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Welcome the Dodger Talk. David Vasse with

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you until nine thirty tonight from the
Bronx. We are alive at Yankee Stadium

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after the Dodgers take it to the
Yanks eleven to three. The final score

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eight sixty six nine eight seven two
five seventy is the phone number we will

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get to your phone calls. Also, we'll give you an update on James

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Paxton, Bobby Miller, and we
will be joined by a longtime reporter here

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in New York and author of a
brand new Brian Cashman Yankees ten year book,

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Andy Martino, who will explain to
us a path that Brian Cashman almost

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ran the Dodgers in two thousand and
six, So you want to stick around

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for that. And also we got
some mind numbing trade talk as there are

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some names that are becoming more real
than others, and we will get to

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that as well. But certainly tonight
a big night for taoscar Hernandez as he

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powers the Dodgers past the Yankees tonight
eleven to three. Ta Oscar with two

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home runs and six RBIs. That
was quite a night for Taoscar. Hernandez

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tied a career high with six RBIs. He's now driven in six runs in

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a game three different times, and
the Dodgers become the first major League team

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in baseball history to have two players
with the last name Hernandez homer in the

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same game. Key k Hernandez gave
the Dodgers the lead again in the fifth

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inning with a solo home run to
right field, and of course, ta

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Oscar two home runs tonight that went
over four hundred feet each, the home

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run early in the game in the
second inning and then in the eighth inning

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a grand slam off of Tommy Kinley, and that broke the back of the

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Yankees, as the Dodgers now have
won the series from the Yankees, winning

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the first two games. Last night
in eleven inning victory two to one.

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Tonight, they come back with eleven
runs as Gavin Stone improves his record to

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seven and two. Is er now
on the year two ninety three, and

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Gavin Stone did not shy away from
this big stage in front of the highest

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paid attendance at Yankee Stadium this year
forty eight thousand, three hundred and seventy

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four. We're here at Yankee Stadium
tonight, and like I said yesterday,

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it was playoff like atmosphere and tonight
same thing. Playoff like atmosphere. Certainly,

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this game got a out of reach
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was a close game up until then. A couple of mistakes by the Yankees,

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including by former Alex Verdugo who misjudged
the Freddie Freeman fly ball in the

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fifth inning. Freddie was at second
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with one out and then was able
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that was a big run right there, to give the Dodgers a four to

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two lead. And I thought maybe
the biggest moment of the game was Alex

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Vesia coming in to bailout Gavin Stone, who maybe was starting to run out

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of gas in that sixth inning.
Vessia came in after Gavin Stone loaded the

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bases by walking Trent Grisham, the
number nine hitter who's hitting under a buck

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this year. Vessia came in to
face the very dangerous Anthony Volpi with the

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bases loaded in the bottom of the
sixth inning, he was able to retire

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him with a fly ball to the
left, and then came back for the

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seventh inning to face Verdugo, Judge
and Stanton, and he was able to

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to retire them in order. So
for me, if I'm giving the game

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ball, yes, Tascar Hernandez gets
it, but also I'm finding another ball

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and get another baseball and giving it
to Alex Vessia for what he did tonight

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in relief. Eight sixty six seven
two five seventy is the phone number we

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had a chance to catch up with
last night's hero and tonight's big star,

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ta Oscar Hernandez. Tail I saw
the Dominican Republic flag out here at Yankee

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Stadium. How great of a night
was it? It's incredible. This feeling

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is unbelievable, nothing like it.
I enjoy the best that I can and

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I got a lot of family here, so it was a great one.

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I don't usually see a lot of
emotion from you after a home run.

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Why did you show so much after
the second one? The grand slam?

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I mean, you know, ground
slams are like rare, especially in that

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situation. I just let everything out. I enjoy go to the team betiversation

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some week and win the bowl game. Tell you in that second at bat

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against Tommy Kinley when you hit the
grand slam, threw a lot of changeups

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down in the zone, were you
looking soft? Yeah? You know,

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he's a victure that he trust in
the gene up and he gotta trust in

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and his change up, he's a
very good one. I got a good

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one in the strike zone and I
just hit hard. Hey. I love

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when the sunflower seeds are coming your
way. You started it and you got

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it twice tonight. Congratulations, thank
you, appreciate it me. There is

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Taascar Hernandez who has that million dollars
smile. It was great to see tonight,

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and he showed a lot of emotion
when he hit that grand Slam,

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and I love seeing that emotion.
I love seeing it in this atmosphere.

