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Talk fight Back Tim kits Hell.
The Milwaukee Brewers spoiled the major league debut

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for young Justin Robleski as the Brewers
beat the Dodgers this afternoon nine to two.

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Hi, everybody, and thanks for
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If you're heading back to the Valley
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two five seventy A disappointing day for the

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Dodgers. Offensively, They couldn't string
together hits in this game, despite having

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runners on base having traffic on the
base pass for most of the afternoon.

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The Dodgers today one for nine with
runners in scoring position. The Dodgers left

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them loaded in the third and he
Pajus flew out in the threat. In

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the fourth, they had runners on
first and second with two outs, and

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after CT three walked and Showy Otani
grounded out, the Dodgers had first and

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second one out. In the fifth, Andy pat Has fouled out and Miguel

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Vargas struck out, so they had
opportunities early in the game. Finally,

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they bust through in the sixth inning
thanks to Chris Taylor and a two run

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home run, his third of this
season. But that was it. Offensively,

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the Dodgers just could not string together
hits. They couldn't get the hit

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they needed to keep the lineup going
and get some more runs on the board

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for young Justin Robleski, the twenty
three year old left hander who he told

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you two days ago was going to
get the start here in this series finale.

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Started the year in DOUBLEA, told
him, made two starts in TRIPLEA

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Oklahoma City, and gets fast tracked
to the major leagues to make the start.

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Five innings, four runs, five
hits, four strikeouts, two walks

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through seventy six pitches. He was
really good with his command. He was

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in the zone, he got a
head in the count. The fastball ninety

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five, ninety six he touched ninety
seven. The slider was good for the

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most part. However, he did
miss on a slider to Christian Yelich two

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run home run. Eric Hass connected
on a fastball up in the zone,

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two run shot in the fifth inning. The only two mistakes that he made

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today were those two run home runs, and those were costly mistakes that the

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young Justin Robleski made. But I
mentioned it in the Clubhouse show. I

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love the way in which he battled
back after those home runs. And Mookie

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Betts, who was on Sports and
at LA all nine Indians today as a

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third member of their booth with Joe
Davis and Oral Hrscheizer, did a fantastic

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job. And we learned so much
from whoever's in the booth, whether it's

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Oral Hrscheiser, who's great, Eric
Carros, whoever is the analyst in the

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booth, We always learn a lot, right, We learned so much from

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Rick Monday as well. On the
radio call here, Mookie Betts was great

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in talking about Hey, let's see
how he battles back after this Christian Yelich

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home run the fourth inning, and
what does he do? He comes back,

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strike, strike, ground out to
Willia Damas. That shows a young

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man who doesn't pout, didn't get
rattled and comes back after getting hit for

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a two run home run by Christian
Yelich and gets ahead in the count O

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two, gets the ground ball for
an out and then gets Garrett Mitchell first

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pitch strike three pitches later gets him
to pop out to Will Smith the Indian

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inning. Good poise, gets out
of what is a two run home run,

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gets the Brewers a two to nothing
lead, but he gets out of

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the inning to go back out there
for the fifth Now little rattled runners on

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base, two run home run from
Eric Haas, and how does he get

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out of it with two outs,
gets Cheerio to ground out to second on

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the second pitch after coming back with
the first pitch strike again makes a mistake,

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could have got rattled, could have
got really wrecked out out there on

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the mound. And he showed a
lot of poise in the fourth and the

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fifth inning after those mistakes to come
back and get him south out of those

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innings, limit the damage and give
your offense an opportunity. But unfortunately,

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like I said, the third,
fourth and fifth inning, Dodgers had runners

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in scoring position and couldn't get the
hit to drive a run in. The

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only time they did was Chris Taylor's
two run home run in the sixth inning.

