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All right, Dylan Hernandez of The
Times has done a terrific job of

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covering this show. Hey, Otani
situation, he joins us now and Dylan,

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thanks for jumping on, Thank you
for having me on. Okay,

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Well let's just get to uh and
by the way, I think you've done

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a terrific job covering Otani. Uh, thank you from when had happened to

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where we're at now. So let's
we'll start here and go backwards. Uh.

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He had the news conference yesterday,
Well, he had the speech yesterday,

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and to me, there are still
many unanswered questions. How do you

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look at it? He absolutely,
I think, you know, I think

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the biggest question everybody's had this whole
time is Okay, so you say,

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he you know your interpretors stole money
from you. How did you get access

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to your account? You know?
Now, you know, we've talked to

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kind of a number of right people
involved, you know, who have worked

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right. Four athletes on behalf of
athletes. Usually you guys have financial managers,

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you know, right, you kind
of make you know, one person

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that I spoke to said, hey, like, it doesn't matter how small

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the amount, even if it's one
hundred dollars, it ultimately has to be

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cleared you know, by the account
holder, right, even if it's like

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one hundred dollars or something, even
if it's just by cash message, Hey,

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this is this good? You know
now that said, I have talked

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to people that have you know,
uh, you know, one former athlete

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told me that his uncle, you
know, kind of had authority to you

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know, kind of let stuff go. The problem here is kind of the

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amount too though, right. It's
like it's not just like you know,

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five grand here, ten grand here. We're talking about millions of dollars.

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And so that kind of raises the
other question of okay, well, if

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that guy did have somehow have access
to it, even then if he's right,

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you know, taking out right making
you know, five hundred thousand dollars,

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you know, wire transfers, how
is this not getting flagged at all?

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You know, So again those questions
kind of didn't get answered, and

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to me, you know, this
is kind of what I wrote about in

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the paper today is just that or
it's a story that's online right now,

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you know, kind of the bigger
question that I think we all have from

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the beginning since he came here,
is like, who is this guy?

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You know, we think we kind
of know, you know, about him?

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Right that that Otani's kind of very
dedicated to baseball, and right,

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that's kind of the image he's tried
to protect project. And you know,

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in his defense, I have not
seen anything come out to the contrary.

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At the same time, it's also
right, his teammates don't know him at

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all, Right, I mean,
I think that's why they had so much

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fun when right on, all the
Dodger players, you know, had so

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much fun when they learned and Tanny
got married, because it's like, look,

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you're you know, no one even
knew that he was in a relationship,

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right, And so I think kind
of that's kind of this other question

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to me at least, it's like, well, who really is this guy?

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Right? Is he? Is he
what he kind of projects to be,

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in which case I do think the
story becomes more believable then if he

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really is that guy, because you
know, again the image I think he's

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tried to project is he's kind of
this, right, he just like loves

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baseball and really doesn't have, you
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in which case you can kind of
see Okay, yeah, like he you

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know, he does seem like the
type, right who might be absent minded

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about money and things like this just
kind of happened. That's an awful lot

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of money, Dylan, that's an
awful lot of money to be out.

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Okay, let me let me let
me jump in right here, because I

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was. I was on the same
page as both of you guys, and

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I still am. Basically, it's
like, how do you let that go?

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How do you not understand? How
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then I started thinking, and I
started talking to other people in just conversations

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about it, and and then there
are situations where you do have a business

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manager, you do have an account
that has power of attorney, that can

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sign checks for you, can sign
things for you, not usually your interpreter,

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but it's usually somebody in the financial
world that can sign off on things.

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And then if you let somebody in
really deep, then they do have

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access to your passwords, they have
access to do certain things for you.

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Absolutely they do not your bank accounts, Yes, yes, they do,

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Fred, Yes they do. Like
if you're business manager, even someone at

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your business manager's office, is right, will have access to Okay, you're

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sign in your passwords things like that, but that's at the business manager accountant's

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office, not necessarily your interpreter.
But if you're close to that person,

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right, and you put him as
Okay, who's the next person we call?

