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Dodger Talk is sponsored by La Care
Health Plan, providing affordable healthcare insurance to

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millions of Angelinos for over twenty five
years. And now your voice for Dodger

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Talk like that, David Vasse.
Welcome the Dodger Talk. David Vasse with

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you until four point thirty. That's
when petros and Money will get to work

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and entertain you until seven o'clock.
They'll do a lot of clown stuff.

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And I'm sure they're really excited about
the reports that JJ Reddick has been hired

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to coach the Lakers. They are
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I would venture to say Petrosen Money
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He reflects their attitude towards all of
us. Anyway, The Dodgers take three

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out of four from the Rockies today, beating them five to three. Gavin

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Stone continues to make me look good. He goes five and a third,

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gives up two urn runs, had
seven strikeouts and only through seventy seven pitches.

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But as you heard jose Motis say, and we saw it, his

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first taste of what it's like to
pitch at Coors Field. He started to

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run out of some gas there in
the sixth inning. But my point is

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we saw him run out of gas
before the bases were loaded. My thing

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is, talking to different managers over
the years, you don't want to give

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your relief pitcher zero margin for air. And in the last week or so,

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Dave Roberts has really rolled the dice
by bringing in a relief pitcher with

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the bases loaded. That is not
a way to live if you're a manager

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or a team. And Blake Trinan, who had no margin for air,

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gave up a two run single at
that point to Jake Cave, the left

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handed hitter that Dave Roberts did not
want Gavin Stone to face. So I'm

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not against I can be convinced that, yeah, okay, take Gavin Stone

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out at that point in time if
you believed he was out of gas.

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But if you believed he was out
of gas before he faced Cave, he

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was out of gas when he faced
Montero the DH and he was out of

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gas even before that in the inning. So that's my point. You want

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to give your relief pictures some margin
for air, and when you bring them

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in with the bases loaded and one
out, you're not on the flip side.

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There's the argument that could be made, don't you want Gavin Stone to

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be a little battle tested later in
the year up with five nothing at that

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point in time. He's a change
up pitcher. He threw that change up

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quite a bit today. That can
get swing and miss like it did today

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seven times, but it also can
induce a ground ball, inning ending double

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play. Now Blake Trning could do
the same thing, get the strikeout and

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get the ball hit on the ground. So I understand why tryn in,

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and I also under stand taking Stone
out. But like I said, if

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you saw that he was gassed or
at a gas before facing cave, you

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certainly saw that before. Eight six, nine, eight, seven, two

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five seventy is the phone number.
Dodgers do. Get the win today and

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show hey Otani, what a series
for Otani those four games at Coors Field,

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Otani, as the Dodger leadoff hitter, was eight for eighteen with two

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home runs, seven RBIs and six
runs scored. So obviously, Mookie Betts

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being hit on the left hand and
fracturing a bone there that will keep them

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out six to eight weeks not ideal. But now the Dodgers are down to

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only two MVPs. How many teams
can say that other teams, you lose

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Mookie Betts, your season is over. But the Dodgers have so much talent,

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not only in their lineup but also
on their pitching staff they can withstand

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Mookie Betts being out six to eight
weeks. Now. If Freddie Freeman would

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have gone down in the ninth inning
today, that would have been a little

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different story. But luckily it was
just Freddie feeling a little dizzy because of

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dehydration of the altitude being up there
for four games. Andre Ethier, who

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will hear from a little bit later
in the show, joined us on the

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pregame show and said, hey,
four games is a big difference compared to

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just playing a three game series at
course Field, and it can't catch up

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to you physically playing that fourth game. And his words turned out to be

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true with Freddie Freeman, and who
knows last night when Taoscar Hernandez was taken

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out of the game, he might
have been feeling something with the body or

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dizziness that we never were really given
details about because it did not make sense

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taking Taoscar Hernandez out of the game
last night with Will Smith on the bench

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Barnes was catching just because of quote
rest when you're up just two runs at

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coursefield in the seventh inning, eight
six six nine eighty seven two five seventy

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is the phone number. Let's head
back to Coursfield to hear from Dodger manager

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Dave Roberts. I think today,
early on the first five innings, I

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thought the command was unbelievable. I
thought the sinker, the fastball away,

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the late fastball, the changeup was
really good all day and he was fantastic.