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That was it offensively for the Dodgers
today, who had two runs on

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seven hits, while the Milwaukee Brewers
had nine runs on twelve hits. The

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Dodgers with runners in scoring position one
for nine in the series. The Dodgers

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with runners in scoring position three for
twenty one, and they still took two

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to three to win this series against
the Milwaukee Brewers. This is a big

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one. This is a first place
team in the NL Central, a team

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that's going to be looking to add
at the trade deadline, as are the

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Dodgers, and a team the Dodgers
will see later on in August for four

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games in Milwaukee, but certainly could
see again come October in a playoff series.

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So this was a good head to
head match up. Certainly, the

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Dodgers are not at one hundred percent
strength and that's what' encouraging. The Dodgers

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took two to three in this series
and one of the games, they're thrown

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out a twenty three year old rookie
who kept you in it for as long

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as possible. You end up losing
the game, but still no mookie bets,

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no maximunci your rotation, you're still
trying to figure out, and you

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still take two to three from a
team that's in first place and still has

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the third best record in the National
League in the Milwaukee Brewers. So I

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look at it as a tough loss. Yes, it got away from the

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Dodgers in the eighth and ninth inning
with the two run single from Perkins and

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then the two more runs of the
ninth inning. You move on from this

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one. You celebrate taking two of
three from Milwaukee, knowing where your team's

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at day off tomorrow. But then
you got a big series in Philadelphia at

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Citizens Bank Park beginning on Tuesday against
the Phillies. Now, for what I've

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been reading the last couple hours,
looks like the Phillies could be getting healthy

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for this Dodgers series. Bryce Harper
on the IL, Kyle Schwarber on the

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IL. Both of them were running
today before the Phillies game, and reportedly

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could be activated if they're checked out
healthwise okay tomorrow and no ailment still so

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they could be back in the lineup
for Philadelphia. They're still without j t

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Romuto, but certainly the Dodgers,
as we know I just mentioned no Max

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Munci, no Mookie Betts, got
a rotation that they're still trying to figure

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out and hammered down who's going to
be your guy with injuries. So it'll

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be a good series in Philadelphia,
a good test, I think for the

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Dodgers to see where they are with
the best team in the National League record

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wise in the Philadelphia Phillies. Congratulations
to the Dodgers. Today six players selected

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to the All Star Game. Five
were announced today. We already knew show

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Hey Otani was going as the starter
as the designated hitter in the National League,

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his fourth All Star appearance, his
first in a Dodger uniform. Five

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other Dodger players were announced today.
They were told before the game. It

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was announced during the game. Tyler
Glass now his first All Star appearance,

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Freddie Free and his eighth All Star
appearance, Mookie Betts eighth All Star selection,

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Will Smith congratulations of the Dodger Catcher
his second All Star selection, and

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Taeoscar Hernandez his second All Star selection, his first with the Dodgers, and

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could be participating in the home run
derby A cool moment before the game.

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The players they did find out before
first pitch today, and they found out

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from their manager Dave Roberts. Here
he is addressing the team in the Dodgers

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clubhouse and telling all All Star players
of their selection. This is about the

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All Star selections. Obviously a special
honor. Many people have had this honor,

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many people have had it multiple multiple
times. Truly special, the best

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of the best. Midsummer Classic.
Your family gets to enjoy at kids,

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and you get to be recognized as
one of the best players in the world.

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So the first person that got voted
in is Mookie Betts. So the

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next guy, I've said many times
over, I think this guy is the

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best at his position in the game. And he gets another nomination. Rightfully,

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so will Smith. So the next
person, obviously everyone knows that he's

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not a uniform he was going to
be an All Star and uh he's a

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world favorite baseball favorite and we're very
lucky to have him. He's a superstar

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through and through Chotani. So I
love this. This next player signed a

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one year contract, as I told
you guys this to play for the Dodgers,

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and with that, he rewarded us
by playing every day and putting up

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a bunch of runs and performing.
And man, what a consistent guy and

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consistent teammates. So Tao, congratulations. I'll be this next guy. I

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couldn't believe it was his first nomination. So he leads the league in hair

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and uh, I just couldn't believe
it. But man, this guy is

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a hometown guy. I'd like to
say this was his hometown team since he

