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Welcome to Guardians Weekly on the Cleveland
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everyone, welcome to Guardians Weekly.
Jim Rosenhouse along with you from Camerica Park

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in Detroit. This weekend, the
final weekend of the regular season, the

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final weekend with Terry Francona as Cleveland
manager. Coming up. On this week's

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show, we will hear from Paul
Doland, Guardians owner, about the tenure

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of eleven years of Terry Francona.
Quite a run in the manager's office for

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Cleveland and Tito certainly deserving of all
the accolades that have come his way down

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the stretch. We will also hear
what he has met off the field for

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the franchise from President of Business Operations
Brian Baron. Will also visit with Stephen

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Kwan and Mike Sarbough, third base
coach for the Guardians and longtime member of

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the coaching staff. That is all
coming up, but first I'll look back

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at the weekend review and after an
OP day on Monday, the final homestand

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of the season wrapped up with a
two game series against the Reds Cincinnati,

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winning Tuesday night eleven to seven,
and then Wednesday, the final home game

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for Terry Francona as Guardians manager and
quite an emotional night. It was the

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game itself. Shane Bieber got the
start for the Guardians, fitting and that

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he was certainly a mainstay at the
top of the starting rotation during some of

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Tito's solid seasons near the end,
and in his second start since returning from

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the injured list, it looked like
he was on a mission to finish the

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season on a positive note. Dela
Cruz madding two thirty four thirteen bombs,

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forty RBIs four RBIs last night.
He sends a one hopper to the second

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baseman. Freeman backs up into right
field, A Glovett throws over ending over

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seven pitch enning for Shane Bieber,
no score middle of ending number two.

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In the bottom half of the second
ending, the Guardians got on the scoreboard

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thanks to Tyler Freeman, now the
three one. I was swinging a shot

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up the middle base it Ricks says
off the bag at second Caram's into center

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field and the Guardians take a one
nothing lead on Tyler Freeman's RBI single to

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centers, scoring ramone Loriano Freeman's fourteenth
RBI and then an ex batter Brian Rokio

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delivered as well. Now the one
old hit on a line towards the ranked

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center base hit Freeman hits thirties being
waved home. Here's Friedel's throat of the

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plate cut off at the mount and
then the throw by incarnassions strand of Dela

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Cruz at second and they tag out
Rokil. No idea why Rokio was going

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to second there, that's just over
aggressiveness. But give the kid an RBI

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single to put Cleveland on top two
to nothing. As Rokil just up from

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Columbus as his sixth RBI on the
single to right center. In the third,

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they were back at it, Stephen
Kwan with a single and then Josh

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Naylor came through a swinging a log
drive to write this ball is off the

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wall. In the scores, Quan
Nailer holds with a long single as he

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nearly knocked down the wall in right
and Cleveland leads three to nothing. Josh

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Nayler's ninety seventh RBI as he hit
a two iron that just didn't get high

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enough to get out of here.
But he has knocked Andrew Abbot out of

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this game. And in the fourth
they had another runner in scoring position and

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another youngster coming through in Jose EIGHTEENA. Here's the old one swung on.

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There's a chopper near the middle and
under the glove of India. How it

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goes into the outfield. Scoring on
the play is Rokio. On the third

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goes Straw and it's an RBI single
for Jose. Tina just passed the second

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baseman, Jonathan India, and the
Guardians now lead it for nothing. For

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Tina, that's his third run batted
in in the big leagues and he's now

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two for two on the night.
The red scratched out a run in the

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sixth to make it four to one, but Bieber continued to impress on the

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mound. Beaver's ready now the o
two strike three tall. He was guessing

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breaking ball, locked them up with
a fastball and canasione Is beib seventh straight

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out victim. The Reds, battling
for a playoff spot, got back into

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it with two runs in the eighth
inning to make it a one run ball

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game. So in the ninth it
was a Minuel Closse trying to nail down

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his career best forty third. See
the pitch down in the dirt, ball

