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Monday. Boy, that's a lot
of good stuff we're giving away. Fred.

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I'm telling you we want everybody down
there. If you dress like Santa

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or an Elf, I'll buy you
lunch that I can do my last attempt.

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If you get there early, I'll
buy your drinks. Did not go

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so well. That was a bad
call, Kevin, eh my man,

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Yeah, I can't do that,
man. Yeah, you know, it's

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not often. I have actually get
that at the show where he himself walks

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up and it wasn't quite like that, by the way. It just wasn't.

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My man, man, what the
hell are you doing? What the

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hell are you doing? You can't
be doing that, I said, why

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not, don I just want to
thank everybody goes. Oh my god,

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do you know how much trouble we
can get into? I said, all

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right. I said, well,
I promised every I swear to God.

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I said, well, I promised
everybody goes. It's over right now.

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Do you remember that? I would
No, don I promised everybody just what

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he goes. It's over right now. I remember vividly, trust me,

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and do it. Do it.
Can't do it, he said, Look

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at that one guy sitting there.
Look at that one guy. He can't

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leave here. He's got to stay
here. He can't even walk. So

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all right, I will buy a
lunch and if a number of people show

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up dressed like Santa or an elf
or or something festive in the holiday motif,

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too many people will buy one salad
and everybody gets one of letters.

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Oh lord, let's not go crazy. I'm not buying five thousand lunches.

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But come Monday, we'll see everybody
there. We look forward to it.

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I don't like my time in Detroit. Is that how it was? Yeah?

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Yeah, everybody got the same leaf
a salad for lunch in Detroit.

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Man come back. But at this
point, you know, he probably has

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a pretty good idea. He's very
kind of like legis to jack up the

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price, you know, on the
team that he actually wants to go to.

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Uh. But you know, my
guess is he driven right? And

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you know, I think he's probably
done all the calculus in his head about

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a which situation will kind of vault
me into the you know, the status

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of player that I want to be. So I can't imagine that something.

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You know, again, everything nothing
Dave Roberts said was shocking, Right,

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we already knew that he was the
Dodgers were interested in him. It's common

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sense that if the Dodgers were interested
in him, that they were going to

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meet with him at some point.
And it's not like he really divulged any

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secrets there about the meeting. So
I just can't imagine that if he was

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going, you know, if he
was set on becoming a Dodger, that

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Dave Roberts is kind of spilling this
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Yeah, I agree with you.
It's not not a big deal. But

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that being said, him having it
all mapped out, like you said,

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do you think that there's possibly any
resentment for or from from fans or even

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you know, outside of him dragging
this thing along? Yeah? I think

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so, right, I mean,
just because I think the act has kind

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of gotten a little bit, you
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I do wonder how much of this
is Otani himself and how much of this

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is like the agent, right,
you know, again, going back to

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that trip in seventeen in Japan,
he spoke, he was available, just

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like any other player, right,
I remember, you know, he was

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scheduled to start. He spoke the
day before it starts. That's the way

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pitchers normally do over there, spoke
after the start. You know. When

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Nippon ham his that team came to
spring training in Arizona one year, when

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he's still over there, you know, I went over, asked to speak

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to him. He was available,
you know. So again I wonder how

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much of this is just kind of
the agent wanting to kind of keep things

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under wraps. So the one thing
about Otani is he might not reveal much,

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but he's also I don't think he
lies either, right, and so

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his agent has probably wanted to you
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about how Oltani hasn't spoken at all
since he he injured his elbow, and

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my guess some of that is because
you know, again, Otani probably has

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an idea of what he wants to
do, what he's looking for, and

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the agent probably wanted him to avoid
having to answer those questions again because you

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know, if he tips his hand, he's going to lose a lot of

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leverage there. So you know,
what we've kind of seen from Otani again

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is that he kind of prioritizes being
a pioneer, being a trailblazer, and

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you know, he very much values
his his legacy, and I really think

