Giants' Make or Break Week vs. D-backs & Dodgers! Adames' HR Record & Chapman Suspension | Thompson 2 Clark

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[SPEAKER_01]: with Drosion, throws to Sandberg and the pitch is crowded a second base, Thompson has it, throws the first, it's over 27 years of waiting, it built on it, then you're going to have someone to put it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Alright, it's Thompson to Clark.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We are back for first week of September is over, which means the baseball season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: At least the regular season is kind of close to being over.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, I was a little sad today because I realized

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[SPEAKER_01]: that had the Giants won the last two games in the series against the Cardinals.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They would have only been two games back in the wild yard don't say it out loud.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I've I've thought about this in my head all the last couple of days.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I keep looking at the standies and I'm like,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Golden opportunity man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, see the the problem is that I just haven't been paying attention to the wild card race because I don't even want to think really think about it, but then I read today that the meds also lost two games and so the giants would have been right there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know, they, they still technically have a chance, especially if the meds keep losing baseball games, but those were two, at least Saturday's game was utterly winnable and for Ryan Walker to not even be able to get it out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I know it wasn't all, it was a kind of, little some of it was just bad luck.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But man, you can't, you can't just only have bad luck.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like at some point, Ryan Walker, poor guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, he's earned.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's been pitching so well for a couple of months now, though, but so it's magnified.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, when he, when he blows a save, doesn't pitch well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's extremely magnified because the giants did not take care of business for a good stretch of almost three months to two and a half months.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, and that's a normal blow up, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Your closers gonna blow again, if you're the fillies or the tigers, and you get a blip on the radar, it's fine, because you're gonna go on and reel off a bunch of winds, and whatever, and they've been consistent all season, but then when you're the giants,

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[SPEAKER_00]: you just didn't play well and now everything has to go perfect so it's magnifying.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I don't blame it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Look, you're going to blow a save.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to blow a save.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hardly anybody is perfect in the closer role.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The Giants were one for seven on Saturday with runners in scoring position.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They scored two runs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They really had no business winning that game.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, in the heat of summer, humid, ball flies.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, this scored eight runs on Friday night.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then you go Saturday and you score two runs and against the Cardinals.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then the next day you come back on Sunday and you score three runs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But you score them late.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, back to the same old tricks for the Giants offense, that's what I'm going to put the blame on personally, you know, they've been playing so well, but then when you crawl back into that hole, you can't do that for a couple of games because it gets, it gets extremely tough and now here we are, I don't think anybody wants to have a wild card spot it kind of seems like everybody's given it away.

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[SPEAKER_01]: blaming one singular person is really hard in a sport like baseball.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, for sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: However, I will have one sort of a caveat about this, which is he was the start.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was the closer start the season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We had a lot of faith in him.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Obviously, did not go well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So much so that Camila Duval wouldn't back his starting closer spot and he wasn't even great.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was just better than Walker and there is something about this ninth inning this year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: because Randy Rodriguez, you know, I lovingly call him a thinning Randy seven the eighth inning this dude is lights out, but you change that to the ninth inning and and something there's a dynamic that switches and this is why closers get paid more than seventh and eighth inning relievers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, the giants went all in on certain positions.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They went all in on the straight with divers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think the idea was, well, the bullpen, the sum of the parts together, like this 11 or 12 men bullpen is going to be fantastic.

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[SPEAKER_01]: it's just the closer role has been the the sweet spot this year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so it shouldn't be surprising that you know, they had a hard time locking down the ninth inning a lot of the times, but at the same time, it was like, man, Ryan Walker, if you really wanted to make some money,

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[SPEAKER_01]: this would have been your time to shine brother you you strike out three guys to end this game and you're sitting on top and it just is just hasn't he's just not that guy so that's that's the unfortunate part but

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[SPEAKER_01]: I do hope that they try and figure out how to close this, because if you don't have Rodriguez next year, he's going to maybe be out a year and a half, so that even the following year you're talking about, you know, will he even be back to who he was probably not?

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[SPEAKER_01]: So they do need to invest whether through trade or free agency in an arm, but you see how hard that is even when you think you have one, a Tanner Scott for the Dodgers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: just did not pitch well this year and they brought him over to be that guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's not a hundred percent like, oh, this person has closed successfully in the past.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to bring him over and then our problem is solved.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think you even said this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I want to say it was like, you know, in our preseason stuff or right at the beginning of the season, you were talking about how, and this was more of a starting picture thing, but you were saying how, even if you have five starters, you kind of need eight and sort of like that in the bullpen, you may have a guy who you can depend on, but with with with arm injuries these days and with just.