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won fans on their feet, channing
Tito. You know how badly this Cleveland

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club wants to win it for Tito, and twenty nine thousand on their feet

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want it just as badly. The
pitch swinging a little tamper right side,

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trickling down the line, fair ball
nailer grabs it, steps on the bag

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ball game Della CRUs never left cold
play. David Bell coming out to argue

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what's at a foul ball off the
foot? Cleveland will celebrate as the game

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ends in a weird fashion and Emanuel
Classe will get his forty third saint a

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new career high, and Cleveland hangs
on to win four to three. David

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Bell is pleading his case with the
entire umpiring crew as the fans are on

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their feet, channing Tito, Tito. So the ball game ends and the

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Rents, frustrated, will head to
the clubhouse. Final tonight, Cleveland four,

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Cincinnati three. What a way for
Tito Francona to wrap up his managerial

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career at Progressive Field, And after
the game, he talked about how special

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the Knight was for him. It's
kind of difficult. It was really touching.

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Don't don't ever get me wrong.
I mean, my goodness sakes.

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I mean, you know, I've
told this group plenty of times. I

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know I'm not the smartest person in
the room by far, but I was

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smart enough to pick a place where
I believed in the people, and that

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only grew. And I think anybody's
ever spent ten minutes with me knows how

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much I like it here. It's
so close to kind of how where I

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grew up in two hours away,
and it was a good decision. It

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just seems like it got better after
you knowing where you'll be next year.

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Talking about guys like Fever. I'm
okay with that because I'm I told another

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day, I'm I'm gonna be rooting
like hell for these guys. Might be

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in a rocking chair or something,
hopefully you've been on the golf course,

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but I will never not root for
these guys. I love these guys.

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Man, this is this has been
eleven years of good What was going through

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your head? The guys are blocking
me? Yeah? Yeah, I know.

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I was like, come on,
man, enough like it's I think

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that's why they were doing it because
they knew I was kind of feeling it.

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But it's not. I mean,
it's nice. I believe me down

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deep. I mean I was really
touched. I guess what I'm just trying

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to convey is the eleven years here
are what is the best part. It's

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not like the last day. It's
everything that I lived through here with the

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people that I was with, and
that's what that's what I care about.

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Yeah, you're surprised I came down
to a one run game, Say,

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yeah, that was That's kind of
kind of how it's been. You'd think

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with you know, with three three
games left now, i'd be able to

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say, you know what, my
stomach was in my throat just I guess

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it'll be that way till Sunday.
There, I know, you can that

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tricky video is coming and you got
to stand there and watching thoughts and emotions

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in either after eleven years, you
know, truth be told, I don't

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remember a lot of it because I
think I was kind of nervous, but

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I did when I saw my dad, that was, you know, and

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I was glad Milsey was here and
he was in a lot of that so

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that that you know that tomorrow.
I was standing next to me while I

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was on Those things are meaningful to
me. The clubhouse guys were standing right

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behind him. Those are the things
that mean a lot. It kind of

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said, what would you your last
mentioned to be to the fans? Now?

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I think tonight it would just be
thank you. I have tried to

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do my best all the time,
and sometimes it's been better than others.

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But I appreciate my time here very
much, and I hope that they support

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these guys moving forward because there's a
lot to like. We didn't get things

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accomplished this year like we wanted.
That doesn't mean it's not gonna happen.

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Thursday off day for the Guardians,
and they open up their final series of

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the season in Detroit on Friday night
with a seven to five victory. Game

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two of the series on Saturday with
a one thirty five first pitch, and

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the season wraps up on Sunday,
a three ten start at Comerica Park in

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Detroit. Stay with us when we
come back, we'll hear from Guardians owner

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It's Guardians Weekly from Detroit this week, as the Guardians are taking on the

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Detroit Tigers in the finale of the
regular season in twenty twenty three. No

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postseason this year for the Guardians,
but certainly some drama this weekend as Terry

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Francona is managing his final free games
in the Cleveland uniform and the owner of

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the Guardians, Paul Dolan, Well, we had a chance to visit with

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him prior to the game on Wednesday, Tito's last home game, and Paul

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talked about how difficult they will be
for him and the organization when he don't

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managees his final game on Sunday.
Yeah, it's it's certainly a sad time

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for us because we hope that he
was going to be with us for a

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much longer time. But but we
know it's the right decision for him.