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I thought in that sixth inning,
you know, there were two walks

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in there. I felt that left
an ode to a heater in the hitting

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zone to Montero. I just felt
that at that point in time he sort

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of hit a wall. It wasn't
for me about pitch count. It was

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more of this a different environment,
and I just felt a little bit the

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stuff wasn't you know where it was
the first five innings and he's been nothing

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but phenomenal for us, and he'll
be ready to go for the next one.

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You see just what this offense did
today, How good was it does

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he then getting things going early and
even seeing the ball fall for will Smith,

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and also considering just how many hard
hits he's had in this series so

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far. It was great. You
know. You know, he's a guy

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that I really don't worry about as
far as the head, and I thought

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he took a lot of good swings
and if you look at some other ballparks,

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those balls that he was hitting the
right field could have been homers or

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doubles. But you know, it
is what it is. I still think

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he's swinging the bat fine, you
know, regardless of the results by Cet

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to come to life was great to
see show hey continue to stay hot,

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Freddy and so to jump on those
guys early was big. And obviously Gavin

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and the defense took it over from
there, but you know, the bullpen

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did a fantastic job as well with
Gavin. When Yamamoto gets hurt offsite,

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people are going to wonder what does
that mean for you guys's long term like

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postseason ritation stuff like that. Watching
him those first five innings today does it

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kind of get you excited about the
potential that he has and the way his

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stuff has kind of continued to improve
this year. When you start thinking long

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term about the kind of role he
could have with you, absolutely absolutely,

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you know, for Gavin you know, obviously losing Yoshinobu, but just the

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way he's just evolved. And I
think for any starting pitcher you just kind

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of evaluate do they have the weapons
to get left out, to get right

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out, to be efficient, to
command the baseball, to get a strikeout

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when you need to, and then
can you navigate three times to a lineup?

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So he's checked all those boxes,
and for me, he's only getting

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better. All right, there's manager
Dave Roberts thanks to sports and at ALA

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and look, I'm with those thoughts
around the city and around the league that

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have been paying attention to Gavin Stone
that he could be that guy for the

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Dodgers to pitch behind Tyler Glass now. And I'm not sure if it's the

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second or third game of a playoffs
series, but if the Dodgers don't have

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any better options as far as acquiring
another starting pitcher, or if Yamamoto is

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indeed out for the year, I
would have no issues with Gavin Stone's starting

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game two of a playoff series.
You had Bobby Miller do it last year

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after Clayton Kershaw, who was a
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Pitch game one. So for me, it's Glass now game one,

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and I would be very comfortable with
Gavin Stone pitching Game two. The reason

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being is we saw this last night
and it just reminded us how the emotions

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of Bobby Miller get the best of
him, and in a playoff game,

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the emotions will be running high.
Gavin Stone's mound presence and demeanor where he

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doesn't let the game speed up on
him too much and he doesn't let emotions

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take over, would make him a
perfect postseason starter. And some of the

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critics might say, well, what
about the strikeouts, he's not striking out

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enough guys, Well, he has
started to get the strikeouts that somewhere wondering

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would ever come today. Seven strikeouts
in five and a third inning. So

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for me, and I'm not just
saying this because I was on board with

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Gavin Stone in spring training. I'm
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He's earning everything that we're seeing throughout
this season, whether it's Yankee Stadium,

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whether it's Course Field. For the
first time, this guy is unflappable,

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and when he's in the clubhouse he's
the exact same way. He reminds me

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a lot of Will Smith from the
catching hitters side of things. Will Smith,

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the reason why he's able to deliver
in clutch moments is he does not

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let the moment get to him.
He is unflappable as well at the plate.

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He is unaffected by all of it. Gavin Stone is the same way,

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and you can throw away last year. Last year he was rushed because

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of so much many Dodger injuries and
the lack of veteran depth. Last year

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he was rushed. He was not
a finished product. This is Gavin Stone

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and the trials and tribulations and getting
his teeth knocked in last year with only

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two pitches actually was a blessing in
disguise because he went into the offseason,

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got stronger and continued to cultivate two
or three more pitches to be this guy.

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Eight six six, nine, eight
seven two five seventy is the phone

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number. Gavin Stone gets the win. He's eight and two. The Dodgers

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take three out of four from the
Rockies. Let's go out to La David.

