruled an RBI double, and that gave the Yankees a to

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nothing lead. If that ball is
caught ending is over, the only damage

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is the Oswaldo Cabrera solo home run, and it's a one nothing game in

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what is a tight series already,
it's a one to nothing Yankees lead.

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Instead, he misplays it. They
took about three or four minutes for the

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official score at Yankee Stadium to make
a decision. It kept saying, pending,

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pending, pending, Is it a
double? Is it an E eight?

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They ruled it a double. Quite
frankly, I thought it was an

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air. That ball needs to be
caught in right center field at the major

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league level. That's not a routine
play, But that's a play you need

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to make. It's not asking too
much for a play like that to be

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made in right center field. If
he's leaping, crashing into the wall,

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reaching over bringing it back a lah
Ken Griffy junior, then yeah, that's

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not a Rood team play. That's
something that doesn't get made too often except

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from the elite outfielders. But to
me, that's a play that you gotta

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make. That catch, Okay,
that led to a run. In the

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third inning. Dodgers are down two
to nothing. They come back and tie

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it to Oscar Hernandez gives him to
lead. In the top half of the

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sixth inning, Dodgers fall behind five
to three on the Trent Grishram three run

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home run. We get to the
seventh inning. Andy Pajez a great at

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bat. He walks to lead off
the bottom of the top of the seventh.

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Gavin Lucks, a great at bat, goes the opposite way on a

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fastball to left field. Dodgers have
runners on first and second. Nobody out,

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nobody out, five to three.
Game seventh inning, Key Key Hernandez

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makes a butt attempt, pops it
up. The catcher Trevino tries to make

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the play and drops it. Okay, you avert disaster. Luckily you get

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out of it and you get another
shot to lay out a punt kick.

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Arenandez puts down a bunt towards the
third base line. Unfortunately, it doesn't

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get past the dirt cutout. It
doesn't get to the grass and have a

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chance to roll. And if that
dirt is still wet, it must have

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been because it just kind of died. It didn't go very far. Nonetheless,

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it's picked up by the catcher Trevino. Runners on first and second are

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breaking for the bags. Trevino throws
the third for the force play and pahes

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On. The initial play looks safe. He beat the ball to the third

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baseman. Dodgers immediately look at it. Dino Ebel, third base coach Andy

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Pajes are putting their hands to their
ears, giving the old signal to let's

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look at it, let's review it. Dave Roberts and the replay staff and

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the Dodger's assistant coaches say Nope,
we're not gonna do it. And at

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first I'm like, he's safe.
What are we doing? You gotta challenge

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that, And then the review came
and the slide from Andy Pot has his

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left leg extended sliding into third base, the lead leg sliding in to third

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base, Andy Pot has his left
leg, right legs tucked down by his

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butt, left leg extended out,
and the left leg, instead of extending

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into the bag to be the first
thing that you touch and being safe at

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third, his left leg goes over
the bag. So the first thing that

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Andy Poe has actually touches third base
with is not his left leg that's extended.

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It's his right leg that's tucked under
NAR's rear end. He gives up

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two and a half feet because he
doesn't use his extending lead leg to touch

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third. That's like sliding one oh
one to bang bang play. You need

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to get to third and get there
safely on a bunt attempt. That lead

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leg is giving you an extension.
That's why you're sliding to get an extension

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with your left leg. And he
goes over the bag and the tag put

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on Paz. He's out. I
saw the first replay. I saw.

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I said, yeah, he's out, but that's unacceptable. You cannot make

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that slide and miss sliding to the
third base as bad as he did,

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that just can't happen, because look
what did happen. They ruled the he

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was out, no challenge first and
second. Still different players. Mookie bets

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up and he hits into a double
play, eating over. You have momentum

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building, You've got an offense that's
starting to tack together. At bats,

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Pahns walk, Gavin Luck's base hit, the key k bunt, the throw

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to third, he beat the throw
a regular slide. He's safe. And

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what's the scenario? Bases loaded,
nobody out for Mookie Bets. Maybe his

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approach is different at the plate.
Maybe he's looking for a ball to drive,