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was growing up. And he finally
we made it work that he got to

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come back home and be a Dodger
and and when he takes the baseball we

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expect to win. He's a top
of the rotation guy. And Tyler,

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your first nomination, congratulated. This
last guy is probably on my Mount Rushmore

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of baseball players. He just plays. He just loves to play the game,

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loves to show up. He posts, and he takes performance and expectations

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personal. And I really have grown
to really admire this guy and what he

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means. He makes me better.
And so this next guy, Freddie Freeman,

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congratulations, You guys guys, all
right, there's Dave Roberts before the

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game today announcing the six All Stars
representing the Dodgers. We already knew about

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Showy Otani, the five other reserves, Tyler Glasnew congratulations to him. Congratulations

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to Freddie Freeman selection number eight.
Mookie Betts with the broken hand, will

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not play in the game. We'll
see if he goes and enjoys the Midsummer

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Classic out there in Arlington. Didn't
say on sports that at LA whether not

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he was gonna go or not.
Actually, but he gets selected to his

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eighth All Star game. Will Smith
his second All Star appearance in taoscar Hernandez

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his second All Star appearance. Before
we get to your phone call, I

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just want to point out a lot
of people talk about the game of baseball

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and where it's at, and well, it's an old person sport and there's

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not enough youth, and there's a
lot of aging superstars, and we're all

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the young guys to take this sport
to the next twenty thirty years down the

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road, to the next generation of
baseball fans. So I'll make the argument

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right now, and I'm going to
tell you the young guys are here in

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Major League Baseball You just have to
look at where we are as far as

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baseball and the young talent that is
there and the young talent that's going to

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be on display at the All Star
Game. Thanks to Colin Ye for looking

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this up. Thirty two first time
All Stars this year. Go back a

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couple of years ago there was forty
plus new All Stars. Thirty two first

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time All Stars this year going to
Arlington. Nineteen players under the age of

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twenty seven. It's a lot of
young players, and in particular, I'm

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gonna give you some names. These
are stars. These are young players who

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are gonna be stars, and people
know their name already and they're young.

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Paul Skins out of Otaro High School, first picking the draft a year ago.

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He's twenty two years old for the
Pittsburgh Pirates. Twenty two years old,

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first picking the draft last July,
and this July he's gonna be pitching

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in the All Star Game. Elie
de la Cruz twenty two year old shortstop

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Cincinnati Reds Stud. Gunnar Henderson Stud
Baltimore Orioles twenty three year old shortstop Jackson

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Merrill's twenty one years old outfielder for
the San Diego Padres. C. J

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Abrams twenty three years old, shortstop
Washington Nationals. Bobby Witt Junior, twenty

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four years old, one of the
best young players in baseball for the Kansas

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City Royals. This is his first
All Star selection. Schemes Dela Cruz,

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Gunner, Henderson Jackson, Merrill,
C. J. Abrams, Bobby wid

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Junior, all young superstars, part
of the group of nineteen players under the

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age of twenty seven, part of
the thirty two first time All Stars.

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It's pretty impressive as to see the
young crop of players that are coming up

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now in Major League Baseball. And
a lot of these players are superstars already

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household names, and some of them
you will know about in the next couple

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of years. How about locally,
southern California a hot bed for baseball,

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high school baseball. Just look at
this All Star selection in twenty twenty four.

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Christian Yelich. We just saw him
put on a show today for the

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Milwaukee Brewers out of West Lake High
School. Everybody knows Christian Yelich, Everybody

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loves Christian Yelich. Now he's just
heard Dave Roberts to make the announcement before

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the game. His first All Star
selection for the Heart High School product west

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Lake High School, Heart High School
represented, Eltoral High School represented with Paul

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Skeens. Modern Day High School represented
by Ryan McMahon, Rocky's outfielder Jared duran

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Cypress High School, cal State Long
Beach Red Sox outfielder. Pretty impressive,

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the young Southern California talent going to
the All Star Game, and again the