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I love to see it in a
big moment like that. I want to

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see more Dodgers show that type of
emotion. And Tascar Hernandez was the player

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that came up with throwing the sunflower
seeds to the guy that hit home run,

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and he he's been getting the sunflower
seeds more than any other Dodger because

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he leads them now with fifteen home
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in this season with forty seven RBIs
so ta Oscar Hernandez such a big part

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of this Dodger offense. So much
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hitters, how there's a drop off
in production. Well, you can't be

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talking about the four or the five
or six hitters. It's been the seven,

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eight, nine guys. Because when
Max Munsey was healthy, him and

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Taoskar Hernandez did bridge that part of
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And obviously it hasn't worked out a
lot early in the season. But if

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the Dodgers are able to get Max
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four weeks and you have Jason Hayward
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your first seven hitters, the lineup
is a lot deeper. So Taoscar Hernandez

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what a Obviously Yamamoto and Otani got
a lot of attention, But is Taoscar

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Hernandez the best free agent signing that
nobody is talking about. The Dodgers signed

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him to a one year contract,
Nobody offered him more. He was really

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good last year, and the Dodgers
signed him with the intention of playing every

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day like he is right now.
With the injury to Jason Hayward that kept

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him out for the first month after
Korea. With James Outman being sent down,

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Taoskar Hernandez has been the one outfielder
that has been on the field every

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day, has been their most productive
outfielder and to me is on the way

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to Texas to play for the National
League in the All Star Game. Taoscar

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Hernandez the least talked about best free
agent signing of this past winter. Eight

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

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Let's go out to Izzy in Los
Angeles. You're on Dodger Talk.

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How you doing? Is he good? How are you? I'm doing great,

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that's good. What do you got? So my question today is do

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you Thinkoskar Hernandez deserves or should get
Player of the Month this month? If

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he keeps this up, yeah,
if he keeps this up, for sure.

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But we're only in the first what
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Is he becoming one of your favorite
players? Is he? Yeah? All

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right? Awesome, Thank you for
the phone call. Appreciated. I feel

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like Taoscar Hernandez is becoming a household
name after what he did tonight, certainly

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on this stage, and also what
he's done in the first half of the

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season. Forget about player of the
month. If you look at National League

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outfielders, ti Oscar Hernandez by far
has been the most productive outfielder in the

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National League. It's not even close, and there's a couple of differ different

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reasons for that. Fernando Tatist Junior
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he's not having an MVP caliber season. Last time I checked, his ops

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was below eight hundred, and Bryce
Harper has moved to first base, Mookie

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Beds has moved to shortstops. So
the National League outfield is a little weak

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these days, and ti Oscar Hernandez
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only should be a National League All
Star, but he has a case to

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be a starter for the National League
All Star Team. Let's go out to

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Huntington Beach. Brian, You're on
Dodger Talk. How you doing, Brian

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Dame, I'm doing great. First
of all, I have to tell you

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I'm seriously I've been listening to Dodger
Talk since Jeff Witcher. Okay, oh

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yeah too. No, come on, Ross Porter was awesome. I know

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you don't like to have your butt
kiss, but listen, you gotta hear

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it. Okay, here's the thing, this is a no Brainerdom. Why

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aren't the Dodgers wearing their Brooklyn Dodger
hats at least if not the Brooklyn jerseys,

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it would Greay Brian, I'm with
you there. Forget about these ridiculous

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City Connect uniforms. The Dodgers when
it's Jackie Robinson Day should be wearing the

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Brooklyn Bee on their hats, and
also maybe even go as far as to

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wear the nineteen fifty five or nineteen
forty seven, the year that Jackie broke

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in. They should be wearing that
uniform on Jackie Robinson Day. And honestly,

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you know, I understand what you're
saying here, But the LA Dodgers

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and New York Yankees have a history, so I'm fine with that. But

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as far as like jerseys and all
that go back to the eighty one jerseys

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instead of these City Connect jerseys that
we're hearing about. That's fun, but

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we rarely play in New York anymore. Just when we're at Yankee Stadium.

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The fans that still love the Dogs
Dodgers would cheer up if they saw those

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old Brooklyn hats on their hats.
They'd be thinking about their grandfathers. Everybody.

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I hear you, I hear you
on that. But the Dodgers are

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now in LA, and the Dodgers
and Yankees, with the Dodgers being on

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the West Coast, have their own
history of rivalry in the World Series.