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that that in the end is going
to determine you know, what's what's going

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to happen now, you know,
the public obviously, you know, I

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mean, right, every time the
team gets knocked out in December, everybody

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seems to be coming after Dave Roberts
with pitchforks. You know, I don't

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think particularly fairly, but like you
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big deal was made of what Roberts
said. I think we'll probably add Ammo,

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you know, to the to the
anti Dave Roberts crowd. But I

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think if you take a step back
and look at this with sober eyes,

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I just can't see again how this
would make the difference. If you're a

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beton man, what are you betten? Where does he end up? If

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you're betting and you have to bet. I guess I would say the Dodgers,

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right, because they do make the
most sense in terms of like what

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he's looking for. You know,
he again when he before he left Japan,

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you know, he had a press
conference in Tokyo, he did a

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couple of things about his goals.
He said, I want to be the

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number one player in the world,
and he said that, you know,

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to become the number one player in
the world, I do feel you have

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to win a World Series. So
I do think winning is going to matter

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a lot to him. Now,
you know, if he's kind of deluded

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into thinking after six years of senior
you know what's going on with the Angel

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right, I do think right,
like, the the ultimate way to win

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would be to win with the Angels. Now, I don't think that's possible.

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And my guess is that after six
years, you know, enough like

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reality say, has been beaten into
him. So you know, if he's

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going to look at like, Okay, where can I win? Who has

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a chance to do it every single
year? You know. The one thing

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about the Dodgers they get there every
October. You know, and I do

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think too that not only do they
get there every October, but there's kind

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of this feeling right now right that
they're going to having trouble kind of getting

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over that hump, even though they
want in that COVID shortened season, you

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know, and I do feel that. You know, if he comes and

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they win, he will be viewed
as that difference maker, right whereas maybe

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he's say, if he goes to
the Texas Rangers, hey they just won.

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They just won without him, you
know, and maybe he wouldn't be

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that difference maker. So uh,
you know, to me, the Dodgers

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make the most sense. The only
reason I kind of hesitate on that is

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because again, you know, Toddi's
the type of guy when everybody says go

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left, he goes right. You
know. One thing that's kind of I

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think maybe underplayed a little bit too, is when he you know, turned

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professional in Japan. The consensus was
that this two way thing was going to

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fail, right, nobody thought he
could do it. Yet he insisted on

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doing it, you know. And
so he's the type of guy everybody says

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go left, he goes right.
The fact that everybody's saying he's going to

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go to the Dodgers, I think
it's the probably the one thing that probably

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maybe even the most is working against
the Dodgers. Yeah, I listen,

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I agree with that. I think
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and but what do you think about
the Dodgers? I mean, it kind

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of was the feeling that this offseason
they had kind of set things aside,

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that all intentions were, we're going
to go all in on Otani, and

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looks like it may happen. And
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after Yamamoto too, are they Are
the Dodgers playing it right this offseason,

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especially if they get a vault.
I mean, here's the thing, right

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that I think I think Otani's in
a separate category because of what he brings

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in from an advertising revenue standpoint,
you know, I think, you know,

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Mike P. Givanna my colleague reported
at the Angels, you know,

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we're making more than ten million dollars
in just a in stadium advertising. You

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know. Jack Harris, R.
Beat writer spoke to you know, some

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Baseball EGX executives who guess that you
know, with the Dodgers, say that

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total could be you know, forty
fifty million dollars. Right, So this

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is a guy who's almost going to
pay for himself, you know, I

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know you kind of right. We
all was kind of rolled our eyes when

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we hear your agents talk about that. But this is the one player for

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whom that might actually be true.
So I think Otani's almost kind of a

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separate thing. You know. With
Yamamoto, it's kind of interesting, is

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that I've heard I've been told that
he's a very big Dodger fan, you

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know. Now that said, we've
seen reports of this thing climbing closer to

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like three hundred million dollars. I
don't think the Dodgers are going to be

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in it like at that price point, right, And now, you know,

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we have seen with Japanese players,
you know, who come here,

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they're ready millionaires when they come here, right, and you know, we

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have seen them maybe give up money
to play for the team they want to,

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you know, to be in a
particular location. I could see yamamotives

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giving up some money, you know, maybe twenty million, thirty million.