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[SPEAKER_01]: for whatever reason that ninth inning being a struggle for the giants this year, you may need two or three guys like it would have been fantastic.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we traded this dude to the team that we're trying to battle.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It would have been fantastic to have Tyler Rogers turn a couple of these games over to not that he had to be the main closer, but like, hey, we need to get through this thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you you couldn't before, so get us through this thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And they gave up at the they gave up at the deadline, you know, they traded the two guys who would have two of the guys who would have been amongst those folks to take over from Randy and we were left with ride walker.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and I think it was a situation on Saturday night too.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They used their high leverage guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Look, Casey was already used, Cameron, who else threw, had to go back and look at the box, but then you're in that situation where it's like didn't Ryan Walker should he have been pulled.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But again, who do you have?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like you just said, I mean, Tyler Rodgers is gone.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Can you a little devaluess gone?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Pick Arrow?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think he was the one guy in the bullpen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: but he's young has been with team for very long and Ryan Walker is your closer right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So Devil's Advocate, let's just go a what if scenario here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: What if Ryan Walker doesn't blow a save the rest of the season, doesn't give up or run the rest of the season?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Do you feel more comfortable with him?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Me, maybe being named the closer to open the season?

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I mean,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know my answer and if the giants don't get somebody in free agency who can be a closer.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Because if you look at the Cub situation too, like you just said, you know, I'd like to have many, many, many pictures.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I loved our bullpen, the beginning of the year, you have moving parts, you can do different things.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to use the Cubs for an example.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They open the season free agent Ryan Presley from the Astros has closed games before.

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[SPEAKER_00]: stumbled out of the gates poorly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then got her lost the job to another dude.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Can't remember his name at the moment.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He got her.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then it finally gets turnover to Danny Polencia.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It was just absolutely lights out.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then he starts blowing saves.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now he's here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is, and I'm using this in an example, because this is a playoff team.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Playoff baseball, we may see this during the playoff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's during the actual playoffs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This may be a situation.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, how do you feel like if Ryan Walker was the guy, the rest of the season, didn't give up or run the rest of the season?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And again, I said, rest of the season where we got like three weeks left, would you feel comfortable?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Would you say, okay, let's flip on the radar, he's found his mechanics again, or would it be in the back of your mind the whole time that we saw early season, 2025 Ryan Walker and we know what that looks like to.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think more and more,

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a makeup of these guys and the fact that he's just so much better than the seventh and the eighth inning tells me that that's where he should pitch.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that means you do have to find a guy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't seem like there's very many Brian Wilson's out there who's like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want to pitch the 7th of the 8th inning like that's pouring to me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I only want to pitch the 9th inning.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But even he was shaky.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that's a long day for three years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He was he was good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now he may have, you know, gone to.

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[SPEAKER_01]: two many three two counts for our liking.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But for three years, he was really good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But then he just he himself blew his arm out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, it's not an easy job there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You're throwing at such a high intensity.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And everything is is so important.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you got to throw the best pitch, you know, every single time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not, it's not easy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It is not easy at all.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So

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[SPEAKER_01]: The trip overall was a positive, though, you know, five and one or six and no for whatever reason seems like a thousand times better than four and two.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so now they come home as we are recording, they are going to play the Diamondbacks tonight.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the, then the Dodgers come to town.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So two big series is, and,

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[SPEAKER_01]: series series series series series series series series.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, my watch is about to go off if I say that more more than once.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just gonna want to know what's up when you need and we're I am at this point right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So again, four games back if the Metz just collapsed out of their ass like they're still an opportunity.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so because I was thinking like, okay, what do you, what do you do if you're the giant to you bring up of a Bricell dritor?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Do you, you know, play some of these other guys, you know, do we, do we find out, you know, can Drew Gilbert, you know, just basically have four ABs every game for the rest of the season or do you really play the diamond backs and the Dodgers really, really hard because of the fact that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: these are NLS games.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The division is still up for grabs with the Dodgers and the Padres and you're still only four games back now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If it becomes five and six, then you're kind of done, you know, they may already be done, but

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I do like the idea, like, hey, man, the Diamondbacks are only a half a game behind the giants.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, well, let's try and stay ahead of these guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then when the Dodgers come in, you know, they just got done with a five game losing streak.

