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Welcome the Dodger Talk the off night
addition David Vase with you until eight o'clock

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tonight right here on AM five to
seventy LA Sports. We have a special

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guest coming up at seven fifteen.
Brad Paisley, the decorated country music star

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and big time Dodger fan, will
join us at seven fifteen. He was

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actually at Yankee Stadium for the middle
game of that big three game series in

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the Bronx that saw the Dodgers take
two out of three, So we will

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hear from Brad Paisley get his take
on what was going on at Yankee Stadium

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from a fans perspective. And he
also, you know, he has a

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little pool these days, so he
went into the manager's office after the game,

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so we'll get his thoughts on how
Dave Roberts reacted after that big win

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by the Dodgers at Yankee Stadium on
Saturday, after coming off an extra innings

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win against the Yankee Keys, the
Dodgers take two out of three and go

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five hundred on this six game road
trip. After losing two out of three

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to the Pirates, the Dodgers got
up for the most anticipated regular season series

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and taking the first two games against
the New York Yankees. Out there in

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

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If you were out there in New
York with us, I would love

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to hear your experiences because it was
electric at Yankee Stadium for all three games.

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The first night, it was the
highest paid attendance at Yankee Stadium this

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year forty eight thousand plus and then
on Saturday night, also topping the highest

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paid attendance at Yankee Stadium top in
the night before. Forty eight thousand,

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three hundred and something were at Yankee
Stadium on Saturday night. It was truly

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a playoff atmosphere. And the Dodgers
landed at Lax this morning at three am,

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and I thought, you know what, it would be a good night

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to have an off day Dodger talk
to recap that Yankee series and earlier this

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morning, after the Dodgers landed at
three am, Major League Baseball announced who

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was the American and National League Players
of the week, and not shocking,

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Aaron Judge was the American League Player
of the Week, but our own Taoscar

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Hernandez was the National League Player of
the League. Player of the Week,

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hitting four home runs, driving in
ten runs. He had three doubles,

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two walks, six runs scored,
and even a stolen base to add to

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it. And when you play the
way ta Oscar Hernandez did in that Yankee

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series, you are going to open
up a lot of eyes. And I'm

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sure that certainly garnered a lot of
attention for him to win the National League

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Player of the Week. He led
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extra base hits, total bass is
so well deserved for Teoscar Hernandez. And

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honestly, when you talk about these
three games, it was, like I

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said, playoff type games, and
you wonder how some of these new players

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are going to react in this type
of atmosphere, because it did feel like

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the playoffs, and it is a
possible World Series preview. And the first

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night, I felt like we learned
something more about Yoshi Yamamoto on that type

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of stage. You know, a
lot of people were ready to bury him

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after one start in Korea. That's
not the case. He has pitched great

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ever since. And he really did
show me something on Friday night by pitching

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seven scoreless innings and striking out seven
Yankees in the first game of that series.

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And I know the Yankees were without
Juan Soto in all three games,

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and by all accounts, they are
a very different team without Soto in the

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lineup, but nonetheless it is still
a very good lineup that is one of

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the best teams in the American League, one of the best offenses in the

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American League. They did have Aaron
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have to give Yamamoto credit for stepping
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he did, and especially the first
game of the series. Usually in these

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type of series playoff like Atmosphere series
in the regular season, the first one

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is always the one with the most
energy, and Yamamoto was the first starting

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pitcher for the Dodgers, and he
answered the bell in a big way,

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pitching seven scoreless that night. So
we showed all of us that he is

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not going to shy away from the
moment. In fact, he's going to

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take it up a notch. Because
his fastball velocity was clocked at ninety eight

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miles an hour, something we they
have not seen all season long. So

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Yamamoto showed us something, and so
did Taoscar Hernandez, who for the first

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time in his career was on a
huge stage like that wearing a Dodger uniform.

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Look, you could say whatever you
want about the Mariners and the Blue

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Jays and the blue Jays being Canada's
team, there's nothing like being a Dodger

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playing at Yankee Stadium. And there's
nothing like being a Dodger this season with

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all the expectations, and Taoscar Hernandez
also showed us he can perform and embrace

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the big stage. Taoscar Hernandez in
the three games at Yankee Stadium was six

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for twelve with three home runs and
nine RBIs, including that career night on

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Saturday, two home runs with a
Grand Slam totaling six RBIs. So Taoscar

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Hernandez and Yoshi Yamamoto, to me, answered the best that they can perform

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on this big stage. Eight six, six nine to eight seven, two

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five seventy is the phone number.
I'll give it up to Tyler Glass now

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as well. Yesterday going six innings, striking out twelve, he did make

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a huge mistake to Trent Grisham.
I'm sure he would want that pitch back.