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young overall talent that will be playing
in the Midsummer Classic. So when people

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tell you, oh, the baseball's
boring, Baseball's for old people. There's

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no young superstars. Where are the
Jeters? Where are the Nomars? Where

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are the a Rods? Where's the
next young generation of superstars that we the

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the game of baseball can promote and
push forward. You got Otani, You've

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got Ellie de la Cruz, Paul
Skens, Gunner Henderson, c j Abrams,

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Mookie Betts, Jackson Merrill, Bobby
Witt. You've got guys in big

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markets like Aaron Judge as well.
So you've got big time guys in big

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markets, and you've got young players
mixed in there as well. I love

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it. I love where the game
of baseball is right now. I couldn't

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say this a few years ago,
I didn't really feel it. I felt

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like it was hurting, and every
year it was it was suffering. But

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I think the rules changes have helped
out Major League Baseball tremendously. The pitch

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clock could go down with one of
the best things for baseball. But it's

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all said and done. I know
Summer argue it's hurting the pitching and too

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many arm injuries now, But for
the overall pace of baseball and the game

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shortening the games to two hours and
fifteen minutes, two hours thirty minutes and

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none of these three and a half
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we have a short term memory and
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understand you have to adapt, and
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really good job for a game that's
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And now you've got young talent infused
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Baseball is healthy. Baseball is at
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six nine eighty seven two five seventy
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seven. We will take a quick
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phone calls Jose Mota as well,
and maybe here from ta Oscar Hernandez going

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to the All Star Game. Could
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We'll find out eight sixty six,
nine eighty seven two five seventy Dodgers

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lose to the Brewers today nine to
two. They still take two of three

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from Milwaukee, and they find out
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Thanks for being with us on this
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on AM five to seventy LA Sports. One ball, one strike, pitch

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to Taylor, the swings Hammers at
the left. This ball's deep, This

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ball's don Chris Taylor with a two
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the board. It's four to two, third home run of the season for

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Chris Taylor. Chris Taylor goes deep
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feet to left field. The only
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to the Brewers ninety two. Daniels
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the Dream Dodgers still take two to three

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from the Milwaukee Brewers, as they're
now fifty five and thirty six. We'll

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get back to your phone calls in
a minute. Let's check out with Jose.

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It's time to go around the Horn
with Hose Dane log all right,

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Jose, I don't want to harp
on this one. Too much got away

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from the Dodgers in the eighth and
ninth Innyan, But for Justin Robleski finds

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out last night at dinner that he's
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A couple of hiccups on the helm
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Innian. But overall, what did
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his poise out there? Oh,
this guy's not afraid of anybody in the

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batter's box. And I think,
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in the big leagues. It'll play
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And also tim you know, it's
a testament to what the Dodgers have

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been preaching to young pitchers so much
about don't be enamor with the I tell

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to swinging this and all these things
get people out, and to have the

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ability as a lefty to go ninety
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three, then hit a ninety seven
and then you go, well, wait

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a minute, this guy's pitching.
I just thrown an effectively. His slider

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was going to get at a little
sharper. He had a great feel for

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the zone, up and down the
zone. But you know, I will

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take this tup of outing and this
toup of presents anytime, knowing that he

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got hurt only in a couple of
pitches. Yeah, this guy started the

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year in double A Tolsa. We
talked to the voice of the drillers.

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Dennis Higgins a couple of months ago
on off night Dodger Talk, and he

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said all the roving pitching structures for
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with his preparation, even on nights
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he was a pitching He came in
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as far as what he wanted to
do against opponents. Gets promoted to Triple

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A, makes just two starts there
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the Dodgers are going to need guys
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maybe to make starts here in the
second half of the season too long,

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Jose, this rotation allow for more
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to do it. You have to
pace these guys going into these dog days

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coming up. Now. You know, the big dogs need to go out

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there and welcome the challenge and know
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But at the same time, we
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the youngsters just slowly. But you
know, going back to Bleski, Tim,

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this is the Dodgers once again showing
the world how the draft is supposed