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The Dodgers swept the Yankees in nineteen
sixty three. Mickey Mannle was on that

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team. Sandy Cofax was stellar as
always, and the seventy seven, seventy

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eight, and eighty one World Series
run deep as well, Brian, So

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you don't have to go all the
way back to Brooklyn to find that rivalry.

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It came to the West Coast.
But you know, I'm cool with

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that. If that's what you want, if that's what they decided, I

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would be cool with that. But
I'm proud about Los Angeles. I'm proud

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to have the Dodgers in LA.
Good job, listen, Dave, I'm

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telling you, I love you.
You're the best. Keep up to your

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work, and the guy who's answering
phones for you he's terrific too. Thank

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you that's calling ye and yes he
is awesome. Thank you for the phone

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call, Brian, appreciate you listening. No doubt about it. Hey,

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this is going to be a more
regular occurrence, the Dodgers coming to Yankee

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Stadium. It has not happened since
twenty sixteen. I haven't been here since.

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Yasiel Puige and Andre Ethier we're patrolling
the outfield for the Dodgers. That's

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how long it's been. But it's
going to happen every other year with the

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new schedule where every team plays each
other, you take turns going to one

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city one season, going back to
the other one the next season. I

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mean last year the Dodgers went to
Kansas City. The Royals are coming to

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Dodgers Stadium this week, and so
are the Texas Rangers. And I have

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a pair of tickets for one of
the games next week at Dodgers Stadium.

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If you are caller number five in
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gonna take a time out here on
Dodger Talk. When we come back,

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I'm gonna share my experiences with Derek
Jeter and Alex Rodriguez before the game today,

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and also we'll get into some mind
numbing trade talk as well. Eight

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

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Bases loaded, only one out for
two to two, Hernandez with a

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fly ball left center field, tore
the bullpen. Don't you pay after Hernandez

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has done it again? Hey,
grand slam, Gregson open care for the

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Dodgers in the Bronx, Rick Monday
and Steven Nelson on the call tonight from

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Yankee Stadium, ta Oscar Hernandez his
best night as a Dodger, two home

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run, six RBIs, including a
grand slam off of Tommy Kinley to blow

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this game open in the eighth inning. As the Dodgers defeat the Yankees tonight

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eleven to three eight six, six
nine eighty seven two five seventy is the

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phone number. Congratulations to Jack Stoffer, who is on his way to work

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on this Saturday night. Congratulations,
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this was a playoff like Atmosphere last
night, playoff like Atmosphere today, even

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during batting practice a later start tonight, but still brought out all the stars.

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You saw it on the Fox broadcast. Spike Lee was here, CC

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Sabbathia was here. My guy Brad
Paisley was here. I got to go

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visit him, and then ran into
Freddie Freeman's dad on the way back.

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Up, so I always loved seeing
Freddie Freeman. Senior. Mariano Rivera was

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here. Speaking of Freddie Freeman,
I was talking to Freddie and jose Vis

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Guayano when Mariano Rivera went out of
his way to number one see his former

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teammate jose Vis Guyano and also shake
hands Freddie Freeman and congratulated him on being

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part of the World Series Championship Club, and Freddie really appreciated that. Pretty

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cool to see Mariano interact with a
man that probably will join him one day

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in Cooperstown in Freddie Freeman. Also, the Fox Baseball crew was out here

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with the great Kevin Burkhardt, a
great dude, a guy that still has

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his feet on the ground even with
all the success he's had. Great to

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see Kevin out here. Big Poppy
was out here to see his little brother,

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Mookie Betts. They go back to
the Boston Red Sox days. David

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Ortiz was a big brother to Mookie
back then and they have a great relationship

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to this day. But also Derek
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I have different interactions with Alex Rodriguez
and a different reality with him than the

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perception of him is out there.
I know many of you don't lie him.

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I understand why. But Alex has
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and I haven't seen him in two
or three years, and he went

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out of his way to say hello
to me, and we had a chance

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to catch up. But Derek Jeter, Derek Jeter, I mean, don't

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we all put on our pants one
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has three thousand hits. I know
he's probably the most revered Yankee that's still

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alive right now. But Derek Jeter
a media type. Now right he's in

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the media. I had, you
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I don't like being snubbed and felt
like I'm beneath somebody. So I saw

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Derek Jeters talking being interviewed by another
New York writer. So I made my

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way over to that part of the
field, which was right in front of

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the Yankees dugout, and when Jeter
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excuse me, Derek, I'm David
Dodgers Radio. Can I ask you