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He had a pitch behind the count
to Grisham, Grisham was hitting below

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a buck coming into the series and
hits his third home run of the year,

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a huge three run shot off of
glass Now, which was the difference

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on Sunday Night Baseball. But I'll
say this, glass Now, who has

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been on a regular Chris Rose podcast, said pitching for the Dodgers and being

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in that type of environment is nothing
different than pitching for the Rays. He

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did concede, Yes, bigger crowds, more media, but when he's on

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the mound, it doesn't feel any
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So that's encouraging because his postseason record
does not reflect that and he's looking to

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change that this October with the Dodgers. But ta Oscar Hernandez and Yoshiyamamoto showed

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me the most in this three game
series. You know, at Yankee Stadium,

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they were selling these T shirts,
baseballs, bobbleheads specializing in this series,

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and I loved it. I love
that they were playing up to the

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anticipation and the excitement of the fans
by having T shirts and baseballs custom made

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to sell for this series because they
knew it was not just going to be

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Yankee fans in the Bronx. It
was going to be Dodger fans and Otani

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fans that showed up, and they
played right up to that, selling those

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T shirts, bobbleheads, baseballs,
and my understanding is by the end of

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the first game, they were sold
out of T shirts, They were basically

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sold out of the baseballs. They
were almost sold out of the bobbleheads that

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had Judge and Otani on it,
selling for one hundred and forty nine dollars

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and ninety nine cents. But to
me, Aaron Judge continued to prove that

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he is the best hitter in all
of Major League Baseball seven four eleven with

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three home runs and five RBIs In
this series, Otani a disappointing series for

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him as he continues to struggle.
He was just two for thirteen in the

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three games in the Bronx, and
Eduardo Perez's interview with Otani before the game

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set it. All Otani marveled at
the fact that no matter the situation or

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the opponent, he all Judge,
Aaron Judge always has the same swing,

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and that's something I'm looking for from
Otani because he takes some wild swings in

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u at bats that really don't necessitate
him taking those type of big swings,

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and he needs to find a way
to recalibrate because his balance is off and

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it's reflective in the last twenty twenty
five games where he's only hitting two hundred

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eight sixty six nine eight seven two
five seventy is the phone number. We're

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gonna take a time out when we
come back. We have two lines open.

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We'll get to your phone calls.
And also Brad Peasley will join us.

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Coming up next on Off Night Dodger
Talk with David Vassa on AM five

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seventy LA Sports. This is Off
Night Dodger Talk David vass with you until

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eight o'clock tonight here on AM five
to seventy LA Sports. The Dodgers will

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be back in action tomorrow night to
host the Texas Rangers, possibly without Corey

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Seger because he heard his hamstring over
the weekend in San Francisco. So Corey

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Sieger may not be playing in this
three game series against the Dodgers. And

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don't forget the Rangers are the defending
World Series champions and Cory Seger is the

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reigning World Series MVP, so hopefully
he's able to play, and I would

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love to see Dodgers Stadium give Corey
Seeger the due respect because he was one

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of the best players the Dodgers have
ever produced from their farm system. He

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was the Minor League Player the Year
back in twenty thirteen twenty fourteen, and

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then burst onto the scene in September
of twenty fifteen and was one of the

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best shortstops and still is an all
a Major League Baseball, two time champion,

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two time World Series MVP, and
hopefully the umpires if Seeger is able

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to play this series, hopefully the
umpires shut down that dang pitchclock and allow

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Dodgers Stadium to give Seger the rightful
standing ovation he deserves, Unlike when Cody

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Bellinger came back last year and he
wanted to acknowledge the fans, but the

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pitch clock was running and they did
not make an exception. So hopefully Baseball

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has learned from their mistakes last year
to allow these moments to happen, because

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that's what makes it special for everybody
involved. Eight sixty six nine eight seven

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two five seventy is the phone number
we will get to your phone calls in

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a moment. If you were at
Yankee Stadium, I would love to hear

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from you, But we have a
Dodger fan that is one of the most

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decorated musicians, and a man that
is a huge Dodger fan and a great

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person away from the stage. He
was at Yankee Stadium on Saturday night for

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the Dodgers' big win, for ti
Oscar Hernandez's big night, and the man

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that brought GMS together during the winter
for the Dodgers to pull off the trade

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for Tyler Glass. Now that's the
one and only Brad Paisley. Brad,

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thanks a lot for call and appreciate
it. Nanks for that intro. I

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don't know how much that I deserve. Thank you, You deserve all of

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it. And I was it was
great to see you at Yankee Stadium.