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Maybe he hits a sack fly.
Maybe he finds the hole in left

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center and right center field. It
changes everything as far as the approach for

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Mookie Bets because now there's one out, first and second instead of base is

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loaded, nobody out, and for
somebody, he's already coming on Twitter like

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you're nitpicking. No, no,
no no. When you're in a game

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like this, high leverage game against
the Yankees, I know it's June,

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but if this were the postseason and
a World Series game, every out is

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in important, every base runner is
important. Everything you do gets magnified,

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good and bad, good and bad. We look at everything that happens in

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the game. A bad pitch,
Trent Grisham home run, a bad slide

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at third base, baseball one on
one and it's the start of an over

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and raffling of an inning for the
Dodgers. And the seventh inning when they're

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down to now this team doesn't fight
and they came back in the eighth sack

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fly from Will Smith makes it a
one run game. They had an opportunity

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in the ninth. Yeah, they
had opportunities after that. But when you're

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in the seventh inning, first and
second, nobody out, you're chasing too.

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It's a big game. You that
can't happen. That's a little mistake

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that gets magnified. Misplaying a ball
in right center field leading to a run

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early in the game, that's getting
it gets magnified. Those are little things

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you cannot do. You have to
play a clean baseball, especially in the

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postseason. And why do I bring
this up because all we talk about here

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on Dodger Talk is it doesn't matter
till we get to October what they do

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over one sixty two. We've seen
what it does. They can win the

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division, but when they get to
October, they don't do the little things

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right. Well. Tonight is a
learning opportunity for Andy Piez. I love

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the young kid. I think he's
gonna be super talented moving forward. But

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tonight those are two blunders by Andy
Paiz and he'll put it behind him,

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hopefully, and this Dodger team will
put it behind him and get better.

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And it's again just something that needs
to be mentioned because those are big moments.

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They really are. Trent Grisham's home
run off of Tyler Glass, Now,

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it's gotta be a better pitch.
It has to. Johan Ramirez has

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a falls me. It was a
three to two in the count, throws

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a slider to Aaron judge, it's
gotta be a better slider. The old

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cement mixer slider that's just rotating over
the mid plate eighty miles an hour.

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You're putting it on a tee for
Major League Baseball's home run hitter who hits

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at four hundred and thirty feet and
Rick Munday even Joke who still hadn't landed

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yet. That's gotta be a better
pitch. These are just little things that

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the opponent will take advantage of if
you give them opportunities. Jose Moda mentioned

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it. These guys are big leaguers, whether they're hitting two eighty three,

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one to eighty three or eighty three. Like Trent Grisham was coming in,

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whether the fans a Yankee Stadium are
saying we want Soto and chanting that because

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they'd rather have a banged up one
Soda than Trent Grisham up and play in

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the outfield. Trent Grisham, you
throw him at two to one fastball over

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the middle of the plate. He's
a big league hitter, folks. He's

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a big league hitter. Even though
he's hitting O eighty three, he's stuck

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around at the big league level this
long. He's in a lineup for the

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New York Yankees for a reason.
He can play. Numbers just aren't there

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right now, but he can play. And you row a two to one

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fastball and make a mistake like that, they made him pay in Tyler Glass.

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Now. Now, the Dodgers took
advantage of a lot of bad Yankee

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play over the weekend, bad pitches. You tip your cap when when they

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do something and they beat you,
but when you beat yourself, those things

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just can't happen if you want to
be a championship team again. You tip

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your cap when another team beats you
in a best effort, But when you

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make mistakes and you give him extra
out and you're the one giving up those

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mistakes that are mental mistakes or physical
mistakes, that this just can't happen again

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when you get to October. And
that's clearly what everybody seems to care about.