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[SPEAKER_01]: you know, we thought our Saturday was was heartbreaking.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yamamoto's got a no-no going and gives up a two-run walk off to lose the game.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That was absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't do it, but I mean, the bullpen did.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like you said, Tanner Scott, you know, all these guys they brought over.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They think got like three closers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody could close out that ballgame.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's that closer position again.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, they're they're stumbling hard to.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But again, the podries aren't playing well either.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, nobody really wants that division.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Nobody really wants the third wild card.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just kind of a a weird end to this season.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It's nobody has lit the fire yet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: How would you like to see them play these last few weeks?

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[SPEAKER_00]: The giants?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'd like to see them bust their tails and get that last wild card spot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what I want to see.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I want to see it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I, you know, I'm being a Giants fan.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to see them play the spoiler roll.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I have to do any of that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's still within striking distance.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to see if this was just a hiccup in St.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Louis.

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[SPEAKER_00]: if they can take on the d-backs and beat the snot out of them and show them look you guys aren't as good as us they've got a lot of injuries, but they still have some star power over in Arizona but yeah

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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to see them play like the Diamondbacks have to think like us, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're like, oh, we're only playing games back to absolutely.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And they're in the same position.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think that's the, I want the giants to show their metal at this point.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to see what they've got because everything they do right now, just.

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[SPEAKER_00]: is a building block for next season for these guys, it's good to be in pressure situations and in pressure games and it's good for the front office to see who's good in pressure and who's not because they've got a lot of decisions to make for next season.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We talked about last week about the log jam we're going to have in the outfield.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot going on, writing the last three weeks

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This this person said go Dodgers go 49ers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So probably subscribing possibly subscribing for 49ers content, but had to go Dodgers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he's not going to be happy with this next segment here because we're bringing it back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Better Giants fans.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So part of your calculus of still making a run for it, part of that

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[SPEAKER_01]: Dodgers come in this weekend, they're going to have to win these games.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Now, the Dodgers are going to be even more urgent than the Giants more than likely because they see their division lead slipping away.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And, you know, like you said, the the padraries aren't playing all that well, either.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, the Giants are in a position where I don't think that

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, if you were to compare the two teams right now and my buddy, Draven, who I do the Giants versus Dodgers show with He, he texted me the other day and he said, you know, because I was saying how, you know, we were talking about both Saturday games.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's like, yeah, but the problem is

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[SPEAKER_01]: We have a billion dollar roster.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we're supposed to win all of these games.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So there's so much more pressure on us.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so that is part of this, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Is are the Dodgers going to be tight coming in, especially if they haven't gone back on track.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll look up who they play before they come into town.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But do you think this series is we're going to get their best?

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[SPEAKER_01]: just because it's giant staunchers like doesn't even matter like leg.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just going, you know, they're both just going to be going for it because my fear is they are going to be just a little bit better than us.

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[SPEAKER_01]: when it counts because of, you know, you turn over their line up and they're still really good hitters throughout.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You turn over the science line up and it's, you know, Patrick Bailey and who did, you know, these guys have been hitting a lot better and that we've been hitting a lot more home runs during, you know, during this run, but still when it comes talented talent, you would look at the Dodgers lineup and go, okay, like it's, it's, it's almost unfair in a sense, but do you,

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[SPEAKER_01]: that the giants are going to be able to kind of play freely, willy-nilly, and will that help them in this?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Whereas the Dodgers may come in here with, you know, a little tight, a little bit of, you know, we can't really lose these guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what I think that's what is going to be.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The Dodgers do not want to lose to us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They do not want us to be the cause of the podries over taking them,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oddly enough us overtaking them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, a super long shot, but there is a chance, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we play seven games against them, and we're still seven games back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Rockies are in L.A.

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[SPEAKER_01]: this for three games.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I mean, and the Rockies are playing better baseball, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, they're playing decent baseball against the podries.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We saw that, so they seem to be getting up for the task.

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[SPEAKER_00]: The giants just took them to the wood shed, though, in Colorado, when they went there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, the Dodgers do not want to lose to us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They do not want us to be the cause of any of their heart burn going into the playoffs or even God forbid, they don't make the playoffs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, can you imagine if things played out and the Dodgers did not make the playoffs?