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I couldn't believe how good your seats
were. I mean, you flew in

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for that game, and I feel
like you got your money's worth. Are

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you kidding? I mean, I
don't think it's That was one of those

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games where it's great to be the
fan of the winning team because it was

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the perfect game. It's like tie, well, you know, we're up

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one, tied up one again,
go up too, and then it's all

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hell breaks loose. Thanks to ta
Oscar, and it's like it was just

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a blast, and the experience of
being there when these two Titans collide is

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just it's really it was really something
I've been to, you know, our

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World Series games before, and this
was every bit is exciting. It's it's

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crazy. I hope you weren't getting
a hot dog when ta Oscar Hernandez hit

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his Grand Slam. No, I
was. I was sitting there and I

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mean just as shocked, and I
mean it was just great. It was

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it was literally the moment the Yankees
fans started to leave. Yeah, exactly

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after that Grand Slam. You saw
everybody had for the exits that were wearing

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Yankee jerseys. They totally did.
It was by the end. One thing

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that Dodger fans need to know is, you know, we always travel well,

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but I didn't know if we would
have that kind of presence at Yankee

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Stadium. Because if there's a if
there's a fan base that sort of could

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rival us or compete for sort of
the most international and worldwide sort of like

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recognize it might be the Yankees.
So it's like this thing where I went

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there and when I was going into
the stadium, I went in this entrance,

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and I'm telling you there were no
I mean, there was none of

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the pantone was it two ninety four. Yeah, It's like there was none

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a vac color it was. It
was all the dark blue with the pin

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stripes going in there, Judge jerseys. And I mean I thought when I

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was going in the gate, I
thought, oh man, we are going

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to be outnumbered tonight. Because I
also felt like having won the night before,

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I thought they were really out for
blood. They really wanted that game,

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and and when I got in the
stadium, I couldn't believe it.

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We I don't know, what do
you what do you say? I think

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we had thirty to forty percent of
that stadium, no doubt. I feel

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for at least Saturday and Sunday,
the Dodger fans were definitely out in force,

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and they were on your side of
the stadium. It felt like,

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I don't know how Dodger fans do
this, but the Dodger fans were seated

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on all three levels at Yankee Stadium
on the Dodger dugout side. And when

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I was looking at the stadium when
ta Oskar hit that Grand Slam, and

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all the Dodger fans were on that
side of the stadium. I know,

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I don't think they thought that through
you watched, they'll they'll close that loophole

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in the ticketing, But it was
really I couldn't believe by the end of

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the game, it was let's go
Dodger chance going through the stadium. I

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mean, I'm not saying the Yankees
weren't they Their fans weren't fired up.

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They were, and they for the
first part of that game thought they were

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gonna win it. Thought they had
a chance. It's the home team and

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we I mean, when ta Oscar
hit that, we were gonna win it

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anyway, I think. But when
he hit that Grand Slam, it was

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just like they knew they were losing
the series. I feel like you could

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kind of feel the momentum putting on
a Dodger jersey mister momentum, as Stu

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Lance likes to say. After Kinley
walked Freddie Freeman and it brought up ta

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Oscar Hernandez, he kind of felt
like, with the bases loaded there,

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Taoskar was going to deliver. Wasn't
that Will Smith, Will Smith before him?

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Yeah, that's right, Will Smith
before him, But not you know,

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I wasn't expecting a Grand Slam,
but you kind of felt like Taoscar

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was going to drive in at least
one run there. Yeah, yeah,

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I knew he was going to do
that, but the fact that he hit

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that change up out it was crazy
and we knew, like you knew when

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he hit that it was like it
was going And you know, you think

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that to yourself too. You see
him go up to the plate. He's

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been red hot the whole time,
and you think, no, not again,

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like not another you know, It's
like to some degree, it's like

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as you play the odds in your
mind, you're thinking, oh, no,

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this is the wrong guy to have
up because he's not due anymore.

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But he was so incredible, you
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are against him hitting another home run, especially the odds are against him against

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anybody pitching to him. Hey,
That's why I wanted to have you on.