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This can not happen, so hopefully
they learn from it. Eight sixty

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six nine eighty seven two five seventy
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seventy. Before we get to your
phone calls, let's go back to Yankee

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Stadium. David devastating the media standing
by with young Andy Pyas. First,

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just with the play in the seventh
on the slide into third, just kind

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of foot was over the bag with
what happened there, and I went,

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you, yeah, the foot that
obviously should have been touching the base was

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the one that I had up and
the one that touched it back was the

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one that was behind. So and
then after watching the play that the ruled

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or not ruled, but they saw
the Bob beat me. There those little

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moments, especially in like this kind
of series and that kind of atmosphere,

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you could learn from, you know, better execution and a spot like that

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and momentous cos I place up in
there and this is and this is implemented.

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Yeah, you know, there's always
learning experiences in every game. But

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you know you can't like those things
like that happen, but you can't make

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excuses and just got to learn from
him. Yeah, there's Andy Paiz.

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I believe he will learn from this. You can hear in his voice he

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knows that can't happen. And it
gets magnified when it's Sunday night baseball.

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It gets magnified when it's Dodgers Yankees. And then there's three sellout crowds in

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the Bronx all weekend long. But
when you're in a close game like this,

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you got to play clean baseball.
You cannot make mistakes. And a

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base running missque like that from Andy
Paiz, that's something that can't happen at

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the lower levels, and he knows
that, and he's frustrated, and that

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just can't happen again. It just
can't. Eight sixty six, nine eighty

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seven two five seventy one. Mistake
like that doesn't make a game, clearly,

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But you start having MISSQ after MISSQ
and they add up, whether it's

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a defensive play, a base running
play, maybe lack of execution on offense,

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lacks of execution pitching, whether it's
glassed out to night to Grisham,

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whether it's Johann Ramirez who was back
out there again tonight and got put back

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out there for a second inning in
the eighth inning. That's something we can

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get into Dodger fans. Colin he
brought it up a one two three seventh

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inning for Johann Ramirez and the scoreboard
said a five to three game. At

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that point, you're chasing two.
You don't want the lead to get anymore,

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and then at the top of the
eighth inning, Will Smith gets a

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sack fly scoring showey Otani, it's
a one run game, it's five to

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four. You're back into it.
You need to get a zero on that

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scoreboard for the New York Yankees,
so you can go back out there chasing

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one run with three outs to go
in the ninth inning. You can't afford

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to have a second run. Oh
yeh home run Aaron Judge. No,

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that can't happen. That cannot happen. And so people on social media bringing

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up the question, why go back
to Johann Ramirez for an eighth inning?

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What about an Evan Phillips or a
more high leverage reliever for the Dodgers that

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you go to to keep it a
one run game? You know, knowing

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that Aaron Judge is leading off the
eighth inning, is Johann Ramirez the right

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guy, right situation? Right?
Then? Obviously Dave Roberts in this coaching

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staff felt like it was. He
gave up the home run and to his

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credit, was able to get out
of it with the strikeout a walk in

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the double play, but in my
opinion, the damage had been done.

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A one run game. You sort
of got back the momentum. You're feeling

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good about it. Three outs to
go, you can get back to the

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top of the lineup with a couple
of guys getting on base, and that's

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exactly what happened. They got guys
on base. Po has lucks. You

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turn the line up over only to
be chasing two and lose six to four.

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Again, little things that add up. You got to play clean baseball

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over twenty seven outs if you want
to win games at the big league level,

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especially big games like this and especially
in the postseason. Eight six,

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two, five, seventy. Let's
go to it's got a Greg and west

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Chester starting things off here on this
Sunday and high Greg. Hey, Tim,

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I'm really glad you brought up the
pie has thing. But then also

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the decision to keep Johan in the
game. I was scratching my head thinking

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we brought Evan Phillipson in an eleven
three game in Pittsburgh. This is curious

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stuff. I know he needs work, but dude, he can do that

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in the bullpen. I guess the
intent is to get him work, like,

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let's not burn him for the Yankee
series, which who knows it's a

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hole in the basket for the whole
of the day. Two points one,

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you brought up glass Now in the
pitch that went out that kind of turned

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the game on its head after the
powe has drop, then after that inning

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ended. If you were watching the
game as close as I was, don't

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ask me why it was. Last
Now turns and looks at him and just

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yelled a lot explosive, which we
hear every time he throws this start these

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days. I think that was like
a sign like the Dodgers do care,