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You're on Dodger Talk with David Vasse. How you doing David? Hi,

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David, I'm doing great. For
first thing, I just want to

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compliment you and let you know how
important it is for me to listen to

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your show every night, because you're
kind of like my Dodger of therapy.

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Oh sure, I really appreciate it. That's a scary thought that I appreciate

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you, Winner, Lass. It's
always therapeutic to listen to you. I

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just wanted to give a shout out
to Chris Taylor. He got two hits

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today, a walk, and two
stolen bases, and he just looks so

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much more confident and comfortable at the
plate. I just I'm happy for the

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guy, and I know he's taken
a lot of flack over the season,

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but I just wanted to give him
a shout out. Hey, I love

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that, David, because the other
night Chris Taylor hit a game tying home

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run and at Dodger Stadium, and
not too many people were calling in to

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say, Hey, way to go, Chris Taylor. And today was his

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first multi hit game in the Big
League since last September. So hopefully this

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is a good sign of things to
come, because he is showing that he's

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been working really hard and maybe some
of that work is starting to pay off.

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I agree, Thanks a lot,
David, dude, keep doing what

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you do all right, Thank you
for listening. Appreciate it. Eight six

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six nine eight seven two five seventy. Chris Taylor got the start at second

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base today. He was hitting ninth. He was two for three today with

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a stolen base, and so many
people were saying, why aren't the Dodgers

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just cutting this guy? Well,
obviously he's under contract for the rest of

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this year and next year. And
talking to Brandon Gomes last weekend at Dodgers

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Stadium, it's not lost on the
Dodgers that this guy has come up with

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a lot of big hits for them
since twenty seventeen. They're not going to

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give up on a player like that. Eight six six nine seven two five

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seventy is the phone number. Let's
go out to Eric and you Kaipa.

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You're on Dodger Talk. How you
doing? Eric? What up? Dave?

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I'm on the links right now,
and you Kaipa at tuck with Kanyon

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Golf Course listening to the game on
Bluetooth on the golf cart. Oh I

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love that, love that. Yeah, man, I just want to shut

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shout you out because, like the
last caller, I listen, I'm a

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truck driver, so I wake up
at two am listening to you put on

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Dodger Talk from the night before.
That's awesome. I got My godfather was

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a teamster and drove a truck for
roadway back in the day. And uh,

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I always have respect for you guys
because I know he used to work

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the graveyard ship for a part of
time of my cousin's childhood and he was

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a great example for all of us. I love truck drivers. I love

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the teamsters out there. Yeah,
just real quick, Dave, Yeah,

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Chris, I think Chris is uh, he's gonna turn around. He looks

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good. He's going the other way, so I think he's gonna do good.

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And well, Tani's killing the man. Just wanted to say, go

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Dodgers. And you know all these
injuries and uh, you know the good

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times and the bad times, but
I think the bad times are good because

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it's gonna make us hungry at the
end. All right, Eric, thank

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you, Da thanks a lot for
that great inspiration from the golf course.

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That's not a top one percent call
right there, for sure. Dave,

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thanks for the phone call. Eight
six six nine eight seven two five seven

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is the phone number. I'm big
into loyalty, right I know in sports

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these days, there's not a lot
of loyalty, and like I said,

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the business of baseball probably prevented the
Dodgers from being a little more impatient with

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Chris Taylor. But the facts are
he has come up with a lot of

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big hits. He plays what once
or twice a week. It's not like

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he's costing the Dodger game Dodgers games
and going zero for four every single night.

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He gets spot starts, he comes
off the bench when there's a lefty.

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So that's the reason why I was
not a proponent of just saying goodbye

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to Chris Taylor. And also there's
twenty two million reasons why the Dodgers were

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not going to let him go.
Eight six, six, nine eighty seven,

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two five seventy is the phone number. Let's go out to Alan in

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Culver City. You're on Dodger Talk. How you doing, Alan? I'm

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doing, Dave, great, Dave, how are you doing? Tremendous beautiful

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day in La. The Dodgers went
back to back series before they play the

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Angels. Things are feeling great in
Allie. Yeah, no, I have

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to I just want to say a
couple of things. Number One, I've

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been a Dodger fan since nineteen fifty
five, when Johnny Padres beat the Yankees

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in the World Series. You sound
a lot younger than that. Thanks.

