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Well, there's only a few people
that when they tell me something when it

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comes to baseball, I say,
yes, sir, and I'm with one

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of them right now. One of
the best and one of the assistants to

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Andrew Friedman, that is the great
Ron Rennicky. Ron. Thanks a lot

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for the time. Oh, no
problem. I hope you don't feel that

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way that I'm going to get on
you. No, no, okay,

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you're like one of my Jiminy crickets
to steer me in the right direction.

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That sounds good. Not only are
you one of the best baseball men that

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we know around here, but also
you were a great third base coach and

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dealing with bas runners guys that were
a little bit more headier than others.

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There was a lot of debate about
last night, Andy Pajes keeping his head

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down. What did you see on
that last play last night? Well,

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I came in today and I talked
to Dino a little bit. He asked

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me if I saw the playing.
And the thing about putting your head down

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is the fastest you run is when
your head is up. I mean,

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if you watch a track runner,
they don't run with their heads down.

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Yeah, they roam with their heads
up. So that's one thing we need

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correct is when you run, the
fastest you're gonna be is when your head

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is up. So if your head's
up all the time, which it should

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be, you should be able to
see a lot more. I know Albert

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pool Holds, for instance. I
know sometimes he would come around third and

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when he had his head down he
was going home, and you had to

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try to convince him that, look, just make sure you picked me up

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before he dropped that head down.
But there really isn't a reason to put

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your head down other than to see
the bass. You drop it quickly to

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see the base, and then you're
back up again because that's the fastest you

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run, So that probably was the
most important thing. When he's halfway over,

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you know, towards third, you
should pick up Dino, and then

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once he hits the bag, you
should you should get your head back up

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because you're gonna run faster, and
then pick up Dino again because it could

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be a late hold. He's halfway
down the line. We want to do

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that to give ourselves more time to
see what the throw is going to be

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into the relay and and and gives
him the opportunity if he sees something he

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doesn't like to be able to put
on the brakes fast. Ron Rennicky as

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our guest already teaching us something that
you run faster with your head up then

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your head down. That's not something
we all realize. But as far as

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Paez goes and the teaching lesson last
night, when do you approach a player

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on a play like that that ends
the game? Well, Dino actually told

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me that that Andy came up to
him last night after the play and said

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something to him. So I think
it's better to let a player do that

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in game. If you think it's
a situation where it may come up again

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in the game, you can go
talk to a guy, but most of

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the time you just you let it
go until after the game, maybe the

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next day, and that's that's usually
works out to be better. But it's

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really nice when a player does what
Andy did, came up right away to

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Dino and said, hey, you
know, I ran with my head down,

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and you know Dino's I mean,
he's the best over there, so

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he's going to stop him plenty of
time, and he certainly knows what he's

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doing, so you can trust him. And it's just a matter of when

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you look and then how once you
see that, how you pick up that

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guy again? And as a third
base coach ron when you have a player

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like Marcus Simeon who has a shortstop
arm being the relay thrower, is that

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part of the equation for Dino to
hold him up and to understand, Hey,

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this guy. A lot of guys
are not very accurate, as you

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know, but he's pretty accurate.
No, he's really good. And I'm

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sure that's why Dino put on the
brakes there. He saw him get be

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in good position to take the throw
and didn't like what he saw, and

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that's why he put up that stop
sign. But you're right, it does

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depend on the arm strength. So
a lot of times we look and some

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of these infielders are going out too
far on cutoff and relays, and once

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that happens, if they're out of
their comfort zone, then you're more aggressive.

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Once in a while you get burned
on it, but most of the

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time it's really difficult for them to
throw accurately when they get past that point

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where you know they should be.
Do you believe that it's easier now to

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be more aggressive when you're trying to
go first to third or first to home

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because not a lot of players throw
to bases before games. You're correct,

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the infield isn't taken as much.
I know Clayton has the outfielders out here

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and when I come in, I'm
catching throws at third. I'm catching throws

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at home before we do our batting
practice and stuff. So he brings them

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out early to make sure they're thrown, probably a couple times a homestand so

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that certainly helps. But you're correct, they don't throw as accurate as they

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used to, and it's simply because
we took infield almost every day, and

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I don't think that was probably very
smart. I know, because my arm

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was sore a lot. So I
think we do it. I think we're

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smarter now in the workload that we
do, but also it probably causes some

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inaccuracy. All right, Ron Renicky, Speaking of workload, you've been out

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here when the Dodgers are at home
playing first base for Mookie Betts, who

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is making the throws from shortstop three
or four hours before first pitch. What

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have you seen from him as far
as being better at shortstop? Certainly I've

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seen the improvement, no doubt.
I was there all spring training, same

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thing, catching throws from him.
You know, he's very accurate. We

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all know he's a great athlete,
but we also know that it takes a

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long time to get really good at
shortstop. And I think he's done a

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great job. And nobody is,
nobody in this game is going to outwork

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Moki to get better at what he
thinks he needs to. He's out here

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every single day, he's throwing extra, he's on his legs. He never

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gets tired, which I just talked
about it a couple of days ago.

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You know, when we hit ground
balls of people and they're by themselves,

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they usually take a break. Mookie
never does, and you're waiting for him

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to like, hey, look you
need to take a break, and it

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never happens. So he's in unbelievable
shape. He can keep going and keep

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working. But he's going to do
this until he gets it right in his

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mind. And when he feels like
that, he's good enough. You were

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with Mooki and Boston when the Red
Sucks won the World Series. In your

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wildest imaginations, did you ever believe
you would see Mooki Betts at shortstop?

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Uh? No, I did not. Are you amazed that He's able to

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do it, not amazed, probably
because I know him so well. You

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know second base. I could see
him going back to second because he did

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that before. They moved him the
outfield, and he can get by it

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second just because he's so darn athletic. But short, Sup, it takes

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time, it takes games, it
takes usually years, so for him to

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do what he's doing, I think
is outstanding. Ron, thanks a lot

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for the time. Like I said, you always teach, and the guys

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that don't talk a lot, they've
got the most knowledge. And Ron Rennicky

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a World Series champion player with the
Dodgers, a multiple time World Series champion

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as a coach. The Dodgers are
very lucky to have you back, and

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you still play pretty good for a
space. Thank you, David,