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a couple of questions? And as
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going down the steps in the dugout
like a safe zone, and I said,

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hey, I just want to ask
you what your thoughts are about Mookie

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Betts playing shortstop? Yeah? Yeah, maybe in three minutes. And then

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as he's saying this, one of
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him. Am I going to physically
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fifteen feet away from him. His
reply to me is fine, he didn't

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have time. He had to go
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And then later, about fifteen minutes
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he's walking back towards the tunnel,
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Dodger dugout, and he has three
bodyguards and there was no fans in the

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stadium. Why do you need three
to four bodyguards for Alex Rodriguez, Derek

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Jeter, and David Ortiz. We
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no sense to me. Man,
New York is different. I'm telling you

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it's different. All right, Let's
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The Dodgers have been linked to Luis
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Robert, who only has played one
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the White Sox. I believe he's
been in the league for five years,

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four or five years, and he's
only played one season where he's played over

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one hundred games, and that was
last year, and he had a great

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year. And talking to guys that
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of the last week or so,
they've told me he's a great guy,

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a great teammate, and a great
player when he's on the field, which

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isn't too often. But the Dodgers
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White Sox are taking the best offers. So if you have a great offer,

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the White Sox will take it because
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and the Dodgers have a wealth of
talent in their minor leagues. Luis Robert

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could help the offense. I'm not
necessarily one of these people that believe they

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absolutely need to add in the outfield. They need to add somewhere to lengthen

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their lineup, and Louis Robert,
if he's healthy, he's a difference maker,

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no doubt about it. He has
played four games this month after missing

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the entire month of May with a
hip injury. He has played four games

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he has He's three for sixteen with
two home runs. So, like I

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said, he's a good player when
he's on the field. And I know

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everybody knows. The Dodgers training staff, strength and conditioning coaches are the best

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in baseball, which is true,
but they can't do They can't change a

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guy. The guy has to want
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the field more. And the Dodgers
also can manage Luis Robert physically because they

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have the depth to be able to
play him maybe four or five straight days

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and then give him a day off
to try to make him last all season

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through October. And Luis Robert,
by the way, is under contract for

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not only the rest of this year, but also next year. Let's go

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out to Alejandro, who was at
Yankee Stadium tonight. Alejandro, were you

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part of that Dodger fan club that
marched their way through the streets of the

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Bronx to Yankee Stadium? Yes,
sir, day we were a pantone two

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ninety four. I'm currently on the
corner of fifty one and sixth Street getting

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some scharmus. You're getting one of
that. You get some street meet,

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You're getting some street meet right now
exactly, Well, what was it like

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being on the streets of the Bronx? Did you guys? I saw you

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had a police escort? How did
uh the Yankee fans treat you? Guys?

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It was epic, it was it
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I thought it was you. It's
I tried to explain, but it was.

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It was beautiful. All the Dodger
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But how how were you treated in
the streets of the Bronx? All

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right, Uh, there's a lot
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The Yankee fans were respectful. They
they left after the Grand Slam, of

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course, but nothing but love.
I saw that. Yeah, we were

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all right. Here's another question,
Alejandro. Here's another question, Alejandro.

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What was it like to get How
did you guys get a police escort?

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Was that NYPD being generous or uh? Did you guys arrange that? I'm

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I'm not exactly sure how that happened. We just we were just uh,

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everybody was out in the middle of
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I guess the NYP had no choice, but just guess for us in Okay,

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Yeah, that was pretty fun.
Ta Oscar Hernandez, Alejandro, you

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feel like a lot of these Dodger
fans now are gonna start buying ta Oscar

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jerseys. Of course, as soon
as I get home, that's first thing

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I'm gonna do. Hit up the
Camry and then give me one of those

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Dodger jerseys. You're sold. You're
sold on tail. Huh. No,

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I've diden't. I'm not. I
haven't been. I've been waiting for him

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to give me a really good to
buy his jersey. All right, well

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he's given you fifteen and forty seven
reasons fifteen home runs, forty seven RBIs

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Alejandro, that's awesome. You made
it out here that you guys really have

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a lot of passion for this team, and uh, they would not be

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who they are as a duel franchise
without the passion of the fans in Los

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Angeles. So a salute to you
guys. Thank you, Dave Dames,

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thank you for all the imploy gus
us up to date with all the Dodgers.

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My pleasure be safe on the streets
of New York tonight. Alejandro.