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I'm not sure he's going to be
willing to give up like one hundred plus,

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you know, because again, I'm
not sure the Dodgers necessarily go up

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to that two hundred million dollars level. For Youmamoto, he's a smaller guy,

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you know, and you know,
to me, kind of the comp

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is, you know, and not
a lot of people have kind of pushed

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back against this, but it's Kenta
Mayeta, right. People forget ken To

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Mayeta was really really good in Japan, but similar to Yamamoto's kind of a

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smaller guy, you know. And
that's the thing. They pitched once a

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week over there, you know,
ken Ta Mayda used to be ninety five

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to ninety eight, just the way
Yamamoto is, right, pitching once a

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week, you come here every five
days, that ninety five to ninety eight

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turns into ninety two to ninety five. And it's kind of hard to pitch

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in Major League Baseball without that dominant
fastball. I kind of questioned, again,

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how successful he's going to be over
here, and you know, just

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kind of again, we haven't really
seen the Dodgers kind of make that type

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of commitment to a pitcher right outside
of Clayton Kershaw. So I don't really

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see that actually happening, you know, again, unless like Yamamoto is just

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dead set on just okay, I
need to be a Dodger. I don't

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care about the finances, but at
some point, I do think, right,

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you want to feel wanted, and
I think a lot of these other

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teams. You know, there was
a report that Steve Cohen, the owner

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of the New York Mets, flew
all the way to Japan to meet with

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him. Uh, you know,
star players want to feel wanted. And

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you know, my guess is that, actually, you know, regardless of

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whether Otani ends up with the Dodgers
or not, my guess is that they're

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going to go in another direction.
And that direction could be Blake Snell,

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could be any number of possibilities.
Uh. Yeah, again, Snell is

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going to be a two hundred million
dollars plus guy, right, I don't

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think I think it's going to be
probably closer to what we've seen, uh,

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you know in recent years where they're
going to get a lot of kind

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of you know, reclamation projects type
skuys, you know, the Lucas Giolito

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type. You know, they'll have
the open camp would say, you know,

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ten potential starting pitchers, you know, some of whom I'm going to

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get hurt, and kind of whoever's
left at the end of the season's kind

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of going to be left. You
know. One thing that is working in

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their advantage I think this year is
the fact that you know, Dylan Ceese

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appears to be on the trading block, Corbyn Burns could potentially be on the

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trading block, and so that does
open the avenue for them to either make

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a deal, you know, in
the off season, or make a deal

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uh, you know, closer to
the trade deadline. Right So, but

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I I don't really see them all
of a sudden just kind of shifting strategy

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and saying, Okay, you know
what, we're going to go out and

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look for a pitcher, uh and
give that nine million dollars, nine figure

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deal when there really isn't that you
know, that horse out there. I

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don't think you know, as good
as Blake Snell is and his stuff is

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electric on a good day, he's
a six inning guy, right, and

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you do have to kind of,
you know, wonder, Okay, this

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guy really kind of worth that kind
of money. Uh. You know.

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My guess is, you know,
when it comes when it comes down to

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these types of decisions, Dodg just
front office and you usually said no.

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So you know, if they don't
get all tiny, my guess is that

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this most fans are going to be
pretty underwhelmed by what happens is winter.