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Maybe he's included in that. If
you can't reach you, we include

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you. And he is so ingrained
and in depth and into Otani's life in

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every aspect of it that he does
have all those passwords. He does have

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all those things that he can do. Look, I just took over power

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attorney for my dad right when my
mom passed. I took it. I

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can do anything for my dad without
my dad even knowing. And it's his

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accounts, it's everything that he does, and he wouldn't know. He doesn't

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know anything about it, not saying
that that's what happened. But there has

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been so many people and nowadays nowadays, the sophistication of the scams. I

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don't know about you guys, but
I get calls every day, Yeah about

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a scam. This is possibly a
scam. This could be a scam,

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and especially around taxes, there's always
a scam going on about you owe this,

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we can get you out of trouble, give you know, give us

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this, or you gotta warn your
kids about a website that you're going to

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click on. And all of a
sudden, they got everything right. So

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it is definitely possible. But I'm
still the part I'm still wrestling with is

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that the amount of it and him
to this point after it's gone on for

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that period of time. If it
was one transaction, okay, maybe,

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but this was a series of transactions
of what they said was half a million

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dollars of these transactions that he never
got one call, never got one notice

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or letter or anything. That is
the the biggest troubling part of this.

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But a person that is that close
to you can't have access to all of

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your stuff. They really can,
and without you knowing it. I mean,

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just go down the list of Kareem
back in the day, l way

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back in the day. I mean, there's been so many artists, Billy

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Joel back and there are all those
guys got scammed by people that were close

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to them, And it is definitely
possible, but I still don't like the

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fact that he didn't really address any
of that and didn't answer any of those

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questions in his statement. Yeah,
and I'm totally with you on that,

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right, the amount is kind of
the thing that kind of right, and

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I think at least at this point, you know, right, we don't

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have all the pieces of the equation. Maybe, but at this point,

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yeah, they're definitely gaps in the
story still. So you know, I

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mean, the federal government's looking into
this in theory, you know, Dell

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do the financial forensics, and you
know, my guess is that due time,

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you know, things will come out
well, right, we'll you know,

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they'll settle on something. But the
question then becomes it's kind of like,

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how is this going to play out? Right? What's going to be

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the timing about this? You know, I mean a lot of these cases,

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you know, move at a kind
of a glacial pace, you know.

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Personally, as as I look at
the situation, I'm just kind of

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wondering, Okay, does this turn
into you know, because I'm kind of

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thinking about like sports scandals, right, like Balco I think played out didn't

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that play out over like six and
a half years or something seven years,

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you know, and every few months, right, we forget about it,

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you know, you know, they're
just playing baseball. We kind of forget

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about it. All of a sudden
the bombshell drops. And keep in mind

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too, Balco started out as a
kind of attractive field scandal. You know.

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They went after Marion Jones and Tim
Montgomery first. I don't think Bonds

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like popped up on the ragdar there
until like year two. Even the rated

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him they raid it. Yeah,
yeah, so you know, I you

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know, so this is going to
take a while, right, as much

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as I think, you know,
people kind of wanted like a clean resolution,

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you know, I think everybody obviously
involved in you know, the business

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of baseball wants this guy, you
know, to succeed, right because you

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know, you know, especially this
sport. Yeah, it's good for baseball.

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You know, we had for years
we talked about the sport kind of

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not having a face, you know, or if the face was like Mike

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Troudy, you know, kind of
a low key personality. They finally got

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a guy and not only you know, is he popular here, but obviously

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he's globally known, you know,
and then we saw you know again until

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the story hit. I. You
know, I really thought that that whole

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trip to Korea was a huge success. You know the fact that, you

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know, given all the historical problems
Japan and Korea have had over the years,

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the fact that now, you know, a Japanese athlete was able to

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go over there and be as like
warmly received as as he was, right,

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I mean, he was more popular
than the Korean guys over there.