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All right, thank you Dave too. Life all right there, he is,

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Alejandro get in some street meet.
That's what they call it, when

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you go to one of these makeshift
stands. They're all over New York.

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Our own Dwayne McDonald, he has
a great appetite for life. I'm sure

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he's tried it a few times.
Anyway, the Dodgers beat the Yankees tonight

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eleven to three. They beat him
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And look, I'm very aware of
the fact that the Yankees are without

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Juan Soto, who makes this lineup
so much more dynamic. But you have

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to give the credit to the Dodgers
for doing what they were supposed to do

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tonight against Nestor Cortes and the rest
of that Yankees bullpen. But tonight Aaron

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Judge with two home runs in the
first two games of this series. Judge

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is four for seven with the two
home run tonight in three RBIs the rest

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of the Yankees lineup in the first
two games of this series eleven for eighty

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three. That's a one thirty three
batting average. So they're not doing much

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without Juan Soto offensively. He may
be available off the bench tomorrow night on

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Sunday Night Baseball. Hey, I
mentioned Andy Martino. He's a great writer,

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and he has a new book out
that's basically the story of Brian Cashman

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with the Yankees. It's titled The
Yankee Way, The Untold Inside Story of

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the Brian Cashman Era. And Andy
I have so much respect for him.

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He tipped me off that in the
book there is a connection between Brian Cashman

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and the Dodgers. Here it is, Yeah, how about that? Brian

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Cashman told me, and they're reporting
for this book that after the two thousand

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and five season the Yankees lost to
the Angels in the Division Series, Cashman

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was leaving the Yankees. He had
interest elsewhere, including and most concretely,

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from the Dodgers, who he says, offered him a five year contract worth

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five million a year. He ended
up taking half as much to come back

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because of his loyalty to the Steinbrenner
family. But at that time he was

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so fed up with a micromanaging from
George Steinbrenner. There was a shadow front

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office of the Yankees operating out of
Tampa and signing players that Cashman had nothing

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to do with, and then Cashman
would get blamed when they wouldn't work out.

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So he was like I'm out of
here, and he went after the

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Dodgers, of course, had moved
on from Paul Deep Pedesta. Cashman was

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down the tracks with them, according
to him, to take that job and

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succeed Deep Podesta. That job obviously
went to Ned Colletti instead. Cashman went

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back to the Yankees after Steinrenner basically
offered him for the first time full control

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over baseball operations. But yeah,
there's a whole alternate history there where he

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was running the Dodgers at that time, which would have meant no Joe Tory

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because they had had a falling out, No Don Mattingley because maddingly succeeded Tory.

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So there's a whole alternate universe that
would have happened in Dodger Land.

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When you say Brian Cashman was down
the road with the Dodgers down the road,

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was he enough to get that offer
enough to seriously consider it? His

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debuty kind of his right hand person
here at the time and still is Gene

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after him and assistant GM here And
she told me they were down the tracks,

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so that's how she put it.
And you know it's I guess it's

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been long enough now, or they're
willing to discuss that openly, but I

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don't know if he ever got closed
to putting pen to paper, but he

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was very seriously considered and he had
that concrete offer. Andrew Friedman has been

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running the Dodgers since twenty fifteen.
Cashman obviously knows him well from being with

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the Rays. What's the dynamic of
their relationship then and now now? A

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couple of things there. The Yankees
got in the situation by the late twenty

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tens where I think it's fair to
say that they were, if not trying

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to emulate the Rays, really kind
of chasing them. They knew that the

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Rays were what they consider the smartest
front office in the game. And that's

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a tradition that started with with Andrew, even though he wasn't necessarily there by

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that time. Obviously, the Rays
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his program, and the Yankees were. They tried an opener the playoffs and

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it didn't work. There was blowback
from the players like why are we trying

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to be like the Rais. So
there's that aspect of the dynamic that originated

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with Friedman, and then there's the
personal dynamic they had. I didn't put

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this in the book, David,
I'll tell you when the Dodgers were eliminated

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one of the many times from the
postseason. I believe this was after the

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twenty twenty two season and they were
getting beat up in the LA media.

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We won't say names, Dylan Hernandez, but there was a lot of criticism

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out there about Freeman and could he
get them to the next level even though

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they had won that one COVID World
Series. Cashman reached out to Freedman and

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said, hey, man, I
know what this is like. They're killing

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me here every year or two.
The media sometimes doesn't understand how hard it

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is just to be in the dance
every year. So they have a certain

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camaraderie of having that in common.
And it is very similar here in New

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York, where the Yankees are in
it every single year, or close to

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in it every single year. Just
like the Dodgers. Their fans are getting

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more and more frustrated. They haven't
been able to get over that hump and

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win a World Series since two thousand
and nine. The Dodgers dig it over

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that hump in twenty twenty. But
still Cashman has reassured Freeman at times.