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So we're happy for him that he's
going about taking care of the things he

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needs to take care of. But
he's going to be really, really badly

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missed. And when you say that, is there a certain aspect of Tito

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and everything that he means to this
franchise that that you will miss the most.

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Well, everything from his presence throughout
the organization, the culture that he

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has helped foster, to the fact
that we've been really successful on the field,

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all those things. You kind of
hope, you know, his legacy

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will will enable us to continue in
some shape or form. But he's a

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unique person and and that's pretty hard
to replicate. So take us back it's

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heading into the twenty thirteen season the
end of twenty twelve. Were you surprised

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that he would be as interested in
this job as he was when when the

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Guardians were and then Indians were looking
to bring him on board. Yeah,

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I was. I mean, that
was certainly a really great day when I

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learned that he was interested. We
knew him because he had spent some time

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here before, and Chris and Mark's
pirate at the time knew him well,

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but I guess I thought two World
Series wins in Boston and a stint at

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ESPN, probably for clothes Cleveland as
an option for him. But you know,

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to the contrary, it's exactly where
he wanted to be in the last

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eleven years or sort of testament to
that. And it seemed like that great

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dynamic for the first portion of his
time here was the relationship with his dad

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who played here. And when you
see that type of thing, how did

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that hit home for you a little
bit? You couldn't have scripted, you

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know, the the Terry Francona a
tenure with the Cleveland Indians now Guardians any

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better than what it was. And
and you know, part of that script

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was that he was playing where his
dad played. And there are pictures of

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Tito as a kid in the dugout
all over our organization. It really really

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has meant so much to our organization
into our community. Guardians owner Paul Joel

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and joining us as uh we get
ready for Terry Francona's last home game here

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at at Progressive Field And Paul,
you mentioned personality. Did you have any

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idea what you were getting into from
the personality standpoint of Terry Francona and some

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of the funny things that would happen
along the way. You know, I

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knew him from his short stint here
I think it was nearly two thousands,

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but no, I did not have
an idea of what lay ahead. He

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has his own unique personality and it's
extraordinarily fun to be around. And part

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of the fun is that everyone gets
treated the same, and for frankly,

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I don't get treated the same a
lot. So it was really kind of

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nice to have that kind of relationship. And I feel like you probably got

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a heavy dose of that that first
year when they came all the way back

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and won the ten games in a
row at the end of the season,

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and how often, well maybe not
how often, but what did you make

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of the whole celebration in Minnesota in
the clubhouse, because I know you were

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right in the middle of a lot
of it, maybe not wanting to be

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Yeah, I got dragged into that. Actually, I go back to the

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beginning of that year when I first
ran into Tito down in Arizona, when

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I showed up that only the video
could really do it justice, but everybody

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was in costume. There was something
going on at the time that was sort

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of a big deal, and and
all the players and the coaches were all

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dressed up in these wild costumes,
and it seemed like now at the end

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of the season, we had another
kind of wild celebration, uh that I

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did get kind of dragged into,
and that became a little bit of a

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common practice for the next decade,
and the high points, certainly twenty sixteen.