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Uh della, let me just really
quick shift tonight Lakers semi finals of the

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nd season tournament. Do you think
it's been a success. Yeah, for

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sure, you know, I think
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and I was not buying this at
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I know kind of the FA Cup
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was kind of brought up as a
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separate thing right where they're bringing in
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know, I think the equivalent that
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they had brought in teams from like
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Okay, if they did that,
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you know, these games count for
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But yeah, I think I think
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think the efforts that the players that
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saw some strategic things right because of
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Lebron James has also just been amazing, right. I mean, I

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think early in the season I wrote
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expressing my concern about how hard Lebron
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now he's bound to There's no way
he can sustain this. It's weird,

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right, with every passing week he
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where. I think his most recent
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him being in the tournament is also

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kind of a good thing, right
because we do like star players, especially

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in basketball. And yeah, it
absolutely has been a success. All right,

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Dylan, thanks for coming on.
Really appreciate it. Have a good

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weekend, Okay, sank to you
guys. Thanks everybody. Dylan Hernandez of

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spirituality. Roddy Pete, Fred Rogan
throw Back Thursday. Come on, come

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on, it's almost Christmas, Rodney. We need some spirituality, Yes,

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we do. Oh by the way, did you see the picture of the

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court they're going to use tonight in
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it looks pretty cool. Do you
think the color black would clash with

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that in any way? Now,
if you weren't with us, the NBA

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told the Lakers they couldn't wear their
black jerseys because it would clash with the

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court. So we've got a picture
of the court and there is no way

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possible. Yeah, it's red and
like a royal blue. There's no way

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possible it would clash with that court. Court looks cool, don't get us

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wrong. Yeah, but there's no
way possible. So they just told him

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we couldn't wear them. They wanted
him to wear a certain color. That's

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what it is. And I'll bet
you they think, Kevin Rodney, they

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think that the uniforms will pop on
that court, and that's why they told

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him to wear them. The gold
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And yeah, I think that's what
happened. Yeah, because otherwise it makes

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appy. We just say that we're
grown we're grown ass. People just say

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that. Don't say, oh,
well, it's gonna clash with the court,

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and we don't know we should wear
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we think it's better for television.
The visual is going to be better

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if you guys wear the gold jerseys. That's exactly right, Kevin, You

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agree, Yeah, I don't think
most of us would disagree with that notion

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if they said it. No,
Hey, it makes sense. I get

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it. I think I still think
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but I mean, I understand there's
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Yeah, And you got to remember, these are all TV shows,

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they're made for TV events. You
know, back in the day, you'd

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go to the game and you'd be
it's all about the game. Now it's

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all about TV and how it translates
and the money they can generate. So

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that's what it was. Although the
court does look cool, I let to

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have spirituality here. He comes to
provide that spirituality for us. It's Victor

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Brick with the daily haikup and vic
good afternoon. He is held presidente of

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the Eduardo Rodriguez Fan Club. It's
Fred Rogan Boo, that guy immersed in

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the spirit of this holiday season.
Rodney Pete immersed immersed, Yes, f

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TP. He illuminates us like the
one hundred and fifteen foot Christmas tree at

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the Citadel and Kevin figures, come
on Na, that is some tree by

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the way, that's the largest in
La it is and rock and round our

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Christmas trees with serene melodies, everybody
dancing Merry Lee, fossil spin that dradle

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with King flavor Yah high to life. Everybody. Well, the Winter Meetings

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are over in Nashville. And there
were two stars of the Winter Meetings,

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right, Who were they? Viva
Sense Dave Roberts for being fearless in the

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face of this phony edict from the
agents. This was not as Dylan as

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Dylan. And then there's pointed out
and I've pointed out, you know,

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since it went down by the sources
that said you can't speak of the meetings

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with Otis, Dave said, yeah, we met with him. So Viva

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Dave Roberts one of the heroes of
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as a heronlle Yes. I mean, you know, that's nice. He

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did it, but I don't know
if it makes my hero big. He

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was open and candid and that got
a lot of respect from oltony Son.

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Again, don't know that My gut
instinct thing, Oh my god, Big,

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you the best thing. So,
if you have any us, if

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you have any angst in this whole
process directed towards the agency and not toy

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Son selfless, Yes, he has
grand plans for his career and he is

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looking at every corner, looking and
investigating and doing his due diligence. That's

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all he's done. So if you
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the agency, if the agency even
made this edict, I don't know.