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Brad Paisley is one of you.
He has the same roller coaster emotions

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as any other Dodger fan out there, and you know, I just I

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want to gauge your temperature now after
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Saturday night, are you lead.
Did you leave New York more optimistic about

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the Dodgers' chances not just the rest
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playoffs series moving ahead? Are are
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this is their year? Yeah?
I was never off of that. I

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just think there's a lot that still
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and some of that who knows what
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But more than that, we've done
all this in the last like we have

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held our own in the last couple
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going. And this is going to
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Otanni Freeman being who they are,
who they really are, you know,

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and yeah, yeah, I mean
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It's been Mooki and Otani at times. But Freddie, I think that's

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the most scary part for the rest
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super hot yet. He's so dependable, and you know, dependable isn't what

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he's going for, No, at
least not. He wants to be scary

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and he will be. But I
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at is we only need to win
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it because the other trick is going
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it all together in October, so
it doesn't really matter. Honestly, if

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we win one hundred games or ninety
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it doesn't matter. We have to
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I know that. I'm sure that's
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how do we become the well oiled
machine that wins the World Series?

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And it's not about winning the you
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and Brad Paisley is super optimistic about
the Dodgers being in the Fall Classic.

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As I know, you have scheduled
your tour to work around a potential World

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Series schedule a little bit. I
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happened last year, I had some
tour dates that when when the World Series

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came down, we obviously weren't going
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But I remember looking at the schedule
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going to it because I have a
game on what would be Game wand or

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right, not a game. I
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one I think, and I remember
thinking, are you kidding me? You

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know of all the time to not
be able to and you can't. You

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can't, can't You wouldn't. I
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a matter of like I've given them
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when you know, we when the
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had, you know, Otani Almamoto
and Glass Glass. Now I was like,

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well, you make sure I don't
have any gigs during the World Series

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this year. Yeah, we need
you at Dodger Stadium to sing the national

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anthem for Game one of the World
Series. You you got if they ask,

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I'm there, you know it will
ask. It'd be such a great,

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great reason to not have dates,
wouldn't it. No, And you're

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a true Dodger fan, true blue. Brad Paisley is our guest. And

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I got to ask you this.
Can you set the scene for Dodger fans?

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Are you in the part of your
property in Nashville where you brought Eric

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Neander and Andrew Freeman together for Tyler
Glass? Now you miss Glass? Now,

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I feel like both times you've seen
the Dodgers this year, you've missed

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Glass. Now pitching by one game. You still have not seen Glass Now

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pitch for the Dodgers, but you
you brought them together. Well that's I

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mean, that's really that's a kind
thing to say. I don't know it

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would have happened without me, but
I like to I'll definitely pretend to take

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the credit, but it's really it
was a really amazing night. We have

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I have this bar. We broadcast
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see it on your I guess your
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you can find that Dodger talk.
We had about forty executives and baseball people

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here between the two teams, mostly
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experience to see the way that this
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I don't know whether the NFL or
basketball or how or soccer or how they

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they operate in terms of like the
way deals get done, but for these

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it was it felt like in the
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Ruth and Yeah, and you know
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like the things were going on where
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know, Rudy's Bar in New York
and just hash out like, well,

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I mean, I don't know if
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want them? Yeah, I guess
I'll you know that kind of thing.

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It felt like that was it was
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the Dodgers really wanted Glass now and
the Tampa Bay Rays knew they couldn't really

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keep him and they wanted to see
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course of sitting at the bar and
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really clear that these are guys that
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can, and they like each other
and everybody had alcohol. And then the

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fun part was like reminiscing was sitting
there and talking to Eric about the World

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Series against the Race, and then
you know, watching as we kind of

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teased him about something that happened in
that and then the same with like what

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happened in years prior and just memories
and it's just baseball is the best it

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really is, and you only get
so many summers, right, Brad,

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and the Dodgers need to go for
it this summer, and we need you

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at Dodger Stadium. I don't care
what game it is, but it would

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be perfect if you sang the national
anthem at Dodger Stadium for the World Series

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game that Tyler glassnow will start at
Dodger Stadium. That's how we bring this

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full circle. Okay, you got
a deal whatever whatever they I mean,

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I'll heck, i'll, I'll carry
the towels for the team. I don't

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get I know you would. Thanks
a lot for the time, Brad.