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like I think the fans and like
we're all kind of we're COPI um,

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like, hey it's June, no
one cares October. No dude, Glassnew

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hadn't had a run in his ledger
to work with since May fourth, So

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yeah, it means a lot more
to him. A I loved that guy,

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Like, give me that guy every
day of the week. I don't

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care if he has thrown left handed. But secondly that you know Paz,

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it is what it is. He's
here now. We need to we need

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to work with him in to groom
him and like build him up. But

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he cannot be a starting center fielder
in a playoff series. We all know

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that he's overwhelmed by anything above ninety
seven. That's all we're going to see

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if we play Philadelphia. Let's just
be honest. Zach Wheeler, Aaronola,

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Ranger Suarez with the Sinkers, like
there's no chance he's touching that guy looking

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forward, someone like a Harrison Vaders
on a team going nowhere fast. Michael

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Taylor. I think with the Pirates
is one of the best defensive center fielders,

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and let's let's start to reach Jazz. Chisholm is not going anywhere in

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Miami, and they're trying to sell
everything they have, Like do you think,

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Kate, because we do need somebody
at the bottom of the lineup too

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to actually stabilize that piece like Chisholm
at six or seven. Would change my

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outlook on the way not only we
play defense, but the way we actually

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approach the lineup. And for someone
like Glass, now like we gotta we

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gotta throw everything we can because that
guy gives us everything every start and routinely

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he's getting burned by his own team. I'll take your answer off their Yea.

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I appreciate a lot of good points. Greg. I don't know if

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the Dodgers first move is to go
out there and get a new center fielder.

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I think James Altmans gets another chance
at some point. I don't know

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when that is. I know he's
starting to heat up in TRIPLEA Oklahoma City.

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I don't know what Andy Pott has. The situation will be because he

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continues to play well. But you're
right when they get to guys pumping ninety

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five, ninety six, ninety seven
in the first couple of games of this

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series and again tonight with Eal,
it's tough for Andy Pots. But I

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think I think he still is a
guy who's gonna get every opportunity to keep

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that position. As far as the
starter at center field, I just do.

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I think the Dodgers could use in
more another bullpen arm. I think

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that's priority number one. I think
starting pitching is gonna come back. We

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had some bruised, dark gratterol news
earlier today from Dave Roberts that he is

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gonna start throwing. It doesn't look
like he's gonna be back like soon,

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but he's progressing and taking that next
step as far as throwing, and it

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sounds like he's going in to Camelback
Ranch to kind of start ramping up and

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start that process of throwing off a
mound again, and he's had a sore

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arm and since the beginning of the
season. We're gonna get Bobby Miller back

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here for the Dodgers rotation, probably
on this homestand he pitched in the game

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over the weekend in Oklahoma City on
Friday, and it sounds like all signs

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point to him joining this rotation and
making it a six man rotation if necessary.

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Gavin Stone is not going anywhere.
I mean, the guys who they

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got in the rotation right now have
done a really good job. James Paxson's

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getting to get another shot tomorrow night
or Tuesday night when they start their series

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against the Texas Rangers. So arms
are gonna start to come back. They're

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trickling back. As far as bullpen, Clayton Kershaw's on the road, not

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too far from returning and helping out
this Dodgers team. You need to get

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him right for October. So I
think they're gonna give James Allman and Andy

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pach Has as much time. It's
June's June ninth, so in reality,

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you don't have to make a decision
for what another seven eight weeks here on

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what you're gonna do a center field
now the asking price goes up and the

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way baseball is right now. And
I was reading this over the weekend.

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I just didn't realize looking at the
standings because I don't really care about like

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the Al Central and other divisions like
that, but you look at how competitive

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some of these divisions are and teams
who aren't out of it because of the

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wild card. And I forgot the
number, but it was more teams are

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still in the wild card or divisional
race than out of it at this point.

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And certainly nobody's really out of it
except for the White Sox. You

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know, there's seventeen and a half
games back, but probably the Rockies.