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He's told me like I get it
man. This is tough. We get

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beat up, but don't worry.
You're good at your job. That kind

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of thing. Andy Martine is joining
us. Is the author of this great

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new book you can find anywhere,
The Yankee Way, the Brian Cashman Story.

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And Cashman has been in charge of
the Yankees for over twenty years now.

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Andy Andrew Friedman has been in charge
of the Dodgers going on ten plus

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years. If you hear about manager's
voices just kind of being drowned out over

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time, why has it worked for
so long for Brian Cashman? And do

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you believe Andrew Friedman can have the
same type of tenure lengthwise with the Dodgers.

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Yeah, that's an interesting framing because
it has been a while now for

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Freedman too, And it's clearly you
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continuity and the reason why Cashman,
I don't think has gotten stale here.

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He manages up to ownership well,
but he also manages down well. People

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here in this organization and baseball operations
really do feel fiercely loyal to him,

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and he's well liked. And that's
in that balance and that era of trying

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to balance the scouting and the analytics
and all the things that are difficult organizations.

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People like Cashman here not always players. He's very blunted with players and

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is not afraid to pick a fight
with one when he feels it's best for

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the organization. But he's well liked
among the people who work for him,

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and I think that's what's helped,
and that continuity helps them have traditions in

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baseball operations that are in play all
the time. They're not redoing it every

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couple of years with a new GM
or a new administration. Whether or not

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Friedman can have that, certainly,
you could probably speak to the internal dynamics

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with the Dodgers better than I could. But from my vantage point, the

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success that they're having year in and
year out is what an ownership group wants.

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Fans understandably want more championships for both
of these teams, but if you're

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hiring somebody to run your baseball operations, you want someone who's going to have

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you in or near that position every
single year, year in, year out.

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That's what's good for fancy, for
revenue, for ratings, and just

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for overall success. So I can
imagine that Freedman has done the job that

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he was hired to do. I
know ownership has said recently that they want

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to win World Series more regularly in
LA, but similar to Cashman, he's

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got them in that position every year. So it would seem from the distance

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that I'm at to make no sense
to think about moving on from that.

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There he is. Andy Martino.
The new book The Yankee Way, the

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untold inside story of the Brian Cashman
era here with the Yankees, and it's

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a great Father's Day gift if anybody
is a Yankees fan or a baseball fan.

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I strongly recommend that book, and
obviously Andy mcculli's biography on Clayton Kershaw,

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the last of his kind. But
how about that story from Andy Martino.

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Brian Cashman almost ran the Dodgers after
the two thousand and five season before

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they hired Ned Coletti. And if
they do that, because of the fractured

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relationship between cash and Tory, Joe
Tory never would have managed the Dodgers either.

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Very interesting and by the way,
like I brought up to Andy Martino,

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Andrew Friedman is on his way to
running the Dodgers for twenty years because

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remember that clause in the Otani contract. If Andrew Friedman leaves or if Mark

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Walter sells the team in the next
five years, show hey, Otani can

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become a free agent. So we're
talking about what twenty twenty nine. And

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Andrew Friedman's first year with the Dodgers
was in twenty fifteen, so he's on

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the same path of being in charge
of the Dodgers for just as long,

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if not longer, than Brian Cashman
has been with the Yankees. So very

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interesting story there, and interesting about
the dynamic and relationship between Brian Cashman and

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Andrew Friedman. That'll do it for
us tonight on Dodger Talk Tomorrow, Tyler

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Glass now will be on the mound
for the Dodgers, going up against Luis

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Hill, who brings the heat.
Marongo Casino. Dodgers on deck will be

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at three o'clock, first pitch from
the Bronx at four to ten, the

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Dodgers looking for the sweep at Yankee
Stadium. Thanks to calling ye back at

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our Burbank Studios, Thanks to Dwayne
McDonald out here at Yankee Stadium, and

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thanks to you for listening in case
you missed any of the show or our

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pregame conversation with Tyler Glass. Now
you can find it on the iHeartRadio app

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once again. The final score tonight
from Yankee Stadium. The Dodgers defeat the

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Pinstripes eleven to three. Have a
great rest of your night see them