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And if you want to support Brad
and his great wife Kim, you can

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do so by going to the store
dot org. They've had this free grocery

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store that helps underprivileged families have the
dignity to shop for groceries themselves and it's

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all free thanks to Brad and Kim
Paisley thestore dot org. Brad, you're

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the best. Great seeing you on
Saturday. It was great to see you

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too, And in fact, I
barely got to see you, and that

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was just exactly the right amount of
time. Thanks a lot. You're welcome.

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I love you, buddy, Love
you to see you soon. Okay,

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there he goes the man. Brad
Paisley, one of the biggest Dodger

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fans out there, the only celeb
Dodger fan at Yankee Stadium for these three

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games. You had Bill O'Reilly out
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you had CC Sabathia out there.
Even the impartial quote impartial pregame hosts

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for Fox are Yankees. Two out
of three of them are Yankees and the

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others are Red Sox. So Brad
Paisley was representing for the Dodgers in the

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crowd, and I know many of
you were as well. If you were

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at Yankee Stadium, I would love
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nine eighty seven, two five seventy. We will take your phone calls.

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Coming up next. Also, we
will give you an update on James

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Outman in Oklahoma City, and when
will Bobby Miller be back. I'll let

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you know when we continue on off
day Dodger Talk right here on AM five

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to seventy LA Sports. Thanks again
to Brad Paisley for calling in from the

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bar in Nashville where Eric Neander,
Andrew Freeman, Dave Roberts and the rest

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of the Rays and Dodgers front office
staff were hanging out during the winter meetings

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and found a way to make a
trade that brought Tyler Glass Now to the

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Dodgers, and Ryan Peppio and Johnny
de Luca to Tampa Bay. Eight sixty

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

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series was epic. I am still
on a high. The Dodgers landed at

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three am this morning, but I
said, you know what, an off

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day Dodger talk is exactly what we
need to do coming off a big series.

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And obviously everybody in LA and around
the country that's a Dodger fan is

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feeling a little bit better than those
that were wearing pinstripes for those three games

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in the Bronx A little disappointing.
Juan Soto was not able to play,

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but tonight was in the starting lineup
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DH So we would have loved to
have seen these two teams with Juan Soto

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in the lineup going up against the
Dodgers. But the Dodgers will take it.

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And outside of the excitement and the
playoff like atmosphere for the Dodgers and

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Yankee series, at the end of
the day, after the way the Dodgers

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played in Pittsburgh, they needed to
play better in New York and get out

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of three from the Yankees. After
losing two out of three to Jared Jones,

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Paul Skeins and the rest of the
Pirates. And even when the Dodgers

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won that last game in Pittsburgh eleven
to seven, they committed two or three

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errs. Mookie Betts wasn't happy,
Walker Bueler wasn't happy, Dave Roberts certainly

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wasn't happy, and they needed to
come back and play better. So hopefully

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they can take this into their home
stand against the Rangers and Royals. In

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case you don't realize it, the
Royals are a better team right now than

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the Texas Rangers. The Rangers are
three games under five hundred coming into this

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series against the Dodgers beginning Tomorrow night. All three games against the Rangers are

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at seven to ten Tomorrow night.
Is Joe Kelly number ninety nine home Jersey

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giveaway on Friday or excuse me,
Thursday night, Yoshimu Yamamoto ball ahead night,

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and then the Royals come into town. They are one of the better

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teams in the American League, but
the Dodgers. They are catching the Rangers

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at a very good time. Because
the Rangers maybe without Corey Seeger for this

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series, another one of their players
Raal adalas Garcia. He's only four for

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his last forty something. So the
Dodgers are catching the Rangers at a good

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time. They are thirty one and
thirty four, while the Dodgers now forty

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one and twenty six in the NL
West. All right, let's go back

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out to the phones. Yellow feather
in al Monte? Did I get that

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right? Yellow feather? Do I
just call you yellow or feather? Or

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yellow? Yellow? Yeah? Yellow? That's fine, all right? Yellow?

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What's up right on the whole thing
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seems to be swinging way out there. He's way out he's getting those He

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can't he can't catch up to that
fighter. And they know it. They

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know he also doesn't the fastballs inside. You saw that when he was but

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once, yeah, but once he
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and when he gets to the inside, it is out of here. You

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know, another thing with Glass now, you know, look at Mookie Bets.

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How many errors he's made. You
know he's made though so many airs.

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When Glass now is pitching, you
know, he drops balls, he

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can't get the ball, he throws
the pread. He all screwed up.

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You know, and glass Now is
pitching. You know, glass that's a

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little unfair. I feel like the
mistakes stand out with all of us.