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Would that be your favorite memories that
fall about twenty sixteen or are there

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some others that even trump that.
Well, I mean, it's hard to

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top what happened in twenty sixteen,
but I'm not going to tie my memories

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to Tito to to that year.
It was it was really who he was

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as a person. For me,
it was the chance to duck into his

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office. We oftentimes we actually rarely
talked baseball. We talked about our families

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or our golf games or something really
silly. But it was really those kind

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of moments that I'll miss more than
anything else. And when you look back

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on it, I don't know how
many people in that position can can change

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the trajectory of a franchise, but
but he has. And do you see

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that having a lasting impact on what
happens here. Well, first of all,

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he disabused me of the notion that
managers don't have a huge impact on

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the performance of a team, because
we saw that right from the beget go

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with him, that he really did
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will have some impact on our next
hire. But you know, we learned

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a lot with him in our organization, and the hope is that he won't

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get too far so that whatever knowledge
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Well, certainly his memories will be
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Dolan, thank you so much for
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here, and this would be an
interesting and sort of I guess the word

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overused word is bittersweet evening for all
of us at His Guardians owner Paul Dolan,

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who has certainly appreciated everything that Terry
Francona has meant to this franchise over

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the last called labid years. Players
and coaches feel the same way. We'll

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hear from Stephen Kuan and Mike Sarbaugh
when we come back after this time.

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Up the pitch, swinging a line
on the left near the line, Pollock

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going over place it on the bounce, skips by him, ricochets into the

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left field corner. Quan's around second, He's not stopping there. Pollock's throw

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the third pet first slide a triple
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and eluded Pollock and caramed into the
left field corner. You weren't stopping,

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Stephen Quan. The one two swung
on line drive base at left center field.

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Quand in the gamp to cut it
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the third slide to got up.
What a play by Quaw. Oh my

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Stephen Kwan matting two sixty two.
Couple of Homer's twenty seven RBIs. Kwan

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swings and drives one high, drives, one deep right center field, gone

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into the bullpen. Stephen Quan wastes
no time on pitch number two and he'd

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bomb that baby into the Rangers bullpen
and right center field. Welcome back to

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Guardians Weekly, Jim Rosenhouse back with
you from Detroit and America Park, where

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the Guardians are taking on the Tigers
in the final series of the season.

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And it's the final games for manager
Terry Francona in a Guardians uniform. Eleven

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seasons he will leave town and finish
up his Cleveland career as a manager as

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the winningest manager in Cleveland baseball history. And when do you consider goes back

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to nineteen oh one, that is
quite an accomplishment and a young man who

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has had a chance to play his
first two seasons in the major leagues.

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Sport Tito's outfielders Stephen Kwan and he
talked about what the last couple of weeks

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have been like for the team as
Tito's time with Cleveland has come to a

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close. Yeah, it's definitely really
sad. I think there's no way around

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that. I think it's just really
somber. You know, you kind of

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was telling you again, we walked
by the office and you know, he's

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noticing, he's takes some stuff down. There's people stopping in to talk to

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him that you know, you don't
see very often. It's just it's a

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somber mood. But I mean,
I think we have to flip down in

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his head like he's obviously had a
great career here. We should be celebrating

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him and everything he's done. So, yeah, a lot of mixing motions

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this week. You talked to a
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How about a younger player just breaking
in, you were a rookie a

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year ago, What is he meant
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I think when you're in the minors
and you're kind of talking to other

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people from other teams, you kind
of hear that. You know, like

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front office managers, they could be
really tricky. You know, they don't

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always tell you what what the truth
is. They just kind of pad your

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ego and tell you what you want
to hear. I think from day one,

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Tito has always been super honest with
me, and I think that's how

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my career like. He's been super
honest. He's always told me what I

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need to hear, not what I
want to hear. And I think that's

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that's a really lucky start for me
starting my career. And you look at

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your season and you're gonna end up
with very similar numbers to a year ago,

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exceeding in some areas and and things
like that. How has he helped

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in that second year, which sometimes
can be really tough. Yeah, I

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think it's just the consistency part.
I mean, I think there were some

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days earlier where I'd be really down. I think I kind of felt like

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those walls were closing in again,
and I think he, you know,

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he'd just told me straight up,
like, hey, you're gonna be in

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there tomorrow. You know, you're
gonna be in there next day, and

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you're gonna be in the next day. You know, if you need some

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time, take some time off,
but like you're gonna be the top of

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the line up. I think that
helped a ton, and not letting my

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thoughts overcome a lot of things.
Just knowing that he had faith in me

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when I didn't have faith in myself
was really big. A year ago,

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just a magical year for this team, and it didn't work out this season.