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But you know what I mean,
there's there's more teams still in it and

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still alive and can make a run
at a wild card if the division's not

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in in their cards, so to
speak. And would that be said supply

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and demand and teams looking to add
to get over the hump and get to

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the wild card spot, teams looking
to add to their roster to win a

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division or get to the postseason for
the first time, or just get in

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the tournament so to speak. For
the postseason and see what happens. Asking

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price to start going up, and
not to say the Dodgers are gonna be

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in the same category with everybody else
and looking for the same needs. But

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you start talking about arms, you
know, it's like the eighties arms race,

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you know, between the US and
Russians, just keeps going up,

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and asking price goes up and you
starts stockpiling and it gets tougher. So

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we'll see what happens. We're still
kind of a ways away from that,

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and I think again, Altman and
Paws are gonna get every opportunity as possible.

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Ken in Newport always great to hear
you kid. How you doing,

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Hey, Tam, how you I'm
doing? Okay? Great series that was

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exciting. Hernanas was amazing. Their
marriage should not have been in there.

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But I have a real concern for
rookie Bets. Not the ten errors,

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but in his last ten games he's
hitting one fifty, he's six for forty.

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I think it's time to let him
go back to right field instead of

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spending two hours every day practicing ground
balls. Port Rojas a phenomenal fielder who's

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hitting good this year. It was
a nice experiment, but I think it's

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hurting his offense, and I think
he's spending too much time doing things that

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we don't need him to do.
What's your thought. I appreciate it.

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Ken. I go back to the
end of the Pittsburgh series when they got

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the win. You know, he
was two for four, on base four

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times because he drew a couple of
walks. First game on Friday Night,

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the extra inning game, he goes
one for three, but he's on base

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three times because he walked twice.
Last night in the blowout win, he's

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one for four, but he's on
base because he also drew a walk.

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Tonight. You know, Mookie Betts
goes one for five but has a huge

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two run double in the fifth inning. You know, the old stands,

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superstars need to be superstars, and
in that case, in the fifth inning,

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Dodges down two to nothing, facing
a really good young right hander,

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Mookie Bets delivered with that two run
double. Now, he didn't deliver in

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the ninth inning with a hit,
but I am not going to put it

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all on him with two outs in
the ninth inning, facing one of the

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best closers in baseball, and the
pressure on him. That's not fair at

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all. But maybe he's turned a
corner, and Mooki has said at numerous

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times. He talked to David Vasse
on the pregame show a couple days ago

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and said, it's not a problem. He feels good, his body's in

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good health. He says, it's
not, you know, hurting him at

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all. Right now, He's not
getting worn down. So I trust Mookie

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when he says it himself. If
he were like, oh, you know,

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it is what it is, and
I'm just gonna keep plugging along and

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Dave Roberts or somebody else has to
speak up for him and say no,

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no, we think he's healthy,
then yeah, I might agree with you.

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But if it's coming straight from Mooki
and he says it, you have

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to take him for his word when
he says it, no, I'm good,

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I haven't felt this good in a
long time. My body's right,

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then I believe. And I don't
think it's taking a toll on him.

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And I think, you know,
he's still hitting three to nine on the

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season. He's not like he's hitting
two nine with an ops of like five

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hundred. I mean, he's still
producing at the top of the lineup,

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just not at the level he was
doing the first three or four weeks of

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this season. We'll take a time
out, we'll come back. We'll get

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December ninth, six months ago.
That was the Saturday in which David Vasse

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broke into programming here on an FI
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announced that he was gonna wear Dodger
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Dodger fans. But I remember the
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a half nine hours of confusion,
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Where is show, hey Otani.
We're gonna go back and relive that

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wild day leading up to a great
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Say lose tonight though in New York
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Sports. Welcome up for the two to

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one Tayo Tee's off left field hit
deep again. Ti Oscar Hernandez hits Tayo

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time. Te Oscar Hernandez. What
a weekend two for four to nights double

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a home run Dodgers oh loose to
the Yankees six to four as the Yankees

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come back off of Tyler Glass Now
with the three run home run from Trin

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Krisham the sixth inning. They attack
on one more in the eighth on the

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Aaron Judge home run. He's twenty
fourth of the season. As the Dodgers

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lose, they're now forty one and
twenty six, but they they take two

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or three in New York to finish
five hundred on this road trip. And

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to see what the weekend that ta
Oscar Hernandez had in New York is pretty

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remarkable. I mean, he goes
six for twelve, two doubles, three

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home runs, and nine runs batted
in in this series against the Yankees.