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But I thought Mookie Betts a Yankee
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really good shortstop. He dropped two
he made two airs. He did not

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I know the one you're talking about
going up the middle, and he the

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ball slipped out of his hand.
I know which one you're talking That's an

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air. That's an air. That
is an air. And then then it

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seems like it always happens when glass
Now is on board. Next time lest

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the Dodgers scored runs for glass Now, that was the first time since May

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fourth they scored while he was on
the mound exactly, I wouldn't. I

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wouldn't feel very good either if they
had my number one team in the West,

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wasn't wasn't you know, as much
firepower as the Dodgers. I've been

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I've been a Dodger van since nineteen
seventy and it just they got so much

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power here they're not utilizing it.
For a while, it looked like they

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were jealous of Showy because because of
the gigantic contract that he got. You

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know, it just seemed like they
were just hating on him, and uh

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so they were again, Yeah,
no, I'm sorry, that's not accurate.

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That's uh that's perception by you Yellow. That ain't right. And last

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night Mookie Betts did not have any
errors last night, so uh that's fake

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news as well. He dropped the
ball, he dropped the ball, dropped

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it. He did not drop you
know, he did not make the play.

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It would have been a spectacular play
for him to make. And how

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come I want you to call me
on a night that Mookie Bets does not

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make an air or makes all the
plays you expect him to Yellow, because

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he had done He has done that
a lot more nights than the ones that

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you are remembering. And I feel
like that's the unfair thing to Mookie because

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we all will point out when he
makes mistakes like he did in Pittsburgh that

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last game, but nobody talks about
the first two games against the Yankees,

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and for the most part last night
at Yankee Stadium, nobody ever calls in

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and says, Mookie Bets did his
job all right, right, all right,

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thanks for the phone call. I
appreciate it. Look, Mookie's not

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perfect, but I will defend him
in this number one. No other super

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star would say yes to moving to
such a demanding position after never having played

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it at the professional level. You
can talk about high school all you want,

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but give Mookie Betts credit for saying
yes and doing everything he can to

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be as good as he possibly can
at that position. Is it ideal?

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No? But is that on him. No. He's trying to do whatever

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he can to make the team be
able to win this season, even if

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it means playing shortstop. And no
player, no superstar A would do this,

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B would do what Mookie Betts has
done. And let's go from right

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field to second base and now to
shortstop at age thirty one. Guys move

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off shortstop at age thirty one.
So that's something else we have never seen

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before. And see, like I
just told Yellow, whenever Mookie Bets has

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a good game or makes a really
above average play, none of you call

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Dodger Talk and say, hey,
Mookie Bets was really good tonight at shortstop.

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I only get phone calls when Mookie
Bets isn't very good at shortstop,

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and for the most part he has
been pretty good. Eight six six nine,

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eight seven two five seventy is the
phone number will Mookie Bets be playing

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shortstop in October? I'm not sure
about that either, because the Dodgers will

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be looking for upgrades at in their
middle infield somehow, some way. If

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they're able to find a very good
shortstop to make a trade for, yeah,

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then Mookie Bets will go to second
base. And who knows what will

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happen with Gavin Lux. Maybe Gavin
Lux is part of a trade at the

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July thirtieth deadline, But who's out
there? What shortstops are out there?

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Besides what Bo Bischett, that would
probably be the only shortstop that is going

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to be available that would be a
difference maker to move Mooki off that position.

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And right now, publicly the Blue
Jays are saying they're not training Bo

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Bichette or Vladimir Guerrero Junior. Now
that could be you know, them playing

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the poker face publicly. And Bo
Bischett may have expressed already that he has

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no intention to remaining in Toronto at
the end of next season when he's a

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free agent. So if that's the
case, I'm not saying it is,

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but it's possible. Don't the Blue
Jays have to act now to get the

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most for Bo Bichett eight six six
nine eight seven two five seventy is the

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phone number. Also, as we
get closer to the trade deadline, I

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could see the Dodgers looking for an
upgrade offensively in their outfield because ta Oscar

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Hernandez has been the most productive outfielder
the Dodgers have had all season long.

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By far. James Outman, who
the Dodgers thought was going to build off

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a very solid rookie season, did
not play well. And in fact,

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James Outman did not look good since
the start of spring training, and the

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Dodgers were forced to send him down. And now Andy Pohez has taken his

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job in center field, and to
me, Andy pie Haz looks a lot

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better in center field and at the
plate than James Outman has since the start

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of spring training. Outman in Oklahoma
City, by the way, eighteen games

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have been played, He's sitting three
seventeen with a one thousand OPS. He

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has four home runs and thirteen RBIs. Look. I like James Outman.