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to be done. Okay, Remember, because they have been winning so often

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and so consistently, they're not getting
the top picks all the time. Look

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at the round that he was picked
in and then how he quickly roll through

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the ranks, and he's not being
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this guy's a stright thrower. We
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leagues. With experience, he's going
to get better and understand how to navigate

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lineus. But also, I think
it's important to expose these guys at this

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level now because as many scouts and
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the Dodgers have the biggest gems.
Sometimes. I even talked about who

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know about Jessin Robletski two weeks ago, right, But this is what he's

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talking about. He goes when the
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a key guy during the trade deadline, Belima, they have so many pieces

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that other organizations won, and now
this guy is a big leader showed other

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organizations, and perhaps he's a very
good one. Now I'm not trading him,

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It's not what I'm doing right now. But these are all parts of

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what happens within the structure of an
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map things out. And this has
showed once again that they're on the right

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path. When it comes out with
Pigeon development, we find out six Dodgers

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that are going to the All Star
Game. We knew Showy O'tana was the

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starter as the designated hit in the
National League, but very cool to see

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Tyler Glass now, Freddie Freeman,
Mookie Betts, Will Smith getting the second

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All Star nod and ta Oscar Hernandez
signs the one year deal. Comes into

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La Dodger fans kind of celebrating in
the the Otani and Yamamoto signing, kind

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of slider at the radar and here
he is, maybe participating in the home

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run Derby and having just a great
twenty twenty four season. To that big

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Smileel deserves all these guys deserve it, and I'm sure Yamamota would have been

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on that they been healthy too,
the way he was pitching and throwing the

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baseball and getting through big league hitters. But for Tail, you know,

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one year deal. He comes over
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The whole environment has been so spectacular
for him, making him a better

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player. And he's been a great
teammate with so many the younger guys and

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the veteran guys too. You know, a guy like Shoel Tani. But

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you know Freddie Freeman talking about earning
the players vote, Seim, I can't

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stress it enough for you over the
years, the last twenty five thirty years

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in broadcasting, how much that means
to a player to say, my peers,

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the people who watch this and know
what I do, elected me.

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And that is the ultimate respect that
you can get. The rest of the

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guys, so glad Ford, will
Smith obviously and Tyler, but you know,

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the dollars are so deep. As
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percent of your team. That means
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I applaud how they all went about
it. How they you know, Mookie

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Best playing shortstop, playing shortstop,
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Obviously he's hurt right now, But
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of the culture and something they promote, which is obviously all based that round

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one thing, which is having good
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Yeah, I mentioned this last segment, Hosea, I want to get

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your thoughts on this, the influx
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and the health of the overall state
of baseball. I go back to last

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year, thirty three first time All
Stars. Last year twenty twenty one,

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there were forty two first time All
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two first time All Star players.
There nineteen under the age of twenty seven,

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and baseball is going to have on
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Gunner Henderson, Paul Skeen, c
J. Abrams, Bobby wid Junior,

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Jackson Merrill, young guys under the
age of twenty four on display to

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show what the next generation of baseball
players are going to be around for.

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It's exciting time for baseball. I
think it is doing all the talk you

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know a few years ago, what's
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we've got to get him back.
We don't want to turn off the

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TV in the fifth or sixth inning, and all these things you mentioned to

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go along with keeping people engaged and
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know that generation that it's passing it
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and the dads and everything that goes
around with that, to keep the game

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alive and teach people about the legends
and what they've done for the game,

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how these people become legends themselves.
But I'm glad that young people are so

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involved in the game right now.
They're so engaged in voting. I mean,

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you see the way things you know
swung in Philadelphia. You know,

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we move with the Potters of San
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But I think the game is a
very good place. It speaks about

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how ready these guys are at the
moment they are drafted. Paul Squeens for

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example. I mean Godnard Henderson himself
too, a guy like eliebe La Cruz

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took a different path coming from Dominica. But nonetheless, I'm very excited because

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these are guys that I want to
go down and meet. I get a

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chance to talk to them when they
come to do your Stateum will go on

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the road because it's part of what
we're supposed to do too, pass on

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the information they come from it.
And one thing to is how all these

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all star players relate to somebody who
was listening or watching the TV, the

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Dodger game, the National game,
the radio and Spanish or English. Just

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there. Know, there's always going
to be a connection with somehow there,

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especially now with so many guys from
told in California, which is great.