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I appreciate that, but I do
have to disagree with you on roberts His

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position in taking out Stone when he
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Stone worked walk the first guy on
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bit tired, all right, So
you stay around and see what else Stone

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does. Stone gets a guy on
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Now he gives up the hit.
All right, maybe we can get

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a double play, maybe we can't. But when he puts the guy on

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third, Roberts has a five nothing
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he can give up the home run
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is up there home run. Now
it's only a one run game, and

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you might wind up losing the game. However, when you bring in Shrine,

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and when he did, you couldn't
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the bases loaded, do something where
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but you're still going to be two
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pulled Stone at the perfect time,
all right, That's fair but I still

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I agree with you on the point
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He was running out of gas when
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before that. So I'm just a
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to give your reliever some margin for
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was running out of gas even before
he faced Cave. And let's not act

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like Blake Trining is invincible because he
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over the weekend. That's true,
but he did have a margin for error.

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He had a five run lead,
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margin for error. Well, then
Gavin Stone had margin for air too,

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That's true. But I think if
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more likely for the Stone to grow
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Shrining would have. I think we're
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was tired earlier in the inning,
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hit, or he wasn't tired,
and you want to give your reliever some

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margin for air. I agree with
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He was out of gas, but
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he loaded the bases. Yeah,
I agree with you. I agree.

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I agree he was out of gas. But a pitcher who's out of gas

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doesn't necessarily going to blow the game. I mean, that's all you think.

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There's no guarantees. There's no guarantees. So you can't tell me that

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Blake Trnon's going to come in and
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give up a two run single,
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like he did for the weekend at
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in circles, but we agree.
Dave Roberts made the right move to take

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Gavin Stone out because he saw,
uh, probably he was getting some statistical

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information that the stuff was trending downwards
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watching with our eyes, Yeah,
we could see that he's running out of

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gas. Hey, Alan, who
was your favorite player of the Boys of

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Summer since you were a Brooklyn Dodger
fan. Duke Schnyder, Oh, the

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Duke of Flatbush from Compton, California. Yeah, I remember the Duke.

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I remember Mickey, and I remember
Willie Mays. So what a time,

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What a time. Thanks for the
phone call, Alan, appreciate it.

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Eight sixty six nine eight seven two
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we continue here on Dodger Talk,
more of your phone calls. Also,

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we will hear from Gavin Stone,
we will hear from Andre Ehier. And

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I do have another copy of Andy
McCullough's Clayton Kerr Shop biography, The Last

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of His Kind, to give away
sometime between now and four point thirty as

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we lead you up to the JJ
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a high fly ball deep to center
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gone. Will Smith with a home
run. It's four nothing Dodgers Smith home

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run number eleven, and that ball
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one feet for Will Smith. Bad
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do? What You're gonna do win. Will comes for you. Sorry,

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just trying to be on topic.
Will Smith, Martin Lawrence bringing back Bad

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Boys ten in theaters now. Will
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for the Dodgers today, Will on
the front end, Freddie Freeman on the

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back end, back to back home
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the Dodgers a five nothing lead.
They would hold on for a five to

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three win over the Rockies at Coursefield
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nine eight seven two five seventy is
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rising in the ranks of offensive catchers
in Dodgers' history, and speaking of Dodger

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catchers, want to send our congratulations
to the Dodger catcher that caught more games

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than anybody else in franchise history.
Mike Sosia. Mike Sosia is being inducted

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into the Albutquerque Professional Baseball Hall of
Fame on a week from this Saturday.

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So congratulations to Mike Soshia, who
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affiliate in the early eighties before becoming
a two time World Series champion and catching

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more games than any other Dodger catcher
in franchise history, but also managed the

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Dukes in nineteen ninety nine, where
he got some innings in to learn how

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to manage before the Angels hired him
away and he went on to manage close

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to twenty seasons with them. So
congratulations to Mike Soshia, who is being

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inducted into the Albuquerque Professional Baseball Hall
of Fame. Eight six six two five

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seventy is the phone number. The
Dodgers scored thirty one runs in this four

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game series, and the Dodgers and
Rockies combined scored a total of fifty five

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runs, so by the previous three
games in this series standard, this was

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a low scoring affair where the Dodgers
only scored five runs today the Rockies only

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scored three. Gavin Stone gets the
win. He's eight and two. His

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ELRA is just a tick over three
after being charged with only two runs today

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and striking out seven in five and
a third innings. Let's head back to