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You're kind of thinking, Wow,
this is really kind of great for the

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game, and for this to kind
of happen, obviously, he's unfortunate.

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I think, like again, you
know, I think, you know,

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major League Baseball, the Dodgers obviously, right, they want to kind of

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put this stress too. But unfortunately, I think that this is going to

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be one of those things that's going
to play out over years. You know,

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we're going to forget about it for
a couple of months, and then

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all of a sudden, something's going
to drop, you know, and we're

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going to be reminded of it all
over again. But that's kind of where

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we are right now. Yeah,
And Dylan, you mentioned a really good

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point about you know, the Dodgers
don't really know him, and really who

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knows him? And if you look
at the Dodgers and the way they have

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been as an organization even before Googenheim, but it's always been as big a

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brand as the Dodgers are. Internally
they've been like a family. They've been

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very a close knit group guys that
get along, their families get along.

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I look at this team right now, and they you know, the way,

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the why, and the families,
and they all get together and support

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each other, and they know each
other's business and all those things. They

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get together for dinners and they hang
out together and extended families hang out together.

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I just know that just from being
a part of them internally and him

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not really opening up and being a
part of How do you think that plays

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out of him not necessarily like you
said, you mention, they didn't even

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know he was engaged, let alone
getting married. How do you think that

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plays out with this team, which
is a team that always tries to hang

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together, and there is a close
knit type of team like a family atmosphere.

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Yeah, you know, so you
know, it's kind of very interesting

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because I think, you know,
just kind of you know, and again

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I speak Japanese and you know,
so I kind of right, you can

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kind of tell by his addiction and
just how quick weighted he is. This

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is a smart kid, you know. And one thing I did kind of

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notice, I think, and you
know, it's not like he was talking

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like a ton, but he did
talk more this spring in Dodgers camp than

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I think he had ever spoken like
an Angels camp. And I think part

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of that was kind of this you
know, in Japanese they kind of say,

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you know, being able to read
the air, right, it's kind

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of like reading the room, you
know. And I think he was aware

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that there was talk about, hey, you know, Tommy's here, He's

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dragged in all this Japanese media into
the clubhouse. It's crowded now. Uh,

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you know, the fact that like
he doesn't talk often. How much

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of the burden is that going to
be on his teammates? You know.

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I think the reason he spoke was
actually out of consideration to his teammates.

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I think because he's aware, Okay, I don't want to be like the

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reason that this thing goes bad,
you know. And I think if you

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even kind of look at you know, the news conference yesterday, you know,

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kind of like you know, like
we've talked about there are questions that

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are kind of unanswered here, and
I think he's had you know, he

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has to know that. Okay,
Well, you know there I get an

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include certain details. Not everybody's going
to be satisfied with this explanation. I

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do think what it did, though, was kind of by talking. You

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know, for example, the first
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went to the ballpark just in case
he talked, right, and had Otani

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not talked yesterday, I would be
going down to Anaheim today and I would

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probably be going to the ballpark every
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I'm not on the beat anymore,
right, you know, I probably go

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a few a couple of times at
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much until he talked, and there
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would be kind of in the same
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thing at least in the capacity that
he did, it kind of okay,

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you know, right, Yeah,
I think it's kind of taken a bit

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of a burden off that, right, or made this less of a story

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kind of going forward in a way, and that okay, he's at least

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addressed it once, you know,
kind of going into opening day. Now

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that it can be more about baseball, because Okay, while all the questions

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aren't unanswered, he at least addressed
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players will kind of like pick up
on that, right that, Okay,

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like at least he did this.
You know, he kind of went out

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there, and you know what,
by American standards, I think he spoke

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a lot yesterday, right, I
mean, the you know, I think

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going into this thing, I don't
know about you guys, my expectation was,