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Well, said Jose, appreciate it. We'll talk to you in a couple

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of days. All right there,
he goes Jose mode. Appreciate him joining

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us year on postgame Dodger Talk.
Dodgers loose to the Milwaukee Brewers by final

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of ninety to two. Justin Robleski, the rookie five innings, four runs,

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five hits, four strikeouts in a
losing effort, but the Dodgers still

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take two to three from the Brewers. We'll start things off our Buddy Ken

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and Newport Beach. Ken. How
are you doing, Buddy? Thanks?

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So, how did your family like
Newport? They like Newport. We haven't

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been down there in a little while, but yeah, we liked it down

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there. Yeah you said a few
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not no, not not recently.
Okay, So I got a question

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for you, as a former catch
on the player who was seeing a lot

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of pitches on a lot of hitters. Otani is going to struck out nineteen

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times in his last twenty games.
He's a lot of them looking and he's

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also an inside pitches pulling his right
leg. What are you seeing for all

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of those strikeouts? I see a
guy chase a lot of pitches out of

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the zone. Ken, I appreciate
it. Great to hear from your buddy.

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As always. I see a showy
Otani when he's locked in like he

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was was it yesterday? When he's
on base five times and driving the ball

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to all fields and not chasing pitches
out of the zone, And when he's

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flailing open and he's missing on pitches
in, up, out, everywhere.

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He's chasing and he's even talked about
Dave Roberts has talked about it. When

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he's small, you know, smallens
the zone so to speak, you know,

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zeros it in and doesn't chase pitches
outside of the zone thinking he can

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just you know, with his power, hit a ball on the outside part

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of the play and still make contact
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or whatever. He's a really good, if not the best hitter in baseball.

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And when he gets away from that, that's where he kind of gets

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some some troubles. And I think
you're seeing that at times in the last

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couple of weeks now when he's dialed
in like he was yesterday, not chasing

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pitches, get it on base becaus
of walks, gets hit by a pitch,

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drives the ball, drives the ball
out of the ballpark. That's the

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Otani that we'd used to be seeing
here, Scott in Rancho Santa Margarita,

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the nine four nine. You know
what, Scott good Jim so I hear

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he's talking about pumping up the game
of baseball and help baseball. I'm a

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baseball fan. I grew up in
the seventies and my dad and Willie May's

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passed away at a tear in my
ISOs stuff. But the thing with me

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on we pay these players all this
money. We never talked about the fan

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and the price of a ticket.
How does that you know, bond I

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had with my dad going to baseball
game or get restored when the price of

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a ticket is so high. Yeah, it's it's that way across the boards.

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Got I appreciate it. It's you
know, you go to the store's

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look at the price of milk,
look at the price of bread, I

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mean things, everything's gone up in
price. And gas. It's it's across

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the board. But in the world
of sports, certainly, going to a

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sporting event at the professional level is
not cheap. Baseball, you're going to

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an NFL game lately, you know, expensive is to get into a football

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game. How about going to a
Laker game? How about going to an

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NBA game? In general? You
know here in southern California, it's expensive.

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And when you win and you're successful, people want to go to the

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ballpark. I get it. It's
it's tough to go when when ticket prices

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are they are in professional sports.
Heck, college sports cells go to a

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UCLA or a usc football game.
It's it's not cheap to go to things

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anymore. To go to a concert, for heaven's sakes, you know,

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try taking a family of four to
a concert at the Forum at Sofi Stadium.