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's still a chance, of course.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, and I think the Giants can play a little loser.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they can go in there and just say, look, man, you know, we're fighting for a play out spot.

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[SPEAKER_00]: but we just saw some of our best baseball of the entire season.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We know what it looks like.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We want to take it to these guys.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Drew Gilbert's going to get them up for it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I can tell you that much right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, they want to take it to them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't think the giants are going to be playing tight.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they're going to be playing good loose baseball, taking extra bases, good fundamentals defensively, good pitching, and I think the giants could really make

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[SPEAKER_00]: the seven games they played them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: NL West is the only division in the nationally right now without a team with 80 wins.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Dodgers are at 79, even the wild card cubs have 81 wins.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So this behemoth of a baseball team,

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, who some people thought we're going to win over 110 games has sort of become human they they become a very human team that has that that they then deal with injuries they are.

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[SPEAKER_01]: having to, uh, guys with off-years, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like Mookie Betts, he's just having an off-year, you know, Freddie Freeman has had to deal with stuff all year long.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He will smith, uh, not, you know, the one guy who's obviously just nails is, is Otani.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, so one guy who seems to not be getting older.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That roster is getting older.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's the only one who's not getting older.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's getting younger.

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[SPEAKER_01]: One or though, is this a sign for the Dodgers that they do need to turn over their roster a little bit like the stars, you know, getting everybody one of the things when you can get everybody is when that dude gets old and we may see this with with diverse over the next couple years.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, what you are expecting, what you are predicting is that, you know, 25 jacks and 90 RBIs and, you know, 375 on base, when you, when you put that in and you put the numbers and you go, okay, that, that guy is in there for that every year and then it becomes, you know,

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[SPEAKER_01]: 10 home runs or 12 home runs like like where do you pick up the rest of that you got to pick it up from somewhere else and I think that's going to be something that the Dodgers will have to look at of course they

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[SPEAKER_01]: always invest in these lightning rod arms who can also get hurt so when you have to rely on glass now and then you have to rely on snow and like one of your more consistent guys is the old man who's can't even hit 90 on the gun and but the fan base is completely behind him when he takes the mound because they know it's all guyel for him and he doesn't have that stuff anymore.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Debacks Dodgers play the rocky so it's all nothing but NL West right now and then the Dodgers come in this weekend.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I think Logan Web pitches game one of the Diamondback series, which is tonight game.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We, that time people listen to this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that means he'll probably get what would be the last game.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Uh, I think of the Dodger series as well, the, the Sunday game.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then Matt Chapman is, as we were recording last week,

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[SPEAKER_01]: These guys were fighting with the Rockies and Matt Chapman gave a two-handed shove to the Rockies picture.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and not suspended, but they've been he's been arguing that suspension and I guess the however they determine what if he's going to be suspended or not, that will happen on Thursday, I think.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, first game of the Dodgers series.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he may miss that Dodgers game.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He thinks that he's, you know, got a got a good case to not get suspended.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to assume he gets suspended if not that's fantastic.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I want to know what his argument is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the key, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I want to know how you argue your appeal on that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't mean to push him.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought he took a swing at somebody.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you know, so yeah, they're probably going to look at them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: One game is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think so too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Unless who's the pitcher freeland?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Mm-hmm.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Unless he said something that was a little bit over the top, I can't imagine that they they switch that I feel like if he would have said something a little bit over the top, we would have known by now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think so, for sure.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So

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[SPEAKER_01]: very excited like it's almost more exciting than it should be just because of how poorly the Dodgers have been playing like if the Dodgers have been playing even 500 baseball, you know, this series means a little bit less, but because they haven't.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The series may mean something, which is why I want the giants to win these Diamondback games, you know, two out of three or win all three, so that these Dodgers games are important.

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[SPEAKER_01]: As important as they can be, as exciting as they can be, I feel like we as fans deserve that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: for the ups and downs that we've dealt with all season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We've just wanted a competitive team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We've just wanted them to be able to play with some of the best teams.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they have some pieces.

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[SPEAKER_01]: William Domus.