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Hey, you know, I'm sorry
for the trouble that I've you know,

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the disruption I've caused here. But
unfortunately, you know, this is

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an ongoing legal proceeding and this I
can't really comment at the moment. Yeah,

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you know, That's what I was
expecting, right, And so,

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you know, I think the fact
that you know, and Mikey Givana,

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my colleague, wrote a story that's
up online right now about how the players

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kind of reacted to this thing,
right, and they seem to be again,

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right, like, man, this
guy really kind of took the bull

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by the horns, you know,
and good for him, and I think

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he's you know, the one thing
about even his time in Anaheim, you

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know again, Angels person wants to
ascribe to me the dynamic there as being

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twenty five plus one in that well, Tani was kind of on his own

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training program and no one really knew
what he was doing. That said,

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you know, you go around there, guys really seemed to like him,

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you know, And I don't think
it's just kind of lip service. You

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know, you can kind of tell
when when guys are kind of forced to

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you know, you're almost like seeing
their arm just saying something nice about somebody.

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I really get the impression that those
angels guys liked them. And again,

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I think kind of in his own
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and guys pick up on that.
And my guess is that it's going to

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be the same way here too.
Dylan Hernandez is with us. I have

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one more question about what went down. I don't know if this has been

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reported. I can't figure it out. And it really was bungled from the

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very beginning when a crisis management spokesperson
suggested the interpreter talk to ESPN on the

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record. At first, what a
poor decision that was? And second,

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who is that person who was the
advisor, the specialist, the crisis management

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person that jumped in there and assumed
command of this because I don't think it's

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ever been reported and I can't figure
it out. Yeah, so that's kind

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of one of the curious things about
this, right is kind of they seem

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to kind of have this uh,
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diile, you know. Uh,
I believe my paper is kind of close

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to you know, write ESPN kind
of publish their TikTok, right their day

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by day, hour by hour,
think about how this thing unfolded. Uh.

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I believe we're close to putting something
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and obviously we kind of knew about
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I don't think it's my place here
to kind of still the spill the secrets

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head about what's going to be in
there. I would recommend everybody again go

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check out La Times dot com.
Sorry that I'm plugging this thing on your

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shop, but yeah, I do
think that that's again part of the now

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the Dodgers version of the story is
basically that all communication that anybody had from

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Otani's team was to epay me Zuhara, the try to the interpreter, right,

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so you know, they would they
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hey, like what is Otani saying
about this? He would, in

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Theory, right, according to this
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them, hey, I talked to
Otani. This is what he said,

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you know. And so when whatever
Mizuhara was telling them, they basically thought

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was kind of coming from Otani or
was coming with Otani's feel of approval,

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so you know, we'll be right, he told Mizuhara and Theory told them,

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hey, I was the one gambling. He agreed to cover my debts.

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That's the story. And I you
know, again, according to this

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version of the story, no one
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right, the agency doesn't have like
another Japanese speaking person there, But I

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guess that's just kind of how it
went right. And you know, and

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this kind of plays into again,
right, this whole idea of how could

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he have gained access to his accounts
and this and that I do think that,

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again, they were together a lot, you know, I could see.

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I do think it's a semi right, it's a plausible story that there

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was so much trust that Otani had
an Epim Mizuhara and that you know as

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a result, you know, his
manager, Otani's management also had this trust

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in he paid Mizuhara and in theory, again they were just misled by this

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one guy. Yeah. Yeah,
it's just still like I said, you

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know, there's so much is still
left to interpret and figure out. And

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I agree with you. I think
that it's gonna die and then a few

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months it's gonna something else is gonna
pop up, and then it's gonna keep

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popping up. I think it's one
of those things that's gonna last for a

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minute here, unless he eventually just
puts it all to bed, which I

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don't know if he can or will, you know, eventually do that.

