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Well, right now, we're joined
by a man that meant and still means

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so much to the Dodger organization.
The way he played, the way he

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carried himself first class will always be
remembered, especially as long as I'm here

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and I'm talking about two time World
Series Champion and two time World Series MVP

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and thirty year champion, Corey Seeger. Thanks a lot for the time.

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Great to be with you again.
Yeah, thank you. It's glad to

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be back on here. Hey,
after that pregame press conference yesterday and we

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walked back to the clubhouse, I
felt like I didn't want to leave,

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like I was gonna grab onto your
ankles or something. I know, you

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walked me only back to the clubhouse. So nice, nice little choffeur back

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over there. Hey, I know
you want to play, but there is

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a silver lining that last night you
were able to not only take in the

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appreciation of the organization but the fans. The way they received you last night.

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Yeah, you know, it was
really awesome. You know, I'm

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not the one to really like the
spotlight, but just that special interaction to

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the fans, you know, just
the way they supported me throughout the years,

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the ups and downs, everything,
the way they support this team.

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You know, they always have a
special place in my heart. And last

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night was pretty cool. It feels
like you would have taken it in better

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the way things were last night than
being on deck as the second hitter of

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the game. Yeah, you know, that would have been a lot more

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fun. But just the just the
total embrace. Man, Like just what

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I said before, you know,
it was really special. It's something that

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I'll I'll never forget. And like
I said, again, you know this

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fan this this this organization, this
fan base. You know they have a

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special place in my heart. Did
you realize how much you meant to them

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before last night? Not really?
You know, you never really get caught

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up in it. I think,
you know, you just you're going out

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there and you're trying to do your
job, trying to win. You know,

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you're always trying to perform well for
them. But to see the appreciation,

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the gratitude that they showed me,
it was it was really humbling.

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Almost. The one thing that I
loved so much about the teams you played

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on was the bond that you had
with your teammates. And to this day,

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how close are you guys still be
because it seems like whenever players from

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that part of Dodger history come together, it's like a brotherhood. Yeah,

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you know, extremely I think a
brotherhood's a good word. You know,

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we went through a lot of a
lot of fun times, really close knit

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group. You know, people still
vacation together and stay in contact. You

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know. It's it's something that'll be
hard to replicate in the future, but

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it's something you'll always enjoy the memories
of. You remember, who was your

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favorite roommate who? Definitely I gotta
go with Ross Stripling. Yeah, me

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and me and him live for a
couple of years together. Barnes and Trace

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Thompson are close seconds, but I
think Ross takes the cake on that one.

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He seems to be a very responsible
type of guy. That's exactly the

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right word, you know. He's
actually helpful, knows how to still like

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have fun and just sit there and
watch some shows and hang out and actually

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takes out the trash. That's one
thing Barnes will never do is it probably

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still doesn't do it. Hey,
can you believe Austin Barnes right now as

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we speak, is the longest ten
yured active Dodger. I know, it's

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crazy, right Who would have thought
that, not me. Good for him

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though, he he means a lot
of this organization. He's he's done a

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lot for him. He's a he's
a good piece of keep Corey Seeger is

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our guest, two time World Series
champion and a champion for the Dodgers.

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And I remember the first time I
met you. It was in the hallways

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of the press box. You're with
Julio Ourrias after he won Minor League Pitcher

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of the Year and you won Minor
League Player of the Year. And it

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feels like you haven't changed one bit. Oh man, try not to.

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But I had some I had some
good molding over there. You know.

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I had a lot of a lot
of good role models, a lot of

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good people in that clubhouse, a
lot of good staff, a lot of

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good media that took care of me
over there. They really shaped me into

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who I am. When you go
back to last year and the run to

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the World Series Championship in the ALCS, you guys beat the Astros in seven

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games, was there any part of
you that felt some sort of vindication or

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redemption for what took place in seventeen
or is that not even part of it?

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For sure? I'd be lying to
if I didn't say that. It

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was definitely. The initial was the
happiness for the Rangers and moving on in

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the World Series and stuff like that. But once you got home and kind

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of processed it, it felt like
you did something good for your old team,

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for sure. How many texts did
you get from your former teammates?

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Quite a few. We'll keep those
names under wraps, but yeah, there

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was definitely quite a few. I
was going to ask you, this was

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twenty seventeen the best team that you
played on with the Dodgers, or obviously

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twenty winning the World Series? Probably
seventeen, to be honest with you.

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Hard to compare, you know,
obviously, but that was a really good

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team we had. It felt like, I don't know, it just felt

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like that was as close as you
can get to winning the World Series without

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doing it. But also, like
I said, the bond, the brotherhood

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you all had together. Yep,
you know, I think that's something that

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kind of will forever hold us together. Rights It's those moments, It's those

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games that define you and make you
closer and help you basically rebuild from there,

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right Like you got to start over
and recoup together and and get things

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rolling. So it's games like that
they're bring you closer. He gave us

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so much enjoyment, and the way
you did it and still do it is

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first class, and that obviously comes
from your mom and dad. How's Big

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Jeff Sieger doing. He's great.
Uh, he's uh, he's happy.

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You know, he's got light work
now though he's only got one guy playing

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now, so they're uh, they're
on reduced baseball games, but now they're

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uh, they're watching Kyle's oldest son
go play. Okay, he's uh,

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he's really enjoying being a grandfather.
Is he thrown to him against the barn

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in North Carolina? Still absolutely.
I don't think that'll ever go anywhere.

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It's just, uh, it's just
that Kyle's barn now, So it's uh,

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it's something that he really enjoys and
you'll never be able to get that

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out of him. That's awesome.
We'll see what happens tonight and the rest

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of this series. Either way,
it's great to have you back in Los

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Angeles, say and you will forever
mean so much to this organization. And

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it's not just what you did on
the field, but just who you are

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as a person. I think that's
what resonates with all of us. Thank

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you, I really appreciate that.
I'm appreciative for everything that they've done for me.