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[SPEAKER_01]: needs three more home runs to finally get to 30.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We haven't had a 30 run or a 30 home run hitter in a long time, which is a bit nerve-wracking because the next what seven games are at home and it's cooler weather now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's a little, I'm getting a little nervous, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We do go to Arizona, though.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So this is yeah, and we have to and we go back to LA with the next week.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think right next week already.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So Devours, I think he just hit his 30th if you, but it's combined from the Red Sox and the giants and he's he's been swinging the the bat really well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So that has been fun to see.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's kind of like right now you see the pieces of the offense that

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[SPEAKER_01]: they probably thought when they designed this team or they hadn't had divers yet, but adding him here, like, okay, here's how it's going to work.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's it's been really it's been really exciting to see them put together, you know, at bats runners and scoring position, meaningful at bats, you know, not just

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[SPEAKER_01]: hitting into double players or strike it out and and all of a sudden you're just leaving got bags loaded.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think one of the things that we can take away from this last stretch of baseball is like, okay, now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: put these guys in pressure situations.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This Dodger series is going to be the biggest pressure that Drew Gilbert has played in the baseball game before I'm sure.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And how do these guys jungle Lee?

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[SPEAKER_01]: How do these guys who are going to be a big part of this team over the next couple years?

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[SPEAKER_01]: If we're not going to make the playoffs,

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[SPEAKER_01]: and, you know, it is still a small chance.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There is a chance.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But if it's not, then this Dodger series is going to be the most important, the most exciting, like the most pressurized series for these players.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I want to see how these guys do in this Dodger series.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's going to be the most exciting thing, and like I said earlier, just they're playing for so much not for so much for this year, but they're playing for so much for next year, you know, spots on the roster to show us proposing Bob Melvin that they can be that guy, you know, and and Drew, Drew Gilbert, I keep talking about every week, I mean, everybody's talking about him right now.

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[SPEAKER_00]: but he is showing that he wants to be there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He wants to be the right filter for the San Francisco Giants on an opening day in 2026.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And at this point in time, I am all for it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd love to see that guy have a full season.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, if he could be a 260 hitter and and hit himself, I don't know, 20 jacks and place him great defense and steal 15 to 20 bags.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's a great right fielder.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, that's probably what a three-war guy, three-four-war guy, and I'd take that in heartbeat.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So for the Dodgers, they've had even worse bullpen problems than the giants have had pretty much all season long.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The offense has just fallen off the cliff and just the injuries

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[SPEAKER_01]: as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They, I don't think Dodgers fans have felt in probably similar to the giants.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think Dodgers fans have felt that their team has ever been the best version of their team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's really what they're waiting for.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we've got to see the best version of our team, you know, just the last couple weeks winning 11 out of 12.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, you know, if we're getting the best giants, and maybe the Dodgers come in here still shaky,

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[SPEAKER_01]: I would love to take it to these guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I wanna, like, so badly, it's almost to me.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like, okay, now here's a question.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know you're answering, but this is, let me talk through this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you could guarantee me that we win these next seven games against Dodgers, seven or no, knock them off for the top of the heap of the, the NL West.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we still finish in fourth in this wild card race.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I'm okay with that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, it's not the best, but like, because we have just a small chance to still get that wild card, I would kind of like bet that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I would go, okay, give me that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's knock the Dodgers off.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And let's go finish this season, seven and a no against the Dodgers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think I would be okay with that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a hard one, but I almost want to knock them off, even more than I want to even slide into the playoffs at this point.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I was going to say, as you all turned it into that we would get into the playoffs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Is that the alternative?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we sneak in third spot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You have to play that three and three game series.

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[SPEAKER_00]: but but in order to do that we'd have to go five and two or six and one or seven and all against the Dodgers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I think we go seven and all against the Dodgers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I know I'm not answering your question.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But if we go seven and all against the Dodgers, I think we make the playoffs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think they're so jacked up that the rest of the games they'd be so lit to get those wins.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, that's a tough one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If they could go seven or no against Dodgers and show all kinds of promise for next year and still not make the playoffs, I think I'm good with that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The sharks are at the park today, so get to see a Maclin Celebrini hanging out and take some