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How do you feel the this affects
any kind of chemistry that the Dodgers have

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going into this season, Well,
I think you know that's kind of a

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thing, right. I mean,
Otani to me is like from a mental

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standpoint, he's Michael Jordan, He's
Tiger Woods. I think Otani's game is

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actually gonna somehow be like elevated by
this. I mean, we saw this

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again with Barry Bonds throughout the Balco
scandal. You know, there'd be like

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one hundred people in the clubhouse just
waiting for him. He'd go out and

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just hit like three bombs like nothing
was going on, right and again Brady

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Brady after that. Yeah, Yeah, there's some guys that are different.

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This guy is different, you know. I mean we saw him right after

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I mean even yesterday, right right
after this thing ended, the news news

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conference, whatever you want to call
it ended, he goes out to the

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field, uh, starts playing catch
for the first time since he underwent Tommy

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John surgery. You know, like
it's nothing, but this would have been

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the big news of the day.
Uh, if not for this ongoing scandal,

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right the fact that, hey,
this guy who's coming off surgery to

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way player trying to play catch again. You know, he's out there smiling,

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laughing. He'll be fine. I
do wonder how it will affect the

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rest of the team, you know, and right now, obviously the team's

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got some issues right on the in
the infield. They're not very good defensively.

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Uh, those guys have to be
feeling some pressure right now, especially

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Lux and Monthcy. Movie. That's
people pretty good out there. I think

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a short stuff, but you know, we can talk about that another day.

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But you know, I think guys
like, like some monthsy, there's

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gonna be pressure there. Obviously,
we saw yamamotives first started in Korea did

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not go well at all, you
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they're bad vibes in the room,
right, I think, you know,

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as much as some players might have
been complaining at the beginning of spring training

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about how crowded the clubhouts had become, everybody I think understood, like,

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this is good attention we're getting,
right. There are people here because something

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positive is going on. Right,
we just got the best player in baseball.

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People think we could be a special
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sudden, that's kind of a little
bit, right, A lot of people

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are kind of around now because of
this ongoing scandal now, so it changes

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the air in the room a little
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if they kind of get off to
a rough start here, I could see

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them kind of struggling out of the
gates for the first month. I don't

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again, this team is always too
deep, right, just I mean,

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they have figured out the regular season, right, whatever criticisms I've thrown it

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out to sevement over the years.
The one thing is he has absolutely figured

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out the regular season. They're too
deep. They will get to October.

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So again, even if they kind
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of the gates, I don't see
it being a problem down the road.

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All right, Dylan, appreciate you
coming on. Thank you so much for

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the info. No, thank you
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Okay, somebody doesn't know who they
are and we have to get into

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it next. Come on, come
on, Fred me Vess you you know

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who they picking. But look,
come on, Cardi b let's go.

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It's Tuesday. Roddy Pete, Fred
Rogan. We got a lot in on

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this chops. Yeah, and we've
got to get a little more in here

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too. So the Clippers look bad
against Indiana last night, Yeah he did.

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Now, the Lakers, you know, had enough to outlast them.

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The Clippers just look bad. And
the Clippers have been discussing the fact that

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they don't know who they are.
We have no identity. We don't know.

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I mean sometimes we're one team and
another game where another. But Ty

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Lou actually now has figured out the
Clippers identity right now. And do we

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have an identity? I think yeah, we're soft. That could be an

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identity if you want to call it
that. Like, we got to be

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tougher mentally and physically, but we
do have an identity. When we was

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twenty six and five, we had
a great identity. You know. So

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you can't pick and choose when you
want to lead. You can't pick and

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choose when you want to have identity. You can't pick and choose when you

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want to do things the right way. And so just do the right things

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every night and everything else will fall
in and fall into order. Well,

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there you go. They have an
identity. There is nothing worse for an

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athlete to be called soft, nothing
worse for a coach to do it,

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somebody in the media to do it, anybody to do it. To call

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you soft. You can say,
you know, he didn't play well,

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or he's not he can't rebound or
he can't shoot very well, or you

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know, deconstruct his game and all
those kinds of things. When you call

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somebody soft in any sport, that
is absolutely the worst thing you can say.