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Coursefield to hear from young Gavin Stone. Yeah, really had a good game

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plan back there. Pill like Kerry
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put it in good spots. And
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day. When runners got on this
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started to get away from me for
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was a good day. Over.
When you think of just the final ending

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of your outing, just the challenge, the walks and things like that,

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do you think a part of it
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into the game, but also just
the challenges of pitching here to kind of

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get make it to you Do you
feel did you feel that? I guess

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maybe? I mean, I don't
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to get those outs right there,
and so to not get those outs frustrating,

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but living and learn. How high
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you're naturally a pretty confident guy,
but just getting the result that you have

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in this year, just how high
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you know, I don't get a
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lot of plays behind me, so
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little bit easier. That's like four
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Is that just a reflection of executing
better, you know, maybe sequencing a

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little bit differently, Like what are
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midwig bullpens and stuff. Just executing
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right. There's Gavin Stone sports at
LA and you could hear it in his

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voice, his demeanor. Uh,
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That's who he is. That reminds
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He's monotone, he's boring in some
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and that's the reason why he's able
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be unflappable on the mound. Eight
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seventy is the phone number. Dodgers
beat the Rockies today, five to three.

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We're with you until the bottom of
the hour. That's when we turn

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things over to Petrosen Money, who
will have the latest on the reports that

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the Lakers have hired JJ Reddick Podcast
partner with Lebron James. Today at cours

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Field, Gavin Stone won his eighth
game of the year, Evan Phillips shut

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the door for his twelfth save of
the season, and the Dodgers will return

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home tomorrow night to open up a
short two game series against the Angels before

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they head back off on the road
again against the lowly White Sox and then

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close it out against the Giants on
this upcoming six game road trip after a

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short brief two game series against the
Angels. All right, we do have

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a copy of Andy McCullough's book,
The Last of His Kind, The Biography

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on Clayton Kershaw, to give away
if you can answer this question. And

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I may even give a hint.
Who was Clayton Kershaw's first major league strikeout

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victim? Here's the hint. He's
currently a major league manager. Eight six

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six nine eight seven two five seventy
is the phone number if you know the

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answer. Before we get to those
calls and that trivia and the book giveaway,

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want to share part of our pregame
conversation with Andre Ethier, who spent

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his entire twelve year career with the
Dodgers, and you may remember back in

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twenty ten, arguably andre Ethier's best
individual season. In the beginning of May,

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mid May, he was leading the
National League in all Triple Crown categories

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until he broke his pinky, his
left pinky, excuse me, right,

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pinky while in the batting cage.
A little different than Mookie bets being hit

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by a ninety eight fastball, but
he understands being out for a while and

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not swinging a bat. So we
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Mooki and how long it's going to
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it starts and stops that and you
know, in common of me and Mooki

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and breaking our hands. Yeah,
Mookie's one heck of a player. And

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he's a he's a year long triple
Crown guy, not a I guess,

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month and a half season guy like
I was. And you know, it's

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it's tough, it's a it's a
you feel for him him, you feel

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for the team. You know,
I feel like Mooki. If you could

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say this, I don't know if
if it's you know, but he's really

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come into his place as being not
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You know, Superstar, this guy
who is accountable on a nightly basis

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and comes up with you know,
big hits, big at bats, big

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plays. We know the the journey
he's had transitioning to shortstop this year and

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this you know, and you can
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uh you know, just you know
that mentality of you know what Dave in

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the locker room, like say,
next man up, you know, next

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guy up, to feel what we
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We have great players in here that
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we need guys to always feel,
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guys get hurt, when guys aren't
struggling, and you know, Mookie was

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able to step up with the position
void and roll right into that from second

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to short you know, it's all
these different things. Uh. Yeah,

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I think you're gonna miss more than
just movies that you're missing a guy who

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you know it really is, is
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level, and it's gonna be tough. It really is gonna be tough for

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him to come back and just not
miss a beat. Uh, let's just

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say six weeks at the best case
scenario. Are you going to be as

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strong, you know, physically in
your legs and you know, in your

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rotation, in your swing, in
your hands, all that stuff. Are

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you to be you know a little
litery of staying in there and trusting the

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ball is not gonna hit you when
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tough front door slider, you know, stuff like that. So there's a

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lot of things that gonna go through. But I don't put any doubt that

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he will be successful coming back because
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All right, there's Andre Ethier who
joined us on the pregame show to hear