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What do you take away from this
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Yeah, I think just attention to
detail Again. I think we thought

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that that magic was just gonna roll
over, just because that's who we were

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and we were destined for that kind
of thing. And obviously baseball is a

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very humbling sport to where that's not
quite so simple. I think it's gonna

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leave us our taste in our mouths. But I think that's gonna be a

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really good thing because people are gonna
take the aw season really seriously. Including

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me. It's it's gonna be one
of those things where we have to bounce

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back. We have to just be
better in all areas. And I think

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that kind of motivation is really good
fuel for going to next year. Now,

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Stephen always fun to watch him.
Thanks a lot for coming, but

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I appreciate it. Yeah, thanks
Rosie at his outfielders. Stephen Kwan talking

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about the impact that Tito has had
on his career. Mike Sarbaugh has been

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on the coaching staff for all eleven
of Terry Francona's seasons as manager of the

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Cleveland Guardians and Indians prior to that, and he he looks back. He

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talked about what it meant to him
even to get a chance to interview for

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the position eleven years ago. Yeah, I think, you know, coming

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into this, I mean I think
as being in baseball and you've saw the

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success he had, you know,
in Boston and you know, winning the

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World Series, a couple World Series
there and then coming when he got the

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job here in Cleveland. Just to
be able to interview for you know,

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a spot on his staff was was
huge for me. And then whenever you

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know, they asked me to be
on staff, you know, I couldn't

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ask for a better situation than someone
to learn under and and and just to

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be around it to learn the game. So it's hard to believe it's been

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eleven years. It's gone by very
fast, but feel very fortunate to have

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been a part of it. You
mentioned his credentials before he got here,

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so when you finally got on the
staff, was it different from maybe what

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you expected just based on what you
had seen from a distance. Yeah.

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I think anytime you know, you
see someone having success from afar, you

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don't really you know, know exactly
how they tick and how they they handle

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things. And you know, the
one thing I've said about Tito, I

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think the way he keeps it in
the clubhouse with the players. He wants

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to have fun, but knowing we're
here to win and it's been Uh,

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it's something that I think a lot
of people on the outside they I think

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they appreciate what he's done, but
until you're around him on a daily basis,

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to know how he goes about things
and what he brings on a daily

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basis, that makes you really appreciate
him. And from a coaching standpoint,

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I know I've heard several coaches on
his staff say he lets us coach,

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which sounds like a cliche. What
does that mean though, Well, he

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empowers the staff. I think the
one thing he was a staff member,

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you know, he was a coach
in the minor leagues. He managed in

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the minor leagues, he was a
coach in the major leagues, so he

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knows what coaches go through. And
the one thing he if he respects on

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what you know and what you bring, he lets you do your job.

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And we feel very fortunate of the
staff to have had him as our leader

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because he does let us do our
jobs. We know we can go to

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him with any questions if we have
anything on our mind, and he can

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do the same. But that's the
one thing he lets us work and he

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empowers us. Mike SARbot joining us
as Terry Francona's career winds down, and

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you're talking about some of the attributes
before the break that have made him so

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successful. The funny stuff, hopefully
there's some you can share. But what

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keeps it light? What are some
of the funny things that happened, maybe

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on a on a regular basis that
keep things light around here? Well,

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I mean, you know, I
think back, you know, his first

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few years. You know, he'd
be walking through the clubhouse. He'd be

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throwing a football with the players and
just having fun, you know, maybe

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playing ping pong. Just he just
the interaction he has with the players.

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He wants them to be comfortable,
and part of that is just how he

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acts with them, you know.
And then you go to you know,

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now with with Barney Mike Barnett to
replay coordinator, you know, he'll just

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he'll go up behind him with the
clippers and chop some of his hair off

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and just just getting that, you
know, just having the fun. He

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keeps it, keeps it light.
Uh. But I think the one thing

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the players realize is when when the
game time starts, he's all about winning,

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and and they feel that how did
you manage to escape most of the

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shenanigans. It seems like anyway,
well he's always up to something. Uh.