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Yeah, I said it earlier.
There's probably one guy who doesn't want to

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get on the flight back to LA
and stay in New York because he's that

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hot, and that's Taoscar Hernandez.
All right, so go back out to

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the phones, Brad mission Viejo.
Thanks for being patient, Brad. How

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you doing man? Hi? Tim? Pretty good? How about you doing

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good? Thank you? Yeah.
I agree with what Jose had to say

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about the eighth and ninth spot hitters. It goes back a few games,

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like Glasnow has had a problem with
the home run ball going all the way

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back to the Padres series, and
you know, even though he's got twelve

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strikeouts, that's wouldn't you say the
home run ball is really kind of bitting

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them a lot, even though there's
not a lot of run support. Has

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bitten Glass Now? Yeah? Right? Because it was it was win Win

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Schwitz, his name is Win Swinsky
on Pittsburgh hit one, yeah, and

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then Cabrera tonight at the bottom of
the order. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Benson with the Reds in the home
series with the Reds, that's right.

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The Dodgers took three out of four, so if he can just sure

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that up, it would be great. But the problem is they're not getting

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runs for him, and then it
just adds to the frustration. You know,

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the home run ball is kind of
bitting them a little bit. Yeah,

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no doubt. Tyler Glass now has
done really good the last audience before

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tonight and just gotten zero run support, and tonight he gives up a home

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run early to Cabrera. Can't do
that to a guy at the bottom of

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the order. Then you get Trent
Grisham, who it's a three run home

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run again. Hitting eighty three just
cannot happen. Cannot happen. But Oscar

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Hernandez he had a home run tonight. Brought to you by Daniels Jewelers,

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Tim, good good, Thank you
for taking my call. I had a

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two quick points. I agree with
you on the Andy Pajs slide. That

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was a little error that probably unseen
by many, but it was huge.

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The other thing is, I think
Mookie is trying his best at shortstop.

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You know, I'm one hundred percent
behind it. I just think it's kind

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of weighing on his office. I
know you already talked about it, but

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my question is, Tim, does
anybody know like the brace that O Tawny

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wears like on you know, on
his pitching arm. It seems like he

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had justice that would have not.
I could be wrong, yeah, but

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it seems like he pumps it or
he adjusts would or not. But for

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that that was my question. I
don't know if anybody else has noticed that,

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but I have, yeah, no
problem. Yeah, he like clicks

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it and adjusted and you do that, you're adjusting the degrees of the angle

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of that elbow brace. I don't
know how it's affecting or not affecting his

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swing. I would imagine if it
was a bother to him and it was

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affecting his swing, he wouldn't be
playing or he wouldn't be using it.

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So I just would have to guess
that. So I don't think there's anything

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more to it. I don't think
it's If it was affecting him, he

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wouldn't let it linger. The Dodgers
wouldn't let him be out there four or

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five at bats every single night,
even though he'd show Altani if he can

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swing one handed and he's got a
brace on the elbow, that won't let

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him fully extend. I don't think
that's the case at all. But you

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know we're seeing him tonight get on
base, score a run, and Mookie

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Bett's a two run double, the
top of the lineup getting it done,

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the bottom of the lineup getting it
on. But tonight you just make a

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couple of miscues. You don't play
a clean game on defense, a base

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running miss cue by Andy Pajez.
Those start to add up. You get

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three or four miscues in a game, you open the door give extra outs

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to your opponent. Team. Might
the Yankees with Aaron Judge who capitalized with

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a RBI double and then a home
run late in the game, and you're

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gonna lose, And the Dodgers lost
tonight in the series finale a Yankee Stadium,

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six to four. They'd still take
two of three. But they're now

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forty one and twenty six on the
season. All right, We're gonna go

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back in time. Not too far
back, though, this past offseason.