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our full conversation with mister Dodger Andre
Ethier. You can find it on the

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iHeart rate. He also talked about
the Dodgers, missing Max Muncy and a

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few different to other things that were
a point of topics between me and Andre

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Sixteen minutes with Me and Andre Ethier, And yes, he got a few

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jabs in there as well, So
I strongly encourage you to listen to the

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full interview. But he can relate
to what it's like to be out that

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long for breaking your hand swinging the
bat, and what made it kind of

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ominous for Mooki bets that it was
not going to be good news was when

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that ninety eight fastball hit him.
That's on Sunday afternoon, he was still

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really holding the bat. And I've
heard that from other hitters broadcasters. When

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the hitter is still grabbing that bat
when he's being hit by the pitch,

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especially a fastball, there's a greater
chance of a fracture. And the way

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Mooki reacted, obviously he was in
a lot of pain and it turned out

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to be a fractured left hand.
We thought rist, but it's right there,

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the bottom of the hand going into
the wrist. And I'm sure my

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guy, doctor Shin at the Curland
Job Center took care of Mookie because my

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understanding was he was going to be
examined by doctor Shin that examined and did

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surgery on my right wrist after the
holy crap moment in Milwaukee. All right,

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eight six six nine eighty seven two
five seventy is the phone number.

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Dodgers beat the Rockies today five to
three at coors Field. The trivia question

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for a chance to win a copy
of Andy McCullough's great new biography on Clayton

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Kershaw. The Last of His Kind
is who was Clayton Kershaw's first ever strikeout

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victim in the Big leagues, all
the way back in two thousand and eight.

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Let's go out to Hacienda Heights,
Robert, what's your guests? We're

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going with Skip Schumacher. Oh wait
a minute, you went with? You

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changed your answer? I did?
I did? All right? Well,

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you're right. Skip Schumacher leading off
for the Saint Louis Cardinals that day in

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two thousand and eight at Dodger Stadium
June of two thousand and eight, struck

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out against Clayton Kershaw. Later would
become teammates with him in twenty thirteen,

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and Clayton Kershaw would actually name him
in his MVP speech along with Nick Punto

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for being great teammates. So congratulations, Robert, you win a copy of

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the Last of His Kind? Great? Thank you so much. Go Dodgers.

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All right, go Dodgers. Hold
on and Colin will get your info.

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Michael and Bellflower, I saw you
also had the right answer, So

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I will be generous today and send
you a copy of Andy McCullough's book as

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well. Oh, I appreciate that, dame. Thank you. Were you

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listening to today's game. I've been
in and out out of the car all

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day, so I can't say that
I have listened to every every bit of

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the game today, but I was
following it. Were you disappointed when you

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turned on the radio and heard me
and not Petro Some Money? Ah?

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Yes, you were. You wanted
to hear JJ Reddick bashing, didn't you?

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Yeah? I did? I did? I did. Are you are

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you in on this hiring or are
you like Petro some Money fired up over

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the JJ Redick era? Oh?
I'm fired up over it? Are you

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really? Yeah? All right?
Waiting for I'm waiting. I'm waiting for

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Lebron to leave town, okay,
but JJ Reddick to hang around. I

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didn't say that. Okay, Well
hold on and we'll get you a copy

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of the Last of His Kind.
And I'm sorry, Michael that you were

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so disappointed on your drive home to
hear me. I hope this is a

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good enough consolation prize. Thanks,
Dave. I appreciate it, man,

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no problem. He did not deny
it. He did not deny it.

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I love that Petro some Money are
coming up at the bottom of the hour

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eight six six nine, eight seven
two five seventy is the phone number.

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Dodgers beat the Rockies today at Corsfield
five to three. They score thirty one

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runs in this four game series and
show hey Otani, in his new role

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as Dodger leadoff hitter until Mookie Betts
returns, was eight for eighteen in this

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four game series with two home runs, seven RBIs and six runs scored.