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[SPEAKER_00]: I saw something in the athletics, speaking of that, because hockey season is starting.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Denise and I are going to be in Vegas in November.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Just for our anniversary, we're going to hang out there for five days.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to go catch a Vegas Golden Knights game while we're there, because that's my team.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But I saw something where it said in the next 10 years, which of the rebuilding franchises are most likely to win the Stanley Cup and the sharks had the most votes from all writers and coaches and management stuff.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Did you see that the Valkyries made the playoffs?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I did.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the way that the WMBA playoffs work is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's a 13 team league and they have them split in two divisions.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But when they seed the playoffs, they just seed them one through eight no matter which division that you're in.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so the the Valkyries right now I believe are in six.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the first series is a three gamer and the better record the better seed has the first home game, then the lower seed has the second home game and if there's a third game, then it goes back to the higher seed, okay, so the Valkyries are guaranteed one home game because they made the first round of the playoffs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It is going to be at the Shark Tank.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I was just wondering that I was thinking, it would be fun to watch them go and play at the Shark Tank and also a game in Oakland.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the Chase Center, which is where the Warriors play and where the Valkyries play, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: It is being rented out for the Labor Cup tennis.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so this was a deal that the ownership made, I think even before they got the WNBA franchise.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that would make sense.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I was thinking the same as you, like man, this would be so fun to go back to Oakland where the Warriors played and have the Valkyries play in Oakland.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that's that's the right move.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But I guess Oakland might have something going on as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it moves over to San Jose.

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[SPEAKER_01]: which means it's like 10 to 15 minutes away from me and unless these tickets are like 500 bucks, I feel like I have to go like I don't think they're there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they'll probably be, I don't imagine I'll be able to get in the building for less than 200 bucks, that'll be my guess.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, yeah, that makes sense.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, so anyway, so the

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[SPEAKER_00]: What's the attendance at the Shark Tank versus Chase?

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[SPEAKER_01]: For basketball, I'm going to guess it's like a thousand and change less.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, because I remember 19, I want to say it's 1995.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The warriors were playing, they had to play a season in San Jose because they were fixing up the Oakland Colosseum or the arena.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so they can't, and so it was fun because they were right here, and we got to see a couple of games.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I remember it being about 17,000 for basketball, but that was a while ago.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And there's been work done on the Shark Tank.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I guess they're like investing another like 500 million

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[SPEAKER_01]: to freshen it up because it is old to think I think the thing open in 1993.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it sounds about right and we've seen what the the west bracket of the NC double A tournament there before.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We've seen tennis there as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So why don't they put the tennis there?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember going, see, was the side-based open, or side-based open that used to be there?

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[SPEAKER_00]: I remember going one year.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I got press passes, and I got to sit there and watch during, I don't know, at San Jose State, we had finished classes.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I went over and saw, you remember Gustavo Keirden, who was a big tennis star at the time, Guga.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I saw him play a match there and win, and it was fun, man.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That was a cool place to watch tennis and basketball,

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[SPEAKER_01]: So in addition to trying to see if a Domus can get to 30 and to see, you know, if Devers can stay hot and keep his hot street going, Logan Webb is six strikeouts short of 200.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So he could get that tonight, if he pitches well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I would rather, if I had to pick, I'd rather just him get the win.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And not worry about the strikeouts, but hey, it comes with it, so be it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, so there's going to still some really interesting baseball to be played.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I guess my overall point is I want them to play well, because I want these games to mean something, even if it doesn't necessarily mean something for them.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I want them to be close enough to where if we get knocked out,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's get knocked out in the last week of the season, which means that we are playing competitive baseball all the way through.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I know that frustrates a lot of fans.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I totally get it because then you can easily just go back to last couple months and go, what about this series?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And you could go all the way back to the early in the season, the series in Minnesota, where we got swept and there's little games here in the

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[SPEAKER_00]: How many blowin' saves if we had it, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But that's baseball.

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[SPEAKER_00]: 162 games.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Weird stuff happens, so you just go with it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So you just look at the end of the season.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, and if the giants get in, well, it's because somebody else had

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[SPEAKER_00]: Blown some games earlier in the year that they should have won or got swept by other things.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Why not?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Why not them and stuff like that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So, and there's a possibility.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you know, weird stuff happens.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We've seen that of all the weird seasons we've seen.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This one's been up there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: This is a top 10 weird season for you and I think.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So before we get to Old Guy Alley, do you have any?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll pose this question two ways.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If the giants don't make it, who would you like to see do very well in the playoffs?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And, too, with your baseball strategy mind, who do you think is going to do well in the playoffs?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let me look, I got to look at the standings again and get the, the playoffs here.