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It's gonna cost you one thousand dollars
for four people to go see a

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concert set up in the nosebleed of
the five hundred sections. To see your

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favorite band or group or singer perform. Yeah, I'm with you. The

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prices in general are skyrocketed out of
control. But unfortunately, there's just not

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anything you getting to be able to
do about it right now? You know,

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this is the way things are.
I don't know what else to say.

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It's not a Dodger issue. It's
a professional sports issue. It's a

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entertainment issue. It's just the way
it is. It's expensive. I mean,

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here's another example for you. You
talk about father and son going to

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a baseball game. Okay, what
the days of collecting baseball cards. I'm

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just gonna throw this out there because
colony has got me back into collecting baseball

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cards. You've seen the price of
a box of baseball cards nowadays. You

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remember when they were like twenty five
dollars, forty dollars for upper deck,

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maybe fifty dollars for a box of
upper deck. I mean, I'm aging

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myself here clearly. But in twenty
twenty four, to go get a box

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of tops baseball cards, it's like
eighty five bucks. And that's the bottom

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level tops, just regular baseball cards. You want these chromes, you want

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the updated ones, you want you
know, the bowman. I mean,

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it's expensive. Everything's expensive right now. Collecting sports cards is expensive. It's

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not for the kids anymore, unfortunately, which is sad to say. And

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again this just kind of goes.
Circling back to your comment about it it's

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expensive to go to baseball games,
it is. It's unfortunately expensive to go

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to baseball games. It's also expensive
to do everything else. Brad and Mission

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Viejo. Welcome to Dodger Talk.
Brat, how you doing pretty good?

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Thanks for taking my call. Are
you concerned about over the last forty games

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the Dodgers are kind of hovering around
five hundred. You see them picking it

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up the pace a little bit fully
starting Tuesday. You know, I'm getting

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more runs per game as an average
because they've been averaging about five. Yeah,

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well that's pretty good. If you're
averaging five runs a game, that's

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pretty darn good in baseball nowadays.
And I don't want to get into the

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we're in cruise control here in July
talk. But the Dodgers are playing basically

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five hundred baseball, as you mentioned, over the last forty days. With

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that being set, they still have
a seven and a half game lead in

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the division. They still just took
two or three from one of the other

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best teams in the National League,
the Milwaukee Brewers, and the Dodgers are

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banged up. No Max Munsey,
no real third basement that has established themselves

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in his absence. You have Mookie
Betts now out three weeks to the day

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because of the hand injury, a
starting rotation that's missing, Walker Bueller has

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never had, Clayton Kershaw has had
an up and down, Bobby Miller who's

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been hurt, and you're relying on
Justin Robleski's of the world, and you're

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relying on Land and Knack to now
be a every five day guy for you.

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With that all being said, I
think the dot are gonna be okay.

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I'm not worried about where they've been
the last forty days, and you

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know how they're basically just treading above
five hundred baseball right now the long season.

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And I think this Dodger team realizes
over the last couple of years,

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Okay, you win one hundred and
eleven games, but when you're dead,

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tired, and you're gassed and you've
got no arms left come October. But

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the Dodgers had a couple of years
ago twenty twenty one ran into an issue.

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Max Schurzer dead arm, Clayton Kershaw
dead arm, you ran into problems.

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So I think the Dodgers are doing
a better job of spacing things out,

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certainly with the playing time and the
pitching with the guys that are healthy.

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And with that being said, I'm
not worried about it at all.

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Eight six, six, nine eighty
seven, two five seventy mites. What's

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going on, Mitch? How you
doing? Holking the Dodger talk? Hey,

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Kim had a good sport? I
did? I agree with the young

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talent gunner and when they're free agents
love the senior as a Dodger. Do

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you think this kid, say,
was Summon? What do you think we'll

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find out? I don't know if
he's got another turn in him next time

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around. We'll find out from Dave
Roberts. What do they got six games

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left? Maybe he gets to start
next Sunday in Detroit. Going into the

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All Star break, you have to
keep in mind the injuries have been a

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factor. I mean Yamamoto, I
mean brought up Yamamotos have been out.