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Show Hey Otani safe to say,
is out of his twenty to twenty five

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game slump heading into Father's Day.
That's when he hit two home runs this

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past Sunday afternoon and he has not
looked back. And for the first time

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this season, he will face his
former team in the regular season. Sure,

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we had the Freeway series, but
come on, that's a friendly exhibition,

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as they like to say, unless
you're an Apollo Creed, then it

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was not a friendly exhibition. But
this one is or was a friendly exhibition,

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and now it's for real. Daniel
Son show Hey O'tani against his former

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team at Dodgers Stadium a two game
series between the Dodgers and Angels that will

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begin tomorrow night. O'tani will face
his former teammate Patrick Sandoval, and the

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Dodgers announced after the game that it
will be Landon Knack making the start tomorrow

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night at Dodgers Stadium. Landon Nack
has made four starts in the major leagues

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this season. All four have been
pretty good for the Dodgers. He's one

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and one with an ERA of two
sixty one. This will be his fifth

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career major league start, and he
will be facing the Angels, who actually

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have been playing a little bit better. I'm not going to say they're great,

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but they are still without Mike Trout. Mike Trout told reporters a couple

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of days ago that he is still
not running after meniscus surgery on his right

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knee. And the Angels, in
case you haven't been keeping track of the

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other team in southern California, are
twenty nine and forty five, thirteen and

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a half games back of the Seattle
Mariners in the AL West. So the

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Dodgers, coming off this series against
the last place Rockies in the NL West,

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should take care of the Angels in
this two game series at Dodgers Stadium

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because they are not a very good
team and have not been playing the best.

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And it feels like you hear reports
about a team meeting every other week

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with Ron Washington's club, so really
this should be a series the Dodgers handle.

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The Angels were shut out at the
Big A last night two to nothing

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by the Brewers, so they lost
two out of three to Milwaukee and Anaheim

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before where they had a day off
today and a two game series against the

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Dodgers, facing Landon nack In on
Saturday night at Dodgers Stadium, it will

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be Tyler glass Now facing the Angels, and look the biggest challenge for the

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Dodgers and I know they feel this
way too. They've already lost Yamamoto for

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an unspecified amount of time because of
a rotator cuff injury. The biggest challenge

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for the Dodgers now is not only
to keep Tyler glass Now healthy, but

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also to keep his stuff trending the
way it has the first couple of months

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of this season, because he has
been everything and more advertised that we heard

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about when the Dodgers made this trade
for glass Now. And can you believe

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Tyler glass Now is on a record
setting season for the Dodgers. He's on

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pace for two hundred and seventy two
strikeouts that would be the most by a

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right hander in Dodger franchise history.
That's remarkable. Eight six six nine,

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seven two five seventy is the phone
number. Let's go back out to the

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phones Monrovia. Frank, you're on
Dodger Talk. Hi, Frank, Hi,

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Frank, Frank here, Dave.
Two things established. First of all,

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yeah, you got that day.
First of all, two things,

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Wine, I hope people will give
the guys a break up there, because

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you know, that weather up there
in corrus Field is no joke. I

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know. You know, props to
the trainers out there for making sure the

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guys were hydrated and those dizzy spells, knowing that they've got those, knowing

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that they've got the issue with you
know, energy and being on the sun

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there, you know, taking Taoscar
out, taking Freddy out when they need

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that rest. That's really really important. And I was glad to see that

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happening again that altitude, that son. There are no joke up there.

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That's the first thing. Well,
Frank number one, Frank, Freddy was

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not taken out of the game.
He was just a little dizzy and finished

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the game. So that was good
news. Ta Oscar Hernandez was taken out

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last night when the sun had already
set. But obviously there must have been

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something going on, cramping, dehydration, dizziness like Freddie had today. So

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good news. Freddy stayed in,
finished the game and he'll be back in

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there tomorrow, right. I remember
Freddy finishing the game, but just the

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people giving them, you know,
just hearing some of the message boards,

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looking at some of the versage boards. Those aren't real people. This is

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the real people place. Whoever's on
a message board is hiding behind their keyboard.

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Only you, Franken Monrovia, had
the guts to call in. So

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don't quote message boards here or Twitter. It means nothing. That's the first

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thing. Second thing is you let
a poacher win the freaking the freaking memoir

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man. I mean, I was
coaching that game. It was May twenty

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It was May twenty fifth, two
thousand and eight. It was an afternoon

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game, and I showed up because
I heard this kid was going to be

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good. I remember hearing that this
kid, Clayton Kershaw, he was going

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to be all right. But I
was there for Greg Maddox that day and

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hoping I would be able to see
him come in if Kershaw fell apart.