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I never got I never saw an
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saying any leaks will be penalized.
I never saw that. I think that

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was trumped up. So basically,
what you're saying is, you've spent a

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lot of time with Otani Son,
you know him personally, You've talked to

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him many many times. I have. I've just said, I thought,

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because you you know, I have
sources in Japan for many many years.

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If I can, if I can
retrace steps six years ago when he came

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to the Angels, had a horrific
training camp, and I was one of

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the you who said, this guy
is a natural, this guy is going

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to be a sensational hitter. Don't
worry what happened in Arizona. He's just

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adjusting. And of course you saw
what happened six years later. He's now

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the Unicorn and the greatest player maybe
in the history of baseball. So I've

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always had a gun instinct. Donald
Tanya Son and we we we have had

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the pleasure of seeing him in Anaheim
for six years. What's really interesting is

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that the Angel somehow was still in
the mix. They say that Brett,

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but I don't know. I don't
know what to believe. Anymore. Exactly

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right. I mean they're still in
the mix. The hated ones were in

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the mix, the Cubs were in
the mix. They're ol Texas Rangers out.

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Uh, anyone in the East Coast
out. That's that. That is

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the feel I get from my sources, all right. So who's in from

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your sources? Dodges, Dodges,
Dodges, Well, and that's it.

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So he's coming to the Dodgers.
He met with, he met with Toronto.

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But again East Coast is not the
way of a tiny sign. But

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that's according to your sources. It's
according to my sources and my gut instinct.

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Okay, So you don't which one
do you trust more? He doesn't

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know. It doesn't matter. He
doesn't know. The second star, of

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course, our David Vessey with the
amazing Winter Meetings Dodger Talk show from the

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Farm of brad Paisley with Dave Roberts
Chris Archer. That was a sensational,

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sensational show. And again we congratulate
Dave again rock star status for DV.

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So how about the Soto trade to
the Yankees? What the toe to the

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Bronx? You want to talk about
that? It's a major trade Joe.

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All right, we'll talk about that
when we come back. Who wants Burke

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Williams the two hundred and fifty dollars
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You open the phone lines or Rodney,

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who's going number seven? Call her
seven Jacobs. Come on now, Henry

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Vic, well done, Henry,
enjoy the serenity. Good job,

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Henry, you dial the phone.
Congratulations, well done. You gotta make

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well done from VIC for Burke Williams
rules. That's solid. Rodney goes there

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all the time. I sure do
love it. I can spend all day

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there and I have so Soto to
the New York Yankees, a seven player

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deal padres get some young pitching,
some flotsam and jetsam but they unload the

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big contract. I think that deal, I think both. I think it

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was win win Fred because obviously the
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You know, Stanton's been a bust
basically, you know, constantly injured,

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and the team has been an embarrassment, uh to New York and the

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the Yankee the Pinstripe legacy. They've
been embarrassing. So they needed a big

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name. They got Soto. They're
gonna move Aeron Judge the center field,

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and he got Verdugo Soto in the
corners and then he got Judge in center.

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So it's a nice outfield for the
Yankees. So it's good. It's

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good for it's good for baseball if
the Yankees or winning, just like it's

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great for baseball when the Dodgers are
winning. So I applaud the deal,

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seven player blockbuster as we always love. So congratulations to both teams from making

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from making the El Higante move.
And how about the Lakers tonight, I

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know you've hit about hit on the
uniforms the whole thing. Rodney hit me,

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Yeah, I hit him. Going
back into black was not a reality

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for the for the Lakers, tonight
in Las Vegas against the Pelicans. Unfortunately.

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You know, why are you yanking
the Lakers chains? Yeah? Why?

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The black was fabulous. They were
winning. I think they're undefeated in

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black. It looked really cool.
The team really enjoyed it, and they

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played better in the uniforms. Like
you say, Rodney, you look good,

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you play good. Yeah, baby, it is thank you ac DC.