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But it seems like Barney's always the
main guy that that he'll he'll do

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the major things with. But you
know, I think, uh, you

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know, if he if he's not
doing anything with you or making fun of

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you, then then maybe you have
to start wondering what's going on. But

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he he just wants you to feel
comfortable in the environment because he feels he

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feels that if you're comfortable and you're
relaxed, you're gonna play well. And

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that's that's what he's all about.
You've been around him a long long time.

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Surprised that it comes to an end
now, just based on how he's

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been feeling well. You know,
it's been uh, you know since twenty

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the pandemic year, and then he
had to miss part of the season,

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and then in twenty one. You
know, it's it's been a struggle for

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him here over the last three to
four years. I think last year's team

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kind of put some fire back in
him, but I think, you know,

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it's just it catches up to him
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the travel, the day in,
day out, what it takes to be

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a major league manager. So,
you know, as much as we hate

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to see him go, you know, it was time for him. I

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think he and he realized it.
And as he leaves, what is he

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meant to your career? Well,
I can't thank him enough. You know,

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he gave me my first chance to
be a major league coach, and

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you know, I can't thank him
enough what he's done for myself. For

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my family, his friendship, been
a ment tour he's been. I mean,

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he's done it all, and I
just think anybody that worked for him

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really appreciates him. And you know, like we we had a little meeting

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yesterday with just the coaches. We
gave him a little gift and you know,

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we just said this, can't even
nearly thank you enough for what you've

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done for us. So we will
miss him, but you know you,

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I think we all appreciate that we
were able to be a part of his

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time as a manager in the major
leagues and just be a part of the

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what he's done here in Cleveland.
So we can't thank him enough. Else

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said Mike, Thank you, Thanks
Rosie. That's Guardians third base coach Mike

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Sarbaugh talking about the life and times
on the coaching staff of manager Terry Francona

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during Tito's eleven seasons. Stay with
us when we come back. There's been

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an impact off the field as well
during Tito's time in Cleveland. Brian Barns,

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the president of business operations for the
Guardians, and we'll hear from him

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next score pass out of bounds.
Those are sports words some people hear any

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sports word, and they can't help
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You see, pars also a sports
word, So I know you're still

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listening, and that's called covering our
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firing the pitch, swung on line
to write, coming on, making the

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catches. Loriento ball game and my
Guardians take game one in this final series

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of the season, beating Detroit tonight
seven five. Welcome back to Guardians Weekly.

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Jim Rosenhouse back with you from America
Park in Detroit, where the Guardians

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are taking on the Detroit Tigers this
weekend and the final games for manager Terry

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Frankcona as Cleveland manager. Brian Barron
is the president of business Operations for the

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Guardians. And we've seen and heard
so much about Tito's impact on the field

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and in the clubhouse. But as
Brian says, He's meant just as much

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to this franchise off the field as
well. Just like Tito's record on the

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field speaks for itself, his ability
to help us win off the field has

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made a material difference in our business
performance as a small market team in Major

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League Baseball. And when you look
at arriving here, you arrived here a

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year after he was already on board. I don't think you had ever met

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him before. How quickly did you
realize that this was some one who was

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more than just about on the field, but could also be an asset for

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as you mentioned, a small market
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the process at the time Mark Shapiro, Chris Antonetti making the introduction and the

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connection, particularly around corporate partnership interactions. So oftentimes our largest corporate partners will

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go on trips, they invest significant
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the club, and every dollar makes
a difference, particularly in a smaller market.