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But you know I was. I
was. It was one of the greatest

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days. Of my life to see
great in his firsthand. And you know,

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I'm still grateful to know that Kersh
is on the team, see the

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legend in the making. And you
know, again, Skip Schumacher. Watching

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that strikeout, I remember turning to
my dad and saying, huh, the

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kid will be all right, and
kind of closing out the day. And

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you know, I'm just glad to
know that he's he's stuck with the team.

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And Skip Schumacher, you know,
best to him in Miami. I

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hope he's I hope he stays employeed
through the rest of the year. Yeah

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he will, Frank, and he'll
be a free agent that many teams will

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be bidding for to manage their team. So, man, what you just

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said right there, I'm going to
prove that I don't have a heart of

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stone and give you a copy of
Andy McCullough's memoir or biography on Clayton Kershaw,

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the last of his kind. Let's
go, Frank. We don't get

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that on a message board, No, dumb dad, get dump all right,

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hold on, we'll get your info. Man. There we go,

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Frank, genuine phone call right there. Being at Kershaw's major league debut,

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I was actually at Kershaw's debut as
well, because of the anticipation of seeing

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this young left hander that we heard
had an amazing curveball. One of the

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few times that I've ever gone down
to the bullpen, walking from the press

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box to the Dodger bullpen to watch
a kid warm up and electric fastball.

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Back then, too, Let's not
forget his fastball was somewhere between ninety six

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and ninety eight. He was the
full package, and he became this guy

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once he developed a third pitch,
a slider that Joe Torre told him,

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you have to figure out. There's
the story that Kershaw tells that Joe Tory

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called Kershaw and James McDonald, another
one of these top pitching prospects the Dodgers

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had in two thousand and eight,
and he called both of them into his

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office at Dodgers Stadium and said,
if you guys want to stay here,

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you're gonna have to find a third
pitch. Kershaw found one, and James

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McDonald, eh, eh, I'm
not sure he ever found it, but

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Kershaw found it. The slider.
It's become almost as synonymous with Kershaw as

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his curveball has. But all the
way back in eight he had a ninety

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six ninety seven fastball that was unbelievable. And that's the remarkable thing about Clayton

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Kershaw. A he has basically spanned
two generations of Major League baseball players.

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And also, if you think back, he's in that unique position where his

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major league debut was two thousand and
eight and here he is still pitching in

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the major leagues in twenty twenty four. Think about how much has changed in

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Major League baseball since his major league
debut. Not only has his fastball gone

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down to ninety ninety one, not
only has he had a lot of injuries,

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but just think about the rules that
have changed the way players are evaluated

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in Major league baseball. It really
is remarkable that Kershaw has had this stame

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power because, yeah, Nolan Ryan
pitched for twenty years in the big leagues,

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But how much did the game change
from Nolan Ryan's major league debut to

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the final game that he ever pitched
in the big leagues. I would say

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not that much. But if you
think about Kershaw's major league debut in eight

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and where he's at right now twenty
twenty four, it's like he's pitching on

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a different planet. With how much
the game has changed and the way it's

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been evaluated and social media and how
much that goes into it. So that's

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another layer to his greatness and his
Hall of Fame career. There's not too

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many pitchers that can say that they
have had to endure this much change and

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still be great, you know,
all these years later. So think about

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that as you listen to Petro some
money rip JJ Reddick. All right,

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that'll do it for us on Dodger
Talk today. Tomorrow night, we'll be

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back at Dodgers Stadium a two game
series against the Angels. Patrick Sandoval,

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the hero for Team Mexico in the
World Baseball Classic, will be on the

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mound. He's two and eight with
an ERA of five twenty four, and

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Landon Neck will be called up to
make his fifth career major league start so

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far this year and four major league
starts with the Dodgers. He's one and

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one with an ERA of two to
sixty one. Our coverage begins at six

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o'clock with Tim Cats Morongo Casino Dodgers
on deck, and then first pitch from

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Dodgers Stadium with Rick Monday and Tim
Neverritte. Thanks to Dwayne McDonald out at

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Denver. Thanks to Colin Yee here
in our Burbank studios, and thanks to

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you for listening. In case you
missed any of the show, you can

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find it on the iHeartRadio app.
Petros and Money is next. JJ Reddick

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Talk until seven o'clock once again.
The final score at Corsfield the Dodgers defeat

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the Rockies five to three. Have
a great rest of your afternoon, steal, Let's just