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So they will not be back and
black. They're working. They were

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in the purple against the Pelicans,
but just to be in position and being

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in a game of will it's really
cool. I applaud the league, Adam

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Silver. It was a tremendous movement
for it. From the beginning. You

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were into it. You said it
was gonna work, and indeed it has

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worked. So Lakers with a nice
a nice move tonight. Looking forward to

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seeing the squad run against the Pelicans, who are playing good ball. Zion

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Williamson his back, y'all, Zion's
playing well. How do you think Brandon

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Ingram plays tonight? Man, What
a sensational ex Laker. He's a star.

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He's a star. BI comes to
play tonight. I think he drops

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thirty plus. Yeah, Brandon Ingland's
almost undefensible. Once he eat, sort

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of like a Kawhi Leonard, you
know, once he gets into position,

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you know, within eighteen feet,
it's like a layup for him. Tremendous

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ball player, and I want to
give some loves to the Clippers last night.

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That was a magnificent victory over a
team they had lost eight in a

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row. Two the world champion Nuggets, you know, lost in the Beard's

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game, which was sensation e eleven
assists, twenty points. The Beard was

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tremendous there blending with the Beard,
Russell Westbrook off the bench, just vital

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energy. That was the key to
the game was Russell in that fourth quarter,

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crashing glass and providing that impetus.
You know, Russell is lost in

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this whole Beard in corporation because he
went to the bench voluntarily. He said,

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I would just want to help the
team win. So give it up

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for Russell Westbrook play a sensational game
last night. You know, the numbers

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don't always say how well you're balling, and Russell was bowling last night.

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So the Clippers are ten and ten
and they're finding the way with Harden.

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I'm digging it. Well, you
knew they would. They have to.

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There's no choice. Yeah, listen
to you lose an excellent coach. And

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also how about some love for the
Kings. Tonight on the road they go

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for a record eleven in a row
in Montreal and where Montreal candadov No.

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No one calls it moreal Montoreal.
No one calls it Montreal. They call

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it Montreal. Vic, I'm going
full on front safe for your friend.

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Go ahead, Vic, say it
again, Vic Morial Real things of the

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road, y'all. Yeah, tonight
Montreal Fredreal, No, I don't.

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I don't know if that's even how
they say it in French. Moreal French.

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I studied it. I took two
years of French junior high school.

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Give me a break. We both
know it. Anyway they win Tonight they

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said an NHL record twelve straight on
the road. Would that be unbelievable?

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Ken looked at the road. I
mean, just it's an unbelievable records to

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break doesn't get you know enough love? So just to be in position.

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Congratulations to you know, to the
la guys. If you like, I

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can play for you? What yes, lady, how she pronounces Montreal in

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her French accent. Love it all
right? Let's see, Oh you're right,

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Vig. It's a bad yet right
to the side of your head there,

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Fred, damn right head good,
you're right crazy go tonight. You

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can listen, of course, on
the Crazy three. iHeartRadio apps. I

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don't even know what that means,
a king's radio. I want to know

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what. He just keeps talking.
Game. It's a humongous game for the

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king. Yes, you know where
that leads Vic back to the source,

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Fred, Yes, the hikup for
you on this Thursday, December the seventh.

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you're saying there's no great Jewish haikup
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down from Okay, here we go
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threw it down. Yeah, you
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solid. Pick Adam Sandler ate crazy. Thanks. Maybe you can just take

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a part of an Adam Sandler saw
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happy Yes, all right, So
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a Manhattan Kansas Josh Rose. Yeah, congratulations, job will walk at Kansas

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State University upon his graduation. Worth
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as well, Rodney, have a
terrific show to my own a great weekend.

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more to be free than the life
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custo words, fighting the key,
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they can do to a player?
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in time and lake? Oh Bill, what do you say that from the

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man that plays deep? To live
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