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Tito's ability to connect in those meetings
not only connect from a business standpoint,

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in the importance of what those partners
are bringing to the table. His

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ability to connect in a genuine and
authentic way with leaders from those partners was

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just unique. So an example,
we had Tito help with a pitch for

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some outfield wall signage at Progressive Field, probably back in twenty fifteen. The

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next year we did a partner trip
and I believe we were in Atlanta,

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down on the field for batting practice
before the game. Tito came over and

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said hello to the person from the
sponsor who had been in that meeting by

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name, which for Tito was fall
out of bed. For the sponsor,

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it was how in the world does
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did you remember the person's name,
he remembered their company and thanked them for

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their investment in the club. Bryan
Barren's joining us. He's the president of

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business for the Cleveland Guardians, and
when you heard the news he might not

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be back out, how did how
difficult was that for you and your team

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that tries to keep this franchise really
a viable major league sports franchise in town.

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I think the reactions as someone close
and you know, working day in

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and day out with the baseball team
and the franchise was the same reaction as

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many you know morning the moving on
of Tito and what that represents the flip

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side of that is our baseball operations
leadership is some of the best in the

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business by far, and the confidence
that if Chris Antonetti, Mike chairing Off,

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Matt Foreman are involved in anything,
they're going to do it the right

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way and they're going to figure out
something that helps us sustain competitiveness on the

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field. And when you look at
at Tito's impact on that during your time

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here, there are a lot of
teams where that where the business side and

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the baseball side are very much separate
and there's not that that synergy. I

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guess it might be a good word, but did Tito kind of bridge that

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gap? Was he certainly that person
that could help bridge that gap and have

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everybody on the same page. Tito
definitely was able to bridge that gap.

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You know, simple things like going
down to batting practice with a partner or

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a key business contact and having Tito
walk over and say hello. Again.

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He knows a lot of the folks
on the business side of the organization,

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so would come over to say hello
and chat with co workers and at the

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same time ask who's here with you
today, and when you'd make the introductions,

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would turn and start asking people things
that were important to them. What

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are you here for? Where are
you from? And make connections that that

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only Tito makes, that are genuine, unique and authentic. You've shared some

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good stories. I think everybody has
a Tito story, maybe a favorite memory.

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Can you think of one in particular
that stands out to you as as

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his time here winds down. I
can think of one where Tito was recognized

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by Major League Baseball for his work
in the community, and there was a

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reception in New York. It happened
to coincide with when there were some ownership

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meetings where business leadership is in New
York at Major League Baseball headquarters, and

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Paul Dolan had another commitment and asked
if I would represent the club at a

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dinner where Tito was one of the
folks being honored. So Tim Saltzer,

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our senior vice president of sales,
and I went to the dinner and Tito

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happened to be seated at the table
next to us. And when we saw

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Tito at the reception, he said, what are you guys doing here?

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We said, we're here for you. We're representing the club and we're here

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to watch you get recognized for your
work in the community. He was truly

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touched by that. I can't believe
you guys, would you come to a

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dinner just for that. Well,
we sat down at dinner and Tito actually

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had his back to us. We
were sitting at other table. He said,

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why aren't we sitting at the same
table? And I said, Tito,

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the people that are sitting at your
table paid a lot of money to

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sit at a table with you on
behalf of Major League Baseball, So obviously

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like proceeds were going to foundations for
Major League Baseball. But just a really

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funny Tito being Tito, and he
was enjoying and having fun. His table

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seem to have a little bit more
laughter and fun than perhaps someone that I

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was sitting at. But just a
good time in general. Well certainly a

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lot of memories as his time again. Wine's down here and we'll be complete

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on Sunday. Brian, thanks lot
for coming. I appreciate it. Thank

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you very much. Rosie as President
of Business Operations, Brian Barron talking about

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the impact that Terry Francona has had
on this ball club, not only on

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the field, but off the field
as well. Well, it's going to

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do it for this week's edition of
Guardians Weekly. And that's it for the

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regular season for our shows anyway,
but as always we will continue through the

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off season and that means we'll join
you each Saturday, usually around that five

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o'clock time to get it started.
So until next week. For Brian Matzey

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always does great work to put together
our show each week. This is Jim

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Rosenhouse thanking you and reminding you that
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