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So for him to say at this
point in the season that our identity

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is soft, WHOA, that's a
body blow for it. Yeah, no

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body blow. That was a body
blow. And we'll see if they absorbed

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the body blow or not. But
it gets me to thinking if, in

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fact, after that incredible start and
the way they played and the noise they

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made and the excitement they generated,
all of a sudden, they can't figure

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out who they are and their coach
calls them soft. If this continues to

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go the wrong way and it's trending
like that now, I mean, now

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it's trending like that, it's going
the wrong way. What do you do

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if you're the Clippers after the season, if they've just gone soft and going

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the wrong way. I don't know
if that bodes very well for TYLERU Rodney.

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I don't think it does bode well
for tylu if he can't get it

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done. This is you know what
is this for time? This is his

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third year year, the third,
fourth, fourth, I think yeah,

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I think it's his fourth. Yeah, and this is the year that kind

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of everybody predicted, and this is
the year for the most part that his

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stars have been healthy, both Kawhi
and Paul George. So this is the

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year that I think that including us
pet you know, predicted the Clippers.

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This is the year that they they
kind of get over that hump. Yep.

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So yeah, they've they've got to
they've got to. For me,

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they've got to get to the Western
Conference finals. Agree with you at least,

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Yeah, but I've given this now. Of course, there's time to

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turn it around, and everything seems
to be exasperated because of where you're at

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in the season. But when the
coach comes out and says, no,

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we have an identity, we're soft. Yeah at this point in the year.

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This is the point in the year
where we're going and we are hitting

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our stride and getting ready for the
playoffs, you would hope and it's all

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that they can take their foot off
the gas. They're not the Celtics and

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say we won sixty games and we're
just playing it out. Celtics are fifteen

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games ahead of everybody else. That's
what I'm saying. The clip you realize

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looking at the standings right now,
the Clippers are two games out of the

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play in. Yes, how insane
is that considering where they were a month

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ago? They lose two more games, Dallas jumps them. They're in the

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seven hole, and we thought they
would challenge, well, at least I

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did for the one seed. They
were for a while. That's what I'm

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saying. They were for what one
day? They were the one seat,

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right and now that was overwhelming.
They couldn't hold onto that for one day.

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For one day they were the one
seat, and then sure and they

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could be they could go drop down
to being a playing team. That's not

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going to bode well for a lot
of folks there. That's gonna be bad

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because in that scenario, how many
times have I said it? Given where

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they were, you know what that
turns into, somebody's got to get it

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for this, Yeah, somebody's got
to get yeah. Right, in that

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scenario, they were so good and
considered to be one of the elite teams

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of the West and really well shot. Figured it out, James Harden,

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A lot of people didn't think it
was gonna work, and figured it out.

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It was working. Got to be
the one seed and now they're on

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they're going in the wrong direction,
so they better figure it out in a

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hurry because it's starting soon. Join
Pat Droseen Money this Friday live from I

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Need a Track Side starting at three, including free admission parking said it need

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a Bucket, had an exclusive finish
line with an afternoon of live racing and

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bedding. Tickets available at Santa Needa
dot com slash p m s. VIC

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will have the haikup next. Come
on, let's been as strong here on

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a Tuesday ride to Pete Fred Rogan
Rodney. We got to get Vick right

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on here. Well most out of
time. We gotta have a hiku.

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Gotta do it with a daily haikup. At two, Here is Victor Brick

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Hello Vic. Before we get to
the high coup, it's all about Otani

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and his very candid twelve minutes of
enlightening us, enlightening of what light down?

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Were you enlightened? Vic? Yes? You were well? How candid

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you say anything? Yeah? What
how candid you to think he was?