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When you're relying on these guys to
pitch every five days, and now you've

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got a Tyler Glass now who,
as we've talked about two weeks ago,

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keep an eye on his innings pitched, can keep an eye on his starts

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made. They're gonna get up there
here past the All Star break near career

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highs, in which he said just
a year ago, which was a year

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coming off of an arm injury.
You don't want to tax him and max

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out his innings and push past his
career highs as far as innings and starts

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by August one, because then you
still got two months of a season to

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go and October, so you have
to pace this out. You have to

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be cautious as far as what you're
doing with your starting pitchers. So with

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that being said, I do believe
we'll see Justin Robleski again. But also

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I think there are two other names
we're gonna see help out this Dodger rotation

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in some capacity between now and the
end of the regular season. And that's

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Kyle Hurt, who's down in Triple
O Oklahoma City, who before he went

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on the injured list, was helping
this Dodgers team out as a reliever,

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and he could come back into that
role. And I think River Ryan,

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who's in Triple A Oklahoma City in
the rotation, there could be another young

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arm asked to make a start here, a start there, a get bit

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sent back down and then come back
up in September and make a couple of

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starts to help elongate this rotation for
the second half of the season. Congratulations

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to all six Dodgers who make the
All Star Game in Arlington next Tuesday.

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Tyler ask Now his first appearance,
Shoe Tani his fourth appearance, Will Smith's

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second appearance, Mookie Bets and Freddie
Freeman both their eighth All Star appearances.

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How about Taoscar Hernandez betting on himself
signing a one year deal with the Dodgers

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this past offseason and unheralded signing,
and he makes the All Star Game.

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He's having a great season offensively.
Let's go back out to Dodger Stadium.

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Ta Oscar Hernandez. Just a little
while ago talking with our own David Bassa

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in the media, tay Oscar,
the second time you've been named to the

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All Star Team. What does it
mean? This time? The players voted

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you and Freddie and Will to the
team. Man, means a lot.

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You know, this is what we
were for obviously, coming in here,

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big city, big team, huge
fan base, and be able to do

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the things that they expected me to
do to help the team. That is

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most important for me. I know
it's great to go to the Ostar game,

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but being able to help the team
and the things that they need me

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to do, they want me to
do and and and get it done the

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first half of the season. Obviously, we still got a week to go

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from the first half, but uh, so far has been great. You've

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said that if you made the All
Star team, he would love to be

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in the Home Run Derby. Is
that still something you're interested in? Yeah?

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Yeah, why not? Obviously in
my career I wanted to. I

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wanted to be a part of it. Uh see how it feels and why

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not trying to go for it and
and win everything. So now it's official,

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your name's out there. I don't
know. I don't know. It

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depends how MLV wants to decide yes
or no, but I'm able to.

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I'm gonna be hoping to to participate
on it. All Right, there's Taoscar

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Hernandez. Hey, Baseball, are
you listening. Ta Oscar Hernandez says he's

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available for a home run derby next
Monday in Arlington. You're looking for players,

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why not ta Oscar Hernandez. He'd
be perfect candidate for the Home Run

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Derby. And congratulations to him and
the other five Dodgers heading to Arlington for

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the Midsummer Classic. By the way, the Phillies had seven players selected to

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go to the All Star Game.
The Dodgers right behind them with six players

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selected for the All Star Game.
Well that's gonna do it for postgame Dodger

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Talk, we couldn't get to you. We'll be back with off Night Dodger

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Talk Tomorrow night from seven until eight
pm. Dodgers hitting the road for the

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final stretch of the first half of
this season. They'll head to Philadelphia for

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a three game series against the Fighting
Phils and then a three game series next

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weekend in Detroit before the All Star
prey. Thanks to Coliny, Thanks to

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you for listening being a part of
the show. Thanks for podcasting as well,

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whether on the iHeartRadio app or whoever
you get your podcast. We appreciate

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the listen and the download. We'll
be back at it Tomorrow Dodger Talk from

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