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[SPEAKER_00]: man, that's a tough one.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Who do I?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Who do I want to see?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And that that's easy for me and then nationally because there's anybody who beats the Dodgers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Then I'm disinterested with that team after they beat the Dodgers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I thought you were going to go brew crew no matter what.

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[SPEAKER_00]: No, you know, not necessarily, um, not a brewers fan, just not, not a fan of any team in the national league, and it's just because, you know, born and bred giants fan, I can't do it.

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[SPEAKER_00]: If I'm looking at the wild card and the standings in the American league,

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[SPEAKER_00]: I always have a soft spot in my heart for the red socks because playoff baseball at Fenway is really, really fun to walk.

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[SPEAKER_00]: boat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's not going to get there.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So we can't.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He's happy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're sniffing around.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They're sniffing around.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're sniffing around.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're still in their four games back.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They got they got a win.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They got to win some games to kind of catch the Mariners there for that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're hot in the wild card.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But Blue.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're they're kind of similar to us, right?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They're not that different from us.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, not to tigers.

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[SPEAKER_00]: They rub me the wrong way.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what it is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Blue jays are

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[SPEAKER_00]: offense over the offense over pitching in defense man absolutely I want to see some run scored and that's that's the game you watch if you want to see some run scored don't care for the astros mariners sneaking in I You know they've got that third wild card spot right now, but the win the division they get a little more firepower, so for me, I think it would be

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think I'd like to see the Red Sox do well because especially trading divers and then going on to do well in the playoffs, that would be pretty amazing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But you know, other than that, probably didn't have to.

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[SPEAKER_00]: You know, Harrison threw for them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I knew he was scheduled to throw for them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He did and I don't know how he did.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Let me look him up real quick.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm kind of curious because he did, let's see.

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[SPEAKER_00]: He patched, well, maybe he didn't, because I'm not seeing any, I don't, I don't don't see any.

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[SPEAKER_01]: No, maybe it's going to be this week.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's possible, but I mean, they're going to need him at some point, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: And he can technically be, well, yeah, he was on the 40 man, but I think you had to be on the active roster on September or August 31st at some point in able to, you know, make the playoff roster but, um,

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it would have been nice to see him pitch in the playoffs to be kind of fun.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I think I'd like to see Boston do well and anybody who plays the Dodgers.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So our friend Ryan, who's in our NCAA College football dynasty that we're playing, he's a Red Sox fan and he is, he's just like, I can't believe we traded for that Gibrony Jordan Hicks man, I can't believe nothing.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you remember the question he asked?

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[SPEAKER_00]: He said it has he ever been good.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I think you were like, yeah, I mean, to be getting to the season last year, show to a little promise, and it first couple starts, I think this year is okay.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: It seems like so long ago because he did get hurt when he was with us and before he came off the aisle, just shortly before he came off the aisle, he got traded.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So it almost seems like,

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[SPEAKER_00]: anything Jordan Hicks was 2024.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Well we forget we had him in 2025 and he and he did okay as a starter.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then getting knocked off and you know, try to be that little pen guy and just wasn't there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's just crazy how he because he was one of those arms when he came up you're like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: He doesn't only throw a hundred, he throws more than a hundred more than a hundred with crazy movement and then like how like if you just take that idea and you give him the experience of of the the seasons that he has pitch you would think okay by now he would have a figure out and nope he's actually worse off than he was when you know he'd

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[SPEAKER_01]: She was just all arm and they were putting them in the seventh inning and telling them to go all out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like it's just kind of interesting how that works.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: A little bit of a shorter show today, but I did want to throw in an old guy, Ali here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I am starting this, I've talked about this diet, I think already, this crazy diet, which I do not have a drink, this is water with a little bit of a pink kimile and salt in it for electrolites, hey, I started a diet in the idea behind the diet is a no refined sugar, no refined carbs and no processed food.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's really like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: you know, the what you can make, you can eat kind of diet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's very interesting because like the workout, it comes with the workout program.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The workouts are, you know, it's very similar to the stuff that I already do.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But the diet thing is changing that, you know, going from like, you know, I like to eat like pork rinds or chicken skins like as a high snack.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's like, nope.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's process.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I like to have an IQ protein bar.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's like a vegetarian protein bar in the morning.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Like nope.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a process food.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so trying to find stuff to eat, you know, eggs and steaks and chicken thigh and avocado and yogurt.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And berries.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What about cottage cheese?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you can you can have a certain high fat cottage cheese, which is which is totally cool, but yeah, just the just the mentality of like, oh man, I just can't go to the cupboard and grab something, you know, that I'm used to grabbing and then also.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I love having a diet soda once a day, especially for the caffeine kick.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And so to not be able to do that, but my kind of cheat code for that is, um, hot water and hot tea because I looked at the ingredients and there's nothing in it that is negative to the diet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm going to allow myself to have the hot waters and the hot teas.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, it's going to be tough.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The next today was day one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: and it goes for four straight weeks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And the idea is just to kind of reset.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So no alcohol, no, you know, no sugar, no just which means no desserts, rare going out, you know, if we go out to eat or if we kind of have like a door to ask, bring it in, it's kind of probably be like,