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Oh? He was incredibly candid.
He gave us, He gave us the

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timeline to quote Otani at the very
top with about one hundred media in the

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room at Dodger Stadium, quoting show
Hey, he said, I'm very saddened

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and shocked someone whom I trusted has
done this. I never bet on baseball

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or any other sports, or never
have asked somebody to do it on my

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behalf. And I have never gone
through a book maker to bet on sports,

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and was never asked to assist betting
payment for anyone else. I don't

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know. That's directly from Moltani,
and I believe Altani. Okay, well,

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you know you know the mind of
Otani Shan Well, I I'm trying

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to figure this out as everyone in
the sports cosmos is. But I do

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believe Otani son. Ever since he
came up sixteen yars ago with the Angels,

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God, you see, the way
of Otani has been strictly of baseball.

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Well, but you don't know anything
about him, big Who knows what

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he does behind closed doors. I'm
sure he doesn't just sit there and stare

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at a ball. I'm sure his
life is not he's taking swings off a

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tee in his house. I'm sure
he does something besides baseball. Well,

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most of his life, for it
has been one of trying to achieve the

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you know, the great heights of
of hardball, and he has done that.

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He's a pet owner, he's a
married man. There's more to Otani

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soign exactly. And that's and that's
the you know, that's the mystery of

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Otani Sign. But his six years
with the Angels. His teammates loved him

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in Anaheim, and his Dodger teammates
love him already in the Dodger uniform.

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What what we're dealing with is a
horrific addiction to gambling by by his his

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once close friend and translator. You
know, I a and you know it

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must have been so hard for Tandy
Sign. But he, you know,

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he's he stared into the camera.
He didn't look down at his notes.

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This was right from the heart yesterday's
twelve minutes. And I was very impressed.

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He read Wait, he didn't look
down at what he read from He

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looked at He just looked at the
camera. He read his notes, Vick.

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He glanced down multiple times. Vic. Yeah, Vic, he read

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from the notes. Well, it
wasn't twelve minutes of just memorization, but

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a lot of that twelve minutes was
I would say, right from the heart.

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Oh no, Vic, none of
it came from really the heart.

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It was predetermined, it was pre
written, It was all planned, and

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and he read he read it,
Vick, it wasn't when he said Ipe

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has been stealing money from my accounts
and telling lies, I mean that's from

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the heart. I mean there was
a statement. Yeah he was emotional,

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sure, I'll give you that,
but it's not like he wasn't you know,

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you didn't have a prepared statement.
That absolutely happened. I don't think

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anyone expected that candidness that honestly,
uh and do a very tough situation from

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open I love you, love you, loyalty. Oh my god, there

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was no candidness in that at all. It was I found it straight up

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reading off a script that he was
prepared by his folks. I found it

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extremely refreshingly candid considering the situation that
this was his first first exposure to the

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media, you know, since since
the allegations went down, I thought he

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handled it very very well, and
I got a lot more information that I

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saw I was always going to get
front. Okay, well you know what

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that lead just too to the source
for it, Yes, to the hikup.

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Yes, it is from Fuso.
F us O we're having new haiku

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masters. That's right. Ck yeah, I'm going through the archives. It's

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from Fuso. This hiku for you
on this Tuesday, March the twenty sixth,

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Yes, go something like this,
Strike the great Bell. I pray

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to bid the early cherry trees burst
into bloom today, Strike the great Bell.

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I'm feeling you, Fuso. So
all right, got a call to

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action at the end of there,
Strike that bell. Fuso, Fuso.

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Okay, Ronnie, thank you,
nice job on the Chop Show. Kevin,

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appreciate your efforts as well. Tomorrow, we got no limbs. We're

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only here for an hour. And
don't forget though, even though we'll be

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chopped to shreds, you'll have a
chance to win because we're giving away Dodger

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tickets for opening day tomorrow between noon
and one. Rodney, I'll touch you

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then, ret