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The biggest player to hit free agency
in the history of baseball, Show Hey

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Otani. We know that. Literally
for years we talked about Otani and where

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he might go once his contract with
the Angels ended. For weeks after the

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World Series ended and free agency started, baseball insiders were starting to speculate who

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is Otani gonna sign with? Nobody
really knew his final destination. Remember the

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Baseball Winning Or Meetings, when Dave
Roberts had press conference with the Beat writers

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let it be known that the Dodgers
had met with Otani. Well, that

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was the real first insight we had
gotten onto the free agent process for Show

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Hey Otani. Well, two days
after the Winter Meetings wrapped up in Nashville,

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the wheels started turning on Otani in
his free agency. And then three

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days after the Winter Meetings concluded,
we finally got a decision from Show Hey.

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It was certainly a wild twenty four
hours if you go back six months

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tracking the biggest deal in MLB history. Today, June ninth, marks the

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six month anniversary of Showe Aotani announcing
to the world on social media that he

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had made his decision to sign with
the Dodgers. Breaking news from Major League

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Baseball, Breaking news from Major League
Baseball, show hey Otani Tani is signing

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with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Sports
changed forever that Saturday afternoon. Not only

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did Showe a Otani sign the largest
contract in Major League Baseball history, but

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he inked the richest deal in the
his of North American sports. Ten year,

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ten years, ten years, seven
hundred, seven hundred, seven hundred

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million dollars. The numbers are astronomical. It was December ninth, twenty twenty

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three, the day show Heyo Tani
let it be known he was signing with

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the Dodgers. But remember the whirldwin. That was the day before internet rumors,

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false reports, amateur air traffic controllers
following a plane across North America.

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Baseball fans everywhere that day wondered where
in the world is sho Heotani. Friday,

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December eighth, twenty twenty three,
five point thirty nine am Pacific time,

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John Morosi of the MLB Network tweeted
out source Shoeotani decision is imminent,

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possibly as early as today. That
one note from a national baseball insider sent

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the sports world into a dizzy.
This is getting a bit more real.

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Toronto is getting a little bit more
momentum than I thought they were going to.

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If he goes to Toronto, he
owns it, and he owns Canada,

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he owns the United States, and
he owns Japan, and he becomes

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an international star. Less than an
hour after the initial news that Otani's decision

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was imminent six point thirty one am
Pacific, a Toronto Blue Jays fan posted

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on a Reddit page that a private
plane was charted to fly from Orange County

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to Toronto. That same plane had
flown to Florida five days earlier with Otani

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on it, so speculation was swirling
now that sho Heyotani was headed to Toronto

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to sign with the Blue Jays.
The buzz on social media was growing as

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fans tried to connect the dots.
Instantly, fans became amateur air traffic controllers.

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They were tracking flight in six one
six our ah as it made its

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way slowly across the country. Take
a look at the radar right there.

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It's a Bombardier Global five thousand.
Is this show Heyo Tani's air? The

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mystery continued ten fifty three am Pacific, five hours after the report that Otani's

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signing was eminent, JP Hornstraw,
a writer for a Dodgers blog, posted

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an article citing multiple sources that showey
Otani was indeed planning on signing with the

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Toronto Blue Jays one oh one pm
Pacific. Over two hours later, MLB

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network insider John Morosi updated everyone with
a tweet sources shoey Otani is en route

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to Toronto today. Things were changing
quickly. Two eleven pm Pacific, the

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story took a new twist as Bob
Nightingale of the USA Today posted on social

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media that Shoeotani was not on a
flight to Toronto, it was actually at

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home here in southern California. Forty
three minutes later, two fifty four pm

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Pacific, Evan Mitsui, a CBC
photographer, was dispatched to the tarmac at

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Pearson Airport in Toronto. When he
arrived, he got on the most talked

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about plane in North America. So
what did he discover? It was not

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show Heyo Tani. After all,
it was Robert Hirschevich, the Canadian businessman

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and entrepreneur and one of the stars
of the TV show Shark Tank. I

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had no idea. It was just
me and my five and a half year

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old twins. We Land and there's
a bunch of customs guys and go where's

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Otani? And then my text start
coming in. I put two or two

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together. They didn't even ask for
my passport. They were so disappointment.