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I wish him the best, and
I want him to be great, and

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I would love to see him get
another opportunity at this level, But there

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are no guarantees to that, although
I am hearing more around the Dodgers that

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he is playing his way into getting
another opportunity. But I will say this

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triple A is a lot different than
the big leagues. I think we all

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understand that. So if he does
get another opportunity between now and the trade

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deadline, he better make the most
of it or he's not going to be

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in a Dodger uniform much longer.
Eight six six nine eighty seven two five

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

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Let's go out to Don in the
City of Industry, who has one

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of the great voices of any sports
talk caller out there. If I remember,

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Oh DV God love you, Thank
you so much. Hey, Don,

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haven't heard from you in a long
time. How are you? God

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been okay? I was in a
witness protection but now I'm out, So

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everything's okay? Okay? Are you
saying to show Yeah, I'm good.

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I got a good cover story.
I'm just uh, I was going to

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tag onto kind of what you said, you know, like I never dreamed

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we'd be fortunate enough to get it, get a player like Mookie Batts,

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and I mean, I can't say
he's my favorite. I have so many

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favorites, they're all they're all my
favorites. But uh, to be such

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a team player and just take on
what they asked him to do, I

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don't guy. Not too many guys
do that. Yeah, I mean,

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the guy just loves the game so
much and he wants to do what the

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team wants him to do. And
to put yourself into it, put yourself

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in that position. And as you
say, he's doing pretty darn well.

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And then tell me makes a little
mistake. Some people like, why pick

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at that? I just do not
get it. You know, some people

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are just you know, I think
they spend their life in a in a

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cold bathtub. You know that is
miserable. They're missing thropes, missing tropes,

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Pantanentially he was was in a hot
eye cold bathtub there, don hy

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Yes, when he opened his veins, uh witness something else? Yes,

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yes, yes, he didn't make
it. He was the imaginary drove Alazzi.

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I think, Hey, don great
to hear your voice. I'm glad

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you're doing well. Call back anytime. Okay, alright, glad talking to

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you, Dave. I'm looking forward
to it, all right, be well,

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eight six six, nine, eighty
seven two five seventy. I would

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say that's a first having somebody call
in that just got out of witness protection.

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And Don in Industry is a long
time sports talk caller. So I'm

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glad he's out. I'm glad he's
doing well. Eight six six nine eight

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seven two five seventy is the phone
number I promised a Bobby Miller update.

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He did pitch on Friday. He
threw eighty five pitches and four innings.

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Every time I talked to Bobby Miller
the last couple of weeks, he says

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he's ready to go, and by
all intensive purposes, he will be ready

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to go after this last rehab start. The question is when the Dodgers begin

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a stretch of thirteen games in a
row starting tomorrow when they host the Texas

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Rangers. So you would imagine at
one point in time here during this thirteen

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games in a row stretch, Bobby
Miller would be dropped in to give the

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rest of the rotation extra day's rest, and then from there it's conceivable the

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Dodgers go with a six man rotation
until the All Star Break. Let's go

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out to Utah, Heather you're on
Dodger Talk with David vasse hi Ether.

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Hey Davis, been so long?
How are you? You haven't been in

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witness protection, have you? No? I definitely haven't. And that was

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the first time I've ever heard that
either. So it's an exciting night already.

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All Right, that's a big victory, Yeah, Dave. That Yankees

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Dodgers series was so epic I had
to call in. It felt like a

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playoff atmosphere. I'm sure it felt
that way for all of you that were

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able lucky enough to be there.
There's nothing like a Dodger Yankees game.

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My husband has taken my kids to
the games because they used to only happen

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every few years. It's just epic. And I just wanted to call him

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because I love taoscar Hernandez. We
saw him at spring training in Arizona Weekly

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Down, and I said, this
guy is going to be really special for

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this team. Saw him again at
Dodger Stadium in April, and he just

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has these amazing, big hit moments
that just capture everybody. And then his

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smile and his energy when he hit
that Grand Slam and just pumped his fists

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and gave that energy that is exactly
what this team needs right now and today.