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hamburger patties from like five guys or something.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, as the healthiest alternative.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then now can't you do what is I don't know the, you know, the secret menu, but the one where they just take a hamburger batting, wrapping and lettuce.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, that's it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You, you can just ask for that way.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's that's totally fine.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But even Jesus, like the cheese, you for this diet is like raw milk cheese or hard cheese, a parmesan.

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[SPEAKER_01]: over, you know, like a cheese that you just buy in the store.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I will let you know how I feel.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the the way that I'm eating is still to intense from a, um,

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[SPEAKER_01]: from a red meat and then cholesterol for you.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I can't even eat cheese.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I can't eat anything saturated fat.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm so limited as it is.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So there's a lot of stuff that you just talked about that I don't eat anyways.

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[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of this stuff like I try to stay away from

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[SPEAKER_00]: super processed stuff as much as possible.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Like last night I grilled chicken breasts and we had Brussels sprouts and we chop and half and grilled them.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yep, or throw them in the oven.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then Denise takes sweet potatoes and chops those up into cubes and just, you know, throws a little seasoning on them and cooks those as well.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And so that was our dinner last night.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So that's yeah, that's one of our favorite dinners.

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[SPEAKER_00]: I mean it's super easy.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Everything's a whole food and you know yeah vegetable wise you know broccoli and green beans and Brussels sprouts and I know the sweet potato is a little starchy, but yeah, you know as long as as long as I'm not overdoing it, I think I'll be good yeah for sure because and also the amount of fiber that's in that as well and the vitamins to there and sweet potatoes are kind of offset everything.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But if you're, you know, if the diet says you can't have, you know, this much carbs and there are a lot of carbs in this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But yes, the mostly refined carbs and refined sugars that is on the no list and yeah, you know, everything else is in sort of moderation because like, you know, even.

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[SPEAKER_01]: blueberries have carbohydrates in them, but they're kind of a little on the glycemic scale.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So not as long as you don't overdo it should be good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But all right, I will keep, I will keep you updated.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I want to know how that goes because like I think, um,

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[SPEAKER_01]: I bought some stakes and I probably got them in half because when I was calculating my things, I was like, okay, this is probably a little bit too many calories for lunch.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'll have to kind of not have a full by full dinner probably if the shave off a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But otherwise, I guess just really

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[SPEAKER_00]: a mental thing that I got to get around so that's that because that's what what is a serving is like three to four ounces somewhere in there so I always have a problem with that because again I'm so limited in what I can eat and then I cook chicken breasts and I eat and then I go I could just keep eating because there's no saturated fat I mean there's very little saturated fat but I cut off anything that's kind of hanging out on it um

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[SPEAKER_00]: I just keep eating because I know it's good, you know, it's not going to hurt me in my, you know, in the, in the cardio situation.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But, um, then I need too much.

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[SPEAKER_00]: And then I go to bed and I'm full.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, very good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, uh, yeah, hopefully when we come back next week, we'll have some fun things to talk about like a giant, uh, beaten up the Dodgers a little bit would be a real fun to talk about.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, that'd be nice.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's, uh, let's hope for that and

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[SPEAKER_01]: We uh, you know, we still have that little small chance.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So just keep playing good baseball like from here on out, play 600 baseball and just see what happens.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Exactly.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Sports and runs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's the key for this team doesn't score runs.

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[SPEAKER_00]: That's basically what it is.

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[SPEAKER_01]: All right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: For Brad, I am double G. We'll see when we see you piece out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Peace.