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It was me. I've never been
more humbled in my life. A wild

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eight hours of reports, rumors,
and speculation. Where in the world was

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Sho Heo Tani. Well he was
not only not in Canada, he was

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never even on a flight to Toronto
to sign with the Blue Jays, something

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that really upset fans north of the
border. No, no, no way.

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I don't want to hear about how
fans shouldn't believe things on social This

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rumor was awful. The idea that
he would come up and be a Toronto

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Blue Jay was going to change everything. Turns out nothing was changing. As

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the sunset ending a wild Friday Shoeyotani
remained baseball's most sought after free agent.

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The next day, Saturday, December
ninth, Otani broke his silence and made

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it official he was signing with the
Los Angeles Dodgers. And the signing of

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shoe Heyotani has proven to be really
good for the Dodgers three ten average,

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fifteen home runs, forty five runs
batted in, and a nine to forty

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seven OPS which is top five by
the way in the National League. Again,

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six months ago today, when sho
Heyotani ended his free agency and announced

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on social media that he was signing
with the Dodgers, it was kind of

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interesting that day before sports talk radio
was a buzz, social media was a

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buzz. This station MFI seventy LA
Sports You're a Home of the Dodgers,

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starting at the Dan Patrick Show and
the reports from John Morosi It's five thirty

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in the morning, through Colin Cowherd, through Rogan and Rodney. Things were

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then changing again through the Petchless and
Money Show, and then we found out

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it wasn't even Otani on that flight
going from John Wayne Airport to Toronto.

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And it ended oday in which I
don't know about you there was a lot

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of emotions from all right, here
we go it's imminent, to oh,

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wow, he's gonna sign with the
Toronto Blue Jays. Is this Oh all

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right? Fine, then if he's
not gonna be the Dodgers, let's send

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him to a team that's so far
away from Los Angeles that they all have

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to face him a couple of times
a year in the Blue Jays too.

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Oh oh, he's not signing with
the Blue Jays. Yes, yes,

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there's still a shot that he'll sign
with the Dodgers. And then to go

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to bed that night and not knowing
anything. Who knows how long was gonna

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drag go. It could have been
weeks, could have been after the holidays,

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after the first of the year,
could have been right before spring training.

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But as it was twenty four hours
after that crazy Friday decea number eighth,

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Saturday, December ninth, six months
ago Today Show, Hey Otani announced

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on social media he was signing with
the Dodgers, and then David Vasse broke

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in. Right after a UCLA basketball
game. I got wrapped up doing bruin

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talk and David Vasse sent me a
text saying Otani signing with the Dodgers,

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we got to get on and Dodger
Talk started. He took your phone calls

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and talked to different Dodger players who's
chimed in and and think Joe Kelly was

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on the show that day as well. So yeah, while twenty four hours,

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six months ago already, and still
a few more months of this season

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before we get to October, which
hopefully is Dodger fans we all hope will

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be a championship year, and the
signing of shoey Otani has certainly given the

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Dodgers every chance to win another championship. Well, they still take two or

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three in New York despite losing tonight
six to four to the Yankees. Cayler

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Ferguson, a former Dodger, gets
the win. Tyler Glass now he gets

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the loss. Glass now winless at
his last six starts Dodgers forty one and

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twenty six. They head back home
day off tomorrow. Then it's a three

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game series against the Texas Rangers,
then three against the Kansas City Royals inter

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League play out at the Ravine for
the next six for your first place LA

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Dodgers. Thanks to Colin ye Eat
for everything. Appreciate it. Thanks to

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you for listening, Thank you for
podcasting. Can listen to the show anytime

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you download your podcast. Have a great,

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safe rest of your Sunday night.
We're back at it tomorrow night with

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Off Night Dodger talking to them the
start of a three game series against the

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Rangers on Tuesday. Thanks again,
everybody. Soul