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I'm pretty sure you saw this,
But just a few hours ago,

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he had an interview with MLB dot
Com and they said that they asked him

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about his impending free agency and he
says, I want to stay. I

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don't want to keep bouncing around the
league. I feel good here. How

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crucial do you think he is?
You know, a mid to all of

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the signings of Otani and Yoshinobo.
I think ka Oscar is kind of that

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dark horse that we really need right
now. Oh, without a doubt,

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I one hundred percent agree that Taoscar
Hernandez is the best free agent signing nobody

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is talking about until now. And
I know everybody wants him to re sign

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with the Dodgers. He's going to
command a lot of money if he keeps

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doing what he's doing. He's on
pace for forty home runs, Heather,

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and he's doing it on a big
stage. And I love that he said

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after the last two games that he
embraces this big stage and thrives in this

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big stage. That's what you want
to hear from your best players, but

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also guys like ta Oscar Hernandez.
So that was really good. Moving forward,

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because you know, in the postseason, you got a guy that's not

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going to be scared. Absolutely,
we need guys that are not afraid,

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that really shot up to the moment. And you know this if anything with

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a good you know, pre pre
showing to what could potentially be a world

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series for these playoff type atmospheres,
it was that this weekend. And he

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I mean that man carried the entire
team on his back. And I really

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think the Yank Keeth need to send
him a Father's Sake card because he their

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dad. Right now, all right, Heather, thanks for the phone call.

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Let's take one more call before we
say goodnight, Michael and Bellflower.

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What do you got from me?
Michael, Hey, David, I just

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wanted to mention that you are correct, Mookie Bets is doing a pretty good

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job out there at shortstop. But
I did want to point out that Bryce

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Harper has moved from right field into
first base, and we all know that

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that's not the easiest position to play. We saw my former favorite player,

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Josh Peterson go there, and yeah, a little bit. I love Bryce

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Harper. You know how much I
love Bryce Harper, and I think he

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is one of the best Ambassadors that
is currently playing right now. But you

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can't compare playing first base to shortstop
and Bryce had with all of last and

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Bryce moved there out of necessity because
of Tommy John last year, right,

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Michael, And he had all of
last year when he was still on the

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IL and all of last year to
practice first base. Mookie Betts had to

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play shortstop with a week to go
before opening day. That's not the same.

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Yeah, I totally agreed that it
was out of necessity here in LA

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as well. I mean, yeah, but Bryce Harper had all of last

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year to practice before every game to
play first base. Mookie Betts did not

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have that luxury and was thrust into
it a week before opening day. You

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can't compare that. No, I
agree with you, Dave. That's what

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I'm saying, that Mookie Betts is
doing a bang up job out there short

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and he kind of was, I
mean right here in spring training out of

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necessity. The fact that Les Luck
has had a long runway to try to

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get it done. Yeah, I
just thought you were trying to say what

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Bryce Harper is doing is comparable to
what Mookie Betts is doing, and you

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know it is not an easy position. Everybody thinks first base is an easy

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position. It's not. But Bryce
had all of last year to practice before

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games. I saw him at Dodgers
Stadium the first day he started doing that,

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and Mookie Betts did not have that
luxury. And shortstop is outside of

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catcher, the most demanding position on
the field. So I thought you were

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trying to say it's comparable, which
it's not. I was just pointing out

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that he did come in, that
he's a superstar player, and that he

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did change positions later in his career. That's about the comparable. Yeah,

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that's fair, and that's why the
outfield in the National League stinks. Jerkson

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Profar and ti Oscar Hernandez are the
two most productive outfielders in the National League,

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partly because Mookie Bets and Bryce Harper
have moved to the infield. All

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right, thank you for the phone
call, Michael. Love it Matt in

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West Covina. I'm sorry I couldn't
you get to you. I'm sorry Isabelle

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and Anaheim that I couldn't get to
you. Call back after the game tomorrow

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night, Dodgers versus Rangers. Hopefully
Corey Seeger plays in one of these three

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games. If not all of them. He's dealing with. I'm not sure

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which hamstring, but a hamstring injury. So hopefully he's back. I would

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love to see him get the ovation
he deserves. And if he's not playing,

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I hope he's here in LA and
in the dugout where the Dodgers can

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do something for him, for the
fans to react and give him his salute

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that he deserves. Tomorrow, Morongo
Casino Dodgers on Deck begins at six o'clock

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with Tim Kats first pitch from Dodgers
Stadium, Dodgers and the World Series champion

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Rangers at seven to ten. Thanks
to Ronnie Foscio for all his help,

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and thanks to you for listening,
and thanks to Brad Paisley for calling in.

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In case you missed the show,
you can find it on the iHeartRadio

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